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I utilise a variety of media and forms to realise my work, though lens-based media, painting and 3D installation have formed the core of my previous practice. My work has also incorporated drawing, specialist imaging techniques (e.g. using Scanning Electron Microscopes), and tattooing. Past projects have involved developing...
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Born in Edinburgh. Lorraine Robson spent some years working as a Cartographer before studying Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating she worked for a Commercial Sculpture Studio, producing commissioned fibreglass figures. During this period Lorraines own sculpture developed in plaster, fibreglass and cold cast metals. This work...
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BIO: Robin Tarbet graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is an artist based in East London. He was awarded the Stanley Picker Tutorship in Fine Art at Kingston University in 2006/07, where he now works as a lecturer. Tarbet’s work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film, with...
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My work references the language of architectural features and environments, questioning the implications of its usage and place within the continuity of our Western identity and outlook. I am interested in the psychology of spaces, seeking the rift and intervention that occurs as space becomes place.
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Concepts Public art, large scale site specific sculpture in urban and rural sites often, post industrial, technological or environmental themes. Landmark sculptures, often reflecting aspects of their immediate locality in a variety of materials. Exploring the connections between technology and mythology. Assemblage sculpture,...
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Combining the mass produced and the unique is, for me, humorous and ironical and full of suggestion and contradiction. I am interested in the process of reproduction (printmaking, laser cutting, high tech and lo-tech) and also by the theme of reproduction (with reference to the ethical debate surrounding biotechnology, genetics, sex and...
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My work is informed by the ethos of Process Art where the "creative sentiment is superseded by the process of the formation of art...moreover the initiation of actions and procedings" and revolves around irregular apropriation of technologies and it's effects on the formal qualities of contemporary image making. Constrained by the...
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"My influences are from all things natural and with the Zen-like philosophy that 'less is more', I shed extraneous material to express the essence of Nature's energy and refine interpretations of my experiences and emotions, using pewter metal as my chosen medium. Living on the sea for some years, the elements and the environment, their...
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Blue has been given access to the National Library of Wales' (NLW) varied collections which consist of many of the Nation's treasures, including a broad range of materials such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and archives - not to mention the films, sound tapes and off-air recordings that are also housed there. The project was...
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Ideas and concerns within the work relate to the theme of transience, the articulation of language and the appearance of the everyday.  The viewer is often encouraged to reflect, speculate, survey and regard the effects of time and light upon objects, situations and images. Within my practice I have a strong commitment to collaborative work....
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Text Art The Uncertainty Series is an ongoing body of work that mimics the ‘track changes’ function in word processing programs. This format allows Charnock to reveal the doubts she experiences during her art-making – giving solid form to meandering and often contradictory thoughts. An installation at Mid Pennine Gallery took...
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I am a Nottingham-based artist and illustrator originally from Rochdale. Inspired by the ordinary things in life, my work is quirky and contemporary with a refreshing take on modern life. Liberally dosed with wordplay, humour and imagination, my work combines words with pictures. It's equally important for me to come up with exactly the right...
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I am a sculptor whose work is primarily about the expression of ideas through the medium of a physical object. I am interested in the feeling, drama, ambiguities and allusions that a piece of sculpture carries in its physical form, via arrangement of mass, texture, tactility and other senses. I am also a founder, organiser and curator...
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A Visual Discourse on Maternity Installations and Subverted ObjectsMy current art making practice is a three dimensional visual exploration of the dilemma of what it means to inhabit a female body. It is the female body alone I feel that defines woman as different from man and therefore I have chosen by necessity to distill “female” to...
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Concepts My constructions reflect my admiration for the natural world. I expand the minutiae of plant and sea life to challenge and dominate the viewer on a human scale. A 5cm developing leaf becomes a 2m sculpture. 'Coelenterates' were first constructed for a gallery commission as an installation, they are based on sea coral. I have since...
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I use photography to explore ideas around fairy tales, mythology and the environment. i develop my ideas experimentally, often making sketches in advance of subsequent set-ups. I work in series and bodies of work over a long enough time to let me thoroughly explore my subject and its representation and my relationship to it. I have returned to...
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My interests lie in making work that is both visually and emotionally stimulating. It seeks not only to transform the site it is made for, but also to transform the performance/behaviour of the viewer. The approach is not defined by material, or by process, more by the people, places and function that each opportunity offers. Fundamental to all my...
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My current work questions the nature of things, images and experiences; the significance, the meaning, connotations and expectations.  Generally the focus is on the everyday and how we might or might not expect to find things.  There is usually a sense of uncertainty or discontinuity in the work allowing the viewer to interpret in their...
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Garry Barker has been exploring the possibilities of narrative image making for over 30 years. His work is a continuous ongoing set of interconnected stories that have evolved as an autobiographical fiction. Sometimes walking and drawing and talking to establish starting points for stories and images, at other times writing and drawing as a...
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Art work is made and informed by situations, occurrences, conversations and the production of art. Using snippets of information gathered from common sources such as newspapers and the internet, concepts are formed. Research into both the unusual and the trivial create starting points for investigation, which often leads to action, text, and...
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My practice centres around drawing reduced to the fundamental activity of placing one mark after another in predetermined and random sequences, utilising both haptic and digital construction. Each work is characterised by systematic, repetitive and indeterminate production that explores sensory experience of visual perception. Underpinning...
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I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with the...
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Concepts The notion of a parallel universe, of what goes on beneath our pleasing and pleasant appearance is a constant theme in both my oil painting and in my etchings. My etchings are closely related to my late night doodle drawing and portray secret fantasies or fiery desires with a clearly erotic tone, which I also continue in some small oils...
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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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Through the sculpture I make I aim to re-interpret the human form by rendering it in new processes and forming it through complex geometric operations. By reviewing the body in these ways I aim to reconsider the way we view ourselves, in many terms: from our atomic makeup to our societal structures. When making work for a particular site I see...
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As an artist-letterer working with issues to do with the environment, language and cultural identity, a sense of place is fundamental to my work. The poetic resonance of language and its connection to the environment drives my work, which explores ideas of mapping in relation to a sense of place, as well as an understanding of community and...
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I have always drawn and painted the human figure, it has been the main focus of my art since I was a child, and is an interest which continued through art college and beyond. When I had my four children, I recorded their childhood in drawings paintings and prints. Sometimes, years later, I have made work from the memory of these times. So I was...
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Sarah Sabin Wall Excavation, 2002 Selected by Charlie Levine Archives, collections, found/discarded objects, hidden histories are pieces of puzzles that artist Sarah Sabin enjoys discovering, dissecting and putting back together again. ...
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Book upon Book upon Book: Christina Mitrentse “This whole enabling structure is now much eroded.” [1] “Everything, in the world,” wrote the poet Stephane Mallarme, “exists to end up in a book”. [2] With respect to the work of Christina Mitrentse the direction of this tendency appears to be, at first sight at least, reversed....
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My practice is an exploration of the universal pursuit of natural and constructed beauty and contrasting elements in what is perceived to be beautiful. These have morphed and developed, as a result of the expansion of knowledge and the changing of customs in societies, from the admiration of perceived perfection equalling beauty to beauty...
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I would describe my work as a series of observations that explore the perennial human search for meaning and the ways in which our deep rooted cultural and social practices and beliefs impact on our view of the world and our relationships with those around us. I employ a cross disciplinary approach, in which printmaking processes merge...
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I am a magpie  I collect, collate I salvage, save I appropriate, arrange I hoard, in my own order It's a question of sculpture, skill and sarcasm Of labour, laziness and love 3-dimensional drawing, painting, collage. My work is about the questioning and balance of materials, actions and thoughts in order to ascertain the...
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