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Caroline Streck

My work explores the interaction between representational and abstract painting. Formally speaking, I use forms and shapes found in the everyday living environment and exploit the alienation effect that these forms have during the painting process. Painting allows for questions pertaining to illusion, isolation and imitation to be asked. What do we know about a […]

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Sonia Wynn

Sonia Wynn

I seek to explore concepts of the abstract maternal and the continued lack of feminine definition of female experiences, through the medium of paint. Nightmarish and uncomfortable, the visual landscape within my painting is the resting place of sororal characters born from imagery found in photographs from my own childhood, old Hollywood glamour film stills, […]

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Ellen McDonald

Ellen Macdonald

Untitled – 2014 Oil on Canvas My work focuses on the process of mediation that occurs in painting, in order to examine and expose the relationships between objects, actions and representations. I attempt to address the narrative potential that emerges from the compression of these relationships in individual paintings, and within particular groupings of the paintings. […]

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Sarah Simmonds

Sarah Simmonds

At the heart of my work is a desire to interpret and assemble, through investigation, tracks and traces of the everyday that I confront through my work in photography, sculpture and printmaking. Taking the object as a starting point, recent works have focused on simple categorization of form and shape, recurring patterns and surface materials, […]

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Kira Freije

Kira Freije

Visitor, 2015 Powdered-coated steel, cotton jersey, baby oil The figure is alluded to through austere sculptural frameworks. Pairing industrial processes with clothing and everyday objects, sculptures present relationships, sometimes unrequited and not necessarily romantic. Female sexuality is explored through the debris of human interactions and the sexual charge that laces our daily routines.

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Peter Fillingham

PETER FILLINGHAM b. Portsmouth 1964 Biography Peter Fillingham is a British sculptor and curator. He has been consistently exhibiting work in sculpture, photography and installation since 1989. He is also the former Head of Sculpture at Central St. Martins and the former Chair of Fine Arts at Parson’s Paris. He is a specialist in display, […]

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Camille Johnston

My practice constitutes a study of photography and film-making with particular concern for notions of the cinematic. Attempting to define cinema and to understand the role of the theatre in screening film are integral to my work with cinema as an artistic medium, as is a consideration of the multiple temporalities involved in the structure […]

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Tom Owen

Untitled 2013 Polyester resin, metal powder, fibre glass, MDF, plaster, 55 x 45cm Tom Owen’s new works are assemblages of materials and techniques. He works with plasterboard, found imagery, mechanical and digital print and paint. Although employing broad methods the works are not about the exuberance this might imply. Rather, they seem more about reluctance. […]

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