artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Alexandra Santos	In my work I try to deal with the concept of disruption between Culture and Nature and the notion of Nature as other. On one hand interested in the relations between the idea of idealisation of Nature and its disruption through scientific knowledge, on the other hand the interpretation of Nature through psychoanalytic symbols. I use the animal as metaphor, using the idea of reportage to suggest the casual capture of an image. Also inspired by Film Noir and the dark symbols of Fairy Tales, my recent work and images evoke a sense of Otherworldly mystery alluding to the obscure and symbolised aspect of dreams, or the interpretation of traditional fables and fairy tales.
	Anna Dickerson	I work with drawing on paper and painting on canvas to explore visual perception and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. I am currently working on a series of wolf paintings.Among my influences are the Impressionist paintings of Alfred Sisley; the Pointillist paintings of Georges Seurat and Abstract Expressionist ‘lasso’ paintings of Jackson Pollock.The luminosity and mystery imbued in my work references my experiences growing up in Rome, surrounded by a menagerie of animals and transient light. The intrinsic qualities of paint have always been a tactile delight.
	Caroline List	She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery, London; London Art Fair; Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery, London; Between Worlds, Sartorial Contemporary, London; Cosmetic Vistas (solo show), Mark Jason Fine Art, London. 2005: AAF Art Fair, New York. 2004: The Horizon of Expectation, Empire Gallery, London. In 1995 she was the Royal Over Seas League 1st Prize Winner in Painting.
	Celia Hempton	The paintings are initiated by visiting peripheral landscapes. Remote building sites, roadsides, disused canals - neither populated nor without human presence, they are lonely places. Drawings are made on site and brought into the studio, where in a more reflective environment I can become intuitively involved in making a painterly response to the psychological.
	Chris Gilvan-Cartwright	Gilvan-Cartwright’s work is dictated by a fascination for fantasy and “dreamworlds” as much as for the act of painting itself; to engage in “the imagination and the dynamic properties of a painted reality”. Reminiscent of Fragonard, the German Romantics and Victorian fairy paintings, his work is both rigorous and playful. He studied at Central St. Martins, Brighton University and Crakow in Poland. He won the ROSL Travel Bursary 1997. He has had four solo shows at the East West Gallery Notting Hill; was shortlisted for John Moores Art Prize twice; and exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004. The Times, Independent, Telegraph and BBC Radio 4 Itchy Feet, have featured his work.
	Chris Humphreys	He works on paper and on canvas. He expresses the fauna, in particular pigs and birds in different ways, sometimes as friends but sometimes as monsters. He is fascinated from the underneath world. 2004 Cable St Open Studio Show at Whitechapel Hospital Zoo Art Fair with Flaca Gallery 2005 Chambers Gallery two person show with Farah Syed Keith Talent Gallery Group Show Flaca Gallery two person show with Lucie Stahl 2006 Transition Gallery
	Covadonga Valdes	A search for escape characterizes Valdes’s detailed and luscious oil paintings. Whilst navigating the disquiet of London’s urban chaos, she makes sudden and surprising slippages into patches of solitude- lakes, ponds, and quiet tucked away living spaces; which she photographs and uses as source material. In her paintings, landscapes and interiors form a zone between concrete urban centers and vast expanses of rural quietness, and they range from being photo-realistic images to newsprint-collages. Mood and impressionistic brushwork evoke an emotional engagement with light and weather; and recall and emblazon the countryside.
	Cristina Marignoli	Cristina Marignoli’s work is constructed layer upon layer, as there are different levels of consciousness, and rests on a dynamic balance between the passage of time and a sense of immediacy and now-ness... the eternal present. The structures are spaces of the mind, labyrinths where a sense of anxiety prevents one from reaching the centre, where the body has become a stranger, they are also gates through which we can enter into parallel worlds which elude and yet define our conscious thoughts. A painting by its very nature is a physical object occupying a certain space but also it is a psychological and spiritual entity.
	DJ Roberts	Roberts seeks poetry and adventure in the most unassuming elements of daily life. In his paintings abandoned factories, dwellings, industrial units, deserted stadiums and parks shrouded in the ordinariness of the everyday, are rediscovered and transformed into enigmatic images. Memories of growing up at the RAF base and fascination with the wasteland glamour of film noir are major influences in his work. He is based in London and studied at Cambridge University and Central St Martins. In 2003 he was short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Selected Exhibitions include: 2005 Point Blank Lounge, London. 2004 Contemporary British Painting Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex.
	Emma Wieslander	Lives and works in London, UK Education:2007 Royal College of Art, London, MA Photography 2004 Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester, UK, Ba (Hons) Photography Group Exhibitions Circles and Loops, House Gallery, London, 2007 Prix Leica, Paris, 2006 Could be about Landscape, KunstKlub, Berlin, 2006 Interventions/Speculations, The Hockney Gallery, RCA, May 2006 Film 9, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2006