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Concepts/themes/ideas My journey as an artist began when I gave up my business in 1990 and began to paint. In 1998 I graduated with a First Class BA with Related Arts with Honours. I have exhibited mainly in the South of England and have particular interest in the 'art and health' as well as 'art and faith arena'. I am represented by 'The art...
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In my work I construct allegorical settings in order to explore, comment upon and sometimes confront injustice and violence. Although my work has serious intent, I poke fun at myself and use humour, pathos and the unexpected to engage my audience. I have used a range of media, and shown installations, drawings and work in new media. I have...
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I am interested in the crossover between painting and sculpture, more specifically with the relationship between the surface of a work and its objectness. Alongside this I am fascinated by light and landscape; by the vastness of sky, sea and land. My work aims not to represent these but to create quiet and contemplative works that evoke the...
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Artist Statement “I am a black box, an abstract device evolved to hide the complexities within. Given the appropriate stimulus, I can be triggered to display a transient pop-up model of my inner self and disclose a little of what would otherwise remain secret. I can say with some certainty, when I chose the black box metaphor, I was...
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Although rooted in painting, my practice is research based and has resulted in painting, sculpture, wall drawing, and book-works for exhibition, using materials from wax and graphite powder to plaster, paint or text. I am interested in the historical context of mirror and map making and the nature of the objectivity we seek when looking in...
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I make  geometric paintings using oil or acrylic. Working mainly on canvas, the paintings often evolve as part of a series of pictures which may be continued over months or years finally presenting a collective statement about a theme. Works on paper comprise collage and drawing with drawings frequently leading to small gouache works and...
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My art originates from observations of the incidental characteristics of the built environment. I gather inspiration in the ordinary, everyday surroundings I pass through by capturing the accumulation of history left behind in disused or forgotten areas. Aged surfaces and neglected structures hold a variety of clues as to the interests,...
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"I am exploring 'process' as a response to existential tension, and 'material' as a route to presence. I am interested in finding ways to manage and enjoy the life and death tension of our existence." (Veronique Maria 06-2011)
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My work explores textiles as a surface for drawing and print. Each piece is a response to changing materials, density and texture. Image and composition are generated through spontaneous mark-making and photography, and translated as layers of densely pigmented and printed surfaces.Through museum research, deep 'black' cloths originating...
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My art practice mixes textiles and the use of stitch as a mark-making tool, with more traditional fine art media such as drawing, painting, collage and photography. Inspired by artists such as Keith Haring, Mark Newport and Grayson Perry, my work attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art and places itself in between the definitions...
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In my work I use, adapt and transform domestic objects and create sculptural forms that are inspired by a variety of elements drawn from social and personal histories. I also create immersive installations that use craft elements, drawing and photography drawing on traditions of assemblage and installation.  I am interested in ideas...
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In my current practice I work with photography, digital manipulation and painting to explore concepts relating to travel, the journey and mapping.Somewhere between landscape and map this work is inspired by photographs taken on flights and also images from internet mapping sites. The higher the viewpoint the more abstract and map-like the image....
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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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Trained as a painter at Chelsea, Julie Westbury works now with drawing, collage, constructions and photography. Amongst other recent exhibitions she has shown with the Turner Contemporary, the Crafts Council, and the Contemporary Art Society and has illustrated books for Kyle Cathie and Sotheby's.Her collages, which use her photography, found...
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The exhibition Seaflowers (2011), is an accumulation of textiles and painting inspired from my latest residency on the coast in South India. It is a celebration of colour, inspired from the idea of ritual and the repeat patterns with reference to our daily habits, routines and behaviour patterns. I like to work and respond to people in an everyday...
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The use of discarded, found and multiples of objects is a fundamental element of Carrington's practice. All objects are saturated with cultural meaning, which, as an artist she seeks to explore, unravel and investigate. Mundane objects like safety pins, buttons, old blue jeans and leather gloves come with their own ready made histories and...
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Jeannie Driver creates installations, sculptures and 2D work from the ubiquitous material of waste paper. The relationship between the material and ideas is central to the work and provides an alternative visual and physical experience of the material that references ideas of bureaucracy, systems, flow, waste and resource. The actual paper...
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Collecting printed and handwritten ephemera is an important part of my creative process and this often dictates the subject matter. I gather things, scraps, shopping lists, tickets I have found on the street,at a train station, pockets, all of a particular appearance—discoloured, loved, lost, stained, beautiful and damaged. Pasted found...
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My practise is inextricably influenced by my physical location and my location in time. My investigation into landscape began with the sea. Wide open space, movement, energy and colour constantly in a state of flux. I explore what I see so that I see it differently, combining the metaphysical aspects of 'being' and 'knowing'.My...
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The relationship between identity construction and space has been the topic of my work for some time, in different forms.Thinking about space is, primarily, thinking about spacial things. A room in a house, a building in a street. A railway station in a city. People and places have a complex relationship, as they mutually produce each other...
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Within my work I use a variety of media including drawing, photography, as well as natural and found material as the basis of my work. Often beginning with a walk, I explore a place in nature and its emotive aspects. I study the miniscule and intricate details of a place that would often go unnoticed by others. I have a fascination with...
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Chantal Powell creates sculptural objects and installations that powerfully and intimately explore the universal emotions that connect us. Responding to objects and spaces as her starting point, she seeks to understand and manipulate the inherent vocabulary of her chosen materials. Using this visual language she creates seductive objects...
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Alex Dipple’s painted-over newspapers present the classical information mediumfree from its content as tender and vulnerable but mysteriously beautiful „skins.“ With a similarly sort of a „foreign view“, the artist examines newspapers and their formal structure. She discards lines, which are...
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Just a quick line to say how wonderful your works look in the cafe. They are a significant addition to the space and I am sure will be enjoyed by many. Best Wishes Victoria Pomery OBE Director Turner Contemporary - Fine artists should undertake to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. There are times when the sorcery goes...
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Practising artist, researcher and arts educator, specialising in drawing, printmaking (2D and 3D), video, sound works and site-specific public art projects that explore ideas associated with language and loss.
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The spaces that we inhabit and the traces that we inevitably leave are at the forefront of my practice. I think of human traces as subconscious drawings on our everyday surroundings, when we simply walk across a floor we leave our mark. Dust contains particles of our bodies and we leave some of it wherever we go, it is the ultimate human trace and...
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Specialising in fine art textiles, I combine the drawn, the painted, the digital and the crafted. The influences in my work vary widely. Themes which deal with human and social behaviour are a regular reoccurrence through the use of common imagery already existing in our society, set alongside both the figurative and abstract. Expressed through a...
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Concept Working with texture or found objects as a means to bypass rational thought and enter the fluid realm of the unconscious, I employ an initial period of automatism when all is in a state of chaos and flux. I view making each work as an adventure, a journey into the imagination and a subsequent development of a personal mythology. The...
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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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I so love light ! I make light to look at and enjoy... and to transform and refresh a space, architectural feature, 3D object or just as an experience in itself. My work involves the creation and sequencing of light which changes colour, and of placing a singularity or multitude of changing colours within different forms to enliven,...
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Sue Mclachlan is a Hampshire artist gaining her BA and MA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. Sue’s site specific work investigates space through careful research of a space using philosophy, experiences and/or historical data, contexting through communicating in a variety of media; video, sound, painting, photography or objects...
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All my paintings reflect a life surrounded by the moving image. They explore the boundaries between video and painting, the traditional and the contemporary. The ʻmoving pixelsʼ series is driven by a process - a filming and editing sequence which allows me to deconstruct the digital image deliberately removing all trace of narrative. The...
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