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Antony Hall creates discrete objects that attempt to defy entropy, harnessing elements of potential or kinetic energy and self-perpetuation. His work explores mechanical or fluid motion as well as biological phenomenon such as the behavior of animals. These works are often miniscule or apparently simple; yet invite closer observation...
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Concepts My work is made for buildings. I aim to introduce colour, pattern, interesting light effects or specific subject matter to a place. I work mostly in glass and have always used techniques that are compatible with modern building methods. Most of my work has been commissioned for public buildings and it ranges from small stained glass...
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Working in film, video, animation and installation I investigate the layering of content and meaning that occurs across the production, presentation and documentation of moving image. I draw on new and traditional film and video production methods to reflect on the potential and limitations of the medium. Recent works expand beyond the screen;...
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Concepts Two main qualities seem to sum up my sculpture: My commitment to using stone, and my desire to make works that include a sense of fun. This has often been achieved by playing with the expectations of the material. For instance, I have carved hard sandstone coping into rows of soft cushions which could be sat upon whilst...
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I am a Glasgow based visual artist, who often makes site specific works using collage techniques and digital media. I recently undertook a year long Digital Media Residency at Callendar Park Falkirk, an SAC Partners residency for Falkirk Council. I worked for two years as a Part time Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art in the Painting Department...
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Suki Chan uses light, moving image and sound to explore our physical and psychological experience of space. She is drawn to light as a physical phenomenon, and the role it plays in our constantly shifting daily experience of our environment, be it urban or rural. Working with a spectrum of scale, Chan transports us from a macro view of space, a...
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Katayoun Dowlatshahi creates work for public and private commissions and specialises in photography, drawing, architectural glass and time based media. She has successfully integrated contemporary art into a variety of landscapes, public spaces, regeneration projects and urban environments. Her practice is rooted in...
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'Parasol' was designed as a place. A place to shade from the sun on the perfect lawns of Polesden Lacey. Whilst you were there, staring at the clouds, an intricate pattern of shapes and stories emerged from 'Parasol's' steel canopy. Stories of love and devotion, from the previous owners of the house and a contemporary creative writing group in...
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I'm interested in a world over amplified and speeding up, the telescoping of industrialised environment, consumerism, technology, celebration, waste and war through time. My current work can also be seen as a combination of past experience gained producing large scale graphic works with Greenpeace UK and painting nightclub interiors. I combine...
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Concepts Functional objects, mostly design and make site specific for buildings and the landscape. These include staircases, shelters and bridges as well as furniture. I enjoy commissions which encourage a re-interpretation of object archetypes. Influences architectural, de-construction Teaching experience 1987/92 Associate...
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Artist Ira Lightman was commissioned by Sedgefield Borough Council to produce a new public artwork comprising of ten visual poems creating letter shaped sculptures spelling the word S-P-E-N-N-Y-M-O-O-R on the walls around the town centre. Within each letter are poems that were selected from an open call for entries from the local community and...
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Working through a process that uses archiving and intervention I seek to map the other life of a place or community in order to represent a multi- faceted place.  Using the traditions of story telling and the processes of documentary, historical research methods, psycho geography and imagined other lives the work adopts a phenomenological...
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CARWYN EVANS works in mixed media, photography and installation to explore issues related to his individual sense of place.His first solo exhibition That Morning He Watched The Dawn recently took place at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown and contained work that reflects Evans’ personal experiences while exploring broader social and political shifts...
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Title of project: 'Heat and Work', part of the Making Light Work Programme Client: Salford City Council Media: Stainless Steel, resin turbines and programmable LED lighting 'Heat and Work' in Salford is a two part light project at either end of Trinity Way Bridge. Based on the work of James Joule (born in Salford) the title refers to...
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Concepts I am categorised as a land artist or someone who works with art and nature. In reality my work explores nature and culture, inner and outer. As an artist I am interested in the connections between different natural systems. As a result my work gets infinitely more complex as these webs of connection grow. In nature, pattern and...
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Andrew Dodds is a Belfast-born artist currently based in London. He is particularly noted for his collaborative works exploring our historical, social and political relationship with 'nature', the voice and the shared potentialities of public space. He consistently engages and acknowledges others in the imagining, production and...
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I define my art practice as conceptual where the work is ideas-led and the end product is manufactured or created using specialist services. Outcomes range from large scale installations to small scale multiples which are always site-specific and consider political, social and economic frameworks. These considerations are present not only in my...
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Animal ArchitectureTrends for ecological cultural projects and micro-architecture converge in the latest work by London Fieldworks, 'Super Kingdom' (2008). This site-specific installation for the ancient forest of King's Wood, in Kent, is a trilogy of show homes designed for native and non-native animals called 'Ceausescu',...
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ConceptsAll my work is site specific and to commission. Through image, form and text the work can, relate to the physical characteristics and location of a site, refer to the historical heritage and meaning of a site, act as a marker establishing an identity of a site, creating a scene of place, be relevant and accessible to site users, or not. ...
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The relationships between the images and objects I make are often uncomfortable; initially they are familiar yet invariably difficult to locate exactly. The images are theatrically styled, and the objects beautiful and laboured over, when placed together the ambiguity is compounded. Both object and image make references to something that may have...
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Location: Bretts Aggregates Ltd, Whitstable HarbourCommissioner: Canterbury City CouncilConsultant: Insite Arts This installation by artist Claire Morgan aims to create a striking focal point in the night sky. The work plays with the scale of the site, Brett Aggregates Ltd, and celebrates the contrasts...
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Entering the dramatic space of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum (NHM) one cannot help but be impressed by the grandeur of the architecture and the intricate detail of the decorative carvings and paintings integrated into the building at every turn. The tremendous height of the ceiling draws the gaze upwards to the colourful painted...
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We have all experienced that quiet sense of panic when we have lost something important – we cannot find our credit card while waiting to pay or we return to the wrong parking space and imagine our car has been stolen - and the sense of relief when, sometimes, everything is okay. LOST documents what happens when an artist, Simon Faithfull,...
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protoPLAY is a transdisciplinary art group who set up interesting ways to explore the problematics of authorship, collaboration and the self in the context of contemporary society, whilst engaging audiences with exciting and challenging work. We create collaborative strategies for best developing and displaying transdisciplinary and process led...
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For a short period in February 2009, I visited my dad at least once every day in Dorset County Hospital’s intensive care unit. Psychologically, I never left the unit, even when I was at home, trying to distract myself somehow. My dad – in that bed, in that hospital – was my entire focus, up until he died.There was however...
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Art and something else is how Belgian artist Carsten Höller described his latest London project, 'The Double Club', a Congolese/Western bar, restaurant and disco - the newest in a line of ‘pop-up’ spaces (a contemporary cultural trend designed to satisfy consumer desire for the latest thing), with a limited lifespan...
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Open Source Embroidery: Craft + Code, Http Gallery, London 16 May - 15 June, 2008There is an emerging movement in contemporary practice which combines traditional craft based techniques such as knitting, weaving or stitch with digital technology in conceptual and often participatory ways. Ele Carpenter's HTML Patchwork, which forms part of...
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For Yvonne Buchheim, singing has a depth and allure that envelops like little else. The mental space and focus that it can create appears a particular remove from the everyday. It is not that singing causes an individual to switch off, rather, it transports thoughts, processes and the self: time dissolves; awareness of surroundings, position and...
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'Hope is the word, that you say any day, it's a dream and it screams in your head' (Hope, House of Love) Naomi Leake's recent search for love has been rather unorthodox. She documented her quest as part of a multimedia exhibition at Elysium Gallery in Swansea. The resulting work is an exploration of the modern day dating game, and Naomi's...
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Public Works were one of 50 artists invited to respond to an open brief to produce an artwork for the first Folkestone Triennial, Tales of Time and Space (14 June – 14 September 2008), which aimed to examine changing notions of art in the public realm. Reacting to the Triennial's role in the culture led regeneration of Folkestone, their...
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3 September – 2 November 2008 151-189 Harper Road, London SE1 6AE Roger Hiorns uses everyday materials to transform found objects and urban situations in surprising ways; car engines are coated in crystal, fire emerges from underground drains and fragrance emanates from metal surfaces. Within a low-rise block of disused, late-modernist flats,...
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In 'The Black Dog's Progress', an animation that's just three minutes long, a dog is kicked out of home into a world where very bad things happen. It is a wonderfully made film. Stephen Irwin, the artist, created hundreds of black-and-white drawings in little flip-books that each describe a small incident in the tragedy. One by one, he...
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