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Evans' practice deals with themes such as the sublime within catastrophe, social deprivation and social aesthetic. He features sub groups of society that live and survive on the fringes in contrast to the clean, ordered and consumerist utopia. Displaying people's urban survival strategies, Evans prompts the viewer to re-evaluate their own place,...
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Johana has a background in sculpture and has maintained a fascination with form, sometimes applying that to video and drawing. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she has exhibited widely, most recently at Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Johana is particularly interested in the humanity present in the inanimate...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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Chiswell’s art embraces realism but this direct representation of nature is only a means to an end. Her art does not simply depict but endeavours to evoke through a visual language those things we do not see. Her perception of reality can be compared to a crime scene where clues are left to indicate what is happening. In much of her work she...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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My stance is akin to that of a Romanticist. There was a time in the early nineteenth century when to be a Romantic meant more than to be a dreamer or a love-sick youth. In fact it was as far back as the fifteenth century that Romantic was deemed to be all that was wild and fantastic;, that imagination which is most free. I find inspiration in...
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My work explores how the perception of three-dimensional ceramic forms can be manipulated by the application of arrangements of bands on their surfaces. Depending on the arrangement, using gradients of width, interval or tone, illusory spatial phenomena can appear and thus significantly influence the actual three-dimensional forms. The duration of...
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All things in life are connected and when events trigger change we work with it to see where it takes us. Nothing stays the same everything, everyone, all of life evolves. The material and processes in this work give form to this activity. Each object reflects significant points within the creative journey. My work is a reflection of my...
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My work is interdisciplinary in nature; over the years I have utilised a range of media including performance, video, photography, text and predominantly, installation; both for conventional gallery spaces and in specific and diverse sites, from a bucolic woodland glade to a derelict ex-Soviet power station.In my installations I use existing...
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Dave Cushley is an artist currently living and working in the UK. Primarily a sculptor, both in training and practice, but crossing over into the disciplines of installation, performance, and drawing. Exhibiting throughout the UK and internationally, his work is an irreverent fusion of the absurd, post-structuralism, and an unhealthy obsession...
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My work is my own language. I sculpt metaphorically the way that I see and feel things, intending to project the viewer to a dreamscape of sensuality and magic realism.This recent body of work is an allegory to the human condition, the Alchemical journey that an individual takes from birth to death in search of harmony and which can be manifest...
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CARWYN EVANS works in mixed media, photography and installation to explore issues related to his individual sense of place.His first solo exhibition That Morning He Watched The Dawn recently took place at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown and contained work that reflects Evans’ personal experiences while exploring broader social and political shifts...
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ConceptsSince starting to work in three-dimensions, I have developed the ability to visualise potential in unlikely objects. This has meant that my imagination has been exercised continually for 30+ years - and it continues to be so, either by requests from clients, or by my own ideas. 'Aero-engines', 'Plumbing', 'Early photography' 'Oil rigs',...
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ConceptsI work with the forms of body, plant and land and with opposing tensions in form, size, materials and processes. I work in series relating to conformities and conflict, construction, destruction, agreements and reciprocal processes.InfluencesAesthetic/formal concerns. Landscape of rock forms and water. The human figure and ancient...
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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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Concepts I am currently developing ideas about humankind's interaction with its environment and the position an artist takes in a technologically advanced, culturally-rich society. I am interested in art made by 'non-professionals' who react to an uninitiated desire to make images and objects. Some of my work uses this kind of instinct, for...
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The apportionment of space and time are predominant factors in our 'being' and the disruption of these foundations impels us to question and seek to substantiate our presumed reference.' Career path Qualifications: 1982 MA (RCA), Royal College of Art, London1977 BA Hons, Cardiff College of ArtTeaching Experience: 1997 Home Tutor,...
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Working with a range of artistic interventions and situations, including site-specific installation, video, three-dimensional photocopies and the readymade, Sean Edwards' sculptures set up situations that lead you into examining your viewing habits. Through a formal analysis of both the real and the fake, often employing a notion of absurdity in...
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Crop, installation, 2006 2006 saw a major exhibition of Simon Fenoulhet's work at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Called Another Light (2006), the work represented a culmination of many of Simon's ideas, chiefly to do with light and the transformation of everyday objects. Here, we focus on one piece of work...
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Sam Aldridge’s sculptural work uses low-fi construction techniques to create replicas of objects or environments that we encounter daily. Using a limited range of cheap, readily available materials, his subject matter has ranged from shower units to cutlery, breeze blocks to refuse skips. With a seemingly limited ‘palette’ of...
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David Cushway is fascinated with clay as a material and it's intrinsic connection to all aspects of our lives. From birth, day-to-day living, and to death, clay and the ceramic process has been fundamental to our cultural existence since the first human beings developed the skills to use it. The sublime, in relation to the landscape, is a...
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