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Ravishing Beauty: The Aesthetics of Rape in Grace Ndiritu's video Desert Storm, by Caroline Bagenal for After Image Magazine, Issue 39, 1&2, 2011 Desert Storm (2004) is a disturbing and powerful video by the young British artist Grace Ndiritu. In this haunting reminder of war's female casualties, Ndiritu addresses war and rape as a tool...
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My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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Frances Young is a UK based artist working in moving image media, exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. Her work is in the collections of David Roberts (London, UK), Gemeente Museum, Helmond (Netherlands), University of the Arts London Permanent Collection (UK), and private collections in the UK and USA. She holds an MA in Fine Art from...
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I work from the close examination of the photographic image or extracted film still, derived from the surveillance, documentation and scrutiny of various locations. Carefully selected resource material is either used in isolation, in sequence or spliced together to make fictional scenarios, which form the basis of paintings, drawings,...
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Using tools of performance and image making, my practice adopts an approach of practical philosophy. Combining dialogical methodologies and performative strategies, the work centres on the nature of the image and sets out to create an encounter that goes beyond representational means, towards a more experiential engagement. By creating...
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My ongoing work reflects my evolving practice working across various media and contexts through installation, three dimensional form and site-specific works. A broad materials based background and artistic vocabulary which embraces photography, film and soundworks form the basis of my hybrid practice. Current works address the interplay...
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I'm interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, 'Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be'.Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is...
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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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What breathes? (Reflections on the art of Clara S Rueprich by Jan Kuhlbrodt, 2004) In his late work written in the mid-seventies, Experimentum Mundi, Ernst Bloch describes nature simply as the outside, where there is an enigmatic breathing, with the question „what breathes?“ occupying an impersonal gap. The outside definitely...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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My practice investigates architecture, urban spaces, and the city’s relationship to contemporary art practice. Working across painting, photography, installation, video, sound and curation, works and projects explore the transitory and contradictory nature of cities, and address the physicality and social history of urban spaces. Ideas and...
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I wander at the edges, a flaneuse, observing, seizing fragments by drawing swiftly or using a video camera, and I express my ideas in a personal way employing a diaristic confessional mode that communicates clearly to reach the power of universal meaning, and to engage a wide audience. Educated in the sixties; empowered by feminism and by...
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Concepts Victoria Rance’s work is concerned with the exploration of human behaviour and the boundaries between the self and others. It investigates human interaction within different physical and social environments. Her work creates a sense of place, encouraging people to become more aware of their body in its physical environment....
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Plane wreckage falls from the sky after fifty years; enigmatic objects are found littering the earth; the cockpit is a riddle of dials impervious to interpretation. The drawings and objects here use a vocabulary of motifs: plane; bunker; tower; clearing; sky and sphere with materials that carry a weight of meaning such as ash, gold, lead,...
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New statement pending. Claire Hope: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Ben Cook, founder Director of LUX, discusses his selection.Claire Hope is an artist for modern times, working at the hard edge of language and power relations, highly...
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Born in 1974, Ben Cove grew up in Manchester and currently lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with an MFA in 2008 having previously completed undergraduate degrees in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001 and Architecture at The University of Nottingham in 1995. Since 2001 he has...
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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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I've always been interested in working with a range of media to develop work using the most appropriate material. This is why it may appear a mixed bag. For instance, recent exhibitions have used projections in one space, museum cabinets in another, found and reconstructed elements on a wall in another space, and...
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Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Born in England in 1955...
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Concepts I am a photographic artist who works within a context of fine art ideas. These images evolve from an ongoing artistic investigation which began as an exploration into the notion of home, memory, story and history within a Welsh cultural context. These works explores the intimacy of a garden space as a site of performance,...
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Artists statement I am interested in revealing images which are very strong; that offer a glimpse of past worlds and indistinct realities; where the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, and memories take on a life of their own. My work in video, photography and moving-image installation investigates the nuances of moments in the...
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My work over the past four years has been developed within a self-organised education structure. A desire to work collaboratively is something which is important to me and which appears in my practice frequently. In some cases the work that I do happens within the context of groups and situations that I have set up and/or have been a part of, it...
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My work has developed through combining photography and documentation with live art. I have produced projects as an individual, and in collaboration with other people and artists, in Going Nowhere and VAKAV, with audience participation being an important part of my practice. I make art, create interventions, and present interactive lectures and...
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Primarily my artwork is self-portraiture, but not in the traditional sense. In the work I create a photographic copy of myself and photograph it in my place. She becomes a substitute and my visual representative. My work forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis and phenomenology I examine...
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Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
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 In all my art  I have striven to unearth links in time and between people in the locations in which I work :   a shipyard\a Cheshire ridge\a new-build Fine Art Academy \a Cambridge town \a residential home       +         \   &nb...
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My work attempts to make re-representations of structures and networks that through scale and complexity defy a singular visualisation. Iconic buildings, entire cities and geographical phenomena are presented as complete entities in sound, text and video works. Recent works have included installations, sound works and text pieces.
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Hadzi-Vasileva is a site-specific/installation artist working across varied media including sculpture, video and sound installations, photography and architectural interventions. She produces ambitious and complex works by responding to the particularities of a given location, be it in terms of industry, community or (natural) environment. Her...
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I am interested in how humans create an absurd mixture of conflicting emotions when they are faced with overwhelming situations and anxiety.Through videos and bodies of drawings, I use humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours. My videos mimic television genres such as documentaries, reality shows and...
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Socio-political themes are intrinsic to all the projects I pursue. I am currently exploring globalisation and disconnectedness in a hyper-real world. Visually, the images I digitally create are based on photographs I have taken of rural Asian landscapes. This practice has now extended to local scenes of London. These depict scenarios from the...
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Working through a process that uses archiving and intervention I seek to map the other life of a place or community in order to represent a multi- faceted place.  Using the traditions of story telling and the processes of documentary, historical research methods, psycho geography and imagined other lives the work adopts a phenomenological...
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