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My work has always been about my concern with 'being in the world'; 'being' as a human, 'being' as a transient occupant in time, space and condition.   Work begins with the intention to explore and to incorporate possibilities.  The outcome is open-ended to allow room for interpretations.  Sometimes failures play a crucial part in...
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Having been trained as an engineer, the form and monumentality of architecture and industrial plant has inevitably had a significant bearing on my practice. My work seeks to comment on the world about us and thus takes a political stance. Recent work has looked at the fragility of economic stability, division and subjugation in our society,...
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Selector text Alice Forward's work explores the uneasy psychological and social relationship between man and nature. It traverses the edges of their respective territories where flora and fauna exists despite mans expanding habitat. The latent potential for nature to reassert itself is explored in several works with an implied menace resonant...
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Liam Jolly graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 2001. Based in Cornwall he is currently studying an MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice at University College Falmouth. Rooted in the language of abstract painting his concept driven multi disciplinary works question notions of reality...
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My current practice stems from an abiding interest in psychological and philosophical disciplines. Committed to exposures of the psyche, the camera is deployed as a tool by which the unconscious may be unlocked thus enabling significant emotional and mental shifts. The private nature of the photographic studio enables certain revelatory actions,...
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Artist statement My playful alchemy explores the complimentary relationships between observation and the imagination, the physical and the ethereal. The act of looking can be analytical or receptive and I feel projection is a medium with which I can explore these different ways of seeing. When observing something for the first time we...
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Biographical statementShelley Castle gained a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting from Central St. Martin’s and most recently has completed an MA in Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts, Devon. Now working mostly in moving image, photography and installation, recent projects have involved a broad array of collaborators...
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Academy'Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education.' (Tony Blair, Labour Party Conference, 1996)The landscape of learning is changing. First announced in the House of Commons by David Blunkett in 2000, the academy schools programme proposed to close existing inner city comprehensives...
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I believe art is the complex and compound science we use to investigate reality and a complex form of communication with which we can communicate its meanings and ascribe it significance.Artists create art by placing objects concepts behaviour sounds images text anything into a notional aesthetic space we negotiate the right and the power to do...
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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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I must listen well to learn your liquid voice Luce irigary: marine lover Artist statement 'I long for your fluidity... I must listen well to learn your liquid voice.' (Luce Irigaray: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche) In my working processes, I established the analogy of conversation - water and self were participants in...
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In our work as LOW PROFILE, Hannah Jones and I are drawn to tasks which are unfeasibly large, seemingly ridiculous and on the edges of sense and nonsense. Our concerns are human scale, they are based on the specific, particular fixations and everyday details of our lives – in an attempt to reclaim things that would otherwise be overlooked or...
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I make heads and faces. Some people have great faces on the first look; other people's faces grow on me. Some faces have a particularly interesting composition or outline.  Faces are surprisingly different and I like the sensation of change that I get when I look from one face to another. Lived in faces hold more of a fascination for me than...
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'There is a particular economy, almost in the nature of a delicate ecological balance, in the video works of Nim-Jo Chung. Like an observant diarist, he encourages serendipitous encounters with the world and its occupants, merely by being out there and amongst them. He catches a bus or plays guitar, takes a ferry or chats to a casual...
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For his MA exhibition held in the University of the West of England studio area of Spike Island, Theo Cuff showed seven paintings varying in size but, in this exhibition, the typical size was approximately 40cm x 50cm.Unusually for MA exhibitions this one was characterised by a certain curatorial flair, placing works together that offered...
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For her MA show held in the University of the West of England studio area of Spike Island, Natasha MacVoy displayed five pieces of freestanding work distributed throughout the exhibition area. The exhibition was curated to avoid the usual 'stable' showcasing of individuals' work by showing works grouped...
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Artist statement In the dark poem The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Tennyson, when the woman looks into the mirror (reality) it cracks, and the spell (imaginary) is broken so the wo(man) must die. But the mirror has a silver backing which is hidden from the gaze and so she has the possibility of being reborn. The MA project is about looking into...
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Artist statement Collaboration is central to my practice, frequently including people and organisations not necessarily situated in the contemporary art world, such as gardeners and archaeologists. These collaborations, located on boundaries between disciplines and communities, aim to identify spaces for connections between people, and between...
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Artist statement The life of the eighteenth century aristocrat was comprised of a series of carefully choreographed performances, set within elaborately staged interiors. Exploring the relationship between fashion and furniture in eighteenth century France, William Vinicombe creates contemporary jewellery, haute couture body-furniture for a...
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My practice is research driven, excavating an eco-aesthetic focused upon passive non-invasive collaborations with nature's self-regulating processes. The underlying philosophy for much of my work is the re-enchantment of nature - giving nature a voice, via a collaborative synthesis with the artist, moving away from the artist's representation...
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Practice My practice is concerned with exploration of the nature of interaction and response to the aesthetic experience of process. IntentionsI am concerned with generating an experience for the viewer in order that he / she gains, "self awareness that the act of spectating, shifts 'the weight of the thing experienced to the...
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For her MA exhibition Claudia Ascott created an interior - titled 'Art School 2006' which could only be viewed through a spy-hole. It contained tables, chairs, a white-board, plugs and pipes and included a single natural light source. A previous interior showed her studio completely empty again seen only through a spy-hole. Anonymous, impersonal,...
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