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Through an examination of mundane moments in time I investigate how meaning and significance are attached to banal elements of the everyday. This can include subjects as diverse as: shopping malls, peeling paint, drains, or sand scattered on a footpath. By incorporating varying amounts of participation I compress, or extend, the interaction a...
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My ongoing work reflects my evolving practice working across various media and contexts through installation, three dimensional form and site-specific works. A broad materials based background and artistic vocabulary which embraces photography, film and soundworks form the basis of my hybrid practice. Current works address the interplay...
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My art practice has evolved over time; initial activity was in ceramics and this endeavour, which was primarily concerned with a dialogue about the form and nature of the vessel has, over the years, given way to work based primarily in video or in multi-media installations that employ projections, sound and a variety of other three dimensional...
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My practice draws inspiration from man, nature and our reconnection, and encompasses exploration, experimentation, heritage, sustainability and responses to surroundings and situations. Projects are diverse but the central theme remains. In 2008 I graduated MA Art as Environment from Manchester Metropolitan University and importantly my work...
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My work examines the expression of emotional and bodily states. I understand expression as something transient and being formed through experience. In this way expression in my work is not intentional or a gesture - it is the result of material transformations, the interplay between process and medium. The artistic process itself, its impetus...
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Greg Hayman's work draws on the evocation of memories invested in pictures, stories and objects. He combines print, sculpture, assemblage and installation to question what is real, what is authentic, what is generated and what is sensed, often with humorous, absurd and sometimes unsettling outcomes.His work also deals with body's...
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I am an artist printmaker working in the relief and intaglio processes, which include etching, carborundum and woodcut prints. My work is inspired by the subject of work/industry and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The...
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My work uses cardboard, tin cans plastics and cardboard tubes usually destined for the waste bin. The fragile resemblances that I produce with their torn, folded and glued sections are crude, insubstantial, spray painted copies, three-dimensional jigsaws, connected and disconnected fragments of machines displayed as museum artefacts. They fit into...
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1963: Chichester, West Sussex. 1980-82: Foundation, West Sussex College of Design. 1982-85: BA (Hons) Fine Art, South Glamorgan IHE Cardiff. I was born in Chichester in the shadow of the South Downs. I had an early interest in making pictures, which developed into the desire to become an artist when I saw a powerful Picasso sculpture in...
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I have always felt a strong affinity with my medium, in particular its variety and unpredictability. Torn edges, cracks, slumped shapes, textures, all things I happily incorporate and cultivate within my surfaces and forms. I am a great believer in letting the clay express itself, maintaining the integrity of the material, making sure that it...
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Concepts My interest is in expressing the beauty and mysterious qualities within landscape -colour, light and pattern. Expression is fairly loose and non literal, moving more towards abstraction. Influences Earliest-Samuel Palmer's sepia ink drawings; Nash, Lanyon, Hitchens - but for colour, Matisse and Bonnard and for colour and...
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My bold and vivid abstract paintings are born out of theories of geometry and numbers. The lines of the composition are brought to the fore as bold lines criss-crossing the plane bouncing off the edges in defined trajectories. In the recent work masking tape is employed to create crisp graphic aesthetic. Representation is eschewed in favour of a...
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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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Interventions in the institutionalised everyday. By investigating educational, corporate and public settings, I critically engage withissues rooted in the institutional context. I keep looking beyond the veneer of how we manouver to expose and reference behaviour, routines and decision making. My practice reflects on mechanisms that underlie the...
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Susan Eyre’s practice draws on cultural references and contemporary situations to construct landscapes that appear familiar yet are inauthentic, mixing fantasy with the mundane.  Artifice and a dislocation from the natural world are key themes in her work. Through examining the experience of the natural world within an urban...
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Born in 1970, I live and work as an artist in York. I studied at York College of Art and Design, followed by the University of Brighton where I specialised in Fine Art Printmaking. Graduating in 1994 I set up my own print studio to work full-time as a professional printmaker, specialising in etching and relief printing. I have...
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My work is predominantly installation based and relates to my interest in our relationship with places. Often the work itself is intended to have a direct dialogue with the particular space in which it is presented. I use processes of replication and displacement, often combining and relating three-dimensional pieces to time based imagery and...
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My work is a mixture of works on paper and site specific installations. I use drawing, printmaking, collage, assemblage and textiles to create largely figurative works that depict everyday objects and places. I like that objects can describe a place, a time, a person or community through the way that they have been used or left. I draw attention...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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In my work I construct allegorical settings in order to explore, comment upon and sometimes confront injustice and violence. Although my work has serious intent, I poke fun at myself and use humour, pathos and the unexpected to engage my audience. I have used a range of media, and shown installations, drawings and work in new media. I have...
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My sculptural work is abstract in nature and reflects my interest in the collection and reuse of everyday materials sourced from my immediate surroundings. These materials are used to explore and develop mixed media works which contain elements of archaeology and archival records. The individual pieces are bright and colourful and make use...
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Artist Statement My work has a continuing preoccupation with museums, collecting, fragility and transience. Inspired by family history, personal memorabilia often become incorporated into the forms and structures I create. Gloves are cast in plaster and printed with fragmented texts from different eras, resembling fragile relics. Old recipes...
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Lorsen's work explores the notion of finding beauty in the disregarded. This began with an interest in collecting second hand and found objects, considering their stories and narratives, and the place of these objects in a culture of excess and consumerism (things that continue to fascinate the artist). Beauty in the disregarded has expanded to...
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Based at Bankley Studios, Manchester, working in a broad interdisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, the moving image and ever emerging technologies, Gary James Williams enquires into the creative potentials of the narrative structure in coming to terms with the everyday and real-world phenomena in contemporary art practice....
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Current projects I continue to make photographs of the regeneration of Weston-super-Mare. Commission 2012 - I am exploring 3D printing with Exeter Pheonix and the University of Exeter, and am looking to integrate new printed elements into models or films of models. Visiting Birnbeck - I have been making visits to Birnbeck Island since 2009...
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Artists Statement In recent months it has become increasingly important to me to skills share and collaborate.  Somehow work seems to take on a more dynamic and meaningful emphasis and all parties benefit from such encounters.  It is so exciting to discover a creative connection in each others work and to develop this in a way that...
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The 'Dark Matter' sculptures and drawings refer to the vast majority of matter and energy in the universe that exists but cannot be seen. The work also reflects my interest in the experience of place and the ability of art to enable access to abstract, remote and invisible spaces including the space of the human unconscious. In the 'Dark Matter'...
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I am interested in the perceptual instability within spatial representation, particularly within the discipline of painting. I am interested in how space is articulated pictorially and how the physical space it inhabits can enter into this discourse. Many of my works are site-responsive and are created to react and call attention to the...
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The predominant themes in my work concern light, atmosphere, and a sense of space. I am continuously drawn to the landscape in order to capture a moment, or to stimulate a mood evoking memory. Using formative memories of the vast landscapes of Canada and my new experiences in the northern British landscape, I recall these moments through a variety...
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Today we are surrounded by a world that consists of hyperspace, virtual reality, cyborgs, genetic engineering, germ warfare, and advances in communication technology are developing at an alarming rate. I have always been interested in science and technology and have spent the past seven years working and exploring within this field through my art...
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Concepts I am interested in how images speak, in the nuances of visual language and translation from one medium to another. I work figuratively as a route to narrative discursive painting based on photographs, both personal archive and found imagery. I assemble collections of selected images which offer connections both familiar and...
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