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Blue has been given access to the National Library of Wales' (NLW) varied collections which consist of many of the Nation's treasures, including a broad range of materials such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and archives - not to mention the films, sound tapes and off-air recordings that are also housed there. The project was...
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For the past twenty five years I have been consistently creating and redefining my artwork. Beginning with the photographic self-portrait, the philosophical and psychological analysis of myself through the medium of the lens, I have been moving on to question how the work will be seen and experienced. Exploring digital photography and...
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Concepts I always use my local environment as inspiration for my work. Since the early 1970s I have used the beach of the town where I live as a source for my ideas. I use materials for my images and techniques that become a metaphor for the beach.I am concerned with the way in which everyone appears to enjoy nature, the landscape, a vista and...
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We are a collective based in Swansea. Formed in September 2006, not long after we all graduated, we began by meeting once a week to talk about each other’s work. When we were offered a one off event at Mission Gallery, Swansea, we needed a name. Framework’s launch event Bring Music Bake Bread in February 2007 invited people to bring along their...
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My work touches on the duality of past and present in art in relation to technology, playing on the preconceptions of the spectator and importance of their personal interpretation. I paint romanticised landscapes and buildings visually reminiscent of American realists such as Edward Hopper, dealing with similar subjects with similar application...
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PAUL BECKETT Sculptor / Clockmaker / Precision Design Engineer / Consultant Summary A highly experienced, award winning artist clockmaker melding the skills of a precision mechanical design engineer with the flair of a sculptor. A passion for research and development coupled with a very individual design handwriting underpins...
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ConceptsLife is far more interesting than we are led to believe. Even with my shed apparatus certain empirical observations regarding harmonics and the behaviour of light have suggested complexity and synchronicities beyond the current description. Intent is another thing - hovering intent - the moment of intent... amplified intent.Pocahontas...
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ConceptsKey Idea - All my work stems from looking for strangely distorted images. At first it was simply reflections in water, in glass (especially old flawed glass) and new highly reflectant buildings. Then, in the life class, when drawing, I found, by looking into obscured spaces, quirky images that stimulated the imagination. Confirmation of...
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ConceptsRunning concurrently throughout my work is a deep fascination with the scale of the large and small, the inner and outer and above and below. Inspired by images of astronomy and the scale the immensity of the universe, I tried to find a visual bridge to help illustrate the enormity of space and the wonder of the earth, and man, through...
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