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My projects explore the territories between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events, installations and interventions in public places. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, I seek to interrupt my assumptions and understand perspectives I could not see alone. I craft particular objects which open up a...
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Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and...
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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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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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To discover how medicines work in a single cell, the artist Jo Berry (JB) will participate in Practical research activities, using fluorescence microscopy to study Pharmacology of drugs and Receptors in living cells, gaining insight into the scientific process and methods for using Fluorescence imaging to measure drug-receptor interactions...
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The work is about reality; it explores how we perceive it, experience it, understand it and ignore it. The subject matter I choose are the surfaces we see every day of our waking lives: concrete, wood, metal, peeling paint; this reality we all experience but, on a minute by minute basis, choose to ignore. These surfaces are initially sourced...
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Resume 2011 First prize National Competition as Artist in Residence to design and install five unique artglass panels in five Lincolnshire churches. To be completed by July 2012. 2011 First prize to design two glass sculptures for NHS Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh 2011 First prize to design three glass canopy...
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Concepts My work has consistently sought to interrogate the experience of living, of 'being', through architecture's latent symbolism. Embedded meanings expressed through such oppositional properties as permanence or impermanence, spiritual or secular and in which walls delineate lines of inclusion and exclusion and the building acts as...
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Statement  My interest derives primarily from an engagement with fabric & fibre, and the dialogue created by the quality of light diffused through layers and the manipulation of form. My continued interests in layering & fragmentation, combined with a growing desire to reuse & recycle, have led into mosaic, & I...
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I work with notions of the abject, constructing fabrics from human hair, creating a response of avid disgust and intrigue. In displacement from the body the hair changes drastically from soft, feminine, sexual, sensual to something that entices a disturbed reaction. The material and the process become integral entwined components, I work, weaving,...
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Sally Sheinman is interested in human nature and the way people react to and interact with visual art. Her projects in recent years have invited the public to take part in her work, largely relying on their interaction to make the project complete.Trained as a painter, there is always a painting element to every idea she embarks on, though...
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Concepts The main themes of my work are figurative, particularly with reference to the environment, whether that is our own Home surroundings, Public Space, or our impact on the environments we encounter. I am particularly interested in our relationship with environments. This maybe memories and emotional associations to the places,...
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Darren Banks Public sculpture private radar, 2008Selected by Neil MulhollandIn a parallel universe, Darren Banks makes drawings of enigmas, blobs, microbes, and beasts from beyond. In this, his elusive process of slow erasure produces phantasms of a homespun calibre. A collage of film clips feature (or rather don't feature) the invisible...
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My work shows a pre-occupation with cutting and rejoining, inverting and 'reflecting' images and texts, together with careful juxtaposition of models, neon and assemblages to reveal a 'potential space' - perhaps within the join itself. These acts often involve violence against a 'piece of work' and a feeling of calculated ruination befalls any...
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Artist statement The main focus of my work lies in the exploration of the evolution of form and ornamentation. In my most recent body of work 'Make Do and Mend' I have created a range of jewels from second-hand fabric, crochet, lace, heat treated copper and gold-plated elements. I aim to explore a traditionally domestic approach to recycling...
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Artist statement Whilst I didn't appreciate it at the time 'Delivery',' Tilt' and 'Slab' has grown into a crude sort of triptych; a subconscious critique of my own life. Made from coarse packaging materials, 'Delivery' smacks of pace, haste and crudity. Whilst superficially resembling an infant incubator 'Delivery' promises no comfort, only...
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ConceptsI have been producing ceramic artworks since 1997.  The theme that binds all the work together is the body.  This has allowed me to investigate and expand my own practice because the subject can be interpreted in many directions.  Although the work has a specific theme, it is important for me to not only explore the female...
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ConceptsMy current work is inspired by nests and cocoon-like forms, and I make large scale, site specific work usually for landscape settings. I have a keen interest in creating spaces and build most of my forms from the inside, weaving around myself. Also, on a smaller scale and with the addition of tactile linings, my 'Nesting Vessels' are...
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Artist statement My surroundings have always been an integral part of my work constantly fuelling and inspiring me. My aim is to reflect on these environments (ie the work place) push these ideas further and give the viewer a new and exciting experience. The idea of utilitarian art, the exploration of the material and the immaterial, and the...
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ConceptsThese vary from commission to commission. The ideas are developed in response to the specific project - therefore the ideas could be almost anything.InfluencesEverything can be an influence - it depends on what I have been thinking about and what I receive - it might be a fish or music or a conversation or starlings or robotic...
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