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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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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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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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I have been making pictures since childhood. In 2006 I completed a degree course in fine art at university where I reaffirmed my love and compulsion to paint. From a continuing passion for landscape painting, I have broadened my scope of practice to tackle broader subjects and ideas. Originally...
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Lock's practice straddles fact and fiction, truth and the fake. Weaving new narratives of history and myth through a complicated and sometimes mysterious tale of heartache of heartache, lust and delusional thinking, Lock allows her practice to accumulate, take unfathomable journeys and elicit deceit to create part encrypted biography and...
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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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unmaking painting My paintings use repetitive procedures, structures and processes of reproduction in an attempt to acknowledge one in the immediate present, standing one with respect to time, a feeling of time ’. The vocabulary of abstraction is entwined with reference to ‘experience.’ By navigating a route through abstraction...
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'At the centre of Sarah Staton’s work is a dialogue between design, architecture, modernism, interior, exterior; the space between the work and the ground or support structures that exhibit the objects, and a little bit of life and fun without any cause for concern or angst-ridden guilt.' (Stephen Snoddy, 2012)Sarah Staton studied at...
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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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Emma Bolland cr Emma Bolland creates nightmarish yet fantastical installations, using light and negative images, whether in the form of silhouettes or the removal or blanking out of the information from images that we rely on for their readability. Often mundane objects are weaved together into fairytale landscapes where - just like the fables of...
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I am interested in how humans create an absurd mixture of conflicting emotions when they are faced with overwhelming situations and anxiety.Through videos and bodies of drawings, I use humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours. My videos mimic television genres such as documentaries, reality shows and...
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Candice Jacobs currently lives and works in Nottingham.  She was one of the co-founders and co-directors of Moot, an artist-run gallery/project space in Nottingham (2005 - 2010), and One Thoresby Street (2009 - present), an artist-run project which supports individual artists and art organisations.  Recent exhibitions include; In...
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Mimei Thompson's work delves deep into a dark underworld where brush and pen marks coalesce into distorted faces, body parts and organic forms. These alien sprites are in a constant state of flux and unrest, monsters of the id that rail against the pictorial frame like untamed scientific specimens pounding against the glass walls of a bell jar....
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Bob Levene Experiments For Microphones, 2006 Selected by Rebecca Shatwell Bob Levene's work investigates how images, objects and actions can create sound. Using both old and new technology in a playful way, she makes installations, performances and videos that explore how sound is...
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Simon Le Ruez is a sculptor and installation artist who also uses drawing and video. His eclectic mix of materials and media produce scenarios where themes of longing, concealment, transgression and release are played out, often underscored by dark humour, knowing impenetrability and an emotional charge. Forms of opposition and the notion of...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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My work involves creating installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Underpinning the work is a desire to look beyond the surface of objects and buildings, to uncover forgotten and invisible histories of places and people, as a way of reframing and considering the past. Often drawing on...
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach The mouth is probably the most ambivalent of our orifices, made to kiss and bite, suck and spit, eat, laugh and swallow. It serves both tenderness and cannibalism. 'Eat me' (2006) coarsely evokes the possibilities of this fascinating cavity, slapping lipstick on a lump of guts. Marilyn's...
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‘ I stood there in the dark with my father, in silence, and we knew that we were both sad, that we could not speak of it and that we both drew something from the dark.’ Lavinia greenlaw ‘The Importance Of Music To Girls’. The drawings I make of places, objects and people attempt to reinhabit and somehow explain emotional states or a feeling....
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Chameleon Body In Grimm's fairytale Rapunzel the titular character extends her fair hair from her tower prison to allow access to her prince saviour. However, rumbled by her captor witch, one day the prince climbs the 'golden stair' to be confronted instead by the evil crone who has cut short Rapunzel's braided hair and cast her out into the...
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I operate variously as an artist, producer and curator. The focus of all of my practice is a commitment to reinstating performance as a vital, progressive methodology within contemporary art. It is my aim to revive an ethos of collaboration between artists, dancers, theatre makers, filmmakers, political activists and comedians to make challenging,...
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'My practice presents a mass of ambiguous truths and the blatantly invented, offering blurred boundaries of curiosity and torment and the blessed and the cursed. Drawing manifests itself upon paper or the manipulation of found objects, all displayed unprotected, offering no evident elevation of status from conception to display. Within these works...
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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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  Olivia PlenderThe Masterpiece - Part One, Strange Adventures, 2003 Julie Brixey-Williams, Lilah Fowler, Maria Kontis, Kate Davis, Sue Williams, Olivia PlenderCurated by Anna LovattProvisional, quotidian, humble and unassuming, the practice of drawing was often overlooked by critics and curators during the modernist period. But...
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