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Most recently, Jenny Parkin has been using architectural figures and cheap party food - custard, jelly, doughnuts, etc - to create little stage sets for her camera around themes of greed and consumption. In other work she has recycled and remade things that are already out there in people's homes and lives. She considers the history of...
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I initially start with the question of how much I can ‘work’ a surface. All the works display a multiplicity of marks (scratching, piercing or drawing) which result in surfaces resonant with the prolonged activity of their own deconstruction. I stop working on the paper when it achieves a state of fragility whereby its coherent form would be...
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Steve Dutton is an artist who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He has been working closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. He has also enjoyed working in the past with artists Alec Shepley and Steve Hawley and is currently making...
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A Visual Discourse on Maternity Installations and Subverted ObjectsMy current art making practice is a three dimensional visual exploration of the dilemma of what it means to inhabit a female body. It is the female body alone I feel that defines woman as different from man and therefore I have chosen by necessity to distill “female” to...
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Jayne has recently graduated as an art therapist (July 2012) after completing an MA at Leeds Met. She previously graduated from Leeds College of Art & Design in 2009 after completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and gaining a First. She is currently working as a tutor on a community art project. Her work deals with the familial and the often...
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I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, installation and mixed media sculpture, including taxidermy.My fine art practise has developed out of 20 years experience as a film maker and several themes can be seen across a number of works, both filmic and current; an interest in the uncanny, the impact of the horror genre, the concept of...
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I'm interested in how forms and spatial relationships hold onto meanings, even when abstracted away from the world. I see my method as a form of phenomenology; as a way of grasping the world of phenomena and their meanings and as an exercise in stripping away the extraneous to arrive at the essences of (visual) experiences. A writer who has...
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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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Mark Milnes creates work which is usually abstract and geometric, and demonstrates an interest in the interrelation of bold, simple shapes. His images and forms are usually composed of similar or identical forms repeated in rhythmical progression. He has created work in a variety of media since graduating in 1995, and is currently engaged with...
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The context for the work exists within the realms of experiential installation, making the intangible tangible, using the viewer as a connecting link and a transient, ephemeral substrate.Gill Greenhough's practise considers liminality and notions of absence. Materials are used that evoke the unseen and unacknowledged whilst being knowingly fragile...
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ConceptsMy work reflects the complexities of the world we live in, portraying both its beauty and its decay. Using a wide range of photographic and sculptural techniques, the collections of work I produce are both seductive and yet challenging to our perceptions of how we reside, relate to and experience our world.InfluencesOwn gender (female),...
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Clay has been my medium for over forty years now. I have been potting ever since I first discovered ceramics, and have gone through different viewpoints about my work. I am influenced by Modernism, and while at art school in Copenhagen during the 1960s I was taught that there are strict rules about what should and should not be made. I have...
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Concepts I'm an artist who chose to express my individuality through making jewellery, because I love the materials, the relationship with the body and tactile qualities, the scope for colour, brilliance and three dimensions, the sense of preciousness and permanence and, most of all, the intimacy and the potential for personal significance...
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ConceptsI do like my bronze sculpture to be involved in some purpose - e.g. the font for St. Martin's in the Bullring - physical and visual, or for instance the screen cross for the Scots Kirk in Paris which visually connects and invites the passer by to go in.InfluencesPrinciple inflluences: architecture, nature and 'architecture without...
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Concepts Spanton's practice is cross-disciplinary. Based in Leeds , her work embraces performance, video, photography, dance, sculpture and text. Her solo and collaborative projects are seen in a range of different contexts: such as, movement-led works in a live art setting, site-specific dance installations, performative...
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'it is a model of enquiry whose findings emerge through constant (r)evolution, where observations remain in transitional flux or interminable disarray. The search will always remain pleasurably unfulfilled and unrewarded, or return only with the most peripheral or unforeseen discoveries.' (Emma Cocker)My current practice presents a stage...
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Since graduating in 1995 (B.A Hons Fine Art) I have been a practising visual artist and for the past seven years I have been self-employed. During this time I have researched, developed and created indoor, outdoor, temporary and permanent art works for exhibition, commissions and self organised projects. Throughout, I have also been involved in...
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Artists' Books: Boxed, bottled and booked works reappraise and explore our interdependent relationship with nature and the landscape. My work falls into specific areas of interest, each containing a series of books. TAKING THE WATERS - BEACH DRIFTING - RIVER THINKING - PLACE Works sold at the contemporary artists book fairs,Leeds,...
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Liadin Cooke: 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 Sarah Brown, Curator (Exhibitions) at Leeds Art Gallery, discusses her selection.I first came across Liadin Cooke’s work when she invited me to her studio. We both had just begun a...
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I define my art practice as conceptual where the work is ideas-led and the end product is manufactured or created using specialist services. Outcomes range from large scale installations to small scale multiples which are always site-specific and consider political, social and economic frameworks. These considerations are present not only in my...
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Claire Harbottle's premise is to equate 'art making with child rearing' in which 'the drive to create involves endless repetition, everyday frustration, and the impossibility of ever getting it quite right'. This selection of recent work, combining sculpture, video, photography and performance, is likewise something of a mixed...
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I design and make glass artwork for architectural settings, creating visually stimulating work that responds to the nature of a space, becomes part of the fabric of an environment and, I hope, adds something to people's everyday lives.I work to commission for a wide variety of applications and undertake public art projects, often in...
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I make simple work and seek to capture light, emotion and how people live and work. I like to keep beauty on my side: I welcome chance encounters.For several years I have been developing an artistic practice involving the documentation of industry - coal mining, textiles, banking, engineering and iron making - and the landscapes and lives and raw...
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Artist statement One of the emphases in the 'Water Carriers' was to perpetuate and advance the notion of African woman as maker promoting the skills and practice of making clay vessels in the home as domestic pieces or used for ritualistic and symbolic purposes. In this project this is a celebration of the strength of African women throughout...
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ConceptsI have always been concerned with space, both within and around a form. I am attempting to express both centredness and dynamism within one abstract form. There is a tension between finding a clarity of line and underlying geometry, with the random surface marking from smoke-firing which is important to my creative process. I hope that...
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Recent work by Kerry Harker investigates the tension between the fine and decorative arts, playing with the associated expectations and blurring the boundaries between them. In 2004 Harker was shortlisted for the Comme Ca Art Prize North and won The Vickers Award in 2003, leading to a residency at Derby Museum and Art Gallery and the solo...
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ConceptsI am a practising metalsmith, using precious and non-precious metals, and leatherworker, working mainly with hide. The two areas occasional meet to combine metal and leather, however, at the moment I develop work separately in the two disciplines. The techniques I use in metal can inform how I work in leather and vice versa. My...
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ConceptsMy commission work is metal based but I work in other materials including ceramic and wood. The sculpture is light-hearted, accessible and often site-specific. My Gallery orientated work is concerned with inanimate objects. I am also interested in making sculptural functional items such as my bicycle racks. I use narratives that are either...
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Concepts Most of my work is made in silver but I often add texture or other metals such as red gold to provide warmth. I also introduce colour with small pieces of titanium or beads and use different polishing techniques such as high polished and satin polished to give contrast. Recent work has been influenced by shapes found in...
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My early work was largely to do with experimentation where I used materials such as tar and bitumen for their earthy treacly qualities. I liked the idea of recycling and that by crushing up eggshells you could retain the material quality of something but remove the association or connotation. I used blood and hair, just because they were there. I...
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He told me something about the art world, probably the art market. I should make them well polished like some luxurious goods. Perhaps art still belongs to the bourgeoisie. I found the modes of making art always incorporated with the bourgeois value. The qualities of art which are "good" and which are taught in art schools, sold in the art market...
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