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I have been looking at works that have been suspended from the ceilings of their exhibition spaces as a kind of research for the new installation I will be creating for the Stairwell Gallery in Durham City later this month and I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered this installation by Swiss artists Gerda Steiner [...]
As a graduate of the MA Fine Art programme at Cardiff School of Art & Design I was very kindly invited to contribute to the ‘Emerging Artists’ exhibition at the Wales Millennium Centre which opens this month. The private view will take place on Wednesday 8 September 2010 from 6-8pm. The exhibition will continue until [...]
“A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast. One is always inclined to lay the blame on external circumstances, but nothing could explode in us if it had not been there.” – Carl Jung
Roxanne Jackson’s work is a result of an ongoing dialogue with the grotesque. She has interest in human psychology and her work engages some of our more primitive emotions. She makes use of materials for the symbolism that their qualities possess to draw our attention to the themes and concepts she is exploring. Solid, resilient [...]
Swedish artist Henrik Isaksson is both a sculptor and a photographer. He doesn’t simply take pictures of the world around us but instead creates his own world to photograph. The objects that he creates exude grotesque, and sometimes surreal, qualities as a result of his combining organic and man-made technical items. www.henrikisaksson.se
I do love these pieces by Gabriel Dubois. He is a Canadian painter who references some of he traditions of painting whilst taking on board influences from contemporary urban art. For the most part Dubois appears to work on a traditional two dimensional whether that’s on a mounted piece of board or a more interventional [...]
I’m absolutely elated that my recent proposal to install a new piece of work in the Stairwell Gallery at Emptyshops HQ in Durham was accepted. You can see a number of the images that I provided them with as a part of my proposal above. The work is still as yet untitled. I will be [...]
After my visit to Jodrell Bank (above) last month I’ve been thinking about re-engaging with the sciences for the first time in many years. I hadn’t visited the radio telescope for what is probably the best part of twenty years. It seems to have reignited that fascination with the stars, science and space, that I [...]
It seems taxidermy art is all the rage at the moment with artists like Angela Stringer, Cassandra Smith and Polly Morgan all making use of preserved animals within their work. I do like this work by Lisa Black though. She takes broken taxidermied animals and ‘fixes’ them with mechanical parts which have a Steampunk aesthetic. [...]
Following a call for artworks that I came across I was invited to exhibit my work as a part of a local exhibition a couple of weeks ago. I received an clearly written, and relatively articulate, email at 16:25 on a Sunday afternoon notifying me of my selection which stated that I needed to respond [...]
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