Artist search

My paintings are based on landscapes and the impact of light and colour on what we see. In my work I use the familiar motifs landscape painting and recognisable settings in which to explore the language of painting. I work from memory - exaggerating and romanticising, as with memories, the moment into a dreamlike and filmic reinterpretation of...
read more

New Artist's Statement will be added shortly.
read more

Andrew Bracey, Louise Bristow, Joannna Chapman, Jo Coupe, Steve Dutton and Steve Swindells, Tim Machin, Manuel Saiz, Simon Woolham, Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi.   Tim Machin 'On the Beach', 2002 Pencil crayon on newspaper   the artist...
read more

Matt Gee's work involves covering, melting, placing, arranging, of spaces and objects as some of the processes involved in the fabrication of my work.There is a concern with the authenticity of materiality, the source of materials, jostling with the modern materialistic demands of human sensory decadent desire, a society that expects, an...
read more

I am inspired by the painterly process and its relation to abstraction, and feel passionate about engaging with the subject of borders, edges and peripheries.  I have always been drawn to places which could be described as borderlands, geographically and psychologically but also which have been rendered throughout history by painters and...
read more

A major concern within my practice is the maintaining of a dual narrative. As a visual practitioner, it remains that the audience find my work visually accessible in addition to conceptually stimulating. Whilst developing a series of work, often the personal journey of investigation through a process becomes an integral part of the work itself...
read more

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 'the...
read more

I have been exploring the materials of the body in relation to landscape; the focus of my recent work lays in constructing images of the different internal components of the body such as blood, organs and hair and translating them into what we see outside of ourselves in the environment. Places that I refer to in the paintings relate to areas...
read more

I am a practising artist, living and working in Hackney, London. I trained at Central Saint Martins School of Art and later graduated from the Royal Academy Schools. My experiences are gathered from living in Spain, France and Italy.As an abstract painter, the concept behind my work portrays strong autobiographical elements that reflect and link...
read more

David Sherry: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Jennifer Melville, Lead Curator at Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, discusses her selection.In his art David Sherry takes a wry look at the absurdities of modern day life. When I...
read more

A derelict hospital, oil depots, nuclear power stations, the abominable snowman; collectively these semi-surreal settings and cartoon-like motifs appear as mysterious manifestations, phenomena both real and imagined. Combining influences from abstract expressionism, British landscape painting, Japanese woodcuts, and graphic street art, Ashcroft...
read more

Liz West makes intensely coloured installation, video, collage, and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In the work objects are densely arranged and enclosed within constructed spaces, such as cupboards and shelves or in containers such as shopping trolleys and cabinets to form compacted colour masses or...
read more

For many years I have been interested in exploring the sensitivity of the human body to place and environment. Until 2011 this was expressed largely through figurative work in both painting and collage that examined the relationship between space and identity. More recently however my work has moved away from the overtly figurative toward a...
read more

My practice is based on an inquisitive approach to materials. I conduct creative experiments working with 2D and 3D materials including various household objects along with cardboard, string and tissue to produce unpredictable artworks where the aim is to explore the range of ways that they can be used. Recently I have been working with...
read more

  Olivia PlenderThe Masterpiece - Part One, Strange Adventures, 2003 Julie Brixey-Williams, Lilah Fowler, Maria Kontis, Kate Davis, Sue Williams, Olivia PlenderCurated by Anna LovattProvisional, quotidian, humble and unassuming, the practice of drawing was often overlooked by critics and curators during the modernist period. But...
read more

Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
read more

Spencer is interested in how our world is represented to us through simulated images in the media and how these in turn form our comprehension of the world around us, basing his pieces on images from the media and internet. His works are cynical of utopian notions surrounding our relationship with the natural world, effectively combining medium,...
read more

In recent years, Madeleine Burt's work has explored themes related to separation and loss, and to preservation. In her latest series of work, she continues to comment on these areas by looking at examples of traditional lace production, the industry that Nottingham was founded on, and at moth specimens, an insect associated with the destruction of...
read more

I am curious about the dialogue between activity and the built environment and how each shapes the other. I draw on my own personal encounters with architectural mechanisms that enable and prohibit activity (such as steps, ramps, barriers, and reservations). I am fascinated by the way in which we continuously modify our surroundings and the...
read more

My practice encompasses a number of different styles of drawing and painting and a variety of creative strategies. I use these to explore aspects of our physical and emotional relationship with nature: our existence as biological organisms, our aesthetic response to the natural world through contemporary forms of romantic vision, and the anxieties...
read more

Concepts I am a painter/assembler/mixed media artist. I produce abstract,tactile images influenced by my environment and memories. I am interested in the forms and textures of the natural and urban landscape. Imagination,invention and experimentation with materials enable me to explore the unexpected.  Career path MA, Fine...
read more

Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
read more

The practice of giving present value to past objects is the main focus of my current research. Through a selective accumulation of material I study the cultural and social ramifications of using a nostalgic method of production. Primarily using the bizarre and kitsch aesthetic of dated decorative objects, I intend to amplify the relational...
read more

I work mainly in digital video, installation and sometimes film. My current practice focuses on a re-imagining of archaeological, historical and mythological scenarios that resonate with aspects of our contemporary situation. In recent projects, the work requires active engagement from the viewer in establishing connections between different...
read more

Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
read more

1152x900 0 0 0 1152x900 0 0 0 I create single and multi panel architectural structures for public and private spaces, exploring the themes of energy and interaction.  Typically artworks aim to capture the rich character of an individual or environment within a dynamic...
read more

My work is primarily concerned with process – building translucent glazes of paint until an illusion of light and depth are achieved. The process involves the application of multiple (up to 40 or more) thin glazes of acrylic paint and gloss medium. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process...
read more

Like many people, I have been influenced and inspired by fairy tales, cartoons, films and children’s books; especially the Alice in Wonderland stories. With cautionary messages and wonderful worlds in which to escape, little Alice, the Mad Hatter and The Queen of Hearts have always created an endless fascination and curiosity of wonder for...
read more

Since 1995 I have been making series of mobile objects move by air movement. In these objects the real actors are light and air movement. I often feel I am only a viewer because the effects are unexpected and surprising. Contact with these objects resembles the observation of nature, and/or meditation, which was my source of inspiration. I give my...
read more

The objects I am designing and making look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Their features can trigger an association, a memory; of something you have used or seen before. My reference points are usually photographs – taken of things I see on the street - litter, recycling, abandoned furniture; or items in buildings...
read more

My work has developed through combining photography and documentation with live art, creating participatory live performances, interventions and talks. I have produced projects in collaboration with other people and artists, in Going Nowhere and VAKAV, and as a solo artist with audience participation being an important part of my practice. Adam...
read more

There are moments before sleep, in dreams or reverie in which images pass through the mind. Then again, sometimes at dusk, voices will carry from a landscape of half seen trees and figures, in a merging of what is physical with the ephemeral and marginal. This is the territory of Viv Allen's work. Through her camera obscuras, none of which use...
read more