Visual For Business: The Catalogue by Arts & Business

Great art is great business.

Arts & Business sparks new partnerships between commerce and culture.

We connect companies and individuals to cultural organisations and provide the expertise and insight for them to prosper together. We forge partnerships of real value by providing businesses with a unique combination of cultural expertise, market intelligence and dynamic networks.

Foreword

More than ever, business needs culture. Culture breeds creativity and innovation, which fuel a growing economy. What’s more, culture is in demand – between 2009 and 2012 the UK’s creative and arts sector is forecast to grow at twice the rate of the rest of the economy.* Arts & Business unites commerce with culture to generate great art and creative companies. In 1976, when Arts & Business was founded, UK private investment in culture totalled £600,000. In 2007/08 it reached £687m. In the same year, cultural organisations added £7.7 billion to the UK creative economy. Today it is apparent that business needs culture as much as culture needs business. Commentators from the political, cultural and economic worlds have said that Britain’s recovery from recession will, when it comes, be due in part to having the strongest creative sector in the world. As a nation, we export more cultural goods than any other economy in the world. The message is clear, together commerce and culture are powerful – arts and business will prosper together for their own and the common good.

“Business needs culture as much as culture needs business.”

By forging partnerships that pay dividends, commercially and culturally, we bring about collaborations that have brand equity, motivated staﬀ, inspired creativity and engaged stakeholders. Visual is the service that crystallises all of these benefits and serves as an inspiration to everyone that it involves, from artists and curators through to the Managing Directors of blue chip companies and Arts & Business people. I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make it the success it is today.

Colin Tweedy Chief Executive, Arts & Business

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In business you know a good deal when you see it Buy contemporary art interest free over 10 months at visualforbusiness.com

Typical 0% APR www.ownart.org.uk Offer subject to age and status. Term and conditions apply. Arts & Business Services Ltd is a licensed broker for Own Art loans. Registered address: Nutmeg House, 60 Gainsford Street, London SE1 2NY Image: Still (detail), oil on canvas, by Ben Kelly. Available through visualforbusiness.com

Welcome to Visual

Visual is an inspiring and flexible contemporary art service for business and business people. Great art is great business. Through Visual we give business a low-risk route to acquiring, borrowing and commissioning professional and affordable contemporary art. From fine artists and photographers to digital artists and designer makers, Visual promotes the work of over 150 professional artists – all selected by panels of senior arts professionals and business leaders, following open submission. Selection is driven by quality, but value for money and appropriateness to both business and domestic environments are also important considerations for our panels. The artists are featured in this catalogue with two of their artworks. However, with more than 1,500 pieces in the collection, you will find much more on visualforbusiness.com, including news of the latest exhibitions, projects and offers. For this new catalogue, we have recruited around 100 additional artists and expanded our operations allowing us to meet a growing demand from clients across the country. Furthermore, we are delighted that Arts Council England has approved Visual to join the select group of galleries offering Own Art loans to help private clients spread the cost of their purchases.

“Visual enhances your workplace, builds your brand and inspires employees and customers.”

Visual is run by Arts & Business, the leading not-for-profit agency sparking partnerships between commerce and culture. We have a great team working on Visual and have already delivered outstanding work for clients such as Ernst & Young, Aston Business School, Beachcroft, the NHS, Crosby Lend Lease, the BBC and Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.

Whether you are looking to buy, borrow or commission, Visual will enhance your workplace, build your brand and inspire employees and customers alike. We look forward to working with you. Gavin Buckley Head of Visual

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Visual clients... Buy contemporary art from carefully selected professional artists Bring temporary exhibitions into the workplace Build a permanent corporate art collection Commission bespoke work for specific locations Involve employees in creative activities

The Art and Artists All the artists available through Visual are selected by independent panels of experts to ensure that our clients benefit from the best. Visual includes over 1,500 artworks produced by 157 carefully selected artists. Our selection panels include experts from Arts Council England and other professional visual arts organisations such as Tate Liverpool, Arnolfini, De La Warr Pavilion and Ikon Gallery. The collection is made up of fine art, photography, digital media and contemporary craft. This catalogue profiles all the artists and shows a small sample of their work, all of which is available for sale, subject to availability. Furthermore, we have a commissioning service allowing you to work with an artist to create artwork tailored to your specific needs. Quality and AďŹ&#x20AC;ordability When buying art through Visual you can be assured of its quality. This is because all our artists are selected by panels of senior arts professionals and business leaders. The panels consider artistic merit, value for money and suitability for both commercial and domestic environments.

Visual is an inspiring and flexible contemporary art service for business and business people. We provide sales, loans and commissions together with events, employee engagement and consultancy.

“The exhibition in our office provided a unique way to entertain clients, business contacts and alumni at the same time as showcasing the works of leading contemporary artists. Our staff were able to access a wide range of art online and many purchased pieces as a result. “We also worked directly with one of the artists who ran a series of art workshops for our staff and for GCSE students at one of our partner schools. These proved very popular and rewarding for staff and feedback from students and teachers has been fantastic.” Ronnie Bowker Senior Partner, Ernst & Young

The Business Benefits

Visual makes corporate art aﬀordable, achievable and relevant to businesses of all types and sizes.

Energise your workplace. Build your brand. Inspire your employees. Invest in your community. With Visual you can … Create a unique and dynamic visual element for your corporate environment helping your organisation to be a great place to work and do business. Improve image and reinforce brand values by investing in and displaying quality contemporary art. Engage with and energise your employees through art and give them opportunities for creative participation. Develop exciting and distinctive hospitality, press and PR opportunities. Connect with your local community and engage with the vibrant, artistic culture of our country.

Visual exhibition at City Inn’s flagship hotel in Westminster, 2008.

Who in your organisation benefits? Visual oﬀers your organisation a unique opportunity to improve your work and business environment, develop your brand and even deliver on your corporate social responsibility objectives. Visual is designed to have a direct and positive impact, not only on your clients, but also on employees and a wide rage of internal stakeholders: Learning and Development, Marketing and PR, Human Resources and Corporate Responsibility. What does the research say? Three-quarters of the UK workforce would prefer to work in an environment where there is art (73%), although less than half have art on the walls of their workplace (48%). Those employees who consider themselves to be working for a very successful company are much more likely to have art on the wall (52%) than those who are working for unsuccessful companies (23%)*. Clients Since we were founded over 33 years ago, Arts & Business has forged partnerships of real value by providing businesses with a unique combination of cultural expertise, market intelligence and dynamic networks. Visual clients include Ernst & Young, Aston Business School, the NHS, Beachcroft, City Inn, Crosby Lend Lease, Smith & Williamson, Targetfollow and the BBC.

*ICM survey for Arts & Business, 2003

How to Buy

Whether you need art for a new oﬃce, to energise an existing space or even for your home, Visual can help. Visual is an entirely flexible contemporary art service designed for business and business people. You don’t have to be an art expert to work with Visual as we can help and support you every step of the way. In addition, because all the artists on Visual have been selected for us by art experts, you can rest assured that you will acquire quality work.

Talk to us and find out how Visual is tailored to meet your needs.

Flexible and Low-Risk Packages

There is plenty of information and art to view on visualforbusiness.com. However, we are always happy to talk, so do call us on 0844 335 1305 to discuss your particular requirements.

The Visual service is completely flexible and focused on the individual needs of our clients. However, we oﬀer two straightforward packages encompassing the key features commonly requested:

Our approach is flexible so that we best meet your needs. If you are looking to buy art for your office we will meet you for a free consultation at your office to look at the space and understand your requirements. In addition to the art itself we always discuss the options for involving your staff – not only a great way to motivate people, but also to ensure that your new art is understood and valued.

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Visual exhibit Led by an expert account manager, we work with a group of your staﬀ to select up to 20 works from the Visual collection – a great way to engage and motivate employees and teams. We deliver and install the work at your premises for an exhibition of up to 6 weeks. You can use this exhibition to entertain clients, employees and other people key to the ongoing success of your business. We can even design and print the invitation cards for you. In addition, you and your employees fully access visualforbusiness.com for 12 months and gain a 10% discount on any purchases. Visual exhibit plus All the above, plus 10 additional works in your exhibition and the loan of a signature piece for 12 months which we will change every 4 months.

Own Art

Get an Own Art Interest Free Loan Own Art is a brilliant scheme from our friends at Arts Council England. The scheme is designed to make it easy and aﬀordable for everyone to buy original, high quality contemporary art and craft. Individuals can borrow up to £2,000, or as little as £100, to be paid back in equal installments over a period of 10 months – interest free.

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Own Art is open to individuals buying art for their personal use. You can buy paintings, sculpture, glassware, ceramics, photography, jewellery, furniture and textiles; in fact, you can buy anything by any of the artists available through Visual. We can even help you commission something unique by an artist whose work you particularly admire.

“Own Art has been a fantastically successful scheme, creating new investors in art. I am proud that the Arts Council has made it aﬀordable for anyone to buy contemporary art.” Alan Davey, Chief Executive of Arts Council England

How it Works You can apply for a loan to finance your purchase by spreading the cost over 10 months, borrowing from £100 to £2,000. The loan amount can be a part-payment towards an item that costs more than £2,000, or you can buy several lower value items at a time with a combined value of up to £2,000 or more. To apply, please call us on 0844 335 1305 and we will take you through the application process.

Typical 0% APR Oﬀer subject to age and status. Terms and conditions apply. For more information see visualforbusiness.com. Arts & Business Services Ltd is a licensed broker for Own Art loans. Registered address: Nutmeg House, 60 Gainsford Street, London SE1 2NY

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Your Online Gallery Only a small proportion of the art is shown in this catalogue. The Visual website not only shows all the artwork in the collection, but also provides much additional information about the artists, our clients, exhibitions and the art market in general.

Visual corporate clients can enjoy the site, branded with their own logo and with full access granted to their employees. We are pleased to oﬀer all our corporate clients and their employees a 10% discount on all purchases made from the website.

Commissioning We oﬀer a full commissioning service. So if you are looking for a bespoke artwork for a specific location we can work with you to identify a suitable artist and manage the whole process from specification through contracting to delivery and installation. Jane Anderson’s commissioned work installed at I-land apartments in 2008 for Visual client Crosby Lend Lease.

Contact Us Our oﬃce is open Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 5:30pm. Call us on 0844 335 1305 or email visual@artsandbusiness.org.uk

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“Working with Arts & Business, and particularly through Visual, has enabled us to create an inspiring work environment in our Business School. Our multicultural community and our commitment to innovation and inspiration require that we are constantly challenged by new perspectives and new media of expression. “Arts & Business has helped us achieve this by working in a powerful and exciting partnership with us. We are very proud of the partnership, delighted with the results and look forward to further sustained inspiration in the future.”

Professor Michael West Executive Dean, Aston Business School

Mark Adams Mark Adams is a Manchesterbased photographer. He studied at the Royal College of Art focusing on narrative-based photography and moving image. After a period of living in the United States, the focus of his photography moved towards colour landscapes influenced by the work of the New Topographic photographers. Mark’s conceptually-based documentary photographs explore the eﬀects of man’s intervention on the landscape through highly colour-saturated images. These images explore a variety of themes such as urban regeneration, surveillance, environmental issues and how landscape and architecture act as an indicator of cultural identity. Mark has exhibited in the United States and England and received the Chris Garnham Award for Photography from the Royal College of Art.

Statue of Liberty, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Chromogenic print 51 × 41cm £603

Diner, Great America Theme Park, Vallejo, California, USA Chromogenic print 28 × 36cm £469

Jane Anderson Jane Anderson specialises in the production of original, cutting-edge contemporary art for modern spaces. Working in painting, drawing and digital media, Jane paints and draws what she sees around her. People are her main inspiration. Their interaction, emotions, behaviour, and body language are a constant source of information. Much of Jane’s work strives to create something beautiful in its simplicity. She opts to remove unnecessary background information, stripping the composition so it focuses the viewer’s gaze in immediate dialogue with the subject. Jane has worked on commissions for Crosby Lend Lease and the BBC. She has shown work in the Birmingham Open and New Art Birmingham, and has been selected for Channel 4 to exhibit for Ideas Factory at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Watching Digital media print 29 × 42cm Other sizes available on request £80, edition of 30

Red Riding Hood Digital media print 80 × 80cm £469 framed, limited edition

Tristram Aver Tristram is interested in the way in which technology shapes the world. He examines the volume of digital visual information with which we are bombarded and creates a personal and yet formal language to communicate this. His paintings capture and identify a sampled view of the world, imitating the implosion of visual information. He graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 2002 and in 2003 was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK.

Monkeyshines 2008 Oil and acrylic on canvas 107 × 80cm £600

Bisto Shaggy 2008 Oil, acrylic, glitter and gouache on canvas 135 × 102cm £1,075

Ruth Ball Ruth Ball utilises the fusion of glass on metal to produce contemporary jewellery, bowls and vessels and wall-based art works. All the works are unique or made in limited editions. Ruth graduated from Middlesex University in Jewellery Design. She is an active member of the British Society of Enamellers and of the Merseyside Jewellers and Metal Artists Network. She is skilled in all aspects of champlevé, cloisonné and painted enamel. Ruth regularly exhibits work nationally and internationally, from the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool to the Craft Museum of Finland, both during 2008. She is also an experienced teacher.

Oﬀ the Wall Vitreous enamel, copper, gold leaf, wood frame Including frame 80 × 80cm. Individual panels 15 × 15cm (set of nine) £1,350

Ornamental Bowls – Key Colour Series Vitreous enamel, copper, wood plinth 7.5 × 10.5cm and 6.5 × 7.5cm, plinth 10 × 10cm £130 and £115 (set of three £350)

Linda Barlow Linda Barlow creates textile panels of hand-dyed natural fabrics, pieced, embroidered and quilted to form large, colourful wall-hangings. She works almost exclusively in natural fabrics. These are dyed and often over-dyed, painted, printed, discharged and manipulated to create the colour and texture required for the work. Recent public commissions include four panels and a textile clock for Shropshire County Council’s new Library and Learning Centre in Wem, and three large panels for North Shropshire Council. The artist welcomes the challenge of commissions and working to a client’s brief. She has recently secured an Arts Council England grant to research animation in relation to textiles.

Environment 1 Dyed, pieced, appliquéd and quilted cottons 170 × 120cm £1,072

The Road to…Happiness? Dyed, pieced, appliquéd and quilted cottons 185 × 116cm £1,206

Ania Bas Ania Bas is an artist who enjoys blurring the edges of what art is and what it can be. She produces art as photography, for mobile phones, in video, mixed media, text, body, site-specific performance and temporary art in public spaces. She develops work with companies and organisations that is project-based and collaborative. The work is about process and participation as well as the end product. Employee engagement and tailoring the project specific to business objectives is central to her practice.

Metamorphosis 3 Commissioned project Price n/a

Metamorphosis 2 Commissioned project Price n/a

Moira Blackwell The artist explores memory and the family album while fairy stories have also been an inspiration in generating and developing ideas. The film still has also been a strong influence on the style of her work. She has made work with, and about, individuals and groups of people during and after episodes of illness, particularly serious mental illness. She has also developed work with and about older people and in institutions during residencies. Moira is interested in Michael Fried’s concept that absorption can impart intensity to the scene, which is relevant to the figure within the enclosed space. For the artist the process of making work relies on a bond of trust with her subject and results from spending a considerable amount of time listening to personal history which informs the image. The work seen here is taken with medium and large format cameras and is presented on mounted aluminium or white background framed on shallow, matt black box frame.

Maggie C-type print 50 × 60cm £300, edition of 10

Untitled 2 Giclée print 40 × 40cm £250, edition of 10

Muriel Bonnet A fine art, documentary/narrative photographer with a scientific and teaching background, Muriel was born in France where she studied at the Université de Caen. Her main interest lies in the exploration of the diﬃculties and challenges life forces us to face which result in inner conflicts, fears, momentary loss of self-esteem and in the need for recognition and acceptance. Photography, for her, is a way to communicate the vulnerability and beauty of such moods. Muriel works on personal and group projects and takes on commissions. The demands of the work will dictate whether she uses analogue or digital photography, black & white or colour.

Margarita Blue Silver hand print 40 × 50cm £214 framed, edition of 20

Atocha – Madrid Silver hand print 40 × 50cm £214 framed, edition of 20

Andrea Booker Andrea Booker graduated in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1998. She has exhibited throughout the North West including at the Cube and Islington Mill. Each of her installations is reclaimed from demolished or refurbished buildings in Manchester and Salford. Given the title of its address of origin, the piece is appropriated to form a subliminal comment or statement in response to our co-existence with the urban environment. The project aims at highlighting our awareness of social conditioning, and the subsequent ghettoised communities, that cities incur from a process of regeneration. The pieces, humanised through text, displace the conventional meaning it professes, and oﬀers diﬀerent meanings and parodies in relation to our own ‘displacements’ of identity, conveyed through the urban landscape and architectural consequence.

Apollo Steel and perspex wall-hung light installation 43 × 89cm Price on application

Stamford House Steel and perspex wall-hung light installation 23 × 219cm Price on application

Daniel Bosworth Graduating in 2006 with a BA Hons in Photography, Daniel Bosworth financed his education by assisting on advertising photo shoots. He has since won commissions for national advertising campaigns and continues to work on, and exhibit, self-initiated projects. The work focuses on a dilution of personal, cultural and social identity and the credibility of the signs that construct it. The images both berate the un-authentic, whilst questioning the viability of an alternative. The scenes and details are carefully selected to represent recurring clichés in our culture. The random subjects are contradicted by the uniform size and scale of the images, and the repetitive colours oﬀer a pattern that hints at a fragmented order of truth.

In Transit (trees) 2006 C-type print 76 × 96cm, other sizes optional £369, edition of 25

In Transit (pool) 2006 C-type print 76 × 96cm, other sizes optional £369, edition of 25

Jan Bowman Jan’s designs are a woven response to the rhythm of beautiful colour and texture in the landscape. She uses natural materials directly taken from the landscape, including willow, reed, grasses, bamboo and driftwood and combines these with steel wire, enamelled copper, beads and leaf metal to create wall hangings, space dividers and woven panels. The artist has an MA in Woven Textile Design and has exhibited widely in the East Midlands.

Tropical Fusion 2007 Monofilament, snake grass, enamelled copper, chenille, beads 115 × 103cm £804

Oriental Dawn 2007 Monofilament, enamelled copper, reed, chenille Five panels, each 32 × 152cm £6,164

Andrew Bracey Andrew Bracey works predominantly within painting, focusing on the expansion of the medium into and with other disciplines. Recent work has used existing sites and the readymade as alternatives to the canvas support. The artist is intrigued by the visual saturation of contemporary life. Work is often displayed en masse, with hundreds of individual elements combining to create a whole as a way of interpreting contemporary lifestyle. He often deals with how society has reconfigured ways of viewing and processing information in a variety of contexts. Based in Manchester, Andrew completed a Degree in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University and an MA from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001. He has had solo shows at galleries including firstsite (Colchester), Transition Gallery (London) and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. He has been selected for group shows such as John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), Small Mischiefs, Pumphouse Gallery (London), Swap/Vaihto, Bureau (Salford) and The Cable Factory (Helsinki).

Beer Oil paint on beer mats Size dependent on installation £34 each, price on application for installation of several

Mayan Sun Mixed media and oil paint 15 × 25cm £201

Brass Art Brass Art has worked together on collaborative projects since 1999. They are Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican. Brass Art explore real space and virtual space by positioning themselves as drawings, shadows, digital sprites and performers. Sometimes they seek privileged vantage-points from which they can oversee the architecture of the city; occasionally they trespass; or occupy seemingly inaccessible realms. Central to this is their examination of the gap between public and private experience, and of thresholds or liminal spaces – “the blurred and flickering temporal space of the imagination and the actuality of contemporary life”. Brass Art are interested in exploring the rich potential of old and new media. Combining a fascination with pre-cinematic optical illusion devices with cutting-edge 21st century technologies, mixing traditional and contemporary skills, the real with the illusory. They have exhibited recently at Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, 2008, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, ArtFutures 08 Bloomberg Space, London, Rotate Contemporary Art Society, London, Globe City Gallery, Newcastle and at The Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Proteiform Watercolour on paper 49 × 39cm £1,796, framed

To Suspend the Breath Red neon glass tubing wall installation 42 × 60cm £8,710, edition of 3

Ian Bratley Ian has achieved success in fine art photography through projects and commissions. The Perception series recently featured at the International Festival of the Image and included a selection for Birmingham Life Magazine. Ian has said of his work: “I believe that the raw materials for my photography are the results of chance and observations from my own life and daily surroundings. I create from feelings in my own solitude, with no real notion of the end result. Throughout our lives, we all imagine shapes in clouds and see faces in patterns. Perceptions is a body of work which invokes the viewer to observe the imaginary objects hidden within their minds.”

Perception Plate 2560 Digital C-type print, aluminium plate with baton mount 42 × 30cm (larger sizes available on request) £208

Perception Plate 2570 Digital C-type print, aluminium plate with baton mount 42 × 30cm (larger sizes available on request) £208

Stephen Brockerton A photographer who creates vibrant, stylish imagery Stephen engages the viewer in a world of alternate perspectives and analytical viewpoints which look at the world in a diﬀerent light and timeframe. With an investigative mind and a love of exploring elusive places and spaces, he likes to capture them in an intriguing way we don’t often get to see. Stephen’s understanding of an engaging, commercial aesthetic has shaped his style, creating a demanding visual appreciation reflected in the dynamic aesthetic in his work. Stephen has a growing list of corporate clients, commissioners and long-term exhibitions.

Snow in the Park Digital Lambda Print 32 × 100cm £429

Battersea Digital Lambda Print 59 × 84cm £348

Vanley Burke Vanley Burke has lived and worked in Birmingham since 1965 and has recorded the community from the late 1960s to the present day. His images dispel myths and provide a rare and historically significant portrayal of local communities. The work has been published widely across the world, and featured heavily in The Times, The Guardian and The New York Times. His photographs have been featured in over 60 major exhibitions across Britain, Europe, America and South Africa and are in many significant collections. “I have used this visual medium to create a visual history of the African-Caribbean communities in and around the Midlands, capturing that tension which is so hard to put into words ... The tension of the immigrant child of every generation spoke as loudly to me as if I were looking at a reflection of myself as a boy.”

Fragment II Digital montage, giclée print 84 × 59cm £1,340, edition of 40

Fragment I Digital montage, giclée print 84 × 59cm £1,340

Dan Burwood Dan Burwood is a Birmingham-based photographer, whose practice includes documentary, portraiture and fine art image making. He produces traditional hand prints, and also works digitally. Dan has developed substantial bodies of documentary photography on diverse subjects with social, political and environmental concerns. He also undertakes portrait commissions and works in educational and socially engaged contexts. His examination and exploration of diverse cultures, such as the culture of repair and improvised re-use in Cuba or the devastation and regeneration of Beirut, is an investigation of political and material life. Dan is also currently researching, photographing and writing about food production and consumption and the culture of rural markets in the West Midlands.

Doves, Syria 2008 C-type print 36 × 53cm £482

‘Downtown’, Beirut 2008 C-type print 61 × 61cm £549

Selina Campbell The designer maker creates three-dimensional forms that capture the beauty of flora and fauna. She is greatly inspired by the spontaneous layered structures and geometric patterns displayed in nature and constructs single, floral components that are then arranged to create intriguing contemporary forms. The observer can decide the final use of each piece, either decorative or functional in jewellery or tableware. The artist generally uses sterling silver and sheet acrylic combined. Awards achieved include The Goldsmiths’ Company Bursary Award and the Jewellery Award at Design Show Liverpool (Shortlisted). She has exhibited nationally, including at New Designers, Liverpool Design Show and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Floral Vessel Sterling silver vessel Made to order From £3,500

Floral Brooches Sterling silver £65 two-flower pin £88 three-flower pin £136 five-flower pin

Colin Carruthers Geographical landmarks, people and the objects of society are hidden in the artist’s work as he creates subjective and raw landscapes in oil on canvas. He makes no obvious references but allows the viewer to approach with their own experiences to see the work in a unique way. Having studied Fine Art, graduating in 1997, Colin has exhibited throughout the UK including at the Royal College of Art Summer Show and the Aﬀordable Art Fair, in London and Bristol. His work is in many private collections.

Ronachan Bay (triptych) Oil on canvas 44 × 86cm £975 framed

Flowers on the Gauldrons (diptych) Oil on canvas 84 × 115cm £1,575 framed

Helen Cass The canvases created by the artist are works of ‘continuance’, and any developments made are small, economical and sparse. Helen works in a process-based way with line, repetition and surface as her central concerns. The materials and actions used have some connection to the domestic, agrarian routines and rituals of previous generations of her family. The creative process includes drawing, stitching or folding lines onto or into a woven surface. “My intention with the work is to draw from cyclical, repetitive structures of daily life, yet refrain from the dreary repetitions of habit and look towards the profound repetitions of memory.” The artist has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is housed in many significant private collections.

Curve Series 3 Folded linen 93 × 62 × 7cm £950

Furrow Series 2 Folded calico and grey gesso 56 × 50 × 8cm £737

Louise Cattrell The artist responds to the quality of light seen within a landscape and to the timescale of day, season or year. Work includes a series painted during a residency within the Swiss Alps and work based upon the extraordinary connection of sky and sea found in Venice. Louise uses oils and watercolour in her paintings and in printmaking, etching and monoprint. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, she has exhibited widely, undertaken residencies at the Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ireland, Sri Lanka, America and Switzerland and won awards including a SED Travelling scholarship, John Minton RCA and the Cheltenham Drawing Prize. Commissions have been undertaken for the MOD, Whitehall and the Leukaemia Centre, Birmingham. Collections include MOD, Scottish Arts Council, Phoenix Assurance Company and Reuters.

Zephyr Oil on linen 122 × 152cm £6,700

Berg Oil on linen 122 × 152cm £6,700

Sarah Chapman Sarah Catherine Chapman’s photography examines our changing attitudes towards natural spaces. By exploiting the durational quality of still photography scenes are transformed. The works present an experience rather than a moment, the abstract photographs inviting contemplation by revealing the landscape in a way that the human eye could never capture. Familiar scenes appear unfamiliar. Sarah’s most recent work displays panoramic landscapes on large concave aluminium panels.

Untitled 2008 C-type print 48 × 48cm £436, framed

Untitled 2007 – 2 (facing page shows detail) C-type print 70 × 70cm £235, framed, edition of 25

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Anne Charnock Anne Charnock’s recent practice deals with the diﬃculty of translating thoughts into words and has generally reflected her interest in digital technology. The ongoing Uncertainty Series reveals the doubts she experiences during her art-making. These text-works mimic the ‘track changes’ function in word processing programs. They are produced in bold colours – reflecting how, in everyday life, we try to hide our insecurities behind a confident exterior. These text works often take the form of large installations of vinyl lettering but Anne has also taken this work into paintings and print. Anne graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001. She has had solo exhibitions at Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley, Cornerhouse, Manchester, FACT, Liverpool, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston and shown in selected group exhibitions internationally, including in Stockholm, Sweden, Terlizzi, Italy, Helsinki, Finland and Valencia, Spain. Closer to home she has exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial Independents and The International 3, Manchester.

Uncertainty Series No. 7 2008 Acrylic on MDF 61 × 62cm £2,680

Installation of the Uncertainty Series at Mid Pennine Gallery 2006–8 Vinyl 215 × 1488cm Dimensions and price are site-dependent

Anand Chhabra Initially working as a community photographer, documentary and social issues are still at the heart of the photographer’s work. The series of work Multi-Cultures and the City, a Collide and Arts Council England project, was exhibited in museums and galleries in the Midlands. He has worked and exhibited with RhubarbRhubarb, including at the International Festival of the Image. His projects photographing war veterans and the series of work entitled Faces of Christianity demonstrate the range of Anand’s documentary style. He has more recently undertaken commissions for buildings and interior spaces, including for hospitals and corporate buildings and has also begun making images that can be reproduced as large-scale, signature wall features.

Faces of Christianity GBM print 56 × 56cm £503

Bulkington British Legion GBM print 56 × 56cm £503

Mat Chivers Through making sculpture, installation and drawing, Mat is looking at some of the moments of process and states of flux that exist below the surface of things. He states that “These often unseen, fundamental phenomena can occur over very diﬀerent timescales to our own, but all ultimately exist in relationship to us”. The artist works in a wide range of often seductively beautiful materials including; Kilkenny limestone, Carrara marble, alabaster and cast aluminium, while also working with new technologies such as stereo-lithography and digital imaging. Mat studied sculpture at Nottingham Trent University, has exhibited widely and has completed commissions for numerous public and private clients.

Lust for Life Kilkenny limestone 45 × 60 × 42cm Price on application

When Words Become Form Glass filled nylon, gold leaf, Canadian black bole, beeswax, wood 59 × 59 × 18cm Price on application

Richard Chivers Richard Chivers is a photographic artist located in Brighton and London. He has exhibited throughout the South East and in London and has recently received Arts Council England support to produce a body of work in Sussex. Richard has worked for private and corporate clients and is currently working with the Photographers’ Gallery on the Colliers Green Focus Project, teaching children to explore the environment through photography. Textures of Time: Landscape Architecture is a new project in which Richard investigates the exposed surfaces where mineral extraction is or has taken place. He is specifically interested in the connection of these sites to geology, archaeology and history.

Ashdown Brickworks East Sussex 2008, Ashdown Beds 2008 Digital C-type print 51 × 64cm £402, edition of 15

Greenham, Perimeter II 2007 Digital C-type print 51 × 64cm £402, edition of 15

Jennifer Collier Through methods of weaving, waxing, bonding, fusing, trapping, embedding and stitching the artist creates unusual materials, which are then developed into garments and accessories. Jennifer investigates the ways in which materials can be re-used and transformed. Her work is available at galleries nationwide, most notably at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has exhibited at Origin, the UK’s premier selected craft fair for the last two years and has had work featured in magazines such as Elle Decoration, Brides, Living and most recently the Times Magazine. The non-functional dresses and shoes aim to encourage people to speculate on the nature of value; creating work from items that would otherwise be thrown away and commenting on their preciousness, particularly once lost.

Wallpaper Tie Wallpaper 38 × 38 × 6cm £94 framed

Little Women Stilettos Book pages and colour plates 17 × 32 × 10cm £51 including perspex display box

Janet Curley-Cannon Janet Curley-Cannon’s art is an ongoing observation of the patterns, marks and textures found on, or created by, the structures and surfaces of the built environment. She is particularly interested in capturing the insignificant yet revealing characteristics of an area before they are transformed or lost by the eﬀects of the new. The work provides compelling clues to the rituals and habits of modern life and the impact of popular culture on the urban landscape. The artist’s work spans several visual art forms including photography, collage, print, drawing, mixed media and short video animation. She has an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art and has exhibited throughout the UK, recently at the Mall Galleries and Gasworks Gallery in London, Sightsonic; the International Festival of Digital Art, in York and at The Projection Gallery, Liverpool Biennial Independents.

From the 27th Floor 2006 Mixed media on paper 102 × 69 × 3cm, framed in white wood £804

Six from One 2006 Inkjet and encaustic on low relief panels, set of 6 110 × 95 × 4cm £670

Jean Davey Winter Jean Davey Winter focuses on the importance of the viewpoint in the relationship between the artist/viewer and the people in her paintings. Frequently taking a high viewpoint, she is interested in how this relates to the concept of surveillance and the way in which society is constantly monitored by CCTV cameras. Station concourses, entrance foyers and cafés form the subject matter of many of the paintings. These are generic people going about their everyday activities, grouping and re-grouping as they wait for trains, relax or pass through an entrance foyer. Jean has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including, the British Consulate New York, the Prudential and the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan.

Café 5 Oil on canvas 70 × 100cm £1,005

In the Park II Oil on canvas 122 × 76cm £1,240

Julie de Bastion The artist grew up in Britain and then relocated to New York in the 1970s to study art. She returned to the UK in 1989 and began to draw and paint from nature and her surroundings. Her works are created in oils, pastels and monoprint. The technique often begins with drawing, then the use of spatulas or fingers to work in oils or printing inks. The creation of the work is an emotive experience for Julie as the unpopulated works often show distant horizons and pathways. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and Julie often works to commission.

Brown Field 2008 Oil on board 40 × 48cm framed £603

Composition in Greys 2008 Oil on board 40 × 48cm framed £603

Ravi Deepres Ravi Deepres has established an international reputation for his film, photographic and digital media work. Much of his gallery and installation artwork is motivated by themes of individual, group, national and patriotic identity. Film and photographic collaborations with globally-renowned choreographers have been seen at the Edinburgh Festival and in theatres and festivals around the world including Japan, Europe and the US. Other large-scale choreographic film/photographic pieces have been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, The Royal Opera House, Paris Opera House and La Scala. His photographic and film work has been exhibited in group and solo shows across Europe including Hatton Gallery, Impressions Gallery, Ikon Touring, Cornerhouse, The Lowry, and Rencontres d’Arles. Film commissions and installations include those for Channel 4, BBC1, Mute Records, Capture4 Season and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Crowd 1998 Photograph on canvas 40 × 140cm £1,206

Rotunda Photographic print 90 × 35cm £1,005 frame

Emma Dicks Emma graduated with a BA Hons in Glass and after leaving university started her glass studio in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. She has recently relocated to Malvern, Worcestershire. Mixing materials, metals, enamel and glass to create stunning colour schemes and unique patterns oﬀers striking results. Her work includes wall-based art commissions, functional objects, bold colours and subtle variations. They are both delicate and striking. The designer maker has exhibited throughout the UK and has been commissioned to create work for galleries, schools, public areas, private organisations, homes and oﬃces.

Modern Dish Glass, enamel, shards 40 × 40cm £168

Starburst Bowl Glass, enamel, shards, copper wire, silver 40cm diameter £134

Stephen Dixon Stephen Dixon studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-uponTyne and Ceramics at the Royal College of Art. Early exhibitions in London with Contemporary Applied Arts and the Crafts Council established a reputation for ceramics with a biting political and social satire. Anatol Orient introduced his figurative vessels to the United States in the early nineties, resulting in solo exhibitions at Pro-Art, St. Louis, Garth Clark Gallery, New York and Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York. His work features in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the British Council, the Crafts Council and The Royal Museum of Scotland. Stephen combines his studio ceramic output with regular activity in public and community arts. He is currently engaged as Professorial Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, investigating political narrative and the contemporary printed image in crafts, particularly in ceramics. This fellowship has given him the opportunity to develop a unique and personal visual vocabulary, exploiting the rich association between print, narrative and the ceramic surface.

Babylon Ceramic vessel 52cm high ÂŁ3,000

Their Finest Hour Ceramic vessel 64cm high ÂŁ3,500

Yannick Dixon Yannick Dixon has worked as a professional photographer in the North West of England since graduating from his BA Hons in Photography at Blackpool’s School of Art & Design. In July 2006 he was awarded the Blackpool Vistas scholarship to research and study an MA in Visual Design as Creative Practice. His first major documentary photography project entitled Blackpool: An Unimagined Space? investigates the UK’s first popular seaside playground. Inspired by many aspects of the town’s unique character, cultural heritage and history he produced a photographic series of contemporary vistas exploring the ever-changing topography and experiences of life on Blackpool’s seaside fringe. Some of his other projects include a contemporary portfolio of the fabric and infrastructure of the Rigby Road Transport Depot and a personal black & white series documenting starlings in flight. Yannick has also worked for a number of commercial clients, including those in the private sector, local authorities and community-based arts projects. Yannick’s photographs have featured in several internationally renowned exhibitions, including CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of The Year 2008 and LDC’s This Working Life Award 2007.

Ballroom Dancing Digital C-type print 44 × 65cm £147, edition of 50

Aloha from Blackpool Digital C-type print 44 × 65cm £147, edition of 50

Michael Donnelly Based on the north Cornwall coast, with a studio in Perranporth, the artist recently gained an MA in Contemporary Visual Art from Falmouth College of Art. His current work is intimately connected with the landscape and places in Cornwall which he visits and collects found objects. In the studio these objects are placed, arranged, assembled and formed into a tableau that becomes the starting point for the work. The artist’s practice includes painting, photography, etching and drawing. The paintings featured here represent an interest in the form of the still-life, a location for investigation and research, an arena where objects are set in relation to each other in the highly defined and illusory space of the picture plane. Recent prestigious selected exhibitions include the Mostyn Open, Wales (2005), Celeste Art Prize shortlist (in 2006 and 2007) and John Moores 24 (in 2006).

Rigidly Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty Oil on canvas 86 × 91cm £2,010

A Brief History of Things 2007 Oil on canvas 122 × 122cm £2,412

Tracey Eastham Based at Wolstenholme Projects in Liverpool, Tracey Eastham makes paper collages that are concerned with landscapes made up of stereotypes, representations, and metaphors that whilst being apparently false and superficial still conjure up passions of national and personal identity. Her work explores the beguiling mystery of collage in the form of sentimentalised landscapes with a hint of dramatic human presence using references from the 18th century English school of romantic painting, portrayals of the ‘wild’ western America, sci-fi and romantic book covers, and images of stylised jewellery and objects of nature. Tracey graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2006 with an MA Distinction and an Axis MAstar award. She has since exhibited in London, the North West, and Leeds including at Tate Liverpool in Another Media and at Antifreeze at the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London.

Be Thou My Vision 2008 Paper collage 31 × 43cm £536

Wings of Faith 2008 Paper collage 30 × 33cm £509

Chuck Elliott Chuck Elliot has created images for exhibition and for commercial clients including Mucia Prada, Yohji Yamamoto and Nike. The artist pushes back the boundaries of traditional printmaking with direct digitised drawings and a fluid use of dynamic colour spaces and captured light. Hovering between print making and photography, the pure colour fields retain a clarity that belies the source. The work is generally presented as large scale metallic Lambda prints. In 2007/8 Chuck exhibited at The Royal Academy, The Royal College of Art, London’s Southbank Centre, the RWA, and numerous national and international shows and fairs.

Flow (indigo black) 2008 Metallic Lambda print 88 × 123cm £1,950

Arpeggi | REZ | gilded 2008 Metallic Lambda print 110 × 88cm £2,200

Belinda Ellis Belinda Ellis is an intuitive abstract painter. She has no notion of the outcome and she describes the process as a conversation between the painting and herself. Belinda is interested in the tension that is created by using diﬀerent elements such as translucence and opaqueness, attraction and repulsion, stillness and energy, accident and order. The artist has exhibited throughout the South East and in France. Most notable selected exhibitions include at The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London and at the Whitechapel Open, London

Three Deep 2008 Watercolour on paper 21 × 30cm £389

Blue World 2007 Acrylic on canvas 76 × 112cm £1,742

Stig Evans Stig Evans takes the visual perception of other paintings and their materials as the starting point for his artworks. Each series looks at an aspect of how paintings are perceived and how they are changed by time, environment, context and intervention. He trained and continues to work as a paintings conservator which informs his practise. His Monochromes series shows the pairing of a traditional pigment with a modern Dulux paint; the Pigment series looks at the multiple layering of pigment particles that make up a layer of paint; the Version series explores the paint layers that constitute a final image and the Sudoku series replaces numbers with colours to create a visual puzzle. The artist has an MA in Fine Art and another in Conservation. He has lived and worked in Italy and Venezuela and has an impressive exhibition history from both. He is now based in Brighton and has shown there and in London. He is an experienced workshop leader and has undertaken a number of participatory and public art projects.

Madonna and Child – After Andrea del Sarto Acrylic on aluminium 25 × 25cm £804

Sudoku Hard No. 1139 Giclée print on watercolour paper 20 × 20cm £250, edition of 50

Angela Findlay While living in West Ireland and then on the banks of the River Severn the artist became inspired by the everchanging play of light in spaces where water, earth and air meet. In 2006 Angela set herself a task of going to the eight points of the compass on the UK mainland over the course of one year. In this series and in new work she has used mud mixed with paint and sand from the locations she has painted, applying the materials by hand to create textures on the canvas. Angela has exhibited widely in the South West and London.

Summer Days 2007 Mixed media 120 × 120cm £3,015

The North 2007 Mixed media 100 × 100cm £2,479

Emma Findley The artist is interested in investigating and exploring the invisible, the imaginary and its links with memory, the self and identity. Recently her work has involved photographic pieces staged around domestic interiors, where often a sense of the unseen leaves lingering traces and activity of a former existence. This creates a suspended state where the normally familiar and domestic become mysterious and compelling. Emma studied Fine Art at Leeds University, graduating in 1997.

Untitled 2 – The Maids’ Room Digital C-type print, mounted on MDF and matt sealed 51 × 60cm £402

Untitled 4 – The Maids’ Room Digital C-type print, mounted on MDF and matt sealed 51 × 60cm £402

Richard Foot Richard Foot specialises in creating impactful monochromatic architectural images. Inspired by the aesthetics of an early award-winning image this now forms the basis of the photographer’s work. The images show great composition combined with the use of high contrast black and white with either geometric lines or flowing curves. Buildings around the world designed by architects such as Lord Foster and Frank R Gehry provide inspiration and subject matter for Richard’s style of photography.

National Museum of Australia Lambda print 42 × 30cm £107 unframed

Swan Bells 2 Lambda print 42 × 30cm £107 unframed

Karen Foss Karen Foss has always been fascinated in working with grids, mathematics, repetition and pattern. This interest was encouraged at St. Martins School of Art, where she graduated in Fine Art in 1983. Working in lines, stripes, repetition and grids continues. Moving to Cornwall six years ago the artist’s work is also now flooded with colour. Karen is a member of the St Ives Art Club and has exhibited in Cornwall at Falmouth Art Gallery, The Mariners Art Gallery and the Royal Cornwall Museum.

On the Move 2008 Acrylic and ink on canvas 40 × 120cm £509

Birds on a Wire 2008 Acrylic and ink on canvas 102 × 77cm £603

Susan Francis The artist tends to work with materials found in everyday life, combining, dissecting and reassembling them into new forms. She is interested in the less than perfect, items that have been shaped and discoloured by use such as pillows and duvets, leftover parchment from baking trays, remnants from an ordinary life. Susan graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture) and has since exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. She has worked on a number of residencies in France, Poland and the USA. She is currently funded by Arts Council England and the Juliet Gomperts Trust to develop a new body of work around the theme of women and mothers and their relationship to the night. She is experienced in leading participatory art projects and workshops.

Waiting for Approval Mixed media 180 × 173cm £1,135

Wing Mixed media 120 × 110 × 10cm £985

Kate Fraser Kate Fraser’s work focuses on the structures and spaces of urban and industrial environments. Power stations, coal silos, asphalt plants, railway bridges and wind farms are set in desolate landscapes, uninhabited by people, almost as if abandoned. The subjects are defined by their utilitarian function rather than by aesthetic concerns and yet they have great impact and grandeur. A recurring theme in the work is energy production. Pervading the work is the sense of man’s impact on the natural environment and his fragility within it. The artist’s background is in architecture.

Taﬀely Windfarm 2007 Mixed media on ply board 60 × 120cm £804

Avonmouth Silo Tower 2007 Acrylic on ply board 120 × 60cm £804

Flora Gare The artist creates sculptural installations for both public and private spaces, inspired by the elements of light and water. Her central theme is the transient; what is passing and temporary, momentary or short lived. Using a variety of media the artist investigates ways of looking, exploring memory and time, often with transparent or semi-translucent materials. The work seen here is made from a range of materials including nylon thread, elastic thread and fibre optics. There are also examples of her resin photographs and digital prints. Flora has an MA in Sculpture, graduating from Winchester School of Art. She is an experienced artist in residence, workshop leader and public artist and has secured commissions for schools and hospitals nationally.

When I Was Young… 2007 Digital print on acrylic 170 × 90 × 60cm £2,680

Moon Beam 2006 Elastic thread, acrylic 800 × 120 × 120cm £3,350

Louise Garland Louise’s work consists of wall-based constructions using wood and mixed media. She often includes fragments of objects that have fulfilled a previous function. Constructions look and ponder at our relationship to the cosmos: some refer to Greek mythology and astrology, whilst others also reference personality traits. Underlying all the pieces is the calculated use of geometry and measurement, as found within nature, such as the Fibonacci system. Louise has an MA in Fine Art and has work in public and private collections throughout the UK.

Pisces 2007 Wood, mirrors, oils 90 × 90cm £1,742

Scorpio Wood, oils, mixed media 60 × 80cm £1,742

John Garghan John Garghan’s photography aims to capture the disturbance to surfaces created by acts of joyriding and arson. His subjects are abandoned and burnt out cars. He takes images of scorched, disfigured vehicle parts that are occupied in the lifecycle of corrosion, the natural process that tries to reclaim human-made objects to an elemental state more in line with the energy of the molecules the objects are made of. Torching accelerates this journey of returning to the earth and he looks to capture, investigate and at times distort results of the advancement of the lifecycle. Using results of the explosion: scorched metal, molten glass, fabrics, and plastics, the rust and the gallons of water from the firemen’s hose he creates textual images that resemble beautiful and abstract landscapes.

Shared Earth Photograph printed on toughened glass 94 × 82cm, including borders £482

World Turns and Earth Changes Photograph printed on toughened glass 94 × 73cm, including borders £482

Nic Gaunt Working internationally as a photographic artist, Nic Gaunt produces dynamic, high-impact visual works. Produced initially with a camera, each image is then taken beyond its original state. It is life viewed through a skewed prism. He has exhibited throughout Europe showing both small framed works and images that cover entire buildings. Clients for commissioned works have included Fuji, Arts Council England, Chrysalis Records, Virgin, Capital, KPMG, Church of England and Geller Media (New York).

Angel Unframed archival print 56 × 49cm £536

Pussy Unframed archival print 49 × 56cm £536

John Gledhill The recent paintings by John Gledhill fall broadly into the two categories of protest and celebration; a comment on modern life. In his paintings he regrets the passing of time and presents a past, golden age. The proliferation of the private motor car, computers, central heating, block paving replacing gardens, built-in obsolescence, the loss to near-extinction of wildlife and, in contrast, coal fires, ships and steam trains are all subjects in his work. He is interested in the human condition as it has become for all of us in the 21st century. As well as painting in oil John makes coloured linocut prints, the images for which are usually derived from his paintings.

Ships at Sea Oil on canvas 104 × 75cm £871

At Work (Study) Oil on canvas 112 × 98cm £1,273

Rachel Gogerly Rachel Gogerly is one of the UK’s leading designer makers of fine enamel work on precious metals, combining contemporary design with the classic techniques of champlevé, basse taille and guilloché. Inspiration comes from the compelling qualities of the enamel, along with a desire to produce designs with simplicity. Sources from the natural world are frequently drawn upon to create clean lines and smooth forms, which are combined with subtle texturing under the surface of the enamel adding detail and depth to the colours. The clarity and vibrancy of transparent enamel colour, with its tactile silk-like quality make pieces appealing to the eye and a pleasure to touch. The collection includes ranges for both men and women with special items for all occasions. Commissioned work is undertaken.

Fish Bowls (set of three) Silver and enamel 15, 10 and 5cm diameter £3,993, also available individually

Double-sided Peardrop Necklace Silver and enamel 45cm long £2,010

Rebecca Gouldson Using techniques traditionally used by printmakers, Rebecca creates beautifully etched metal wall pieces with richly decorated surfaces. These expressive, reflective surfaces transform throughout the day with the changing light. Her inspiration stems from both the built environment and the natural landscape, encompassing scarred and eroded surfaces of buildings, the patterns of windows on skyscrapers and aerial views of the countryside. On graduation in 2002, Rebecca was awarded a place on the Crafts Council ‘Next Move’ scheme, where she began to exhibit internationally. She was later awarded the prestigious Crafts Council Development Award. Rebecca is a regular exhibitor in the UK and at major shows in the USA, including at SOFA, ‘Sculptural Objects and Functional Art’, in Chicago and New York.

Winchester 6 Etched, electroplated and oxidised gilding metal Various patterns available 26 × 26cm £250

Liverpool Tryptich Etched, electroplated and oxidised gilding metal Each panel 22 × 22cm £1,200

Penny Green Penny Green studied stage design at Birmingham University and then Fine Art at The Slade. She was a costume and dress designer before beginning her career as a ceramic sculptor. Her work has gravitated to figures placed in a context to perform, as if they are characters in a staged drama. The story she tells is of our fragile relationship with nature and the landscape, with elements of adornment and postures which are doll-like. Penny uses historical references and a cocktail of ceramic techniques: slip casting, press moulding, hand building, silkscreen printing, together with ‘overload’ glazes. She has shown her work at Contemporary Ceramics, London, at Ceramic Art, Royal College of Art, London and has work in the Brighton Museum collection as well as in many private collections.

Daphne’s Walk 2008 Ceramic 42 × 24cm £500

Silver Fern 2007 Ceramic 38 × 20cm £469

Anne Guest Anne Guest works with photography, video and text. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Dealing with issues of staged phenomena and reality she blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction to produce surreal work. Anne explores perceptions of the familiar by using juxtapositions that reflect her interest in the temporal and the ephemeral. She also has an interest in phenomenology, which relates to how things are perceived and experienced in the world. In the series It is Almost What Happens objects and mirrors in the seascape are used to investigate trace, shadow and indexical sign in relation to time. They are Almost Always There uses diﬀerences in scale to explore the space between representation and perception, and reality and imagination.

They are Almost Always There 1 Digital C-type print 25 × 37cm with a white border and box framed £288, edition of 10

It is Almost What Happens 6 Digital C-type print 37 × 25cm with a white border and box framed £288, edition of 10

Michael Hallett A photographer, writer and teacher, Michael Hallett challenges the concept of image making with the iconographic imagery he calls the ‘photo construction’. It was a sense of extreme frustration that led to his intellectual pursuit of how to extend the boundaries of time and space that a single exposure, single viewpoint photograph was unable to oﬀer. The visual solution provides an innovative cutting-edge to the new media technologies and Mike has created a series of images of Birmingham buildings, public spaces and developments utilising the construction. His book Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism has recently been published in the US by Scarecrow Press and his book of photo constructions on the English coast called Edges of England is work-in-progress.

Town Hall, Birmingham, August 24, 2007 Photo construction 60 × 80cm £616 framed

The Wheel and Symphony Hall, Centenary Square, Birmingham Photo construction 60 × 80cm £509 framed

Gerard Hanson Gerard Hanson was born of Jamaican/Irish parents. Raised in England, he first visited Jamaica as a teenager and has since made and exhibited work there, dividing his time between Jamaica and the UK. This gives him the unique opportunity to explore his identity and dual heritage through his paintings. The works show the scenery and characters of rural Jamaica, using bright colours and almost cartoon-like brushwork to produce vivid impressions of place. Gerard trained at Central Saint Martins, London, graduating in 1993. He has since exhibited widely in the UK and in Jamaica. His work is romantic, nostalgic and explores the notion of people out of place.

Tuggy Black and white photograph and acrylic on canvas 60 × 60cm £536

Star Black and white photograph and acrylic on canvas 64 × 64cm £536

Paul Harfleet Paul Harfleet explores the experience of the city dweller through various practices; making low key interventions to create socially engaged artworks that draw attention to occasional injustice and to highlight the peculiarities of the everyday. The artist uses a combination of installation, photography and drawing to generate a context for dialogue from external location to gallery on issues of identity, place and politics. In The Pansy Project Paul revisits locations to plant pansies where homophobia has been experienced. Each pansy is photographed in its location, named after the abuse and posted on The Pansy Project website. The pansies act as a living memorial to this abuse and operate as an antidote to it. Over the five years the artist has worked on the project it has developed from an autobiographical work to one that explores notions of identity and location. The Pansy Project has been exhibited internationally and has featured in various festivals. In the North West the artist has exhibited at Bluecoat, Liverpool, Buy Art Fair, Castlefield Gallery Stand, Urbis, Manchester and the Best of Manchester Exhibition, Urbis, Manchester. Alongside his own artistic practice Paul co-runs Apartment (with Hilary Jack) an artist-led project and exhibition space run from his one bedroom council flat in central Manchester. Apartment has run for four years and has shown the work of over thirty international artists.

“Lets Kill the Bati-man!” Camden Lock, London C-type print 30 × 45cm (45 × 60cm framed) £670

Hanged Drawing 20 × 21cm (38 × 37cm framed) £536

Susanna Harris Hughes Much of the artist’s work is created in series with each piece influencing the next to form a narrative. The artist describes them as visual crossword puzzles. As well as making works for exhibition she also makes work for specific spaces reflecting the ideas, connections or history of the locations. The work shown here includes a series of lithographs on the subject of inheritance and a digital print series called Signs and Portents. Susanna is experienced at running workshops and public art projects. She has an MA from Wimbledon School of Art and has exhibited throughout the UK, including at the Mall Galleries having been selected for Discerning Eye.

Objets Trouvés 2008 Lithograph chine collé, relief print on Somerset paper and gampi tissue £469 unframed

Signs and Portents 5 2008 Digital print £101 unframed, edition of 25

Katherine Harvey The artist creates wire sculptural birds by simply twisting, shaping and binding the wire around itself. The wire sculptures are the artist’s interpretation of wild birds. She compares her work to drawings in pencil on paper; the wire to three-dimensional pencil lines and the white plaster bases, on which the birds sit or stand, to paper. She uses nickel silver labels, attached to the birds’ legs, to name and tag the birds. Many of the birds are displayed in domes, like taxidermy – the way in which birds are preserved and displayed in museum collections. Katherine has exhibited throughout the UK.

Blue Tit Wire, nickel and plaster 10 × 10 × 10cm £141

Owl Wire, nickel silver, plaster and acrylic dome 30 × 15cm £194

Sean Hellman A designer maker of sculpture and seating for gardens, galleries, public spaces and interiors Sean works in wood which is sourced from Devon. He is committed to using ethical sources of timber. His seating is multi functional and has been designed so people can sit and lie in a variety of ways. Some of the seats oﬀer a 360 degree view point, others oﬀer space and privacy. He describes his benches as ‘democratic seating’. Sean has exhibited widely in the South West and has also accomplished research, practice and extensive study in traditional woodwork techniques.

? Bench Western red cedar and stainless steel 140 × 250 × 46cm £2,278

Divine Radiance Wood and iroko 150 × 40 × 4cm £536

Paul Hirst The artist’s work focuses on a sense of place and the paintings are fleeting glimpses of long forgotten memories and experiences. The work is born from countless exposure to the environment and the paintings are created outdoors. The artist has a BA Hons in Fine Art from Derby University and has exhibited widely. Work from this series has toured in solo exhibitions and has been shown in the East Midlands and in Scotland.

Remembered Landscape 202 Acrylic and oil on canvas 175 × 360cm consisting of 4 panels £3,350

Remembered Landscape 201 Acrylic and oil on canvas 175 × 360cm consisting of 4 panels £3,350

Gill Hobson Working primarily in glass and metal Gill creates original pieces for both interior and exterior spaces. Since 2002 she has developed her studio practice which has led to making large architectural pieces, sculpture and small vessels. Work is representative of magnificent landscapes, microscopic cell structures and floral studies. Gill has exhibited throughout the UK, including a solo exhibition at the National Glass Centre. She is experienced in leading public art commissions and in leading workshops and participatory projects.

Blue Celeste Sculpture 3 & Lilac Celeste Sculpture 2 Hand blown crystal glass and stainless steel with copper 50 & 60cm diameter £1,313 & £1,554

Curious Form 1 Handblown crystal glass with copper 30cm length £335

Brian Hodgson Brian studied painting with photography and these twin disciplines have informed his work since graduating in 1978. After years spent teaching, including at a school in Africa, he returned to England and in 2006 launched a new series of work at the Light Gallery in London. The series of work shown here called Reflecting In Light are all executed in oils. At first glance the work appears to owe much to photography but the suﬀused translucent light and bold shadows have long been the concerns of a painter. Brian has exhibited widely in the South West and South East and at many art fairs throughout the UK.

Light 8 Oil 100 × 75cm £938

Pivot 2007 Oil 50 × 60cm £704

Colin Howkins After completing an MA in Fine Art the artist taught in Birmingham. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationally, and received a number of bursaries, most notably the Ruskin Bursary to work in Italy on a series of works. In all the work there is a strong sense of line and colour often resulting in a calligraphic style. His most recent work is based on the garden. In the series he has continued with his interest in colour and shape as a means of creating a sense of space.

Black Background Acrylic on canvas 68.5 × 81.5cm £670

Garden No. 9 Acrylic on paper 51 × 58cm £536

Nick Huggins Specialising in architecture, interiors and locations the photographer Nick Huggins has a passion for the abstract. His images often have ethereal overtones and they blur the lines between painting and photography in their flowing colours and bold statements. Nick is a multi award-winning photographer having won awards from the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Black & White Spider Awards. He has vast experience of working for business clients and for clients such as The National Symphony Orchestra and Abbey Road Studios.

Sisterly Metallic C-type print mounted on aluminium 51 × 61cm £382

Cat Dragon Rose Metallic C-type print mounted on aluminium 51 × 61cm £382

Eryka Isaak Working internationally, Eryka creates sculpture and light commissions in glass and metals. Inspired by the trail left by the death of an electron, or the pitted surface of the inside of a copper tank, she continues to explore the diverse relationship glass has with metal. She pushes the boundaries of the material within a fairly simple process, working with recycled materials, particularly with metals acquired from manufacturing processes, challenging the perceived fragility of studio glass. Her work invites the perception of a robust, tactile and enduring material. The sculptures are highly versatile and can be installed from ceiling or wall, inside or outdoors, to create a dramatic statement. Eryka’s sculpture works are installed worldwide. In Birmingham she has undertaken a number of commissions and her work is also in many private collections including Anthony Minghella and the estate of Dennis Potter.

Maximum Icon 200 × 200 × 3cm Forty-nine 20 × 20cm glass slabs £7,223

Frozen Rain Suspended glass and stainless steel wire installation 100 × 100cm with variable drop to 200cm £4,824

Hilary Jack Hilary Jack works across media on research-based projects which involve repair, transformation and re-use of discarded and broken material found on streets, in charity shops and on eBay. The work takes on a mildly activist edge referencing the excesses of an economy and highlighting our relationship with material goods. Make Do and Mend is an ongoing project which has been included in exhibitions in Manchester, New York, London and Lithuania. Discarded objects are collected, photographed and repaired or transformed in some way. Several broken discarded black umbrellas found on city streets were repaired and redistributed to the public during rainfall; a squashed silver ring found on a bollard in New York was reformed and engraved by a local jeweller with the words ‘found, repaired and returned by Hilary Jack’. For Meeting Point at Axel Lapp Projects in Berlin the artist found a single black glove hanging on barbed wire at the site of the Berlin wall. During the exhibition the artist sat in the gallery knitting a new partner for the glove, eventually replacing both gloves back on the wire. Graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003 with an MA in Fine Art Hilary Jack has gone on to exhibit internationally, was nominated for Becks Futures in 2002 and 2003 and has developed a curatorial practice with artist Paul Harfleet at Apartment, an artist-led space in a flat on the sixth floor of a Manchester council tower block and independently.

Maxply Found racquet, repaired with red thread 70 × 25cm £1,340

Oxford Found racquet with found balls £1,139

Nigel Jackson The photogram is central to Nigel Jackson’s practice. His work is concerned with themes of fragility and transience, objects and the values and meanings we invest in them. His current work is focused on the concept of An Ecology of the Image. He is developing for the digital age the possibilities of the vanished early photographic experiments of Midlands pioneer Tom Wedgwood. “Unfixed sun pictures, created through the eﬀects of light and moisture on photographic papers, are akin to living beings in their continuing reactions to their environment – developing, declining and finally disappearing, leaving their space in the image ecology for new images.” At critical points in the process these fragile and transient images are scanned by the artist. Nigel has exhibited widely including at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival China, in Birmingham at the International Festival of the Image and at the Rencontres d’Arles, France.

Meadow IX – I Digital print 84 × 59cm unframed £469, edition of 20

In the Presence of Absence Triptych of digital prints, mounted on aluminium Each print 118 × 84cm £2,010, edition of 20

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan studied Fine Art at Oxford University and completed postgraduate studies at de Ateliers, Amsterdam. He has exhibited in several group shows around Europe and America. His work is focused on the ‘pop mechanism’ in Pop Art. He is interested in the dialogue between the artists Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol; Beuys always said art should be anthropological, against postmodernism, saying there was no truth in it. Shah has been exploring what pop may have been. He personalises pop and creates a visual dialogue that is a filter of sense data. He has developed as a painter, by pursuing his interest in the creation of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ images concerned with the transfer of video and photographic stimuli to supports.

Block 1 (A+B) 2005 & 2007 155 × 310 x17cm Gloss paint on acrylic panel in fully illuminated aluminium sign box £53,600

Pizzaboy Pizzapop Pizza Linea & Pizza BHS 2007 Mixed media 100 × 70cm £1,340

Ulrika Jarl Ulrika Jarl is a Brighton-based designer maker specialising in the design and creation of handcrafted lighting and home wares. Her light pieces are made using bone china and various plastics chosen for their translucent qualities. The pieces are functional, non-porous, strong and sustainable. All the materials are found from the UK and the energy used in firing the ceramics comes from 100% renewable sources. In 2007 the artist was an award winner at Top Drawer. She has worked on public and private commissions and has been featured in House and Gardens, Homes and Renovations and Ideal Home.

Bright Pendant 2004 Bone china, available with clear cord and plastic ceiling rose 30 × 12cm £85

Cel Light 2006 Bone china, available with UK or European plug Large: 15 × 14cm. Small: 13 × 12cm £89 & £75

Myfanwy Johns Having studied Fine Art, Myfanwy Johns went on to complete PhD research in 2006 looking at the cuttingedge applications of new technology to develop ornamentation in architecture. She creates geometric repeat and one-oﬀ surface patterns that envelop and define architectural structure. Her explorations into surface design include working with historic pattern, merged with her own work to create new interpretations of surface. Myfanwy exhibits internationally including at Perpetual Portfolio at Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires in 2005, IV Salón Internacional de Arte Digital, Habanna, Cuba in 2002 and Tracing Light at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol in 2007. In 2007 she completed a glass balustrade public art commission for the Gloucester Docks regeneration scheme and is currently teaching Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.

Grid Structure (a) Print to wood veneer and fused to aluminium 80 × 80cm £1,072, edition of 10

Tower I Laser-cut acrylic, original 70 × 30 × 30cm £2,680

Ross Jones Ross Jones makes broadly political work. His most recent work seeks to distil a complicated political issue into one of its constituent parts, the painted or drawn object becoming a symbol for a wider theme. His work does not portray a singular viewpoint but simply asks the viewer to consider the subject. The artist was selected by the Goldsmiths Curatorial Programme to exhibit in the 2006 Celeste Art Prize, selected by Stephen Snoddy (NAGW) and Chris Hammond (MOT) to show in New Art Birmingham 2007 and in 2007 to show in the Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Surgical Strike Pencil on paper 90 × 100cm £1,206

Unattended Bag Oil on canvas 160 × 200cm £2,144

Chris Keenan Photographer and film maker Chris Keenan works internationally on a diverse range of self-initiated and commissioned projects. Perhaps most significantly has been his repeated trips to New Orleans, originally documenting the city’s music scene. The eﬀects of Hurricane Katrina led Chris to revisit to make new work. He has worked on commissions for magazines and commercial clients including Southern Comfort and has had work published in Dazed and Confused, Vice, Blowback and Fused magazines. In 2007 Chris gained a prestigious 4Talent award, established by Channel 4. Future exhibitions in the UK and internationally and self-initiated projects will see the artist increase his reputation even further.

Lower 9th Ward Organ C-type print 46 × 46cm £402 unframed, £523 framed, edition of 25

Franz Joseph Glacier (facing page shows detail) C-type print 46 × 46cm £194 unframed, £261 framed

Mohsen Keiany An artist of Iranian origin, educated at universities in Iran, Mohsen then obtained an MA in Fine Art at the University of Tehran. He is currently studying for a PhD at Birmingham City University. An award-winning artist, Mohsen has exhibited in more than 50 national and international exhibitions. His work is deeply influenced by his Persian background, and historical, religious and cultural themes feature strongly, especially the influence of Sufi spirituality and his experience as a soldier in the Iran-Iraq War. His work encapsulates spiritual contemplation, human nature and the natural world, human suﬀering and the horrors of war. Captured in ecstatic colour and texture, his paintings show the essence of the Sufi idea of equilibrium in nature. There is little or no foreground in Mohsen’s work; shadow is omitted, figures are spiritual, decaying or dead and colour illuminates.

The Holy Dance Oil on canvas 50 × 150cm £1,876

Colour of Dream I Oil on canvas 100 × 70cm £1,809

Ben Kelly Ben Kelly’s work looks at interaction within the fabric of landscape, people, ‘lost in thought’, ‘alone’ or ‘together’ moving from one place to another. His work captures single moments in time, snap shots from everyday life, some imaginary, others in the present. The paintings are small in scale, open and quiet reflections. Since graduating with an MA from Central Saint Martins Ben has exhibited throughout the UK and produced commissions for private clients. He has followed in the footsteps of L.S. Lowry by becoming only the second artist to win the Football and the Fine Arts Prize, exhibited and awarded at the Lowry Centre. Ben is currently working on a project with Manchester City Football Club, documenting the 2007/2008 season in a series of paintings.

Dog Walkers at Alderley Edge Oil on canvas 47 × 70cm £5,360

Still Oil on Canvas 47 × 55cm £3,953

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Gary Kempston The artist explores a vocabulary of abstract imagery through prints, mixed and digital media, drawings and paintings. He tests the borderline between control and spontaneity and his practice focuses on the physicality of the creation of the work. Gary is fascinated by composition and the use of form and linear elements as instruments of investigation and expression. He works intuitively by layering and superimposing line, texture and form. He is also an established illustrator and regularly contributes to quality newspapers including The Guardian. His work is showcased in London and New York and has appeared in a wide range of publications.

Untitled Digital print 85 × 120cm £600, edition of 3

Advice & Development 2008 Available in various sizes and onto diﬀerent materials, and in many diﬀerent contexts, such as banners, on walls, round corners and curves, on glass, plastic and metal surfaces

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Stephen King Stephen King co-founded Document Magazine in 1998 and was Senior Photographer for nearly ten years. Since then his work has developed through initiating projects and undertaking many commissions across the UK. His photography practice includes documentary and portraiture. Clients and commissions have included National Museums Liverpool, FACT, Open Eye Gallery, Ceri Hand Gallery and Liverpool Culture Company. Projects include In My Defence which sees him working collaboratively with people in Merseyside. In Lewis’s he documents the Liverpool department store which is over 150 years old. The store has nine floors but only four remain open for business. The fifth floor has a restaurant from the 1950s and a hairdresser’s from the 1960s. The photographer has created a series of still lifes and a series of portraits of exemployees. The images will be exhibited at the Conservation Centre (National Museums Liverpool) and be accompanied by a publication.

Disused 1950’s Restaurant, Liverpool No. 1 Digital C-type print 91 × 61cm Price on application

Disused 1950’s Restaurant, Liverpool No. 2 Digital C-type print 61 × 91cm Price on application

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Susan Kinley Susan works with glass, silk, and mixed media, making wall and window panels and architectural installations. She has worked with private, corporate and public sector clients to create works to enhance locations. Her works have transformed spaces such as entrance halls, atriums, conference rooms and corridors. The artist studied at Goldsmiths and completed her MA at the Royal College of Art. She has received numerous awards, including several from both Arts Council England and the Crafts Council. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including several solo shows and at Collect, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Field of Sails Digitally printed glass and silk 90 × 60cm £1,340

Channel Printed and fired glass strips, metal gauze, silk 120 × 55cm £1,340

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Sarah Kirby Sarah is a fine art printmaker. Her work is narrative and illustrative and she often works in response to and in conjunction with text. She works with her own words and with contemporary poets, the most recent project being a series of 40 black and white lino cuts for a book of published poems. Graduating with an MA in Fine Art Sarah has since worked as a lecturer in printmaking and has exhibited at Cambridge Contemporary Art, City Gallery Leicester, Leeds City Art Gallery and the Craft Gallery at Bury St Edmunds.

Held by an Angel Linocut 37 × 22cm £168

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery Linocut 28 × 42cm £194

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Susan Laughton Susan paints glimpses of land and sky, blurred moments that cannot easily be photographed. Tree branches, power lines and pylons silhouetted against distant horizons in contrast to slower experiences of texture: time worn stone, rusting metal and peeling paint. The abstract works contrast pared down marks and random scratches with washes of paint on fine layers of plaster. Sometimes layers are washed away and reapplied many times to capture the essence of the moment. Susan is based in the North West and has exhibited locally and nationally. She worked in architecture for twelve years before returning to college to study art graduating with a BA Hons Visual Art (first class) in 2002.

Remembering the Sea I Plaster, acrylic and gouache on canvas 40 × 40cm £375

Silverland II Plaster, acrylic and gouache on canvas 40 × 40cm £375

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Kerry Lemon Kerry Lemon is a fine art illustrator who is preoccupied with drawing. She is excited by creating a personal language of mark making: images are created in sketch books on location before she retreats to her studio for scanning and colouring. Kerry is particularly drawn to the natural world, where animals are her main inspiration. All the works seen here are giclée prints, available in limited editions of 20. Kerry studied Fine Art at the University of Reading, graduating in 2003. In 2007 she completed an MA in Museum Studies, graduating from the University of Leicester. She is experienced at leading workshops in a range of settings.

Cherries 2008 Giclée print 42 × 37cm £201, edition of 20

Patterned Rhino 2008 Giclée print 37 × 42cm £201, edition of 20

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Gillian Lever Gillian Lever makes colourful abstract paintings applying paint in an intuitive and physical way. Her work is often inspired by music and she has worked collaboratively with musicians, including with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and reggae band UB40. In 2006 she was involved in Multicoloured Blue, a project with Cheltenham Jazz Festival. She has exhibited widely and has work in a number of collections including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Goldman Sachs and The Warwick Arts Trust. Gillian is also an experienced participatory artist having led workshops and projects.

Seven Last Words No. 3 Oil on canvas 190 × 130cm £4,690

Seven Last Words No. 5 Oil on canvas 190 × 130cm £4,690

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Dinu Li Born in Hong Kong, Dinu Li graduated with a BA Hons in Photography from Liverpool John Moores University. He has recently exhibited at the 3rd Bucharest Biennale, Museumsnacht in St Gallen, Switzerland, Rivington Place in London, Space in London, Cornerhouse in Manchester, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Kulturbunker Cologne, Victoria and Albert Museum London, Contact Photo Fest 05 Toronto, White Space 798 Beijing, Manchester Art Gallery and the Liverpool Biennale 04. Dinu’s work encompasses film, photography and video. His practice centres on the relationship between the personal and the political, the public and the private. Shaped by forces that determine our social structures, he draws inspiration from an engagement with the many cultures he encounters. His productions are situated between documented facts, oral histories, chance observations and the figments of imagination. Dinu is also a freelance curator and artistic programmer of projects including the Look 07 Photo Review in Manchester. In 2007 he published a major monograph of his work The Mother of All Journeys. Shortlisted for the Contemporary Book Award at the 2007 Rencontres d’Arles Awards it was also placed amongst the Best Photography Books for 2007 by The Sunday Times. In 2007 Dinu Li was nominated for the Northern Art Prize for Artists. He is the recipient of many other national awards and commissions, and has undertaken residencies in China, Kazakhstan and the USA.

Slightly Less Than Four Times the Size of Texas 2007 C-type print, edition 10 + 2 AP 75 × 100cm £1,206 unframed, £2,010 sealed, mounted, tray framed in oak

Secret Shadows 2002 C-type print 71 × 71cm £938 unframed, £1,742 sealed, mounted, tray framed in oak

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Geoﬀ Litherland Geoﬀ is a Mexican-born artist who graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2002. He has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, in 2008 being selected for the prestigious John Moores painting prize, an Arts Council England research and development grant and residencies in St Ives and Nottingham. His paintings are bold, combining fresh, bright colours with washes of more earthy colours. He hints at discrepancies, conflicts and paradoxes of life, and our jarred attempts to find harmony between history and modernity.

A Unifying Theory of Everything 2008 Oil on linen 100 × 100cm £2,100

Flying Spaghetti God 2008 Oil on linen 100 × 100cm £2,100

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Hannah Lobley After accidentally leaving a book out in the rain, Hannah Lobley developed the internationally-exhibited and awardwinning Paperwork, a unique recycling technique using the printed pages of unwanted books and paper. The pages are layered and transformed back into a solid wood-like material to create sculptural objects. The artist has a BA Hons in Decorative Arts and an MA in Applied Art and Visual Culture. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and won awards including at the Royal College of Art and at the Design Show in Liverpool.

Berryman 2006 Produced from client’s waste paper 100 × 100cm £2,010

Imagine a City 2008 Produced from client’s waste paper 150 × 50 × 1cm (per letter) £1,340

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Kate Lockhart Kate Lockhart graduated in 1999 having studied Fine Art and History of Art. Working predominantly in 2D, Kate uses a wide range of media including paint, print and installation. The City has been a recurrent theme in her work and she continues to respond to the movement, growth and development of the built environment. In 2007 Kate completed her MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. Since graduating she has worked on a painting commission for a London publishers and she is currently completing a 14-metre panoramic painting of London based on the view from the top of St Paul’s Cathedral. Over the past few years she has been selected for group exhibitions at Subway Gallery, London, Venice Academia, Italy, The Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa and The Museum of Reading. Alongside her creative practice, Kate is experienced in art project management, educational activities and public art consultation.

View From the South Bank 2008 Acrylic on canvas 100 × 150cm £3,350

Detail from London Panoramic – View from St Paul’s Cathedral Work in progress: two canvasses from a collection of eleven Acrylic on canvas Overall dimension 150 × 1400cm Price on application

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Liz Lock & Mishka Henner Liz Lock graduated from Humber College in Toronto in 1998 and Mishka Henner from Goldsmiths College in London in the same year. They met on the Haggerston Estate in London in 2003, a notorious sink estate awaiting demolition, and began working together to document the landscape and residents of the Haggerston as it deteriorated beyond repair. Since then they have worked on projects in Europe, North America, North Africa and China focusing on communities’ relationships to their natural and artificial environments. Influenced by the New Topographics movement and the social physiognomy of photographers such as August Sander, they often mix landscape and portrait studies with historical archives and oral histories to reflect on the subjects and places they encounter. An award-winning duo, they have exhibited in selected exhibitions nationally and they have worked on a series of commissions including for the London School of Economics, Cheshire County Council, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Cairo C-type print 70.5 × 100cm £1,072 unframed, edition of 15

Wasaga C-type print 70.5 × 100cm £1,072 unframed, edition of 15

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Michelle Lord Michelle Lord’s photographs depict architectural utopias: fictional structures that inhabit fictional worlds. Working non-digitally, each image takes the artist many months to complete, beginning with the meticulous hand construction of a large-scale model that, when photographed, simulates life-size architecture. The results portray buildings and structures associated with particular literary texts and fictional narratives which have a specific architectural significance. Her photographs form a series of carefully-crafted illusions. Michelle has exhibited in the UK and internationally and has had eight solo shows to date. Her work has been published in journals including FotoMagazin, PhotoTechnik International, Eyemazing and Dwell.

Ultimate City #1 Photographic print mounted on 4mm dibond and sealed 91 × 91cm £503, edition of 20

City of the Immortals #2 Photographic print mounted on 4mm dibond and sealed 91 × 91cm £536, edition of 20

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Tim Machin Tim Machin studied at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford and graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 2002 with an MA in Fine Art (Drawing). He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2001) and Becks Futures (2006) and in 2007 won the Aspex Emergency2 prize resulting in a solo exhibition at the Portsmouth-based gallery. In 2008 he was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create a poster for 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the roundel symbol of London Underground. His work is in both public and private collections including the Open University and Transport for London and has been purchased by collectors in London, Los Angeles and New York.

Birds Cut out Spotters’ Guide to British Birds Dimensions variable but not less than 400 × 400cm Installed above head height Not for sale (private collection)

No 24,004 Chalk and charcoal on newsprint 10 × 15cm £536

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Susie MacMurray Susie MacMurray is a Manchester-based artist, whose work encompasses drawing, sculpture, performance and architectural installations. A former classical musician, she retrained as an artist, gaining a Degree in Sculpture and graduating with an MA in Fine Art. An engagement with materials is central to MacMurray’s practice. Her role is one of alchemist: combining material, form and context in deceptively simple ways to stimulate associations within the viewers’ minds and to elicit nuanced meanings. Recent work has included making drawings with unconventional materials including rubber tubing, hair and wax, trying to blur the boundaries and questioning at what point drawing becomes sculpture and vice versa. She sees this work as ‘sculptural drawing’. Her new rubber wall pieces are formal explorations of the sculptural possibilities of working with mark-making and line in a material that maintains its own physical references. Working mainly in installation and sculpture, she has quickly gained a reputation for site-specific interventions in historic spaces which resulted in her being nominated for the Northern Art Prize in 2007. Her work frequently references the history of a space and seeks to merge the particularities of that history, the specifics of site, and the meanings of materials in an attempt to gain insight into the relationship between people and place. For her drawings MacMurray has been short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2005). Her work is held in various public and private collections in the UK and abroad.

Shell Site/history-specific installation for Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Mussel shells, red silk-velvet Variable dimensions/price

Oracle Triptych of sculptural wall drawings made from soft rubber hose extruding from gallery wall 250 × 250 × 30cm £2,700

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Charlie MacPherson Specialising in unique pieces of hand-blown glass the artist balances the simplicity of form with more complicated use of line and print. He incorporates cane techniques in the blowing process, which are enhanced by polishing to highlight areas of interest. The works range from small pieces through to large scale commissions and lighting. The majority of work is made to commission, working closely and in conversation with the client. The artist has exhibited internationally including at Origin, London, Glasgow Art Show, Aﬀordable Art Fair, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Chelsea Craft Fair and Bluecoat, Liverpool. Commissions have included the International Institute for Research in Glass, for Standard Life and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Rotate Hand-blown glass 30 × 30cm £1,520

Spikes Hand-blown glass 100cm, 30cm base diameter £305 each

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David McLoughlin David is interested in the act of seeing; the way we might glimpse objects in passing or stop and gaze when something is brought to our attention. He creates images where there is the pleasure of just looking for colour, pattern and texture. In a new series of work he has used Birmingham as his subject. He creates images of buildings that have become city landmarks and contrasts them with the places and spaces they may overlook or be next to. He uses the camera to compose fresh views and new perspectives of quite familiar places. Unique to his work is the way in which he focuses on the contrast between the stillness of objects and buildings and the movement of light around them. It is this movement in the photographs that transforms the familiar.

Palm Beach Hand-produced C-type print 30 × 41cm £335 unframed

Towering Sky Hand-produced C-type print 30 × 41cm £335 unframed

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Mark McNulty Mark McNulty is a Liverpool-based photographer whose main subject is the city in which he lives. With the regeneration of Liverpool and the city awarded the role of European Capital Of Culture 2008, his work is now primarily focused on the city and its people. Mark has also travelled extensively around the world for music-based commissions, photographing artists such as Bjork, Portishead and Paul Weller for magazines and record companies. Much of this work has been recently published in the hardback book Pop Cultured, University Press, Liverpool. Mark’s editorial work has been published in The Sunday Times, Raygun, Mixmag, Plastic Rhino, The Guardian, The Face and I-D. His photographs have been selected for many exhibitions in Liverpool including at Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery and the Museum of Film & Photography, Bradford.

Liverpool Sunset Archival print 34 × 58cm £87 unframed

Superlambanana Archival print 39 × 58cm £87 unframed

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Colin McPherson Born in Edinburgh and now based near Liverpool, Colin McPherson has been a photojournalist for over 20 years and has covered major national and international events for newspaper and magazine clients both at home and abroad. His work is concerned mainly with social and ecological issues and he has developed a number of long-term projects studying the relationship between built and natural environments. Colin has exhibited internationally and has been purchased by private collectors and museums such as the National Galleries of Scotland, the Museum of Scotland and Stockport Gallery and institutions such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Navigator Foundation. He also works on educational projects and workshops directed at students and professionals alike.

Caravan Site, Northenden, 2007 2007 C-type print 30 × 30cm £369 unframed

Stanlow Oil Refinery from Speke, 2007 2007 C-type print 30 × 30cm £369 unframed

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Sandra Masterson The artist uses soils in her paintings to attempt to describe a language – a means of expression. Nature has always been a driving force in her work, and it seems a natural progression that she now uses soil itself almost exclusively as the ‘pigment’. Walking through a changing landscape and the activity of collecting soils as part of an ‘earth mapping’ process has become central to her practice. The collected soils are then used as pigment and floated onto raw canvas. This allows the shapes of the soil particles to wash and separate naturally. Sandra’s work is always presented in series with regular spaces between each panel. Sandra has achieved Arts Council England funding to research and create new work in this series and has exhibited widely.

Path, Black Hill 2005 17 June 2005 Soils collected from the Black Hill Mid Wales during a 5 hour walk 84 × 74cm £1,139

Apples and Pears Westbury Court Gardens Autumn 2006 Direct print and plant stain 79 × 57cm £871 framed

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Katie Mawson Katie Mawson works with wool, designing and making wall hangings, hats and scarves. She has a BA Hons in Textiles, graduating from Camberwell School of Art and Design. The technique she uses is called dry point felting. She starts with a knitted back cloth, on which she loosely sketches outlines of images before needle-punching many strands of yarn to gradually build up a multi-layered, textured piece, a process she refers to as ‘painting in yarn’. Her work has an international reputation and she shows and sells in Japan and widely in America. She has also been selected to exhibit at Origin for the past three years.

Thinking Person Dry point felting 28 × 36cm £350

Cornwall Dry point felting 27 × 40cm £365

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Stuart Mills This series of work by Stuart Mills seeks to distil something of the aura that develops in urban environments after dark. In these images we are locked in a lonely night time existence but teased by hints at a parallel daylight world which people inhabit. The photographer uses black and white film to allow concentration on the tonality of the scenes rather than the distraction of the sodium-orange hue. He has discovered that public spaces are usually adequately lit by the council so it is not necessary, or his intention, to use any additional lighting. Using long exposures serves to compress time rather than to merely freeze it. The images record transient occurrences for the duration of the exposure, reinforcing the fact that people use these environments, but they remain intangible and out of reach.

Trees, Trinity Rd Gelatin silver print 37 × 37cm Edition of 25 1-10 £241 unframed, £308 framed

Bus Shelter, Eachelhurst Rd Gelatin silver print 37 × 37cm Edition of 25 1-10 £241 unframed, £308 framed

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Emma Molony Emma Molony grew up in the fishing village of Beer in Devon. After studying Fine Art during her foundation year she went on to study History of Art and completed a BA Hons at Leeds University. After graduating she went on to work in Venice where she worked as an intern for The Peggy Guggenheim Collection and assisted with the Venice Biennale. In Venice she started printmaking. Emma received Arts Council England funding to develop her printmaking practice and to create larger work. She is now focusing on a series of printed wall hangings on fabric. Emma has exhibited throughout the South West and is a skilled workshop leader.

Beastly Chronicles Screenprint wallhanging 65 × 85cm £275

Sredni Vashtar Screenprint on paper 12 prints, 15 × 15cm each, mounted and framed £335, edition of 25

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Frillip Moolog Frillip Moolog is a mindset where creativity and imagination are given free reign and also the collective name of the beguiling textural sculptures created by Kirsty Smith. At the heart of each piece is an object which is usually deemed out of date and past its best. Kirsty partners these with improbable textiles which then influence the new form. Childhood memories of domestic spaces, furniture and television musical extravaganzas are core influences in her work. Attention to detail and quality of making are signatures of the pieces. These sculptural ‘beings’ resonate on a deeply emotive level and act as a vehicle to reconnect with lost childhood imaginings and help in our attempts to make sense of the world.

Tall Legs Mixed media 136 × 33 × 33cm £2,010, edition of 3

Cyril Mixed media 104 × 40 × 38cm £1,675

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Neil Moore Neil Moore’s work is about people. Some of his paintings relate to people he knows and some to his experience of society, either directly or through the arts and media. His works are an attempt to rationalise his internal confusion and perhaps give some coherence to experiences that concern, intrigue or amuse him. The images are purely intuitive – ideas may be ‘screened’ to avoid clichés or sentimentality but generally they are not analysed by the artist. They reveal something of him, even to himself. The paintings, despite the figurative and narrative clarity, are not intended to be taken literally – they are intended as visual metaphors. The artist paints what he believes to be common concerns and an honest reflection of our society.

Pointlessness Oil on canvas 101.5 × 76cm £8,040

The Magdalen Oil on canvas 132 × 101.5cm £9,380

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Paula Moss Paula is a photographer and digital media practitioner. She manages and delivers unique and long-term projects and creates engagement and intervention in the public arena. Her own work is recognised and awarded for its innovation and she has a proven track record for producing high quality and challenging photographs that are commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally. The themes of her work lie with memories and loss. The images represent histories, memories, experiences, losses and preoccupations.

Wrap – from the series Mass 2004 Digital photographic print 119 × 119cm £268

Soda Mountain Digital print 122 × 152cm £369

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Ian Muir In-depth imagery, psychological interpretations, compositional form, relationship and metaphor are omnipresent in Ian’s artworks. His works are often rich in allegories and homophony. It is a visual language where interpretation is left to the viewer. Ian has worked for many clients, corporate and private, producing paintings, illustration, film and digital works. He has exhibited his work widely and is featured in private collections.

After the Rain 2005 Pencil, pastel, digital giclée print 100 × 110cm £663

Bullringrag 2005 Pencil, pastel, digital giclée print 100 × 100cm £663

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Jo Naden Landscape and our relationship to it, both individually and through our collective histories, underpins much of Jo Naden’s work. Ecology, the forces and phenomena of the earth, its minerals, plants and animals, myths, legends, time and seasons are inspiration. Drawing is often part of the exploratory process, prior to being distilled into a sculpture that is usually more abstract than representational. Jo employs clay, wax or plaster to make a form. The forms are then cast into metal, bringing dramatic solidity. The choice of bronze recalls the artefacts of ritual and history, while the polished surface of stainless steel reflects the subjective experience, the form being visible only by virtue of its surroundings. Jo often works to commission for public or private clients, for interior or exterior spaces and has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the UK.

Bird Wax for bronze 23 × 22cm £1,900, edition of 9

Moon Bowl Stainless steel 316 etched 60 × 120cm £9,545 excluding doves, £12,500 including two doves, edition of 5

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Rachael Nee The artist uses the sooty carbon trace left from a candle flame to make smoke drawings. This ephemeral material expresses the passage of time, memory, absence and fragility. In her recent work she has taken a look at the sooty material itself, the element of carbon, often called ‘the backbone of life’. This was the starting point for the series of drawings called Carbon Based Forms whose geometric designs are drawn from the creased patterns that remain from folded origami. Rachel has a background in ceramics and draws this as a parallel in still using fire as a creative tool. Fire in both artforms creates an irreversible transformation, images cannot be unburned. Rachel is an award-winning artist who has exhibited widely. In 2005 she was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and in 2007 became an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy.

Lethe III 2008 Smoke, graphite on board 106 × 106cm £1,885 framed

Insect Pattern IV 2008 Smoke, graphite on laser-cut board 106 × 106cm £1,742 framed

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Rebecca Newnham For the past 17 years Rebecca Newnham has been producing sculpture in glass and fibreglass for exhibition and commission. She is currently making static and suspended sculpture for a 13-metre atrium on a cruise ship. She has recently shown work at Art in the Garden. Work has explored botanical life cycles: seeds, pollen, fruit and growth. Rebecca is interested in the chemical makeup of living things and the appearance of molecules or chains of molecules under a microscope. Depending upon the project, her sculpture often has a reinforced steel or concrete structure. Rebecca takes clear glass and fires a range of materials onto the surface, in a kiln, which has a metallic appearance such as the many colours of bronze. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Glass in 1991 and has since exhibited at Collect and 100% Design. She has made work to commission for private and public interiors, gardens and exterior spaces.

Quercus Glass and fibreglass sculpture 500cm and 600cm tall £18,090 and £20,100

Ginkgo Glass and fibreglass sculpture 100cm and 70cm tall £3,283 and £1,876

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Amanda Notarianni Amanda Notarianni designs and makes distinctive contemporary glass. Using traditional glass-making techniques she creates unique hand-blown sculptural forms. She enhances her sleek, free-blown pieces using skilful cold-working processes such as cutting, carving and polishing to create surface patterns and textures, which hold light and magnify reflections. Amanda’s innovative ultra-modern pieces are handmade to commission with projects undertaken ranging from public art commissions, to architectural lighting and one-oﬀ sculptural vessels. She exhibits internationally, including at the British Glass Biennale, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh and at 100% Design, Top Drawer and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Collect. Her work has been featured on television and in magazines and she has pieces in both public and private collections. Amanda also achieved the British Craft Trade Fair Award of Excellence and is a NESTA Fellow.

Ammonite Hand-blown glass 36 × 36cm £6,000

Conception Hand-blown glass 24 × 20cm £1,800

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David Nightingale David Nightingale’s current work centres around using digital technology to explore the generation of hyper-real imagery through the medium of photography, working with original photographic images, or sets of images, to generate images that transcend the ordinary – spanning the gap between the real and the imagined. He is the Creative Director of a fine arts photographic company based in Blackpool and a company specialising in online and face-toface training in photography and photographic post-production. He has won numerous other accolades and awards and is writing a book on HDR photography, which will be published in the third quarter of 2009.

An Item of interest Digital C-type print 41 × 61cm £134

The Movement of Light #2 Digital C-type print 41 × 41cm £121

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Margaret O’Rorke The artist’s ideas stem from the nature of the material, forms that can grow from the potter’s wheel, the process of firing and a sense of adventure with light and space. The artist designs a range of porcelain lighting for large-scale and domestic interiors. As part of her career development Margaret secured a grant from Arts Council England to work in Stoke-on-Trent with Wades Ceramics factory and Valentine Clay products. There she learnt about industrial processes and developed a translucent slip suitable for her industriallyproduced lighting. The artist also works internationally. In 2006 she designed and made a permanent lit porcelain installation for the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory, Denmark. The work is made up of 60 suspended cast porcelain hanging lights. In 2007 she visited Jingdezhen in China and was invited to return to create a lit fountain for the 2008 Jingdezhen International Ceramic Exhibition.

Castlight Porcelain wall light 18 × 43 × 9cm £350 each

Big Wheel Porcelain wall sculpture 28 wheel-thrown porcelain wings attached to a metal light box 100cm diameter £25,000

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Ele Pack The paintings are started with still life objects as inspiration and then bands and slices of colour are built up instinctively to capture a feeling of space, air and object, combined with harmony and abstract elements. The finished works are sensual and luminous representations of the figurative world. Ele has exhibited her work internationally in galleries in Germany, Sweden and the USA. She has also shown at art fairs throughout the UK, has been commissioned for book covers and secured Arts Council England support for new work.

Rooftops 2008 Oil on canvas 61 × 61cm £1,072

Sweet Warm Night 2008 Oil on canvas 61 × 61cm £1,072

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Janine Partington Following a BA Hons in History of Art and Design the artist went on to study Museum Studies and then to work as a curator. She is now an established designer maker and combines the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean, contemporary designs. The process starts with creating intricate hand-cut stencils which are then layered onto copper before being sifted with powdered enamels and fired in a kiln. The artist has exhibited widely throughout the UK.

A Line of Trees 2008 Enamel on copper sculpture 15 × 30 × 8cm £200

Fragment of Autumn 2008 Enamel on copper panel 15 × 15cm panel on 36 × 36cm frame £200

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Kirti Patel Kirti Patel has worked as a designer maker in Birmingham for the past nine years. She is currently developing her practice to include transforming her jewellery designs into concepts for public art. After graduating from the Birmingham School of Jewellery Kirti set up her workshop in the Quarter. Her specialism is working in silver and resin inlaid with metals to explore textures, form and patterns. She is influenced by Indian and Japanese ritual, culture and metalworking techniques. Often the wearer is able to engage with the jewellery, for example with moving elements or interchangeable parts. Kirti has completed a number of individual and business commissions and has exhibited her jewellery throughout the UK.

Pinpoint Necklace Silver and resin 1.5 × 36cm £168

Small Shapes Brooch and Matching Earrings Resin inlaid with silver and brass, encased in silver, silver wires Brooch 2 × 4cm, earrings 0.6 × 1.2cm Brooch £56, earrings £29

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Sally Claire Payen Sally Claire Payen approaches painting like a novelist, drawing up a visual narrative with characters, plot ideas and locations. The process-led paintings end up as if storyboards or complex diagrams of diﬀerent scaled and spatial parts. Consequent chapters in the paintings are viewable at the same time mixing up ideas about beginnings and endings – or what parts to read first. Time issues are central to the artist’s field of inquiry – the painted fields could be seen or read as experiments in the temporal-nexus in which diﬀerent events and characters collide. Sally Claire Payen has an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Arts and a PhD in Painting from the University of Brighton. She has exhibited in solo shows and selected group exhibitions nationally.

Sendings 2007 Oil and enamel on canvas 180 × 140cm £2,680

The Smallest Share Oil and enamel on canvas 180 × 140cm £2,680

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Kate Pemberton An artist with an international reputation for electronic and textile-based contemporary art, Kate Pemberton has exhibited in Japan, Canada, Europe and the US. Her work addresses the cultural eﬀects that technology has on society, by examining the influence of the machine and of digital technologies. Work ranges from interactive electronic installations, computer animations, multiples and collaborative projects to textile, handcrafted, canvas-based pieces. Pattern-making and design are meeting points of the handcrafted and the digital in these pieces. The relationship between function and decoration, the industrially-manufactured and handmade and tradition and progress are also pursued.

Ring Giclée print 30 × 42cm £47, edition of 100 signed and numbered

System Rosette (Slave) Screen printed cotton poplin, metal parts, ribbon, chain 29 × 9cm £127

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Betty Pepper Betty Pepper’s work links jewellery, textiles and fine art. Her ongoing project Book Keeping is inspired by the old adage ‘never judge a book by its cover’. She finds inspiration in stories, poems and fabrics. In most of her work Betty uses old books to inspire, provide materials and present the jewellery and to reflect the story-telling aspect of what she does. Betty graduated from the Birmingham School of Jewellery. She is an awardwinning artist and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including at the prestigious Origin, the annual selected Crafts Council show in Chelsea and New Designers at the London Design and Business Centre. All of the work is wearable and pieces can be box-framed so that they can be wall mounted or loose for display in a cabinet. The artist also works to commission to create bespoke pieces of jewellery and uses books and text specific to the commissioner.

Lucy’s Locket Original, silver wire, textile, book, button 20 × 18cm (in open book) £260

The Lepidopterist’s Dream Silver wire, textile, book, frame 30 × 60cm £871

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Chris Pickup The work seeks to expose and reveal the depth and complexity behind moments of urban visual experience; to ask the eye to linger on the habitually ignored. The artist’s approach is to create sitespecific work in mixed media which records archaeology of the present day, like pressing the pause button on the detail of an everyday view of buildings, our cities and urban life. Chris often works on commissions to create site-specific works. These include art installations for the public and private sector.

Burrell Collection Building Floor Study 1 2006 Mixed media 41 × 121cm £1,005

Hull Pavement Study 1 2007 Mixed media 90 × 122cm £1,340

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Ruth Piper The artist sees her paintings as existential diagrams or visual explanations. Working in acrylic on canvas she is painting inner debates and queries; exploring the physical, political and psychological balance between freedom and control, the nature of complex relationships, boundaries and containment. Colours are bright, bold and always intuitive. Ruth studied painting, graduating with an MA from Wimbledon School of Art.

Parts 1 – Interchange 2007 Acrylic on canvas 102 × 102cm £1,407

Parts 2 – Elevated Timed Interchange 2007 Acrylic on canvas 102 × 102cm £1,407

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Jane Ponsford Jane Ponsford uses repetitive processes constructing sculptural forms made up of hundreds of near identical fragments to make bookworks, sculpture and installations. Her work is often ephemeral and delicate. She is very interested in materiality and process, enjoying the eﬀects of change and error. The basis of all her work is drawing, marking lines and accumulations within specific spaces. Jane comes from a background in painting but she has been making paper for over 10 years. She has shown nationally in exhibitions, from large, selected, group shows like the Discerning Eye to smaller exhibitions such as Pulped at the Thelma Herbert Gallery. She has worked as an artist in residence and is an experienced workshop leader.

Longy Down 2007 Handmade paper coloured with earth pigments, wall-based 28 × 28 × 4cm £268

White Drawing 2005 Handmade paper and wire, framed in a perspex box 20 × 50 × 50cm £804

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Sara Preisler Originally a sculptor, Sara Preisler produced her first collection of jewellery in 1993. Since then she has built up a reputation for quality and originality of design and now stocks her exclusive collections in selected stores and galleries throughout the UK and internationally. She has been selected to design and make jewellery for prestigious clients such as The Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Molton Brown Cosmetics London and Selfridges. Sara oﬀers an exclusive design commissioning service for her jewellery, focusing on bespoke wedding rings and unique anniversary gifts. Sara Preisler’s jewellery is essentially sculpture with a function; every piece is hand carved, cast and finished to enhance its individuality and sculptural quality.

Circle Necklace Silver and peridot stone (also available in gold with diamond) 40cm chain £281

Moving Jigsaw Choker Silver and 9ct gold 41cm £697

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Adrian Pritchard Adrian Pritchard makes work that attempts to redefine our relationship with matter by using gravity, the very force that universally dictates form. By working with the tensions between friction and fluidity, the dynamic and the static, the imposed geometry and the inherent viscosity of commercial paints, he explores the on-going visual aesthetic. For a number of years he has been producing precipitated paintings, using the forces of gravity to channel the paint over canvasses and objects. Adrian graduated from the Slade School of Art and has since exhibited widely across the UK and Japan. His work appears in numerous collections including University College Falmouth, One Aldwych London and the British Embassy Tokyo. During the last few years he has been chosen for a number of exhibitions including New Trends in Painting, Leicester City Gallery, North West Open Prize, Art Gene Cumbria and Liverpool Independents.

Un-strung Theory Installation Price and size site dependent

Saﬀron Gloss, acrylic, mixed media 122 × 122cm £3,037

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Isabelle Reaves Isabelle works in pâte de verre, meaning crushed glass. This material allows her to explore fragility, which is inspired by nature’s vulnerability. She juxtaposes the delicate glass in her work with natural materials, such as wood and slate. These materials show the solidity of nature against the fragility of the pâte de verre. Her techniques are delicate and because each piece is unique it is time intensive. Graduating in June 2007, the artist was immediately selected to exhibit her work at the prestigious New Designers in London followed by the Haworth Art Gallery, in Accrington, which is known for its large Tiﬀany glass collection.

Black Slate Pâte de verre with slate Each cup 4 × 3cm, slate 30 × 19cm £369

Joined White Fracture Pâte de verre 12 × 22 × 7cm £369

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David Remes David is an artist, photographer and film maker who has produced work for Levi Strauss, Sony BMG, Orange and others. His vibrant, colourful and enigmatic works are both energetic and contemplative at the same time and, though essentially abstract in style, have an organic appearance. David is a popular artist and his digital photography and image manipulation is sought after by both corporate and private collectors and commissioners.

Chatting Digital print on canvas 76 × 76cm £395

Data Dots Digital print on canvas 76 × 76cm £395

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Lucy Renshaw Lucy graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 with an MA in Mixed Media Textiles. She works with found, recycled and reclaimed materials to transform furniture and interior products. Each work is unique and handmade using a range of techniques including embroidery, printing and woodwork. Recent exhibitions have included the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Grand Designs in London and Maison et Object in Paris.

Lights Oﬀ Reclaimed wood, fabric 100 × 120cm From £2,680

Full Spoon Lamp and reclaimed fabric 175 × 60cm £536

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Deborah Roberts Deborah Roberts has been making felt for over fifteen years. Using ancient techniques she makes contemporary pieces for interiors: wall hangings, pods and vessels and wearable items such as scarves and jewellery. Her MA in Textiles was the culmination of five years’ work developing a variation of the Nuno technique – felting wool fibres onto woven materials, such as silk and cotton, to create soft, textured fabrics. More recently the artist has been making handfelted vessels using a variety of techniques to make the felt and then to manipulate the surfaces. As a feltmaker, Deborah continues to change people’s perceptions of felt and shows how this ancient fabric is a contemporary material for object making.

Multi-pod Sculpture Handmade wool and silk felt 35 × 35cm £121

Mini Pods Handmade felt 7cm diameter £18 each

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Stephen Earl Rogers Stephen Earl Rogers is a painter with a rapidly growing reputation, having been selected to exhibit at the BP Portrait Awards, held at the National Portrait Gallery, six times in the last seven years. As well as being shown in most major cities throughout the UK, his work has been sold through Sotheby’s and exhibited at Christie’s and London’s Mall Galleries. In 2003 he was selected for the prestigious Garrick Milne Prize Exhibition and has previously shown alongside Bridget Riley, Mark Quinn and Maggie Hambling in Glasgow’s Adapt Now Exhibition. In 2005 Stephen’s work was selected for Globalocal, curated by internationally-known curator Kenny Schachter, as part of New Art Birmingham. He was also invited by the National Portrait Gallery to contribute work to an exhibition celebrating its 150th anniversary.

Early Learning Oil on board 90 × 110cm £6,700

Presence Pencil on paper 65 × 45cm £938 framed

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Lawrence Roper Lawrence Roper is interested in the manipulation of light, particularly that of the sky and the horizon, creating a deep, dark expanse. Cities have always been a theme in his work, the way they impact against the sky, exploring the details, the idiosyncrasies that define a place. He experiences a place and its culture through the lens of his camera, defining the drama and beauty in the dramatic, the forgotten and the ignored. Recent work has included experiments with an old Russian medium format camera and Box Browning pin hole camera. These have given a luminous quality to the work and add to the sense of a forgotten place and a timeless quality with the washed colours and light leaks.

BT Tower Photographic print 50 × 50cm £214 framed

Hong Kong Harbour Photographic print 40 × 50cm £174 framed

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Mary Rouncefield Mary Rouncefield is an artist printmaker based in Bristol. She has two main strands to her current practice; Art and Mathematics and Architectural Forms. The artist has taught mathematics and statistics at university level and finds beauty in maths and geometry. In this series she has found a mathematical language that can be used to describe beautiful curves. A drawing from this series was accepted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition in 2007. The other series showed here also looks at pattern and form. In Architectural Forms Mary celebrates the bridges and buildings of Bath and Bristol.

Parabola 2007 Screen print 60 × 40cm £268

Bath Screen print 60 × 40cm £201, edition of 12

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David Rowan Working with common themes – modernity, architecture and mythology – photographer David Rowan documents, experiments and works with the changing city itself. With Mass [future deleted] he is interested in the aspects of the cities that have come to represent dystopian failures of modern architecture. His new work Pacha Kuti: (mythologies 1945–2072) is landscape photography of classified underground environments, an investigation of the lesser known infrastructures below ground.

MB06 – from Pacha Kuti series Digital C-type print Variable sizes available £603

Under Mass (01) – from Mass [future deleted] C-type hand print 25 × 30.5cm £147

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Julian Rowe The artist explores questions of scale, repetition and narrative, sometimes through largescale works that resemble the collected artefacts of lost cultures and sometimes through works in which often familiar images are miniaturised and replicated. In both cases he invites the viewer to complete the narrative. Julian has a BA Hons in Philosophy and Art History and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Canterbury. The concept, starting point and theme in almost all his work is the retrieved object, one that has been unearthed, or perhaps collected from some far-oﬀ place. Works seen here include a large-scale installation and a sculpture of miniature images.

Atlantis 2008 Installation: Resin, calico, jute, steel, plastic buckets, water 185 × 335cm £9,045

Old Europe 2008 Wood, paper, photographs, postcards, perspex, resin, snow globes, model figures 150 × 180cm £9,045

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Stuart Royse Stuart Royse is a photographer who makes work on the theme of landscape and the natural environment as well as producing images for advertising and design clients. The themes focus on man’s influence on the landscape, human intervention, the eﬀects of industry and the overlooked. Specific projects have a narrative theme. For instance An Urban River was a threeand-a-half-year project exploring the route of the River Mersey from source to sea. The series shows a fascinating journey of an urban river through the North West of England. The series of 15 large panoramic images that make up Flooded Woodland is a study of wooded areas that are susceptible to flooding and drought over the period of a year. When the industrial is Stuart’s subject matter he continues to capture the beauty of his surroundings, the colour, texture and materials, as if he were still producing landscapes. Stuart has exhibited throughout the North West, including at the Lowry Museum.

Sand 32 Photographic print on archival paper 51 × 38cm £402 unframed, edition of 50

Overflow Photographic print on archival paper 38 × 51cm £402 unframed, edition of 50

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Claire Christie Sadler Claire Christie Sadler is an artist that works with and on paper. She utilises the material in two ways; making her own and casting with it prior to working on the surface, usually with acrylic paint but sometimes with graphite; secondly as a surface for drawing. In her work she explores the transitory, the moment when something changes. This might be materials reacting together, light falling on a surface, people walking by, a moment in the air and a scent, a split sound – all fleeting moments. After training in music and working for many years as a professional cellist, Claire then went on to study Fine Art, graduating in 2004.

Coat 1 2008 Graphite on paper 114 × 51cm unframed, 125 × 62cm framed £871 framed

Black and Light 1 2007 Cast handmade paper with graphite and wax 51 × 46cm unframed, 71.5 × 56cm framed £503 framed

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Sam Savage Sam Savage is a Liverpool-based artist working in a studio at the Royal Standard. He has worked as an artist’s assistant on a number of projects for internationally acclaimed artists and exhibited nationally. Savage uses a collection of his own belly button fluﬀ as a central motif in his drawings and paintings. This is intended as a pun on where an idea for a piece of art originates. By repeatedly using this subject matter as a starting point, Savage allows himself to investigate formal concerns and a variety of approaches to painting and drawing; from cartoonish lines to expressive brush strokes there is an optimistic and joyous use of mediums. However there is uneasiness within these images. The biomorphic forms refer to the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia (seeing faces in clouds) and exist precariously in the white space of the paper or painterly suggestions of dark, desolate environments. Through this language Savage contemplates the value and significance of ideas and of the meaning that is attached to them.

Navel Gazing Oil on canvas 75 × 95cm £670

Fluﬀ Monument Oil on board 130 × 120cm £938

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Secondnature Secondnature is a collaborative partnership between a graphic designer and a fine artist. They cross the boundaries of art and design to create innovative and distinctive abstract sculpture inspired by silhouettes, shadows and movement in nature. The work is made by combining digital and traditional drawing and production techniques. Elements of chance and play are used to digitally create lines and forms which are refined, developed and then cut into dynamic, contemporary sculpture. Work is made in a variety of materials including reclaimed steel. Secondnature have exhibited and sold work nationally and within Europe.

Tumbleweed Aluminium wall sculpture £1,350

Above Us the Trees Aluminium wall sculpture 100 × 100cm £2,750

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Indre Serpytyte Indre is currently studying for her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. She completed her BA in Photography at the University of Brighton in 2006. She is already the recipient of numerous awards including the Leica Prize (Short listed), the Fujifilm Distinction Awards (Third Prize), the Terry O’Neill Award (Specially Commended), the International Color Awards, 2nd Annual Photography Master Cup and the International Photographic Art Prize Arte Laguna (Finalist). A winner of the 2006 Jerwood Photography Awards for the work A State of Silence the subject of this work is Indre’s investigations into the death of her father. Indre was born in Lithuania; her father Albinas Sepytis died there in October 2001 in a ‘car accident’. The Lithuanian papers wrote that it was a “painful misfortune (a catastrophe)”, when the Head of Government Security died.

Phone Photographic print 51 × 61cm £1,500 unframed

Hat Photographic print 51 × 61cm £1,500 unframed

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Miranda Sharpe Miranda Sharpe studied for her MA at the Birmingham School of Jewellery, graduating in 2000. In 2001 she developed her first range of jewellery from her workshop in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Over the last five years she has exhibited and sold work across the UK and participated in exhibitions in Japan and America. She is continually evolving her work and developing new designs. Inspired by nature, her abstract and innovative designs are diverse: from easily wearable items to more dramatic pieces. Miranda uses diﬀerent materials within her work, combining precious metals with non-precious and possibly unexpected materials. All of her work is unique and hand-made and she also works to commission, in 2001 producing a small collection of pieces for a catwalk in collaboration with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Large 3D Pod Long Pendants Silver and coloured resin Components roughly 4cm long, pendants 8cm and 10cm £188

Rings and Earrings Silver and coloured resin Ring components 1cm, earrings 4cm long Rings £154, earrings £50

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Matt Smith The ceramic objects the artist makes are mementoes of random coincidences, chance and ideas, experiences and daydreams. In his work he gives permanence to fleeting, chance events. The objects contain references to the artist, including religious iconography and an interest in Renaissance art, stemming from a childhood spent in Brazil surrounded by Catholic icons and Voodoo oﬀerings. The pieces both celebrate the mainstream and also unsettle it with Barbie dolls and the Virgin Mary given equal respect. There is joy to the confusion and a celebration of the unexpected. The artist studied Ceramics at Westminster University and has since exhibited throughout the South East, including at Hove Museum and Art Gallery and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in partnership with the Crafts Council.

Birdie 2008 Ceramic 42cm high £603

Willow Pattern Dreams II 2008 Ceramic 43cm high £529

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Ruth Spaak Working with kiln-formed glass and a diverse range of materials including recycled, collected and industrial plastics, metals and other mixed media, Ruth Spaak creates unique and bespoke screens, space dividers, wall-based pieces, installations and sculptures for interiors or exteriors which explore texture, opacity, colour and pattern. Small components are joined together and layered to create complex constructions using contrasting materials, tactile qualities and shapes for site-specific situations and functions. Ruth produces work to commission, for private, public, educational and corporate clients; exhibiting, leading talks and collaborating with organisations and groups to assist in the designing and making of permanent artworks. Ruth has exhibited her work throughout the UK.

Momentum Perspex, acrylic, vinyl 100 × 400cm £13,400

Presentation Awards for Jaguar Land Rover Awards 2008 Engraved acrylic and kiln formed glass 25 × 25 × 3cm £402 each

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Duncan Speakman Duncan Speakman’s work explores how we use sound to navigate geographical, personal and political environments, creating experiences that physically and emotionally engage audiences. He often employs walking as both a process and/or an outcome of his work. The artist manipulates the poetics of everyday in an attempt to make invisible public artworks. Many of the pieces he creates, such as the soundwalks and live performances, are experienced on headphones while walking through spaces. Sometimes they are pre-recorded, at other times they may use satellite positioning, live performers and real-time sound processing. Other works include large-scale video projections, microdocumentaries and books. The artist has exhibited his work internationally including at Futuresonic and Xtracts, and has also created pieces for large-scale events. In 2002 he was awarded the Clarks Trust Award for Digital Art and was also commissioned by the Arnolfini on a number of occasions including the Port City exhibition and the InBetween Time festival.

My World is Empty Without You 2008 Performance

The Weight 2008 Self contained video screen 18 × 10cm £536

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Ruth Spencer After completing her MA in Fine Art in 1994 Ruth Spencer established her studio in Birmingham. She has exhibited her work throughout the UK and internationally. In recent work she is concerned with the way light transforms spaces and is making paintings, photographs and site-specific installations to explore this. In her installations she has used light shadows to undermine the spectator’s understanding of a space. In paintings she has explored the way light and shadows transform urban spaces. Anonymous spaces that form transitions from one area to another such as foyers, corridors and parts of shopping malls are of particular interest to the artist. New work has also included using shadows of objects found in these spaces such as shopping trolleys and barriers.

Lightfight 2007 Oil on canvas 92 × 92cm £1,005

Mezzanine 2002 153 × 185cm £2,680

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Steve Speller Steve Speller is a photographer who creates work commercially and for the fine art market. He often collaborates with the designer Alison Milner, to produce work for magazines, books and exhibitions. Projects have included Ten Careful Owners (the cars that time forgot) and a series of 80 portraits of old British cars and their owners. He has exhibited work at the Whitechapel Open and at the National Portrait Gallery. The selection of photographs seen here can be reproduced to almost any size and are limited editions that are often presented on aluminium backing and perspex.

Mr Alexander and Ford Anglia 2002 Colour hand print 41 × 41cm £268 unframed

Web Dew 2008 Digital C-type print 51 × 41cm £335 unframed

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Sonia Stanyard Working in oil paint the artist’s subject matter is nature. Her main concern is the melancholic in landscape painting, drawing on imagery from Romanticism and the Sublime. Currently Sonia is working on a collection of paintings inspired by 18th-century Russian and Scandinavian landscape artists. She explores the quality of light and subtle uses of colour in her work, capturing a balance between the abstract and representational. The artist graduated in Fine Art at Southampton Institute in 1999. In early 2008 she was awarded a Fellowship Award and Arts Council England funding to paint at the Vermont Studio Centre. She has exhibited in many selected group shows including at Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, London at The Air Gallery, London and at the Sir John Everett Millais Gallery in Southampton.

Autumnal Rust Oil on canvas 94 × 126cm £3,500

The Storm Oil on canvas 71 × 71cm £2,010

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Pamina Stewart Pamina Stewart creates sculptures from shells. The creatures made from shells that most people are familiar with are either mass produced in Asia, or comically crafted objects made by children in the UK after seaside excursions. The sculptures have a duality, referencing home craft and the mass-produced products of an increasingly globalised world. They remind viewers of the classified zoological collections of the Victoria era and collected curiosities. While some viewers find the objects comical, an equal number find them sinister. The creatures are surreal objects; one animal made from what used to be the homes of many much smaller creatures. Kitsch definitely, unique and hand crafted but also with imagined personalities. Pamina has exhibited the animals and figures throughout the UK and internationally.

Mollusca Seashells and fibreglass 53 × 29 × 23cm Price on application

Star Mask Seashells and fibreglass 33 × 33 × 27cm Price on application

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Nik Strangelove A photographer who uses 35mm analogue and digital equipment, Nik is interested in presenting the intensity, strangeness and variety found in the world. His work is a blend of strong tonal, textural and colourful contrasts which is created by unusual viewpoints and surprising compositions. Nik was Guardian Student Photographer of the Year in 1994, finalist in the Guardian Penguin Book Cover Competition, 2006 and in the Seeds of Change Observer Photography Competition, 2006. He has been selected for Festimage, the International Image Festival, Portugal, 2008 and the Festival Internazionale Di Roma, Italy, 2006. Clients have included the BBC, The National Portrait Gallery and The Independent.

Cordyline Indivisa, Cornwall 2007 Silver gelatin photographic print 61 × 50.8cm unframed, 89 × 72 × 4cm framed £395 unframed, £460 framed, limited edition

Tate No.2, St Ives, Cornwall 2002 C-type photographic print 40.6 × 30.5cm unframed, 64 × 53 × 4cm framed £295 unframed, £350 framed, limited edition

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Julian Sutherland-Beatson Julian Sutherland-Beatson imposes constraints and disciplines on his work which is a technique he uses to increase their honesty. He is committed to producing a ‘daily painting’ of his local environment, both natural and built, using acrylic paint on gesso-prepared, uniformly sized boards. Another rule he imposes is working on these paintings at the same time each day. This daily practice gives the artist the structure that he says is integral to his work. The landscapes and seascapes can be both ephemeral and profound. The artist is known to use both ends of the paint brush and as part of the medium for his work adds local materials, such as sand and sawdust, making work that is specific to time and place.

Crowlink 2008 Acrylic on board 20.5 × 20.5cm £201

Top of the Hill 2008 Acrylic on board 20.5 × 20.5cm £201

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Emma Summers Through the use of familiar objects including a bag, a food tin, baby clothes, shoes and a house, Emma explores known conventions in storytelling, literature and photography, as well as more experimental and dramatic concepts of performance and installation. With her fine art ceramic pieces she draws the audience into a story of social, political and human concerns. The work is raku fired and displayed meticulously in gallery shows and installations. Emma completed her MA (Distinction) in 2002 and has since exhibited throughout the UK, achieved Arts Council England awards and her work has been published.

Dress (1 of 21 items of clothing) Raku fired dress, ceramic, wall mounted 60 × 30cm individual size £1,139

House Raku fired house, ceramic 40 × 20cm £737

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Mei Fong Tam Mei Fong Tam was born in Macau. She graduated in Architecture from the University of Hong Kong in 2004. In 2006 she moved to London and in 2007 graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Over the last few years she has exhibited her work extensively in the UK, Spain, Belgium and Korea, including the international film festival The Oneminutes, Fringe Arts Bath and Cutting Edge, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The ambiguities, social interaction and our relationship with the living environment have been explored through her experimentation with self-portraits in drawing and photography. She is interested in the articulation of emotion and sensation, and its potential accumulation and explosion. The portraits are located within a living environment, influenced by her studies in architecture. Her world echoes secluded living space. The line drawings are the micro vision of space, while the photography complementarily forms a macro vision that articulates the human form with the outside world.

Woman in a suitcase 2006 Digital print 50 × 76cm £670

Cubes 2003 Felt-tip pen on paper 86 × 71cm £2,010

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Sally Taylor The paintings and drawings by Sally Taylor aﬃrm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically her own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance. While issues, thoughts and feelings, which often evoke memory, personal history, fears and anxieties, are central concerns, it is their exploration through the specific languages of painting and drawing that informs the meaning. In the body of work seen here the artist focuses on recording and mapping social interaction. The values of selfhood and authenticity are central to the work and the intimate relationship between artist and artwork is celebrated in a process that values that connection. Sally Taylor is a Director of Art Space, Portsmouth, has an MA in Studio Practice, graduating in 1999, and has exhibited widely, including in 2004 at the John Moores and the Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Big Mouth ‘aaa’ Mixed media on canvas 183 × 152cm £2,412

Talk-Listen 2 Mixed media on paper 92 × 143cm £804

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Roxy Topia Roxy Topia traverses across the disciplines of drawing, sculpture and performance with drawing at the centre of her practice. Through her solo and collaborative work art history, theories and varying sources from popular culture become the material to create humorous interpretations of our relationships with the audience, art and culture. Recent solo work is concerned with ideas of failure and hope inside and outside the realm of art. Employing the idea of the explorer and mixing past and present facts Roxy Topia creates future fictions in colourful and fantastical creations. These open works attempt to contemplate the ambiguous nature of escape and belief. Roxy Topia studied Fine Art at Canterbury and is now based in the North West.

One Giant Leap 2008 Mixed pens and pencils on paper 89 × 59cm Price on application

Meteor 2008 Mixed media 150 × 70 × 90cm Price on application

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Gail Troth The construction of the paintings is unique – Gail does not use a brush and never touches the canvas or painted surface. The dropping technique allows the paint to self-organise and create delicate structure and pattern. The artist is fascinated by self-organisation and how it occurs in general within all natural systems. In her practise she allows an unfolding to occur from a point not amenable to manual manipulation. Since graduating in 2003 she has exhibited widely and been nominated for several awards including The Golley Slater Fine Art Award 2003 and the DLA Art Award 2004. She has had a longstanding interest in science, especially biology and physics, and is a member of The Nature Inspired Design Cluster, a group of professionals from science and art that hold international workshops comparing naturally occurring design with the methods used at present in science and engineering.

Synthesis 2003 Acrylic on canvas 243 × 436cm £5,360

Participant Tara 2008 Acrylic on canvas 122 × 92cm £2,695

180

Luke Unsworth Luke Unsworth has lived and worked in the Midlands as a freelance photographer since 1998. Having studied documentary photography he continues to work predominantly with images of people and their environments both in his personal and commercial work. He has exhibited throughout the UK and has also enjoyed working on several collaborations with other artists and photographers. Recent work includes Littleton Colliery, a photographic and video project which documents the eﬀects on the community of colliery closure. Other exhibitions include Changing Face, a project exploring the Bullring area of Birmingham shortly before its demolition, and collaborative work on Ravi Deepres’ Patriots project. His photography explores the ambiguity and the sense of tension that a moment frozen in time can create.

Night View, Birmingham Lambda print 34 × 51cm unframed, 52 × 67cm framed £503 mounted and framed

Chess Players, Romania Lambda print 34 × 51cm unframed, 52 × 67cm framed £503 mounted and framed

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Kate Walters Kate Walters makes drawings in watercolour which have their genesis in deeply felt concerns, insights and emotional responses. Currently these are tragedy and what is often hidden or unspoken in this culture and others. Themes include female-male relationships and death. Kate chooses to work in watercolour as the medium puts a limit, an edge, a boundary to the invisible, the felt, the known and the unknown. Watercolour holds the invisible and has a quality of transparency and apparent gentleness. In her drawings Kate asks the subtle stains to find the furthest edge of their expressive potential. She studied Fine Art at Brighton University, graduating in 1981 and has since moved to Penzance. Kate’s accomplishments include a raft of solo exhibitions and awards, her work is well published and she has been selected for many exhibitions including, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Academy Summer Show, Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries and the Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Mother Feeding herself, with Arms Crossed 2008 Watercolour on gesso 45 × 32cm £800

Winged Dog 2008 Watercolour on gesso 30 × 45cm £550

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Julia Webster Julia Webster is a glass designer maker. She is inspired by numerous sources that include the natural world with its wealth of brilliant colour and pattern, dramatic elements of form in the landscape and the subtle play of reflected light on water. Imagery is also influenced by a longstanding love of dance, travel and ancient cultures combined with a fascination for process and the myriad qualities that working in glass can oﬀer. Julia is building a reputation for decorative and architectural glass commissions for interiors and gardens.

Daggerwing 2008 Glass and steel 108 × 40 × 16cm £730

Frieze 2007 Glass 33 × 25 × 6cm £603

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Stuart Whipps Stuart Whipps is a photographer who lives and works in Birmingham. Since graduating from the BA Hons in Photography at the University of Wolverhampton in 2005, he has exhibited work extensively; notable shows include Luminous at Rencontres d’Arles, France (2006) and Bill Brandt in Bournville, a commission to create and exhibit new work as part of the Bill Brandt in Bournville group exhibition, at the International project space, Birmingham (2006). In 2006 he was awarded first place in the Observer Hodge photographic prize for his ongoing documentation of the redundant Rover automotive works at Longbridge, UK. In 2007 he was selected for an IPRN residency which enabled him to spend two months in Johannesburg creating new work.

Johannesburg, The Provincial Building, 004 Digital C-type print 149 × 125cm Limited edition of 6: 1-2 £1,474; 3-4 £1,876; 5-6 £2,412

Johannesburg, Ponte, 001 Digital C-type print 149 × 125cm Limited edition of 6: 1-2 £1,474; 3-4 £1,876; 5-6 £2,412

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Ges Wilson Ges Wilson’s work is figurative or semiabstract landscape; both arising from the act of drawing, describing experience and memory rather than observed. Processes are important and the work is created by layering, mixing, dripping, pouring and drawing to allow materials and gestural mark-making to reveal something to the viewer of memory and emotional response. The Penwith environment of high moorland, harbours and coastline, and the nude are frequent subjects. Ges studied Fine Art at Exeter and has a Postgraduate Diploma from Falmouth College of Art. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK and has work in collections here and abroad.

May Greys Perranuthnoe Acrylic on paper 34 × 49cm £400

Harbour series – East wind 2008 Oil on canvas 30 × 30cm £230

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Simon Withers Simon uses materials that are appropriate to conveying his ideas; this might be tapestry, paint on canvas, paper ‘fold outs’ and découpages. He explores both the made and unmade object in his work. His painting discipline is the working of the ‘multi fold’, which may be folded many times, or squashed and manipulated through the back of the canvas, stretched and re-stretched. Other works that he produces have performative elements, such as the production of physically challenging drawings. Simon has a BA Hons in Fine Art and has exhibited internationally.

Cloud No. 1 2007 Oil on canvas 90 × 120cm £670

Tree Line #1 2008 Cut paper 14 × 76cm £1,072

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Ian Wood An early fascination with the horizontal brought Ian James Wood to the panoramic medium, which he has continued to explore for the last decade. Working in stitched panoramas made it possible to capture the entire sphere of vision from a given point and opened up the potential for diﬀerent panoramic remappings. Ian was one of the pioneers of 360 degree time-lapse photography. His prolific studies of landscape, architecture and complex spaces have earned him several major photographic commissions including for Barclays Bank and Gardiner & Theobald. He studied Photography at Exeter School of Art & Design.

Second Severn Crossing – View Through Legs Lambda print 62 × 150cm £871 unframed

St Paul’s – The Great Circle – Fisheye View Looking Down Lambda print 110 × 110cm £603 unframed

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Lee Wood In his work Lee Wood uses spray paint to create portraits of people for commission or gallery work. He is technically masterful in his approach, having spent over fifteen years developing his practice from traditional graﬃti to gallery exhibitions, private commissions and commercial projects. The artist does not make an outline or mark on the canvas with a brush, every phase and section of the work is rendered in spray paint, quickly and almost instantaneously. Lee is a self-taught artist and has won several awards for his work. He has exhibited throughout the UK and had his work published in books and magazines.

A Thousand Memories Aerosol 122 × 91.5cm £2,680

Anna Aerosol 122 × 91.5cm £603

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Julieann Worrall Hood Julieann is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art where she specialised in Installation, Sculpture and Woven Tapestry. She is passionate about drawing and capturing the essence and the moment. Inspiration comes from observing wildlife and nature. For the past 20 years she has made quick sketches into large, lively drawings using graphite and washes of colour. These sketches are also worked up into sculptures in wire or willow. Examples of Julieann’s work can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally including the Victoria and Albert Museum. She particularly enjoys participating in collaborative and interdisciplinary projects and is known for her work in public art, education and theatre.

Harum Scarum 2009 Wire, willow, steel pole 175 × 130cm £603 each

Running Hare 2008 Graphite drawing 115 × 92cm £536 framed

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Index A

Adams, Mark 17

Findlay, Angela 60

Laughton, Susan 104

Reaves, Isabelle 148

Anderson, Jane 18

Findley, Emma 61

Lemon, Kerry 105

Remes, David 149

Aver, Tristram 19

Foot, Richard 62

Lever, Gillian 106

Renshaw, Lucy 150

Foss, Karen 63

Li, Dinu 107

Roberts, Deborah 151

Francis, Susan 64

Litherland, Geoﬀ 108

Rogers, Stephen Earl 152

Fraser, Kate 65

Lobley, Hannah 109

Roper, Lawrence 153

Frillip Moolog 125

Lockhart, Kate 110

Rouncefield, Mary 154

Lock & Mishka Henner,

Rowan, David 155

B Ball, Ruth 20 Barlow, Linda 21 Bas, Ania 22 Blackwell, Moira 24

Liz 111

Rowe, Julian 156

Bonnet, Muriel 25

Gare, Flora 66

Booker, Andrea 26

Garghan, John 68

Bosworth, Daniel 27

Garland, Louise 67

Bowman, Jan 28

Gaunt, Nic 70

Machin, Tim 114

Sadler, Claire Christie 158

Bracey, Andrew 29

Gledhill, John 71

MacMurray, Susie 115

Savage, Sam 159

Brass Art 30

Gogerly, Rachel 72

MacPherson, Charlie 116

Secondnature 160

Bratley, Ian 32

Gouldson, Rebecca 73

Masterson, Sandra 120

Serpytyte, Indre 162

Brockerton, Stephen 33

Green, Penny 74

Mawson, Katie 122

Sharpe, Miranda 163

Burke, Vanley 34

Guest, Anne 76

McLoughlin, David 117

Smith, Matt 164

McNulty, Mark 118

Spaak, Ruth 165

McPherson, Colin 119

Speakman, Duncan 166

Mills, Stuart 123

Speller, Steve 168

Molony, Emma 124

Spencer, Ruth 167

Moolog, Frillip 125

Stanyard, Sonia 170

Moore, Neil 126

Stewart, Pamina 171

Moss, Paula 127

Strangelove, Nik 172

Muir, Ian 128

Summers, Emma 174

Burwood, Dan 35

Lord, Michelle 112 M

Hallett, Michael 77 Campbell, Selina 36

Hanson, Gerard 78

Carruthers, Colin 37

Harfleet, Paul 79

Cass, Helen 38

Harris Hughes,

Cattrell, Louise 39

Susanna 80

Chapman, Sarah 40

Harvey, Katherine 81

Charnock, Anne 42

Hellman, Sean 82

Chhabra, Anand 43

Henner, Mishka &

Chivers, Mat 44

Royse, Stuart 157 S

Sutherland-Beatson,

Liz Lock 111

Naden, Jo 129

Julian 173 T

Chivers, Richard 45

Hirst, Paul 83

Nee, Rachael 130

Collier, Jennifer 46

Hobson, Gill 84

Newnham, Rebecca 131

Tam, Mei Fong 176

Curley Cannon, Janet 47

Hodgson, Brian 85

Nightingale, David 134

Taylor, Sally 177

Howkins, Colin 86

Notarianni, Amanda 132

Topia, Roxy 178

D Davey Winter, Jean 48 De Bastion, Julie 49

Huggins, Nick 87 I

Deepres, Ravi 50 Dicks, Emma 51

O’Rorke, Margaret 135 Isaak, Eryka 88

Dixon, Stephen 52

Troth, Gail 179

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Unsworth, Luke 180

P Pack, Ele 136

Jack, Hilary 90

Partington, Janine 137

Walters, Kate 181

Jackson, Nigel 91

Patel, Kirti 138

Webster, Julia 182

Jahan, Shah 92

Payen, Sally 139

Whipps, Stuart 183

Jarl, Ulrika 93

Pemberton, Kate 140

Wilson, Ges 184

Eastham, Tracey 55

Johns, Myfanwy 94

Pepper, Betty 142

Withers, Simon 185

Elliott, Chuck 56

Jones, Ross 95

Pickup, Chris 143

Wood, Ian 186

Piper, Ruth 144

Wood, Lee 188

Ponsford, Jane 145

Worrall Hood,

Dixon, Yannick 53 Donnelly, Michael 54 E

Ellis, Belinda 58 Evans, Stig 59

K Keenan, Chris 96 Keiany, Mohsen 98 Kelly, Ben 99 Kempston, Gary 100 King, Stephen 101 Kinley, Susan 102 Kirby, Sarah 103

Preisler, Sara 146 Pritchard, Adrian 147

Julieann 189

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