Curated by Sarah Sparkes / Jane Millar
Rebekah Dean
‘Love Hurts’ is a diptych consisting of two deconstructed, empty boxes of tissues, which have been cut up and reconstructed using tailor’s pins; submerged in water, and covered in acrylic paint. This is a dangerous item and needs to be handled with the utmost care and attention!
Sandra Lane
Sandra Lane’s materials take the imprint of her fingers and moods, she works feelings of ambivalence, optimism and failure into multiple forms using plaster, ceramics, paper and steel. Her work explores memories, being female, and the absurd.
Alison Cooke
Alison Cooke creates projects and objects using clay unearthed from sites of historic and geological interest. Her work digs around the layers of history below a location, which relate to and impact our lives today.
Robert Rivers
Robert Rivers is an artist who utilises the materials of his surroundings to connect to a history of an ever changing local landscape. Stinging nettles, straw and hemp rope are intermingled with Day-Glo and Hi-Vis to map a shifting terrain.
Paul Cole
"Oh yes, I could get used to this” is one of a series of works made from failed paintings that have been scrunched into a ball and propped upright on legs shod in my old paint-splattered shoes.
Roland Hicks
Roland Hicks makes paradoxical objects, meticulously painted to look like minimal abstract assemblages - apparently hastily cobbled together from offcuts of various found materials. They are effectively trompe l’oeil still life paintings of fictional artworks.
Jane Millar
Jane’s wall-based ceramic sculpture explores a territory between ideas of what is natural and unnatural. Recent works deal with resemblances, repetitions, echoes and memory; between material culture, body, extra-terrestrial and earth.
Carrie Stanley
Carrie’s practise is one of transformation and rebirth. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she seeks to find connections between mortal and spiritual via reimagining personal narratives through an expanded nature.
Karen David
David communes with materials, fiction and a search for a ‘viable essence’ through liquid paint experiments, hand-held ceramics offerings and pop cultural references.
David's ceramics explore liquidity, restlessness and the artefact through unpredictable glazing techniques, and reimagined objects encountered on an American road trip. Fictions and autobiographies collide as the components are held together with jute rope referencing her grandfather's profession in a jute mill in Calcutta, India.
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Lucy Woollett AKA Lady Lucy
Lucy makes works and projects operating amongst the realms of expanded painting, portraiture, collage, drawing, photography, moving image and events. Her work is strongly informed by an interest in the social function and value of activities, as an artist and more specifically as a painter.
Helen Barff
Helen Barff is a London-based sculptor whose work is shaped by human histories and storytelling. Since graduating from Goldsmiths College 1999, she has created an eccentric menagerie of sculptures that take on a presence of animal, human, or something in-between.
Poppy Whatmore
By reconfiguring typical scenes from our domestic lives, Poppy Whatmore confronts the shadows of patriarchal and societal power that shroud the things we use. By placing day-to-day objects in new compositions the learnt myth and messaging society has assigned them is adjusted.
Vanya Balogh
Vanya’s work is an amalgamation of experiences and memories expressed through various media in order to find sense in nonsense. The idea being to transgress and evolve as often as possible in any direction available at any given moment.
Simon Leahy-Clark
Simon’s practice is an ever-fluctuating cycle of process, accident, residue and refinement, exploring both the abstract and the representational using the ephemera of everyday life. Painting and drawing are the root of his approach, from where he explores the boundaries and possibilities within these disciplines.
Sarah Sparkes
Sarah Sparkes' work engages with magical or mythical narratives, vernacular belief systems and the visualisation of anomalous phenomena. Her work is often research led and an exploration into the borderlands where science and magic intersect.
John Bunker
John Bunker’s multi-disciplinary practice plays with the history of abstraction and collage. Materially concentrated yet intricate and highly crafted, the work juxtaposes the pure aesthetics of abstract art with materials and objects from our everyday lives.
Belinda Worsley
Belinda is inspired by literature, nature and my wanderings. There are hints of mountains, plants, drapery, fragments of figures and a sense of something that has been and gone - perhaps souvenirs of a larger story.
Chris Marshall
Chris Marshall’s work is reactive and evolves from, and responds to, concerns and observations that he finds in our present day political and social environment. Materials and form are often chosen for their directness and sense of urgency.
Campbell McConnell
Campbell’s practice relies heavily on the figure, as a vessel for narrative based concepts, it encompasses this within installation, performance, moving image and sculpture.
Currently he is interested in historical memory, fictional reenactment, and the interplay between reality and imagination, specifically the role of the theatre actor.
Kate Squires
Kate Squires makes objects that communicate the idea of use and consumerism, from research into material approaches that draw on the changing processes of mass production and digital media via the often laborious, hand-made or DIY.
Kate Squires is an artist, curator and researcher based in London.
Helen Turner
Helen makes paintings, drawings and painted objects large and small in scale.
She experiments with ultra violet pigments and light, making her own paints as well as collaging fabrics and other materials together