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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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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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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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Frances Young is a UK based artist working in moving image media, exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. Her work is in the collections of David Roberts (London, UK), Gemeente Museum, Helmond (Netherlands), University of the Arts London Permanent Collection (UK), and private collections in the UK and USA. She holds an MA in Fine Art from...
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I have been making pictures since childhood. In 2006 I completed a degree course in fine art at university where I reaffirmed my love and compulsion to paint. From a continuing passion for landscape painting, I have broadened my scope of practice to tackle broader subjects and ideas. Originally...
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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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Lock's practice straddles fact and fiction, truth and the fake. Weaving new narratives of history and myth through a complicated and sometimes mysterious tale of heartache of heartache, lust and delusional thinking, Lock allows her practice to accumulate, take unfathomable journeys and elicit deceit to create part encrypted biography and...
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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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The main interest of my studio based practice is a questioning of how information and images are structured, performed, remembered and retold for us and by us through representations, and the effect this has on our interior and exterior experiences.  The images and information I...
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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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My current practice combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. My continued interrogation of painting and process has seen me evolve from working exclusively with oil paint and two-dimensions to gradually introducing new materials (Fablon, gaffa tape, furniture, scrap metal, strip lighting, gloss paint) in order to...
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'Ian Gonczarow works in the traditional artworld genre of painting, yet he forces the paint into images of cultural and political dissent. The heraldic insignia of world power politics - the Stars and Stripes, heroic soviet statuary, all cack-handedly reproduced with meticulous care - are filtered through the blatant bad taste aesthetics of...
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I graduated from Wimbledon Collage of Art in 2006 with a Masters Distinction degree and an Axis MAstar award.  As well as an artist, I am a critical studies lecturer at Blackpool and the Fylde College, and I lead occasional educational and community art projects.  I was selected for the Arts and Business ‘Vision’ for the...
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Miranda Blennerhassett's work focuses on architecture and the perception of urban spaces. Through gaining an understanding of constructed space, and also of utopian attempts to create an idealised urban context in order to produce an idealised urban society, she makes work that references a purity of vision. As a counterpoint to this the works...
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unmaking painting My paintings use repetitive procedures, structures and processes of reproduction in an attempt to acknowledge one in the immediate present, standing one with respect to time, a feeling of time ’. The vocabulary of abstraction is entwined with reference to ‘experience.’ By navigating a route through abstraction...
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'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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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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Emma Bolland cr Emma Bolland creates nightmarish yet fantastical installations, using light and negative images, whether in the form of silhouettes or the removal or blanking out of the information from images that we rely on for their readability. Often mundane objects are weaved together into fairytale landscapes where - just like the fables of...
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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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I am interested in how humans create an absurd mixture of conflicting emotions when they are faced with overwhelming situations and anxiety.Through videos and bodies of drawings, I use humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours. My videos mimic television genres such as documentaries, reality shows and...
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I am currently employing a variety of approaches to debate notions of people, place and time. My personal experiences of living in two countries have prompted me to reflect upon the extent to which individuals are a product of their genetic make-up or of their environment i.e., nature or nurture. I have personalised this by producing a series of...
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Candice Jacobs currently lives and works in Nottingham.  She was one of the co-founders and co-directors of Moot, an artist-run gallery/project space in Nottingham (2005 - 2010), and One Thoresby Street (2009 - present), an artist-run project which supports individual artists and art organisations.  Recent exhibitions include; In...
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Mimei Thompson's work delves deep into a dark underworld where brush and pen marks coalesce into distorted faces, body parts and organic forms. These alien sprites are in a constant state of flux and unrest, monsters of the id that rail against the pictorial frame like untamed scientific specimens pounding against the glass walls of a bell jar....
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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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Bob Levene Experiments For Microphones, 2006 Selected by Rebecca Shatwell Bob Levene's work investigates how images, objects and actions can create sound. Using both old and new technology in a playful way, she makes installations, performances and videos that explore how sound is...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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My practice primarily works with the moving image but also encompasses still image and text projects. I have been working with the found image and particular places/sites within my filmmaking practice for around five years. I'm attracted to a degree of obsolescence in both cases. With the found image, the detachment from its creator and...
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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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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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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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My work involves creating installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Underpinning the work is a desire to look beyond the surface of objects and buildings, to uncover forgotten and invisible histories of places and people, as a way of reframing and considering the past. Often drawing on...
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HIDDEN (Forest) Stuart Bailes studied Photographic Art at the University of Wales, Newport, graduating in 2007. His work centres on nocturnal landscapes rendered strange by the use of artificial lighting. Part biographical, part investigative, his pictures are a subtle commentary on memory and forgetting, of rural spaces rich in Romantic...
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