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EXHIBITORS Stephanie Barratt
01/02
Melanie King
01/02
Ruth Blower
03/04
Robyn Lawrence
03/04
Geri Callan
04/05
Amy McKeating
04/05
Laura Carter
06/07
Miranda Mohit
06/07
Jimmy Cave
08/09
Louie Mulhern
08/09
Ian Chapman
10/11
Samuel Morgan
10/11
William Crabtree
12/13
Holly Mulveen
12/13
Alex Cunningham
14/15
Alex Nightingale
14/15
Lisa Darbyshire
16/17
Alex Norcop
16/17
Katie Dent
18/19
Michael Ormerod
18/19
Ahmed El Haddad
20/21
Simon Phillips
20/21
Duncan Fraser
22/23
Jonny Rawlin
22/23
Lucy Fudge
24/25
Leilani Read
24/25
Marie Furter
26/27
Laura Rushton
26/27
Beth Gadd
28/29
John Shaw
28/29
Josh Gibbs
30/31
Jessie Simmonds
30/31
Pollyanna Hodson
32/33
Isabel Skinner
32/33
Chikae Howland
34/35
Stuart Symonds
34/35
Sam Humble
36/37
Nicholas Tighe
36/37
Becky Johnson
38/39
Emily Towler
38/39
Liam Kelly
40/41
Naomi Wallis
40/41
Jane Kenington
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Bobby West
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Website
stefbarratt@hotmail.co.uk
www.stephaniebarratt.co.uk
STEPHANIE BARRATT
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Stains and imperfections are the embellishment of history on an object or surface; they tell a story of human presence through absence, where marks are a trace of interaction.
Website
mcrknottingley@hotmail.co.uk
www.joyarts.weebly.com
RUTH BLOWER
My practice deals with the subject of my identity. I focus on processes to create my work starting with drawing, then mark making and painting. My work is mainly 2D based as I feel this depicts the quality of the lines that I like to achieve.
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Email jack_of_all@hotmail.co.uk
GERI CALLAN
I reflect on true identity, visually represented and influenced through my personal interests. My exploration is the struggle and complexities between art and craft, both utilitarian and beautiful.
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Email bitethebadger@hotmail.co.uk
LAURA CARTER
I use organic shapes and tactile materials to create sculpture. I allow the materials to do what occurs naturally in order to capture a moment. I want to build something tall, which draws the eye upwards. My obsession with animals is apparent in the use of fur within my sculptures.
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Website
jcavefineart@gmail.com
www.coughcoughcough.tumblr.com
JIMMY CAVE
I use the open flame of a blowtorch or heat from a soldering iron to leave tonal marks on a material such as wood or canvas. This allows me to form images with fire as a metaphor of creation through destruction, there can be no creation without first there being destruction.
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Email ichapman89@aol.com
IAN CHAPMAN
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I am currently interested in making sculpture. I’m attracted by bright, bold colours and the repetition of refined manufactured objects. I manipulate these to create forms, taking a material out of its context to create something new. I want to make us think about that object in a different way.
WILLIAM CRABTREE
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The photographic medium is defined by its particular limitations. As we undergo the transition from analogue to digital, these limitations are threatened by a new wealth of possibility. Using the questions raised by the digital medium as a point of departure, I have been working to investigate the nature of what constitutes photographic integrity.
Website
acunninghamfineart@gmail.com
www.howmanysugars.tumblr.com
ALEX CUNNINGHAM
Currently, I’m interested in materiality and discovering the potential of the materials I use in my work. Rather than using traditional sculptural materials, I prefer to use uncommon ones, such as packaging tape. I believe the use of unique materials creates distinctive conceptuality in my work.
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Email lisadarbyshire2203@hotmail.co.uk
LISA DARBYSHIRE
Using the body as both subject and material, my work explores issues of conformity and non-conformity. There is a large autobiographical element that is fundamental to my practice and shapes its direction.
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Website
kjdent@hotmail.co.uk
katiedent.wordpress.com
KATIE DENT
Working predominantly with natural materials I focus on creating sculptural forms that have a sense of presence within a space.
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Email aeelhaddad1@yahoo.co.uk
AHMED EL HADDAD
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In my work things don’t have to relate however they can still exist side by side in some free concept. It can be, for example, figurative, creative and free from commitment. I make work that resonates on a deeply emotive level acting as a vehicle to reconnect with a ‘place’ or memory deep in my subconscious.
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Email duncan.fraser.art@gmail.com
DUNCAN FRASER
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I find interest within peoples relationships to, yet alienation from the inert; the objects that belong to us, yet outlast us. I intend to capture the fleeting memories of their interactions with these objects, layering footage onto the object to create a record of interaction.
Website
We have tirelessly used the body within
lucyfudge@hotmail.co.uk
lucyfudge.blogspot.com
the history of art in the pursuit of a greater or truer understanding of
LUCY FUDGE
the relationship between our realities and ourselves. Within my practice I explore the multitude of associations, connotations and meanings the body can independently evoke in us all.
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Email izzif@btinternet.com
MARIE FURTER
My work is symbolic and gestural of heart and mind. Mental phenomena are in some respects non-physical. Realisation of sentient is the impetus to my practice, underpinned by the notion of ‘Cartesian dualism’. Stitch forms the skeleton to pieces, thus mimicking the ethereal nature of feeling.
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Website
bethsgadd@yahoo.co.uk
www.bethgadd.weebly.com
BETH GADD
My work deals with The Self, and the effect that living in our current society has on us as individuals and social groups. I am particularly interested in the physical aspect of this, and my work is a response to issues such as the size zero culture and what is typically considered to be ‘ugly’.
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Email jgibbs596@gmail.com
JOSH GIBBS
The use of soap, water, ink and dye is recorded on video where the recording is the transient medium itself. The key conceptual aspect of the work is the transcendent nature of space and the array of relative existential and cerebral parallel planes.
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Website
pollyanna.hodson@live.co.uk
pollyannahodson.blogspot.com
POLLYANNA HODSON
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Email nathalie88@gmail.com
CHIKAE HOWLAND
My practise is about culture, the things I love and that make me happy. In this project I have gone back to my roots of drawing and painting. My method is simplicity and realism done in a delicate manner.
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Email sam_humble@msn.com
SAM HUMBLE
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming-animal’ rejects metaphor or symbolism; it perceives identity as being a multiplicitous process rather than a static phenomenon. I deconstruct and reform the human and the animal figure mutually in the act of drawing.
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Email rebecca_johnson1988@hotmail.com
BECKY JOHNSON
I work with a wide range of materials often changing between organic and man-made. The aim of my work is to arouse curiosity and invite touch through its tactile qualities. I am influenced by symbolism, nature and the sublime, using anything that sparks my imagination and incorporating it into my art.
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Email lpj@mail.com
LIAM KELLY
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Website
jane_e_k@hotmail.co.uk
www.inmyotherlife.blogspot.com
JANE KENINGTON
My work is about space. The spaces
around us, the spaces we occupy, the spaces we might not notice and the
space in our heads. Through the use of thread and wire I make forms to
fill these spaces injecting complexity into often overlooked spaces.
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Email melaniek@melaniek.co.uk
MELANIE KING
My preoccupation with the infinite began as a child. I suffered anxiety attacks when exposed to scientific and mathematical paradoxes at a young age. Repetitive tasks and playful experiments appeal to both my anxious nature and my inner child, which in turn helps me to process complex thought through simple processes.
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Email daisyadaire@hotmail.com
ROBYN LAWRENCE
I am a mixed media artist who works with the notion that the universal can be personal and the personal be universal, my work is driven by the fine line between chaos and organization.
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Website
amymckeating@googlemail.com
www.doublethink-amk.blogspot.com
AMY MCKEATING
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I am interested in the concept of the uncanny and how it is experienced as feelings of unease within our surroundings revealing the strange in what appears mundane. My work is concerned with invasions and interaction with space, highlighting its deeply affecting power and relationship to the body.
Website
miranda_skulls@hotmail.co.uk
www.missmirandajane.blogspot.com
MIRANDA MOHIT I use a feminine approach as a formula for creating something fragile, sensory, fleshy and tangible, expressing a complex intimate narrative and uncertainty. Materials and concepts juxtapose a psychological vision. Identity, childhood, journey and memory are themes often explored through my practice.
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Website
samueljohnmorgan@gmail.com
www.samueljohnmorgan.tumblr.com
SAMUEL MORGAN My work deals with the alienation that the contemporary art world creates towards the general public and what separates ‘high’ art from society and the community. By using a naïve painting style and clashing colours, I try to convey these ideas through the aesthetics of the painting.
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Email louie_mulhern@hotmail.com
LOUIE MULHERN
I explore ideas of street art as a legitimate art form that can work in different surroundings. I have experimented with different materials making posters and now plastics. I try to convey similar feelings in a gallery as I do in my work on the streets.
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Website
hmulveen@hotmail.com
hollymulveen.wordpress.com
HOLLY MULVEEN
“An isolated datum of preception is inconceivable, at least if we do the mental experiment of attempting to perceive such a thing. But in the world there are either isolated objects or a physical void.� Maurice Merlau-Ponty, 1962. Phenomenology of perception.
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Email nightingale88@live.co.uk
ALEX NIGHTINGALE
The concept behind my work is memory and the re-creation of objects. I produce 3D forms working with various materials and using repetitive techniques. I aim to create sculptural representations of form and space.
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Website
alexnorcop@googlemail.com
alexnorcop.blogspot.com
ALEX NORCOP
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My artistic practice is heavily driven by political and social issues. It challenges the current capitalist system while offering an alternative to it. Utilising art as a revolutionary tool I hope to encourage new ideas; always done with honestly and compassion.
Website
michaelormerod@live.com
www.michaelormerod.blogspot.com
MICHAEL ORMEROD
“There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions that seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.� T.S. Eliot
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Email simonphillips632@btinternet.com
SIMON PHILLIPS
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I manipulate paint as a method of creating layered painterly sculptures. Using Abstract Expressionism, but employing more control. I use found objects and intuitive colour to develop the surfaces in the work.
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Email jonny_rawlin@live.co.uk
JONNY RAWLIN
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My work is an attempt to reclaim aura from reproduced artworks, employing a ritualized drawing method I am attempting to coax the reproductions back into their original three-dimensions. By doing this process I liberate aura, creating new originals.
Email leilani.a@hotmail.com
LEILANI READ
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I aim to create interpretive pieces, which seem insignificant and overwhelming to an audience, allowing the irregularities within psychological behaviour to be visually represented. My work involves my personal struggles and knowledge with regards to the social and aesthetic areas of life.
Website
laura.rushton@live.co.uk
www.laurarushton.com
LAURA RUSHTON
My practice strips down industrial landscapes into minimal components. Immediate and physical processes are my tools for investigating materiality, evolution, function and structure in relation to the urban environment.
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Email john.shaw@turning-point.co.uk
JOHN SHAW
I am interested in destructive practices, in an aesthetic defined by the material trans-mutated through violence and chance.
I use the throwing,
smashing and shooting of things to explore extended painting through video and installation.
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Email isabelskinner@hotmail.co.uk
ISABEL SKINNER
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To lose a home is to lose a museum of a person’s memory and identity. By altering the object I endeavour to uncover the haunted house within both my own psyche and that of my audiences.
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Email jessiesimmonds@hotmail.com
JESSIE SIMMONDS
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My work is primarily concerned with the history and stories that can be conjured through portraiture. My recent work has considered the process of aging and decay in order to find a way to signify the passing of time using photography, traditional paint and drawing techniques.
Email stuart.symonds@tip-top.co.uk
STUART SYMONDS
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My practice follows the romanticism of evolutionary psychology and the argument within where the artistic mechanism is an adaptation, not by-product, of natural selection. Our innate response to ‘Landscapes,’ whose intricate harmony speak to us of an order that lies deep in ourselves, is marked indelibly with the sign of human dominance.
Email tagtiger28@googlemail.com
NICHOLAS TIGHE
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I question and address the struggles and restrictions an artist goes through when exposed to limitation and obstruction. These concerns are investigated in a performative way, using the body to express feelings of anxiety, success, growth and development.
Website
emily.towler@btinternet.com
www.emilytowler.atspace.com
EMILY TOWLER
Absurdity is a silence, hiding in the subtle corners of our mind, quietly waiting to be seen and to turn our world inside out.
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Email xxnoimoxx@hotmail.co.uk
NAOMI WALLIS
My paintings are about a process, the act of doing, but underneath that there is the imprint of emotion. Blue to me can represent a range of emotions. The process remains the same but the stains represent my varying emotions.
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Email bobby_west@hotmail.co.uk
BOBBY WEST
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My work deals with the representation of death and its relationship with beauty. Through ideas formulated around ambiguity and the abject, it is an exploration into how beauty and horror so often, despite such apparent controversy, coincide with one another.
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