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The charcoal drawings that were featured in the Cheltenham Drawing Prize exhibition in 2000, had moved from the observational, the drawing of things as they were, to an exploration of ideas through drawing. The story within the drawing is not pre-planned; it emerges from and with the work of the hand as it develops, the eye and the mind following...
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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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Concepts  For the past 19 years I have painted the landscape of Pembrokeshire. In the last 6 years I have begun exploring glass as a medium and have begun making conceptual pieces in response to historical and poetic stimulus as well as to landscape elements. Influences Environment/Ecology, Nature, Landscape, poetry I completed a B.A....
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Artist Statement Concepts My work is concerned with the experience of landscape and the notion of a sense of place. This is drawn from the North European landscape tradition, mediated by practice, a material awareness always to the fore, but post modernism, the work of the archaeologist and the continuing search for a public role for the things...
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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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I use a range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. I am interested in exploring the relationship between fantasy and the real and the locations in which these two worlds collide. I am drawn to effigies of the living, uncanny, half-alive objects such as puppets, automata, figures that were made with a specific purpose...
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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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CARWYN EVANS works in mixed media, photography and installation to explore issues related to his individual sense of place.His first solo exhibition That Morning He Watched The Dawn recently took place at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown and contained work that reflects Evans’ personal experiences while exploring broader social and political shifts...
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Concepts I work with all media producing a wide range of work from simple tinplate automata to complex interactive installations. Imagery is drawn from extensive travel, folk/naive art and 'The Book of Wonder'. Influences Folk art, Ancient cultures/Myths Career path Qualifications: 1986 Higher Diploma,...
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ConceptsMy work consists of machines that either move or have a latent element of movement. Many works have a particular object at their core that is animated, subverted or celebrated. Some machines require intervention by the viewer, others work continually and others are static. Each has a character beyond my design.They embrace uncertainty,...
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ConceptsI lead a dreamlike inquiry into the spirit of place, seeking evidence in a visual form, working with light and shade in two and three dimensions, vainly hoping to crystallise the fourth. Glass is my love because of its sensuality and mystery, but I am not monogamous. Architecture and the environment provide the stage, the role changes...
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Concepts I live a quiet and simple life in the hills of mid-coast Wales, and my work reflects that. I am inspired by trees and the sea. In my personal history they mean refuge, but it isn't important to know that to appreciate the work. It is just where I'm coming from and why there is the affinity. I really like the fact that they appear...
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ConceptsSince starting to work in three-dimensions, I have developed the ability to visualise potential in unlikely objects. This has meant that my imagination has been exercised continually for 30+ years - and it continues to be so, either by requests from clients, or by my own ideas. 'Aero-engines', 'Plumbing', 'Early photography' 'Oil rigs',...
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Concepts My work as an environmental sculptor has explored themes of continuity and energy. There is an increasing focus on water in all its aspects, behaviour, altered states and symbolism and an interest in sustainable energy for kinetic work. The water theme has led to the exploration of new materials - glass, both cast and blown,...
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ConceptsI work with the forms of body, plant and land and with opposing tensions in form, size, materials and processes. I work in series relating to conformities and conflict, construction, destruction, agreements and reciprocal processes.InfluencesAesthetic/formal concerns. Landscape of rock forms and water. The human figure and ancient...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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Stephen West is an artist mainly using drawing and sculpture in wood and#or stone in a dynamic figurative style.He was Director Creative Development for Safle, the public arts organisation for Wales, from 2007 to 2008 and previously Co-Director for Cywaith Cymru Artworks Wales and Head of the Residency Programme. He has worked as a gallery curator...
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I am interested in making things. I work in a fine art way but quite often use craft skills in my work. I am interested in the day to day, the otherwise ordinary. objects that have a bearing on me and my life. I have also worked extensively on landscape drawings, drawing and redrawing the views from my windows. I am really interested in ideas...
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ConceptsThe body of work made by Alison Lochhead reflects upon the memory of actions and experiences of people over time. The earth retains the marks made by humans and their presence which they leave behind. Humans appear to make very slow social and political process. The mistakes and behaviours of the past are constantly repeated, little...
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Visual Attraction'If we define art as part of the realm of experience, we can assume that after a viewer looks at a piece he leaves with the art, because the 'art' has been experienced.' (James Turrell, 2007)My work is largely an exploration concerned with the themes of pattern, reflection and repetition, and positive and negative...
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Concepts I am currently developing ideas about humankind's interaction with its environment and the position an artist takes in a technologically advanced, culturally-rich society. I am interested in art made by 'non-professionals' who react to an uninitiated desire to make images and objects. Some of my work uses this kind of instinct, for...
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Morag Colquhoun's recent work includes video, sculpture, installation, text and performance. She often works site-specifically with communities in environmental contexts and is interested in developing work that emerges from a zone of uncertainty, exchange and dialogue. In People are Still the Same, a project supported by Safle, Colquhoun explored...
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Concepts My work is currently based on the exploration of natural and urban landscape. It is about experiencing landscape, having encounters with new landscapes and creating an intuitive, evocative rhythm. Colour is an important element. A new series of Talking Heads explore portraits and foliate heads I juxtapose collaged layers of glass,...
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It's the mundane, domestic rituals that we perform daily yet barely give a second thought to that fascinate ceramicist Zoe Preece. These usually overlooked moments – such as making a cup of tea, preparing a meal or washing up the dishes – are the focus of the artist's compelling work, which reconsiders the significance of the...
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The apportionment of space and time are predominant factors in our 'being' and the disruption of these foundations impels us to question and seek to substantiate our presumed reference.' Career path Qualifications: 1982 MA (RCA), Royal College of Art, London1977 BA Hons, Cardiff College of ArtTeaching Experience: 1997 Home Tutor,...
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Working with a range of artistic interventions and situations, including site-specific installation, video, three-dimensional photocopies and the readymade, Sean Edwards' sculptures set up situations that lead you into examining your viewing habits. Through a formal analysis of both the real and the fake, often employing a notion of absurdity in...
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Crop, installation, 2006 2006 saw a major exhibition of Simon Fenoulhet's work at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Called Another Light (2006), the work represented a culmination of many of Simon's ideas, chiefly to do with light and the transformation of everyday objects. Here, we focus on one piece of work...
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Sam Aldridge’s sculptural work uses low-fi construction techniques to create replicas of objects or environments that we encounter daily. Using a limited range of cheap, readily available materials, his subject matter has ranged from shower units to cutlery, breeze blocks to refuse skips. With a seemingly limited ‘palette’ of...
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ConceptsLandscape has always been the primary inspiration for my 3D work and drawing / painting a language of observation and research. Recently, man's interaction with the land, the marks he makes on it, combined with a fascination in geology and the 'anatomy' of the land, have been of prime importance to me. I am interested in the interface...
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Frankie Locke works in stoneware clay creating layered forms using coloured clays. Evocative objects, the works make a strong connection with weathered rocks and sea-washed pebbles but to me they also carry delightful memories of the swirling, streaky effects of plasticine. Carved out hollows are pressed on top to create the pools and undulations...
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PAUL BECKETT Sculptor / Clockmaker / Precision Design Engineer / Consultant Summary A highly experienced, award winning artist clockmaker melding the skills of a precision mechanical design engineer with the flair of a sculptor. A passion for research and development coupled with a very individual design handwriting underpins...
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