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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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Concepts, Processes and techniques We and our surroundings are changed and marked by the processes of life. These marks, arising from human and natural processes, are my inspiration. The bubbles momentarily visible on the beach as a wave retreats, the sand ripples left by an outgoing tide, the footpaths worn by people walking from place...
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Brenda Miller’s practice draws on aspects of everyday life for its focus. Day-to-day existence is precious and society ought to celebrate and value it. Memories and nostalgia form a kind of romanticism for place and space, which is integral to the work. Being able to look at the sea and horizon every day as a child has evolved into a...
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Susan Eyre’s practice draws on cultural references and contemporary situations to construct landscapes that appear familiar yet are inauthentic, mixing fantasy with the mundane.  Artifice and a dislocation from the natural world are key themes in her work. Through examining the experience of the natural world within an urban...
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Human form is the basis of my visual subject matter, and, for me, spills into ideas about who we might ‘Be’ – existentially, historically and physically. Hence portraiture, the nude, the ‘trony’ – and a preoccupation with what’s on the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. This latter had lead me to use the creative process and materials as metaphor,...
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I am an artist who makes work across the fields of visual art, writing, performance and curatorial practice.  Inspired by the clown and the fool, I make mischief that is playful - defiant, teasing and delivered with a dry wit and humour, and often in the form of pranks. The pranks and performances I create instigate dialogues, which are...
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Most of my art touches on childhood, on growing up and its anxieties. It is as much an exploration of memory as of physical experience. Not necessarily concrete memories, more moods and atmospheres, interwoven with elements from myths and fairy tales. Using some of the techniques traditionally linked to a girl's world I work with papers, wools...
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Lorsen's work explores the notion of finding beauty in the disregarded. This began with an interest in collecting second hand and found objects, considering their stories and narratives, and the place of these objects in a culture of excess and consumerism (things that continue to fascinate the artist). Beauty in the disregarded has expanded to...
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Eldi Dundee is a NY born artist who has been living in London for the best part of two decades. Her practice consists of an interchange of painting, photography, assemblage, performance, installation, writing, drawing and sculpture. Eldi studied Fine Art at both Central Saint Martins / Byam Shaw School of Art (University of the Arts London) and...
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Using both ceramics and textiles I make large installation pieces, 2D relief work as well as a range of jewellery, these pieces vary in scale, technique and process.  By recycling fabrics and examining everyday objects I create organic looking pieces that contain remnants of the man made. Showing the age of the materials and by combining...
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My work explores textiles as a surface for drawing and print. Each piece is a response to changing materials, density and texture. Image and composition are generated through spontaneous mark-making and photography, and translated as layers of densely pigmented and printed surfaces.Through museum research, deep 'black' cloths originating...
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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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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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"The drawings for her degree show, which reverse the female submissiveness advocated by a religious pamphlet posted through her door, put women in a dominant position while the men are bent and bound in sexual submission. The male figures have been censored, but to protect whom? The spam I receive contains more indecency than Ms Gorrill's...
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Concepts My ideas are developed from my thoughts on the relationship between humans and the landscape, how we manipulate our natural surroundings and the impact we have on the environment. I am also interested in how nature adapts to urban landscapes. Influences Environmental issues, human effect on landscape, botany, architecture.
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I am an artist and papermaker based in the South East. I work using repetitive processes constructing sculptural forms made up of hundreds of near identical fragments to make bookworks, sculpture and installations. My work is often ephemeral and delicate. I am very interested in materiality and process, enjoying the effects of change and error. A...
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Over the last decade Emily Jo Gibbs has established an international reputation for her exquisite handbags. She has received significant critical acclaim for her work and pieces are held in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Crafts Council and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston. Emily has a wonderful talent for combining materials and...
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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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Living in limbo between the angst of fine art and the therapy of making my work challenges both identity and preconception whilst at first glance appearing homely and domestic. I enjoy the 'out of place', the unexpected, the bizarre and I am an avid photographer who makes a constant visual record as an 'aide-mémoire' both at home and on my...
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I am interested in the social and political history of stitching and embroidery - The Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker has been one of my long-term reference books.My practice centres around ideas of beauty and ugliness and the conventions which determine our definitions of each. Notions of beauty from Aristotle onwards have emphasised...
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I am an interdisciplinary maker working predominantly with performance, sculpture, installation and print. Using a variety of props and materials I devise ‘scenes’ to examine my relationship to certain objects, texts and spaces.  Exploring specific locations, libraries and archives I then enact/present my findings playing...
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Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, robotics, interactive media, and textiles. Her work has a strong...
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The exhibition Seaflowers (2011), is an accumulation of textiles and painting inspired from my latest residency on the coast in South India. It is a celebration of colour, inspired from the idea of ritual and the repeat patterns with reference to our daily habits, routines and behaviour patterns. I like to work and respond to people in an everyday...
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Drawing is the foundation of my practice that addresses the themes of site, context, belonging and memory. I often make drawings in series to explore and expand on my ideas. I utilise collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and digital manipulation enabling me to develop images for surface designs and book-works. For book-works...
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I make specific installations of varieties of objects. The work operates somewhere between installation and sculpture.  I re-use items found or bought from charity shops and carboot sales, second hand detritus no longer useful to previous owners. The different types of object establish their differences and similarities; relationships made...
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Concepts My work is about the exploration of surface. The surface of the fabric onto which I work is manipulated and changed by the techniques I employ, and the surface of the land provides me with visual stimuli that I seek not to emulate, but to investigate. I am principally concerned with the way in which land is affected by changes wrought...
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Combining the mass produced and the unique is, for me, humorous and ironical and full of suggestion and contradiction. I am interested in the process of reproduction (printmaking, laser cutting, high tech and lo-tech) and also by the theme of reproduction (with reference to the ethical debate surrounding biotechnology, genetics, sex and...
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Concepts My textile work has developed from my interest in the symbolic and cultural meaning of consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.The interpretation of these themes has been explored using articles of clothing and accessories. During 2010 through a residency in the print room of The University of Central Lancashire I was able to...
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In the work, visual and narrative stories interweave, interconnect and are continually deconstructed and recreated – emerging in new work – evolving – sometimes hidden, while fragments of image might be repeated within new sequences of visuals and books. There are glimpses of hidden narrative – new stories, myths –...
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I am fat, I am a woman and I make art about it. Instigated by my life's personal and resonating experiences my autobiographical interdisciplinary work retain universal themes such as the housing and death work completed in 2010-2012. Most recently my current ongoing work on the fat female body developed as in August 2012 when I was due to...
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Concepts, ideas and themes Mainly concerned with the nature of land use and spatial confinement. With a bit of sparkle and colour. Although the medium is variable, it is always chosen in the context of its properties, the site or project. Processes and techniques drawing, construction, planting, painting, print, stitch, workshops,...
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My manipulated fabric pieces (exemplified by Embrace) formally stem from the repetition of simple motions or marks until complex surfaces are created. The pieces isolate a seductive sculptural language that seeks to rest between something 3-dimensional, yet is simultaneously flat almost painterly. Constructed of hand-sewn lining fabric, these...
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