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Rebecca Stevenson

My work is concerned with the visceral and the sensual. It draws upon anatomical drawing and botanical illustration, but occupies a liminal territory between scientific enquiry and the subjective, imaginary body. My recent work investigates the relationship between innocence, consumption and desire. In each piece, a...
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Fiona Curran

Fiona Curran's paintings, installations and assemblages explore the impact of new digital technologies on our experience of landscape space. The works reveal a recurring utopian impulse, formal idealism and sense of escapism that registers in a palette borrowed from the computer screen and advertising. There's a sense of spatial...
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Sarah Staton

'At the centre of Sarah Staton’s work is a dialogue between design, architecture, modernism, interior, exterior; the space between the work and the ground or support structures that exhibit the objects, and a little bit of life and fun without any cause for concern or angst-ridden guilt.' (Stephen Snoddy, 2012)Sarah Staton studied at...
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Rachel Thorlby

I work from images of people, using the reproductions of their painted and sculpted portraits reduced to thumbnails on Google. Deriving elements from the print outs, and then splicing and reconstructing the fragmented parts forms the basis of exploring these images of individuals and how they have been represented throughout history. My...
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James Evans

James Evans It is my intention with the outline and form, that the pieces conjure up an infinite number of references, at the same time remaining uncluttered and as economic with line as possible. The references are sourced from nature, machinery, architecture and anatomy, and usually remembered for the way one is juxtaposed against another...
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Robert Orchardson

Robert Orchardson makes sculptures inspired by science fiction imagery and futuristic design, using lo-tech materials such as wood and resin or found objects. He has a nostalgia for the Utopian tendencies of the modernist period and focuses on shapes and objects which defined that aesthetic. Forms pictured briefly in novels or film are crafted...
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Doug Jones

Artist statement 'Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have consistently objectified all this in the visual, spiritual and cultural triggers which have for years forced the internal lyrical motives that impelled me to create. This is the most sincere...
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