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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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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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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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Alex Dipple’s painted-over newspapers present the classical information mediumfree from its content as tender and vulnerable but mysteriously beautiful „skins.“ With a similarly sort of a „foreign view“, the artist examines newspapers and their formal structure. She discards lines, which are...
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I am an English born artist of Polish descent. My family settled here after the Second World War. I finished my Fine Art degree in 1997 at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, specialising in printmaking. I went on to do a Masters in Printmaking & Illustration in 2000 at (then) Bucks Chilterns University (now called Bucks New University),...
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My association with plant culture holds a notion of enquiry into plant and human culture.  I adopt an element of role play from an anthropological approach to that of botanical reference. This exercise engages me with the process of looking, selecting, collecting and recording.  My practice is informed by the abundance of diversed...
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Sue Mclachlan is a Hampshire artist gaining her BA and MA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. Sue’s site specific work investigates space through careful research of a space using philosophy, experiences and/or historical data, contexting through communicating in a variety of media; video, sound, painting, photography or objects...
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“Brown uses the discarded clothing of the old - vintage undergarments, slips and petticoats, intimate materials in colours called ‘rose’ or ‘mint’ or even ‘flesh’ – to form the raw material of her tense, suspended, offerings. She’s self- confessedly interested in the edges, the boundaries of...
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‘Goldsmith is amongst the foremost textile artists working in the UK at the present time’.       Prof. Lesley Millar MBE Director Anglo Japanese Textile Research Centre       Shelly Goldsmith uses textile materials and processes as a metaphor for imagining how psychological...
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I make multi-disciplinary work inspired by notions of the personal, the object and the image. This might take the form of small gouache paintings, large pencil drawings, digitally manipulated photography, or found objects re-presented. I have recently collaborated on a short film, Film Fan (1963-1983) which exploits a lost archive of personal...
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ConceptsFrom the ridiculous to the sublime. I work on the wheel. An experience initially so like sticking your hand up a cow's bottom. But also, by contrast, a transportation that results in finding yourself playing a rhapsody on a finely tuned instrument. I am interested in most things. Words are very important to me. I have always read,...
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Jokey graphics produced for my Mailart event 'The Adolf Hitler Fan Club' (an analogy for pre-Thatcher British Governments) 1974-1978 were followed by oil painted texts on WWII describing famous photographs. In 1981 I learnt real astrology, later (1999-2003) painting watercolour texts resulting from my own research into death astrology. Two...
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Concepts I am aware of two processes in my work. The first, measured assessment as I try to define the creative on a mechanical (real) basis., runs parallel to a more intuitive response to the materials I use - the challenge of paint, surface, line and space. The paintings act as a holding space where image and colours are often...
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The theme of my work is landscape, expressing awe at the overpowering force of nature, juxtaposed against its fragility and stillness. I am interested in details that usually pass us by: uneven, weathered stone textures, cracks in rocks and dry earth, moving grass and trees, drips revealing the passage of time; the simplicity and elegance of...
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My work centres around notions of failed perfection, utilising postcards to explore primarily imagery that sells places; which in reality don’t fulfil our expectations. It is this idea of the perfect holiday that I’m interested in, both from advertising and the way people are persuaded to visit places and through my own personal...
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My work is developing progressively through an array of parallel projects, currently prioritised around and contributing to my teaching at the Ealing School of Art, Design and Media. During my career I’ve concentrated on making images and artefacts related to my interest in urban landscapes, technologies, and the relationship between the...
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Drawing and painting is at the core of my work although it is predominantly site specific  and also encompasses different media including sound and video. I enjoy making installations and working in many different spaces. 'Contemporary artists must dare to work with the immaterial means of our time and address the pervasive influence of new...
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Jim Lockey is an artist. His work is about creating fictions and often about artwork itself. Working predominantly with Text, Video and Performance he explores the complex relationship between artifact and viewer. He was the curator of Limbo Arts in Margate for 2011
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Artist Statement -Louise McNaught My work hints at the world of myth and folklore, exploring the relationship between humans and animals. The imagery often seems caught somewhere between childhood imagination and adult reasoning, as I gravitate towards using symbolism and allegory in my work. The natural elements in my work are exploring the...
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Concepts My environment has always inspired me, whether rural or urban. I love untamed nature, craggy rocks and bleak moors. I find myself fascinated and moved by crumbling plaster walls that reveal the bones of a building and bear its human history in marks and faded paint. This interplay between man and nature often finds its way into my...
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Concepts I paint portraits, landscapes and still life works. My work is fundamentally about painting the world around me and trying to capture form and pattern within paint. I have a fascination with natural structures and the environment. The still life work began as a simple celebration of the objects found and an interest in their...
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British Award Winner Kaniez Abdi graduated from The Royal College of Art in 1998, where she studied Constructed Textile Design. Since graduating, Kaniez has been a textile designer and consultant for more than thirteen years. Working in various industries such as art, trend/forcasting, fashion, interiors and film. Her speciality lies in creating...
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Hadzi-Vasileva is a site-specific/installation artist working across varied media including sculpture, video and sound installations, photography and architectural interventions. She produces ambitious and complex works by responding to the particularities of a given location, be it in terms of industry, community or (natural) environment. Her...
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My current practice engages with a dialogue between painting and the digital. I explore the aspect of (Deleuzian) 'Becoming' as these different media overlap and interact with each other. Digital media challenge other forms of imagery with the dispersion into a flux, destabilising its solidity with pixellation. ...
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I live and work in Kent, and always take my materials with me when I travel. I work with landscapes, from which I draw my inspiration. I love colour and texture and in my work am always attempting to use these elements to create a harmonious balance. I enjoy working in an experimental way with different materials, and different methods of applying...
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My recent paintings are inspired by the surrounding landscape which is used as my muse and a starting point from which I take a journey. Striking imagery is created through the use of bold colours and abstraction while simultaneously preserving key elements of the original source.  I continue to develop my work in new ways, sometimes...
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I used to be a swimmer and I feel there's a real link between swimming and working with willow. I get totally immersed; there's something slightly obsessive in both. When I was young I used to dream I was swimming down the road, now I dream I am weaving.Environmentalist Roger Deakin, author of 'Waterlog' has been a big inspiration....
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My work creates a juxtaposition of dreams, realities and sensations, fleeting moments from life inspired by my own experiences. I explore a sense of empathy for existing across different places and times, examining personal sensations of deja-vu, while moving through times, locations, and states of being, without a fixed linear chronology. ...
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Christopher Rutter and Evelyn Bennett have worked closely together since 1994. In collaboration they have made large-scale sculpture for a number of locations including Chichester, Hastings and Swindon Hospitals and ‘Sculpture at Goodwood’. They have been commissioned by property developers such as Lovells and made work for Royal Caribbean...
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From early childhood I’ve obsessively drawn people, and characters from my imagination. This creative compulsion later came to reflect my desire to understand myself and others, both from a psychological as well as a creative and emotional perspective. My work explores human expression, form and relationships between individuals and within the...
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My practice is primarily based in sculpture. As an artist I am interested in the hidden parts of everyday life and the tracing of history, this is a running theme in my practice. However other key aspects of my work are also concerned with memories, materiality, objects and shadows.I have been exploring these themes using a variety of mediums and...
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The remains comprising our present-day environments are overlaid with a weave of unremembered lives, narratives and events, which in a moment can be revealed through even the most mundane objects and surroundings. My work seeks to explore these revelations, through the use of text, movement, image and sound. My passion for the past extends to...
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