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A unique collaboration between an artist, a composer and a sleep researcher has resulted in a concert by a 'Sky Orchestra' that ascended at dawn on the 23 June to perform a new composition at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. This project has been devised by artist and Arts and Humanities...
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Juneau/Projects/ is the moniker adopted by Birmingham-based artists Philip Duckworth and Ben Sadler who began their collaboration in 2001, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Their work engages with people and folk histories bringing together music and found imagery in new interactive configurations, often produced in rural settings. ...
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Concepts I have always made domestic pottery although over time the decoration has become the most distinctive aspect of my work. This decoration is predominantly representational - farmyard poultry and fish are favourite themes. I am now seeking to simplify the decoration and at the same time bring more pattern to the figurative...
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Concepts Most of my work is made in silver but I often add texture or other metals such as red gold to provide warmth. I also introduce colour with small pieces of titanium or beads and use different polishing techniques such as high polished and satin polished to give contrast. Recent work has been influenced by shapes found in...
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Freee Art Collective How to talk to public art - No experts, 2006 ...
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'Routes' explores the permeability of monocultures and specifically how a Park & Ride (P&R) bus route might be perceived as alien and detached from its surroundings, offering only one service to its customers. Pinsky engages with P& R users views and aspirations, re-considers the schemes connections with...
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Josephine Flynn arrived at her graduation ceremony in cap and gown with both hands heavily bandaged. When her name was called from the list she approached the platform and stretched out a hand to receive the degree certificate and customary handshake. On noticing her bandaged hands the gentleman making the presentation stooped and whispered in...
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The ideas for bell sculptures began when I heard my neighbour ring the church bells all day after the movement restrictions were lifted on my parish at the end of the Foot and Mouth outbreak.  This was  the first time they had rung in six months.  This series of  sculptures began with me making a bell that can be rung by anyone...
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Bruce Sharp works with video and sound to explore the performative potential of drawing. His recent exhibition as an MA Drawing graduate at Camberwell College of Art comprised of a sequence of short video pieces. Each video 'sketch' explores the act/action of drawing, using himself or others as physical instruments, creating movement or leaving...
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The inspiration for my works often comes whilst travelling. Concentrating on the details of a passing moment, a view from a train across dry plains, fields of drooping sunflowers, angular mountains with tiny villages perched like a nests on jutting outcrops or a group of old men talking in a square, I see the magic in the ordinary. Sometimes its...
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My current work interrogates human attempts to define and order nature. It asks how our position in relation to the natural world has evolved according to the fashions of scientific and artistic enquiry. One of the ways it does this is by exploring the juncture between abstraction and ornamentation (Modernism and historicism). I see both of these...
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My practice is research driven, excavating an eco-aesthetic focused upon passive non-invasive collaborations with nature's self-regulating processes. The underlying philosophy for much of my work is the re-enchantment of nature - giving nature a voice, via a collaborative synthesis with the artist, moving away from the artist's representation...
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My work engages with the limits of photographic representation and its potentialities. For me, this can mean creating impermanent installations either in the studio or in a given place (in the current work, the Mediterranean landscape). These itineraries record my physical movement and intervention into the place or onto objects. It is a memory...
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Concepts The concept of space, both actual and pictorial, have been common concerns within two somewhat contrasting bodies of work. The New York paintings took on a non-specific, but very real identity, replete with implications of time and place. The fine line which separates figuration and abstraction continues in work stimulated by the West...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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In 1998 I visited Greenland with the intention of producing a body of work that would somehow communicate something of the incredulous reality of life in such a harsh environment. The resulting body of work - 'Sea & Sky' is in fact a very peaceful description of my own response to the impossible distance, personal history and culture placed...
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Fictional Landscapes in the Work of Matthew Askey, Matthew Burrows and Rui Matsunaga. Matthew Burrows Baptism, 2005 ...
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I make humanistic sculpture in stone, Bronze and electrical light, mediums which are ancient and modern. The work has always dealt with fertility and a celebration of life forces. My aim is to visually stimulate,engage and reach out, whilst at the same time being reflective and at times contemplative. Surface marks are crucial in setting up this...
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A very assured hand and eye with a film camera, Annmarie Crampton conjures worlds of tenderness, empathy, beauty and humour. Word and image work together well as does the overall presentation. I had the feeling that what was lacking was the requisite self belief or commitment to rigorously follow through an idea (always a fundamental issue when...
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'Essentially my paintings reflect the techno sublime, where information overwhelms the individual, causing a flickering perception of realities.' (Gordon Cheung, 2004). Gordon Cheung (b 1975, London) is interested in the notion of an artificial reality, in the way that the modern world of cyberspace and new technologies has increasingly demanded...
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Follow the trail of links for Ron Haselden on this website, and you will see something of the importance and impact of this artist, particularly in terms of public art. He has a prior nomination on Public Realm, for a piece featured in the 2006 Liverpool Biennale.Anyone involved in major public art projects will appreciate the stamina,...
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From the very start I have been interested in drawing places, both landscape and architecture, the Spirit of Place. This interest has taken me on several travels to foreign lands. But I noticed early on that no matter how far you travel you can only ever find yourself. I did, however, try to portray the essence of places, in that Italy does not...
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ConceptsI am inspired by objects that have an interesting shape, colour, story and symbolic meaning. Currently working on a series of 'pebble' shapes inspired by pieces collected on regular journeys to Cornwall via Northamptonshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon. They focus on the way light moves across the landscape or reflect in water. Each one...
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The willingness and confidence of clay to display stability and strength has enabled the development of large-scale work in ceramics. The work is drawing upon process and visiting this journey through the manipulation and exposure of a material. The cylinder remains the basic shape around which all designs are formulated. The form is fundamentally...
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Art vs. Science I was once struck by a comment overheard in the breakfast queue at a scientific conference on consciousness. A young delegate was propounding his theory of mind to the prominent psychologist Susan Blackmore who, after listening carefully, replied, 'That sounds great, but how can we test it?' 1 As a means of...
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