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Timothy Leonard Shutter

Concepts Two main qualities seem to sum up my sculpture: My commitment to using stone, and my desire to make works that include a sense of fun. This has often been achieved by playing with the expectations of the material. For instance, I have carved hard sandstone coping into rows of soft cushions which could be sat upon whilst...
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Suki Chan

Suki Chan uses light, moving image and sound to explore our physical and psychological experience of space. She is drawn to light as a physical phenomenon, and the role it plays in our constantly shifting daily experience of our environment, be it urban or rural. Working with a spectrum of scale, Chan transports us from a macro view of space, a...
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Tod Hanson

I'm interested in a world over amplified and speeding up, the telescoping of industrialised environment, consumerism, technology, celebration, waste and war through time. My current work can also be seen as a combination of past experience gained producing large scale graphic works with Greenpeace UK and painting nightclub interiors. I combine...
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Jennie Savage

Working through a process that uses archiving and intervention I seek to map the other life of a place or community in order to represent a multi- faceted place.  Using the traditions of story telling and the processes of documentary, historical research methods, psycho geography and imagined other lives the work adopts a phenomenological...
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Andrew Dodds

Andrew Dodds is a Belfast-born artist currently based in London. He is particularly noted for his collaborative works exploring our historical, social and political relationship with 'nature', the voice and the shared potentialities of public space. He consistently engages and acknowledges others in the imagining, production and...
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London Fieldworks

Animal ArchitectureTrends for ecological cultural projects and micro-architecture converge in the latest work by London Fieldworks, 'Super Kingdom' (2008). This site-specific installation for the ancient forest of King's Wood, in Kent, is a trilogy of show homes designed for native and non-native animals called 'Ceausescu',...
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Claire Morgan

Location: Bretts Aggregates Ltd, Whitstable HarbourCommissioner: Canterbury City CouncilConsultant: Insite Arts This installation by artist Claire Morgan aims to create a striking focal point in the night sky. The work plays with the scale of the site, Brett Aggregates Ltd, and celebrates the contrasts...
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Tania Kovats

Entering the dramatic space of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum (NHM) one cannot help but be impressed by the grandeur of the architecture and the intricate detail of the decorative carvings and paintings integrated into the building at every turn. The tremendous height of the ceiling draws the gaze upwards to the colourful painted...
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Simon Faithfull

We have all experienced that quiet sense of panic when we have lost something important – we cannot find our credit card while waiting to pay or we return to the wrong parking space and imagine our car has been stolen - and the sense of relief when, sometimes, everything is okay. LOST documents what happens when an artist, Simon Faithfull,...
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protoPLAY

protoPLAY is a transdisciplinary art group who set up interesting ways to explore the problematics of authorship, collaboration and the self in the context of contemporary society, whilst engaging audiences with exciting and challenging work. We create collaborative strategies for best developing and displaying transdisciplinary and process led...
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Michael Pinsky

'Routes' explores the permeability of monocultures and specifically how a Park & Ride (P&R) bus route might be perceived as alien and detached from its surroundings, offering only one service to its customers. Pinsky engages with P& R users views and aspirations, re-considers the schemes connections with...
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Ron Haselden

Follow the trail of links for Ron Haselden on this website, and you will see something of the importance and impact of this artist, particularly in terms of public art. He has a prior nomination on Public Realm, for a piece featured in the 2006 Liverpool Biennale.Anyone involved in major public art projects will appreciate the stamina,...
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Ron Haselden

Follow the trail of links for Ron Haselden on this website, and you will see something of the importance and impact of this artist, particularly in terms of public art. He has a prior nomination on Public Realm, for a piece featured in the 2006 Liverpool Biennale.Anyone involved in major public art projects will appreciate the stamina,...
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Antony Gormley

CollectionsArts Council of Great BritainBirmingham City CouncilThe Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)British CouncilThe British Museum (London)Contemporary Arts SocietyHenry Moore Foundation for the Study of SculptureJesus College (Cambridge)Leeds City Art GalleryScottish National Gallery of Modern Art, EdinburghSouthampton City Art GalleryTate Gallery...
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Danny Lane

Danny Lane (b.1955) has been working in London since the 80s. He studied as a painter and went on to establish an international reputation for his extraordinary sculpture and furniture which challenged the boundaries of Art and Design.In the early 1990s his focus shifted to making large scale, steel and glass sculptures for public and corporate...
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David Mach

David Mach working in his studio "Lost Marbles" - a pun, referring both to the Elgin Marbles and losing one's mental faculties - is going to be a piece about the British Museum and, more broadly, about ancient treasures, art and artefacts, who they are created for, and how they are treated. David plans to make a...
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