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Julie Myers specialises in a variety of time-based media including video and sound installation, single-screen, web, mobile and interactive technologies. Her work is informed by social encounter, participation and intervention. This can be just a brief moment captured between strangers, or a collaboration with multiple participants simultaneously...
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Deborah Beeson is kind of a self-confessed house wife in a traditional sense. A bit like the sort of types of our mothers' generation that one would have thought almost have died out. She loves making things with love. She embroiders, makes jam, waiters, cocoons around her family and her rural community. Attracted by WRI rituals she involves...
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Anthea Hamilton's practice is a performative one. Often creating environments in which to stage her work, Hamilton reflects upon the notion of a 'gendered' or 'sensualised' space, with her sculptural compositions making use of differing elements, incorporating ready-made or found objects, ephemera and drawings that highlight particular aesthetic...
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BEYOND THE FOREST Born in London in 1973, Clare Richardson studied in Bristol for her BA, worked as an assistant for several leading fashion photographers including Liz Collins and Rankin, before returning to fine art practice. To date, her projects have explored marginal communities rooted in the idyllic and mythical; social groups...
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Nick Crowe is concerned with the effect that technology, cultural conventions, man-made and natural phenomena have on our lives today. Recent work has been particularly involved with an examination of the impact of the internet as an agent of social change, often alongside a use of glass as a contemporary artistic material. In his 'Aer Lingus'...
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The Meeting and the Journey In Courbet's painting 'The Meeting' (1854), Courbet chances upon his patron, Gustave Alfred Bruyas and his servant Calas, on a road outside Montpellier. The painting depicts their respective social stature through their clothing and pose, with Courbet, the less wealthy artisan, commenting on the nature of the art...
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During 2005-06 I have been working on a series of small acrylic paintings on board. I mix pigment with modelling paste and apply with a trowel to physically embody colour in compacted layers that build and active flat matt surface. Brushwork has been relegated to providing a tooth for this process and can only be seen on the sides of each board....
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My work embraces technology and also questions it, touching on current issues of which the super information highway rules. I uses simple, sometimes fun, recognisable objects reworking them to portray complex issues, posing questions about seduction, the blurring of boundaries, manipulation and the loss of the real. The work is portrayed via...
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ConceptsI'm concerned with exploring the process of drawing/mark making, around and beyond two dimensions, involving movement of place, duration of time and selection of sound and imagery. In 'Tracing Manhattan' (December 2003) I drew a line down Broadway the length of Manhattan Island, in 'Walking Drawing' (June 2004). I revisited Fulton and...
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Concepts My paintings are of simplified images using flat colour and hard edges. This style of painting suits my interest in architecture, buildings and structure. I use household gloss paints as the colours are vibrant polished and crisp appearance. InfluencesThe urban environment, city scapeCareer pathQualifications: 2001 BA Hons, Fine...
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ConceptsI'm fascinated with the city at night. In the dark the urban streets come alive with the crude lights of our making. It is these neon and sodium flares, recorded by the camera that form the marks of my work. I'm experimenting with the photograph, trying to create abstract images. Move the photo away from a method of record, towards...
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My work can be seen in the context of neo-conceptual artistic practices which play with and interrogate images, sounds, objects and texts through processes of collage, appropriation and multiple association. In individual work and collaborative practice with Steve Dutton I have introduced animals into the art making process. This includes video...
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Concepts My work is concerned with the opportunities for visual art in the urban environment. I work in collaboration with architects and planners on urban regeneration projects and new building developments. I combine working to commission with lead artist roles where I develop strategies which include a team of artists and manage...
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For his final show at the Slade, David Henningham has created a complex installation which sits precariously on the border between fiction and reality. Animal themed curiosities sit in a series of hand crafted display cabinets, books perch open on a shelf and an intricate poster titled Dinocerata (terrible horn mammals) is positioned high on the...
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Matthew Cowan's practice is in the realm of traditional British customs and culture. His work combines elements of photography, video, installation and performance to reflect the joyous ceremony of the folk world. Recent pieces have tapped into the English folk identity, and play with a broader English obsession with its own uneasiness about its...
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Concepts There have been two major changes to my overall practice as an applied artist and jeweller. As a Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art I investigated and then expanded my use of computer-aided design (CAD) and rapid prototyping. Out of this work flowed a major collaborative research project to investigate requirements...
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“She is playing with the imperceptible changes, which are the features of our closest surroundings and hardly ever noticed” Dr. Peter Brinkemper on artist’s work “Fraser’s work focuses on memory… a total immersion in her surroundings, interior and exterior merging into an intimate impression of place” Jack Mattram...
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Paul Klee said, 'A line is a dot that went for a walk'. In the case of Alex Dunn's drawings he has taken himself for a walk with a 3B pencil. This is art characterised by control and restraint. Using only an ordinary grey graphite pencil and a sheet of paper, at no point does the artist allow an element of representation or emotion to creep into...
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Gary O'Connor mixes fiction with reality to create a varied practice that includes writing, installation, sound, video, and sculpture. 'Historical facts have always intrigued me', he says 'and at the end of the day, these are best told as stories. With time, facts can be subjected to the same treatment as fiction: they become myth and legend … a...
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Born in Rochford in 1982 and brought up in Southend, Tris Vonna-Michell is a young artist whose name might initially appear to sit uneasily with his Essex background. Yet with a rapidly burgeoning career that has developed through the popularity of his mixture of storytelling, performance and installation, and the construction of personal...
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For Eva Merz it is life that is the art. Ordinary people's life, whether shop keepers, street skaters, homeless people or council estate dwellers. Her methodology is signified by participant observation, approaches that were inhabited by our classic anthropologists. Employing a range of methods, like informal interviews, direct observation,...
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Cry Me Cats and Dogs* Performing Rights Glasgow, Sunday 10 February 2008. Tramway, Glasgow. Performing Rights Glasgow is the third event of its kind, following previous appearances in Vienna (2007) and London (2006). Devoted to ideas around performance and human rights, it was curated in collaboration with the Live Art Development...
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Graves Gallery, Sheffield, 19 January – 29 March 2008 The narrative urge within contemporary art is inevitably different to the symbolism and storytelling impulses of the past, whose purpose was in part to supplement and reinforce the message of existing and accepted mythologies or ideologies. Less...
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Since graduating in 2003 Malawi-born Samson Kambalu has been awarded The Decibel Artists Award, been featured in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2004 and had been described by The Guardian Newspaper, as one of the seven artists to colour the future of British art. He has recently been nominated for the Fritschy Award, 2006, in The Netherlands. ...
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Through the manipulation of conditions inherent to the monocular vision of the camera I set up experiments/investigations that centre around a line that exists either in or on the image. The line can be understood as a marker of space, control and measurement as well as a metaphor for a line of enquiry. I am interested not only in the continuity...
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My jewellery is made from acrylic and anodised aluminium. The findings are handmade from silver or surgical stainless steel. Colour is high quality acrylic paint with gold and silver leaf. My training is in fine art painting and I have worked with colour in jewellery in order to bring my liking for colour and form into a size that may be worn. The...
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Trees and wood are a theme that has run through my life. As a child living in rural Hertfordshire I was happiest running wild and free in the surrounding woodlands. Our family moved to the Isle of Arran in Scotland where my step-father, sculptor David Gilbert opened my eyes to art, and wood sculpture. Love of the out-doors lead me to employment...
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Concepts My overwhelming interest is with the human figure and condition, and the individual's place in society. From the 80's I became increasingly involved in making work for large outdoor sites but even so the work stressed the importance of the individual within society and the need for private, physical, mental and emotional...
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