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Drawing is the foundation of my practice that addresses the themes of site, context, belonging and memory. I often make drawings in series to explore and expand on my ideas. I utilise collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and digital manipulation enabling me to develop images for surface designs and book-works. For book-works...
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I am strongly influenced by the natural environment and the organic aspects of glass itself. A respectful fascination of the nature of the material and its relationship with light, leads me to explore innovative and exciting ways to create a great array of textures and forms. The material can be made to flow, yet also be manipulated into a variety...
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My practice is informed by the social and political realities in which I inhabit.  I am particularly concerned with the ways in which these social and political realities in turn manifest themselves through cultural praxis as such as they underpin the contemporary society around us.My work touches on class, racial identity, power and...
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I am fascinated by the way we interact with our environments, and how they impact upon us. My practice is focused, through a variety of media, processes and outcomes on addressing relationship to places and events. Historical, social and natural considerations are often initial research components for me, with my response developing through a...
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The mechanism whereby we convert external stimuli through our senses, to in effect, 'create' our individual personal consciousness, is innately mysterious per se and it seems to me that when we involve the further mystery of human emotion in this equation, together with a degree of applied creative intelligence, we have the basic...
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Making is an act of ongoing self education. Everything begins with a question; it also ends in one. Nothing need be resolved.'The origin of art is always an action'. I am interested in the processes of creating; the components and the order in which they happen. Thought-intention-material-action Intention-material-action-thought ...
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A number of theorists have recently noted that all members of society, both impoverished and privilege are suffering from a lack of belonging. In addition to a perceived loss of place artists frequently describe a lack of belonging: uncertain of their function in society. The search for identity and community and the longing for an ideal of...
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Concepts Libby works with a wide range of subjects. Landscapes, still life, flowers, fish, semi and completely abstract patterns all interest her.But no matter what she's painting, she tries to create relationships between the elements of the painting: the shapes, colours, lines, textures etc. Within each pictures there's an ongoing...
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Natalie's paintings create an impact of emotion and atmosphere. A single flower is given dramatic scale, painted with a confidence that gives forcefulness to the most delicate subjects, whilst her talent in rendering detail combines with infinite sensitivity to colour and richness of texture. These paintings are reminiscent of the strongest images...
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