The desire to paint; to explore its material qualities, unintentionally challenge its convention and consider historical constructs, has been integral to this body of work.
‘The Eternal Now’ is a series of paintings I have created of a continual discovery to explore the awareness of the self and the outer universe we are part of.
Since my childhood I have had an interest in mechanical devices. When I was a small boy I had the usual Dinky toys and Meccano but then I was given a quantity of Plasticine with which I modeled a world of make believe based upon machines.
Primarily using installation, expanded sculpture and photography, I try to create a dialogue between space and place using temporary, ephemeral and provisional interventions.
Recycling scrap metal with imagination and a MIG welder, Gavin Darby of Frailloop creates metal sculpture designed mainly for the garden and other outside locations.
James is exhibiting 'The Condition of Being' - A labyrinthian sculptural model made of wooden offcuts, created to evoke the metamorphic sprawl of urban architecture.
Formerly a graphic designer/devoted landscape painter, Jeanette embraced "new media" soon after it came on the scene. Layering photographic transparencies became her passion.
I'm interested in the relationship between photography and paint within the context of interior spaces, ambivalent maternal relationships and personal history.
‘Garden under Full-Moon’ is an on-going floor installation, consisting of inter-changing pieces that may exist independently, within small groups, or as a larger collective whole.
I am interested in psychological processes and the relationship between trauma and creativity. In the making of my work I encounter and encapsulate conflicting worlds, transitory and transitional states, merger and the overlap of experience out of which creativity is born.
My work is about lost objects and the finding process. The emotional reaction to finding items is dependent on the criteria set when undertaking the project.
My artwork is very much process based. I have an instinctive interaction with my chosen materials and from these I make sculptural pieces and drawings.
Pip is a Nottingham based artist who has a studio in central Nottingham she is mostly preoccupied with large scale paintings on paper in both oils and acrylics.
My work is usually figurative, whether it is exploring the poignancy of single male figures, or revealing the multi-layered ambiguity of masculine groups.
Rather than creating an image of something we see, out outer experience, I have been exploring the way our inner selves respond to the world around us.
My work is embedded in an investigation of light and movement including light forms such as LED, halogen, fluorescent, iridescent , daylight, sunlight and chemiluminescent light.
1000 silicone jelly shoe forms are placed to form a large floor sculpture to dominate the visual field with a bright slightly undulating circular mass of colour.
