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Concepts I have worked with a wide range of media such as video and sound installation, animation, sculpture, and computer generated performance. I create a multi-sensory experience and explore the areas where art & science and life & death overlap. I'm interested in how developments in science and it's imaging methods provide a...
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Interventions in the institutionalised everyday. By investigating educational, corporate and public settings, I critically engage withissues rooted in the institutional context. I keep looking beyond the veneer of how we manouver to expose and reference behaviour, routines and decision making. My practice reflects on mechanisms that underlie the...
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Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually...
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Jony Easterby Artists Statement. Having worked in the public realm for over twenty years and have gathered a broad range of skills that I bring to each new project. I live and work on 3 acres of Welsh hillside which is also my ‘plant laboratory’ and studio, and there my passion for and knowledge of ecology, horticulture and the...
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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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The use of various methods, like travel, video, sound, choreography, performance and writing, sits in the expanded notion of my work – where new and obsolete technologies reflect one another as the analogue and digital swap places; modes of representation are questioned as they blend in each other or dissolve and reveal, or obscure,...
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Bryony Purvis grew up in North East of England. She holds Masters in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, South Africa (2011) and a Bachelor in Fine Art from the University of Aberyswyth (2008).She is interested in the ways in which we bestow places with significance, and in the intangible experiences we associate with them, which she...
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I have an interdisciplinary approach to art practice that includes projection, audio, moving image and 2D media.Recent projects include music production and large-scale projection. My work with architectural projection evolved from a stint of guerrilla advertising such as the infamous projection of Gail Porter onto the Houses of Parliament. This...
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My practice explores the role of noise in the built environment; I am particularly interested in how to make use of those visual and aural signals that we normally block out or ignore. The end result might be a sound installation, a composition, performance or public intervention. I define noise as unwanted signal – ever present, but rarely...
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ConceptsMy work is experimental, utilising sound, movement and light. I frequently use electrical goods and household objects to construct various optical devices, including TV diffusion systems which create hypnotic streams of imagery. I use materials from the natural world often combined with domestic products to create a metaphysical...
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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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Anna Keleher develops techniques, processes, skills and participatory works to expand 21st century perspectives. Her playfully devised invitations allow participants to take empathetic leaps into potential worlds. Her expanded collaborations engage with the humour of the world leading us to a land of potential in which everyday "things"...
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Beach, house, dress ... In front of the mountains, and before the mountainsburn or break up as planned,houses are set up, but just as housesthat are not real houses, but just as realfronts of unreal housesinto which everyone can easily runwhen the artificial rain begins. In the collection It by Inger Christensen she invokes a set design...
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Lucy Bannister started writing incredibly short stories when she was studying Fine Art (Sculpture) at Glasgow School of Art in the late '90s. She began recording herself reading them out loud when she was taking her MSc in Electronic Imaging at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2003. Since 2004 she has been...
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My practice uses incidental recordings, photography, ensembles of objects and pre-recorded happenings to capture the structures, happenings and social relationships that I chance upon in the city. They already have their own forms and rhythms and music and it is these that I frame as a witness of what I have seen and heard. As Cage says,...
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My main interest is in creating experiences that people can connect with and have a positive reaction to. I create interactive experiences that intersect human geography, place philosophy and performance art. I am currently exploring the human capacity for empathy as expressed through connection with location. Recent site-specific works seek to...
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ConceptsI specialise in working with light, space and the viewers presence in the work to create stunning pieces of architectural glass which play with reflection, transparency and light transmission.My work is concept driven and site and project-specific so each individual piece is unique and in total harmony with the building and space it is...
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Practising artist, researcher and arts educator, specialising in drawing, printmaking (2D and 3D), video, sound works and site-specific public art projects that explore ideas associated with language and loss.
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i am an outsider artist, a live art performer and a writer with a growing international reputation and involvement nationally in disability arts. i work across live art / digital arts / installation / soundmapping / film / visual poetry and spoken word to challenge ownership of narratives. surrounded, often defined by languages (visual /...
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ConceptsAs a public artist my work responds to the site and the brief, whether making bollards or large one-off sculptures. The way the site is used by the public is important. There are certain constants within my work, the use of light on and through the piece, the surface texture of the piece and, more recently, I have been using words/poems...
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My work is exclusively drawing based and investigates activity and gesture. Relating to the individual moving through space it reveals, recreates and documents ensuing residual marks and indicators of contact. Work ranges from large, meticuously rendered drawings to collections of accidental, intentional and found marks. Alongside the...
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Exploring video as a textural, organic medium is seing my work embrace and reexamine the dynamic sensual aesthetic qualities found within the impressionist movement. The natural world around me with its rhythmical repetition, is playing a very inspirational role. Keep on questioning the very nature of the digital video medium, can it go beyond...
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Sarah Hughes is an artist working across installation, sculpture, drawing and sound. She is the co-founder of the curatorial platform Compost and Height and editor of the journal Wolf Notes. She has exhibited across the UK and Europe and plays contemporary composition and improvised music internationally. "Hughes' practice involves the...
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I am a Swiss mixed media artist and completed an MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw, Central Saint Martins in 2010. I live and work in London. In my work I explore the world of everyday things, places, spaces and situations and how we operate and behave with and within them. I conceptually and formalistically investigate and play with what...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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Concepts My current practice is performed through drawing and the moving image, photography and Installation. I liken these to transitional states through which my concerns with time and form, being and relations with the natural world are enacted, within which I manoeuvre. Drawing has been consistent throughout my practice. I see it as a type...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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My artworks often use words or a combination of text and image; I am intrigued by the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. My work attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have...
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My work is engaging with notions of travel and/or displacement. I am working with diegetic approaches to image, performance, text and sound. Central to my practice is the desire to ‘dig-up’ information, re-contextualise it and present it in engaging ways. The focus here is on the complex relations between mobility and identity...
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Lucy Stevens is an artist whose environmental soundscape art investigates the relationship between humanity and nature. Working with field recordings to produce aural portraits of wildlife in her surroundings, to share as headphone recordings or as art installations. Collecting data from bird watching to produce complex digital visuals to share...
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My practice comprises text, film, sound and performance. It usually draws on what is already available. A lot of my work is driven by an interest in taxonomies and classification systems, and in particular an interest in the illuminations and absurdities that arise as a result of applying classification systems to existing bodies of...
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