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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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I graduated from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in 2004 with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art.   As a multidisciplinary artist, my work is always concept led and revolves around research into both local and family history. I am fascinated by objects, people and places which might otherwise be ignored...
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Concepts Lately my activity has involved selecting and processing fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly those related to our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However,...
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I work from imagination to create my own poetic vision of the world. Over time, I have developed a number of themes and characters, largely with origins in childhood, memory and dream imagery. My subject matter reflects my interest in, myth, folklore, history and  magic and my characters express both the light and darker sides of human nature...
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My work sets out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.Through the use of space and displaced characters, and their juxtaposition with monumental architectural structures, these works aim to mirror the emotional turmoil and unbalance we experience in the midst of a constrained, yet...
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I am absorbed with the way light changes and defines places, constantly transforming the same piece of land, wood or coastline. The changing quality of light and elements against the permanence and stillness of the landscape are central to my work; clouds across a hill, flashes of light through woods, shadows along a track. I use a range of...
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My work uses cardboard, tin cans plastics and cardboard tubes usually destined for the waste bin. The fragile resemblances that I produce with their torn, folded and glued sections are crude, insubstantial, spray painted copies, three-dimensional jigsaws, connected and disconnected fragments of machines displayed as museum artefacts. They fit into...
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My art practice focusses on aspects of both landscape and text, consisting of photographs, moving image, installations, drawings, performance and painting. Working reflexively across different mediums has enabled a visual language to develop that articulates what otherwise may remain remains unseen and unheard. My motivation is to exceed the...
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Brenda Miller’s practice draws on aspects of everyday life for its focus. Day-to-day existence is precious and society ought to celebrate and value it. Memories and nostalgia form a kind of romanticism for place and space, which is integral to the work. Being able to look at the sea and horizon every day as a child has evolved into a...
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Artist Statement My work has a continuing preoccupation with museums, collecting, fragility and transience. Inspired by family history, personal memorabilia often become incorporated into the forms and structures I create. Gloves are cast in plaster and printed with fragmented texts from different eras, resembling fragile relics. Old recipes...
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Site specific projects, residencies, exhibitions, commissions.
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I love paint in all its forms.  The physical sensuality of it.  The truth and the lies.  Object and illusion.  Window on the world.  Window on the soul.  Layers of factory-produced, chemically calculated magic.  Years ago, in America, I stopped using rectangular stretched canvas.  I started building...
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British artist Ian Wilkins (b.1986) graduated from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2011 with an MFA in Fine Art specialising in printmaking. He currently works as a visiting tutor at the London Print Studio and is an associate tutor in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design. He has recently been selected as Artist-In-Residence for...
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Concepts My main work is installation and object-based. I'm interested in cultural conditioning & hierarchies. Areas of workPrimary educationSecondary educationAdult educationCommunity artsExhibitingLecturingPublic artResidenciesRadio/TV Collections Rabas Museum, Hredle, Czech RepublicSainsbury Collection,...
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I wander at the edges, a flaneuse, observing, seizing fragments by drawing swiftly or using a video camera, and I express my ideas in a personal way employing a diaristic confessional mode that communicates clearly to reach the power of universal meaning, and to engage a wide audience. Educated in the sixties; empowered by feminism and by...
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Concepts, ideas, themes The background to my work is an interest in the relationship between beliefs and science, rationality/irrationality, the juxtaposition of order/non-disorder. We each have to negotiate our own sense of being created by categories (structure) and a fragmented world of endless networks and gaps. In my current work it is...
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Anna Keleher develops techniques, processes, skills and participatory works to expand 21st century perspectives. Her playfully devised invitations allow participants to take empathetic leaps into potential worlds. Her expanded collaborations engage with the humour of the world leading us to a land of potential in which everyday "things"...
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I make paintings that are based on walks within a place. By walking somewhere I start to notice things that I would normally overlook, things that we leave behind us, footprints, spilled food and drinks, marks made by insects and animals, by weather and time. All of these tiny marks act as clues telling us how we navigate and use a place, what...
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Sophie Warren is an artist and Jonathan Mosley is an architect. They have a critical spatial practice that employs strategies of play, hybridisation and the construction of imaginary architectures to resist homogeneous perceptions of urban space. Using language, event, still and moving imagery and installation Warren & Mosley construct...
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Concepts My work is largely concerned with form and the development of 3-D spaces which challenge the senses, including memory and emotion. My work divides into two strands - 1) landscape architecture, site-specific, land art; 2) domestic scale sculpture in stone and willow. In my designs of outdoor spaces/public art I am keen to celebrate...
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CONCEPTS Much of my work originates from Landscape and the natural environment; it is as much to do with the process of making as it is about what I see, hear, taste, smell, feel or touch. The nature of the stimulus informs the method of making.
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Accepting the camera as an apperatus of capture, I attempt to push the boundaries of what the viewer knows is illusory yet accepts as real. My subject continues to be traces left by people in redundant spaces. The places I photograph are empty and are photographed as seen, not altered. I am not looking to document or comment, more to examine....
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I am an artist, illustrator and educator from the UK, currently working from Bangalore. My work is concerned with unfilled and unfulfilled spaces. I attempt to bring together the oddly discomforting, the fanciful, the virtual and the cartoon-like, the abstract and the frame, the playful and the orderly, the obvious and the subtle, all mirrored...
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I am a member of studio XYZ a small group of artists who come together regularly to work on themed projects, and a member of the Space Place Practice research group (based in Bristol).  I also work in collaboration with another artist Michele Whiting under the banner Quilos and the Windmill, and we were selected as joint...
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I create installations within geographical,social or political contexts, highlighting relationships between individuals and their environment and the ability to change and adapt.My work investigates emotional responses to the notions of time, origin, places and death. I use my art as a way to explore the intricate relationship between art and well...
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I consider myself to be a collagist, and in the simplest terms all of my work can be seen as an extension of collage. I am fascinated by the act of reconstructing things that already exist, in three as well as two dimensions. I am intrigued by simple single units that can be reproduced. this reproduction is sometimes cellular-like, where elements...
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After graduating in painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design I continued to paint full-time for some years exhibiting in group and solo shows in and around London. I later combined this with the teaching of art and running a banner making studio before moving to Cornwall in 1989. Travel fuels my interest in the history and identity of...
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I explore, create and subvert belief systems. Up until recently (and principally through social media), I have been positing outcomes through several 'artistic' identities. These were/are archetypes at the fringes of the artworld: outsider artist; jaundiced collector and agit prop activist, developed from characters first encountered in...
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Graduating from Bath Spa university with a Fine Art degree in 2007, Clare Winnan has since been working in a wide variety of materials including photography, sculpture, drawing and painting to create a variety of works. Over the past two-three years her main passion and focus has been around photography and...
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Ione Rucquoi is a mixed media visual artist working in southwest England. She uses photographic portraiture to present ideas about the relationship between social and natural forces, layering the symbolic and actual to communicate the complex relationship between internal emotion and external reality. Rucquoi has exhibited widely in shows and...
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In 2005 at the age of 60 I made the decision to study, part time for a B A (Hons) Fine Art  degree. It was something I'd always wanted to do and somehow avoided for numerous reasons. I didn't think I was 'good enough' if truth be known. I married early and had 5 daughters, then spent 30 years in various arts and voluntary sector jobs. My...
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I use painting, photography and print to explore my interests in systems, architecture, modernism and ruin appreciation.
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