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My main concern is merging the body within the landscape.  Each painting is an attempt to fuse these together within the pictorial space, sensitively questioning their unity.  The space ends up complex, abstracted, distilled into lines, shapes and organic patterns.  These paintings are explored with feeling.  The paint and...
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My practice explores the notion of a dualistic distinction between the mental and physical realms as understood in spatial terms, and furthermore, my reading of spatial perception as being the active straddling of these two states as an experienced condition of connection, disconnection and flux.This interest stems from my personal experience of...
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I use found imagery often from You Tube or the Internet as source material for my drawings. These clips and images range from holiday snaps, images of motorways, planes or images taken from a car window or caravan. In a society where the computer and the screen is so central to our lives I am interesting in exploring how his technology is...
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The body and its relationship to the space that surrounds it inspire my sculpture. Absence and Presence are recurrent themes within my work as these sculptures are the physical depiction of the negative space around the figure. I have recently used resin to make sculptures of stiletto shoes that include an impression of the wearer's feet....
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Concepts Bettina Furnée's practice is rooted in notions of site and uses language as a primary material. Her works in the public realm derive from an interest in the identity, history and future of a given place, and the way in which language relates to a location. Works are developed through research and in collaboration with local...
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My pictures derive from a delight in the world around. A play on the mundane and everyday reality we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic, some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind, nurture and reassure us in a world...
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The work explores the push and pull between surface and space; surface existing as something we see, the space being something we experience. The process of layering and deliberate instinctive mark making induces forms to rise to the surface of the image, whilst forcing others back, leaving others to hover in a confounding space between the...
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Concepts My work is constantly seeking opportunities for experimentation and new ways to present my ideas derived from different cultures - the common links as well as the vast differences which exist in the world.The unpredictability of the batik medium, especially on silk, inevitably provides an exciting challenge. The fluidity of the...
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Marina Velez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cambridge, UK.Marina's work is concerned with issues surrounding people's behaviour and how they influence their environment. She is also interested in visual information and how it is communicated and she regularly uses photography and film to explore these.Marina draws from other...
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As an artist I have always been fascinated by the idea of using paint to transmit a feeling, atmosphere or state of mind, using paint to add layered dimensions and depth that go beyond what a photographic image would present.My other near obsession involves the craftsmanship of oil painting, a medium that never stops surprising you and allows for...
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Currently, my work uses the media of painting, drawing and photography. With an initial training in painting I moved onto photography as the only medium for several years. During that time I developed an extensive body of work which was eventually exhibited primarily in London, with most prominent shows at the Museum of London and the South...
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Artist's StatementThere are 3 main strands to my practice, drawing, printmaking and bookworks. Each of these fulfils a different purpose, although they are all inter-related.Drawing, for me, is concerned with interrogating the visual world around me. Sometimes this will take the form of finished drawings or compositions, sometimes of more...
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Ideas of memory, fragility and transition run through my work, through the use of fragile materials such as ash, dust, reflections in water and also the imagery within painted ephemeral family portraits and translucent portraits that I have crafted from old photographs which are placed on glass.I make ethereal veils as masks of my family ancestors...
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My practice spans the disciplines of writing, publishing, installation, and film. My work examines the parameters of sense-making and explores means to induce lapses in ordinary consciousness. My research begins from my interests in the limits of thinking, alternative cosmologies, crossed genres, the desire to exit culture, and the loss or...
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My work is often raw, immediate and provocative. I use film and the editing process to tell stories which carry powerful personal meaning. Film is exciting because it allows us to —examine ourselves, imitate ourselves, extend ourselves, reshape our reality right into the abstract. As a filmmaker/curator/installation artist I explore...
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The work sets out to articulate a haptic approach to the rediscovery of heterogeneous spaces, their construction and habitation. By means of transversals, the artist-explorer enacts new encounters with the surrounding environment, the potentiality of its functions and the socio-political encryptions residing within it. The artist, as well as the...
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I work in a range of media but predominately Film/Video, Painting and Photography. The media I use for each piece work is dependant on visual qualities and what I wish to communicate.Past work has focused on looking closer at the natural world as well as a more typically perceived viewpoint. Incorporating ambiguous elements through abstract means...
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Living and working in Cambridge, I am a founder member of Irregular Circle - an artists' partnership providing workshops in the Cambridge area - and this is the present focus of my activities. My own work has two distinct strands. My work in textiles examines notions of identity, motherhood and the female role, using traditional textile...
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Since graduating from a Fine Art Degree four years ago, I have continued to experiment with materials. This has led to a flexibility in the way I work, sometimes creating large instillations and at other moments small drawings. I am continuing to develop and fine tune my practice, running self driven projects and organising group shows.My...
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My work explores textiles as text, as site of family history and as colouring identity. Commonplace phrases and proverbs are key as is the Buddhist concept of the void. The dialogue between something and nothing informs the materiality of the things I make; loose ends offer balance between the two. Eva Hesse showed me how to move away from the...
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The Boudoir of the Burlesque Performer My work investigates a complexity of issues about the representation of the contemporary female with emphasis on the Burlesque Stage Performer. This naturally led onto questioning the idea of play between photographer, private space, intimacy, fantasy and the real, as well as the mystic of the performer...
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