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In 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll, Alice finds that her imaginative musings about the Looking-glass House do more than fill a dull afternoon; they open up a portal to another world. Her adventures start with the familiarity of her drawing room, but lead her through the looking-glass into a world where anything could happen...
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Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist curator based at Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK. He curated and instigated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and more recently the David Shrigley solo show titled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse, (2012-2013). “My art practice is interdisciplinary...
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I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family's long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by. I am interested in ways that we work with or against nature; how we react and intervene,...
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Based at Bankley Studios, Manchester, working in a broad interdisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, the moving image and ever emerging technologies, Gary James Williams enquires into the creative potentials of the narrative structure in coming to terms with the everyday and real-world phenomena in contemporary art practice....
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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Addressing the chronologies and legacies of pioneer Modernism Karl's work is a testament to the integrity and invention of that visionary era, an attempt to recapitulate the revolutionary spirit to invoke memories of how the future used to be. Utilising the detritus of our post-industrial landscape Karl attempts to transform the ordinary into...
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CONCEPT Nicola Dale's imaginative work puts her at the forefront of contemporary artists who re-imagine the role of the printed text. (1) What does knowledge look like? My practice visualises the acquisition of knowledge – how I capture, process and understand what I read. I imagine what a particular piece of knowledge might look like and...
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Concepts My practice explores the enigma of our existence, revealed in our ways of being, our relationship with our environs and the marks we leave behind. I am an innate researcher who has not lost the child-like curiosity and wonder about the world. I take risks and confront boundaries both in concept and materials so my work is not a surface...
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My work is informed by the ethos of Process Art where the "creative sentiment is superseded by the process of the formation of art...moreover the initiation of actions and procedings" and revolves around irregular apropriation of technologies and it's effects on the formal qualities of contemporary image making. Constrained by the...
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My practice uses incidental recordings, photography, ensembles of objects and pre-recorded happenings to capture the structures, happenings and social relationships that I chance upon in the city. They already have their own forms and rhythms and music and it is these that I frame as a witness of what I have seen and heard. As Cage says,...
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Using objects appropriated from cartoons as a starting point, Vincent James makes artwork across a range of media including painting, sculpture and animation. In this work props dislocated from different cartoon worlds collide, creating surreal and whimsical interactions. James’ sampling of popular culture and separation of objects from...
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I am a sculptor and environmental artist whose main interest over the last few years has been in art in public places. I have worked throughout the UK as well as overseas in both urban and rural landscapes, indoors and outdoors, and have made sculptures which have been both permanent and temporary. My sculpture is site-specific in that it relates...
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Normal 0 0 1 280 1599 Akam Power 13 3 1963 10.2006 0 0 0 The work employs a combination of drawing, painting, and collage. The marks are initially produced quite freely as drawings with a loose and semi organised structure of marks and lines. These are then systematically cut and rearranged as horizontal strips...
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With an interdisciplinary practice, I utilise the media and format most appropriate to the ideas and concepts being expressed with outcomes varying from 2D work through to video, installation and site-specific work. Thematically the work is predominantly concerned with exploring the machinations of the human mind, in all its guises, whether it is...
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Over the last ten years I have been making large scale, mandala-like Spirograph drawings. The series of works continues to grow; like the obsessive process itself, it is difficult to stop despite the harm that such a repetitive action has on my body. In the most recent Spirograph drawings the single cell-like structures begin to morph into each...
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Over the last six years my work has focused on using different forms of glass, exploring its physical qualities and inherent dualities; hardness and fragility, solid and transparent. I am drawn to the liminal region between sculpure and glassmaking, challenging the bourndaries of how the material can be used. Glassmaking for me is a process of...
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Owl Project is a collaborative group of artists consisting of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. They work with wood and electronics to fuse sculpture and sound art, creating music making machines, interfaces and objects which intermix pre-steam and digital technologies. Drawing on influences such as 70s synthesiser culture, DIY...
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ConceptsIn the past my stone sculpture work has been inspired by the fields of archaeology and geology. My sculptures were abstract experiments in 'unearthing' forms using the ancient material of stone. I have also explored figurative carving as I am frequently inspired by stone sculpture work from history which I can learn from to inform my...
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Questions and Paradoxes, Enigmas and Wonders; excerpts from 'the Manifesto of a 'Global Village'-Idiot'.What is art? Why am I an artist? I’ll answer the second question first, as I think I know the answer to it; whereas it’s harder to be sure about the first. I am an artist because I feel the need to make art. But surly...
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Career Path I established my practice in 1996, a year after attaining a BA (Hons) in three dimensional design. With grants from the PYBT & Business Link the practice grew and developed. To add to the success I was awarded a travel scholarship from the Winston Churchill Trust in 1998 which enabled me to study at the prestigious...
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Annie Carpenter is based at Rogue Studios in Manchester where she co-curates the Rogue Project Space along with Taneesha Ahmed. Her work often takes the form of performative videos and sculptural objects, and is concerned with artistic productivity, astronomy, entropy, and time. She approaches art-making scientifically – by repeating tasks,...
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My practice draws inspiration from man, nature and our reconnection, and encompasses exploration, experimentation, heritage, sustainability and responses to surroundings and situations. Projects are diverse but the central theme remains. In 2008 I graduated MA Art as Environment from Manchester Metropolitan University and importantly my work...
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Concepts My underlying motivation has always been to create inspiring ways for people to participate in my work, from collaboration in design development to involvement in finished public sculptures. Each commission is uniquely site specific, developed through widespread community consultation and research into local geographical, architectural,...
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For the past two years my main area of interest has been the body and the issues that surround human and animal relationships. With these, I have developed a number of themes, which look at our unlikely encounters with animals in everyday environments, for example, animals as meat, monstrous forms, animals in urban spaces. I have explored the...
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The methods of creation I use are always simple, that I can do myself using basic tools such as glue, thread and scalpels, to create, or more often, create changes in objects. The 'alterations' I make stem from innocent observations, double meanings, or taking the meaning of something literally. I am guided by the material or object and what it...
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Central to our work is the belief that art can be transformative and nourishing; whether we are creating a large public art commission or facilitating an interactive community arts project. Our recently Arts Council funded project, The Chandelier of Lost Earrings is now collecting 'lost earrings', an earring amnesty if you will, to create this...
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Tenneson and Dale's artwork explores the link between the Houses of Parliament (the epitome of order); the Minimalist movement (the ordered, pure art) and the various forms of public information signage (the physical manifestation of order). THE ORDER ORDER MANIFESTO The manifesto is the workThe work is the manifesto...The...
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Ruth Moilliet produces highly finished metal and glass sculptures inspired by the plant kingdom. In her work she aims to draw the viewer's attention to both the overall spectacle and individual beauty of a flower.Her work is inspired by her close study of a particular species and the beautiful, intricate forms she discovers. The finished...
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Susie MacMurray is a Manchester-based artist, whose work encompasses drawing, sculpture, performance and architectural installations. Working mainly in installation and sculpture, she has a reputation for site-specific interventions in historic spaces which resulted in her being nominated for the Northern Art Prize in 2007. Her work frequently...
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