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How and where I work I take photographs and make textworks, usually in response to historically and politically resonant locations which I explore over an extended period. My most recently completed series was made in and around Stein Prison, in Krems an der Donau, Austria, whilst I was Artist-in-Residence, Galerie...
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I am interested in using photography to illustrate different perspectives on the world and alternative ways of seeing. By involving other people in the image making process, I step away from the traditional role of the photographer as outside spectator. Instead I am forced to interact with the community or cultural context I am working with(in)....
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A head emerges, tantalisingly revealing lips, half a nose. Ndiritu's eyes are closed for a long time; it's trance-like, almost meditative. Then the beat of the African soundtrack changes, the screen flips into colour and the red cloth with white flowers becomes a dancer in the artist's hands as she wraps it around her head in a series of...
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Concepts Watercolourist specialising in scenes of local interest. Cityscapes and people are my favourite subjects and I enjoy using pen and wash for maximum impact. My approach is quite detailed and graphic and I tend to favour strong architectural elements in my paintings using figures to give scale and...
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Concepts/themes/ideas My work is based on the colours and textures found on beaches.  I am interested in the way industrial materials and objects are reclaimed by nature but still keep a geometric quality.  I use horizontal and vertical lines to produce a sense of calm, to give an impression of the sea and the...
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Concepts I make abstract sculptures predominantly from stone and resin, materials which are both ancient and modern. Highly crafted and beautiful forms which question the notions of presence and absence and the relationship between elemental opposites. A number of years ago my sculptures were about the transcendence of...
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Suzy's paintings are inspired by what she sees and remembers. This is a starting point for manipulating paint, colour, pattern and shape until she arrives at a picture which feels complete. She has completed a number of corporate and private commissions including for The Laura Ashley Foundation and The London Business School where she spent a...
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Concepts The early work focused on cultural perceptions of identity: of persons, of objects and the role of art in this. Some work asked for contributions: building (or destroying) and physical exploration. More recently, the political aspect - in a wide sense - has become more important: questions of power for...
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Concepts Spanton's practice is cross-disciplinary. Based in Leeds , her work embraces performance, video, photography, dance, sculpture and text. Her solo and collaborative projects are seen in a range of different contexts: such as, movement-led works in a live art setting, site-specific dance installations,...
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Concepts MacKinnon-Day's recent work evolves from particular contexts and she is drawn to site specific artist-in-residence projects.  She approaches each new context in a spirit of investigation, teasing out the clues, both physical and psychological, to past and present human activity.  She enjoys talking to...
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I am interested in the function of the media image in society, particularly in the way that it aids the construction of individual and group identities through visual and ideological bombardment. The notion of people created by cultural factors as opposed to constituted by an inherent 'Scottishness' or 'femininity' appeals to me and accordingly...
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Rachel Wilberforce is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, film, installation and live art intervention. Born in the United Kingdom in 1975, she lives and works in London. Wilberforce's work reflects on the human condition through societal and cultural constructs; playing on the tension between reality and fantasy, between the...
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My work is concerned with notions of identity, particularly inherited identity or identity enforced by cultural convention. It raises issues surrounding art and social consequence, art and humour and life as performance (particularly gender as performance). Recently I have focused on issues surrounding gender identity. Is all gender a...
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Concepts Frank To has created paintings inspired by a story attributed to the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo. It was said Michelangelo could visualise the human form within a block of marble. F. To, similarly, teases out figures from initially abstract images. It means he works in two distinct ways on a...
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Concepts Over the years my sculpture has been concerned with a diverse range of concepts and has been made out of a variety of materials including wood, stone and bronze. The content of the work has ranged from an interest in transformation and change to its current involvement with aspects of theoretical physics. The...
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Victoria Ferrand Scott uses a wide range of tools as an artist but thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor. When working in three dimensions her forms are often abstract but with a strong organic character. They do not resemble or imitate anything specific but have their own...
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Sharon Phelps' abstract paintings are based on reflected light, referring to the romantic notion of a sublime landscape. Rhythmic pulses of colour traverse thinned veils of oil paint. The colours dissolve across the surface of the canvas; the painting process allowing an element of chance into the work. Each work begins without a...
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Concepts Painting the land or the sea is the best way I know of evoking half forgotten memories or truths. I have long been drawn to places of trauma, be it abandoned tin mines, World War 1/World War 2 sites. My feelings about the physical reality of what is left moves me to paint. I am in a sense a history painter.
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For the last few years my work has been influenced by the philosophical/literary movement Deconstruction, and in particular by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Francois Lyotard.  I work in a variety of media - most of my works are 'constructions' of one kind or another. Recently my work has been involved with signs and...
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For the first time in a long while the Sheffield MA show took place at the University, allowing the artist to construct two installations in the building at Psalter Lane. It seemed important that Woods' works were separate to that of other students, as this allowed her to create her own worlds for us to enter. On the lower floor was the...
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Primarily my artwork is self-portraiture, but not in the traditional sense. In the work I create a photographic copy of myself and photograph it in my place. She becomes a substitute and my visual representative. My work forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis and phenomenology I...
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Concepts The common thread within my work is dual heritage and personal experience. My work is figurative and narrative, telling much about myself as a black woman and mother. I strongly identify with Nigerian heritage and reference the richness of Yoruba culture. My work is my history, it embraces my identity and culture and...
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Jane Ponsford comes from a background in painting but has been making paper for over 10 years and has worked with a variety of other artists on joint projects. Her work was featured in a book, Paper: An Inspirational Portfolio by Gabrielle Falkiner. She has shown nationally in exhibitions, which vary from large diverse ones like the
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I am interested in creating semi-representational drawings and paintings which suggest an event or happening is taking place. They are part of an evolving and layering process bringing together a range of references from diverse sources including history books, newspapers and found objects to create disorderly open ended images. I am...
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My practice exists within a constellation of projects delivered through painting, drawing, video, and collaborations with other cultural agents. I am interested in the slim distance that separates meaning and absurdity in our ways of making sense of reality.
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I see myself primarily as a still life painter, using seemingly everyday objects to express my own eccentric, and fanciful visions of the world around me.  My work is influenced by the Dutch still life painters of the 17th Century, painters like Pieter Caesz and Willem Kalf, and contemporary artists like Ralph Goings.  Photography is an...
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Through my art I explore the relationship between the body and identity, while also raising questions regarding the status of photography in a digital age. I seek to question the basic assumption that the self is distinct from the other, to portray physical identity and psychological identity as unstable and permeable. I present the...
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To provoke curiosity I experiment with both imagery and media . I work in 2 D (paint, collage, textiles) and 3D. Using junk materials (recycling) is a speciality. The work is stylised but recognisable and often there is a story. I draw a lot on humour and cross-culture. Recurring themes are crowds, the catering industry, exaggeration,...
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I work mostly with etching, monotype and embossing, and each piece is a unique, original work. I have been intrigued by the circle for some time, with its paradox of complex associated ideas, expressed in such a simple form. Related to this, I am also interested in the tension between boundary and boundlessness,...
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Concepts The form and influences for my work came from a close study of the processes of growth in nature - used as a metaphor for our own aspirations processes and discoveries in our lives. The work is primarily sculptured out of unfired brick often in a soft and fluid way to create site specific pieces...
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