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Christiane Thalmann is an artist based in Sheffield, UK.  She is interested in various aspects of contemporary life. Subject matter has included issues around women, the effects of childhood and finding one's way in the world, relationships, and ideas around home and elsewhere. She employs a...
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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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Lisa Stansbie (b.1974) is an artist whose work crosses the disciplines of film, photography, sculpture, installation and digital practices. She has exhibited her work both in the U.K and Internationally. Her series of works Spitfire Beach (2010 - 2012)  used non-linear methods such as hyperlinking and internet search tools to construct...
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Normal 0 0 1 265 1514 12 3 1859 11.257 0 0 0 Normal 0 0 1 410 2342 19 4 2876 11.257 0 0 0 Morwenna has a degree in Art & Design and graduated with a Masters in Fine...
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Dominic Mason is and artist based in Sheffield and Scunthorpe in the Yorkshire and Humber region of England. He is co-director of Bloc Projects, Sheffield and exhibitions officer at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. 
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Tsendpurev Tsegmid is a Mongolian artist living in the UK, who investigates issues of heritage and identity from the perspective of her own cultural re-location. Originally trained in the discipline of traditional Mongolian painting, Tsendpurev now works in a contemporary art context. She uses photography and performance, combining both...
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My artistic practice encompasses a number of different styles of drawing and painting and a variety of different creative strategies. I use these to explore aspects of our physical and emotional relationship with nature. The complexity of this subject matter demands a complex response, so my work ranges from detailed, representational drawings to...
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Holly works with photography, essentially painting with her camera, and with painting to make abstract work exploring her compulsion to distort and recreate what she sees, seeking to make images that heighten her own emotional response to them.Her work explores the themes of discovery, change, memory, distortion, improvement, connection and...
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New statement pending. Claire Hope: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Ben Cook, founder Director of LUX, discusses his selection.Claire Hope is an artist for modern times, working at the hard edge of language and power relations, highly...
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My practice is versatile and not bound to any definitive subject or medium. I generally start a piece of work with something I've heard, read or written, therefore speech, words or defying language play a pivotal role. Misunderstandings and illusions are also extremely important, they infiltrate my work and frequently layer a sense of the uncanny....
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Our relationship with the past is changing. We receive and consume images and media consciously and unconsciously at a rate unfathomable to those born just a generation before. Through subtle coercion driven by commercial interests and rapid developments in consumer technology, we are being encouraged to loosen our grip on the physical and...
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Dr. Megan Smith is a new media artist with a PhD in Contemporary Art and Graphic Design from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research probes new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with geo-location, digital print, video, installation, and community projects as methods for storytelling....
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My practice has always had the ethos of making work which costs little or nothing to make. I class myself as a sculptor and although recently my practice has moved away from the making of objects towards digital media. All my work has sculptural elements; recent animations and drawings looked towards extending the flat surface into a three...
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My artworks often use words or a combination of text and image; I am intrigued by the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. My work attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have...
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Victoria Ferrand Scott uses a wide range of tools as an artist but thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor. When working in three dimensions her forms are often abstract but with a strong organic character. They do not resemble or imitate anything specific but have their own identity. She works with materials such as plaster...
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I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with the...
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I am a strayed photographer at heart, and my art practice now takes a number forms: photography, video, performance and writing. My life changed dramatically when I was at a car boot sale in August 2005. I saw a tin of cigarette cards and I leafed through all. Each depicted a pin-up photograph with a mini biography on the back. For reasons...
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Hondartza Fraga: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month artist and co-director of Bloc in Sheffield, Dominic Mason, discusses his selection.Hondartza Fraga is an artist based in Sheffield and Santander, Spain. She graduated from an MA in Fine...
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My work frequently merges personal research with collaborations from various cultures, geographies and histories. Its primary focus is on the new societal condition of network culture and its effect upon relationships, conflicts and the identification of 'the Other'.I am particularly interested in the pervasiveness of photography within...
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My work comprises of installations, paintings and sculptures. Some of it is site specific. My most recent research and work explores the transformation of everyday objects and architectural forms into states between instant recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction. Within this, colour plays a very important part; for the past 5...
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I'm an artist/ teacher.I work predominately with 'text as image'.My work is completely concerned with context, process and materials.I choose to use 'poor' materials - dust, cardboard, chalk on blackboards, lead, chocolate, ashes, water and other stuff.Materials that may have intrinsic values or meaning when used in specific...
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The artist is currently revising his statement.  All artists' statements must by necessity be deluded, since adopting a particular stance and viewpoint is itself deluded, and to say one doesn't know what one is making work about would seem to devalue both the work and the individual, and yet it may be the most honest statement possible.
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Concepts I use cameras as tools for gathering information and clarifying ideas. They enable me to see the world around me in ways that I wouldn't normally be able to using my eyes alone. I am interested in the idea that all things in the universe are connected and interdependent and that everything that exists in the world plays an essential role...
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I think of my work as sculptural, although it takes many forms. My work is multi sensory, I use sound, performance, installation, drawing, books and objects in an attempt to engage the viewer in a physical relationship with the work. I try to draw attention to the act of participation and mine for emotional effect. My work can be atmospheric and...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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Immateriality and Materiality: These elements form the core of my practice; and are represented through a combination of both digital animation and installation. My work is presented either as still images, animation or video installation. Video installation works are presented as three projections, a central projection flanked by two...
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Georgia Boniface's work considers the construction of identity, and explores modes of being and the complexity of the human experience.The specific theme of the 2010 work The Republic of Georgia, is personal choice versus heredity:''Identity' is revealed to us only as something to be invented rather than discovered; as a target of...
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Bob Levene Experiments For Microphones, 2006 Selected by Rebecca Shatwell Bob Levene's work investigates how images, objects and actions can create sound. Using both old and new technology in a playful way, she makes installations, performances and videos that explore how sound is...
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Rachel Howfield is a visual artist working across several disciplines. Her work explores how we become who we are, our public and private selves. Her work addresses themes of identity with reference to feminism and post-feminist ideologies. She is interested in the action of memory, and how we construct our reality from a patchwork of remembered...
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Landscape films and landscape photography dealing with the elements and processes of change Performative lecturing on art-historical themes, incorporating projection, photo-chemical demonstration and audience participation Educational work focused on basic photography and traditional processes
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Simon Le Ruez is a sculptor and installation artist who also uses drawing and video. His eclectic mix of materials and media produce scenarios where themes of longing, concealment, transgression and release are played out, often underscored by dark humour, knowing impenetrability and an emotional charge. Forms of opposition and the notion of...
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I construct eclectic experimental pieces informed by Dada, alchemy and biomedical science. I have an interest in the identity of self as opposed to other, the role of memory, community and place. Titles of my pieces play an integral part in the ideas that they seek to explore. At times deliberately seductive and occasionally obtuse, my pieces are...
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