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Concepts, Processes and techniques We and our surroundings are changed and marked by the processes of life. These marks, arising from human and natural processes, are my inspiration. The bubbles momentarily visible on the beach as a wave retreats, the sand ripples left by an outgoing tide, the footpaths worn by people walking from place...
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I initially start with the question of how much I can ‘work’ a surface. All the works display a multiplicity of marks (scratching, piercing or drawing) which result in surfaces resonant with the prolonged activity of their own deconstruction. I stop working on the paper when it achieves a state of fragility whereby its coherent form would be...
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My practice is experimental and multi-disciplinary, often driven by an interest in contradiction or paradox. I use the appropriation and defacement of found materials to construct scenarios or images that manipulate the 'real' or recognisable. Fliers and newspapers are a surface of existing forms, which serve as starting points for...
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I make watercolours, drawings and oil paintings. Over recent years they have been based on cities that I have lived in or visited. The base of all of my cities is probably derived from the view in fron of our house looking over Sheffield. Since 2000 I have kept experimenting with materials, homemade paints and media, recording the interaction and...
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Most of my work could be described as Spatial Drawings. I use thread - or the warp released from the loom - to draw in the third dimension. The warp as a not yet fully materialized fabric hovers somewhere between matter and thought. This pending dynamic state is shaped by light as an integral part of my work. There's a visible world and an...
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My practice is versatile and not bound to any definitive subject or medium. I generally start a piece of work with something I've heard, read or written, therefore speech, words or defying language play a pivotal role. Misunderstandings and illusions are also extremely important, they infiltrate my work and frequently layer a sense of the uncanny....
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My work covers eclectic subject matter, often inspired by daydreams and my imagination, sometimes representational, using appropriated imagery from magazines and books and my own photographs; sometimes abstract. My practice is instinctive and intuitive, and encompasses photography, drawing and painting.
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“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.” ― Walter Benjamin Drawing is central to me. Not only is it at the core of my practise as an artist, but, possibly more importantly, it allows me to be tethered to and in the world. Moreover, these two areas are in...
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Abu Jafar is an acclaimed leading International Artist and Philosopher of the Arts Born on March 21, 1968 in a small village called Jhilna, Patuakhali, Bangladesh. Since 1991 he lives and works in United Kingdom. He studied fine arts, painting and drawing at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984/89, Master Drawing of the...
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"There.is.only.dot.com.unication.in.absorption.of.virtual.environments: iLandscapes: endless.paths.of.hi.speed.transmission.created.as.we.exist.in.the.modern.everyday travelling.monologically.in.to.a.point.where.language.is.the.click.of.plastic.and.e.motion.is.the digital.current.of.tele.presence" It has been said that we are losing...
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Our relationship with the past is changing. Through subtle coercion, driven by commercial interests and rapid developments in consumer technology, we are being encouraged to loosen our grip on the physical and material with the promise of a clean, organised and hi-tech future – living orderly lives free of clutter and the traces of what we...
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Concepts There is no common theme to my work although areas of interest include perception, surveillance, watching and being watched, and seeing the bigger picture in the small details of things. I like to relate the theme and the method of working. Recent paintings in response to environmental concerns have focused on surface and the use...
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I attempt to combine my fascination with films and narrative paintings in the construction of single large-scale photographs and I am particularly interested in developing and establishing protagonists within these to create an enhanced view of the world. Through the realization of backstories and motivations I aim to make these personalities...
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I am interested in the way we see and categorise objects, in the lives of objects and in unsealing their form, and so reformulating it. The work has a seesawing quality to it as the formal relational concerns are countered by the often quotidian materials and through the process of experimentation. I am drawn to objects and colours that have...
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Moira Lovell is an art photographer working with staged documentary portraiture. Underpinning her practice is an investigation into the threshold between how we think we appear and how we are actually perceived by the camera. Lovell's exploration of this in-between space has lead her to work with a variety of communities such as school themed...
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I am excited by, how as an artist I am able to experiment with creating visualisations of my secrets without ever making them explicitly public. I am interested in human behaviour. Specifically, I am drawn to the rituals, tensions and absurdity that occurs between the two sexes. This forms the base for the process I enter when using, manipulating...
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High visibility, reflective colour and fluorescence are some of the phenomena that work their way into my practice. I'm interested in these materials and colours that we encounter every day, those that are just outside our peripheral vision in order to alert and catch our attention. My practice explores questions around what constitutes as the...
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Concepts My interest is in expressing the beauty and mysterious qualities within landscape -colour, light and pattern. Expression is fairly loose and non literal, moving more towards abstraction. Influences Earliest-Samuel Palmer's sepia ink drawings; Nash, Lanyon, Hitchens - but for colour, Matisse and Bonnard and for colour and...
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Concepts Painter concerned with visual perception. Formal notions of light and movement within the second dimension. In addition, the concept of illusion and double meaning are particularly important. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual experiences from a single visual stimulant. I am interested in playing with ideas of...
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Born in 1970, I live and work as an artist in York. I studied at York College of Art and Design, followed by the University of Brighton where I specialised in Fine Art Printmaking. Graduating in 1994 I set up my own print studio to work full-time as a professional printmaker, specialising in etching and relief printing. I have...
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"David Lucas has progressed from recording the landscape to a more subjective interpretative art which has allowed for a greater emotional and philosophical response to painting. Light, shafts of brightness and horizon lines are put into the work but his interest in the deeper aspects of infinity has widened the vision. He attempts to unravel...
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The emphasis of my previous work has been the use of abstraction to portray a more atmospheric and ethereal view of our natural world. In order to achieve this I have used my observations of the natural environment and interpreted them through the use of colour, texture and line in order to create the sensation of oneself being encompassed within...
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Christiane Thalmann is an artist based in Sheffield, UK.  She is interested in various aspects of contemporary life. Subject matter has included issues around women, the effects of childhood and finding one's way in the world, relationships, and ideas around home and elsewhere. She employs a...
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I am an established Sheffield based artist working across landscape; seascape; the human form and an historical based research.  I use painting, drawing, printmaking and photographic images as the main methods and means for my work.  I am interested in the deliberateness of making marks on a surface, including the use of text whether...
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My recent work depicts hypothetical spatial scenarios or cultural event spaces, suggesting evidence of an uncertain or unspecified labour within the city. Incorporated elements suggest both the ‘found’ and the ‘made’; both evidence of nature and culture. The ‘found’ referring to recognisable and generally familiar things or entities, which exist...
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Klepuszewska was once an actor and this comes as no surprise when you consider the methodology behind her work. Originally trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and the Oxford School of Drama, she also toured small European festivals with a Polish theatre company, often performing to people who had not seen theatre before. These experiences...
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Jenny West uses perspective drawing as a means of construction, conjuring three dimensional space on the surface of the paper and suspending forms within it. Originally, she learnt the rules of perspective as a practical tool - a means of describing the sculptural objects she was making in reality - but found that her virtual creations took on a...
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Concepts Ailsa graduated from Cardiff University in 1999 with a first class honours degree in Ceramics.  Her work experiments with a wide variety of decorative wheel thrown pieces and handbuilt sculptures which concentrate on form rather than function and explore both negative and positive space and the movement suggested within those spaces...
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Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea. - Georges BatailleIn his essay, The Metaphor of the Eye, Roland Barthes wrote about Bataille...
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I am primarily engaged in making drawings which test the limits of visibility and material existence. My delicate and elusive drawings of garments ask: at what point does visibility disappear and drawing become immaterial? My practice reflects a fascination with the unseen, untouchable and unspoken in human encounters. The works seek to taunt...
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Interested in: The human machine interface, people's perception and interpretation of space, systematic repetitive movements, precision, illusion, order, rules, form following function, craftsmanship, sequences, architecture, surfaces, the colour red, hinges, levers, cams, systems as concepts, reciprocating motion, undulating, rotating, control. ...
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These works are concerned with the abstract qualities of space, colour and form. I wished to create a sensation of movement and energy in complex spaces. I work directly in an intuitive state, allowing brush marks, colours and forms to be dictated by the sounds and images of the natural world, whilst reducing their visual complexity down to the...
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