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I am interested in the tragi-comic, and the way it is possible to present the audience with a proposition that can be viewed as light-hearted, or something more sinister, in order to prompt questions of spectatorship. Frequently, work manifests itself as performances that focus on repeated actions and utilise a theatrical register, in an attempt...
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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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My process of painting continually evolves within different stages of concentration, one that is figuratively minded and one based on abstract formal decisions. I find that these types of mindset are activated by one anothers absence. It starts with the conscious decision of trying to do something back to front, an interest in figurative...
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Concepts I make prints and paintings responding to the local landscape. In a mostly arable landscape I necessarily engage with current farming techniques as well as the natural changes that occur. The work is intended to be a document as well as an expression. Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and...
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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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I am absorbed with the way light changes and defines places, constantly transforming the same piece of land, wood or coastline. The changing quality of light and elements against the permanence and stillness of the landscape are central to my work; clouds across a hill, flashes of light through woods, shadows along a track. I use a range of...
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My work uses cardboard, tin cans plastics and cardboard tubes usually destined for the waste bin. The fragile resemblances that I produce with their torn, folded and glued sections are crude, insubstantial, spray painted copies, three-dimensional jigsaws, connected and disconnected fragments of machines displayed as museum artefacts. They fit into...
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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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Colour relationships - form and space - the whole and its parts - the sensorium. Urban environments, real or filtered, provide the abstract elements and colours  with which I order pictorial space. I trial many possible outcomes - working with various papers and tape on a prepared ground - before making the finished piece. My aim is to...
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I'm utilising a hybrid language of materials to create accidents and chance encounters; drawing upon memory traces and observational details, trying to balance layers of imagery with a sense of translucency, wondering between form, space and colour.It's exciting to merge figurative and abstract painting. I'm sourcing inspiration from...
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Brenda Miller’s practice draws on aspects of everyday life for its focus. Day-to-day existence is precious and society ought to celebrate and value it. Memories and nostalgia form a kind of romanticism for place and space, which is integral to the work. Being able to look at the sea and horizon every day as a child has evolved into a...
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My work is a constant enquiry, an incomplete sentence, a phrase articulated through materiality, object and space. It is quiet work, a vocabulary of cast offs, objects, liquids and processes, at times unstable, prone to decay, but familiar to us all. With influences ranging from Eva Hesse's organic minimalism to Watteau’s scenes of...
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My work is predominantly installation based and relates to my interest in our relationship with places. Often the work itself is intended to have a direct dialogue with the particular space in which it is presented. I use processes of replication and displacement, often combining and relating three-dimensional pieces to time based imagery and...
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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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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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Artist Statement My work has a continuing preoccupation with museums, collecting, fragility and transience. Inspired by family history, personal memorabilia often become incorporated into the forms and structures I create. Gloves are cast in plaster and printed with fragmented texts from different eras, resembling fragile relics. Old recipes...
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Current projects I continue to make photographs of the regeneration of Weston-super-Mare. Commission 2012 - I am exploring 3D printing with Exeter Pheonix and the University of Exeter, and am looking to integrate new printed elements into models or films of models. Visiting Birnbeck - I have been making visits to Birnbeck Island since 2009...
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FIELDWORK – THE ART OF MATTHEW GREENHALF Matthew Greenhalf is a particularly intriguing painter of landscape, because he approaches his subject in the richest sense, on several levels of depiction and meaning. I say ‘depiction’, but Greenhalf’s work essentially borders representation and abstraction, the artist trawling...
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Site specific projects, residencies, exhibitions, commissions.
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Concepts As a landscape photographer based in Glastonbury I tend to look for subject matter that eschews traditional ideas around what constitutes a worthwhile landscape photograph. I am attracted to liminal zones that lie somewhere between notions of urban and rural or vernacular architecture that has a short shelf life before social or...
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British artist based in Bristol, England who studied and was raised in the Middle East. As a result works often revolve around Middle Eastern culture, politics and ideology. Taking a particular interest in the notion cultural displacement.Most work is three dimensional or installation-based and uses materials and imagery commonly seen in different...
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I make paintings on paper, canvas and wood which take imagery from art historical and contemporary sources; alongside these I make abstract paintings. My recent paintings ('Los azulejos' series and 'We may not be here tomorrow' series) make reference to Mexican sources, for example, photographs taken in Guadalajara. ‘Los azulejos –...
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I am interested in illusion, artifice and the manipulation of reality and perception primarily where recent history, memory and power collide. My work is process based, often taking the form of sculptural assemblages or installations that can easily be re-arranged and re-used to explore differing perspectives, while questioning how we ascribe...
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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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My work is an ongoing investigation into ways in which one can represent visually an aspect of a psychological condition, such as anxiety, melancholia, mourning, or the vanishing of the self as a form of loss or absence. Recent work explores fairy tales as a symbolic dimension for the depiction of distressing states of mind and, in this context,...
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British artist Ian Wilkins (b.1986) graduated from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2011 with an MFA in Fine Art specialising in printmaking. He currently works as a visiting tutor at the London Print Studio and is an associate tutor in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design. He has recently been selected as Artist-In-Residence for...
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Situated within a state of flux and placed in the context of the of architectural thought and theory. My practice extrudes spaces and is situated within the thoughts and theory of the dystopian space to the human condition and explores both the emotional and physiological reactions of the viewer. Using both the physiological and the psychological...
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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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The objects I am designing and making look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Their features can trigger an association, a memory; of something you have used or seen before. My reference points are usually photographs – taken of things I see on the street - litter, recycling, abandoned furniture; or items in buildings...
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Concepts Painting the land is the best way I know of evoking half forgotten memories or truths. I have long been drawn to places of trauma, be it abandoned post industrial sites,or war zones. My feelings about the physical reality of what is left moves me to paint. I am in a sense a history painter. "His work engages with landscape as both...
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