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Fiona Curran's paintings, installations and assemblages explore the impact of new digital technologies on our experience of landscape space. The works reveal a recurring utopian impulse, formal idealism and sense of escapism that registers in a palette borrowed from the computer screen and advertising. There's a sense of spatial...
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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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'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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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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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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James Evans It is my intention with the outline and form, that the pieces conjure up an infinite number of references, at the same time remaining uncluttered and as economic with line as possible. The references are sourced from nature, machinery, architecture and anatomy, and usually remembered for the way one is juxtaposed against another...
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Mimei Thompson's work delves deep into a dark underworld where brush and pen marks coalesce into distorted faces, body parts and organic forms. These alien sprites are in a constant state of flux and unrest, monsters of the id that rail against the pictorial frame like untamed scientific specimens pounding against the glass walls of a bell jar....
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Robert Orchardson makes sculptures inspired by science fiction imagery and futuristic design, using lo-tech materials such as wood and resin or found objects. He has a nostalgia for the utopian tendencies of the modernist period and focuses on shapes and objects which defined that aesthetic. Forms pictured briefly in novels or film are crafted...
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Artist statement 'Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have consistently objectified all this in the visual, spiritual and cultural triggers which have for years forced the internal lyrical motives that impelled me to create. This is the most sincere...
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HIDDEN (Forest) Stuart Bailes studied Photographic Art at the University of Wales, Newport, graduating in 2007. His work centres on nocturnal landscapes rendered strange by the use of artificial lighting. Part biographical, part investigative, his pictures are a subtle commentary on memory and forgetting, of rural spaces rich in Romantic...
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach The mouth is probably the most ambivalent of our orifices, made to kiss and bite, suck and spit, eat, laugh and swallow. It serves both tenderness and cannibalism. 'Eat me' (2006) coarsely evokes the possibilities of this fascinating cavity, slapping lipstick on a lump of guts. Marilyn's...
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‘ I stood there in the dark with my father, in silence, and we knew that we were both sad, that we could not speak of it and that we both drew something from the dark.’ Lavinia greenlaw ‘The Importance Of Music To Girls’. The drawings I make of places, objects and people attempt to reinhabit and somehow explain emotional states or a feeling....
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My aim is to remind the audience of someone they know when they look at my work. The person they see depends on who they are. I am curious about what sorts of things can make a person be recognised or differentiated from others. Yuko Nasu Imaginary Portrait Series, Y, 2007 Selected by Liz...
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Chameleon Body In Grimm's fairytale Rapunzel the titular character extends her fair hair from her tower prison to allow access to her prince saviour. However, rumbled by her captor witch, one day the prince climbs the 'golden stair' to be confronted instead by the evil crone who has cut short Rapunzel's braided hair and cast her out into the...
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Tereza Buskova (b.1978, Prague) is a Czech artist who has been based in London after completing her Fine Art Printmaking MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her intuitive practices capture and renew Czech folk traditions through a combination of film making, screen printing and performance. She has proudly developed collaborative creative...
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I operate variously as an artist, producer and curator. The focus of all of my practice is a commitment to reinstating performance as a vital, progressive methodology within contemporary art. It is my aim to revive an ethos of collaboration between artists, dancers, theatre makers, filmmakers, political activists and comedians to make challenging,...
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Rebecca Lennon combines text, film, sound, photography, performance and installation in an ongoing process of gathering, collecting, montage and reinterpretation. Relating the seemingly unrelated and drawing from the everyday, illogical, and discarded things that often slip out of the landscape unnoticed, Lennon is interested in communication and...
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'Dispositions (Finlandia Hall)', 2004(click to enlarge images) Jon Wood: We were talking earlier about medium and categorisation in relation to your practice...
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Jesus Jimenez works in photography, video and installation to explore his relationship to the world. He declares a personal obsession for order, the object and the trace it leaves behind. He creates staged scenarios using various materials and objects – from ping-pong balls to toilet rolls – placed in everyday interiors, such as corridors and...
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Artist statement My work is concerned with object/context relationships and explores a gamut of ideas and methods in order to arrive at an interesting proposition. In recent years I have developed a practice that enables me to extrapolate ready-made objects from environments that I have been influenced by and regurgitate them to a desired...
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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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