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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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Frances Young is a UK based artist working in moving image media, exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. Her work is in the collections of David Roberts (London, UK), Gemeente Museum, Helmond (Netherlands), University of the Arts London Permanent Collection (UK), and private collections in the UK and USA. She holds an MA in Fine Art from...
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I am interested in how humans create an absurd mixture of conflicting emotions when they are faced with overwhelming situations and anxiety.Through videos and bodies of drawings, I use humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours. My videos mimic television genres such as documentaries, reality shows and...
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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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Bob Levene Experiments For Microphones, 2006 Selected by Rebecca Shatwell Bob Levene's work investigates how images, objects and actions can create sound. Using both old and new technology in a playful way, she makes installations, performances and videos that explore how sound is...
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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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Simon Le Ruez is a sculptor and installation artist who also uses drawing and video. His eclectic mix of materials and media produce scenarios where themes of longing, concealment, transgression and release are played out, often underscored by dark humour, knowing impenetrability and an emotional charge. Forms of opposition and the notion of...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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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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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach The mouth is probably the most ambivalent of our orifices, made to kiss and bite, suck and spit, eat, laugh and swallow. It serves both tenderness and cannibalism. 'Eat me' (2006) coarsely evokes the possibilities of this fascinating cavity, slapping lipstick on a lump of guts. Marilyn's...
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‘ I stood there in the dark with my father, in silence, and we knew that we were both sad, that we could not speak of it and that we both drew something from the dark.’ Lavinia greenlaw ‘The Importance Of Music To Girls’. The drawings I make of places, objects and people attempt to reinhabit and somehow explain emotional states or a feeling....
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My aim is to remind the audience of someone they know when they look at my work. The person they see depends on who they are. I am curious about what sorts of things can make a person be recognised or differentiated from others. Yuko Nasu Imaginary Portrait Series, Y, 2007 Selected by Liz...
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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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Rebecca Lennon combines text, film, sound, photography, performance and installation in an ongoing process of gathering, collecting, montage and reinterpretation. Relating the seemingly unrelated and drawing from the everyday, illogical, and discarded things that often slip out of the landscape unnoticed, Lennon is interested in communication and...
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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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