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The work that I'm engaged in is, to some extent, centred on perception and interpretation, consciousness and hermeneutics. This is an attempt to broaden my understanding of the relationship between experience and knowledge – the way that I see, respond, think and construct – a fundamental concern with language and the nature of...
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I define my art practice as conceptual where the work is ideas-led and the end product is manufactured or created using specialist services. Outcomes range from large scale installations to small scale multiples which are always site-specific and consider political, social and economic frameworks. These considerations are present not only in my...
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Concepts The central theme in my practice is a reflection upon what it is to be human. The body, humble substances, space and place are the tools I use to mediate this. I work as a sculptor siting objects, creating installations and contriving social participations in interior sites which vary in context. Using the exhibition in an...
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Warren Hayes' practice is concerned with the architectonics of everyday life and how they affect upon our lives. His highly constructed paintings reduce multiple modes of information into basic elementary shapes. Through repetition and duplication, colours jostle for position on the fractured surface. Some win the battle to occupy the rich...
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A fascination with individual memory, story-telling and evocative objects characterises So Young Jung's work. She combines film, sound and objects to investigate the theme of personal and collective memory. For her final MA Fine Art show at Nottingham Trent University, Jung presents three small doll's-house size rooms containing...
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Claire Harbottle's premise is to equate 'art making with child rearing' in which 'the drive to create involves endless repetition, everyday frustration, and the impossibility of ever getting it quite right'. This selection of recent work, combining sculpture, video, photography and performance, is likewise something of a mixed...
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The Painted background shape and repetitive mark-making in Weird Head concern themselves with the act of making. Their execution wholly consumes the artist’s headspace offering an escapist retreat from critical and everyday concerns. The head may be presented as an abstract piece and assessed by aesthetic merit, fronting its formal qualities. ...
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I design and make glass artwork for architectural settings, creating visually stimulating work that responds to the nature of a space, becomes part of the fabric of an environment and, I hope, adds something to people's everyday lives.I work to commission for a wide variety of applications and undertake public art projects, often in...
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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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I make simple work and seek to capture light, emotion and how people live and work. I like to keep beauty on my side: I welcome chance encounters.For several years I have been developing an artistic practice involving the documentation of industry - coal mining, textiles, banking, engineering and iron making - and the landscapes and lives and raw...
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HeliocentreThe installation featured in Pending presents a reconstruction of elements drawn from the illusionary visual experience of a nightclub. The title of the work refers to the scientific theory that the sun is at the centre of the Universe as proposed by Copernicus in the sixteenth century. A political/religious debate around the...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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'My work is embodied in my passionate observation to the human experience, and explores gender based topics and fantasies of femininity; our dreams and our nightmares. I am fascinated with the passing of time and the way this makes us change our priorities in life. Something that is vitally important today, may be forgotten tomorrow'. ...
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Artist statement One of the emphases in the 'Water Carriers' was to perpetuate and advance the notion of African woman as maker promoting the skills and practice of making clay vessels in the home as domestic pieces or used for ritualistic and symbolic purposes. In this project this is a celebration of the strength of African women throughout...
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Transmute: Change the form, nature, or substance ofMutation: The process, or an instance of change or alterationTrans-(Prefix): Across, beyond, through, on or to the other side of, into another state or place. Gently tweaking the knobs of reality - trans-muting found, used, discarded & recycled materials into strange and...
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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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Northern based artist Larna Campbell brings fun and games to people in their places through art. Larna's work is inspired by conversations and interactions with her surroundings.Larna's practice is driven by her desire to engage with people from all walks of life, both within the UK and internationally. She has performed at theatre...
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Over the last 2 years, supported by the Arts Council, I have been developing a new body of work. New Grounds has allowed me the freedom to explore new concepts and discover a more personal creative identity. I have discovered printmaking as a basis to explore marks and surface. There is a structural connection with the devore work I am so...
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ConceptsI have always been concerned with space, both within and around a form. I am attempting to express both centredness and dynamism within one abstract form. There is a tension between finding a clarity of line and underlying geometry, with the random surface marking from smoke-firing which is important to my creative process. I hope that...
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Concepts I chose to concern myself as a painter with landscape as a means through which to communicate ideas, feelings and aspirations because it has been the back-cloth to key moments in my life - early childhood, personal loss, moments of achievement. The patina of my thinking makes use of the corresponding range of moods and colour...
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Concepts/ideas/themes For some time I have investigating the problematics of intercultural dialogue, with particular reference to nationalism and the politics of language. Employing live art for its directness and its high risk of embarrassment, this inquiry initially took the form of a six-year collaborative project in a range of...
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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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ConceptsMy interest in the notion of place is linked to the idea of duration, repetition and juxtaposition of narrative. Since 1998 I have been developing a body of work (painting and photography) with the title Thought Dwellings. These images derive from memories and experiences of the 'ordinary'. They are perceptions of everyday life, but...
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Artist statement The works in Ablution were made to convey a tension between sacred and profane space, and the narrow sliver of experience between. My practice as a whole concerns the design, use and politics of environment, and Zen aesthetics. In Ablution I used water and re-arranged institutional furniture remaining at the art school campus...
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ConceptsI am a practising metalsmith, using precious and non-precious metals, and leatherworker, working mainly with hide. The two areas occasional meet to combine metal and leather, however, at the moment I develop work separately in the two disciplines. The techniques I use in metal can inform how I work in leather and vice versa. My...
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My work can be seen in the context of neo-conceptual artistic practices which play with and interrogate images, sounds, objects and texts through processes of collage, appropriation and multiple association. In individual work and collaborative practice with Steve Dutton I have introduced animals into the art making process. This includes video...
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ConceptsMy commission work is metal based but I work in other materials including ceramic and wood. The sculpture is light-hearted, accessible and often site-specific. My Gallery orientated work is concerned with inanimate objects. I am also interested in making sculptural functional items such as my bicycle racks. I use narratives that are either...
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Artist statement Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities, 2006-2007Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities is a research project started in October 2006 and developed during the eight following months through various visits, interactions and recordings. Following processes of an ethnographic practice, the project concentrates on...
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I am a UK based artist, designer and web developer and have exhibited in both real and virtual spaces, nationally and abroad. I produce documentary video from found and archive photography and use digital software to generate work from analogue media. Since 2000 my research has explored the liminal qualities of place, time and consciousness and my...
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The Return of the Narrative Taking the view as a passerby to Bridgewater Place, Leeds' tallest building, you can gain a moment of reflection by catching sight of Bryan and Laura Davis' sculpture, 'Hello Friends' in its atrium. As the nights draws in, it appears as a lonely blinking monolith, communicating to all and nobody in particular...
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Concepts Most of my work is made in silver but I often add texture or other metals such as red gold to provide warmth. I also introduce colour with small pieces of titanium or beads and use different polishing techniques such as high polished and satin polished to give contrast. Recent work has been influenced by shapes found in...
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