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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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My current practice combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. My continued interrogation of painting and process has seen me evolve from working exclusively with oil paint and two-dimensions to gradually introducing new materials (Fablon, gaffa tape, furniture, scrap metal, strip lighting, gloss paint) in order to...
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'Ian Gonczarow works in the traditional artworld genre of painting, yet he forces the paint into images of cultural and political dissent. The heraldic insignia of world power politics - the Stars and Stripes, heroic soviet statuary, all cack-handedly reproduced with meticulous care - are filtered through the blatant bad taste aesthetics of...
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I work from images of people, using the reproductions of their painted and sculpted portraits reduced to thumbnails on Google. Deriving elements from the print outs, and then splicing and reconstructing the fragmented parts forms the basis of exploring these images of individuals and how they have been represented throughout history. My...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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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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Ian Rawlinson is an artist based in Manchester and Course Leader of MA Fine Art at Manchester School of Arty. Since the late nineties he has exhibited his work in galleries throughout the UK and abroad most notably holding solo shows at Chisenhale Gallery, London 2001 and The Agency Contemporary, London 2005, he was also a contributor to the...
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Nick Crowe is concerned with the effect that technology, cultural conventions, man-made and natural phenomena have on our lives today. Recent work has been particularly involved with an examination of the impact of the internet as an agent of social change, often alongside a use of glass as a contemporary artistic material. In his 'Aer Lingus'...
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