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ConceptsMy work is attempting to free photography from the conventional static image which freezes a specific instant in time. I am in the process of exploring the possibilities of representing the dynamic of time and movement. This work is not constrained by the photographic frame, instead it is expressed through a sweeping panoramic image...
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ConceptsContemporary wireworks in precious metals. Lisa is concerned with movement in her jewellery, making forged necklaces, long lavish earrings and rings with moveable sections all inspired by tropical fauna. I work primarily with wire, forging it or using jigs and mandrels to create repeating designs. Textures are an integral part of the...
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Performed on the original trajectory of the Swansea to Mumbles railway, the first passenger rail service in the world, Matt Cook presented a series of spurious stories - historical events that happened, or could have happened, during the 153 year life of the Mumbles Train. Playing and performing with a kinetic, colourful and highly...
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Read Josie's Rants Ham-fisted, Blue-Peter inspired small scale constructions contrast with heavily laboured, intricate drawings and sculptures and encourage questions of process and curatorial dialogue. I like to play with the supposed status that plinths and other 'invisible' exhibiting conventions give to art work. My roughly made and...
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I make work that questions the conditions of practice and its ability to exist in the world out side of the studio and gallery space. Questioning the viewer's duty in the works existence, I make drawings, assemblages, sculpture, paintings and text pieces which have evolved through a detached interest in extended practice and process alongside...
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Recent work by Kerry Harker investigates the tension between the fine and decorative arts, playing with the associated expectations and blurring the boundaries between them. In 2004 Harker was shortlisted for the Comme Ca Art Prize North and won The Vickers Award in 2003, leading to a residency at Derby Museum and Art Gallery and the solo...
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I work in a variety of media including photography, video and installation and my current interest is in how we experience our environment, looking in particular at interior spaces. I have been particularly interested in how we experience institutional spaces, and the effect that these may have. I produced a body of work informed by medical...
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Selector text A considered and confident aesthetic emerges from the sculpture and video work of Magali Reus. Brightly coloured beach towels, tinted lenses found in sunglasses, Formica, ratchet straps and a video of a guy holding a surf board make up Reus' MFA show at Goldsmiths. 'Fire Storms' is the key work here (a piece that was also...
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Hancock and Kelly Live are reconnoiters of collaborative environments; noting, exploring and experiencing the proximities of emotional and physical territories created in response to each other and in group encounters. Since 2005, their research, Performing Intersubjectivity has prompted a cycle of performed solo works, 'lone duets', made in...
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Artist statement In the dark poem The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Tennyson, when the woman looks into the mirror (reality) it cracks, and the spell (imaginary) is broken so the wo(man) must die. But the mirror has a silver backing which is hidden from the gaze and so she has the possibility of being reborn. The MA project is about looking into...
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ConceptsMy interest in the notion of place is linked to the idea of duration, repetition and juxtaposition of narrative. Since 1998 I have been developing a body of work (painting and photography) with the title Thought Dwellings. These images derive from memories and experiences of the 'ordinary'. They are perceptions of everyday life, but...
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Dan Rees' work depends on the actions of others … we all do, as we do not exist in a community of isolation but a community of ideas and influences. Art like everything in life is not the result of an individual, and the idea of the artist as the unique, sedentary creative genius has made way for the artists whose methodology and role is one of...
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Artist statement The works in Ablution were made to convey a tension between sacred and profane space, and the narrow sliver of experience between. My practice as a whole concerns the design, use and politics of environment, and Zen aesthetics. In Ablution I used water and re-arranged institutional furniture remaining at the art school campus...
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Artist statement Whilst I didn't appreciate it at the time 'Delivery',' Tilt' and 'Slab' has grown into a crude sort of triptych; a subconscious critique of my own life. Made from coarse packaging materials, 'Delivery' smacks of pace, haste and crudity. Whilst superficially resembling an infant incubator 'Delivery' promises no comfort, only...
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I have designed a collection of garments that change over time. There are four main concepts that feed the process that I used to develop my ideas. They are that clothes can communicate on several levels, that time and change are the essence of fashion, that time and change are essentially narrative, and that the basis for a meaningful collection...
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Dalziel + Scullion, Blade, 2005 Dalziel + Scullion are two collaborating artists based in Dundee, who have become well-known for their environmental work. They are particularly interested in our changing landscape, and how those changes, whether natural or man-made, affect our...
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Artist statement The foundation to my artwork is a post-feminist perspective, I attempt to deconstruct and break boundaries and recreate perspectives, between viewers/cultures, through the layering and framing of the viewers (including myself) with in a space. I use cameras as a means to gain control, to force the viewer to confront their own...
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Formally trained as a sculptor and scenographer, Claire Todd's work incorporates sculpture, drawing, costume, performance and film. Her practice explores a merging of the senses with the scenic through site specific movement and sculpture. She draws on the innate nature of an object, place or physical movement to see its effect on embodiment. ...
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Artist statement Project 1: Collecting words of others (The Murton|Crawford Award)This project (composed of two pieces, 1 & 2) is an outcome of having me being a creator alongside a reader. The idea burst while reading the book On Collecting: an investigation into collecting in the European tradition by Susan M. Pearce, borrowed from...
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Artist statement My work for the final show consists of a series of seven objects conceptually related to the Seven Deadly Sins. It is an investigation into a contemporary iconography for the Seven Sins; questioning what the modern concept of sin is and where it meets taboos and divergent moralities. Selector text Accompanied by...
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Most recently I have been developing a sculptural practice as a means to producing musical compositions. The music itself is in many cases autonomous and continuous and is intended to be listened to like any other music. I am currently interested in the point where noise becomes sound rationalised by the perceptual shift between hearing and...
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Artist statement Within my project, painting provides a space in which certain objects are resigned to history while also perhaps being made visible to the viewer for the first time. The architecture and the rhetoric of museums partly informs this position by which objects are clinically presented to lucidly outline their significance yet...
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Artist statement My practice is and has been quite eclectic, both technically and conceptually (please see my website for documentation, aliciapaz.co.uk ). Over several years, I have explored the tension between artifice/ illusion and the veracity of actual processes involved in painting, exposing the duplicitous nature of representation. At...
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Working with social, as well as physical space and materials, Graham is a collection builder, situation and object maker. The body of her work forms the Dragging and Gathering, (Kicking and Screaming) Collection, incorporating urban intervention and performative works and object based installations. Her work plays with ideas of the constructed...
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Artist statement My work is concerned with object/context relationships and explores a gamut of ideas and methods in order to arrive at an interesting proposition. In recent years I have developed a practice that enables me to extrapolate ready-made objects from environments that I have been influenced by and regurgitate them to a desired...
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PAUL BECKETT Sculptor / Clockmaker / Precision Design Engineer / Consultant Summary A highly experienced, award winning artist clockmaker melding the skills of a precision mechanical design engineer with the flair of a sculptor. A passion for research and development coupled with a very individual design handwriting underpins...
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Artist statement The world around us changes, mixes, grows, becomes a melting pot of different people and cultures. This development offers a lot of advantages in terms of communication and exchange. Globalisation helps us to unite the world, but also threatens to homogenise difference and individuality. 'Higher, faster, better' seems to be...
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Delaine Le Bas's magpie practice encompasses painting, sculpture, film, embroidery, installation and well just about everything else in a crazy mixed media bricolage. Her Romany background is apparent in every flourish and twist but is never a forced point, integrating effortlessly within the fabric of her installations. Her work often has a...
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ConceptsI am a practising metalsmith, using precious and non-precious metals, and leatherworker, working mainly with hide. The two areas occasional meet to combine metal and leather, however, at the moment I develop work separately in the two disciplines. The techniques I use in metal can inform how I work in leather and vice versa. My...
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Artist statement The work shows the historic grandeur of an unfamiliar civilisation; the location, language and temporal context of which is unclear. The works springs from a passion in language and communication through imagery from my personal difficulties within modern society which result from my Dyslexia and expressive Dyspraxia. The...
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My work is concerned with the media of light and the way it is perceived visually and mentally. I am drawn to the non-tangible nature of light, and how it can become part of the atmosphere - in other words, how it can become a physical presence. My focus relates to the manipulation and control of light within an environment, in particular the...
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Ian Rawlinson is an artist based in Manchester and Course Leader of MA Fine Art at Manchester School of Arty. Since the late nineties he has exhibited his work in galleries throughout the UK and abroad most notably holding solo shows at Chisenhale Gallery, London 2001 and The Agency Contemporary, London 2005, he was also a contributor to the...
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