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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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I focus on how things are visually perceived rather than what is objectively 'real'. Places and occurrences I have seen are broken down into components or motifs and put back together from memory, employing imagination to fill in the gaps. Each piece becomes an intuitive response to daily observations. Horizons, skies, symbols, objects and...
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The relationship between identity construction and space has been the topic of my work for some time, in different forms.Thinking about space is, primarily, thinking about spacial things. A room in a house, a building in a street. A railway station in a city. People and places have a complex relationship, as they mutually produce each other...
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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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Chantal Powell creates sculptural objects and installations that powerfully and intimately explore the universal emotions that connect us. Responding to objects and spaces as her starting point, she seeks to understand and manipulate the inherent vocabulary of her chosen materials. Using this visual language she creates seductive objects...
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The majority of my practice is finding objects, whether in reality or on the internet 'virtual objects'. Then placing such objects together in a balanced, symmetrical, aesthetic equation. Using the colour and form of an object and trying to disregard its original intention. Physics is an important factor to me, using earth's natural...
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Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, robotics, interactive media, and textiles. Her work has a strong...
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My art is one of oppositional forces, using the relationship between ourselves and nature as inspiration for my hand crafted ceramic figures and decorative forms.I have always loved putting things together to make conversation pieces and miniature worlds which reveal underlying tensions in seemingly tranquil scenarios with paradoxical landscapes...
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The world is fragile yet durable against the tumultuous challenges it faces. Evolving and adapting in, at times, extreme circumstances. Nature proves in it's own quiet way, that beauty can also be strong and secure, rooted in the earth. I am concerned with how we view nature around us. Recreating natural objects from paper and other fragile...
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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 '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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The spaces that we inhabit and the traces that we inevitably leave are at the forefront of my practice. I think of human traces as subconscious drawings on our everyday surroundings, when we simply walk across a floor we leave our mark. Dust contains particles of our bodies and we leave some of it wherever we go, it is the ultimate human trace and...
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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 interested in the crossover between painting and sculpture, more specifically with the relationship between the surface of a work and its objectness. Alongside this I am fascinated by light and landscape; by the vastness of sky, sea and land. My work aims not to represent these but to create quiet and contemplative works that evoke the...
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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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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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Although rooted in painting, my practice is research based and has resulted in painting, sculpture, wall drawing, and book-works for exhibition, using materials from wax and graphite powder to plaster, paint or text. I am interested in the historical context of mirror and map making and the nature of the objectivity we seek when looking in...
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Alex May is a digital artist who utilises his extensive programming knowledge to create his own software for video projection installations and interactive digital artworks exploring our relationship with digital technologies, and how human perception of reality can be altered and extended through code and light. Alex has exhibited around the UK...
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My art originates from observations of the incidental characteristics of the built environment. I gather inspiration in the ordinary, everyday surroundings I pass through by capturing the accumulation of history left behind in disused or forgotten areas. Aged surfaces and neglected structures hold a variety of clues as to the interests,...
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"I am exploring 'process' as a response to existential tension, and 'material' as a route to presence. I am interested in finding ways to manage and enjoy the life and death tension of our existence." (Veronique Maria 06-2011)
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In my work I use, adapt and transform domestic objects and create sculptural forms that are inspired by a variety of elements drawn from social and personal histories. I also create immersive installations that use craft elements, drawing and photography drawing on traditions of assemblage and installation.  I am interested in ideas...
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I am an artist and papermaker based in the South East. I work using repetitive processes constructing sculptural forms made up of hundreds of near identical fragments to make bookworks, sculpture and installations. My work is often ephemeral and delicate. I am very interested in materiality and process, enjoying the effects of change and error. A...
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Trained as a painter at Chelsea, Julie Westbury works now with drawing, collage, constructions and photography. Amongst other recent exhibitions she has shown with the Turner Contemporary, the Crafts Council, and the Contemporary Art Society and has illustrated books for Kyle Cathie and Sotheby's.Her collages, which use her photography, found...
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The exhibition Seaflowers (2011), is an accumulation of textiles and painting inspired from my latest residency on the coast in South India. It is a celebration of colour, inspired from the idea of ritual and the repeat patterns with reference to our daily habits, routines and behaviour patterns. I like to work and respond to people in an everyday...
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I explore themes of place making in the public realm. Commissioned projects are exclusively site and context specific in origin and are shaped and underpinned by extensive research and consultative practice. My aim and interest is to examine, re-frame and present historic and contemporary contextual evidence as evocative and relevant...
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Jeannie Driver creates installations, sculptures and 2D work from the ubiquitous material of waste paper. The relationship between the material and ideas is central to the work and provides an alternative visual and physical experience of the material that references ideas of bureaucracy, systems, flow, waste and resource. The actual paper...
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Collecting printed and handwritten ephemera is an important part of my creative process and this often dictates the subject matter. I gather things, scraps, shopping lists, tickets I have found on the street,at a train station, pockets, all of a particular appearance—discoloured, loved, lost, stained, beautiful and damaged. Pasted found...
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Within my work I use a variety of media including drawing, photography, as well as natural and found material as the basis of my work. Often beginning with a walk, I explore a place in nature and its emotive aspects. I study the miniscule and intricate details of a place that would often go unnoticed by others. I have a fascination with...
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Just a quick line to say how wonderful your works look in the cafe. They are a significant addition to the space and I am sure will be enjoyed by many. Best Wishes Victoria Pomery OBE Director Turner Contemporary - Fine artists should undertake to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. There are times when the sorcery goes...
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Concept Working with texture or found objects as a means to bypass rational thought and enter the fluid realm of the unconscious, I employ an initial period of automatism when all is in a state of chaos and flux. I view making each work as an adventure, a journey into the imagination and a subsequent development of a personal mythology. The...
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