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A Visual Discourse on Maternity Installations and Subverted ObjectsMy current art making practice is a three dimensional visual exploration of the dilemma of what it means to inhabit a female body. It is the female body alone I feel that defines woman as different from man and therefore I have chosen by necessity to distill “female” to...
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Garry Barker has been exploring the possibilities of narrative image making for over 30 years. His work is a continuous ongoing set of interconnected stories that have evolved as an autobiographical fiction. Sometimes walking and drawing and talking to establish starting points for stories and images, at other times writing and drawing as a...
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I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with the...
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Emma Bolland cr Emma Bolland creates nightmarish yet fantastical installations, using light and negative images, whether in the form of silhouettes or the removal or blanking out of the information from images that we rely on for their readability. Often mundane objects are weaved together into fairytale landscapes where - just like the fables of...
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My practice sits across the boundary between originality and plagiarism – making use of text and images which already exist, and altering them using a variety of methods. Taking literature as my main point of reference, I question notions of reading, comprehension, the form of the book and authorial ownership, as well as thoughts on...
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Concepts Spanton's practice is cross-disciplinary. Based in Leeds , her work embraces performance, video, photography, dance, sculpture and text. Her solo and collaborative projects are seen in a range of different contexts: such as, movement-led works in a live art setting, site-specific dance installations, performative...
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Artists' Books: Boxed, bottled and booked works reappraise and explore our interdependent relationship with nature and the landscape. My work falls into specific areas of interest, each containing a series of books. TAKING THE WATERS - BEACH DRIFTING - RIVER THINKING - PLACE Works sold at the contemporary artists book fairs,Leeds,...
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I make simple work and seek to capture light, emotion and how people live and work. I like to keep beauty on my side: I welcome chance encounters.For several years I have been developing an artistic practice involving the documentation of industry - coal mining, textiles, banking, engineering and iron making - and the landscapes and lives and raw...
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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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