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Ravishing Beauty: The Aesthetics of Rape in Grace Ndiritu's video Desert Storm, by Caroline Bagenal for After Image Magazine, Issue 39, 1&2, 2011 Desert Storm (2004) is a disturbing and powerful video by the young British artist Grace Ndiritu. In this haunting reminder of war's female casualties, Ndiritu addresses war and rape as a tool...
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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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Using mixed media, video and photography my work explores concepts of narrative and memory. I am interested in how our inner perceptions create patterns in the external world
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My art practice has evolved over time; initial activity was in ceramics and this endeavour, which was primarily concerned with a dialogue about the form and nature of the vessel has, over the years, given way to work based primarily in video or in multi-media installations that employ projections, sound and a variety of other three dimensional...
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I am essentially concerned with the exploration of paint onto canvas and my relationship to it, its application and the dynamics thereof. Working with the process of addition and subtraction, movement, memory and energy, while evolving a series of paintings concurrently. I feel one of the many roles of an artist is to challenge peoples...
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Concepts I am a painter based in Scotland, my work ranges from large scale abstract colourfield painting to smaller figurative work.  "Rowena unleashes a powerful emotional force in a positive life enhancing aesthetic. An aesthetic in painting that is informed by vibrating colour relationships and formal balancing. The tension...
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Sculptural practice and thought allows a very real exploration of the physical world. All its aspects fascinate me. My work is fuelled by diverse sources and open patterns of thought. Current work explores extremes of visibility, experience, material nature, location and situation. Time’s relationship with matter is a recurrent interest...
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Concept  I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed my degree at Camberwell School of Art London where my work explored photography and film/video slide projected installations , computer art and sculptural relief making and stained glass. I then wanted to push and explore these mediums further through...
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My sculptural work is abstract in nature and reflects my interest in the collection and reuse of everyday materials sourced from my immediate surroundings. These materials are used to explore and develop mixed media works which contain elements of archaeology and archival records. The individual pieces are bright and colourful and make use...
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'Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.' Luis Bunuel, filmmakerMy practice is concerned with the fragmentary nature of memory and identity. The work is informed by an interrogation of the physical world through drawing, painting, photographing/filming and through collecting...
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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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Initially studied drawing and printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, 1995. Whilst searching for interesting surfaces to print upon, I experimented with paper pulps and became absorbed with the making of and process of hand cast paper. The process underpinned work for my degree and I used richly dyed paper for a series of dynamic printed hangings...
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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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My main creative interest is the production of experimental film and sound design. The themes of my moving image work vary from project to project although more recently they centre around the natural world and the way we interpret and experience.
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My work reflects my personal experience of architecture and urban design. I spend a lot of time looking at and photographing details of buildings and architectural landscaping, to use as source material. In my current work I am interested in how art is often integrated into urban design at all levels, from public art commissions to architectural...
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I have a strong affinity with the landscape, archaeology and culture of the north and west of Scotland. I am interested in the relationship between the human and cosmic and the notion of time itself. Cosmic time is on a vastly different scale to everything human and the contemplation of the human/cosmic juxtaposition alters our perception of...
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My work is engaging with notions of travel and/or displacement. I am working with diegetic approaches to image, performance, text and sound. Central to my practice is the desire to ‘dig-up’ information, re-contextualise it and present it in engaging ways. The focus here is on the complex relations between mobility and identity...
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I am a Glasgow based visual artist, who often makes site specific works using collage techniques and digital media. I recently undertook a year long Digital Media Residency at Callendar Park Falkirk, an SAC Partners residency for Falkirk Council. I worked for two years as a Part time Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art in the Painting Department...
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Miranda Blennerhassett's work focuses on architecture and the perception of urban spaces. Through gaining an understanding of constructed space, and also of utopian attempts to create an idealised urban context in order to produce an idealised urban society, she makes work that references a purity of vision. As a counterpoint to this the works...
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Tumim & Prendergast explore the concepts of our temporal existence and cast-off items we often ignore. Accident and chance also play a part alongside their characteristic humour (often dark). They offer us clues - to research further and of lives lived. (Art historian Lorna Johnston - www.artsbigpicture.com) We are a...
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Agnes Nedregard is exploring how our personal and cultural luggage informs our interpretations of situations, places and people. She places the experience of being a human body at the centre of the work, charging her presence in the world with physical energy, psychological images, actions and symbols. The unpredictability of communication in the...
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Influences Areas of work Early years educationAdult educationCommunity artsCuratingExhibitingHealthcare artsLecturingPractice-based researchPrivate commissionsPublic artResidenciesFundraisingWorkshopsWorking with architectsSpecial needs Collections Museum Albertina, ViennaRupertinum, Museum for Modern...
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Artist statement I have a deep attachment to the island on which I live, which has informed my work during the development of identifying my relationship between self and place. This attachment was created by spending time alone outside immersing myself in the landscape, really observing and recording what I see, hear, feel, smell and touch as...
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One of the world's leading engravers, with work in public, royal and private collections throughout Europe, America and the Far East. The glass ranges from small intimate pieces, to architectural installations which incorporate light and colour. A recipient of many awards and winner of many competitions, her contribution was recognised in 1997,...
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The physicality of sculpture, from the making process to the finished work, plays and integral part in shaping my practice. Environmental and architectural elements, along with material properties, aesthetic qualities and the manipulation of scale, are all important factors in my work. My public commissioned work has a strong connection to site...
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The Cilliní Project The Cilliní Project started in 2009 when I was awarded a Heinrich Böll residency on Achill Island, County Mayo where I first became acquainted with the Cilliní, the un-baptised infant burial grounds also known as, lisín, ceallúnach, calluragh, and caldragh - found scattered throughout...
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I experiment with liquid materials (paints, varnishes, oils) to explore the marks they produce and their physicality. My work can be construed as painting, sculpture or installation. Glossy spillages which are shiny, seductive and reflective in their simplicity contrast paint stained paper marks which give illusions of depth and complexity....
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The work focuses on the fragility and limits of drawing as a medium, looking at the boundary between mark and support, where one merges into the other. Through earlier pieces the work questions how we perceive it, as a drawing or as a sculpture? In more recent works this idea has developed where the work emphasises the trace of a mark, appearing...
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‘The Acute Disaster’ (2012) is a short film comprising extracts of archive material that range from super 8 footage of Trade Union marches, to grainy black and white documentation of civilians running through the streets, ruined buildings and bomb sites, and bodies lying face down on the ground. The footage of the marches appears to be...
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The primary concern in my work is the tension between the natural and industrial environment, which I have explored in a variety of mediums, but with a particular interested in drawing. My layered drawings explore the boundaries between realism and abstraction through experimental, deconstructive techniques for generating...
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My inspiration is modern architecture, innovative use of materials ,form, function and surface. I produce unique one-off metalwork pieces for interior public/domestic spaces and for exhibition. The larger scale work including public art work is made to commission. Influences include product designers Achille Castiglioni, Phillipe Starck and...
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