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I am a UK based Canadian artist. I studied history and philosophy before moving to Europe and training in Photography and Film/Video at the University of Westminster. A documentary film maker, I began to work with experimental film making and video and installation art with the Luna Nera group. The group has made many site-specific...
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Concepts I specialise in working with light, space and the viewers presence in the work to create stunning pieces of architectural glass which play with reflection, transparency and light transmission. My work is concept driven and site and project-specific so each individual piece is unique and in total harmony with...
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Over the past few years my work has become increasingly site responsive. Initially this response was to the physical and visual presence of the site. This culminated the collaboration with Mike Bowdidge entitled Urban Journeys, at the Red Gallery in Hull. In this work three study sites were chosen arbitrarily, merely sampling the streets of Hull...
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My practice could be described as performance based in that it features carefully staged work, usually featuring myself and/or one of my 3D artworks. I set a scene and then capture it either as a still or moving image. I allow space for the unexpected to occur as this can produce the most exciting results and, as Antoni Tapies said of his...
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Kate Haywood makes abstract sculptural forms in ceramic. Her work explores the material qualities of clay and the pieces evolve through a considered intuitive manipulation of the material. She is inspired by features of both urban and rural landscapes. Particular qualities of colour, texture and tone, which are observed while making...
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I draw inspiration from my endless fascination with the different elements in nature that are familiar to our culture. The garden creatures that live alongside us are often the subjects of my photography, paintings, and instillations. I like to study the more common and often over looked using the inquisitive nature of a child's perspective to...
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My practice revolves around a discourse on painting. These paintings are figurative and stylised to produce images of mainly solitary women. Most of the pieces evolve from a personal process of performance and photography which I then transform through the medium of paint to explore notions of femininity and identity. I am deeply...
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Working in a range of media, my practice deals with the search for meaning and synchronicity via (seemingly) illogical or irrational means. Reinterpreting material such as superstition, myth, rumour, ritual and prophecy collected either first hand (direct interviews, recordings, conversations, anecdotes) or via the internet; narratives and systems...
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My work is inspired by a contemporary play with Romanticism and I like to challenge preconceived notions associated with these theories. This results in a constant interplay between the contemporary and traditional. Along with contemporary artists, I draw my inspiration from JMW Turner and the philosophy of Edmund Burke. The...
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I have recently completed my Masters in Fine Art at Bath Spa University. My work is primarily about Spaces of all kinds; ambiguous spaces between reality and fiction, some imaginary and some habitable. I explore the vulnerability of the individual through notions of shelter and protection in contrast to boundaries and restriction. ...
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James R Ford is a British artist whose practice is concerned with childhood past-times, pursuits and obsessions. His body of work consists of projects and investigations based around observations, process and play: ranging from a formula predicting Bond film plot structure, to tracking the lives of cigarette lighters, to covering a Ford...
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With my working practice I am constantly fascinated by people; the different degrees possible in the relationships between me and you, us and them, him and her. I find that relationships are all about choice. One can choose to be involved with another, one can choose to ignore the other, also to what degree does one share oneself with that...
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Concepts The theme of relationships between people runs through much of my work. When I an structuring a painting, what I am doing is structuring relationships. I see a deep analogy between how relationships are structured by family, culture, social activity, or place, and the structure of relationships in a...
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Concepts/themes/ideas Underpinning my practice is my concern with the nature of the creative process and the condition and location of art production. My work has evolved from the making of single objects in the studio to the making of site-specific installations and the realisation of socially engaged, collaborative...
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Intrinsic to my work are the details and scenes, the fragilities and brutalities, of contemporary human existence whether actual or fictitious. I incorporate photography and sound within my practice, combining a documentary approach with staging and construction to create both accounts of the real world and self-contained fictions. I often...
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The volume of traffic on the A127 in Essex has grown fast. The road is now un-crossable on foot. Martin Wakelin, landscape architect to the project, described the bridge's purpose as to "re-form severed connections north-south, for pedestrians,...
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Unforeseen circumstances have left a gap in my diary that some of you may wish to take advantage of. It is rare for me to be able to take work on at such short notice so give it some thought. I am available for Portraits but I would prefer to produce work in line with my usual practice. A selection of rough sketches can be emailed...
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Since graduating in 2006 my work has continued to explore of space using the medium of photography. Using various processes in the production of photographic imagery, my work is an attempt to re-stage the real world in pictorial space, manipulating senses of scale and the perception of landscapes and the built environment. My work is concerned with...
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Susan Ashworth was born on the Isle of Portland in Dorset and grew up in a landscape of stone quarries, cliffs and wide views across field and scrub to open sea. Having studied Fine Art in Falmouth, Cornwall, she has continued to live on the South Coast, seeking out its remoter corners and open spaces for her work. Long walks...
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My work is predominantly hand thrown on the wheel using red earthenware clay and slip decorated using slip trailing and sgraffito.  I make functional pots because I enjoy seeing my work used and enjoyed, my pieces are created to be useful and at the same time beautiful to look at.  I am fascinated and thrilled by constantly developing...
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Concepts Currently I am making contemporary history painting concerned with depicting aesthetically the use of aircraft as weapons of terror. The horror of the 9/11 hijacks and crashing of civilian passenger aircraft into the twin towers in New York made me realise the contemporary meaning of the sublime in art: I want...
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My work is shaped by my interest in history and its effect on our human condition. The way I handle art materials and make images is informed by ideas, aesthetics and activities that define aspects of our culture and identity.
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I think about time all the time. Whichever medium I use, I use it to think about years, hours, minutes and seconds. I have a lot of questions I am trying to answer: What is time? Where does it go? Can I play with it? Can I travel through it in a different direction? Can I waste it as well as gaining it? Will time eventually run out? The work I make...
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I am an architectural glass artist and painter. My glass is made to commission. I work in the public realm in healthcare and schools in particular but also in the commercial sector and on private commissions. My aim is to design work that is beautiful or at least aesthetically pleasing, that fulfils the brief and complements the architecture and...
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In recent years I have worked on several extensive series of paintings. These are: 2000-02 Swoosh! (8 paintings) 2002-03 Pixel Perceptions (15 paintings) 2002 Hand of God (5 paintings) 2003 MindGames (6 paintings) 2004 Black Holes (7 paintings) 2004-05 Plane Crazy (11 paintings) 2006 EyeSaw (7 paintings)
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Concepts Watercolourist specialising in scenes of local interest. Cityscapes and people are my favourite subjects and I enjoy using pen and wash for maximum impact. My approach is quite detailed and graphic and I tend to favour strong architectural elements in my paintings using figures to give scale and perspective to the...
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My work currently involves the use of textiles and stitch in an exploration of drawing. Figures are stitched onto a white background using black thread and leaving the threads loose to create a looser scribbly style. The figures are removed from their situations in order to explore how a sense of place is formed by the people in a...
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Multiple Spaces, my current project, is a series of wall-based art-works in which spatial phenomena and reflected light constitute the main themes. Images of interior spaces slightly obscured by semi-transparent materials, merge with and alter existing spaces to create hybrid works that exist between a window, mirror or semi-transparent curtain....
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McGonigal is an established artist and curator currently based in the UK represented by ArdBia Berlin. She has shown internationally and been involved in important curatorial projects, including the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and Elsewhere, Paris 1996. Her current practice consists of pencil drawings on paper, both minimal and...
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I am an artists printmaker working mainly in the intaglio processes, including carborundum prints. My work is inspired by the subject of manual work and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The experience and inspiration...
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Concepts My work reflects the complexities of the world we live in, portraying both its beauty and its decay. Using a wide range of photographic and sculptural techniques, the collections of work I produce are both seductive and yet challenging to our perceptions of how we reside, relate to and experience our world...
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Concepts The series Aphrodite began in 1991 with paintings celebrating the life of the goddess. From these paintings came the books which now make up Aphrodite's Library. The library is an on-going project. In September 2002 the books were buried near to where Aphrodite is said to have come ashore in Cyprus and subsequently...
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