artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Daisy Richardson	Daisy Richardson (b.1975) studied at The Glasgow School of Art (1993-97) and the Royal College of Art, London (2005-07). She was awarded a Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship (2001), a J.D. Ferusson Travel Award (2002) and The Anna Miller Trust Scholarship (2004). She was the joint-winner of the BP Portrait Travel Award (2002) and won The Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize (2007). Selected solo shows include: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (1999); Ashford Gallery, Dublin (2001); and Long and Ryle, London (2004).
	David Bate	David Bate studied Film and Photographic Arts and the Social History of Art. His visual works have been shown widely in contemporary galleries and his writings published in such journals as Afterimage, Creative Camera, Portfolio, Source and Third Text. His book on Photography and Surrealism is published by IB Tauris. He is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster.
	David Hancock	With an almost dispassionate sociological gaze, Hancock engages in the critical examination of contemporary subcultures, specifically Youth Culture and teenage rebellion. Influenced by gothic romanticism and pop culture he creates hyper-real paintings portraying his sitters’ personal spaces- at once a Bohemia and an everyday scene. He lives and works in Manchester and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 The Beautiful People, The Agency, London; I-Pod Killed the Video Star, Showroommama, Rotterdam. 2005 The Beautiful People, Leicester City Gallery.
	David Leapman	Leapman’s paintings are populated with architecture-like units constructed with discrete planes of brilliant unmodulated colours. Simultaneously organic and slick like computer-generated three-dimensional design, they embody a post-cubist language bordering on the non-verbal and non-narrative. Often there is an implied syntax in the repetition of forms and occasionally nameable objects like doors, wings, boxes and dwellings appear. Rather than being loaded symbols they are hyper-ambiguous combinations of forms, delineating self-contained idiosyncratic worlds. He lives and works in Riverside California and studied at St. Martins School of Art, and Goldsmiths College.
	Dominic Shepherd	Dominic Shepherd creates beautifully rendered romantic landscape paintings. His works are constructed from incredibly detailed interwoven symbolic motifs contained within complex compositional layers. They are illusive and deeply unique, presenting to us a fantastical world populated by animals, insects and imaginary solitary characters set against bridges, follies and distant horizon lines. The enduring feeling is of witnessing timelessness within a mysterious fragile peace and experiencing a consuming world of an alternative nature.
	Eleanor Moreton	There are a number of themes which run through Eleanor Moreton’s work. These themes reflect her interest in psychoanalysis and gender, in history and literature. What links them is a commitment to the imaginary, the fictional and a preoccupation with the way the images of the imagination become paintings. She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea College of Art and UCE Birmingham. Selected exhibitions include 2007 East International; Pranvere, National Gallery of Albania; Acid Drops & Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery, Fosterart, London; 5 Painters, John Hansard Gallery; Solo exhibitions: Bearspace, London; South Hill Park; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
	Emily Jo Sargent	In Sargent’s paintings, urban architecture, seaside resorts, and caravan parks are described in a reductive flattened aesthetic against cloudless blue skies. Psychological portraits, they are reminiscent of the intensely private, introspective, almost surreal world of Edward Hopper. She lives and works in London and studied at Goldsmiths College. Selected exhibitions include: 2005 Acid drops and Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery and Fosterart, London. 2004 Something is Already Happening, Rosy Wilde Gallery, London. 2003 Snow, Transition Gallery, London.
	Gordon Cheung	'Essentially my paintings reflect the techno sublime, where information overwhelms the individual, causing a flickering perception of realities.' (G. Cheung, 2004). He is interested in the notion of an artificial reality, in the way that the modern world of cyberspace and new technologies has increasingly demanded that we become hard wired, altering our conception of distance, time and space. Education: 1999-2001 Royal College of Art - MA Fine Art Painting Solo exibitions include: 2008 Death by a Thousand Cuts, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester 2007 God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome I; Laing Art Solo Award and Commission: Gordon Cheung - Paradise Lost, Laing Art Gallery, UK
	Grant Foster	The characters bear witness to the humanity in extreme situations, while the painting indicates inhuman and barbaric practices, like butchery and torture. Characters have included soldiers and martyrs, types that are typically male, where the displacement and corruption of power occurs. They are fetishes of the grotesque that mark their territory by pissing on themselves and everyone around them.
	Hannah Hewetson	2001-3 Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Concordia University, Montreal 1996-9 BA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, St. John’s College, Oxford 1995-6 Art Foundation Course, West Cheshire College, Chester SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2007 Group project, Tag, The Hague, Holland (forthcoming) 2006 Amongst gnarled roots, Glasgow Project Room, (solo show) How to do white, Tramway, Glasgow New arrivals, 10 Mercer St, London Group show, Fosterart, Rivington St, London 2005 SV05, Studio Voltaire, London 2004 Short Stories about Glamour, Hiscox Art Projects, London Inbox:Glasgow, NCA Mexico City, Mexico Weeds, Hiscox Art Projects, London 2003 Cittadelarte &, M HKA, Antwerp