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I like making things, but I'm not sure what to make. I can't decide what size or shape or colour something should be and I worrying about adding more stuff to a world already full of things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's...
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Ravishing Beauty: The Aesthetics of Rape in Grace Ndiritu's video Desert Storm, by Caroline Bagenal for After Image Magazine, Issue 39, 1&2, 2011 Desert Storm (2004) is a disturbing and powerful video by the young British artist Grace Ndiritu. In this haunting reminder of war's female casualties, Ndiritu addresses war and rape as a tool...
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Artist statement Jayne Wilson’s work is conceived and then developed with an almost obsessive attention to the detail of narrative and sequence. ‘I take inspiration from a calculated organising, cutting up and collaging of found footage and ephemera to make images that stride between fact and fiction, and between the...
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Art, understatement, drawing history, critical theory, collections, teaching and learning modes, ecology, fiction.
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I wanted to be an Artist because Art was the only subject at school that let me look out the window.
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Artist Statement “I am a black box, an abstract device evolved to hide the complexities within. Given the appropriate stimulus, I can be triggered to display a transient pop-up model of my inner self and disclose a little of what would otherwise remain secret. I can say with some certainty, when I chose the black box metaphor, I was...
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Mandy Williams is a photographer and video artist who is interested in the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture - particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. Her interest in the psychology of place and how a sense of home is created and sustained has been a...
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My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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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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My practice as a fine artist is in creating images with materials, mostly sculptural, with an interest in expressing an archetypal way of seeing the world. Myth has been an important reference throughout my work as they contain layers and patterns of meaning called archai which underlie the culture of societies throughout the world, as much...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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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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Concepts Lately my activity has involved selecting and processing fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly those related to our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However,...
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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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Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist curator based at Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK. He curated and instigated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and more recently the David Shrigley solo show titled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse, (2012-2013). “My art practice is interdisciplinary...
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I have always held a deep curioristy between the links between science and art and for the last 12 years have made paintings based around this subject matter. My practice is rooted in the phenomenon of science and the enviroment and I am currently using photography and drawing to explore this. Normal.dotm 0 0 1 2 13 bilborough college ...
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My practice is versatile and not bound to any definitive subject or medium. I generally start a piece of work with something I've heard, read or written, therefore speech, words or defying language play a pivotal role. Misunderstandings and illusions are also extremely important, they infiltrate my work and frequently layer a sense of the uncanny....
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Much of my practice involves making objects through repetitive and labor intensive process applied to ubiquitous materials. This has principally involved using manufactured materials and focuses on the processes of making and unmaking. My work is a kind of investigation into the materials (and the actions linked to them) distilled into something...
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The use of various methods, like travel, video, sound, choreography, performance and writing, sits in the expanded notion of my work – where new and obsolete technologies reflect one another as the analogue and digital swap places; modes of representation are questioned as they blend in each other or dissolve and reveal, or obscure,...
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In my practice I investigate the space between the real and the imaginary and the work has taken the form of mostly landscape paintings which hover between these two states. I was influenced by the history of Landscape painting, where even those naturalistic landscapes were actually completely fictitious constructed places. Memory and...
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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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www.paulaadams.co.uk HOMESICK FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE: uncanny aesthetics, re-appropriation and object making as an analysis of architecture/the built environment   Homesickness is an emotional response to actual or anticipated separation from the home environment or 'attachment objects' (i.e. those with strong, personal meaning) and is...
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Johana has a background in sculpture and has maintained a fascination with form, sometimes applying that to video, intervention and drawing. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she has exhibited widely, most recently at Rhod, Newcastle Emlyn. Johana is particularly interested in the humanity present in the...
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West’s practice evolves from a response to the psychology of space and colour, utilising the two in a way that is deeply rooted in colour theory and draws parallels with the concept of synesthesia. Working on a scale and intensity that impacts upon the gallery space, West is deeply influenced by the process of collecting. Her work...
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Using mixed media, video and photography my work explores concepts of narrative and memory. I am interested in how our inner perceptions create patterns in the external world
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The potential and power of film is my study and my practice. I wish to bring a new consciousness to the cinematic experience as apposed to a conventional one; in where the spectator remains static and non-participatory. These themes are evoked through the filmic narrative of my videos, and the installation's sculptural form. I am attracted to...
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I am an emerging UK based artist currently working in Brighton. I have produced work in several mediums including photography, sculpture, video, and live actions. The work has strong narrative element evoking associations of place, time, and history. I often draw personal experiences whilst referencing wider socio-political narratives...
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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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We live in a constant dialogue between memory and our experiences of the present.

 Kirsty E Smith’s practice draws on a passion for architecture and the optimism of Futurism. As humans we have a fundamental need to make sense of the world and our place in it. Our experiences come into the brain in a vast flow of neural impulses from...
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The work is primarily concerned with exploring the tendency to nurture habit, ritual, routine and even obsessive repetition in a modern world teetering on the brink of dystopia where possibilities and choices are seemingly endless. My practice uses a wide range of media chosen to suit my ideas including drawing, animation, print, performance and...
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We inhabit two worlds in parallel. Two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics; one material, with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information.In this body of work these two worlds, the material and the digital, become a metaphor for the mind and the body, as well as for the physical...
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Craig Morrison's initial work with Meat Beat Manifesto and his Cyber Punk designs led to his work being on permanent display at both the Science Museum in London and the V&A. He has always been passionate about Art and Film. The Alan Turing Centenary has inspired him to collaborate on two large works this year: Intense Colour Movement , a...
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