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Alison J M Sneddon

Concept  I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed my degree at Camberwell School of Art London where my work explored photography and film/video slide projected installations , computer art and sculptural relief making and stained glass. I then wanted to push and explore these mediums further through...
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Mia Taylor

I am interested in the perceptual instability within spatial representation, particularly within the discipline of painting. I am interested in how space is articulated pictorially and how the physical space it inhabits can enter into this discourse. Many of my works are site-responsive and are created to react and call attention to the...
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Gordon Cain

My recent work depicts hypothetical spatial scenarios or cultural event spaces, suggesting evidence of an uncertain or unspecified labour within the city. Incorporated elements suggest both the ‘found’ and the ‘made’; both evidence of nature and culture. The ‘found’ referring to recognisable and generally familiar things or entities, which exist...
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Pandora Vaughan

Concepts, ideas and themes Mainly concerned with the nature of land use and spatial confinement. With a bit of sparkle and colour. Although the medium is variable, it is always chosen in the context of its properties, the site or project. Processes and techniques drawing, construction, planting, painting, print, stitch, workshops,...
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Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley

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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William Nixon

The underlying theme of my work considers our understanding of and attitudes towards what we consider reality to be. Initially the various images appear to be snapshots that make up a typical urban environment, and to an extent they are. However, the works are in fact a calculated juxtaposition of different photographs, which take the form of a...
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Peter Griffiths

My work is developed as an exploration of, and reaction to a particular situation. I am interested in how both the process and the material influence the creation of the work and that the ‘subject’ is often secondary to these. I am interested in the part technology can play in the production of artworks and how this can be used to...
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Jacki Storey

My work investigates the ability of light to reveal and conceal objects and spaces, and is particularly influenced by Freud’s notions of the uncanny and Proust’s narrative of the transitional. Camera Obscura Projective Installations explore and extend the artistic potential of the camera obscura to perceptually transform objects and...
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Mick Petts

'My job is to see the full potential of a certain site or situation, to make new ideas spring to life, to re-engage people and wildlife with the land '.What excites me is the integration of art, science and innovation - to create landscapes which invite people to interact with them and which can change and develop over time.Inspiration...
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Sarah Taras

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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Dominique Rey

Concepts Dominique Rey produces photographs, collage, sculpture and video, informed by the history of a place, or by the influence of the human in collision with the monumental in the built world. Rey works with the effects of time and decay on the architecture of a landscape. The work is inspired by growth, war, death and a transience of life...
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Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi

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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Joanne Berry

To discover how medicines work in a single cell, the artist Jo Berry (JB) will participate in Practical research activities, using fluorescence microscopy to study Pharmacology of drugs and Receptors in living cells, gaining insight into the scientific process and methods for using Fluorescence imaging to measure drug-receptor interactions...
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Lisa Traxler

Traxler responds to the weight of remembered experience, creating an environmental autobiography – a sense of self and place, intimately connected. Through this form of memory-mapping, Traxler has been able to extend her practice in new directions, from life-sized enamel and steel sculptures, to suspended ephemeral stitched paper...
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