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My art practice is an exploration of medical science through a multi disciplinary practice that includes drawing, photography, video, found objects and installation.Concepts stem from many aspects of medical science including current medical research into genetic engineering and stem cell technology, and old discredited medical disciplines such as...
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Originally an actor, my sense of narrative, space and memory is colored by the intense experience of the performance process, while my creative drive is rooted in the actors drive for empathy. Mimesis (the mirroring of our world) is fundamental to all art forms and particularly visible within realist art or theatre...
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As a child my parents worked for travelling circuses, moving between towns and educating my sister and I on the road. My dad was the ringmaster and I was fascinated by the show.As an adult I worked for the circus too, travelling in the UK and abroad, still fascinated by the feel of the place and the transformative element of this life where a...
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The Quick and the Dead.....An Expression of the aliveness and intensity of living, loving, and dying..... Aliveness comes only in the present moment. Once any thing becomes manifest, it is part of History in which the living has died. It serves then, as documentation of a living moment in creation. It is this moment of creation which matters.....
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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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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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The potential and power of film is my study and my practice. I wish to bring a new consciousness to the cinematic experience as apposed to a conventional one; in where the spectator remains static and non-participatory. These themes are evoked through the filmic narrative of my videos, and the installation's sculptural form. I am attracted to...
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My work is about human consciousness and explores theatrical fantasy, the abhorrent, and adult play. There are themes of deviation, an uncertain journey where the destination is unknown and may be unattainable.I am passionate about the challenges and unpredictability of paint, with its seductive physicality and colour, as if paint itself is being...
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The Women of Genius series depict historical female artists. Taken from self-portraits, their gaze confronts us. Honest, scrutinising, it challenges traditional portraiture of women as possessions; wives, mistresses and marriage objects. The work of these women has been lost, found, re-attributed to the 'boys' or just forgotten. The process of...
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The paintings tends to be about intense moments, often melodramatic, theatrical, full of lies and imaginings and hard truths.I am excited by the darker aspects of nature and human nature.I want to combine my interest in the natural world and the drama an poetry that we read into it. That tradition that follows on from Samuel Palmer through John...
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'A garment is a wrapping that draws a person's imprint; it is a relic which serves as a replacement. It represents a person, a mood, a place, an authentic feeling.' (Louise Bourgeois)Recently my practice has been dominated by the theme of the resonance of clothing based on the research of garments once belonging to Charlotte...
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Vicky Hodgson's work is concerned with gender and gerontology. She challenges the stereotypical view of the older woman in relation to authority and visibility. The starting point for her work is contemporary cultural and social issues relating to older age and gender, in particular, issues that are concerned with discrimination and invisibility...
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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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Drawing is the foundation of my practice that addresses the themes of site, context, belonging and memory. I often make drawings in series to explore and expand on my ideas. I utilise collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and digital manipulation enabling me to develop images for surface designs and book-works. For book-works...
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I try to make images that resonate with some earlier activity, that hold a sense of absence, that catch things at the margins. My prints are built up from drawings or photographic images, sometimes worked into. I have recently used etching, photoetch and photoscreen/silkscreen. I am seeking to use my printmaking as a way of registering daily...
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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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My work is drawing-based and often involves research with galleries, museums, libraries and archives. Through collaboration with other institutions I have developed a research-led practice which begins with a process of exploration and interpretation of historical and cultural ideas. The work is as much about the process of research and...
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Over the last two years I have concentrated solely on taking photographs. After working across different media over the the years I have finally found that photography truly unlocks my creative potential. It came as something of a revelation that the images I have produced express my individual response to the world around me. From the city...
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Concepts  I am interested in the physicality and application of materials, layering and the manipulation of the painted surface. The cross over between disciplines, particularly print making and painting are a current concern and the notion of absence and nostalgia underpin many of my recent pieces. The introduction of the figure, after...
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My work is inspired by natural forms and observation of related forms found in the manufactured world. It is mostly porcelain, sometimes with additions of glass or metal, and best described as semi-functional or non-functional, though the many vases I make all work. Since childhood I have always loved lanterns and specific lights which give...
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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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I am a printmaker using a variety of media to explore qualities of composition, mark making, texture and colour in my work. Inspiration comes from found images collected from advertising, cinema, art, TV and photography used to create new visual compositions combining photographic material with drawings and/or accidental marks...
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Revealing a site and narrative through exposing the incomplete erasure of some things that have past and re-placing that narrative, that erasure back into the public domain is central to Falcini's art and process.One of the central themes in Falcini's work is perceptions of time, and how this relates to a remembered, often emotional past,...
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Concepts  www.sheilaghjevons.co.uk for more detailed information and link to blog   I work within a rural context. Developing different ways of expressing painting and drawing are my main concerns.  I explore these mediums 2 dimensionally and within a 3D element by using a small shed or other object and so...
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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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Mo Enright BA(Hons), MA, NS  Mo Enright is a professional painter working from Art-E Studios in Warwickshire, working mainly in oils on canvas. The environment and places from childhood inform the work. Enright does not work from photographs, but simply visits favourite places, soaks up the spirit of the time and place, sometimes making...
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I am a fine art printer, specialising in etching and silkscreen prints. As an etcher I work specifically with the photo-etch technique, a non toxic method of printing developed in the last 30 years. I have developed a number of distinct strategies which I use to determine the structure of my prints, this allows an element of chance...
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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 am interested in mobility - of people, things and data - and in the impact this has upon the sense of self both when alone and as part of a community. With an ever-increasing number of friends and contacts spread ever further across the globe, how many of us actually know our neighbours? And with a mobile phone in your pocket, why ask a...
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