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My practice can be loosely divided into three categories: Sculpture/Installation, the Collection and Text Art, though it also incorporates other disciplines such as Collage, Photography and Performance. I would describe my work as conceptual but with a comedic sensibility. Language and wordplay are also key elements, as well as humour also (comic...
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Using everyday materials and spaces, I explore gaps and overlaps between drawing and photography, embroidery and drawing, spatial and embroidery; all the while questioning my understanding of each. Photographs are both a beginning, and an end in themselves. Individual surroundings may appear in photographs, though any sense of the personal or...
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Heritage interpretation plays an important part in Theresa Easton’s practice. Easton is interested in exploring cultural and historical episodes using contemporary printmaking processes. Central to Easton’s creative practice is the role of printmaking. Easton is interested in pushing the boundaries in printmaking and working with...
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British artist Ian Wilkins (b.1986) graduated from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2011 with an MFA in Fine Art specialising in printmaking. He currently works as a visiting tutor at the London Print Studio and is an associate tutor in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design. He has recently been selected as Artist-In-Residence for...
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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Concepts My granite sculptures express my love and concern for the human and animal condition. They address issues that are universal and relevant to today. War Veteran on loan to the World War 2 Museum at Bletchley Park illustrates the human cost of landmines. Fallen Christ, sited on the pilgrimage Island of Iona portrays the need for...
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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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The objects I am designing and making look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Their features can trigger an association, a memory; of something you have used or seen before. My reference points are usually photographs – taken of things I see on the street - litter, recycling, abandoned furniture; or items in buildings...
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Light is an important element in my practice as it gives life and energy to my work. My fascination with the ethereal quality of light and how it can be used as a tangible material began with my observation of sunlight's interaction in the natural world. Through light and plastic interplay, I explore the boundaries between art, science and nature...
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The drawings start with a sort of hunch, an impulse that 'this might work'. Each mark gives rise to another mark in response. It is as if the drawings create space for the ebb and flow of sensations and impulses, for memory to do its work: the past inserting itself into the present. My work is concerned with suggested subjectivities, narratives...
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Concepts Ailsa graduated from Cardiff University in 1999 with a first class honours degree in Ceramics.  Her work experiments with a wide variety of decorative wheel thrown pieces and handbuilt sculptures which concentrate on form rather than function and explore both negative and positive space and the movement suggested within those spaces...
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My art originates from observations of the incidental characteristics of the built environment. I gather inspiration in the ordinary, everyday surroundings I pass through by capturing the accumulation of history left behind in disused or forgotten areas. Aged surfaces and neglected structures hold a variety of clues as to the interests,...
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My sculptures are primarily influenced by a preoccupation with abandonment and artificiality, which I explore through working with a variety of materials and a sense of theatricality and absurdity. Embarking with deliberately ambiguous aims, I progress through reacting intuitively to images and materials. This approach lends its self to a...
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The landscape around me offers the basis of my inspiration. Finding forms worn away over time intrigues me, either by weathering or erosion. I am drawn to naturally occurring curves produced over time by these processes, such as an ancient step found at the entrance of a church. I was recently awarded a grant from the Arts Council of Wales titled...
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I am passionate about and principally an object maker. My work, my sculpture, is informed by different aspects of my history - in particular, where the anthropomorphic language of furniture meets architectural references, drawing and teaching. Through an abstract language, using metaphor, ambiguity, symbol and myth (when myth transcends time and...
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Although I have often used paint, since moving to France in 2002 I have increasingly focused on making installation, site-specific installation, constructed art work, photography and printmaking. I am influenced by abstraction but like to collect objects I have found or been given, searching out simple everyday materials which I seek to transform...
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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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Concepts My main work is installation and object-based. I'm interested in cultural conditioning & hierarchies. Areas of workPrimary educationSecondary educationAdult educationCommunity artsExhibitingLecturingPublic artResidenciesRadio/TV Collections Rabas Museum, Hredle, Czech RepublicSainsbury Collection,...
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I have been making work for a number of years now from various workshops in London. Over the years I have gained valuable experience in working in the public domain dealing with architects, designers, planners etc and all that it entails namely research, planning, costing, liaising, and of course the construction. I work in steel and all its...
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I work with installation and have developed aspects of this work as video. My work takes the form of energy fields unexpectedly made visible, with a core theme of renewal, at times relating to environmental issues, the metaphysical and spirituality in its deepest sense. I work through the materials exploring their inbuilt properties and how they...
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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 address the gap between the world and our representations of it, often making use of machines and methods that promise precision and objectivity, but ultimately reveal the human presence. I have a particular interest in photography and its relationship to memory, and in using drawing to re-present movement. 'What we observe is not nature...
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Interested in: The human machine interface, people's perception and interpretation of space, systematic repetitive movements, precision, illusion, order, rules, form following function, craftsmanship, sequences, architecture, surfaces, the colour red, hinges, levers, cams, systems as concepts, reciprocating motion, undulating, rotating, control. ...
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These works are concerned with the abstract qualities of space, colour and form. I wished to create a sensation of movement and energy in complex spaces. I work directly in an intuitive state, allowing brush marks, colours and forms to be dictated by the sounds and images of the natural world, whilst reducing their visual complexity down to the...
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My art practice mixes textiles and the use of stitch as a mark-making tool, with more traditional fine art media such as drawing, painting, collage and photography. Inspired by artists such as Keith Haring, Mark Newport and Grayson Perry, my work attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art and places itself in between the definitions...
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Concepts Joseph Ingleby's work concerns a combination of two sources - the natural and the mechanistic. Not as two opposing natures, but as a combined, evolved new form - a metamorphosis of inner natures - reflected in shape and content. Joe usually works with metals such as sheet steel, galvanised steel or copper to create abstracted and...
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In my work I use, adapt and transform domestic objects and create sculptural forms that are inspired by a variety of elements drawn from social and personal histories. I also create immersive installations that use craft elements, drawing and photography drawing on traditions of assemblage and installation.  I am interested in ideas...
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ConceptsMy practice has involved the exploration of locations through the use of maps. The locations include interior spaces and landscape. The maps are used to create references to location both metaphorically and symbolically and to provide the basis for explorations of space. The significance of maps with their territorial references are...
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Addressing the chronologies and legacies of pioneer Modernism Karl's work is a testament to the integrity and invention of that visionary era, an attempt to recapitulate the revolutionary spirit to invoke memories of how the future used to be. Utilising the detritus of our post-industrial landscape Karl attempts to transform the ordinary into...
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Concepts My work is 'about' rather than 'of' landscape. I prefer to get involved with a landscape and aim to say something about its past and present. I am especially interested in the impact that mankind has had on the land through industrial, agricultural, ritual and military use and increasingly with ecological issues. I was commissioned...
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