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seekers of lice was set up in 2007. Its practice is concerned with words and objects. Projects range from interventions in public places, participation in curated projects and exhibitions in galleries to book publishing and multiples.
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Concepts My work is informed by personal experience places visited, stories of my grandmother, old and forgotten textiles. A recent piece, White Cross', purchased by the Museum of Art and Design, New York, made from old shirting and poppies, formed part of a series investigating labour and textiles. 'Field', purchased...
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Having exhibited a series of original screenprints collectively entitled Liberty City based on sketchbooks kept when I lived in Barcelona in the late 1980's in the Brighton Festival this year, I am currently working on a new series of portraits in oils for future exhibition. My work is based on memory and how we remember details of...
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Superblue is a fresh and innovative design company that specialises in projects for the built environment. We have been involved in a number of regeneration projects in the UK, and have a growing reputation for creating unique and distinctive designs that meet the needs of specific communities. We have experience of a wide...
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I wrap myself in a blanket of things , a collection of objects and materials that in some way or another epitomise my construction of reality. We all build our own worlds, a picture of the world around us cobbled together from snippets of experiences, images and objects taken from moments in our lives. We consider the intricacies of our...
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Maria Kheirkhah explores issues of identity and cultural dissonance through installation, photography and sculpture. With a strong knowledge of both European and Middle Eastern cultures, Kheirkhah manages to address the misconceptions and outline the parallels between them. In 'See, Hear, Speak' (2003) she uses her own hair as a veil to question...
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Concepts Lehan's work seeks audiences in non-gallery situations. Encounters, interactions and conversations ensue . . . . . Small hand printed cards, each one an invitation to participate in a prescribed creative act (ART RECIPE HAIKUS), are handed out during FRED, 2006. The captain of a local...
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Concepts My interest in the notion of place is linked to the idea of duration, repetition and juxtaposition of narrative. Since 1998 I have been developing a body of work (painting and photography) with the title Thought Dwellings. These images derive from memories and experiences of the 'ordinary'. They are perceptions of...
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The life model of the academic drawing class is a mass of contradictions; neither dead, without breathing nor alive with movement, it is purposefully between states. As once a product of the artist's need to perfect the illusion of the human form in painting and sculpture, the life model has since reflected the changing attitudes towards...
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My work concerns installations where paintings are thought as vectors of a process which combine time and space and where the question of the exhibition is contained within the paintings themselves and in the way they are created. Each painting is built on its relationship to the other paintings; that is to say that a painting ...
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Concepts I make vessels and vases. Vessels to stand empty, and vases and planters to suit different types of flowers and plants. Making pots is a vital part of my being and I get some inspiration from walking on the moors and near the sea, looking at the ever changing light, and the rhythms in patterns in nature. Recently I...
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I make collaged ‘target’ paintings using found wallpaper. To me, the ‘target’ as a motif in geometric painting is associated with purity, aspiration, and modernity. Coupling this with cheap, readily-available wallpaper, I seek to personalise abstraction, imbuing it with nostalgia. I use wallpaper to signify my own background. The...
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Adam works in a performative and photographic medium, very funny and quite poignant as he contemplates the cult of celebrity and the image that stays young forever 'One day I will be old and grey'.
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Hoping Against All Hope: A response to Paul Digby’s Artwork Sue Wilks (July, 2008) Feelings that arise and thoughts that are formed in response to an encounter with any artwork can only ever be subjective. Individual viewers will bring to bear on each viewing experience their constituent influences: emotional,...
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Concepts Watercolourist specialising in scenes of local interest. Cityscapes and people are my favourite subjects and I enjoy using pen and wash for maximum impact. My approach is quite detailed and graphic and I tend to favour strong architectural elements in my paintings using figures to give scale and...
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Concepts/themes/ideas My ideas spring from my travels in Africa, Brazil, Australia and the English coastline. I try to express the atmosphere and feeling I have for those places. I work from my subconscious memories of a place using many textural and strong dynamic colours. The results are evocative or a...
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Concepts/themes/ideas The style in which my work evolves is ever changing but the most prevailing motif is comedy and comedians. I'm interested in the juxtaposition of how many comedians bring laughter to the masses but are themselves unhappy and neurotic, leading complex and unfulfilled private lives. ...
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My work centres around notions of failed perfection, utilising postcards to explore imagery that sells places; which in reality don't fulfil our expectations. I'm interested in the way people are persuaded to visit places, through advertising and my memories of childhood holidays in Britain. The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton was...
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The main themes of my work include isolation and alienation as represented through place and the human landscape. I photograph mostly everyday environments as an outsider, dislocated from a space’s primary function and instead viewing it from the perspective of a bystander. In portraying these landscapes shaped by humans in such a way, I aim to...
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Drawing is the foundation of my practice that addresses the themes of site, context, belonging and memory. I often make drawings in series to explore and expand on my ideas. I utilise collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and digital manipulation enabling me to develop images for book-works and surface designs. For...
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Since moving to Scarborough several years ago, I have been interested in documenting the fishing industry. In 2004, after making enquiries to the Harbour Master, I rented a baiting shed on the harbour's West Pier to use as a studio. In this time I have seen Scarborough's fishing fleet decline in number, with owners selling their boats and gear....
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'Absolute hospitality requires that I open my home and that I give not only to the stranger, but to the absolute other, unknown and anonymous: and that I give place (donne lieu), let come, arrive, let him take his place in the place that I offer him, without demanding that he give his name or enter into some reciprocal pact.' read more

Nicola Naismith's work is subject led and crosses boundaries of practice and media. The subject of a hybrid practice where hand skills and technological processes are combined has recently expanded to researching manufacturing. She works with drawing, video, photography, installation and objects (both made and found) and enjoys collaboration...
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My current practice concentrates on applying a processed-based approach to painting to investigate colour, space and the relationship my paintings have within architecture. The development of my practice has seen the work move towards a more reductive state in an attempt to create a more dynamic approach to my painting. I manipulate...
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Dan Rees' work depends on the actions of others … we all do, as we do not exist in a community of isolation but a community of ideas and influences. Art like everything in life is not the result of an individual, and the idea of the artist as the unique, sedentary creative genius has made way for the artists whose methodology and role is one of...
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Our work is always presented as shot, allowing the images to flow and connect to each other with ease and sophistication. Rather than appearing precious and overly concerned with aesthetics, they more evidently describe a life and eye made behind the camera by way of representation. It is important to note that every environmental scene...
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The Accident of Passion I extend my experience of the world and celebrate it visually by making artworks. This invariably results in chaos and sometimes in an acceptable order, which can be called painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, or photography. Generically speaking an artwork. Artworks for me are about...
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Concepts I work with themes of transformation, journeys and pathways. In my ceramics these are often distilled into vessel forms exploring the ideas in formal and geometric symbolism, but ceramic sculpture also extend these themes. My most recent work is through projects that reflect inner and outer landscapes as...
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Concepts The notion of a parallel universe, of what goes on beneath our pleasing and pleasant appearance is a constant theme in both my oil painting and in my etchings. My etchings are closely related to my late night doodle drawing and portray secret fantasies or fiery desires with a clearly erotic tone, which I also continue...
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Artist statement The mid-ocean axis was a ridge of making, where the world was welling up from inside itself and spilling out onto the floor to be carried out and away, thus making ever more room for the making of more. (Winchester, Simon, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded , 2003, Penguin/Viking) ...
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Artist statement The works in Ablution were made to convey a tension between sacred and profane space, and the narrow sliver of experience between. My practice as a whole concerns the design, use and politics of environment, and Zen aesthetics. In Ablution I used water and re-arranged institutional furniture...
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My work is celebratory. Earthed and earthy. The Fenland of East Anglia with its black earth, big skies and keen east wind was the landscape of my formative years. There I learned to relish open space, to endure and enjoy the physical sensations of weather and to respond to subtle shifts of light and seasonal rhythms. Years on, the desire remains...
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