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I use a unique technique that I have developed to lift off the top layer of surfaces from the built environment. I capture the layers of visual histories imbued in architectural surfaces and re-present slices of our surroundings. I often work with sites that are due to be demolished, documenting histories that would otherwise be lost. The beauty...
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What breathes? (Reflections on the art of Clara S Rueprich by Jan Kuhlbrodt, 2004) In his late work written in the mid-seventies, Experimentum Mundi, Ernst Bloch describes nature simply as the outside, where there is an enigmatic breathing, with the question „what breathes?“ occupying an impersonal gap. The outside definitely...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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My work is abstract and is inspired by landscape and environment.  Strongly characterised by colour, rhythm and movement, I seek to express the excitement of travel and new experiences. Artist statement 'Rhythm' (2007) comes from a body of work made from abandoned derelict artefacts found in a rural environment. In its painted form, this...
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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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My work has always been about my concern with 'being in the world'; 'being' as a human, 'being' as a transient occupant in time, space and condition.   Work begins with the intention to explore and to incorporate possibilities.  The outcome is open-ended to allow room for interpretations.  Sometimes failures play a crucial part in...
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I initially start with the question of how much I can ‘work’ a surface. All the works display a multiplicity of marks (scratching, piercing or drawing) which result in surfaces resonant with the prolonged activity of their own deconstruction. I stop working on the paper when it achieves a state of fragility whereby its coherent form would be...
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Ginny Reed is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production including film, performance, drawing and light and it's effects. The works coincide in contrasting the materiality of actual, depicted and used objects with the materiality of the forms of their representation. Her work explores the accumulation and dispersal of materials and...
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Process is central to my work and intimately linked with my activity as a gardener (I have been running my own plant-specialist garden maintenance company since 2004). My ideas are usually generated by my immediate environment. I may use a prosaic object, an activity or an unusual event as a starting point. I sometimes use live plant material in...
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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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Leanne Bell Gonczarow considers narrative construction and suggestion in relation to time-based phenomena. A driving force of the practice is an exploration of light - as both subject and material.  During an MA in Book Arts an interest was developed in the book as a construct or site in which time can be highlighted and controlled through...
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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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My mainly lens-based “romantic conceptualist” practice responds to fundamental questions of technologies, perception and narrative. I have a particular fascination with contested sites, and use a pseudo-ethnographic method – like a renegade anthropologist – to perform a kind of intellectual fieldwork that engages with the...
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My practice has always had the ethos of making work which costs little or nothing to make. I class myself as a sculptor and although recently my practice has moved away from the making of objects towards digital media. All my work has sculptural elements; recent animations and drawings looked towards extending the flat surface into a three...
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Victoria Ferrand Scott uses a wide range of tools as an artist but thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor. When working in three dimensions her forms are often abstract but with a strong organic character. They do not resemble or imitate anything specific but have their own identity. She works with materials such as plaster...
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Lucy Stevens is an artist whose environmental soundscape art investigates the relationship between humanity and nature. Working with field recordings to produce aural portraits of wildlife in her surroundings, to share as headphone recordings or as art installations. Collecting data from bird watching to produce complex digital visuals to share...
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My practice comprises text, film, sound and performance. It usually draws on what is already available. A lot of my work is driven by an interest in taxonomies and classification systems, and in particular an interest in the illuminations and absurdities that arise as a result of applying classification systems to existing bodies of...
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I’m interested in the exploration of place through the residues and traces of everyday actions.My practice explores instances of unintentional collaboration between people - with a particular focus on the detritus of contemporary urban life. I aim to create work which involves a subtle shift of focus, or transformation, moving the...
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Through an extensive process of research Lloyd create alter egos to enable him to tackle a subject from more than one point of view. These characters interact with each other in videos, installations and performances, where he becomes both the ventriloquist and the dummy. He builds installations that act as sets for his videos as well as a space...
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Wearing black, dissolving myself in black footage and pinning myself down to earth as an icon of human activity by erasing my character, I've made a ‘Secret Performance Series’ of works (ongoing — 2009–2012) exploring and redefining ideas of contemporary myth. These video and photography based performance works record the...
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Having been trained as an engineer, the form and monumentality of architecture and industrial plant has inevitably had a significant bearing on my practice. My work seeks to comment on the world about us and thus takes a political stance. Recent work has looked at the fragility of economic stability, division and subjugation in our society,...
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My work explores the desire to create the perfect presence even if it is only temporary and delusional. Artist statement 'The Delirium of Joy' is an installation work, constructed out of domestic and urban materials. On the wall, as a picturesque backdrop to the projected video component, hangs an idyllic print of an ocean view. Seabirds...
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Selector text Alice Forward's work explores the uneasy psychological and social relationship between man and nature. It traverses the edges of their respective territories where flora and fauna exists despite mans expanding habitat. The latent potential for nature to reassert itself is explored in several works with an implied menace resonant...
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My work examines ways in which digital technology can be used to stimulate new perceptions of museum artefacts. I explored the ceramic collection of the National Museum Wales to investigate ways in which digital 3D scanning and print technology can be used to re-imagine objects, thereby extending their narrative from the past into the present day....
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Artist statement Following a career in commercial illustration (mainly children's picture books and educational work) and a move to southern France, I decided to realise an earlier intention of mine to pursue an interest in fine art by studying for an MA at UWIC in Cardiff. In the course of a year's full-time study, I became interested in...
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‘The Acute Disaster’ (2012) is a short film comprising extracts of archive material that range from super 8 footage of Trade Union marches, to grainy black and white documentation of civilians running through the streets, ruined buildings and bomb sites, and bodies lying face down on the ground. The footage of the marches appears to be...
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Floating relicsRosie Farrell: 'Narrative Mirage: Slowness is a deceptive play' (2012)Installation with four videos (HD video and digital animation) with single soundtrack, steel modular shelving unit with glass, crystal sphere and rotating motor, projectors, DVD players, amplifier, speakers, CD/MP3, Chelsea MA show, LondonI was lured into...
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Liam O'Connor's work displays a technical finesse that is, at once, seductive, energetic and revealing. In simple terms, Liam is a portrait painter, but as with the best portrait painters, these are not mere representations of people, but studies that capture something more elusive. Through his work, Liam acknowledges that at one time, portrait...
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Annie Ravazzolo uses overlooked, everyday materials and objects to explore forces such as magnetism and gravity. She works quickly, taking the material as a starting point for an investigation into its properties, without knowing where it will lead. The end result is often ephemeral and precarious, yet consistently beautiful and conceptually...
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I am an artist that combines video, sound and photo to produce Art installations. The installations do not have a specific set up, they have a different look and composition depending on the work, subject and situation. The Installations mainly features video, sound and photo as a base or initial point for developing my work. I use those specific...
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My work is about journeys. These journeys range from the physical movement of the body to the journey the mind has to make in order to retrieve a particular memory. Each item selected within the installations has a specific personal reference to either a place I have travelled to or a particular memory of a time and place. Although my work is very...
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