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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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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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Louise Hopkins practices a strategic sort of iconoclasm. Starting with pre-printed found surfaces, Hopkins remakes visual imagery through overpainting or repainting, erasing, scratching off or tearing the surface. The form of mark-making for each work is a specific response to the source material. Although she is perhaps most well known for...
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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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The Lonely Piper was genesised in 1999 as the sole protagonist in the film 'I Can't Play The Bagpipes', a romantic yet humorous deconstruction of Scottish stereotype. His body of work to date has a Caledonian twist yet stems from the universal concerns of natural history, life, death, the paranormal and a love of folklore. Modestly referring to...
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Conceptual and formal references to post-war American art and culture, art history and critical theory inform the work of Neil Clements, but ultimately it is the viewer’s relation to the work that completes it – the subjective encounter in a particular context.In 'Moat' (2009), a rectangular sheet of aluminium, overlaid by...
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Lucy Skaer makes drawings, prints, sculptures and films that are often combined in installations. Her work forces the viewer to grapple with the experience of seeing an image or object that does not immediately reveal its form. Skaer acknowledges that the act of looking can be demanding, as she describes in her encounter with Holbein’s...
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'Coombes emphasises the entrenched political, cultural and class connotations of the traditional media that he works in. Stiff, pragmatic oil painting is harnessed to the exhausted mores of the tweeded aristocracy. The fluid eroticism of Baroque painting is applied to the svelte creases of an urban folk devil's dog-eared leather jacket'. (Neil...
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Craig Coulthard's work looks and feels like the noticeboard of your local 'local history society' - imbued with facts, connections between obscure persons and events and highly empirical topographical detail. Although imbued with the corrective revisionism of people's history, such local histories tend to create an 'objective' manageable past...
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Scottish artist Kevin Reid draws on locality, story telling and colloquialism, looking to the everyday for inspiration in favour of art historical references. Notions of remembrance, machismo and childhood, gang mentality, utopian ideology and the psychology of social structures and friendship permeate his multi-disciplinary practice. His work as...
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Biography Merlin James (b. 1960, Cardiff) studied at the Central School of Art, London (1979-82) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1983-86). James is also an art writer and previously held the position of Assistant Editor at the Burlington Magazine. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Sikkema, Jenkins and Co, New York,...
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Kate Davis makes meticulously rendered drawings that play with the representation of beauty, symmetry and evolution. Visual similes and metaphors tease the eye with incongruous metamorphoses of nature and culture, abstraction and representation, beauty and catastrophe. Reference points include Brancusi, Hepworth, Picasso and Goya, and...
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Since being short-listed for Becks Futures in 2004, Glasgow-based artist Hayley Tompkins has become associated with the small, lo-tech, unframed watercolour drawings which are installed, often staged, with the viewer's physical encounter in mind. Modernism and minimalism are recurrent references in the drawings, citing Malevich, Sonia Delaunay,...
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Between Fact and Fiction: the power of mythology From Sea to Shining Sea is an imaginary landscape pictured delicately on a huge semi-transparent curtain swathed with polka-dots. The curtain was specially made for the Round Room at the Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh) and, drawn directly onto the curtain, the images suggest another time,...
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