artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Alex Dewert	MA FINE ART CENTRAL ST MARTINS Recent Exhibitions: Jan 2008, Oriel Mostyn ( See Website ,www.dewart.net, for Guardian Review),;On Your Wall Too, May 2008,Leeds Met Gallery; 'Your Scene',May 2008, Candid Arts, Islington. See website for previuos exhibition history Alex Dewart’s painting are based on landscape and could be said to explore the space between : representation and abstraction; digital and analogue ; the simulated and the real. They may be based on real places or be completely imaginary. It is an enquiry into the relationship between painting and the virtual imagery of the latest technology. I am interested in the idea of the ‘Contemporary Sublime’.
	Alex Hudson	News // Forthcoming:Les Choses Perdues - Group Exhibition with Bracha Ettinger, Joris Ghekiere, Geraldine Gliubislavich and Karin Hanssen. 15 January - 14 February 2010 Private View Thursday 14 January 18:30 - 21:00 www.alexhudson.co.uk
	Alexander Adams	1991-2 Wrexham Art College, Wales 1992-5 Goldsmiths College, London 2004 “The Proper Study of Mankind”, MoMAWales, Machynlleth, Wales. 2004 “Alexander Adams: Work on Paper” touring show, Rhyl Arts Centre Gallery, Rhyl, Wales; Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse, nr Halifax; School of Art Museum Art Gallery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales; Kings Lynn Arts Centre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Since 1994 he has exclusively worked in black and white. Speaking about the monochrome nature of his work, he said: "Working in black and white breaks the link with naturalism and allows the painter to operate without instinctively judging how 'real' an image is.
	Alexander Heaton	The paintings are nostalgic towards a lost age of youthful innocence and dreams. My work is like a zeitgeist of a close relative one never new or a lost love, perhaps this person was dead long before one was ever born. The work therefore holds a fondness to places that these past lives were lived out in, so close to ones self, yet so far away. They lament on a kind of love and longing to meet ones fore fathers and express a shared inherited passion towards alpine rock and pine trees.
	Alexandra Santos	Through my work I reflect upon dichotomies such as scientific knowledge versus intuitive insight, the notion of Nature as Other, alienation, the animal as symbol and metaphor, psychoanalysis in dreams and fairy tales. I use performance, photography and occasionally sculptures and small scale installations. I have also created a short film from one of my performances. My performances have become a form of spiritual quest to harmonize opposites, as part of my very own personal spiritual and psychological growth. Sometimes I feature in them other times I use friends or other artists, and the outcome of these performances are always photographed.
	Alice Peillon	At the centre of my work is a search for a balance between precision and randomness, and an attempt to find systems within the interaction of discordant pictorial elements. I often produce intensely worked surfaces that transform individual motifs into kaleidoscopic landscapes. In 2006 she had an MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
	Anka Dabrowska	Born in Warsaw, Poland she now lives and works in London.Her work is autobiographical. It concerns merging ideas of memory and imagination in relation to her upbringing in Poland. Domestic and urban landscape is a key focus of Anka's new work and has been a re-occurring theme within her practice.
	Anna Dickerson	I work with drawing on paper and painting on canvas to explore visual perception and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
	Anssi Sojakka	I am a highly proactive artist and curator with an experimental and inventive approach. I am always looking to advance and hone the skills I currently possess, with a strong desire to develop work which is captivating and has a long lasting impact on the viewer.I am interested in meaningless artefacts, objects that were once designed only for a specific purpose, but without the other related parts of the machine or device, are nothing but scrap.
	Baron Gilvan	Baron Gilvan is best known through his bawdy concert hall performances with Pinkle's Puppet Circus and the songwriting duo of Foster and Gilvan. His paintings have drawn from the characters around him that often inhabit a world of Victoriana, faded grandeur and an addiction to dimazapan.In 1991 he suffered a breakdown that lasted 18months and it was during this time at Barrow Gurney Psychiatri Hospital he was able to devote time to painting. Since then his paintings have helped to inform his often ludicrous and endearing stage personas. Some works represented are from a series entitled ' Gentlemen's Relish' which draws from classical portraiture that Baron Gilvan encountered in the Alsace.