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I work from imagination to create my own poetic vision of the world. Over time, I have developed a number of themes and characters, largely with origins in childhood, memory and dream imagery. My subject matter reflects my interest in, myth, folklore, history and  magic and my characters express both the light and darker sides of human nature...
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I am interested in illusion, artifice and the manipulation of reality and perception primarily where recent history, memory and power collide. My work is process based, often taking the form of sculptural assemblages or installations that can easily be re-arranged and re-used to explore differing perspectives, while questioning how we ascribe...
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The objects I am designing and making look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Their features can trigger an association, a memory; of something you have used or seen before. My reference points are usually photographs – taken of things I see on the street - litter, recycling, abandoned furniture; or items in buildings...
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Concepts, ideas, themes The background to my work is an interest in the relationship between beliefs and science, rationality/irrationality, the juxtaposition of order/non-disorder. We each have to negotiate our own sense of being created by categories (structure) and a fragmented world of endless networks and gaps. In my current work it is...
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My current practice in kiln-formed glass explores the interplay between form and colour density. Through attenuating the glass form, I investigate the close relationship between colour and volume, revealing subtle transformations and alterations of colour and tone. The deeper the mass of glass, the more saturated is the hue derived from a single...
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I am an interdisciplinary maker working predominantly with performance, sculpture, installation and print. Using a variety of props and materials I devise ‘scenes’ to examine my relationship to certain objects, texts and spaces.  Exploring specific locations, libraries and archives I then enact/present my findings playing...
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My work as an artist internationally is focused on site specific Public Artwork, responding to particular physical, cultural and emotional landscapes.  It explores the relationship between people, places, ideas and aspirations.  I also develop process-based Artist Residency projects in Schools and Organizations, exploring individual and...
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Having worked on a wide range of permanent Public Art projects, Stephen brings a lively imagination and a singular aesthetic to each commission he is involved in.Each site has demanded very different responses, so that artworks often use different materials and industrial processes.Stephen combines his own artistic concerns with these individual...
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Rowe is interested in the escapism that cinema gives to the audience.Pulling from a huge wealth of sources of popular culture and primarily, films from the 1980s; Rowe reconstructs his own versions of infamous props and scenes from these films.These handmade objects are painstakingly carved, sanded and cut from MDF (the only material Rowe allows...
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Basically, I stick things together, and make some stuff- which I often assemble into other things. Ive watched a lot of telly, read some books, both text books and novels, seen films, been places. There are many archetypes employed in my works. The work like myself is reactionary, I am very much interested in our experience both mediated and...
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My works have a simplicity to them, transforming the gallery with an economy of means. Many of them act almost as a backdrop to other activity in an exhibition space – subverting and affecting the way the space is viewed and used. Through displacing aspects of architecture, multiple associations and ambiguous situations are created. This...
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Forms of map-making play an important part in my practice, which essentially centres around ambiguities in human perceptions of wildness and wilderness in both the urban and pastoral environment. The history and symbolism of power in both the personal and public arenas are also recurrent preoccupations, explored minutely through a wide range of...
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To me the most interesting thing to say about sculpture is the process in which it was made - understanding the materials, and the involvement with tools - that lineage of development that leads to something is what is important to me. My work is driven by basic forms and materials. You develop what seems to suit them and fit together. I use...
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Jefferies maintains a diverse practice that incorporates model making techniques, photography and sculpture. Current work centres on the architectural model and the production of fictional archives. One aspect of his work involves the dichotomy between the photographic image and the actual events and inherited memories that accompany them. This...
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Hancock-Martin uses the exhibition space as a core material in her work. Alterations to a building are observed in changes to the finish of the space. Ceiling surfaces, walls floors and fittings are adjusted or covered to achieve a new texture, pattern and experience of the location. In this working of layers, the artist shows us something...
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Open Frequency ProfileArtist Sean Edwards describes his encounter with Hannah James’s installations, which use minimal forms to explore space and how we approach and inhabit it.The sculptures of Hannah James could be seen to function not as finite sculptural objects but rather as propositions of potentiality. Initially presenting themselves...
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Concepts: I make sculptures using simple geometric and organic forms intended to create a calm environment. I work in both stainless steel and copper and can work on any scale to commission. Each year I launch a new range of sculptures and run to editions of just 9 for each design. I returned to making Sculpture in 2005 after several...
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Concepts Functional objects, mostly design and make site specific for buildings and the landscape. These include staircases, shelters and bridges as well as furniture. I enjoy commissions which encourage a re-interpretation of object archetypes. Influences architectural, de-construction Teaching experience 1987/92 Associate...
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My practice explores the human experience of digital technology. I am interested in how things enabled by digital technology such as digitised media content (music, films, books etc), instant communication, and always being online is affecting how we relate to history, how we anticipate the future and how we live today.I usually work with looped...
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I am curious about the dialogue between activity and the built environment and how each shapes the other. I draw on my own personal encounters with architectural mechanisms that enable and prohibit activity (such as steps, ramps, barriers, and reservations). I am fascinated by the way in which we continuously modify our surroundings and the...
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Initially, I had a fascination with line: as both container and content, as a rhythmic weaving of space, trailing a history of impulses and observations.  Three-dimensional configurations, on canvas and paper, led to actual three-dimensional structures. In the beginning I made "chains" or "pathways" from corrugated...
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My Art work is multi faceted; created out of the spirit of play. The artistic language is far removed from the ordinary and everyday. A wide range of imagery and ideas are articulated into a unique visual language. Although mostly made from found objects and everyday materials, the end result tends towards other - worldliness. Systems and rules...
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The Earth is our invaluable resource. It was plentiful and has given so much to help us grow into the human race we are today. As the climate continues to change faster than scientists expected, what will the future hold? How long can these resources keep flowing fast and free? How do we start to teach understanding of an unknown change? How can...
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Artist statement My playful alchemy explores the complimentary relationships between observation and the imagination, the physical and the ethereal. The act of looking can be analytical or receptive and I feel projection is a medium with which I can explore these different ways of seeing. When observing something for the first time we...
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Natasha Light is currently using photography in combination with her ceramic and paper sculptures to create work in which object and image merge to invoke atmospheric dreamscapes.  Natasha's experience of dance and nature has led to a fascination for structure and movement, expressed by using lighting, shadows, sound and kinaesthetics...
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Concepts/ideas/themesJan Blake's work is imbued with a fascination for movement and the transformative powers of light.  Influenced by her work as a theatre designer for dance and physical theatre in particular, she has developed these 'Aerial sculptures' for public spaces.  The initial concepts and imagery for the majority of her work...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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I like that which lies between. Between sculpture, performance and drawing. Between conceptual and process-based. Between the Baroque and kitsch. Between the narrative and the poetic. Between drawing and written language. Between craft and art. Between the poignant and the absurd.Although my work is rooted in sculpture, it revolves around a core...
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Recently I have sought to respond to the 2010 'Deepwater Horizon' oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In previous work I have used a variety of materials to fabricate evidence of passing events, displaying the results as if they were valued relics. This time I have created contemporary treasure cabinets whose contents carry meaning in the manner of...
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My creative practice has changed dramatically over the last few years; a metamorphosis of using traditional methods, such as stitch and enamel, to my latest works that use a more analytical approach via sculptural interpretation, installation, photography, film, collecting and recording data. I am currently interested in using an interplay of...
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