artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Zoe Crosse	My work is primarily concerned with a quest to understand what it is to be human through the act of painting; my paintings are the cathartic product of my research into identity and often transpire through a process of studying philosophy, reflecting on life experiences and other tangents thrown up through attention to serendipity. I apply a mixture of traditional techniques , researching the methods of The Masters and experimenting with them in my own work. My painting, as in ‘the act of’, celebrates and explores the visceral qualities of paint and the technical possibilities of painting. The current toy paintings were the product of my research into childhood as a discourse.
	Zara Matthews	Zara Matthews’ paintings give the impression of mechanical reproductions rather than having been produced by hand. Continuing a lineage from Andy Warhol’s machine-like silk screens and Gerhard Richter’s photo-paintings, her paintings of serially repetitive portraits tend to destabilize sameness, producing instead what Foucault calls similitudes: a site not of identity maintenance, but of both likeness and difference. Born out of a curiosity with cloning and genomics, her work reflects on the effects of this biological revolution on human coexistence, individuality and people’s self-image. She lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art.
	Yuki Snow	Japanese artist Yuki Snow (Yuki means snow in Japanese) studied Fine Art Painting for 5 years in Japan before moving to England in 2001 where she studied at the University of Brighton; graduating in 2005. Her colourfully embroidered oil paintings reveal stories of a space of migration, fascnation with birds and her own experiences of coming from another country. Her textured creations combine knitting, sequins, buttons, embroidery, acrylic and oil painting as she believes that touch is important in her artworks; their 'relief-quality' almost as a form of Braille.
	YUCO	Born in Japan 1983. Chelsea college of Art and Design (BA) graduated 2007. Short listed Celeste Art Prize 2007. London based artist. Exhibitions:Apr 2008: `00 Nature exhibition at contemporary art projects. Jan 2008:It's not over yet at Et Cetera Gallery. Nov2007:title of space at Laviande Gallery. Jul-Sep 2007:Selected Exhibition at Salon gallery. Jun 2007:Degree show at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Apr 2006: Group Exhibition at Royal Marsden Hospital Mar 2006: Exhibition at St Georges Hospital Oct 2005: Putney Art Theatre Group Exhibition Nov 2004: Putney Art Theatre group Exhibition
	Wendy Anderson	Painting is essential to me, it is the way that I record and respond to what I have seen in the world. I have included in the slides not only paintings, such as 'Dark Summer', but also the three dimensional work 'Chair'. I am particularly interested in the way we look at a painting, that we return and re look. There are rhythms like a musical score where a theme is repeated, or inverted, with my painting it ends up as a kind of structure and pattern. She lives and works in London. Her solo exhibitions have been in association with the Eagle Gallery, the Adam Gallery and the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
	Vincent Hawkins	Vincent Hawkins was born in Hertfordshire in 1959. He studied at Maidstone College of Art 1984-87. His group shows include Recent Graduates Show (selected from art colleges in the south east) Angela Best Gallery Canterbury 1987, Old Subject New Object Bonington Gallery Nottingham 1990 and an exhibition at Clapham Art Gallery London 1997. He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006.
	Victoria Hall	Victoria Hall's work is a combination of an ethnographical and performative approach resulting in documented pieces using photographs and text. In the present series of humorous and sophisticated restaging of famous British and European paintings from the 16th through to the 20th century, careful attention is paid to lavish costumes and grand surroundings, in which Hall is always the leading lady. Education: 1994/5 Chelsea College of Art & Design, MA Fine Art: Combined Media Selected Exhibitions: 2005: Portrayal Solo Show, Lounge Gallery, London; 2004: Portrayal Solo Show, Saltburn Artists projects
	Vibeke Luther	A lot of my work explores various aspects around memory, memory gaps and present understanding of previous and past events. I am intrigued by memory, how certain episodes and events fade, how we relive moments and how we supress them. I work through a process of making a lot of drawings quickly as a starting point of my work. I cut the drawings up, recompose them, cut them up again and back together as a new picture. This method of editing and cropping allow the context to slip and gives new light to original index.
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	Tony Collinge	My work has always been abstract. I like the ambiguity of interpretation this allows, and the emphasis on structure. Collage suits me because it is the ultimate ‘finding’ process during which the most drastic and outrageous ideas can be courted, and I can give much more consideration to decisions without destroying what I already have. My process is not systematic, there is no formula. Though certain ingredients always need to be present it is impossible to define why I decide a work is completed. He studied at Liverpool College of Fine Art and UCL London.
	Tomas Hruza	Somewhere on the border between art and tourism, and between an inconspicuous event, its photographic representation and the eventual installation is where the field of interest of Tomas Hruza begins. Like other artists of the younger generation he is concerned with a re-reading of the influences underpinning conceptual and action art, and their usefulness in resuscitating the deflated credit of his principal medium – photography. He lives and works in Prague, London and Sumava Mountains. Solo exhibitions include: 2007 Tourists, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava, CZ; 2007 Behind the River There Is Argentina (with J. Freiberg), FABS Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2006 Nature Motifs, Skolska 28, Prague, CZ
	Tomas Georgeson	By using paint as a means with which to document performance and installation art Tomas Georgeson manipulates its traditions, exposes its weaknesses and is still able to make beautiful paintings. As memories of the live events fade their significance begins to change until all that is left is a painting, perfect in its antiquity, like the centuries of paintings before it.
	Tom Ranahan	For a number of years now, I have been exploring the notion of identity in an artistic, social, cultural and political context. Using myself, both as model and subject matter I am also combining the idea of self image and ego and its subsequent relationship between artist, environment, time and place.Tom lives and works in Birmingham. 2006: East International, Norwich; Bill Brandt in Bourneville, IPS Gallery, Birmingham; Re- Considered, Contemporary Art Projects, London. 2004 “Heritage Sites” - Window Space Project, Bham City Centre. 2004 “I am Tom Ranahan” Kidderminster Library Gallery
	Toaster	A toaster is a beautiful object!
	Tina Carr & Annemarie Schoene	We work collaboratively. The tenets of our work are coherence, intensity and personal accountability. For us photography is a juxtaposition between photographer and presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. We try to go beyond superficial photographic accuracy, surface naturalism to where the spirit of the picture becomes retrospective, contemplative, and not so much a document as a talisman or relic. Selected exhibitions: 2002 National Eisteddfod of Wales, St. David's Mostyn Open 12 Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno Art, Age & Gender. Foundation for Women's Art, Orleans House, London 2001 The John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery
	Tim Renshaw	My painting explores the relationship between the geometry of particular architectural spaces and the subjective experience of these structures. In particular I am interested in a form of perceptual reading and a kind of visual syntax through which to construct narratives of place. During a residency in Rome (2002) I undertook research into the buildings of the Modernist architect Mario Ridolfi which addressed certain paradoxes in his uses of rational form. Tim Renshaw studied Painting at Leeds Polytechnic (1983-1986) and MA Painting (1989-1990) and MA History and Theory of Modern Art (1993-1996) both at Chelsea College of Art & Design. He has exhibited in the UK, Europe and the USA.
	Tilman Roesch	Education: Freie Kunstschule, Stuttgart. Universidad de Barcelona, Fine Art. Selected exhibitions: 2006 Tuebingen, Paris. 2005 Aix-en-Provence (France), Tuebingen, Perugia (Italy). 2003/04 Tuebingen, Aix-en-Provence. 2003 Breitenholz, Ammerbuch. 2001 Tuebingen. 1998 Nuertingen. 1996 Wangen im Allgau. 1990 Barcelona.
	Theo Kaccoufa	In Kaccoufa’s work Genetic Manipulation, hubristic recklessness, and toys of the future are structured within a ‘post-utopian’ moment. The Cyber Flora sculptures comprising three-dimensional steel wire flowers resemble fantastical molecular models. The Bear sculptures with Griffith wings and octopus legs are genetically modified creatures of polyester resin and aluminum foil rather than cuddly teddies. Bringing together undifferentiated- technical practice, poetic intuition and the grotesque, his works critically engage with the speculative idealism of twentieth century utopianism. He lives and works in London and studied at the Royal Academy Schools, and Central St Martins.
	The Krah	Two Faced robots. Who are they? Should we fear them? Are they oppressors or liberators? We’ll find out in May.
	Terry Smith	Terry Smith chips away at the very essence of the most of basic materials, be they plaster walls, texts, brooms or film to uncover the unclear. In his own words he suggests that there is no inherent method, no rigorous mapping, but it is apparent that this seemingly ephemeral appropriation of materials is constantly playing counterpoint to a challenging intellectual curiosity.