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b.1980, United Kingdom Matt James Smith is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work is often an attempt to excavate the subjective history of a particular landscape or place through the use of lens-based media. Recent research has been centered around ideas of the 'unpresentable' (the sublime, the uncanny, the traumatic) in relation...
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I am a Japanese artist and now working in Tokyo. To me, the creatures I invented are essential to realise what I want to do in the field of expression; they would grow in proportion as I explore my interests. Artist statement 'Human beings are endlessly interesting. Human emotion always fascinates me. Through my invented form I am exploring...
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I have been a photographer since the late 70s, and until enrolling for Sunderland University’s MA in Photography in 2007 was largely self-taught. I have a background in construction engineering which has informed my most recent body of work, ‘Lost Waltz’, but photographically have eclectic tastes and am essentially a portrait and documentary...
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Ginny Reed is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production including film, performance, drawing and light and it's effects. The works coincide in contrasting the materiality of actual, depicted and used objects with the materiality of the forms of their representation. Her work explores the accumulation and dispersal of materials and...
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My mainly lens-based “romantic conceptualist” practice responds to fundamental questions of technologies, perception and narrative. I have a particular fascination with contested sites, and use a pseudo-ethnographic method – like a renegade anthropologist – to perform a kind of intellectual fieldwork that engages with the...
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My practice comprises text, film, sound and performance. It usually draws on what is already available. A lot of my work is driven by an interest in taxonomies and classification systems, and in particular an interest in the illuminations and absurdities that arise as a result of applying classification systems to existing bodies of...
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Through an extensive process of research Lloyd create alter egos to enable him to tackle a subject from more than one point of view. These characters interact with each other in videos, installations and performances, where he becomes both the ventriloquist and the dummy. He builds installations that act as sets for his videos as well as a space...
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Annie Ravazzolo uses overlooked, everyday materials and objects to explore forces such as magnetism and gravity. She works quickly, taking the material as a starting point for an investigation into its properties, without knowing where it will lead. The end result is often ephemeral and precarious, yet consistently beautiful and conceptually...
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Overview of Current PhD Research Juliet Chenery-Robson is a visual artist who works mainly with lens-based media. She is currently doing an AHRC funded, practice-led PhD in Photography at the University of Sunderland. Her research practice continues and develops the project that she undertook for her MA and focuses on the visual representation...
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Ben is interested in a crisis of male identity. A critique that often starts with his own arrested development and which is therefore often sited within the family unit. Ben lived with his maternal grandmother, Blue Granny, for a year during his time at Goldsmiths and for the two years of study at the RCA. A desire to understand how...
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Selector text In 'Mrs McLaren's Labour' Ann Denison has created a humorous video which provides a new narrative on childbirth by juxtaposing formula one car culture with rhyming couplet language. Mrs McLaren is a puppet dressed in a chequered racing flag, who narrates the story of her childbirth cycle - resulting in the delivery of a 4 x 4 Ford...
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I have an art practice making paintings.  The work is figurative, but with an eye for the abstract.  Colour, shape, and mark making play their role in imagery that strives towards an otherworldliness/ surreal environment.  Subject is varied, addressing issues such as cultural observation and anthropology, both local and further...
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This work is a collaboration – with the focus on change, creativity, childhood and direction underpinned by intertextuality. (The art work is a amalgam of other, often unconscious, notions and ideas.)My work explores ideas about childhood and family – its duality and subversive nature, social conflicts, innocence with an innate and...
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Kate Stobbart works in sculpture, performance and video. For her MFA exhibition at Newcastle University in August 2011, she presented the five-channel video installation 'Five Speeches' (2011) in which five paper screens were hung from the ceiling in an arc. Back-projected onto the screens were videos of actions being performed by Stobbart...
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Recently shown at render, a culture lab and digital media exhibition, the Newcastle MFA summer show and b:Tween at FACT, Liverpool, newsGlobe is a live art project realised in the open source development environment processing. newsGlobe looks inside newspaper rss feeds and searches the content for country and capital city names. It counts...
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Laura Cresser's exhibition The Hanging Gardens Project consists of four scale models of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, based on differing descriptions by ancient Greek and Babylonian writers and historians. Each model is displayed on a low plinth, resulting in the observer towering over them and having to crouch down in order to observe any...
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Artist statement 'Home-Birds Series' explores the domestic scenario of setting up home with a partner. It considers the choice, display and organisation of possessions in the home and what this may reveal about personal identity. The individual pieces in 'Home-Birds Series' realise moments within a relationship. These instances are recounted...
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In my practice I use photography, video and performance to examine the self and its relationship with its surrounding environment. I am interested in how we negotiate the current landscape of advertising and corporate branding where everything has a logo on it and we are all the target audience. My work has been described as 'banal in the...
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Matthew Cowan's practice is in the realm of traditional British customs and culture. His work combines elements of photography, video, installation and performance to reflect the joyous ceremony of the folk world. Recent pieces have tapped into the English folk identity, and play with a broader English obsession with its own uneasiness about its...
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Artist statement My practice is concerned with the intense identification with 'place', felt by members of the local history group to which I belong. Their shared feelings of belonging to a community that no longer exists become a tangible entity that resonates within the group whenever they meet. While they spoke to me about their shared...
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A sequence of space age canvases. Intense colours combining computer game graphics with a textured fractured surface. A strong graphic sense that owed much to street style graphics of urban graffiti. Jonathan Lasker style images revealing the texture of the paint, appears to combine colour and texture of oil paint with areas that look as if...
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In my art practice I engage with the principle of emotional insulation as a defensive manoeuvre. Benson (1979)1 uses the following definition of this term that was introduced by Freud: 'Emotional insulation is an attempt to reduce affective involvement in a given situation by separating, that is, insulating, ones feelings from ones cognitive...
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