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Working most often in oil paint, using personal and found photographic archive, popular cultural documentation, music, interior design and studies from life as points of reference - the area of investigation becomes the tension when a form modelled by 'Nature' interfaces a manmade form, ie. a child's...
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I hoard ideas. Certain things fascinate me for reasons which may be elusive, like a face that seems familiar but which I can't quite place. My practice is about exploring these ideas, and probing for the ingredients which caused them to become rooted in my imagination. My practice is defined by experimentation, and I am more interested in...
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1963: Chichester, West Sussex. 1980-82: Foundation, West Sussex College of Design. 1982-85: BA (Hons) Fine Art, South Glamorgan IHE Cardiff. I was born in Chichester in the shadow of the South Downs. I had an early interest in making pictures, which developed into the desire to become an artist when I saw a powerful Picasso sculpture in...
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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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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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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 use a systematic approach to painting that involves an intensely controlled working practice, where I test the physical limits of paint by carefully building up layers of small marks to form a gradation of tone across a flat surface. I value craftsmanship skills in art and want the precision brushwork I use (reminiscent of egg tempera...
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The 'Dark Matter' sculptures and drawings refer to the vast majority of matter and energy in the universe that exists but cannot be seen. The work also reflects my interest in the experience of place and the ability of art to enable access to abstract, remote and invisible spaces including the space of the human unconscious. In the 'Dark Matter'...
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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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I work from the close examination of the photographic image or extracted film still, derived from the surveillance, documentation and scrutiny of various locations. Carefully selected resource material is either used in isolation, in sequence or spliced together to make fictional scenarios, which form the basis of paintings, drawings,...
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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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Today we are surrounded by a world that consists of hyperspace, virtual reality, cyborgs, genetic engineering, germ warfare, and advances in communication technology are developing at an alarming rate. I have always been interested in science and technology and have spent the past seven years working and exploring within this field through my art...
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The unsaid. The hidden. The awkward.The exposure and concealment of vulnerability is central to my practice. I am particularly interested in suppressed emotions and the anxiety and tension this evokes.My paintings often contain figurative elements, but don't aim to illustrate reality. Instead they are a response to veiled, obscured and...
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My practice is predominantly focused on drawing. A love of the natural environment and the influence of film permeates much of my work. I work largely from film stills and my own photography and cinema is often influential in how these images are selected and constructed. The finished drawings often explore how nature and the built environment...
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Paula MacArthur is a painter. Her work has matured into an increasingly painterly style, with bold use of colour and a commitment to naturalistic draughtsmanship. Working quickly and instinctively she places colour onto the canvas working with wet on wet glazes, merging oily translucent layers with the brush and dropping colour onto the canvas...
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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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Alex May is a digital artist who utilises his extensive programming knowledge to create his own software for video projection installations and interactive digital artworks exploring our relationship with digital technologies, and how human perception of reality can be altered and extended through code and light. Alex has exhibited around the UK...
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I am a figurative painter and my work is largely informed by drawing and photography, either in found images or my own technically bad photos. In fact the kind of ill composed photos from mobile phones are particularly fruitful.Movement but more importantly emotional tension in the human figure is the subject of my work. I like to create an...
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The drawings start with a sort of hunch, an impulse that 'this might work'. Each mark gives rise to another mark in response. It is as if the drawings create space for the ebb and flow of sensations and impulses, for memory to do its work: the past inserting itself into the present. My work is concerned with suggested subjectivities, narratives...
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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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My sculptures are primarily influenced by a preoccupation with abandonment and artificiality, which I explore through working with a variety of materials and a sense of theatricality and absurdity. Embarking with deliberately ambiguous aims, I progress through reacting intuitively to images and materials. This approach lends its self to a...
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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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I have been making work for a number of years now from various workshops in London. Over the years I have gained valuable experience in working in the public domain dealing with architects, designers, planners etc and all that it entails namely research, planning, costing, liaising, and of course the construction. I work in steel and all its...
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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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My practice explores the role of noise in the built environment; I am particularly interested in how to make use of those visual and aural signals that we normally block out or ignore. The end result might be a sound installation, a composition, performance or public intervention. I define noise as unwanted signal – ever present, but rarely...
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My work deals with visual perception, in particular the fact that we can receive conflicting information from a given visual stimulus. The preconceived assumptions of eye and brain are challenged, raising questions about the subconscious and how we interpret what we are looking at. Memory plays an important part in how we perceive the world around...
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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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