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“The poet scans the landscape with his hermeneutic gaze, but it remains trackless, refuses to emerge into meaningfulness as a landscape of signs”. J.M.Coetzee – “Disgrace” – 1999 My aim is to search for portent and potential narrative in the overlooked and seemingly insignificant aspects of the everyday. We are all surrounded by the...
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I Make large groups of paintings inspired by historical images and contemporary film. Re assembling these paintings I can create new stories of mystery, romance and drama, the obsessive and the lustful.
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We live in a constant dialogue between memory and our experiences of the present.

 Kirsty E Smith’s practice draws on a passion for architecture and the optimism of Futurism. As humans we have a fundamental need to make sense of the world and our place in it. Our experiences come into the brain in a vast flow of neural impulses from...
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My work consists of assemblages/sculptures using found objects, both natural and man-made; mixed media paintings and works in oil. The assemblages could be described as "transfigurations" of objects lost and found. The works evolve either through initial aesthetic responses to the dynamics of individual pieces, which are then assembled...
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I create sculptural forms using textiles, found objects, collected personal and family memorabilia, and recycled materials mixed with new. Establishing a real or imagined narrative around the materials I work with drives my practice. The physical qualities, and history of original use and functions, inform the invented record of each piece. It is...
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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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ConceptsMy work is experimental, utilising sound, movement and light. I frequently use electrical goods and household objects to construct various optical devices, including TV diffusion systems which create hypnotic streams of imagery. I use materials from the natural world often combined with domestic products to create a metaphysical...
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I use discarded materials to create images and constructions that reflect human existence and survival, both ancient and urban across the world. The work balances the chaos and destruction caused by this society with creativity and playfulness.I am inspired by the project work I do with people on the edges of society, in particular, children from...
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My current practice explores juxtaposition in sculptural materials. These contrasts and contradictions are formed during the process that leads my work. The work is quickly assembled and reconfigured, reusing the materials from other sculptures. The work acts like a sketch. It could be said she is drawing with sculpture.The form of the piece is...
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Inspired by a moral upbringing, I possess an ethical consciousness along with a fascination for the question, “ How do Humans Behave?"  Through the medium of sculpture and drawing I explore the tenuous relationship between man, his society, religion, law and kinship.  Isolation and miscommunication resulting...
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Michael Takeo Magruder (b.1974, US/UK) is an internationally recognised visual artist and researcher based in King’s College London (KCL) who works with digital and new media including real-time data, immersive environments, mobile devices and virtual worlds. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic...
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Born Walsall, West Midlands, UK, 1961 Education Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Walsall College of Art BA in Sculpture, Wolverhampton University, UK MA in Sculpture, University of Central England, UK Career path  Fellow in Sculpture Gloucestershire College of Art, UK Associate Lecturer in Sculpture Stourbridge College of Art,...
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I would describe myself as being a multi-disciplinary artist, with a particular interest in 3D work. Primarily, I am materials-led, meaning that the work produced is dictated by the the inherent assumptions and qualities of the materials used to make work.
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Concepts My current practice is performed through drawing and the moving image, photography and Installation. I liken these to transitional states through which my concerns with time and form, being and relations with the natural world are enacted, within which I manoeuvre. Drawing has been consistent throughout my practice. I see it as a type...
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My interests lie in making work that is both visually and emotionally stimulating. It seeks not only to transform the site it is made for, but also to transform the performance/behaviour of the viewer. The approach is not defined by material, or by process, more by the people, places and function that each opportunity offers. Fundamental to all my...
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I am an artist-curator based in Birmingham who has been devising socially engaged projects in galleries and the public sphere for over 10 years. My work emerges from the social and cultural context within which they are produced and I adopt a spectrum of collaborative strategies and methods of enquiry. My ways of working span from responding to a...
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In my work, I try to define experience; from the moment, from memory, from knowledge and from awareness. I aim at making work that contains the same degree of intensity as that experience. A lot of this is obtained from within the home, where time, life and possibilities are contained and space is squeezed, so that everything that exists is...
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I am strongly influenced by the natural environment and the organic aspects of glass itself. A respectful fascination of the nature of the material and its relationship with light, leads me to explore innovative and exciting ways to create a great array of textures and forms. The material can be made to flow, yet also be manipulated into a variety...
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ConceptsI incorporate metals, glass and plastics and for ecological and aesthetic reasons green (unseasoned) woods in my work. When creating sculptural compositions I quite often work intuitively even if I'm tied to a brief. Design is a wonderful tool but it can be restrictive at times. I work as a sculptor/public artist and applied artist,...
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My work is a vehicle that enables me to try to comprehend and understand the events I encounter in everyday life. It is through personal experience that I strive to transform intangible, momentary and ephemeral encounters into a more visual and tangible entity. I attempt to create art that pulls together the dislocation of experience to get closer...
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My work is in direct relation to my concerns in the world such. Through the medium of installation and sculpture incorporating a combination sound, recycled materials, natural materials, performance and / or enclosed spaces, I demonstrate the issue with the view to starting a dialogue process on the given subject. Even though my work is often...
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The unusual combination of artist, architect and street-jazz dancer have led me to a unique fusion and synthesis of art forms that explore issues of freedom, territoriality, stereotype and Arts in Health. My installation practice now includes live and video performance; fusing mark making, action-painting and dance movement within...
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The work I've produced has dealt with issues and ideas about the Irish Diaspora and cultural identity. Living in both the UK and France I've explored the similarities and differences in European culture and environments with the use of objects, digital imagery and installations. Education: 2005 - 2012 Short Course Director in Art and...
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My work consists of sculpture and print and is concerned with ideas of quietness, solitude and absence. I am interested in reverie and space, both imaginative space and physical space. Objects from everyday life together with small figures and elements of landscape occur frequently in my work and are used as motifs in their own right. I also...
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Open Frequency ProfileDeborah Kermode, Deputy Director of Ikon Gallery, profiles the work of London and Birmingham-based collective They Are HereThey Are HereOften artists pose questions that shape the outcome of their art and it is through this dialogue that communal action can arise. This is the territory explored by They Are Here,...
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Primarily, work consists of site-specific installation with video projection, and also includes sculpture.The human drive to mark existence is considered with an awareness of a particular 21st Century Western viewpoint and the resulting desire to acquire space, matter and knowledge. Focus is on challenging these inherited values and using the...
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I am fascinated by the way we interact with our environments, and how they impact upon us. My practice is focused, through a variety of media, processes and outcomes on addressing relationship to places and events. Historical, social and natural considerations are often initial research components for me, with my response developing through a...
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I use materials to create objects (sculptures) that both represent and activate architectural space. And I use the word 'architecture' in its loosest sense. Architecture in my work may refer to a house, a boat, an item of clothing or a cage. The relationship between each form of architecture and themes such as gender and social class have...
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Yoke and Zoom are an art duo based in the UK. Yoke and Zoom's practice combines universal concerns with domestic private moments, instigating collaborations and making interventions in public space and galleries in the urban and rural context. Encouraging communication between people whilst questioning the politics of art production and...
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rednile Projects Ltd is creatively directed by three professional artists Suzanne Hutton, Michael Branthwaite and Janine Goldsworthy. rednile work site specifically in a wide range of materials, reacting to a space or making artwork exploring the history or future of a site, our projects are always sensitively linked to an area. rednile often...
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By taking religious icons and expressing them in contemporary terms I am confronting religious beliefs and traditions. The images I use are powerful symbols taken from the church and the story of Christ. I try to combine the profound with the playful by replacing religious figures with modern day iconic celebrities such as Gilbert and George or...
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Michael Pegler is an elected member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.  A sculptor since 1978 working exclusively to commission since 1992 with sculptures represented in both private and public collections.  His most important publicly sited projects can be seen in shopping centres in Birmingham, Derby and Basingstoke. ...
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