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Concepts I am a painter based in Scotland, my work ranges from large scale abstract colourfield painting to smaller figurative work.  "Rowena unleashes a powerful emotional force in a positive life enhancing aesthetic. An aesthetic in painting that is informed by vibrating colour relationships and formal balancing. The tension...
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Concepts Composition is important. Related flat areas of colour are made to look solid without the use of illusionist modelling; pattern sometimes assisting in describing form. People, objects and patterns are arranged on the picture surface within the particularised space. All elements are intended to harmonise exactly; the colour and shapes...
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Concepts The over-riding theme of my work is an exploration of issues of ecology and sustainability, using semi-abstract but accessible images and symbols in a simple and direct way, and moving away from anthropocentrism to a geocentric perspective. Put plainly, and despite the subtext of the last 2,500 years of Western culture, humans are not...
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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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I paint fairly intuitively with a 'starting point' but without a fixed idea of how the end product will look. I don't spend much time worrying, as is the current vogue, about being 'contemporary', 'cutting edge' or reading books by continental theoreticians. Rather, my practice is informed somewhat by literature, films &...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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I explore an interweaving of reality and fiction similar to what is constructed during the recollection of dreams and distant memories. My paintings have an anecdotal quality but an incomplete narrative. They are often based in reality but become skewed towards abstraction and confusion. 
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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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Concepts The paintings depict commonplace things; interiors, fragments of landscapes or areas of no-mans land. Central to all the recent work is the act of painting from direct observation. Influences Landscape, Architecture/Urban environment, interiors. Career path Qualifications: 1977 Diploma In Drawing And Painting, Glasgow School of...
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Influences Areas of work Early years educationAdult educationCommunity artsCuratingExhibitingHealthcare artsLecturingPractice-based researchPrivate commissionsPublic artResidenciesFundraisingWorkshopsWorking with architectsSpecial needs Collections Museum Albertina, ViennaRupertinum, Museum for Modern...
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I am drawn to artistic variety, having produced digital art, paintings, animation, books and electronic music. I prefer to use materials in a spontaneous way and enjoy bringing diverse media together. Although interested in science and technology, I am equally fascinated by what we don’t know, uncertainty, and how we absorb ideas, facts and...
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I experiment with liquid materials (paints, varnishes, oils) to explore the marks they produce and their physicality. My work can be construed as painting, sculpture or installation. Glossy spillages which are shiny, seductive and reflective in their simplicity contrast paint stained paper marks which give illusions of depth and complexity....
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Louise Hopkins practices a strategic sort of iconoclasm. Starting with pre-printed found surfaces, Hopkins remakes visual imagery through overpainting or repainting, erasing, scratching off or tearing the surface. The form of mark-making for each work is a specific response to the source material. Although she is perhaps most well known for...
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"The main themes in my work are related to drawing links between people, analysis and exploring stories in all forms, though in recent times particularly in mythology and legends." Hole in my Pocket - www.holeinmypocket.com Allistair Burt is one half of "Hole in my Pocket" a dynamic art/ architecture duo whose...
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A tick can stay dormant for eighteen years when isolated from the conditions that trigger its behaviour. My work attempts to appropriate something of this inscrutable poise, in a set of figurations as pauses in habits around the use of languages and objects, which simultaneously seek to refer to their own consumption, where pausing could reveal...
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Together with painting on canvas there remains a large variety of shifting, stylistic strategies that can underwrite and scaffold any critical engagement with conceptual ideas. For instance, practically it is possible to produce painting that finds its starting point with everyday objects and material that are modified through paint....
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Conceptual and formal references to post-war American art and culture, art history and critical theory inform the work of Neil Clements, but ultimately it is the viewer’s relation to the work that completes it – the subjective encounter in a particular context.In 'Moat' (2009), a rectangular sheet of aluminium, overlaid by...
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Lucy Skaer makes drawings, prints, sculptures and films that are often combined in installations. Her work forces the viewer to grapple with the experience of seeing an image or object that does not immediately reveal its form. Skaer acknowledges that the act of looking can be demanding, as she describes in her encounter with Holbein’s...
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Biography Merlin James (b. 1960, Cardiff) studied at the Central School of Art, London (1979-82) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1983-86). James is also an art writer and previously held the position of Assistant Editor at the Burlington Magazine. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Sikkema, Jenkins and Co, New York,...
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My work is concerned with the process of drawing and the creation of images which evince a heightened sense of reality. I make drawings intuitively, filtering my everyday experiences for mental/subliminal references. I discard many of the drawings and choose to work with the ones that I find most intriguing. This iterative process can result in a...
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Krisdy Shindler's work explores the visual re-definition and describing of the landscapes and cartography of knowledge. Using a variety of methods, primarily painting and stop-frame animation, her work investigates the movements, mechanics and progression of knowledge. As a chronological development, the animated painted image might be seen as a...
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ConceptsThe paintings may appear neutral and quite cool, some are even map-like. I want them to operate as background paintings and work in the same immediate way that a smell does, as a recognition of something familiar. I feel they are not just town and landscapes, but portraits that depict a psychological mood of a particular time and culture...
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