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I work most often in oil paint, using personal and found photographic archive, self-made models and drawing as points of reference.                                 &n...
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Concepts What you see depends on your visual intelligence and appetite. I search for new subjects and innovative ways of expressing these. How those subjects look within the frame interests me. I always compose at the time of photographing and print the whole frame. I am interested in how "what I photograph" is transformed by...
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My work is poised between the visible and invisible, resonating with the marginal spaces of the feminine, connecting with the viewer beyond symbolic language. It is about the recollection of elusive and ethereal memories drawing from my own experience of loss and self-negation; the desire to be hidden and yet to be seen.Making works in various...
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My work consists of divergent visual forms, from stand-alone photographs and meticulously handcrafted collages, digital prints to semi-functional architectural/sculptural works and large-scale installations. Linking these forms and disparate visual references is an interest in landscape, geometry and colour. London-based artist Henna Nadeem...
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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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If you look at magnificent later work like "The Ulster Saga",you find much more complex meditations upon violence in relation to the history of the North-and it is no accident that Gleason's paintings are being rediscovered by younger generations of Northern Irish painters who never knew such work even existed. Like so many of the...
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The work can have different threads or ideas working at the same time. Idea's or thread's can inform each other and suggest creative solutions. Different threads or idea's allow the brain to be challenged and worked in different directions in order to facilitate advancement. Materials play an important part in allowing or...
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Over the last two years I have concentrated solely on taking photographs. After working across different media over the the years I have finally found that photography truly unlocks my creative potential. It came as something of a revelation that the images I have produced express my individual response to the world around me. From the city...
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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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For more information please go to: www.isobelmanning.co.uk
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My subject matter is what Virginia Woolf called ‘moments of being’, those moments in life which, despite their ordinariness, seem charged with meaning and significance. My paintings are filled with narrative but resilient to any attempts to extract any clear story or message. Often cropped to the point of illegibility the images...
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I use a unique technique that I have developed to lift off the top layer of surfaces from the built environment. I capture the layers of visual histories imbued in architectural surfaces and re-present slices of our surroundings. I often work with sites that are due to be demolished, documenting histories that would otherwise be lost. The beauty...
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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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Consistent themes explored within my work are the tendency for escapist behaviour and segregation in the context of human interaction, arising from a distorted desire to belong. Examples of specific themes explored are the reliance of individuals on identity, religion or nostalgia. The work frequently questions what lies behind socially...
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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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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 in favour of a clean, hi-tech future – living orderly lives free of clutter and the traces of what we once were. With...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Jane Oldfield is developing work concerning flying. This provides a focus which connects the variety of her visual work – mainly painting on a variety of surfaces, but also 3D pieces with wire and cutouts. Flying has always been an obsession for mankind. We have only conquered...
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I create sculptural forms using textiles, found objects, collected personal and family memorabilia, and recycled materials mixed with new. Establishing a real or imagined narrative around the materials I work with drives my practice. The physical qualities, and history of original use and functions, inform the invented record of each piece. It is...
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Concepts My work, which includes site specific public sculpture, sculpture and installation, combines the natural and the man-made with themes largely drawn from nature interpreted through industrial materials and engineering techniques. Multiples, reflection, transparency, movement and light are present. I seek equivalents for...
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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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The central theme surrounding my practice this year has been an exploration into the home and the significance that this place has.As an installation artist who deals with space, my recent visit to Cape Town was largely impacted by the contrast in exposure to space I experienced whilst out there. I was faced with breathtaking and rolling scenery...
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We are all spectators. – Our consumer culture, our excesses, renders us privileged to the global politicised force of the modern image. But are we harmed by the media's relentless obsession or are we anesthetised by the glut of ceaseless traffic? By the sheer mobility and accessibility of images have our expectations risen to accept a...
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The humour in my work is dry and dark, but warm, and delivered with love. Through its absurdity, laughter and sense of freedom and joy, I hope for the audience to recognise the situations presented as relevant to their own lives. Underneath the humour, lays a seriousness which talks about our behaviour in the big Society.I start with paintings...
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I am a painter, and I am fascinated by the formal and material things of painting, but in the last few years I have been exploring 3D, having small bronze figures made, as well as developing ceramic work, and in my recent painting I have been trying to reconcile these 3D explorations, embodiment, characterisation, shifts in scale, with composition...
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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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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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Concepts Incisive Letterwork focuses on large scale architectural inscriptions and word sculpture. We are committed to our great loves which are materials, particularly but not exclusively stone, letters and text. We are interested in every aspect of letterform. Sometimes we use it in a straightforward informative manner as for example in...
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My practice consists of a mixture of 3-dimensional and 2-Dimensional formats, embracing architecture as my main influence I seek out locations within the built environment that hold fractured histories and memories. Once these locations are found I examine the history and events that surround the area and held within the structures. Constructing...
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I live on the east coast. Each day I make drawings about things happening in the landscape; often returning to the same places for months at a time, sometimes just walking and seeing what happens. I use these drawings in the studio to improvise and rehearse possible ways to turn observation into painting. I look for things in the drawings that...
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I try to make things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's Artist of the Month, Ruth talks to Neill Sheasby about his appreciation of the ordinary, his time as a studio user at North Tyneside Art Studio and getting...
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Concepts Julie Brixey-Williams is a British artist who lives and works in London, where she has exhibited regularly. Her work explores the relationship that the body shares with space and architecture and the gestural marks that we leave behind. Working in various media, including photography, video, installation, performance and drawing,...
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