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Tristan Reid (b. 1978) is a figure and portrait painter working near Bath, in the south west of England. Since completing formal training in Cardiff in 2004 he has exhibited work in the UK, and accepted portrait commissions from various people and organisations, including international clients.
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I have an increasing fascination with the shapes, colours, patterns and structures in the natural world and a need to connect with it. Construction processes, modular forms and microcosms intrigue me. I have always developed my work in a modular way. I am curious to find out that by developing one small unit, which is then repeated and joined to...
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Miranda Whall's videos, photographs and drawings create unique contexts in which to represent specific relationships between herself, nature and the wider external environment. Self-portraits absorbed in the scatological necessities, autoerotic pleasures and the pragmatic monitoring of her fertile conditions are played out and coexist alongside...
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As a artist I'm interested in the monumentality of industrial plant rather than their function. Form is decided by function thus the function, although of no great interest to the artist, becomes significant in the final visual result. Contextually an example of this would be the photographic work of Bernd and Hilla Becher. My work...
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'Body is an experience of the Mind' has been my personal mantra for making art. My work has always been about material, how the body relates to it, and the context in which it is displayed. The work has never been narrative, always trying to conjure up personal experience and empathy through composition and texture. I believe in the intrinsic...
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My work concerns installations where paintings are thought as vectors of a process which combine time and space and where the question of the exhibition is contained within the paintings themselves and in the way they are created. Each painting is built on its relationship to the other paintings; that is to say that a painting ...
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Concepts My work, particularly in the last few years, has drawn inspiration from the landscape of Pembrokeshire and that of the North Yorkshire Coast. I use watercolour, oil pastel and pencil to produce semi-abstracted scenes, inspired by the qualities peculiar to the media themselves as well as the texture,...
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Elaine Tribley explores and utilises her immediate environments, producing work with suggestions of belonging and nostalgia, often with a sense of irony. She is interested in rural and urban landscapes, histories of place, artifice and the chance encounter. Her work spans photography, drawing, sculpture and installation drawing references ...
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Concepts My work is predominantly site specific and text based. Larger projects evolved from an interest in the history and future of a site, often through collaboration with local communities or poets and writers, and resulted in permanent pieces in the public realm. Recent public art works have combined the...
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Vass's work is bound up with the fusion of mark making and looking: they record the probing of the eye as it is translated into a materiality, an idea expressed eloquently by Roland Barthes: 'The line, however light, or uncertain it may be, always refers to a force, to a direction; it is an energon, a labour which reveals' which makes legible...
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My paintings and drawings affirm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically my own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance. While issues, thoughts and feelings, which often evoke memory, personal history, fears and...
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Gideon Pain is one of those painters' painters. That is to say, other artists who themselves are dedicated to a daily struggle with this near limitless medium, find him a source of inspiration. A combination of painterly dexterity and a willingness to explore the process of image making are what set him apart. Pain's paintings quiver...
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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 make artists books. I try not to have a particular style and a new piece of work tends to be in a new medium; a book, a painting, a film, a...
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Mayling To's work engages primarily with personal narratives within a manipulation of power structures, often where systems of representation and interaction are at play. Utilising sculpture, photography, installation, and video, To's practice explores notions of ambivalence and desire, and ideas of perception and illusion, often relating to...
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Concepts Watercolourist specialising in scenes of local interest. Cityscapes and people are my favourite subjects and I enjoy using pen and wash for maximum impact. My approach is quite detailed and graphic and I tend to favour strong architectural elements in my paintings using figures to give scale and...
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Concepts Contemporary wireworks in precious metals. Lisa is concerned with movement in her jewellery, making forged necklaces, long lavish earrings and rings with moveable sections all inspired by tropical fauna. I work primarily with wire, forging it or using jigs and mandrels to create repeating designs. Textures are an...
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I often regard my work as a hysterical combination of pop art, expressionism and abstraction. There are references to popular culture, and graphic design, combined with expressive mark making and sloppily applied paint. I use found imagery and automatic drawing to create an other-worldly place, which veers from hyperactive...
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Concepts Life, human experience, nature. The human condition in all its forms - playful, abysmal, harmonious, and in conflict. The dignity of the person who has nothing, the desperation of the lost, the passion of lovers. My personal observations and elogies to nature - cats fighting, a cormorant at rest. In a sense my work...
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I wander at the edges, a flaneuse, observing, seizing fragments by drawing swiftly or using a video camera, and I express my ideas in a personal way employing a diaristic confessional mode that communicates clearly to reach the power of universal meaning, and to engage a wide audience. Educated in the sixties; empowered by feminism and...
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My visual references correspond to the embodied relations of unity/ otherness languages, perceptual orders, systems of proportion, colours, rhythm, direction, extension, entities, repetition and difference, analytic dimensions, defined space, content, spiritual depths, materialisation of light, the visible and the invisible,...
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The spatial backdrops of these works offer an intriguing setting for the juxtaposition of a figuration of modernist buildings and painterly tree stumps. Seemingly floating at the centre point of the canvas, the sharp aesthetic of the clinical structures accents the coldness of a de-humanised modernist set. Paradoxically, they emerge both sanitised...
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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 assumption that the self is distinct from the other, to portray physical identity and psychological identity as unstable and permeable. I present the...
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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 visually and in written form is of central importance, as well as a way of working in an inter-disciplinary manner. I work with multimedia digital images as...
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In 2006 I completed a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art, studying at University of Wales College, Cardiff. Since then I have continued my practice, having both exhibitions and commissions while developing my work. The starting point for my work is through a constant gathering of found imagery from magazine cuttings, photos and and old...
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My love of excess, chaos, viscerality and involvement with the viewer leads me to create moments that are desirable and indescribable to be read on a gut instinct which just feels right and just is. I try to create moments that I describe as ‘candy everybody wants; from hand to mouth like a Chinese rock garden’ that contains its intellectualization...
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I am a UK based Canadian artist. I studied history and philosophy At the University of British Columbia and University of Toronto, before moving to Europe and training in Photography and Film/Video at the University of Westminster. A documentary film maker, I began to work with experimental film making and video and...
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Carla Wright’s drawings focus on the relationship between the physical structure of architecture and the sense of place within. Housing estates and tower blocks are stripped bare to an almost pre-constructional vision in an attempt to understand the architect’s hopes for their Utopian suburban communities. In recent works, churches and...
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My art is my way of communicating with people and the outside world. It is a true reflection of who I am. I do not categorise myself by any art movement; however I acknowledge and respect the influence many artforms have had on me in developing my work. The line of a child is my greatness influence. It is pure, it is honest, it is...
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Fascinated by the tenuous connection between past, present and future and the shadowy, illusive meaning of time, Annie Woodford makes work that is both haunting and enigmatic. The complex cultures of the world’s indigenous people, their rituals, belief systems and view of the cosmos, have been an important influence - amalgamating the...
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Sharon’s work draws on imagery from graphic art and popular culture: typefaces, adverts, posters, photography and films. Found images are starting points for pieces that explore trace and memory. Elements from different sources: fragments from a page in a magazine, a section of a photograph, visual gestures or motifs are selected and shifted...
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I am a Manchester born artist who graduated from Loughborough University in 2000 with a BA (Honours Degree) in Fine Art Painting. Since completing my degree I have continued to work, exhibiting throughout the North West and in September 2004 I returned to Loughborough University to study for an MA in Art and Design Studio Practice. A qualification...
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The idea of collecting whether on a domestic or public scale has led me to a fascination for objects and pattern as a means of cultural expression. Using the theme of pattern as a starting point, I often make works for specific locations and their histories, although the intuitive response to these sites is also an important part of my art...
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