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Concepts I am interested in townscapes and the urban environment, particularly seaside resorts or industrial sites/estates and parks - anywhere where human activity comes up against nature. I like to contrast the artificial patterns of the architecture with natural forms. Often the places that act as starting points for paintings have a...
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Current Practice I am essentially a fine art painter, but I do print and draw as part of my practise. I have recently re-dicovered Gesso which I am finding captivating in its coldness. Concepts If you look at my paintings closely you will see layers upon layers of paint. Each piece takes time to complete, although the marks are expressive and...
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Current Practice I am essentially a fine art painter, but I do print and draw as part of my practise. I have recently re-dicovered Gesso which I am finding captivating in its coldness. Concepts If you look at my paintings closely you will see layers upon layers of paint. Each piece takes time to complete, although the marks are expressive and...
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Rebecca Spooner’s rich installations combine film, photography, projection and found objects. Her work explores the romanticism of nature, in particular the representation of women, wild animals and the British landscape. Rebecca Spooner, Rough Notes, Publicity Image ...
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...I am interested in the concept of the artist as researcher, someone who utilises fieldwork techniques familiar to visual anthropology, sociology and geographical studies. This approach developed from research exploring geographical and social issues specific to border regions. Borders have been prevalent throughout Paul's practice, in terms of...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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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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The nature of language, and, in particular, its limitations as a method of expressing deep and difficult feelings, informs much of my work. I work directly with books, texts and paper ephemera to create drawings, installations and sculptures that pose questions rather than deliver answers about how we communicate within our familial and intimate...
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In 'Bird Gesture' (2008) a woman stands in the centre of a busy shopping precinct. Around her are the signs of urban conformity and consumerism. The sun casts a shadow from one of the nearby trees, one of only a few in this non-place, which could be just about anywhere in the UK. In her cupped hands she holds a tiny bird. The bird is...
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Merging art, science and technology, Jessica Lloyd-Jones' sculpture and installations manipulate the properties of materials and light, revealing new perspectives on the world in which we live. Artwork has evolved from investigation into a broad range of subject matter, linked to natural phenomena, which include bioluminescence, bioelectricity,...
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The apportionment of space and time are predominant factors in our 'being' and the disruption of these foundations impels us to question and seek to substantiate our presumed reference.' Career path Qualifications: 1982 MA (RCA), Royal College of Art, London1977 BA Hons, Cardiff College of ArtTeaching Experience: 1997 Home Tutor,...
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