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I attempt to combine my fascination with films and narrative paintings in the construction of single large-scale photographs and I am particularly interested in developing and establishing protagonists within these to create an enhanced view of the world. Through the realization of backstories and motivations I aim to make these personalities...
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I am interested in the way we see and categorise objects, in the lives of objects and in unsealing their form, and so reformulating it. The work has a seesawing quality to it as the formal relational concerns are countered by the often quotidian materials and through the process of experimentation. I am drawn to objects and colours that have...
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I am excited by, how as an artist I am able to experiment with creating visualisations of my secrets without ever making them explicitly public. I am interested in human behaviour. Specifically, I am drawn to the rituals, tensions and absurdity that occurs between the two sexes. This forms the base for the process I enter when using, manipulating...
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Concepts Painter concerned with visual perception. Formal notions of light and movement within the second dimension. In addition, the concept of illusion and double meaning are particularly important. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual experiences from a single visual stimulant. I am interested in playing with ideas of...
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My work covers eclectic subject matter, often inspired by daydreams and my imagination, sometimes representational, using appropriated imagery from magazines and books and my own photographs; sometimes abstract. My practice is instinctive and intuitive, and encompasses photography, drawing and painting.
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Klepuszewska was once an actor and this comes as no surprise when you consider the methodology behind her work. Originally trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and the Oxford School of Drama, she also toured small European festivals with a Polish theatre company, often performing to people who had not seen theatre before. These experiences...
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Artist’s Statement Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North of England. Working predominantly with video and installation, her practice explores the ephemeral nature of existence over the passage of time. The transient nature of media selected is used to fleetingly re-construct and re-imagine past events,...
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My practice is experimental and multi-disciplinary, often driven by an interest in contradiction or paradox. I use the appropriation and defacement of found materials to construct scenarios or images that manipulate the 'real' or recognisable. Fliers and newspapers are a surface of existing forms, which serve as starting points for...
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Lisa Stansbie (b.1974) is an artist whose work crosses the disciplines of film, photography, sculpture, installation and digital practices. She has exhibited her work both in the U.K and Internationally. Her series of works Spitfire Beach (2010 - 2012)  used non-linear methods such as hyperlinking and internet search tools to construct...
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Charlotte A Morgan works with writing, print, sculpture, photography and performance. Her work draws from the interplay of memory, fiction, narrative and temporality within architectures, landscapes and interior spaces, and often focuses on the performance of objects and structures and the language of archiving and display. http://www...
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My work is developed as an exploration of, and reaction to a particular situation. I am interested in how both the process and the material influence the creation of the work and that the ‘subject’ is often secondary to these. I am interested in the part technology can play in the production of artworks and how this can be used to...
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My practice is versatile and not bound to any definitive subject or medium. I generally start a piece of work with something I've heard, read or written, therefore speech, words or defying language play a pivotal role. Misunderstandings and illusions are also extremely important, they infiltrate my work and frequently layer a sense of the uncanny....
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Steve Dutton is an artist who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He has been working closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. He has also enjoyed working in the past with artists Alec Shepley and Steve Hawley and is currently making...
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IndividualI am interested in spaces and gaps, things that are absent or lost, and use drawing as a way to explore this conscious and unconscious territory. The drawings are constructed by the slow process of layering thousands of graphite pencil strokes onto large sheets of Fabriano paper. Each pencil mark visually records a moment in time and...
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Dr. Megan Smith is a new media artist with a PhD in Contemporary Art and Graphic Design from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research probes new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with geo-location, digital print, video, installation, and community projects as methods for storytelling....
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My artworks often use words or a combination of text and image; I am intrigued by the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. My work attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have...
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I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with the...
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Richard Bartle's practice combines sculpture, collage, painting, video and installation to reflect upon the contradictions of the modern condition, often focusing on faith, politics, economics and social activity and referencing the ideas within philosophy, religion and pop culture. Bartle says about his work: ‘I have always sought to...
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I am a strayed photographer at heart, and my art practice now takes a number forms: photography, video, performance and writing. My life changed dramatically when I was at a car boot sale in August 2005. I saw a tin of cigarette cards and I leafed through all. Each depicted a pin-up photograph with a mini biography on the back. For reasons...
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My practice progresses through drawing, printmaking, photography and sculptural forms. I create abstract sculptural installations based on architectural interventions, which often draw influence from the structural conventions and nuances of space, line, colour and composition. My work develops through use of photography and printmaking as an...
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Hondartza Fraga: 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 artist and co-director of Bloc in Sheffield, Dominic Mason, discusses his selection.Hondartza Fraga is an artist based in Sheffield and Santander, Spain. She graduated from an MA in Fine...
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My work comprises of installations, paintings and sculptures. Some of it is site specific. My most recent research and work explores the transformation of everyday objects and architectural forms into states between instant recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction. Within this, colour plays a very important part; for the past 5...
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I am a full-time contemporary artist working out of Sheffield. I use performance, writing, drawing, installation, video, found objects and photography. Often my work is based on significant research.My work aims to ask questions about the world around us, but open questions posed in a sensory, poetic way. I am particularly interested in...
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Through painting and sculpture James Clarkson’s practice explores a sensuality of material and imagery, in which methods of production rooted in modernism are tested by the potential of an object or image to change under a new set of concerns. His paintings become a part of this process, breaking down historical artworks through nuance and...
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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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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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Since graduating in 1995 (B.A Hons Fine Art) I have been a practising visual artist and for the past seven years I have been self-employed. During this time I have researched, developed and created indoor, outdoor, temporary and permanent art works for exhibition, commissions and self organised projects. Throughout, I have also been involved in...
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Artists' Books: Boxed, bottled and booked works reappraise and explore our interdependent relationship with nature and the landscape. My work falls into specific areas of interest, each containing a series of books. TAKING THE WATERS - BEACH DRIFTING - RIVER THINKING - PLACE Works sold at the contemporary artists book fairs,Leeds,...
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One can imagine that much of Tim Machin's time is spent turning the pages of the daily broadsheets, a hot mug of tea caressed in one hand, steaming a nearby window pane to create a cloud of condensation and a trickle of vapour, whilst rolling in his other a perfect sphere of blue tack. One can also imagine that making Machin's art is a...
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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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Recent work by Kerry Harker investigates the tension between the fine and decorative arts, playing with the associated expectations and blurring the boundaries between them. In 2004 Harker was shortlisted for the Comme Ca Art Prize North and won The Vickers Award in 2003, leading to a residency at Derby Museum and Art Gallery and the solo...
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