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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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Enzo Marra is of Italian parentage and holds a BA in fine art from Reading University and an MA from Brighton University. His painterly work is characterised by elements of history, mythology, surrealism and metamorphosis. He has been selected to exhibit in the Threadneedle Prize and GFEST in 2010, Charlie Smith Anthology in 2011, The Open West,...
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I try to make things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's Artist of the Month, Ruth talks to Neill Sheasby about his appreciation of the ordinary, his time as a studio user at North Tyneside Art Studio and getting...
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My work is predominantly installation based and relates to my interest in our relationship with places. Often the work itself is intended to have a direct dialogue with the particular space in which it is presented. I use processes of replication and displacement, often combining and relating three-dimensional pieces to time based imagery and...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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Sally Waterman's interdisciplinary arts practice is concerned with the interpretation of literature into self-portraits. She creates poetic still and moving image works that explore issues of female subjectivity, memory and autobiography, drawing upon writers such as Henry James, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. Waterman re-invents the source...
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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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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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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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My diverse art practice is united by ongoing research exploring the relationship between images created for public or personal consumption, focusing on the language of domestic photography. Traditional family album images are shaped by strict, but generally unacknowledged, conventions that form a series of fixed narratives. Within my practice...
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Jeannie Driver creates installations, sculptures and 2D work from the ubiquitous material of waste paper. The relationship between the material and ideas is central to the work and provides an alternative visual and physical experience of the material that references ideas of bureaucracy, systems, flow, waste and resource. The actual paper...
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Fairbrother is concerned with the exploration of identity, and the relationship between past and present. While at first glance her work may appear at times to draw on a romanticised nostalgia, the sense of ambivalence suggests a complex relationship between the individual and memory. ...
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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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Taking visual cues from both actual and virtual environments, my paintings explore relationships of space and the problematisation of the figure/ground relationship in painting. The work begins with an interest in questioning the formal aspects of painting, a concern with “painting as painting” focusing on material and...
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The work is primarily concerned with exploring the tendency to nurture habit, ritual, routine and even obsessive repetition in a modern world teetering on the brink of dystopia where possibilities and choices are seemingly endless. My practice uses a wide range of media chosen to suit my ideas including drawing, animation, print, performance and...
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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The Pomp of Circumstances solo exhibition - Press Release The Pomp of Circumstances presents a series of works that operate on the understanding that belief systems – be they philosophical, ideological or religious – are largely based on a labyrinth of accidents, mistranslations, pseudo-scientific reasoning and dogmatic entrapment. ...
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View the Open Frequency section for further details. Riccardo Iacono: Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the Axis Directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. This month Ruth catches up with artist Riccardo Iacono to discuss his current work 'Lamp Posts', the limitations of vision and throwing peas...
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New statement pending. Claire Hope: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Ben Cook, founder Director of LUX, discusses his selection.Claire Hope is an artist for modern times, working at the hard edge of language and power relations, highly...
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My art practice is a device inviting the spectator to question and investigate our familiar fields of knowledge and imagination. The material of the everyday initiates my curiosity. I am interested in the capacity that art owns to take you from that space in that moment, to another space. I see my work as an idle observation of life like a doodle....
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I try to build a dialogue between the illusionistic spaces of perspective and composition inherent within painting, and the experience of navigating real space around my objects. Although the objects rarely reference things in the world openly, I do want them to relate to architectural spaces and therefore also the functions of these places. This...
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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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My work is engaging with notions of travel and/or displacement. I am working with diegetic approaches to image, performance, text and sound. Central to my practice is the desire to ‘dig-up’ information, re-contextualise it and present it in engaging ways. The focus here is on the complex relations between mobility and identity...
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unmaking painting My paintings use repetitive procedures, structures and processes of reproduction in an attempt to acknowledge one in the immediate present, standing one with respect to time, a feeling of time ’. The vocabulary of abstraction is entwined with reference to ‘experience.’ By navigating a route through abstraction...
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Agnes Nedregard is exploring how our personal and cultural luggage informs our interpretations of situations, places and people. She places the experience of being a human body at the centre of the work, charging her presence in the world with physical energy, psychological images, actions and symbols. The unpredictability of communication in the...
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The relationship between the self and society forms my general area of interest and I am particularly keen to explore both evolving and declining aspects of social interaction. I am interested in pinpointing changes in our everyday social rituals as an attempt at charting seemingly swift societal change. In this sense I am drawn to notions of...
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I trawl through images taken from a variety of sources including Renaissance painting, medieval prints and numerous books, both contemporary and historical, on medicine, botany, alchemy and science, etc. My drawings continue to be an important and playful part of my research for the paintings and I use them to experiment with connections, scale,...
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The work is concerned with pushing the parameters of water jet cutting technology.  Over the past five years Vanessa has been investigating the creative uses of water jet cutting for glass.  This has led to the development of new work that is utilising this cutting edge technology in an imaginative and unique way.  Cutting...
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I am a strayed photographer at heart, and my art practice now takes a number forms: photography, video, performance and writing. My life changed dramatically when I was at a car boot sale in August 2005. I saw a tin of cigarette cards and I leafed through all. Each depicted a pin-up photograph with a mini biography on the back. For reasons...
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I work from images of people, using the reproductions of their painted and sculpted portraits reduced to thumbnails on Google. Deriving elements from the print outs, and then splicing and reconstructing the fragmented parts forms the basis of exploring these images of individuals and how they have been represented throughout history. My...
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Alicia Bruce: Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the Axis Directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. This month Ruth catches up with photographer Alicia Bruce to discuss what makes a successful photograph, the inspiration she finds in other people's lives and how she helped the residents...
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