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I am interested in the body intelligent - those innate and experiential set of conditions that are understood phenomenologically rather than through a lens of representational intellect and/or schooling relating to art and its contexts. The work often takes the form of solo performances, interactive installations, publications, interventions,...
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My artwork is a combination of cartoon-like drawing, animation and sculpture. My drawings are the nucleus of my work; I bring them to life using 2D animation and allow them to live in a 3D world by creating little sculptures. The three media interact in a humorous fusion that has resulted in 3D men destroying my 2D drawings. The absurdity of...
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Concepts At present my work is divided between painting and multi media works on paper made in the studio and large scale public art projects. They naturally have many concerns and aims in common but have certain essential differences due to the practical demands of large scale site specific work. My studio paintings...
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Concepts Drawing is my primary interest, the action, the outcome and the analysis. All my work in any media originates or is integrated to the action or idea of drawing. Influences An upbringing in Cornwall shaped the primary direction of my aesthetic approach to two...
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The paintings all start with a single mark or brushstroke applied directly to the canvas.  This will dictate the direction and final composition of the piece so that nothing is pre-planned or worked out beforehand.  Paint is built up and combined with monochrome blocks of colour to create a contrast between raw painterliness and...
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Concepts I'm fascinated with the city at night. In the dark the urban streets come alive with the crude lights of our making. It is these neon and sodium flares, recorded by the camera that form the marks of my work. I'm experimenting with the photograph, trying to create abstract images. Move the photo away from a method of...
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Concepts Being alone in the landscape is the predominant experience behind my practice. Then a delight in the medium of paint takes over and this experience in the studio begins to create a tension with the memories of the places. How this tension ebbs and flows is the determinant of the work. In...
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Delaine Le Bas's magpie practice encompasses painting, sculpture, film, embroidery, installation and well just about everything else in a crazy mixed media bricolage. Her Romany background is apparent in every flourish and twist but is never a forced point, integrating effortlessly within the fabric of her installations. Her work...
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My approach in making work, although rooted in figurative painting and drawing, extends into installation, performance and digital media - and tends to sit outside traditional forms of designated art practice and theoretical position. Art practice leads any theoretical input. I use phenomenology as a method - so that the visual is privileged...
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Born and brought up in London, and having lived there most of my life, my art reflects my fascination with its buildings and streets and the constant evidence of people, movement, change and chaos.  I use and combine many different forms - installations, constructions, paintings, text pieces and digital animation always intending that the...
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My practice has been constantly evolving and has taken a variety of forms including theatre, film score, song, internet performance and digital installation. My current interests lie in the creation of databases consisting of video, sound composition and spoken dialogue for the production of randomly configured digital art. The computer network...
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Concepts I use natural forms and landscape as the starting point for my work.This interest has evolved from a fascination with the shoreline and later with the rural environment in which I have lived for the last 12 years. I enjoy the irony of visual connections between organic and inorganic objects in the...
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My position as an binaural audio artist in contemporary art is to present an auditory experience that can disrupt the balance between the actual and the virtual by placing the listener in a position of uncertainty. When the recordings are listened to through stereo headphones, an intense and startling 360- degree experience is presented to...
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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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Working mainly with installation, my work deals with issues of deconstruction and transformation, the recycling of materials, and the ambiguity of communication - as well as the obsessive repetitive actions used in the making of the work. Found objects are reconstructed into artworks which stand as a tangible and symbolic presence of the...
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Concepts As an architectural glass artist I find that most of my commissions are for buildings. Progress in architecture can be very slow - sometimes years elapse between a project's inception and realisation. Being an artist in architecture is also a very collaborative process. From the design, through the...
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Concepts The tonal arrangements of a work is a primary concern; this makes abstract forms within the figurative painting. Similarities in the structure f shapes can create duality and ambiguous meaning. Portraiture from life is a relatively small but important part of my work. Ongoing themes are journeys, towns...
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Concepts, ideas and themes Recent art work has been made using recycled materials and found objects, investigating the inherent memory of the object itself and raising issues of our understanding of and the relationship with the past and today's consumerist society. Processes and...
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My artwork reflects my mashed up thought processes as they unravel the detritus of everyday life. My paintings are often screwed up scenarios where evil kittens and horses stalk you at night, or trashy glimpses at modern pop culture, where images gleaned from TV and magazines and lyrics from pop songs have been mangled through my brain, and...
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Simon Le Ruez uses sculpture, installation and drawing to reflect on a range of scenarios, incidents and seemingly random acts where meanings, like memories need to be pieced together. His work frequently refers to and oscillates between, private domestic spaces and that of wide-open metaphorical landscapes. Interested in the junction...
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Concepts/themes/ideas My current work is concerned with layers of time and the continuity between ancient and modern forms in the culture of Rajasthan (India) and Morocco. The process of scraping and wiping down the paint surface becomes a metaphor for excavating history, and transparent glazes are applied to...
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McGonigal is an established artist and curator currently based in the UK represented by ArdBia Berlin. She has shown internationally and been involved in important curatorial projects, including the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and Elsewhere, Paris 1996. Her current practice consists of pencil drawings on paper, both minimal and...
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Artist statement 'I long for your fluidity... I must listen well to learn your liquid voice.' (Luce Irigaray: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche ) In my working processes, I established the analogy of conversation - water and self were participants in an open and spontaneous interaction (or encounter) from which a...
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The physicality of sculpture, from the making process to the finished work, plays and integral part in shaping my practice. Environmental and architectural elements, along with material properties, aesthetic qualities and the manipulation of scale, are all important factors in my work. My public commissioned work has a strong...
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My interest lies in the stuff of paint and print, in the process of the making of the object, its' unique individual presence and observer/spectator participation. I am currently creating abstract images using non-toxic print methods and painting in oil on canvas. My work evolves from an obsessive passion for mark making, minuscule detail and a...
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My work is about exploring our connection to the land. My intention to capture feeling and emotion inspired by landscape, be it the glimpse of a night garden, the curve of a lakes edge or the tumbling lines of an allotment and it is this emotional response that is in mind when paint is applied, so horizons blur and colour saturates to create...
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My main choice of subject, my passion, is the human figure.  While initially being fascinated by the detail of the bone, muscle and skin; my painting is now more concerned with the mass and character of the pose and the figure and the relationship to the immediate environment.  I do not view a figure painting as a figure against a...
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People, place and the everyday are the base material for Cardiff-based artist Jennie Savage. Employing mapping, archiving and intervention, whether collecting stories or tracing journeys, Savage seeks to return the object to the source from where it was removed, or where it's journey began. 'I am interested in the dialogue between...
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My work focuses around using everyday objects and tools to make an image of its self. This means that the process of choosing the tool and making the work are undeniably entwined. Each piece's outcome is determined by the tool being used to make the work. The works are conceptual with the idea and process being an integral part when considering...
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I take on the somewhat superior position of a 'conductor' when making a painting. The canvas represents a 'stage' or a ground where various components can 'perform'. The elements are brought in one by one and orchestrated within the picture plane so that a narrative can be constructed around them. My intention is for each painting to suggest an...
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