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Basically, I stick things together, and make some stuff- which I often assemble into other things. Ive watched a lot of telly, read some books, both text books and novels, seen films, been places. There are many archetypes employed in my works. The work like myself is reactionary, I am very much interested in our experience both mediated and...
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I work across media in socially interactive research based projects which involve the repair and re-use of discarded and abandoned material. The work takes on a mildly activist edge referencing the wasteful excesses of an economy based on built in obsolescence, while highlighting the "social lives" objects lead and our intimate...
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My work includes sculpture, painting and video; I'm interested in contrasting the everyday with the strange, combining found objects, waste materials and paint to construct three-dimensional compositions. My paintings and video often depict mundane scenes or objects, aiming to capture a sense of oddness in the ordinary. Susan Massey's...
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Since leaving the RCA in London, where Henry Moore personally funded Atkin, he has exhibited his work worldwide. Recent publications on Atkins’ output focus on the notion of “industrial archaeology” and the use of the past within the contemporary landscape. These publications include The Navigator ISBN 0-906688-40-X; Scorched Earth ISBN...
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I make work that questions the conditions of practice and its ability to exist in the world out side of the studio and gallery space. Questioning the viewer's duty in the works existence, I make drawings, assemblages, sculpture, paintings and text pieces which have evolved through a detached interest in extended practice and process alongside...
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Abby Sohn is an artist based in Pontypridd, Wales. Working internationally as a conservator of museum artefacts, Sohn's artwork extends the practice of examining and preserving cultural and social histories through the use of objects and materials from personal and institutional archives. Her work investigates how the spirit of a memory within an...
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