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Concepts My work has changed significantly since I began painting. My earlier work was concerned with making imaginative and symbolic connections to my relationship with classical Indian music, to the natural world, and to my Jewish heritage. In later years I have focused my attention on one particular subject - it is that of...
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Concepts Lately my activity has involved selecting and processing fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly those related to our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However,...
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I work from imagination to create my own poetic vision of the world. Over time, I have developed a number of themes and characters, largely with origins in childhood, memory and dream imagery. My subject matter reflects my interest in, myth, folklore, history and  magic and my characters express both the light and darker sides of human nature...
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My art practice focusses on aspects of both landscape and text, consisting of photographs, moving image, installations, drawings, performance and painting. Working reflexively across different mediums has enabled a visual language to develop that articulates what otherwise may remain remains unseen and unheard. My motivation is to exceed the...
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What defines drawing: intention, format, support? Works in sketchbooks are drawings because they are investigative; primary sources; studies for something else; therefore apparently unfinished, ephemeral, and seen as work in progress. They are part of a journey towards another state of being. I am interested in the point at which painting and...
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My work sets out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.Through the use of space and displaced characters, and their juxtaposition with monumental architectural structures, these works aim to mirror the emotional turmoil and unbalance we experience in the midst of a constrained, yet...
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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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I love paint in all its forms.  The physical sensuality of it.  The truth and the lies.  Object and illusion.  Window on the world.  Window on the soul.  Layers of factory-produced, chemically calculated magic.  Years ago, in America, I stopped using rectangular stretched canvas.  I started building...
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I have a fascination with the suburban home, the neatly cut grass, and the perfectly polished car on the driveway. This may have developed through my own upbringing or it may come from the dream of living in a place like that. I like to paint the most ordinary places, homes which I can imagine myself living...
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Concepts My main work is installation and object-based. I'm interested in cultural conditioning & hierarchies. Areas of workPrimary educationSecondary educationAdult educationCommunity artsExhibitingLecturingPublic artResidenciesRadio/TV Collections Rabas Museum, Hredle, Czech RepublicSainsbury Collection,...
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I address the gap between the world and our representations of it, often making use of machines and methods that promise precision and objectivity, but ultimately reveal the human presence. I have a particular interest in photography and its relationship to memory, and in using drawing to re-present movement. 'What we observe is not nature...
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Anna Keleher develops techniques, processes, skills and participatory works to expand 21st century perspectives. Her playfully devised invitations allow participants to take empathetic leaps into potential worlds. Her expanded collaborations engage with the humour of the world leading us to a land of potential in which everyday "things"...
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I am an interdisciplinary maker working predominantly with performance, sculpture, installation and print. Using a variety of props and materials I devise ‘scenes’ to examine my relationship to certain objects, texts and spaces.  Exploring specific locations, libraries and archives I then enact/present my findings playing...
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My work has always been about my concern with 'being in the world'; 'being' as a human, 'being' as a transient occupant in time, space and condition.   Work begins with the intention to explore and to incorporate possibilities.  The outcome is open-ended to allow room for interpretations.  Sometimes failures play a crucial part in...
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Combining the mass produced and the unique is, for me, humorous and ironical and full of suggestion and contradiction. I am interested in the process of reproduction (printmaking, laser cutting, high tech and lo-tech) and also by the theme of reproduction (with reference to the ethical debate surrounding biotechnology, genetics, sex and...
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I am fat, I am a woman and I make art about it. Instigated by my life's personal and resonating experiences my autobiographical interdisciplinary work retain universal themes such as the housing and death work completed in 2010-2012. Most recently my current ongoing work on the fat female body developed as in August 2012 when I was due to...
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"My influences are from all things natural and with the Zen-like philosophy that 'less is more', I shed extraneous material to express the essence of Nature's energy and refine interpretations of my experiences and emotions, using pewter metal as my chosen medium. Living on the sea for some years, the elements and the environment, their...
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Having worked on a wide range of permanent Public Art projects, Stephen brings a lively imagination and a singular aesthetic to each commission he is involved in.Each site has demanded very different responses, so that artworks often use different materials and industrial processes.Stephen combines his own artistic concerns with these individual...
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Concepts My work is largely concerned with form and the development of 3-D spaces which challenge the senses, including memory and emotion. My work divides into two strands - 1) landscape architecture, site-specific, land art; 2) domestic scale sculpture in stone and willow. In my designs of outdoor spaces/public art I am keen to celebrate...
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Tender Machines is a new series of work inspired partly by architecture and machinery such as pylons, water towers, agricultural machines like threshers, and water towers. These have been first recorded in a sketch book and then later recalled in the studio and transformed with imagination to create individual characterful 'personages'. Each of...
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Concepts My sculpture is concerned with a diverse range of concepts and is made out of a variety of materials including wood, stone, bronze and paper. The content has ranged from an interest in transformation and change to its current involvement with aspects of theoretical physics. The scale ranges from smaller pieces to large scale public...
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CONCEPTS Much of my work originates from Landscape and the natural environment; it is as much to do with the process of making as it is about what I see, hear, taste, smell, feel or touch. The nature of the stimulus informs the method of making.
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Concepts I work with ideas to focus and make visible. I aim to encourage the role of the viewer as participant/performer and acknowledge that without this engagement the artwork is essentially obscure. I am concerned with how a view of the world is interpreted and informed and accessed through language. I am inspired by poetry. My work frequently...
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In making visual equivalents for the elusive experience of silent watching, I appropriate lines from the outside world in opposition to myself and in this way consider the complex relationship between the external landscape and an inner felt world. I am interested in the interface and enmeshing of different disciplines, science, art,...
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I am a member of studio XYZ a small group of artists who come together regularly to work on themed projects, and a member of the Space Place Practice research group (based in Bristol).  I also work in collaboration with another artist Michele Whiting under the banner Quilos and the Windmill, and we were selected as joint...
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My work is a response to the detail of my functional life; the familiarity and reassurance of repetitive tasks we all feel safe in and the impact of external and unpredictable factors on these. I have an interest in harming behaviours and the wear and tear of living on ourselves and our environment.Themes of 'wearing out' and 'holding...
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My work is concerned with how current technology, in particular the internet and social media, shapes and communicates identity. Primarily, I am using the framework of frequently used and fashionable online applications that have audiences around the world. I use technologies such as smartphones, scanning, photography, animation, video, digital...
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I create installations within geographical,social or political contexts, highlighting relationships between individuals and their environment and the ability to change and adapt.My work investigates emotional responses to the notions of time, origin, places and death. I use my art as a way to explore the intricate relationship between art and well...
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My work aims to explore and document the representations of identities and space. The notion of discovery is central to my practice. The materials I use are sourced from local people and places. The painting process is influenced by the natural patterns that emerge from these materials. Pen and ink allows me to capture and build upon the latent...
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Basically, I stick things together, and make some stuff- which I often assemble into other things. Ive watched a lot of telly, read some books, both text books and novels, seen films, been places. There are many archetypes employed in my works. The work like myself is reactionary, I am very much interested in our experience both mediated and...
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My work addresses themes of absence, memory and female identity and has evolved from an exploration of the empty domestic interior. It explores the borderland between absence and presence and between the familiar and the strange. I use the motifs of wallpaper and women’s clothing to evoke the presence and traces of past or absent inhabitants...
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I use painting, photography and print to explore my interests in systems, architecture, modernism and ruin appreciation.
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