In my practice, I explore my curiosity with ideas surrounding interchangeability and the translation of materials from one dimension to another. I am interested in re-imagined city environments but I also have a keen interest in the throw-away society in which we...
Abstraction is my primary visual language and the building blocks of my work. Line one of the seven elements of art and the central focus of my work coordinates together form, space, shape, and colour and material process. It encompass the essence of idea, thought and...
My work blends fragments of memory, humour, emotion and fiction into images that depict slightly distorted female figures caught in pensive moments, alluding to the idea that there is a witness present, and that their watching is somehow intrusive or forbidden. Yet...
My work has evolved through an investigation into contemporary societies and the concept that modern civilisations have transitioned from a 'solid’ to 'liquid’ modernity. This means that we no longer seek a well-ordered world of stable structures but desire a world in...
The costumes of Tibet are gorgeous and colorful, and the simplicity and kindness of Tibet girls are very attractive to me.
"My painting process begins with searching through photographs of the 1960s and 70s. My work is a 21st century post impressionism experience based on images from 20th century popular culture. I paint quickly in order to record my own fluid sense of nostalgia for that...
"My work explores the relationship between Nature, consciousness and spirituality. I use the Temple theme symbolically in much of my work. Here the prehistoric stone circle represent one of our earliest forms of organised worship. The stones symbolise our potential to...
"In Praise of Folly - a polyptic of 6 canvases accompanied by a bronze figure (reminiscent of a motif repeated in each canvas). The work is inspired by a seminal essay of the same title, first published in 1511 by Erasmus; in which personified Folly narrates, using...
"My art practice is exploring the expression of mental because for me the process of creating an art works is such as a journey for therapy myself also a process of gradual, to reveal my real self gradually during every stage of my painting progress. Each time when...
"I am a multi-disciplinary artist creating work exploring conflict, community, immigration and simulation through the skewed view of contemporary internet culture. My work can take the form of computer games, sound, video, paintings and digital objects. For this...
The installation shows the object from Nigel Ash's Excavation mounted for display to the general public. The extent of the object that can be seen projecting above the base measures 40 cm x 40 cm x 112 cm. The site of the original Excavation was behind CSAD opposite...
"My work originally started as a method to raise awareness about the challenges that people with autism face. The artwork was always representational and initially took the form of static creations, such as sculptures. This did not convey the full meaning of my work...
My photographic work is generated by the act of walking in the city, and the instinctive relationship I build with the landscape forms the basis of both the images I create and their style of presentation. My photographs typically seek to portray the mood and...
Inspired by the intense emotionality of the Romantic period, my artistic practice centres around dramatic human experiences such as love, adventure, grief, fear, and death. The creative process can be challenging and turbulent, as I try to balance social,...
Hold, Scratch, Slip, Spring Interested in the details seen on the human body, I have often documented forms and patterns that interest me. These either go unnoticed because they are overlooked, or they are purposefully hidden for being unnattractive. I have recreated...
Diagram vs Drawing Finding a sense of order in the public spaces and heading to make something creative of the experience, my work is a trip through the mind. Finding the senses and the functions of a changing cerebral centre, through which direct reality can be...
Channels Of Guidance The following is a documenting process as described by a man named Fletcher; detailing the esoteric knowledge and interconnectedness of being as put forth by super-intelligent life forms; The Gascsarr. They dwell in the minds of us all; quantum in...
Synthesis ˈsɪnθɪsɪs/ Noun - the combination of components or elements to form a connected whole. I am highly influenced by urban surroundings and backdrops with tattered billboards, posters, found mark-making while also showing a love for academia, pastoral and genre...
Colossus The final sculptural outcome for my masters, Colossus (2017) embodies what I would define as the qualities of the monumental body through facilitating its own particular spectacle. The bodies I present within my sculptural practice exists within a diverse...
Events I present transitional events, hybrids of physical and emotional experience concerned with states of crisis and transformation. There is a deep connection with the infinite and interconnected elements of natural and urban landscapes, in abstraction, they mutate...
Primarily a painter my work shows evidence of traditional figurative painting focusing on the genre of still life. This representational painting is juxtaposed with a more painterly approach leading to abstraction that explores the language of paint and colour. By...
Shifting Positions “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth”. - Rachel Carson (1907-1964), Marine Biologist As a sculptor, with a natural affinity for modelling and shaping resistant materials, I am...
My practise is predominantly concerned with examining the relationship we have with our physical self in a way that is not completely comfortable, but equally not destructive. As intellectual beings it is easy to lose touch with the physical experience of our body....
Garments for a party [to which she was not invited] My practice involves the making by-hand of garments that explore the interwoven nature of physical and psychological comfort and discomfort. I am interested in clothing as a means of silent communication;...
Temporary Decomposition (100 balloons) My current work is concerned with juxtaposition between industry (durable) and the domestic (organic), which addresses my interest in the abject body as a vessel. I explore the liminal spaces of the human experience, negotiating...
Like a Woman To live is to move; how we move embodies our past and creates our future. The consideration of these ideas, through the use of performance, photography, drawing and video-documentation, is a continuing strand in my practice. We have enormous capacity to...
My research over the last year has been about exploring through Social Art Practice and using creative play to investigate peoples’ relationship with the outside (real/physical) world and the inside (virtual/technological) world. I have been concerned about Western...
Proxemics: an invasion of personal space. "All these people-producers,coaxers,consumers-are engaged in assembling life story actions around lives,events and happenings-although they cannot grasp the actual life. At the centre of much of this action emerge the story...
Adapt Integral to the pursuit of understanding, human beings extend themselves - combining flesh with machine to excel beyond limitations, we progress, struggling to adapt to new parameters. This co-existence is not necessarily one of harmony; as tensions build we...
Paper Bag "It affected the whole of my life, I went right off the rails afterwards, I never went back to reading Jackie comics. All stopped. I just drowned in drink and drugs and being suicidal. I feel destroyed. I never told my mum and she's dead now, it's the one...
Duration 30 metres Lydia Spurrier-Dawes' recurrent interest in how we conduct social relationships and create interpersonal bonds is key to her work. In the Duration 30 Metres series of performances Spurrier-Dawes uses the presence of the empathetic artist as her...
Beginning of Existence I use the drawing process to aid the exploration and understanding of origins. My work seeks to use the notion of drawing as an experimental tool and giving it a value beyond merely the aesthetic. This series of work explores the space beyond...