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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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ConceptsI work in a broad range of materials and media, making extensive use of new technologies to create works which view the world as energy. A constant dialogue between opposites, my sculptures use light and motion to transform themselves from solid to void, opaque to transparent, formal to organic.My work takes inspiration from science,...
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Concepts Painting the land is the best way I know of evoking half forgotten memories or truths. I have long been drawn to places of trauma, be it abandoned post industrial sites,or war zones. My feelings about the physical reality of what is left moves me to paint. I am in a sense a history painter. "His work engages with landscape as both...
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My practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, I aim to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon my works' Romanticism but also its schizophrenic...
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Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, robotics, interactive media, and textiles. Her work has a strong...
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I graduated in 1997 from Norwich University College of the Arts. I have work in the Welcome Trust Collection and with private collectors. I have exhibited in including the RBS Gallery, Leeds City Gallery, the Cornerhouse in Manchester and the Saatchi Gallery. I have held residencies in High Royds and Rampton Hospital. I work with drawing,...
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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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Alex Pearl makes mini epic films, video installations, sculpture and books. Throughout his work there is a sense of an acceptance of failure or disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Using readily available materials and software the films are made from: suddenly apprehended ideas, discovered objects and impromptu processes....
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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ConceptsMy current work involves creating constructed arrangements, reminiscent of stage sets, which I then paint from. This process allows me to use different collage elements, such as my own photographs or found images from books and magazines, as well as three-dimensional models I have made of real or imagined buildings and architectural...
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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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I've always been interested in working with a range of media to develop work using the most appropriate material. This is why it may appear a mixed bag. For instance, recent exhibitions have used projections in one space, museum cabinets in another, found and reconstructed elements on a wall in another space, and...
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Steve Dutton is an artist who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He has been working closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. He has also enjoyed working in the past with artists Alec Shepley and Steve Hawley and is currently making...
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Artists statement I am interested in revealing images which are very strong; that offer a glimpse of past worlds and indistinct realities; where the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, and memories take on a life of their own. My work in video, photography and moving-image installation investigates the nuances of moments in the...
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Since moving up here from Brighton, where I completed my Ph.D. [Language Games in a Visual Environment] , I have exhibited at the Angel Gallery, Nottingham, 20/21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, and last year, a one man show at Bank Street Art, Sheffield. I am at present making work for an exhibition entitled ‘Modernism Revisited’. It is both a...
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Concepts/themes/ideas  My art practice has been concerned with the nature of the creative process, the condition of the art object in the expending field of sculpture / installation. Located in a wide range of socio-cultural contexts, including public and non-art spaces, my work explores the concepts of ‘the art making in the...
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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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I met with Lucienne Cole on the 2nd May 2007 in a dark studio room in the heart of Birmingham, her current home. Lucienne and I shared a number of interests, the power of pop, the relationship between pop music and art, off-site interventions and art in social spaces. We had a lot to share, here are the highlights...This interview is available...
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Cry Me Cats and Dogs* Performing Rights Glasgow, Sunday 10 February 2008. Tramway, Glasgow. Performing Rights Glasgow is the third event of its kind, following previous appearances in Vienna (2007) and London (2006). Devoted to ideas around performance and human rights, it was curated in collaboration with the Live Art Development...
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Cry Me Cats and Dogs* Performing Rights Glasgow, Sunday 10 February 2008. Tramway, Glasgow. Performing Rights Glasgow is the third event of its kind, following previous appearances in Vienna (2007) and London (2006). Devoted to ideas around performance and human rights, it was curated in collaboration with the Live Art Development...
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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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Briony Anderson’s practice ranges from studio-based work to collaborative projects, often seeking a reinvestigation of the cultural significance of landscape. Current work responds to 18th and 19th century portraiture, but only to its backgrounds (backdrops of landscape). The resulting paintings are limited solely...
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Biography: I spent the first 30 years of my life in Alexandria, Egypt where I was taught to paint and draw by my uncle, Egyptian painter Ibrahim Tanbouli, from the tender age of 2 years old. I started formal education in art and design in 1989 for 5 years. I studied many things which I've rarely practised, such as interior design, theatrical...
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Jo Dacombe's current interests include mapping, walking, connections, public space, modes of travel, change and sense of place.  Jo's approach is engaged practice in the public realm to create a dialogue about the experience of space and place. Developing from her original practice as a painter, Jo now uses art interventions through a variety...
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In England, as in other developed countries, artists are increasingly talked of as important contributors to the new 'knowledge-based economy', within which the creative industries are a key driver. It is paradoxical, therefore, that the status and presence within public policy and research seems to be diminishing. In its 2006 document Turning...
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Andrew Bracey's practice hovers on the fringes of painting as it crosses over and expands into installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. He often uses existing sites and the readymade as alternatives to the traditional canvas support for painting, creating tensions between the hand-made and the man-made. Bracey graduated with an MA in fine...
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Paddy Hartley originates from Leeds, West Yorkshire and now bases his practice in the East End of London. As a graduate of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff with a Masters Degree in Sculpture and Ceramics with Distinction in 1998, it was the open-minded approach to technique, appropriation of material and subject encouraged at Cardiff...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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Simon Le Ruez is a sculptor and installation artist who also uses drawing and video. His eclectic mix of materials and media produce scenarios where themes of longing, concealment, transgression and release are played out, often underscored by dark humour, knowing impenetrability and an emotional charge. Forms of opposition and the notion of...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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Alison Sharkey's practice is based on observations and encounters recorded while exploring inaccessible, restricted or abandoned areas and spaces or merely the peculiar encounter within the everyday. Responses to her own forays in the landscape are often interwoven with the detritus of banal rummaging online. Sharkey takes these explorations and...
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I studied for my PhD at the Royal College of Art in the painting department from 1999-2003. I studied for an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins, where I had reveled in writing my thesis and wanted to find out if I could develop it further, also on the MA I had produced a body of paintings that left me wondering where, in painting, I could go....
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Since 1999 I've made much of my work within residency programmes, attempting to form works that answered the time, space and demands of the residency exactly. As I never know what the outcome of the work period will be it is often described by others as a research-led approach. This is accurate to some extent, but there is a danger of seeing the...
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