artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Lucie Winterson	Lucie Winterson:Thinking Nature “But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself” William Blake Western culture has divided and opposed culture and nature, most often to the destruction and detriment of nature but also with the result of alienating human culture from a creative contact with natural reality. There are, however, ways in which culture does and can find its way back to nature and it is argued that poetry is a place where culture and nature can meet. If for poetry you also read painting, then the work of Lucie Winterson is situated here.
	Lucinda Holmes	Using everyday materials I explore their physical properties and use them through arrangement and placement to suggest a miniature world. The world is produced in response to its site and context. The miniature world is then explored by a fictional character ‘Agent A’, who documents through photography, writing and drawing the world as he discovers it. The created worlds are uninhabited, but traces of previous beings are present. To get to these alternate worlds Agent A travels to a continent that floats above the surface of the Earth in the stratosphere. This is inhabited with human like beings who also produce artwork in part response and misunderstanding of human Earth systems.
	Lucinda Oestreicher	In Oestreicher’s paintings buildings, barns, sheds, houses and shelters are transformed into signs of human experiences specifically in relation to these architectural structures. Painted and constructed in both 2D and 3D with child-like wit, they are seductive signs inviting the viewer to speculate hidden stories and histories within these habitats. She lives and works in London and studied at Slade and Central School of Art. In 2003 she won the Studio Residency at Florence Trust Studios, London. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2005 30 X 30, Vertigo, London. 2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 2002 ARTfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London.
	Lucy Annat	She lives and works in Hartington, UK and studied at Staffordshire University. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 6th British Miniature International Print, Grace fields Art Centre, Dumfries; Nottingham Castle Open Exhibtion; Shrewsbury Whittingdon-Riddel Open. 2003, 2004, 2005 Derbys Open, Buxton Museum. Her works are in the collection of Keele University, UK.
	Luiza Machado
	Madeleine Hunter	Madeleine recently graduated from Leeds University following an Art foundation at Wimbledon School Of Art where she specialised in theatre design. At Leeds she read Theatre with English, and in her final year became interested in performance art. This was significant because it fused art and theatre together, her two major interests. Currently she is developing these ideas in the form of relief pictures on Perspex that involve using light and photography. Her work forms a cycle starting with collages from initial photographs and drawings, followed by semi 3-dimensional work with the use of light and photographs.
	Madeleine Strindberg	In her practice Strindberg gives form to visual anarchy, transforming found visual material into something more alive and challenging. Medical illustrations of the brain are transformed into large detailed paintings of menacing beauty. Newspaper images of war are subverted by transforming them into scenes from a comic-book misadventure inhabited by teddy-bear like soldiers in lurid neon glows. She lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. She was artist in residence at the National Gallery in 1988; won the Abbey Scholarship at the British School, Rome, 1996; won the Jerwood Prize for Painting, 1998; and participated in the Sharjah International Biennale 2003
	Mandy Hudson	The small oil paintings concentrate on diminutive scenarios, or details that go unnoticed. Education: Maidstone College of Art, Kent Institute of Art & Design, 1986–1989 . Selected exibitions include: 2008 Unnatural Histories, Nunnery Gallery, London 2007 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London 2006 Florfina, Seven Seven, London 2005 The Vernacular, Standpoint Gallery, London 2004 Ancoats Hospital Outpatients Hall, Nunnery Gallery, London 2003 The Agreement, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
	Marcelle Hanselaar	She is based in London and studied at Chelsea & Kensington College. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Intimate Conversations, Artonomy Fine art, Truro, Cornwall. 2005-7 Uncanny Tales, touring exhibition with Paula Rego. 2005: La Petite Mort, 2 portfolios of new etchings, East West Gallery, London. In 2006 she was Winner of Purchase Prize, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Print Collection. In 2003 was Winner of Presse Papier Award, Best Foreign Artist ‘Showcase’ East West Gallery, London.
	Marenka Gabeler	She lives and works in London, and studied at the Royal College of Art and Guildhall University, London. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Arcade Group Show, London; Zur Gluecklichen Borse, group show, Hamburg; Generation Degree Show, RCA. 2005: Les Shop a Let, Group Show, London; A Sharp intake of Breath, Contemporaryartwest, London. Her works are in the collection of Alison Jacques Gallery Collection and Royal College of Art.
	Maria Chevska	Maria Chevska explores and expands on the traditional boundaries of painting. Frequently, quotations drawn from the writings, for example, of Rosa Luxemburg or Franz Kafka, serve as the starting point for her three-dimensional installations, which combination elements of painting and sculpture. Maria Chevska is currently head of Painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. She lives in London.
	Marion Ancker	I love art, because I can choose pieces that help me learn about me. It’s a personal conversation and it’s not personal. There is a collective aspect to it. I prefer my work to have intimate interactions on a one-to-one level. I'm fascinated by the notion of collective memory and creating three dimensional spaces. I'm often creating staged, theatrical set ups that deliver a physical experience as well as a visual one.
	Marisol Malatesta	Born in Peru, Marisol Malatesta completed her fine art MA at Byam Shaw in 2003. She has exhibited in shows around the UK, including Did You Feed the Duck? at Former Nylon Gallery in 2003 and Tertulia at the University of the Arts Gallery in 2005, and in Peru (Spinning Stories Project at the Forum Gallery in Lima). Malatesta was recently selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize 2007, exhibiting in the Jerwood Space (London), The BayArt Gallery (Cardiff) and the Lowry (Manchester). She lives and works in London.
	Maslen & Mehra	Working in a remarkably diverse, experimental and imaginative graphic language, Maslen & Mehra engage in a powerful dialogue on the natural and human world in which we live. They have exhibited work extensively internationally and the first monograph dedicated to their collaborative practice was published in August 2008. Maslen & Mehra have exhibited widely internationally including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, South Korea, South Africa, Russia, UK, and the USA.
	Matthew Stradling	1987 - 89 The University of Reading Masters in Fine Art 1982 - 85 Saint Martins School of Art First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art ( Painting ) 1981- 82 Watford School of Art and Design Foundation Course in Art and Design Much of Matthew’s work celebrates the sensuality of the human form - figures often luxuriating, nude, against lush decorative backgounds or sometimes frozen, naked, into empty fields of muted colour.The textures of flesh are captured with the use of layers of delicate colour and the sensitive rendering of light. The paintings often seduce the viewer with a dream-like flow of imagery, a careful attention to detail and an intense use of colour.
	Mau Mau	The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British Empire administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.
	Maya Hewitt	ewitt uses symbolic narrative to explore the notion of reality and fiction. Her paintings are presented as environments of connecting plots or pieces within a larger narrative, transforming the gallery walls into an experience reminiscent of children’s pop-up books and adventure stories. In her works she particularly draws on references from the contemporary Japanese Kawaii culture. Hewitt lives and works in London and studied at the University of Brighton, Camberwell College of Art and Winchester School of Art. Selected exhibitions include: 2004: Scope, London; Soliloquy of Ours, R.K. Burt Gallery, London. 2003 On the Paper, Plus Gallery, Nagoya Japan.
	Mia Taylor	Lives and works in London. Awards: Grants/Awards Jerwood Contemporary Painters (2007) Artfest Residency Grant - Transylvania, Romania (2006) Education: 2005 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design 1996-99 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Nottingham Trent University
	Michael Bowdidge	Michael Bowdidge has been a practicing artist since 1989 and has worked in a variety of media, including collage, assemblage, installation and photography. His current sculptural practice makes use of found materials at a variety of scales ranging from small wall pieces to large-scale site-specific installations. All of these works share a simplicity of construction which aspires to an almost mathematical elegance, necessitating a high degree of formal rigour. There is also a fascination with the process of transformation, manifested here as a continuous testing of the representational limits of materials, in order to explore the tension between what they are and what they might become.
	Michael Roff	Drawing, Sculpture, Photography