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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 practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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My work presents points of collision between cultures and cultural phenomenon. My roots are Diasporic. Myself, I was South African Born, my family's history - like  many, involves tales of deterritorialization, migration, displacement and assimilation My practice is multiplicitous, I present an ongoing exploration, a type of...
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Ryan McClelland was born in Liverpool in 1978, he moved to London in 1997 to study at Camberwell College of Art, subsequently studying at Goldsmiths College and then obtaining his MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2007. His work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the Oscar Neiymer Museum in...
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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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Most recently, Jenny Parkin has been using architectural figures and cheap party food - custard, jelly, doughnuts, etc - to create little stage sets for her camera around themes of greed and consumption. In other work she has recycled and remade things that are already out there in people's homes and lives. She considers the history of...
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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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Plane wreckage falls from the sky after fifty years; enigmatic objects are found littering the earth; the cockpit is a riddle of dials impervious to interpretation. The drawings and objects here use a vocabulary of motifs: plane; bunker; tower; clearing; sky and sphere with materials that carry a weight of meaning such as ash, gold, lead,...
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'Ian Gonczarow works in the traditional artworld genre of painting, yet he forces the paint into images of cultural and political dissent. The heraldic insignia of world power politics - the Stars and Stripes, heroic soviet statuary, all cack-handedly reproduced with meticulous care - are filtered through the blatant bad taste aesthetics of...
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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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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 practice primarily works with the moving image but also encompasses still image and text projects. I have been working with the found image and particular places/sites within my filmmaking practice for around five years. I'm attracted to a degree of obsolescence in both cases. With the found image, the detachment from its creator and...
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ConceptsAmy Houghton's practice involves the use of animation, video and porcelain to explore the hidden and revealed histories and stories related to old objects in particular old textiles and photographs placed in the context of our lives in the present. She explores how we use and read antique textiles and photographs as stimuli for...
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James R Ford is a British artist whose practice explores notions of repetition, pathos and idiocy; delving into the activities and influences of his childhood. His body of work consists of process based projects and investigations: ranging from inventing a new home based sport, to covering a Ford Capri in over 4,000 toy cars, to spending...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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Nicola Kelly explores photography’s relationship with vernacular portraiture, death, and the memento mori. Her photographic images and installations are densely coded with both explicit and implicit references to the history of photography and photographic theories on indexicality and the uncanny.This is particularly evident in the work she...
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I work with fluid configurations of people, place and technology to investigate the interplay of mind, myth and screen. My practice is predominantly lens-based but also encompasses site-specific, son et lumière events in the public realm. The Voyage into the Unknown mystery tours and commissions from The Natural Trust and Bristol City Council...
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I navigate the cultural geography of contemporary rural Wales, using as content the customs I am witness to in order to dissect my own identity and that of those around me. I appropriate disciplines prevalent in this culture such as sketches and humorous poetry along with text and film to interpret what it may mean to live in this particular...
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A man is attacked by a wild creature unknown to him. The man pulls an animal guide book from his pocket and, locating the creature in question, begins to read out loud the descriptions and A Story A man is attacked by a wild creature unknown to him. The man pulls an animal guide book from his pocket and, locating the creature in question,...
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My practice encompasses painting, drawing, installation and occasional collaborations with other cultural agents. Much of my projects combine a certain precision and rigour with a sense of endless effort as if someone is attempting to make sense of the world by empirical study. I am interested in the parallel stories that can arise in our...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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ConceptsAn installation artist working across varied media including Digital Video, Audio, Interactive Media, Artificial Intelligence, Device Control and Hybrid technology. Cotterrell plays with an acknowledged tradition of eccentric invention, customising existing technologies to assert new use values. A practice divided between the gallery...
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With my work I try to show things and aspects of everyday life from a different perspective, in a new context and heighten our awareness and perceptions of our surroundings. I would describe my work as graphic, witty and subtle. It raises questions and confronts issues in a playful yet very profound way. I constantly rearrange things that seem...
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