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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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I'm making art for over 20 years by now. For the last 10 years I devoted mostly my work for a public realm. I work with different kind of materials, mostly steel but also I use balloons with gas, kinetic motion or projection. I don't perceive my work as a ritual; There is no absolute, or no another steady point in art. The art is partly an elusive...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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What breathes? (Reflections on the art of Clara S Rueprich by Jan Kuhlbrodt, 2004) In his late work written in the mid-seventies, Experimentum Mundi, Ernst Bloch describes nature simply as the outside, where there is an enigmatic breathing, with the question „what breathes?“ occupying an impersonal gap. The outside definitely...
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My current practice explores human and nature relationship. In my artwork I examine different possibilities in interpretation of human alienation from nature by hinting at consumer lifestyle as a probable reason. My work implies landscape elements, regarding landscape as a portrait of nature. Landscape can be looked at as a focus for the...
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Ryan McClelland was born in Liverpool in 1978, he moved to London in 1997 to study at Camberwell College of Art, subsequently studying at Goldsmiths College and then obtaining his MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2007. His work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the Oscar Neiymer Museum in...
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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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My practice investigates architecture, urban spaces, and the city’s relationship to contemporary art practice. Working across painting, photography, installation, video, sound and curation, works and projects explore the transitory and contradictory nature of cities, and address the physicality and social history of urban spaces. Ideas and...
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My work explores the concepts of power, politics, history, identity and death through irony and humour. I am interested in how they influence beliefs and perceptions by altering and subverting them. From here derives the desire to further explore the need for uncertainty and the metaphysical loneliness of the human being, addressing such...
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With a mixture of cement, filler PVA and oil paints I build brick walls on board. I carve in intricate bricks using a knife and nails to bring about a textured and tactile surface, into which I can scratch, literally attack, make marks and onto which I can apply different painting languages. Graffiti is one kind of mark making I explore in my...
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My diverse art practice is united by ongoing research exploring the relationship between images created for public or personal consumption, focusing on the language of domestic photography. Traditional family album images are shaped by strict, but generally unacknowledged, conventions that form a series of fixed narratives. Within my practice...
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Reading his palm Bob and Roberta Smith declared Daniel Lehan to be: The Most Stubborn Artist I Have Ever Met ! Frog Morris - Curator, Poet and Performer - says:  Daniel's works often begin with simple instructions that any man, or woman, in the street can follow: ‘Make a sign saying what you want’, ‘write...
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Concepts Victoria Rance’s work is concerned with the exploration of human behaviour and the boundaries between the self and others. It investigates human interaction within different physical and social environments. Her work creates a sense of place, encouraging people to become more aware of their body in its physical environment....
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Plane wreckage falls from the sky after fifty years; enigmatic objects are found littering the earth; the cockpit is a riddle of dials impervious to interpretation. The drawings and objects here use a vocabulary of motifs: plane; bunker; tower; clearing; sky and sphere with materials that carry a weight of meaning such as ash, gold, lead,...
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Text Art The Uncertainty Series is an ongoing body of work that mimics the ‘track changes’ function in word processing programs. This format allows Charnock to reveal the doubts she experiences during her art-making – giving solid form to meandering and often contradictory thoughts. An installation at Mid Pennine Gallery took...
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Photoworks by MASLEN & MEHRA are included in collections such as Tattinger Switzerland, Art Es Collecion Madrid, numerous international private collections and more recently the Altered Landscape Collection, Nevada Museum of Art which includes artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Edward Burtynsky, Amy Stein, David Maisel, and...
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Born in 1974, Ben Cove grew up in Manchester and currently lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with an MFA in 2008 having previously completed undergraduate degrees in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001 and Architecture at The University of Nottingham in 1995. Since 2001 he has...
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  Olivia PlenderThe Masterpiece - Part One, Strange Adventures, 2003 Julie Brixey-Williams, Lilah Fowler, Maria Kontis, Kate Davis, Sue Williams, Olivia PlenderCurated by Anna LovattProvisional, quotidian, humble and unassuming, the practice of drawing was often overlooked by critics and curators during the modernist period. But...
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Artists statement I am interested in revealing images which are very strong; that offer a glimpse of past worlds and indistinct realities; where the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, and memories take on a life of their own. My work in video, photography and moving-image installation investigates the nuances of moments in the...
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I am interested in the primacy of structure or agency in human behaviour, I look at systems and structures that control us and make drawings to represent this. In capitalist societies the individual is regarded as a self-conscious responsible agent, whose actions can be explained by his or her beliefs and thoughts. This is acquired within the...
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Concepts Julie Brixey-Williams is a British artist who lives and works in London, where she has exhibited regularly. Her work explores the relationship that the body shares with space and architecture and the gestural marks that we leave behind. Working in various media, including photography, video, installation, performance and drawing,...
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'Ian Gonczarow works in the traditional artworld genre of painting, yet he forces the paint into images of cultural and political dissent. The heraldic insignia of world power politics - the Stars and Stripes, heroic soviet statuary, all cack-handedly reproduced with meticulous care - are filtered through the blatant bad taste aesthetics of...
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Karen Knorr, an American, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and was raised in San Juan Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London. Karen has taught, exhibited and lectured internationally including The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths College and The Art Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches...
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Concepts/themes/ideas  My art practice has been concerned with the nature of the creative process, the condition of the art object in the expending field of sculpture / installation. Located in a wide range of socio-cultural contexts, including public and non-art spaces, my work explores the concepts of ‘the art making in the...
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I work from images of people, using the reproductions of their painted and sculpted portraits reduced to thumbnails on Google. Deriving elements from the print outs, and then splicing and reconstructing the fragmented parts forms the basis of exploring these images of individuals and how they have been represented throughout history. My...
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Gayle Chong Kwan (b. 1973, Edinburgh) is a Scottish-Chinese Mauritian artist. Gayle was nominated for Open Frequency in 2005 by Mark Sealy, former director of Autograph, London.To view the artist's current work and to contact the artist go to: Gayle Chong Kwan on Axis
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My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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Cry Me Cats and Dogs* Performing Rights Glasgow, Sunday 10 February 2008. Tramway, Glasgow. Performing Rights Glasgow is the third event of its kind, following previous appearances in Vienna (2007) and London (2006). Devoted to ideas around performance and human rights, it was curated in collaboration with the Live Art Development...
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My work is concerned with the visceral and the sensual. It draws upon anatomical drawing and botanical illustration, but occupies a liminal territory between scientific enquiry and the subjective, imaginary body. My recent work investigates the relationship between innocence, consumption and desire. In each piece, a...
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Luke Elwes (b.1961, London) studied at Camberwell Art School (1983 - 85) and recently completed his postgraduate research at Birkbeck, London University. Elwes also a writes about contemporary painters for journals including Modern Painters, Royal Academy Magazine and Galleries magazine, and has helped organise exhibitions in public collections,...
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My work attempts to make re-representations of structures and networks that through scale and complexity defy a singular visualisation. Iconic buildings, entire cities and geographical phenomena are presented as complete entities in sound, text and video works. Recent works have included installations, sound works and text pieces.
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Socio-political themes are intrinsic to all the projects I pursue. I am currently exploring globalisation and disconnectedness in a hyper-real world. Visually, the images I digitally create are based on photographs I have taken of rural Asian landscapes. This practice has now extended to local scenes of London. These depict scenarios from the...
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