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Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations Interventions Public Art Commissions Environmental Artwork and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work, she always prefers to use recycled materials.  Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way, they...
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Concepts www.stevehines.net           www.stevehinessouthall.net Steve Hines has been exhibiting on a regular basis for over ten years now. He has shown his work nationally and more recently internationally, having participated in several international art festivals. With a background in...
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My work starts from photographs of urban and rural environments: photographs I take documenting my experience of locality or from found images that I appropriate for the same purpose. Photography has always played a central role in my art, whether as the finished piece or as part of the process towards a painting. Often the paintings are created...
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As a reductive painter my work addresses formal concerns traditionally explored within painting. It is inspired by my love of paint and beauty in unexpected places. My paintings explore relationships between varying formal elements both internally within the work and externally within the expanded field of location, built environment and spectator...
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I am interested in the primacy of structure or agency in human behaviour, I look at systems and structures that control us and make drawings to represent this. In capitalist societies the individual is regarded as a self-conscious responsible agent, whose actions can be explained by his or her beliefs and thoughts. This is acquired within the...
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Inspired by the natural world and by experimentation McDermott artwork often begins as a representation of nature, but by developing each body of work the viewer can see the creative progress of the transformation from traditional art forms into the abstract. McDermott paints and draws spent botanical flowers to focus on an unnoticed concept....
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My current practice includes drawing, collage, photography and film. What brings the work together is a concern with ‘the act of looking’ as a means of training attention on my own experience and indirectly the viewing experience. The main focus for this attention is a desire to bring overlooked sometimes uneventful aspects of...
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ZARATARAS is an art project performed by Sarah Taras. Her role is to mend, to parasitize or to redistribute ready-made art and found treasures with the aim of to give palliative care to our seriously wounded Earth. This objective is pursued by playing such roles as Cinderella, an embroiderer, an art curator, an entrepreneur, a gravedigger,...
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Art, understatement, drawing history, critical theory, collections, teaching and learning modes, ecology, fiction.
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I always start with an idea, a notion of what the painting could be, but that inkling is ambushed during the activity. I use plasticine in my work. Its been a staple in my studio for some time, appearing first as the subject for painting before becoming a material part. I enjoy it’s playful juxtaposition with the vernacular of painting,...
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The work can have different threads or ideas working at the same time. Idea's or thread's can inform each other and suggest creative solutions. Different threads or idea's allow the brain to be challenged and worked in different directions in order to facilitate advancement. Materials play an important part in allowing or...
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My art practice is mainly painting, but also encompasses drawing, photography and film. These disciplines inter relate in the making of my work, I am interested in how their particular properties can express time differently, as time underlies themes in my work of memory, mortality, the trace, hidden narratives, absence and presence and stillness...
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(11.12.12) On Axis playpaint’s artworks comprise 20 paintings compressed into 6 paintings, 1 painting divided into 2 parts and 8 paintings. Or; 6 reclaimed painting, 13 reenacted paintings, 3 repeated paintings and 7 absolute unique paintings. (20.10.12) On Axis playpaint’s artworks comprise 14 paintings compressed into 5...
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Mandy Williams is a photographer and video artist who is interested in the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture - particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. Her interest in the psychology of place and how a sense of home is created and sustained has been a...
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My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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I am a multi-disciplinary artist who creates work that is inspired by nature, and influenced by environmental and ecological issues.Through the mediums of photography, collage, and scanography, my practice examines our ever-changing relationship with nature, and investigates the consequences of human activity upon our surroundings.Landscapes...
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I have come to see my paintings as places of a dreamlike reality - a world where childhood and adolescence merge, forming a state of wonder, surprise and uncertainty; where the past blends with the future.As an artist I am a visual thinker and enjoy playing with imagery and imagination. Painting, as a medium, serves me as a very sensual tool. It...
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Micha Eden Erdesz works from a multiple cultural inheritance, born in Canada and now resident in Britain where he studied architecture and philosophy. He quietly seeks to fragilize culture and technology as a means to create calm and reflection through practice. In 2006, he was commissioned to a produce work for the Hungarian Cultural Centre in...
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“It all seems like a planned conspiracy to keep the men mindful of their unempowered position within this theatrical world. And yet, the house recipe has to include enough “façade”, enough dreamtime so that the experience isn't completely alienating.”'Empathy, Alienation, The Ivar', Mike Kelley, Foul...
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My practise incorporates collage,drawing and assemblage.I use a variety of materials and media often within the same work. Recent works on paper appropriate historical forms and reference including church interiors and Western Landscape painting tradition.Siphoned through materials such as brightly coloured vinyl and an aesthetic that suggests...
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I am a London based artist, specialising in Polaroid photography. My photographic practice is concerned with dialogues between objective and subjective experience, real life and memory. It pays particular notice to the idea of the image as an object in its own right. With my work, there can be no editing after the shutter is pressed- what I select...
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In my current body of work I have set out to address both the historical and present day view of our urban and coastal wastelands. In both the small collages and the large canvases there is a juxtaposition of all things jumbled and junked thus shaping the journey and putting one in mind of fleeting glimpses from a car or train window or...
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Interventions in the institutionalised everyday. By investigating educational, corporate and public settings, I critically engage withissues rooted in the institutional context. I keep looking beyond the veneer of how we manouver to expose and reference behaviour, routines and decision making. My practice reflects on mechanisms that underlie the...
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My paintings are based on landscapes and the impact of light and colour on what we see. In my work I use the familiar motifs landscape painting and recognisable settings in which to explore the language of painting. I work from memory - exaggerating and romanticising, as with memories, the moment into a dreamlike and filmic reinterpretation of the...
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BIO: Robin Tarbet graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is an artist based in East London. He was awarded the Stanley Picker Tutorship in Fine Art at Kingston University in 2006/07, where he now works as a lecturer. Tarbet’s work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film, with...
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'I'm inspired by the origins of my materials and excited by the physical process of turning the lost and the forgotten into something exquisite, glamorous and even wearable. The sense of history and the knowledge that my materials have been handled and used by people many years ago is extremely important to me, and I like to imagine that ...
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Concepts For several years I have been making paintings inspired by people's everyday lives in the urban space of the city. I work from photographs which I take myself, but the process of painting leads to images that do not attempt to replicate the conventions of photography. I use a glossy, wet paint which gives intensity to the flashes...
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The use of various methods, like travel, video, sound, choreography, performance and writing, sits in the expanded notion of my work – where new and obsolete technologies reflect one another as the analogue and digital swap places; modes of representation are questioned as they blend in each other or dissolve and reveal, or obscure,...
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Julie Umerle was born in Connecticut, USA. She lives and works in London.  Julie Umerle trained as a fine artist at University College Falmouth and holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther...
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Enzo Marra is of Italian parentage and holds a BA in fine art from Reading University and an MA from Brighton University. His painterly work is characterised by elements of history, mythology, surrealism and metamorphosis. He has been selected to exhibit in the Threadneedle Prize and GFEST in 2010, Charlie Smith Anthology in 2011, The Open West,...
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Anthony Carr is an artist and photographer whose current practice is predominantly focused on lo-fi photographic processes. He creates images using various methods of primitive production, from the assembling of homemade pinhole cameras to the constructing of room-sized camera obscuras. Often demanding extremely long exposure times, the pinhole...
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