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Concepts I have worked with a wide range of media such as video and sound installation, animation, sculpture, and computer generated performance. I create a multi-sensory experience and explore the areas where art & science and life & death overlap. I'm interested in how developments in science and it's imaging methods provide a...
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With its origins in clothing and memory and a musical ballerina box kept since childhood, my work reveals a preoccupation with the hidden and the ephemeral in a personal dialogue between self and place. Rooted in the responses of visionary nature artists and also the writings of Bachelard and Karl Jung, my images are inspired by the...
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Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist curator based at Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK. He curated and instigated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and more recently the David Shrigley solo show titled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse, (2012-2013). “My art practice is interdisciplinary...
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I have always found the subject of mental health and the human mind interesting on an intellectual and personal level, it therefore was an obvious direction to take my artistic practice. Photographs taken of objects, places and people I have researched or know personally, inspire my practice.  My work includes paintings reflecting my...
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Shields practice investigates varied contemporary issues through the use of the site specific, found objects and traditional skills. His pieces contain a duality between what is often as a valuable permanence found in the process of drawing and mark making and the disposability of everyday encounters. Whilst producing contemporary works Shields...
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There is an interest to create from the acts of learning, observation and contemplation on the subjects of the perception of nature, the inquisition of existence and the connection between things. The process of making, allows me to channel particular thoughts, ideas and connections through layering and assemblage, enabling me to comprehend the...
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As an artist educator I'm interested in creating opportunities or processes that are slowed down long enough for participants to notice fleeting thoughts or memories that might otherwise go unnoticed or become edited out. For me, it's the process of each investigation that becomes the work… an engagement, a tour, a web-based campaign. Any...
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I have always been interested in texture and the physicality of the paint surface, which stems from my fascination of ancient cave art. I like to use a variety of media on stretched canvas, linen or wood; pastels, watercolour, acrylic, oils, Japanese paper, I enjoy the limitations and often surprise of the combined media. My work explores the...
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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Using both ceramics and textiles I make large installation pieces, 2D relief work as well as a range of jewellery, these pieces vary in scale, technique and process.  By recycling fabrics and examining everyday objects I create organic looking pieces that contain remnants of the man made. Showing the age of the materials and by combining...
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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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Concepts, themes and ways of working Rachel Gibson’s paintings, prints and artists books reflect an intuitive involvement with imagery and ideas that are central to the notion of memory and sense of place. Inspiration comes from sources which can be loosely described as historical, geographic and poetic. The ancient landscape of the...
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Concepts My ideas are developed from my thoughts on the relationship between humans and the landscape, how we manipulate our natural surroundings and the impact we have on the environment. I am also interested in how nature adapts to urban landscapes. Influences Environmental issues, human effect on landscape, botany, architecture.
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CONCEPT Nicola Dale's imaginative work puts her at the forefront of contemporary artists who re-imagine the role of the printed text. (1) What does knowledge look like? My practice visualises the acquisition of knowledge – how I capture, process and understand what I read. I imagine what a particular piece of knowledge might look like and...
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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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My work is ‘An enquiry into the appropriation and use of second-hand imagery as a catalyst to the production of works that investigate ideas of meaning, language and authorship . I use the vehicles of Semiotics and Postmodern themes in an attempt to explore and respond to discourse around shifting concepts of language and its anticipated...
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Concepts My textile work has developed from my interest in the symbolic and cultural meaning of consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.The interpretation of these themes has been explored using articles of clothing and accessories. During 2010 through a residency in the print room of The University of Central Lancashire I was able to...
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Personal photography and my early background in architecture provide reference points for my work which explores the relationships between the surface and the 3-dimensional. Painting is employed as an exploratory method calling into question the distinction between the recognised painting and the object and the illusion of the painted image....
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Claire Weetman is interested in how her art can be created in public spaces, in the places where the movement that she follows takes place. When situating herself in these locations, she creates interventions that not only document movement, but also seeks to alter the day-to-day movement of people within that space; Lines of water painted onto...
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Normal 0 0 1 280 1599 Akam Power 13 3 1963 10.2006 0 0 0 The work employs a combination of drawing, painting, and collage. The marks are initially produced quite freely as drawings with a loose and semi organised structure of marks and lines. These are then systematically cut and rearranged as horizontal strips...
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West’s practice evolves from a response to the psychology of space and colour, utilising the two in a way that is deeply rooted in colour theory and draws parallels with the concept of synesthesia. Working on a scale and intensity that impacts upon the gallery space, West is deeply influenced by the process of collecting. Her work...
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Over the last ten years I have been making large scale, mandala-like Spirograph drawings. The series of works continues to grow; like the obsessive process itself, it is difficult to stop despite the harm that such a repetitive action has on my body. In the most recent Spirograph drawings the single cell-like structures begin to morph into each...
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My work is based upon the British landscape; its shape and form and the effects of the weather and light upon it. The landscape is always changing depending upon the weather or the season and this excites me enormously. I see my art as a visual record and an ongoing playtime where I am searching and observing, trying to capture the wonder and...
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I graduated from Wimbledon Collage of Art in 2006 with a Masters Distinction degree and an Axis MAstar award.  As well as an artist, I am a critical studies lecturer at Blackpool and the Fylde College, and I lead occasional educational and community art projects.  I was selected for the Arts and Business ‘Vision’ for the...
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unmaking painting My paintings use repetitive procedures, structures and processes of reproduction in an attempt to acknowledge one in the immediate present, standing one with respect to time, a feeling of time ’. The vocabulary of abstraction is entwined with reference to ‘experience.’ By navigating a route through abstraction...
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The methods of creation I use are always simple, that I can do myself using basic tools such as glue, thread and scalpels, to create, or more often, create changes in objects. The 'alterations' I make stem from innocent observations, double meanings, or taking the meaning of something literally. I am guided by the material or object and what it...
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ConceptsI have always used landscape imagery in my work as a means of representing those human conditions and emotions reflected in the elemental forces and cyclic changes found in nature. Although my paintings are concerned with the darker elements of Mans psyche, I continue to convey a sense of optimism.InfluencesMy mixed media works on paper,...
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As an artist that has no fixed term of where I am in regards to what I call my self, I see my self as an artist who uses a variety of techniques to develop the term identity. Over the last year I have had personal problems which moved my work from an autobiographical viewpoint to a wider perspective which now focuses on techniques used...
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My images invite viewers to share boundless pictorial spaces inspired by nature and humanity. The compositions draw emotions and feelings alongside themes of birth/death, creation/destruction, regeneration and constantly changing structures such as fire and the universe. My work is heavily influenced by the effects of light, from a cosmic Big-Bang...
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Amy Russell's narrative, autobiographical works combine paint and mixed media with collages of mundane print materials preserved from her day to day life to create striking, evocative and personal imagery. The use of text and typography, cut from newspapers or printed with wooden type blocks, adds a strong graphical element to her compositions,...
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