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b.1980, United Kingdom Matt James Smith is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work is often an attempt to excavate the subjective history of a particular landscape or place through the use of lens-based media. Recent research has been centered around ideas of the 'unpresentable' (the sublime, the uncanny, the traumatic) in relation...
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My mainly lens-based “romantic conceptualist” practice responds to fundamental questions of technologies, perception and narrative. I have a particular fascination with contested sites, and use a pseudo-ethnographic method – like a renegade anthropologist – to perform a kind of intellectual fieldwork that engages with the...
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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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Through an extensive process of research Lloyd create alter egos to enable him to tackle a subject from more than one point of view. These characters interact with each other in videos, installations and performances, where he becomes both the ventriloquist and the dummy. He builds installations that act as sets for his videos as well as a space...
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Annie Ravazzolo uses overlooked, everyday materials and objects to explore forces such as magnetism and gravity. She works quickly, taking the material as a starting point for an investigation into its properties, without knowing where it will lead. The end result is often ephemeral and precarious, yet consistently beautiful and conceptually...
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Ben is interested in a crisis of male identity. A critique that often starts with his own arrested development and which is therefore often sited within the family unit. Ben lived with his maternal grandmother, Blue Granny, for a year during his time at Goldsmiths and for the two years of study at the RCA. A desire to understand how...
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Distilled memory and current affairs underpin my art practice. Elucidating common issues of concern. As Mike Kelley put it 'Attempting to strip away the façade of domestic bliss'. My scripts encourage us to view familiar spectacles from a dislocated perspectives. Selector text In 'Mrs McLaren's Labour' Ann Denison has created a humorous video...
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Kate Stobbart works in sculpture, performance and video. For her MFA exhibition at Newcastle University in August 2011, she presented the five-channel video installation 'Five Speeches' (2011) in which five paper screens were hung from the ceiling in an arc. Back-projected onto the screens were videos of actions being performed by Stobbart...
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Laura Cresser's exhibition The Hanging Gardens Project consists of four scale models of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, based on differing descriptions by ancient Greek and Babylonian writers and historians. Each model is displayed on a low plinth, resulting in the observer towering over them and having to crouch down in order to observe any...
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In my practice I use photography, video and performance to examine the self and its relationship with its surrounding environment. I am interested in how we negotiate the current landscape of advertising and corporate branding where everything has a logo on it and we are all the target audience. My work has been described as 'banal in the...
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Artist statement My practice is concerned with the intense identification with 'place', felt by members of the local history group to which I belong. Their shared feelings of belonging to a community that no longer exists become a tangible entity that resonates within the group whenever they meet. While they spoke to me about their shared...
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