artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Mike Stoakes	My work is about language and image and ways in which a viewer might identify with an object.
	Mimei Thompson	Mimei Thompson graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005. Her work explores the unstoppable proliferations of natural systems through luminous paint and baroque excesses of brush-marks. Dialogues are set up between meticulous construction and chaos- between control and the point of tipping beyond control. Neon meets earth; colours flip from naturalistic to the artificial, tuned to the frequency of a hyper-world.
	Mindy Lee	Mindy Lee uses a repeated expulsion of paint,fusing layers together into a monstrous hybrid. These forms lure the viewer in through delicate detail.As the surface is infected, disgust and seduction are intertwined through a revelling in squeamishness. Lee lives and works in London. MA Royal College of Art 2002-4. Selected exhibitions:2007 ‘Gyre and Gimble’ Blyth Gallery, London. 2006/7 ‘Salon Connexions’ Contemporary Art Projects, London.
	Nerys Mathias	Nerys Mathias' practice concentrates upon the troublesome aspects of love: desire and absence.Using photography as a tool to gather evidence the work manifests itself as square images.The draws upon a large scope of literary influence: Roland Barthes "A Lovers Discourse", the love poetry of Jacques Prévert, the plays of Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce's "Dubliners". These writers are concerned with revealing moments, and by concentrating upon discreet moments it is hoped that a larger question is revealed. Solo shows:Hello, The Byre, Pembrokeshire, May 2001 War Paint, Luna International, Berlin, April 2001,Nerys' Gallery, boy, Tokyo, 2001-2002,Tube Project, Victoria Line, London Underground
	Nick Fox	He lives and works in London and studied at Royal Academy Schools, London and at 95 John Moores University, Liverpool. Selected exhibitions include: 2006-7 Salon Connexions, Contemporary Art Projects, London; This Longing, The Drawing Gallery, London; Nick Fox, New Work, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Hornsey; Unveiled, MOCA, London; Pulse Art Fair, New York. 2005: Ten, Seventeen Gallery, London; Los Angeles Art Fair, Western Project. 2004 The Armoury Show, New York Collections Jigsaw, AP Kearney, Museum of Contemporary Art, London
	Pei-Chun Liu	I am trying to explore the boundary between reality and fiction of what we believe and accept.The subject matter of my work usually involves figures and organic forms with regard to the properties of bodies. The biology of animals and plants has always been a reference in my work. The apparently imaginary creatures that I created attempt to address the possibility and potential in reality, which is integrated and inseparable from the imagination.The potential of undiscovered animals, plants, or even diseases and disorders has always been confirmed by the unpredictability of life.
	Phil Dobson	Central to Dobson’s practice is the German word “Verfremdung” implying an approach to representation which instead of being a response to the real visual world and its meaning, exists on its own terms. In his paintings, object impressions made on wet layers of acrylic paint are manipulated by subsequently applying several layers of thin paint, with an allusion to pixilation.. He lives and works in London and studied at Reading University. In 1997 he won the Logos Prize; in 2002, 2004 was shortlisted for John Moore’s; and, in 1998 for the Jerwood Painting Prize. Selected exhibitions include: 2004 Art Bond, London. 2003: Bettie Morton Gallery, London; Brixton Open, London.
	Rosalind Davis	Rosalind Davis is a mixed media painter creating complex and 3d dystopian landscapes, with a romantic and melancholy undercurrent. The medium Davis utilises, fusing painting with collage and embroidery, is complex, creating experimental expressions in painting. Her technique adds fragility and tenderness, emphasising the disconcerting juxtaposition between aesthetics and meaning. The effect she achieves is disconcertingly touching and powerful, creating landscapes that are a visual echo of human experience.
	Rose Gibbs	Inspired by artists like Frida Kahlo, Gibbs’s practice gains an autobiographical nature. Everyday objects are subverted to tell personal stories of the repetitive and mundane, yet poignant nature of everyday life and conventions. She is specifically interested in the cyclical nature of life- ‘life creating life to create life’ and the necessary condition of motherhood to keep the cycle active.. She lives and works in London and studied at Central St Martins. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Chicago Art Fair, Rosy Wilde gallery, London; People Like Us, Nomoregrey, London. Forthcoming exhibitions include How Women Are at Sartorial Contemporary Art, London in 2007.
	Sarah Sparkes	Sparkes wallpaper installations reference the history and popular culture of wall papers in England. The ‘pub wallpapers’ dedicated to a particular leitmotif- the artist’s drinking haunts in her home town of Reading, are a homage to the fabulously grotesque wallpapers that grace the walls of these establishments. The labour-intensive process of hand-painting each repeat motif, is both an obsessive and cathartic act, an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of memories that are held within each building. She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art & Design, Kingston University and Middlesex University.