Michael Phillipson
I take the challenge to the contemporary visual arts (and music…) to lie in the void where language staggers to a halt and disintegrates.
Read moreI take the challenge to the contemporary visual arts (and music…) to lie in the void where language staggers to a halt and disintegrates.
Read moreMy work is concerned primarily with the appearance of memories and the objects associated with them.
Read moreMy recent paintings use the city as a starting point to explore formal issues of geometry and colour and to express the excitement and dynamism of the city.
Read more‘Edge of Town 2’ is from an ongoing series of paintings that are concerned with urban landscape and notions of travel.
Read moreMaya Ramsay works with historically and politically important sites, employing a variety of processes to capture visual histories that would otherwise be lost or unseen.
Read moreMy work is concerned with creating spaces for people to inhabit, either actually or in the imagination.
Read moreI have always regarded drawing as my way of coming to grips with an idea on the assumption that if I can generate a satisfactory graphic solution, I shall have reached a more complete understanding of its subject.
Read moreHistorically there has always been conflict between belief and rational thought, focused on the classifications of religion and science.
Read more“It was an exhibition at the beginning of the Eighties that made her conspicuous. It was comic and disturbing; a frightening sequence of paintings of delinquent monkeys, horribly human in its implications.”
Read moreThere are several constants to Tommy Seaward’s process: his work is three-dimensional, always wall mounted and each piece is divided into three precisely spaced, vertically aligned segments.
Read moreIn everyday language, the weather, stars and planets appear in pictorially vivid idioms, often charged with fatalistic humour. This correlation between individual lives and natural forces is the focus of my constructions and drawings.
Read more“David Shutt is an artist of passionate integrity who revels in the beauty of appearances. He sees painting as a process of identification and revelation rather than dry classification; and as a way of apprehending the world.”
Read moreIn my practice I use the cognitive associations that occur in the materiality of photographic processes, moving image and installation to explore notions of memory, imagination, analysis, poetics, stillness and movement.
Read moreI work with visual motifs originally associated with Romanticism and Modernism which now appear in forms of commercial display, packaging and spatial design.
Read morePainting is the backbone of my work. I have made installations, used video, was part of a performance group for eight years and produce photo-media works, but these in a sense refer back to and coincide with what is going on in my painting.
Read moreI split my working time between steel and marble.
Read moreMy recent paintings refer to the experience of traveling through urban spaces, particularly subways, staircases & escalators & the way commuters movement & interaction is defined within them.
Read moreMuch of my practice is about perception and revealing what is usually hidden.
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