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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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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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b.1980, United Kingdom Matt James Smith is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work is often an attempt to excavate the subjective history of a particular landscape or place through the use of lens-based media. Recent research has been centered around ideas of the 'unpresentable' (the sublime, the uncanny, the traumatic) in relation...
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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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Frances Young is a UK based artist working in moving image media, exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. Her work is in the collections of David Roberts (London, UK), Gemeente Museum, Helmond (Netherlands), University of the Arts London Permanent Collection (UK), and private collections in the UK and USA. She holds an MA in Fine Art from...
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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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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 work has developed through combining photography and documentation with live art. I have produced projects as an individual, and in collaboration with other people and artists, in Going Nowhere and VAKAV, with audience participation being an important part of my practice. I make art, create interventions, and present interactive lectures and...
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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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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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‘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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At the heart of Cheryl Field’s work is a scrutiny of the role that science plays in creating a secular mythology in contemporary culture. Thieving in equal part form the vernaculars of science fact and science fiction, pre-human histories and post-human futures are made manifest in the objects, videos and installations she creates...
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My practice involves the production and projection of 35mm slides. I am drawn to these found images, many of which have lost their original provenance. I facilitate the generation of new narratives, formed by the transformation of private familial images into the public sphere; a place where the viewer may become the author of someone else’s...
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Ben is interested in a crisis of male identity. A critique that often starts with his own arrested development and which is therefore often sited within the family unit. Ben lived with his maternal grandmother, Blue Granny, for a year during his time at Goldsmiths and for the two years of study at the RCA. A desire to understand how...
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Artist statement My playful alchemy explores the complimentary relationships between observation and the imagination, the physical and the ethereal. The act of looking can be analytical or receptive and I feel projection is a medium with which I can explore these different ways of seeing. When observing something for the first time we...
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Selector text In 'Mrs McLaren's Labour' Ann Denison has created a humorous video which provides a new narrative on childbirth by juxtaposing formula one car culture with rhyming couplet language. Mrs McLaren is a puppet dressed in a chequered racing flag, who narrates the story of her childbirth cycle - resulting in the delivery of a 4 x 4 Ford...
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Biographical statementShelley Castle gained a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting from Central St. Martin’s and most recently has completed an MA in Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts, Devon. Now working mostly in moving image, photography and installation, recent projects have involved a broad array of collaborators...
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My practice encompasses drawings, video, photography and performance. I often merge these forms within individual works and put into question the authority of one medium over the other. I am interested in observing our relation to the mediums and in testing our ability too see behind their working mechanism. I examine what we are asked to see, yet...
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Kate Stobbart works in sculpture, performance and video. For her MFA exhibition at Newcastle University in August 2011, she presented the five-channel video installation 'Five Speeches' (2011) in which five paper screens were hung from the ceiling in an arc. Back-projected onto the screens were videos of actions being performed by Stobbart...
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My practice primarily works with the moving image but also encompasses still image and text projects. I have been working with the found image and particular places/sites within my filmmaking practice for around five years. I'm attracted to a degree of obsolescence in both cases. With the found image, the detachment from its creator and...
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