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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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Ravishing Beauty: The Aesthetics of Rape in Grace Ndiritu's video Desert Storm, by Caroline Bagenal for After Image Magazine, Issue 39, 1&2, 2011 Desert Storm (2004) is a disturbing and powerful video by the young British artist Grace Ndiritu. In this haunting reminder of war's female casualties, Ndiritu addresses war and rape as a tool...
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Concepts I make prints and paintings responding to the local landscape. In a mostly arable landscape I necessarily engage with current farming techniques as well as the natural changes that occur. The work is intended to be a document as well as an expression. Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and...
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“The poet scans the landscape with his hermeneutic gaze, but it remains trackless, refuses to emerge into meaningfulness as a landscape of signs”. J.M.Coetzee – “Disgrace” – 1999 My aim is to search for portent and potential narrative in the overlooked and seemingly insignificant aspects of the everyday. We are all surrounded by the...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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My work consists of divergent visual forms, from stand-alone photographs and meticulously handcrafted collages, digital prints to semi-functional architectural/sculptural works and large-scale installations. Linking these forms and disparate visual references is an interest in landscape, geometry and colour. London-based artist Henna Nadeem...
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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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Over the last two years I have concentrated solely on taking photographs. After working across different media over the the years I have finally found that photography truly unlocks my creative potential. It came as something of a revelation that the images I have produced express my individual response to the world around me. From the city...
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Sculptural practice and thought allows a very real exploration of the physical world. All its aspects fascinate me. My work is fuelled by diverse sources and open patterns of thought. Current work explores extremes of visibility, experience, material nature, location and situation. Time’s relationship with matter is a recurrent interest...
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Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in 1980, Niall MacDonald creates sculptures through a process of mould-making and casting of found objects in plaster, jesmonite and rubber. Using the strategies of bricolage Macdonald juxtaposes the detritus from our commodity-driven culture with ancient fossils, natural forms from his Hebredean home and the...
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Combining original and appropriated imagery with a conceptual approach, Birkin's work reflects on the failure of images and the relationship between photography and loss. At its core is a concern for the intersection between the personal and the political, and limitations on visibility: absence, the ephemeral, and the ineffable. Through talks,...
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Beginning with literary conceptions of a ‘room’, Sara Barker explores constructs of a working and living space in relation to her own process of making. Working with metals, paint, wood and various art and craft making materials, Barker produces pared- down sculptures, presented as narrow silhouettes, either free-standing, installed on...
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My pictures derive from a delight in the world around. A play on the mundane and everyday reality we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic, some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind, nurture and reassure us in a world...
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Laura Buckley works with sculpture, video projection, light, sound and digital prints.Perspex, wood and metal structures are combined with video projection to create immersive installations. The wood and metal structures are often modular works which function as supports for technical equipment, seating for the viewer and as supports for the...
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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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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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My practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, I aim to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon my works' Romanticism but also its schizophrenic...
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Antony Hall creates discrete objects that attempt to defy entropy, harnessing elements of potential or kinetic energy and self-perpetuation. His work explores mechanical or fluid motion as well as biological phenomenon such as the behavior of animals. These works are often miniscule or apparently simple; yet invite closer observation...
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Using objects appropriated from cartoons as a starting point, Vincent James makes artwork across a range of media including painting, sculpture and animation. In this work props dislocated from different cartoon worlds collide, creating surreal and whimsical interactions. James’ sampling of popular culture and separation of objects from...
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My practise is centred on approaches to the substance of paint as a pre-loaded, genetic material where marks and surface, pigment, history, place and myth are part of a genetic code of painting as art. Supporting this approach, I use the context of how and where the painting is made to reference broader structures that inform the meaning of its...
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Blue has been given access to the National Library of Wales' (NLW) varied collections which consist of many of the Nation's treasures, including a broad range of materials such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and archives - not to mention the films, sound tapes and off-air recordings that are also housed there. The project was...
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View the Open Frequency section for further details. Riccardo Iacono: Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the Axis Directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. This month Ruth catches up with artist Riccardo Iacono to discuss his current work 'Lamp Posts', the limitations of vision and throwing peas...
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Working in film, video, animation and installation I investigate the layering of content and meaning that occurs across the production, presentation and documentation of moving image. I draw on new and traditional film and video production methods to reflect on the potential and limitations of the medium. Recent works expand beyond the screen;...
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Recognition begins the instant we encounter any form of representation, our cognitive memory grasps onto certain aspects and we begin to interpret what we see. My current work is an investigation into this process of perception, how we forge mental links in order to understand. I am interested in the metaphor of language as a structure, one...
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My work reflects my personal experience of architecture and urban design. I spend a lot of time looking at and photographing details of buildings and architectural landscaping, to use as source material. In my current work I am interested in how art is often integrated into urban design at all levels, from public art commissions to architectural...
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Concepts I am a photographic artist who works within a context of fine art ideas. These images evolve from an ongoing artistic investigation which began as an exploration into the notion of home, memory, story and history within a Welsh cultural context. These works explores the intimacy of a garden space as a site of performance,...
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Allan Hughes is an artist based in Belfast and working out of Orchid Studios. His video work explores relationships and responses to the recorded voice and its role in the negotiation and remediation of historical narratives. Hughes’ works usually proceeds from research into the sites, documents and apparatus of recorded and remediated...
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Miranda Blennerhassett's work focuses on architecture and the perception of urban spaces. Through gaining an understanding of constructed space, and also of utopian attempts to create an idealised urban context in order to produce an idealised urban society, she makes work that references a purity of vision. As a counterpoint to this the works...
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'At the centre of Sarah Staton’s work is a dialogue between design, architecture, modernism, interior, exterior; the space between the work and the ground or support structures that exhibit the objects, and a little bit of life and fun without any cause for concern or angst-ridden guilt.' (Stephen Snoddy, 2012)Sarah Staton studied at...
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My work seeks to address the way photography has been deployed to reinforce notions of gender in western society. Writers such as John Berger, Laura Mulvey and Richard Dyer have correlated binary concepts of male/female with activity and passivity and looking and being looked at. Through personal practice, an attempt is made to eschew this...
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Anne-Mie Melis work explores the visual nature of plants and their role in an increasingly technology-infiltrated world. Her main inspiration is science, focused towards plant biology and engineering. She uses a variety of media; large-scale architectural botanical drawings on paper, assembled objects, composed from plant parts or pruned shrubs,...
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I'm interested in making work from objects that are overlooked, unwanted or considered useless. I find that through the action of photographing an object or assemblage it can be transformed through this mechanical process, that although is likely to be a straightforward document; at the same time, has the potential to produce or perform...
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