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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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Miranda Blennerhassett's work focuses on architecture and the perception of urban spaces. Through gaining an understanding of constructed space, and also of utopian attempts to create an idealised urban context in order to produce an idealised urban society, she makes work that references a purity of vision. As a counterpoint to this the works...
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Candice Jacobs currently lives and works in Nottingham.  She was one of the co-founders and co-directors of Moot, an artist-run gallery/project space in Nottingham (2005 - 2010), and One Thoresby Street (2009 - present), an artist-run project which supports individual artists and art organisations.  Recent exhibitions include; In...
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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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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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My practice primarily works with the moving image but also encompasses still image and text projects. I have been working with the found image and particular places/sites within my filmmaking practice for around five years. I'm attracted to a degree of obsolescence in both cases. With the found image, the detachment from its creator and...
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My work involves creating installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Underpinning the work is a desire to look beyond the surface of objects and buildings, to uncover forgotten and invisible histories of places and people, as a way of reframing and considering the past. Often drawing on...
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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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'You should plant your bulbs in autumn when the wind is...'Morfa Mawddach, Wales, 27 February 2006 Over the last five years Heather & Ivan Morison have been producing an evolving set of artworks documenting and fictionalising their real life adventures across Birmingham, Russia, China, New Zealand and beyond, travelling by foot,...
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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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