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I make images with paint, collage, drawing and camera. Work is from observation, directly from life, from drawings, from photographs, from screen images. Self-portraiture is central, partly because I'm simply the observable human figure in what I paint but also, through performance, it allows me to trespass into the worlds of other women and,...
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Johana has a background in sculpture and has maintained a fascination with form, sometimes applying that to video, intervention and drawing. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she has exhibited widely, most recently at Rhod, Newcastle Emlyn. Johana is particularly interested in the humanity present in the...
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My medium is photography, I specialise in the traditional process of taking a photograph and the darkroom printing process being analogue photography. Like my medium my subject and interests represent an historical and nostalgic approach. My current project Nurtured in Concrete form began when I started photographing my Grandfather's home who...
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Concepts I am interested in townscapes and the urban environment, particularly seaside resorts or industrial sites/estates and parks - anywhere where human activity comes up against nature. I like to contrast the artificial patterns of the architecture with natural forms. Often the places that act as starting points for paintings have a...
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Pure abstract artist who uses paint to express the combining of opposites. Paint is applied randomly but is overlaid with geometric monochrome shapes, providing a contrast and distinction. Colour is very important as it underpins each picture space and installs a sense of vibrancy. By placing representational and three dimensional objects onto...
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Living in a rural area for most of my life, nature's forms and colours have always been the main influence on my work, though it is not always revealed in an obvious manner. Along side making abstract and representational works the actual process of making is very important to me, and therefore continuously drives me towards pushing the...
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My projects explore photography and ‘ways of seeing’ in two quite different ways; the first is working with ‘straight’ mainly un-manipulated photography. Here, my aim is to inform audiences of what was seen and recorded photographically (to convey a narrative within traditional documentary boundaries). I also apply...
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Current Practice I am essentially a fine art painter, but I do print and draw as part of my practise. I have recently re-dicovered Gesso which I am finding captivating in its coldness. Concepts If you look at my paintings closely you will see layers upon layers of paint. Each piece takes time to complete, although the marks are expressive and...
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Artists Statement In recent months it has become increasingly important to me to skills share and collaborate.  Somehow work seems to take on a more dynamic and meaningful emphasis and all parties benefit from such encounters.  It is so exciting to discover a creative connection in each others work and to develop this in a way that...
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Rebecca Spooner’s rich installations combine film, photography, projection and found objects. Her work explores the romanticism of nature, in particular the representation of women, wild animals and the British landscape. Rebecca Spooner, Rough Notes, Publicity Image ...
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Motivated by a basic urge to play and create, Diana’s painting is intuitive and visceral, although consideration and planning are part of it too. Other recent work has been driven by an attraction to materials, and their colour and texture. Often inspired by fabrics and having a background in tile-making, her work feels very akin to...
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I am interested in the realisation of eternal form. The rhythms and patterns, harmony and balance inherent in nature are my guide. I am interested in creating works which contain and reflect these qualities, and which unite the human soul in this dance. My approach relates to the Eastern Artistic perspective: Inspiration lies with the rhythm of...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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ConceptsI call my monochrome paintings 'fragment drawings'. Pencil lines are applied to a white ground and obscured or brought out. The images arising from this process are often recurrent and obsessive. Heads, beasts, animals shift shape, travel the mysteries of birth and death. Banal or sublime forms evoke traumas of early relationships. ...
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My practise is centred on approaches to the substance of paint as a pre-loaded, genetic material where marks and surface, pigment, history, place and myth are part of a genetic code of painting as art. Supporting this approach, I use the context of how and where the painting is made to reference broader structures that inform the meaning of its...
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My work is based upon observational drawing, which demands an intense study of the subject – the sense of self is subsumed within the drawing process and the resulting image records my response to the subject rather than being a literal transcription of its’ appearance. This response is taken further in my paintings and prints, where...
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Concepts My central concerns are with image, memory, identity and landscape. I find that different conditions of light challenge habits of perception - where or what are things ? My work uses various illusionistic devices to portray this ambiguity of the nature and location of things, and to reflect their forms and qualities. I am also...
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My art practice is a device inviting the spectator to question and investigate our familiar fields of knowledge and imagination. The material of the everyday initiates my curiosity. I am interested in the capacity that art owns to take you from that space in that moment, to another space. I see my work as an idle observation of life like a doodle....
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I've always been interested in working with a range of media to develop work using the most appropriate material. This is why it may appear a mixed bag. For instance, recent exhibitions have used projections in one space, museum cabinets in another, found and reconstructed elements on a wall in another space, and...
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Michael Powell (1983) is an artist and writer born in England. He is currently very interested in and influenced by Norse God, Aztec and Celtic myths, Hermann Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Watts, music, the natural world and the play, nonsense and flow of reality as it crashes against his everyday life.He enjoys using his imagination to create...
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The nature of language, and, in particular, its limitations as a method of expressing deep and difficult feelings, informs much of my work. I work directly with books, texts and paper ephemera to create drawings, installations and sculptures that pose questions rather than deliver answers about how we communicate within our familial and intimate...
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Brenda Oakes, MA is an award-winning international artist and designer. Trained as a sculptor, her practice now encompasses other skills which are diverse and wide-ranging. In Britain she has created new public spaces for several local authorities whilst invitations are received to create art for collections around the world. Having worked as an...
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Having trained as a sculptor but now using the photographic medium: my work links photo images to mark making, three dimensional relief and constructions to develop and extend the boundaries of photographic manipulation and presentation. This is achieved without the aid of digital/computerised technology. Scratching, cutting, ripping, mark making,...
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Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Born in England in 1955...
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Alice Briggs is an artist from Aberystwyth. She studied Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts and later went on to take an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies at Newcastle University. Alice's current work engages with memory and objects in the practice of collection and interpretation within museums, galleries, outdoor spaces and the...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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Anne-Mie Melis work explores the visual nature of plants and their role in an increasingly technology-infiltrated world. Her main inspiration is science, focused towards plant biology and engineering. She uses a variety of media; large-scale architectural botanical drawings on paper, assembled objects, composed from plant parts or pruned shrubs,...
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Concepts In my artistic practice I focus on the dialogue between the means of artistic production (text, installation, audio, video, performance, curating and cultural management - all considered part of it) and the framework constituted by artwork, context and audience. I intend my work as a space where the above triad of references updates...
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I have a first-class degree in the Humanities, a Master's degree in Postmodernism, and an unfinished PhD which is undergoing transformation into a sculptural piece entitled 'She-Shells'. Theoretical debate across the cultural spectrum remains integral to my thinking in general, and if this informs my art, it is ideas in contemporary...
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Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
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