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Miranda Whall

New artist to Axis 05 September 2008

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Jack Brown

New artist to Axis 05 September 2008

I am a multi-disciplinary artist. Over the last five years I have exhibited nationally and internationally. I work in sculpture, painting, installation, sound and occasionally... read more

Antony Crossfield

New artist to Axis 04 September 2008

Through my art I explore the relationship between the body and identity, while also raising questions regarding the status of photography in a digital age. I seek to question the basic... read more

Marina de Stacpoole

New artist to Axis 04 September 2008

Socio-political themes are intrinsic to all the projects I pursue. I am currently exploring globalisation and disconnectedness in a hyper-real world. Hybridity as a means to read texts both... read more

Miranda Blennerhassett

Selected for Open Frequency on 01 September 2008

Miranda Blennerhassett's ongoing series of installations and wall paintings engage with architecture's details, constructs and ideology. Earlier installations such as... read more

Miranda Blennerhassett

New artist to Axis 01 September 2008

Miranda Blennerhassett's work focuses on architecture and the perception of urban spaces. Through gaining an understanding of constructed space, and also of utopian attempts to create an idealised... read more

Jo McGonigal

Axis Artist of the Month September 2008

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Majed A

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

The underlying subject matter of my work is the human body in transitional states. I look at how socio-political and scientific factors affect the body and contribute towards changing it somehow,... read more

Jamie Williams

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

'His most recent body of work responds to, and interprets the classic poem 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. Rather than simply illustrating or producing a modern re-telling of the poem, Williams... read more

Eva Mileusnic

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

I am an emerging artist, having graduated from Bradford College in 2005 with A BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art degree, and subsequently completed an Art and Design PGCE in 2006. I am a fine artist... read more

Graham Phillips

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

Graham Phillips is a Cardiff based painter whose work resonates between existential and spiritual ideas. The two may appear as incompatible realms with the anxious often seaming overwhelming. His... read more

Sin Mui Chong-Martin

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

My association with plant culture holds a notion of ethnobotany, an inquiry into plant and human culture. I adopt an element of role play from an anthropological approach to that of botanical... read more

Irene Watson

New artist to Axis 28 August 2008

Irene Watson's work is imbued with meaning and has a powerful emotional presence. Her work is concerned with altered mental states; depression and abuse; a desire to escape the everyday and seek... read more

Laura Oldfield Ford

New artist to Axis 26 August 2008

Artist statement My walks around cities take the form of a psychogeographic investigation, a process of subjectively mapping the city in it's intensive state of... read more

Laura Oldfield Ford

Selected for Open Frequency on 26 August 2008

Savage Messiah DEMANDS THE ABOLITION OF ALL ZONES!! DESTROY CARTESIAN RHETORIC, SMASH THE VILLE RADIEUSE , starts the manifesto of Laura Oldfield Ford's unique... read more

Françoise Dupré

Featured in online journal 20 August 2008

Axis artist Françoise Dupré discusses her ongoing concerns about the nature of the creative process and the condition and location of art production within the context of her coll... more

Janire Najera

New artist to Axis 15 August 2008

Janire studied Journalism in Madrid and has just graduated on the Documentary Photography course at the University of Wales, Newport. Her work is engaged with the local community, and it is about... read more

Katherine Johnson

New artist to Axis 15 August 2008

The methods of creation I use are always simple, that I can do myself using basic tools such as glue, thread and scalpels, to create, or more often, create changes in objects. The... read more

Rosie Lesso

New artist to Axis 15 August 2008

I am interested in creating semi-representational drawings and paintings which suggest an event or happening is taking place. They are part of an evolving and layering process bringing together a... read more

Mark Houghton

New artist to Axis 15 August 2008

'The experience is not just in viewing, but also in remembering and relating the work to the multi-faceted experience of the everyday. After all, nothing can exist in isolation.' The... read more

James Lander

New artist to Axis 12 August 2008

In his work James Lander contests complacently held capitalist values such as private ownership. In a new series of works on paper, familiar sights are juxtaposed with sites of resistance; both are... read more

Josie Faure Walker

New artist to Axis 08 August 2008

Ham-fisted, Blue-Peter inspired small scale constructions contrast with heavily laboured, intricate drawings and sculptures and encourage questions of process and curatorial dialogue. I like to... read more

Claire Palastanga

New artist to Axis 08 August 2008

I am inspired by the horse chestnuts and conker forms found in the autumn. I have always been fascinated by the mass of vicious spikes that protrude from the outside combined with a rich, luscious,... read more

Mia Jafari

New artist to Axis 07 August 2008

Since graduating with an MA in Textiles (Distinction) from Goldsmiths College in 2007, my work has returned to my teenage creative yearnings - inspired by the pavement ridden utopia of my... read more

Yael Schmidt

New artist to Axis 07 August 2008

I am a London based artist working in photography, video installation and painting. I am interested in imagery that transcends an event to show a complexity of a condition or state of mind and in... read more


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