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The central theme surrounding my practice this year has been an exploration into the home and the significance that this place has.As an installation artist who deals with space, my recent visit to Cape Town was largely impacted by the contrast in exposure to space I experienced whilst out there. I was faced with breathtaking and rolling scenery...
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family's long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by. I am interested in ways that we work with or against nature; how we react and intervene,...
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Paper is a medium, a document a catalyst, a message, a creative act, it transforms for the better or worse, it travels, it is solid in a semi transparent world, it holds value, it proves, it also us to share information and ideas, it sorts us into groups of accepted and rejected, it covers up temporarily, it can be destroyed easily, it is...
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My projects explore the territories between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events, installations and interventions in public places. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, I seek to interrupt my assumptions and understand perspectives I could not see alone. I craft particular objects which open up a...
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'Everyday' is inherent within the art practice. Habitual routines are revealed by focusing on idiosyncrasies; gathering and collecting, rhythms and repetitions. 'The significance of the insignificant' is publicised whilst highlighting what is already there. A raw humanness is exposed as the audience becomes the voyeur.Time is...
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Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, robotics, interactive media, and textiles. Her work has a strong...
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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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Sophie Warren is an artist and Jonathan Mosley is an architect. They have a critical spatial practice that employs strategies of play, hybridisation and the construction of imaginary architectures to resist homogeneous perceptions of urban space. Using language, event, still and moving imagery and installation Warren & Mosley construct...
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Caroline Wright’s practice is based on conceptual archaeology. Her work includes live performance and visual art that is often site-responsive. She works in mediums as diverse as glass and gold as well as the human body and has made work for cities and rural spaces, for galleries, theatres, churches, on desolate uninhabited islands and...
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Claire Weetman is interested in how her art can be created in public spaces, in the places where the movement that she follows takes place. When situating herself in these locations, she creates interventions that not only document movement, but also seeks to alter the day-to-day movement of people within that space; Lines of water painted onto...
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Leah Lovett works collaboratively to make performances, videos, drawings, writings and workshops that explore the socialising fictions played out between people in cities and across mediated space. Her work borrows from other cultural forms like anthropology, human geography and most of all theatre, and engages strategies of camouflage,...
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I am a London based artist whose work divides between my studio-based practice and my multi-media work.In my studio I make paintings and collage that are concerned with the process of painting, exploring the tension between the representational and the purely abstract.My multi media work largely uses the form of documentary film to address...
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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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Craig Morrison's initial work with Meat Beat Manifesto and his Cyber Punk designs led to his work being on permanent display at both the Science Museum in London and the V&A. He has always been passionate about Art and Film. The Alan Turing Centenary has inspired him to collaborate on two large works this year: Intense Colour Movement , a...
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ZARATARAS is an art project performed by Sarah Taras. Her role is to mend, to parasitize or to redistribute ready-made art and found treasures with the aim of to give palliative care to our seriously wounded Earth. This objective is pursued by playing such roles as Cinderella, an embroiderer, an art curator, an entrepreneur, a gravedigger,...
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Townley and Bradby make interventions, performance walks and artists' books. Townley and Bradby's practice explores the routines and rituals of urban public spaces. By carefully combining place, action and props, they feel for the bounds of what is permissible, or for the level at which an intervention ceases to be invisible and rises into the...
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Although initially trained as a painter, Brookes' practice has always bridged media. Known primarily for the production of durational objects, images, interventions, and context specific live art pieces - his work has involved elements as diverse as photography, sampling, large scale and multiple projection, short-range and satellite radio...
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Katayoun Dowlatshahi creates work for public and private commissions and specialises in photography, drawing, architectural glass and time based media. She has successfully integrated contemporary art into a variety of landscapes, public spaces, regeneration projects and urban environments. Her practice is rooted in...
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Concepts My work is usually made of glass, steel and stainless steel. This work includes free standing sculptures, illuminated sculptures, wall mounted constructions, sand carving and acid etching. My ideas and image source are eclectic. The basic structures in my work are derived from my love of mathematics and geometry and from forms found in...
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My work frequently merges personal research with collaborations from various cultures, geographies and histories. Its primary focus is on the new societal condition of network culture and its effect upon relationships, conflicts and the identification of 'the Other'.I am particularly interested in the pervasiveness of photography within...
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The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of my work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space. The word inhabitant contains the root habit (dress) and implies a habitat (dwelling) and my work often has this double function of being both shelter and...
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I am a professional multidisciplinary artist. My practice encompasses live art and performance, site-specific installation, video, photography and digital media. I promote the direct dialogue in between artist and viewer via physical engagement and non-verbal visual language. I am inspired by the contemporary issues concerning views on a personal...
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