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Concepts I am a sculptor primarily working in stone to create public art pieces as well as smaller works for private clients and residencies in schools. My work is nearly always site-specific and often, I will engage the public or schools in the creative thinking process when formulating ideas for a piece. Not only does this help in...
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Concepts My More recent work is generated by reflection and enquiry into the balance between ourselves and our placement through systems of language, translation regulation, and social grouping. I am particularly interested in how we use classification and taxonomy as a proxy for knowledge. I utilise playful strategies to consider the...
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I work with installation and have developed aspects of this work as video. My work takes the form of energy fields unexpectedly made visible, with a core theme of renewal, at times relating to environmental issues, the metaphysical and spirituality in its deepest sense. I work through the materials exploring their inbuilt properties and how they...
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The Work of Louise Garland engages with the philosophical belief in the continuum of life. It examines the nature of our existence, linking the personal (especially from a female context)with the metaphysical, with references to the collective notions of archaic symbolism.Garland incorporates found materials and objects into her pieces.there is a...
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Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and...
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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Public Art should encourage and stimulate interaction with the world around us. It should evoke a sense of pride and wonder for the unique quality of the places where we live, visit and work. The right public art, in the right place can contribute to the heritage, culture and future economy of the area by creating inspirational...
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I explore the absurd and how our acceptance of the relationship between what is and what is not shapes our understanding. Examining and subverting the context of images, the object and traditional sculptural display, I am interested in the conventions that relate to our understanding of physical objects and the virtual world.Poking the nonsensical...
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My work is exclusively drawing based and investigates activity and gesture. Relating to the individual moving through space it reveals, recreates and documents ensuing residual marks and indicators of contact. Work ranges from large, meticuously rendered drawings to collections of accidental, intentional and found marks. Alongside the...
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ConceptsMy work has always had an element of humour, this is especially so in my personal kinetic pieces where it seems to be an unavoidable part of the process of making animated figurative sculptures. The choice of subject material has followed various themes, but is often a take on my personal experiences of the world.Influencespolitics,...
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The work of the artist Joan Ainley includes installations, editions, multiples and unique pieces that are exemplified by their capacity for multi-layered readings. The use of camouflage not to conceal but as an agent to focus attention is a characteristic of her approach. Making connections and linking the past, present and future are central to...
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Biography Louise Plant was born in the UK and trained as a teacher. Whilst teaching she studied sculpture. In 1998, Plant left teaching to pursue her career in sculpture. She received the Year of the Artist Award from Arts Council England in 2000 and in 2003 was elected Associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (ARBS). Four years later...
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Since moving up here from Brighton, where I completed my Ph.D. [Language Games in a Visual Environment] , I have exhibited at the Angel Gallery, Nottingham, 20/21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, and last year, a one man show at Bank Street Art, Sheffield. I am at present making work for an exhibition entitled ‘Modernism Revisited’. It is both a...
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As Homo Faber we exist through objects, our actions and experiences mediated by them; they are no longer mere tools but extensions of ourselves. My practice is built around an investigation of the objects that surround us where I consider them in terms of being comprised of a network elements both physical (essential and accidental) and abstract...
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Extending the boundaries of the handmade to express abstract ideas, I confront the collision between art and science, directing energies into exploiting the properties of a primal material at the extremes of its capabilities. Abstracting biological concepts of form and function is a negotiation between the engineered and the organic from...
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ConceptsLarge scale work is always sculptural and figurative.  Mostly made to commission.  Public artwork is often begun with community input prior to design stage, and often includes bespoke architectural metal work, such as gates, benches, paving inlays. Recently Hilary has developed a range of jewelry and small items for domestic use or...
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Concepts    The sculptures I create are informed and inspired by the environment and my experience of living and working in it. The decision to make much of my work in an outdoor environment was deliberate and conceptually vital to creative process. This concept is aesthetically reworked in the smaller works that I have started to...
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My work occupies the space between ideas of the Dionysian and the Absurd, moving from one to the other exploring themes of futility, pointlessness, hopelessness, nuisance, de individuation, death, rebirth and the irrational.This activity becomes a strategy for affirming life in the hope of building links between individuals by examining and...
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My work is always abstract, always minimal. Most of my work is large scale and wall-based. In some projects I work in 3 dimensions. The variable factors are dependent on the nature of the exhibiting space, both in visual terms and how the space can be used. So work develops from an interaction between my current thinking and a response to the...
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My work is inspired by nature; I interpret organic shapes I have observed, and carve them into tactile forms; it is important to me that the viewer experiences the sculptures first hand and is free to touch, stroke, and engage with my sculptures in everyday environments, from there own house or garden to parks, school playgrounds and other public...
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Although initially trained as a painter, Brookes' practice has always bridged media. Known primarily for the production of durational objects, images, interventions, and context specific live art pieces - his work has involved elements as diverse as photography, sampling, large scale and multiple projection, short-range and satellite radio...
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 The 2012 ‘Masked’ series of objects were produced in a sort of opposition to the ‘Open Box’ series made in 2011. These earlier sculptures were impostors. When placed at a specific angle their irregular outline vanished against an environment and a camouflaged skin aligned to produce the image of an...
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Concepts My work is usually made of glass, steel and stainless steel. This work includes free standing sculptures, illuminated sculptures, wall mounted constructions, sand carving and acid etching. My ideas and image source are eclectic. The basic structures in my work are derived from my love of mathematics and geometry and from forms found in...
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To discover how medicines work in a single cell, the artist Jo Berry (JB) will participate in Practical research activities, using fluorescence microscopy to study Pharmacology of drugs and Receptors in living cells, gaining insight into the scientific process and methods for using Fluorescence imaging to measure drug-receptor interactions...
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Borrowing from languages already established in cinematography, model making, folklore, history, science fiction, modern sculpture, architecture, landscape painting and museology, I fabricate scenarios and artefacts. They are familiar to the point of unfamiliarity, imagery compiled and accumulated from memory.Capturing a moment in object form,...
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The work is about reality; it explores how we perceive it, experience it, understand it and ignore it. The subject matter I choose are the surfaces we see every day of our waking lives: concrete, wood, metal, peeling paint; this reality we all experience but, on a minute by minute basis, choose to ignore. These surfaces are initially sourced...
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I am drawn towards works which celebrate transparency and are free of content, because I feel it's important to connect with the substrate of ideas – nature. My works function as channels for natural light, either sunlight or ambient light. Their subject is the active but unseen flow of nature, at the level of energy, and to experience...
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Charles Monkhouse is an artist working in rural and public spaces to produce temporary installations and permanent sculptures. His creative process often involves working with communities, stakeholders and other professionals to generate rich and informed outcomes that are locally distinctive and nationally significant. His Night Stations...
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Jo Dacombe's current interests include mapping, walking, connections, public space, modes of travel, change and sense of place.  Jo's approach is engaged practice in the public realm to create a dialogue about the experience of space and place. Developing from her original practice as a painter, Jo now uses art interventions through a variety...
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My work is concerned with time and memory, traces and absence. I use textiles and found garments to convey these ideas; fragments of lace and imprints of garments evoke traces and residues of lost and forgotten things. The memories we hold are fated to become selective, fragmented and faded, so this work is in part a reflection of the need to...
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Resume 2011 First prize National Competition as Artist in Residence to design and install five unique artglass panels in five Lincolnshire churches. To be completed by July 2012. 2011 First prize to design two glass sculptures for NHS Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh 2011 First prize to design three glass canopy...
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I have extensive experience of producing sculpture for the public realm, and also work to commission for private clients. I have undertaken numerous sculpture commissions with a wide range of contexts, budgets and materials. I have work sited in Europe, Japan and throughout the UK in many permanent public and corporate collections, including the...
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