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Carline’s work is a fusion of the myriad of experiences we absorb in a single day and a lifetime. Photography, drawings from life, watercolour, oil, mixed media and montage are all important components in Carline’s practice. The essence of her ideas are formed by sifting through and layering photographs and drawings, which in turn lead to her compositions. These drawings then take on new meanings and abstractions as she works to form the narrative work. She worked as a textile designer for 20 years before returning to her roots in Fine Art in 2005. Her designs have been sold throughout Europe, Japan and the USA including sales to Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, and Ralph Lauren. |
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My world as a mother of 4 can become very insular. In the muddle of our existence it would be all too easy not to look out into the world. Yet underpinning this existence are the changing rhythms and patterns of nature. Impossible to ignore, isolate or remove.My work attempts to illustrate how these rhythms inform our day to day rituals.Using natural materials, fundamental processes are replicated. Piles of shirts, socks, sheets are reproduced in leaves and bark. As they dry out, the piles take on colours and forms of their own. The domestic interior reaches out to the natural world. Garments are made from wood, leaves or bark. |
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In her recent work Jane has been collaging digital images of the idealised miniature environment of a model village with images taken of the natural world. This subsequent confusion of scale and fragmentation of imagery has lead to many questions concerning our perception of the world. For example what constitutes reality and what the imaginary, can it be fixed or is it a state of flux, what is utopian and what dystopian? Currently living and working in London Jane graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007 with a Terence Conran Foundation Award and the Tim Mara Prize and was a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize |
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Janet Brown’s work process is one of collecting images from books, magazines and photographs, which are then traced and rearranged on paper to create new fictional narratives. The ideas for the narratives are drawn from dreams, daydreams and stories in the media that report on the darker aspects of humanity: transgressions of war and violence, lovers’ desires and jealousies taken to extremes. Nature features heavily as decoration, but also to mirror the excesses, horror, and sometimes humour of human folly. |
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Merrell creates seductive dreamlike scenarios reminiscent of theatrical staging and fantastical still life compositions. In the past she used model trees, animals and buildings as visual references. Eventually, the restrictions imposed on by available props led her to create scenes based on beautiful postcards and tapestries and any other place where she could find fabulous, fairy-tale imagery. She lives and works in London and studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School. Selected exhibitions include: 2005 Brixton Open, Betty Morton Gallery; Sussex Open:Word-Fantasy Imagination Tale. 2004: The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London; Open Market, Shopfront Gallery, Brixton. |
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A marginal man is a man caught in the boundary; a person from another world, struggling to fit into the different way of life, a new cultural environment. A stranger in a strange world,, living in the margins, the outskirts of a society.I am a marginal man. Time, space, objects and subjects in-between, I exist in the margins of thoughts, habits, culture, lifestyle, words and speech. Bound by my old habits, incomprehensible things surround me. I am also keenly aware that I am incomprehensible to them.Solo Exhibition:2008 Margins (MIKI WICK Contemporary Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland),Margins (Stables Gallery, London, UK),2003 a bit of space (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul) |
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John Holland’s installations portray a kind of nature that’s at once intimate, romantic, and totally adulterated by man made tat. He uses a plethora of ordinary but out of context materials – sawn timber, plasticine, silicon rubber, gaffer tape, fibreglass, polystyrene, vaseline, house paint, fur, air freshener – making landscapes in which realistic birds and animals inhabit a space toxically laden with barely transformed matter. ‘I assert the primacy of material specificity as a tool against the bad generalities of ideologies, strategies, metaphors and literary interpretations. The job is to avoid everything bar facts, sentiment, and the hope of a little bit of sympathetic magic.’
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He lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art, and University College Falmouth. Selected exhibitions include: 2005: BOOM, One Small Step, London; Pattern, Blyth Gallery, London. 2004: Finding the cheese pot, Hockney Gallery, London; Interim 2004, Royal College of Art, London; Mythopias, Chambers Gallery, London. 2002 Fresh Air, Old Truman Brewery, London. 2001 Local, Falmouth Art Centre, Falmouth. 1999 Selected Works, Hotbath Gallery, Bath. |
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Born Connecticut, USA. Currently lives and works in East London. Studied at University College Falmouth and Parsons School of Design, New York. She has exhibited her work extensively. Her work is included in several notable collections, including Deutsche Bank. Received Arts Council England awards in 2007 and 2005. |
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The source of inspiration for my work is essentially the search for perfect state in which love without the limitation of sex, reveals a state of grace. This search includes a wide range of aspects, including mysterious things, freedom, nature, desire for another world and these are related to fantasy and feminism. This is largely because of my childhood. There are flowers, water and mirrors in my painting. Flowers which are reflected in a mirror and water represent a dream world where I can fly freely. I want to be as a bird and fly to another world where I can dream a lofty love. Mirrors are the mirror stage (self-discovery in unconscious) in Lacan’s theory and water means freedom. |
