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One of the perennial criticisms levelled at the white cube gallery is its dissociative relationship with the ‘real world’. By minimizing any unnecessary detail, removing distractions and presenting a blank environment, the gallery isolates the artwork from the very source it came from. While this often gives the viewer a purer...
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Sarah Sabin Wall Excavation, 2002 Selected by Charlie Levine Archives, collections, found/discarded objects, hidden histories are pieces of puzzles that artist Sarah Sabin enjoys discovering, dissecting and putting back together again. ...
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My practice is cross-disciplinary, often incorporating elements of performance, installation and film. My work tends to be non-gallery-based and is site-specific – each project tailored to suit the space I am working in and the communities of people that I bring together to form unique collaborations. My work is usually temporary in its...
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At first glance, Will Woon’s practice may seem rooted rather soberly in the traditional, in its references to classical sculpture and notable historical figures. While this is true, it doesn’t take long for an inquisitive viewer to spot another level of meaning where his idiosyncrasies and obscure nuttiness are at play. His...
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Eric Fong is a London-based artist and former physician, having practised in Canada as a doctor for over twenty years. His conceptual approach uses various media including video, photography, sculpture and live art to explore issues relating to medicine, the body, and disability, informed both by his former profession and increasingly by his...
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Open Frequency ProfileRebecca Morrill, Head of Collector Development, North East at the Contemporary Art Society and Producer of AV Festival, profiles the work of shortlisted Northern Art Prize artist Richard Rigg.Richard Rigg combines conceptual ideas, humour and melancholy with accomplished craftsmanship to produce engaging,...
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Sally Sheinman is interested in human nature and the way people react to and interact with visual art. Her projects in recent years have invited the public to take part in her work, largely relying on their interaction to make the project complete.Trained as a painter, there is always a painting element to every idea she embarks on, though...
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Nicola Kelly explores photography’s relationship with vernacular portraiture, death, and the memento mori. Her photographic images and installations are densely coded with both explicit and implicit references to the history of photography and photographic theories on indexicality and the uncanny.This is particularly evident in the work she...
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Artist and writer Gordon Dalton gives us an insight into the work of Alistair Owen, a recent graduate of Cardiff School of Art and Design. You walk into an empty room: four walls, one window and the door you just came in through. There is no furniture, or anything at all to speak of. If you haven’t walked straight back out, you...
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Gordon Dalton is equally fascinated and disappointed with our surrounding culture. This shifts uncomfortably between attempts at greatness and contentment with a more sedate way of life. Dalton's work utilises this acute identity crisis, playing in the gaps between our aspirations and circumstances, the everyday and the mythic, and between success...
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Jenny Dunseath studied Fine Art Sculpture at Winchester School of Art (1998-2001) followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London (2002-2005). Her work employs an architectural and hermetic language of form, and is an exploration of personal and collective process. Each sculpture appears to have a...
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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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For Eva Merz it is life that is the art. Ordinary people's life, whether shop keepers, street skaters, homeless people or council estate dwellers. Her methodology is signified by participant observation, approaches that were inhabited by our classic anthropologists. Employing a range of methods, like informal interviews, direct observation,...
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David Cushway is fascinated with clay as a material and it's intrinsic connection to all aspects of our lives. From birth, day-to-day living, and to death, clay and the ceramic process has been fundamental to our cultural existence since the first human beings developed the skills to use it. The sublime, in relation to the landscape, is a...
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Andrea Roe's work examines the nature of human and animal biology, behaviour, communication and interaction within specific ecological contexts. Several residencies have introduced her to different types of institutions, ranging from the Wellcome Trust to the Crichton Psychiatric Hospital, Dumfries, where she learned about and responded to...
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Glasgow-based artist Sally Osborn (b. 1963) identifies her own practice to be two-fold, driven jointly by the process of research and the process of making. A vocabulary of her interests evolves through the acquirement of knowledge and an ability to make connections between seemingly random things. Her work is a study of subjectivity, of...
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