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Most recently, Jenny Parkin has been using architectural figures and cheap party food - custard, jelly, doughnuts, etc - to create little stage sets for her camera around themes of greed and consumption. In other work she has recycled and remade things that are already out there in people's homes and lives. She considers the history of...
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New statement pending. Claire Hope: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Ben Cook, founder Director of LUX, discusses his selection.Claire Hope is an artist for modern times, working at the hard edge of language and power relations, highly...
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Concepts My training was that of a sculptor, but now I work in two dimensions making graphite on paper drawings. What had been the sculptors problem of making objects in space has now...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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Rachel Howfield is a visual artist working across several disciplines. Her work explores how we become who we are, our public and private selves. Her work addresses themes of identity with reference to feminism and post-feminist ideologies. She is interested in the action of memory, and how we construct our reality from a patchwork of remembered...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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Since the beginning of the MA course, I have been focusing on the use of objects as materials in art making. The chosen objects include leaves, text, magnets, balloons, boxes, books, egg shells, cotton wool, sand and lost objects such as gloves. The project comprises a number of works and some of the pieces were selected for display at the...
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Artist statement Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities, 2006-2007Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities is a research project started in October 2006 and developed during the eight following months through various visits, interactions and recordings. Following processes of an ethnographic practice, the project concentrates on...
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The Return of the Narrative Taking the view as a passerby to Bridgewater Place, Leeds' tallest building, you can gain a moment of reflection by catching sight of Bryan and Laura Davis' sculpture, 'Hello Friends' in its atrium. As the nights draws in, it appears as a lonely blinking monolith, communicating to all and nobody in particular...
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Concepts I am a site specific environmental artist responding to 'place'; creating sculptural solutions in the landscape from earthworks enduring many years to temporary installation lasting only a few days. The spatial aspect within my work is a key element to consider. Place gives inspiration, meaning and strength to the forms and...
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