John Holden
The making of drawings, painted images, is an inherent aspect of my experience of living and has been since childhood; not to make visual images of some sort would be an act of denial of an essential need.
Read moreThe making of drawings, painted images, is an inherent aspect of my experience of living and has been since childhood; not to make visual images of some sort would be an act of denial of an essential need.
Read moreAs an artist, my main concern is challenging people to see the possibilities in beauty through pre-used building materials where others see functionality.
Read moreThe landscape contains many hidden ‘secrets’ ; ancient field systems identified through aerial photography, droves and tracks reinforced through thousands of years of constant use, or the more transient ‘memories’ of successive lines of a ploughed field.
Read moreGillian Ingham was educated at Ravensbourne College of Art (BA) and Chelsea School of Art (MA). She was elected to the London Group in 1981 and is currently Vice President. From 1990-2012 she was Head of Art at Kensington and Chelsea College.
Read more“Making makes, say, boxes and the boxes may be good to look at, but making always matters: so, if anything is to be made to last, it might as well be the making as the box”*
Read moreAs a Fine Art Photographer my work often relates to personal conflicts and human frailties.
Read moreI have tried to undermine the authority of the gestural mark.
Read moreLightness fragility and ephemerality are recurring themes in my practice.
Read moreI am an audiovisual artist and composer. My mainly abstract works are meditative environments as explorational spaces of aesthetic concepts. They examine microtonality, timbre, texture, colour and the self-similarity of image and sound, as well as the indeterminacy of change.
Read moreFor me, painting must operate independently of fashion if it is to make a meaningful statement.
Read moreMy art practice is a form of socially engaged portraiture and involves filming people in their place of work.
Read moreHannah Luxton makes paintings inspired by the natural sublime and the late 18th Century Romantic notion that a divine order resides within raw nature.
Read moreMy work concerns the corporeal and all the contrasting and conflicting aspects inherent; how bodies are sensual, beautiful, ugly, damaged, idealised, sexual, abject, gendered, delicate.
Read moreIn 1991 at the Triangle International Artists Workshop in New York State I had the opportunity to use Interference Colour, this was when, this new artists medium was not available in the UK.
Read moreOver the years I have developed a focus on the material evidence of the interaction between city dwellers and their built environment.
Read moreWith a background of unknown forces and the mysterious chaos of the universe, the world in which we exist has rules imposed to define our society. We ourselves then impose our own boundaries, rules, moralities, guidelines by which we live: to make us safe.
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