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The lure of the ‘false’ in painting forms the foundation of my work. Constructed landscapes and the psychology of fictional spaces make up the stage for an exploration of painting as a simulacra, not a representation. Ultimately, my paintings seek to picture something tangible, conjured up from our obsession with simulations and...
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Evans' practice deals with themes such as the sublime within catastrophe, social deprivation and social aesthetic. He features sub groups of society that live and survive on the fringes in contrast to the clean, ordered and consumerist utopia. Displaying people's urban survival strategies, Evans prompts the viewer to re-evaluate their own place,...
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In this body of work I have re-focused on my approach to abstract painting. The main images are taken from reproductions of art historical paintings. The human figure is removed, allowing the fabric and its folds to take centre stage. I have studied both historical and contemporary art to juxtapose possible relationships between the two. In the...
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Johana has a background in sculpture and has maintained a fascination with form, sometimes applying that to video and drawing. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she has exhibited widely, most recently at Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Johana is particularly interested in the humanity present in the inanimate...
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Constantly questioning the authenticity of the image in the digital age, I build new layers into the process of representation. Working with, and re-photographing, found photographic images already containing an element of staged reality - such as fancy dress costume packaging, 3-D bookmarks, archived reality-TV set design and packaged scale...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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I am a Welsh artist based in Cardiff and am pioneering a revolutionary new technique of three dimensional painting I call 'Gel'. Gel is a technique utilising the chemical properties of oil paint and hydrogel to produce a three-dimensional painting inside a transparent vessel. The paint is implanted into the gel and remains exactly where it is...
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Chiswell’s art embraces realism but this direct representation of nature is only a means to an end. Her art does not simply depict but endeavours to evoke through a visual language those things we do not see. Her perception of reality can be compared to a crime scene where clues are left to indicate what is happening. In much of her work she...
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My arts current practice draws upon my interests in stage magic and folk traditions. Props and costume are combined with song, text and other activities creating strange rituals. Placed within this context the magical effect becomes a mode of symbolic demonstration, creating narratives that often reference cultural myths and histories of the...
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Surfaces are layered with paint that overflows, dripping. Congested, thick impasto paint has been pushed and forced to create a painting, which is also an object of desire. These paintings are layered time after time until the upper layer explodes and transforms from its volcanic creation into a vivid landscape. These are eruptions of colour...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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Through photography of urban details, specifically pavements, I became interested in hard, sharp edges found on roads contrasted with the durable viscosity of road paint. I decided to use the road paint as a starting point for an investigation into the potentiality of the paint and the possibilities of painting as an object. My works are...
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My stance is akin to that of a Romanticist. There was a time in the early nineteenth century when to be a Romantic meant more than to be a dreamer or a love-sick youth. In fact it was as far back as the fifteenth century that Romantic was deemed to be all that was wild and fantastic;, that imagination which is most free. I find inspiration in...
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Primarily my artwork is self-portraiture, but not in the traditional sense. In the work I create a photographic copy of myself and photograph it in my place. She becomes a substitute and my visual representative. My work forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis and phenomenology I examine...
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My work examines ways in which digital technology can be used to stimulate new perceptions of museum artefacts. I explored the ceramic collection of the National Museum Wales to investigate ways in which digital 3D scanning and print technology can be used to re-imagine objects, thereby extending their narrative from the past into the present day....
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My work explores how the perception of three-dimensional ceramic forms can be manipulated by the application of arrangements of bands on their surfaces. Depending on the arrangement, using gradients of width, interval or tone, illusory spatial phenomena can appear and thus significantly influence the actual three-dimensional forms. The duration of...
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Liam O'Connor's work displays a technical finesse that is, at once, seductive, energetic and revealing. In simple terms, Liam is a portrait painter, but as with the best portrait painters, these are not mere representations of people, but studies that capture something more elusive. Through his work, Liam acknowledges that at one time, portrait...
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'Eve Dent has consistently pushed audiences in their expectations of performance. The subtlety of her work cuts through some of the po-faced bombast of much performance work'. (Anthony Shapland).Eve Dent is a Cardiff-based artist who has performed widely throughout the UK and Europe since 1999. Influenced by ideas of embodiment in...
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All things in life are connected and when events trigger change we work with it to see where it takes us. Nothing stays the same everything, everyone, all of life evolves. The material and processes in this work give form to this activity. Each object reflects significant points within the creative journey. My work is a reflection of my...
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Emilie is a Cardiff based artist whose current work encompasses a broad range of themes, principally dealing with issues relating to the body, the self, the environment, space and the notion of 'the other', which are approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Journeys and initiations are a crucial recuring theme in her work which mainly...
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Concepts I am interested in townscapes and the urban environment, particularly seaside resorts or industrial sites/estates and parks - anywhere where human activity comes up against nature. I like to contrast the artificial patterns of the architecture with natural forms. Often the places that act as starting points for paintings have a...
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My work explores the boundaries of touch, trace and emotion. Fundamentally developed by exploratory mark-making using paper, fabric and harder materials like silver and ceramics. Skilled in hand-rendered textile manipulation techniques, embellishment, embroidery and traditional screen-printing as well as digitally printed textile techniques...
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Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
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My work is interdisciplinary in nature; over the years I have utilised a range of media including performance, video, photography, text and predominantly, installation; both for conventional gallery spaces and in specific and diverse sites, from a bucolic woodland glade to a derelict ex-Soviet power station.In my installations I use existing...
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I am concerned with the materiality of the materials that I employ; their potency or potential as mediums. Whether it is the pooling of ink as it dries on cartridge paper or the print left on raw clay as the print is registered upon it. I am interested in how my actions can suggest an encapsulation of an action or event.I explore my practice...
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I paint solely on aluminium because I was seduced by the way it reflects light off its surface up through layers of transparent colour. I revel in the sumptuousness of paint as it sits on the cool surface of the metal. I am driven in the attempt to make beautiful paintings. I enjoy the craft of making, the accumulation of knowledge...
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Dave Cushley is an artist currently living and working in the UK. Primarily a sculptor, both in training and practice, but crossing over into the disciplines of installation, performance, and drawing. Exhibiting throughout the UK and internationally, his work is an irreverent fusion of the absurd, post-structuralism, and an unhealthy obsession...
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My work is my own language. I sculpt metaphorically the way that I see and feel things, intending to project the viewer to a dreamscape of sensuality and magic realism.This recent body of work is an allegory to the human condition, the Alchemical journey that an individual takes from birth to death in search of harmony and which can be manifest...
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