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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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My practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, I aim to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon my works' Romanticism but also its schizophrenic...
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I graduated in 1997 from Norwich University College of the Arts. I have work in the Welcome Trust Collection and with private collectors. I have exhibited in including the RBS Gallery, Leeds City Gallery, the Cornerhouse in Manchester and the Saatchi Gallery. I have held residencies in High Royds and Rampton Hospital. I work with drawing,...
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Antony Hall creates discrete objects that attempt to defy entropy, harnessing elements of potential or kinetic energy and self-perpetuation. His work explores mechanical or fluid motion as well as biological phenomenon such as the behavior of animals. These works are often miniscule or apparently simple; yet invite closer observation...
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Alex Pearl makes mini epic films, video installations, sculpture and books. Throughout his work there is a sense of an acceptance of failure or disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Using readily available materials and software the films are made from: suddenly apprehended ideas, discovered objects and impromptu processes....
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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Steve Dutton is an artist who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He has been working closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. He has also enjoyed working in the past with artists Alec Shepley and Steve Hawley and is currently making...
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I met with Lucienne Cole on the 2nd May 2007 in a dark studio room in the heart of Birmingham, her current home. Lucienne and I shared a number of interests, the power of pop, the relationship between pop music and art, off-site interventions and art in social spaces. We had a lot to share, here are the highlights...This interview is available...
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In 'Bird Gesture' (2008) a woman stands in the centre of a busy shopping precinct. Around her are the signs of urban conformity and consumerism. The sun casts a shadow from one of the nearby trees, one of only a few in this non-place, which could be just about anywhere in the UK. In her cupped hands she holds a tiny bird. The bird is...
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Biography: I spent the first 30 years of my life in Alexandria, Egypt where I was taught to paint and draw by my uncle, Egyptian painter Ibrahim Tanbouli, from the tender age of 2 years old. I started formal education in art and design in 1989 for 5 years. I studied many things which I've rarely practised, such as interior design, theatrical...
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Jo Dacombe's current interests include mapping, walking, connections, public space, modes of travel, change and sense of place.  Jo's approach is engaged practice in the public realm to create a dialogue about the experience of space and place. Developing from her original practice as a painter, Jo now uses art interventions through a variety...
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Simon Le Ruez is a sculptor and installation artist who also uses drawing and video. His eclectic mix of materials and media produce scenarios where themes of longing, concealment, transgression and release are played out, often underscored by dark humour, knowing impenetrability and an emotional charge. Forms of opposition and the notion of...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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Nullius in Verba1 By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible World discovered to the understanding. By this means the Heavens are open'd, and a vast number of new Stars,...
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Mikhail Karikis Handmade Sunrise, 2000Mikhail Karikis fell in love with the organ because as a boy he never heard it. In his native Greece, where he studied classical music, no musical instruments are allowed in religious services, because the Greek Orthodox Church believes that only the human voice...
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Fictional Landscapes in the Work of Matthew Askey, Matthew Burrows and Rui Matsunaga. Matthew Burrows Baptism, 2005 ...
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Fictional Landscapes in the Work of Matthew Askey, Matthew Burrows and Rui Matsunaga. Matthew Burrows Baptism, 2005 ...
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Simon Le Ruez 'Any Given Sunday (Bike and Bootlace)'2004 Net curtain, plaster,tea and ink the artist 2005  Rachel Goodyear ...
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