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I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family's long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by. I am interested in ways that we work with or against nature; how we react and intervene,...
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My recent work has reflected my day-to-day inspiration from new media, like the internet, television and photography. I am using these media as components to create tension in the painting by using marks and gestures individual to myself. I daily research new influences and ideas for my work, and take from the world around me the parts which...
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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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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Most importantly, my work is an exploration around reality and illusion. In particular the sensation of a fractured reality; the paintings depict figures within, and enveloped by spaces that feel simultaneously familiar and unreal. The idea of the moment is imperative to the process of making the paintings; they have to create tension in a...
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Through site-specific environmental installations and photography I seek to challenge the predictability of expectations & ‘cultural homogeneity’. My art practice is inspired by the complexities, equilibrium and fragility of the natural environment and by the ways in which our man-made systems work within, or in opposition to, these...
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Addressing the chronologies and legacies of pioneer Modernism Karl's work is a testament to the integrity and invention of that visionary era, an attempt to recapitulate the revolutionary spirit to invoke memories of how the future used to be. Utilising the detritus of our post-industrial landscape Karl attempts to transform the ordinary into...
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I am a recent graduate artist concerned with photography, particularly focusing on disrupting our relationship to the digital still photographic image. Drawing from either found images or my own photographs, I take traditional subject matter, often altering the code that the image is formed from- introducing visual inconsistency, errors, and...
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CONCEPT Nicola Dale's imaginative work puts her at the forefront of contemporary artists who re-imagine the role of the printed text. (1) What does knowledge look like? My practice visualises the acquisition of knowledge – how I capture, process and understand what I read. I imagine what a particular piece of knowledge might look like and...
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My work is informed by the ethos of Process Art where the "creative sentiment is superseded by the process of the formation of art...moreover the initiation of actions and procedings" and revolves around irregular apropriation of technologies and it's effects on the formal qualities of contemporary image making. Constrained by the...
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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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West’s practice evolves from a response to the psychology of space and colour, utilising the two in a way that is deeply rooted in colour theory and draws parallels with the concept of synesthesia. Working on a scale and intensity that impacts upon the gallery space, West is deeply influenced by the process of collecting. Her work...
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Over the last ten years I have been making large scale, mandala-like Spirograph drawings. The series of works continues to grow; like the obsessive process itself, it is difficult to stop despite the harm that such a repetitive action has on my body. In the most recent Spirograph drawings the single cell-like structures begin to morph into each...
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Over the last six years my work has focused on using different forms of glass, exploring its physical qualities and inherent dualities; hardness and fragility, solid and transparent. I am drawn to the liminal region between sculpure and glassmaking, challenging the bourndaries of how the material can be used. Glassmaking for me is a process of...
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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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Concepts Perspective, its use and abuse, is at the core of my paintings, as can be seen from my paintings of interiors, such as 'Rauric 12', and in exteriors; urban landscapes such as 'La Casa Blanca'. The definition of realism takes on a new meaning when the paintings are shaped in perspective because a 'realistic' painting in a square or...
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My art is about the repetitive, mundane and monotonous. All my work fits within these parameters but the results are widely dissimilar. I have extracted information and data from the technology of Bluetooth and presented it as art in many guises such as nonsense verse, video and sound. I have used coloured pens and paper for other areas of...
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The methods of creation I use are always simple, that I can do myself using basic tools such as glue, thread and scalpels, to create, or more often, create changes in objects. The 'alterations' I make stem from innocent observations, double meanings, or taking the meaning of something literally. I am guided by the material or object and what it...
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The concerns of my practice are broad ranging however there are themes that seem to persist within it such as restriction, manipulation and alteration. Recently I have become interested in issues of authorship and originality within the art business, creating 'experiments' around this area. Primarily working with photographic techniques...
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Artist statement I love drawing, sometimes with charcoal on paper but also with the pencils and inks involved in the production of lithographs. When working with charcoal my drawings often involve creating images with a compressed and almost claustrophobic space.  'Time' is central to these drawings, both in the reflective time I...
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Susie MacMurray is a Manchester-based artist, whose work encompasses drawing, sculpture, performance and architectural installations. Working mainly in installation and sculpture, she has a reputation for site-specific interventions in historic spaces which resulted in her being nominated for the Northern Art Prize in 2007. Her work frequently...
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The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of my work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space. The word inhabitant contains the root habit (dress) and implies a habitat (dwelling) and my work often has this double function of being both shelter and...
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When people see my work, they worry. They tell me I have obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I prefer to describe myself as a bit of a nerd and my work as reductive, repetitive, economic, considered, measured, exact, reflexive, cyclic, subversive and perverse. I tell them I'm interested in failed idealism, aspirations, the impossible and...
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My work is preoccupied the 'everyday', the often unnoticed but charming norms of day to day objects and surroundings. I work closely with community and environmental groups to visualise my interest in the 'ordinary object', and with their stories and opinions, transform these normal scenes into something extra-ordinary, beautiful. My work has...
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For Hannah Wiles places are experienced concretely, not as equations of function to form. In this sense, architecture is 'not' place until and unless we subvert it with the contents of our lives. In other words, places are where time takes route, and it is time in its forms of personal and social memory and in its connection to the cycles...
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The paintings centre themselves on aspects of interior and exterior space, mainly that of modern commercial and institutional space.  The space that informs the work is mainly personal to myself in that there is a memory or a sense of nostalgia; this is needed for a psychological engagement to occur, from which work is made. The work hovers...
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Subtleties in our everyday environments are explored using disposable cameras, wooden mechanical structures, audio and video recording devices and paper. Conceptual and aleatoric methodologies are employed in order to abdicate some degree of conscious control over the products of my creative practise. Collections of squirrel footprints,...
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Noticing the unnoticed is central to my work – revealing the beauty and meaning in overlooked objects, places and people.Flea markets and junk shops, overflowing with poetic associations and unknowable secrets, are rich sources of materials. I am addicted to the thrill of finding treasure among the detritus and moved to respond to the...
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