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Moesbys’ work is informed through the imagery and rituals we use to create and make sense of the everyday. His process is based around dialogues and conversations; forming the foundation of his research these lead to creative responses. He explores relationships between people and place through the distillation of intimate, often concealed...
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I like making things, but I'm not sure what to make. I can't decide what size or shape or colour something should be and I worrying about adding more stuff to a world already full of things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's...
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I am a Japanese artist and now working in Tokyo. To me, the creatures I invented are essential to realise what I want to do in the field of expression; they would grow in proportion as I explore my interests. Artist statement 'Human beings are endlessly interesting. Human emotion always fascinates me. Through my invented form I am exploring...
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I paint. Sometimes I paint with cement.
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'Every Contact leaves a trace'- Locard's Exchange Principle My practice exhibits parallels between criminal forensics and the creative process. These are areas where intuition and abduction are combined, with absence and presence often being of equal importance. The works produced from this co-optive encounter are pierced, punctured or...
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My attention is focused on the human as an inseparable part of nature. Humans are part of the eternal cycle of nature, a component of the body cells of the world; but only man becomes as a destructive force of nature. Man, in the process of evolution has achieved the highest level of intellectual and emotional development and, by this process is...
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Heritage interpretation plays an important part in Theresa Easton’s practice. Easton is interested in exploring cultural and historical episodes using contemporary printmaking processes. Central to Easton’s creative practice is the role of printmaking. Easton is interested in pushing the boundaries in printmaking and working with...
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www.paulaadams.co.uk HOMESICK FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE: uncanny aesthetics, re-appropriation and object making as an analysis of architecture/the built environment   Homesickness is an emotional response to actual or anticipated separation from the home environment or 'attachment objects' (i.e. those with strong, personal meaning) and is...
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Emily Hesse's practice refuses to be defined and constrained by those traditional divisions with which we try to simplify and control modern artistic practice. Much of her work is about sculpture, certainly, but equally painting, photography, film and drawing are all resources she employs to communicate her insights into the world around us....
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I'm interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, 'Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be'.Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is...
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Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually...
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The predominant themes in my work concern light, atmosphere, and a sense of space. I am continuously drawn to the landscape in order to capture a moment, or to stimulate a mood evoking memory. Using formative memories of the vast landscapes of Canada and my new experiences in the northern British landscape, I recall these moments through a variety...
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Bryony Purvis grew up in North East of England. She holds Masters in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, South Africa (2011) and a Bachelor in Fine Art from the University of Aberyswyth (2008).She is interested in the ways in which we bestow places with significance, and in the intangible experiences we associate with them, which she...
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Influences Urban Career path Qualifications: 1997 Certificate in Counselling, Macclesfield College 1992 PGCE Secondary Art, Manchester Polytechnic 1991 BA HONS Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art Teaching Experience: 2000/02 Art Tutor, Various Workshops, Tyne and Wear 1998/99 Art Teacher, Whitley Bay High School, Tyne and...
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My practice can be loosely divided into three categories: Sculpture/Installation, the Collection and Text Art, though it also incorporates other disciplines such as Collage, Photography and Performance. I would describe my work as conceptual but with a comedic sensibility. Language and wordplay are also key elements, as well as humour also (comic...
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Gloria graduated at Politecnico of Milan and later obtained an MA at Brera’s Fine Art Academy in Milan. She is a professional artist focused on researching the sensory engagement of an immaterial force like light, combining digital technologies and physical spaces for creating immersive and emotional headspaces. In 2008 she moved to...
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ConceptsMy work although historically related to constructivism and formal abstraction, has recently moved into investigations of shadows and light, alignments and frozen moments. This involves my use of photography, digital imaging, printmaking and lightbox presentations. Whilst the concerns of the work are still formal, my use of...
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'On the way to the library to write this, I was sure I was going to see an empty packet of Space Raiders by the bus stop, but all I found was an apple core and a green balloon, unblown. Laurie Anderson once said that novels are full of things happening to people, but she wanted to write a novel about the spaces inbetween, where nothing was...
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My Practice is based around the logging of journeys and the organisation and presentation of related data, accumulated over years. Through dedicated, almost ritualistic daily recording, I maintain statistical diaries, which provide a detailed record of my movements and whereabouts at specific points in time.I produce maps and charts in response to...
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Louise Bradley explores drawing, printing and painting as well as digital media. She works initially directly from life, focusing on line, structure, emotion and symbolism to create a powerful presence of the subject, whether it is a portrait, figure or still life. Recent work has been developed by making automatic drawings which are drawings...
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Concepts My work is 'about' rather than 'of' landscape. I prefer to get involved with a landscape and aim to say something about its past and present. I am especially interested in the impact that mankind has had on the land through industrial, agricultural, ritual and military use and increasingly with ecological issues. I was commissioned...
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"The drawings for her degree show, which reverse the female submissiveness advocated by a religious pamphlet posted through her door, put women in a dominant position while the men are bent and bound in sexual submission. The male figures have been censored, but to protect whom? The spam I receive contains more indecency than Ms Gorrill's...
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Louise Mackenzie is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, process and interaction are central to her practice.  Operating between gallery and other settings, her experimental, research led approach is determined by the context: historical, scientific or archaeological, to which it is a response. Conceptually and thematically,...
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My work addresses absence and loss, physicality and space, interaction and communication. I am interested in how we use material objects to memorialise events, people and moments in time. We archive objects as an attempt to provide tangible links to inevitably fading memories, precarious in their permanence. Banal and ubiquitous objects become...
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b.1980, United Kingdom Matt James Smith is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work is often an attempt to excavate the subjective history of a particular landscape or place through the use of lens-based media. Recent research has been centered around ideas of the 'unpresentable' (the sublime, the uncanny, the traumatic) in relation...
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Concepts I am interested in taking discarded materials and making them into art. I have no idea when I begin as to what is going to happen. The material itself dictates what is going to emerge. Colour is kept minimal as an alternative to the high gloss of most modern advertising imagery and also to emphasise the...
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My work enhances both public and private spaces through the creative use of architectural glass. Projects begin by listening and responding to the needs of the client. They are then developed through research to produce a design that has a simple elegance suited to the context of the work. It is fascinating to translate ideas and stories into a...
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I work mainly in digital video, installation and sometimes film. My current practice focuses on a re-imagining of archaeological, historical, mythological and ritual scenarios that resonate with aspects of our contemporary situation. In recent projects, the work requires active engagement from the viewer in establishing connections between...
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I have been a photographer since the late 70s, and until enrolling for Sunderland University’s MA in Photography in 2007 was largely self-taught. I have a background in construction engineering which has informed my most recent body of work, ‘Lost Waltz’, but photographically have eclectic tastes and am essentially a portrait and documentary...
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Ginny Reed is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production including film, performance, drawing and light and it's effects. The works coincide in contrasting the materiality of actual, depicted and used objects with the materiality of the forms of their representation. Her work explores the accumulation and dispersal of materials and...
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The Work is mainly one-off bespoke pieces for clients and the final work is developed through research and engaging with the client on a journey. Discussions with the client are an important collaborative part of this process. Each commission is site specific and has a relationship to the space and the people that use it. Texture, light and glass...
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I make work that sits at an intersection between art and fashion. I am intrigued by the relationship between the spiritual and the decorative and how we give meaning and power to certain objects in our lives. I enjoy the protective and transformative nature of clothing, whereby fantasy can be made visible, and one can both hide and reveal oneself...
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