artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	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
	Michael Sheppard	Education: MA Photography - Royal College of Art 2002-2004. BA (hons) Fine Art - Byam Shaw School of Art 1995-1998. Selected Exhibitions: Field - Fosterart London 2005; Peripheral Visions - Cork Film Centre Ireland 2005; Portobello Film Festival, London 2004; Essen Photography Festival, Germany 2003; Contemplation Room, Overgaden Gallery, Denmark 2002.
	Michael Stubbs	He lives and works in London and studied at his MA at Goldsmiths College, University of London and his BA (Hons) Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: John Moores 24, Contemporary Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Ebb and Flow Part II, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA; Salon Connexions, Rivington Street Gallery, London; Michael Stubbs, Hollenbach Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany. 2005 Michael Stubbs, GlaxoSmithKline, Atrium Exhibition Space, London. 2002 Michael Stubbs, Marella Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy. 1998 Michael Stubbs, Entwistle Gallery, London. 1997 Michael Stubbs, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London. 1996 Michael Stubbs, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art, London. In 2006 he was the finalist in the Celeste Art Prize. Selected Collections British Council. Gibralter Bank. Groucho Club. BHP Oils
	Mighty Monkey	Mighty monkey is not a donkey. He’s a young business man who has started early and is going to be here for many years.
	Miho Sato	Miho Sato is something of a militant magpie for the information age. Borrowing at will from a variety of printed source matter, Sato liberates the images she chooses of the artificial facets that bind them to time, place and sentiment and gives them back to us devoid of detail. But there is a catch. In choosing to re-present familiar subjects, Sato forces us to confront just how complicit we are within the endless cycle of data reproduction. Rifling through other people's histories, she is free to shine a light under the murkier aspects of contemporary image making. Rebecca Geldard, London, December 2006
	Mike Bartlett	I make paintings that respond to the Art World as I see it , literally. I make paintings that involve my love of figurative narrative paintings using my interest as a subject which I hope develop subtexts about the very nature of my Art experience. The history and presentation of people watching and being watched develop from quickly captured images to form small observational paintings.
	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.
	Nadine Feinson	I work in a process of laying down paint and manipulating it, trying to find a point where the paint becomes pure image yet simultaneously folding back into matter. I am interested in this movement and how it leads not only to a deformation of the image but also of deformation of understanding. Potentially, opening up a space for a different understanding. Education:Mphil Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2007 - 2009 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London - 2004. B.A. (hons), Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton - 1999. Foundation in Art (part-time), Leeds College of Art & Design - 1993. Award:Grants/Awards Shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize 2006 Arts Council exhibition award,
	nathan eastwood	The work of Nathan Eastwood is based around temporarily-occupied, ordinary minimal spaces. Starting from observation of places, objects and materials, this artist captures scenes where people are waiting waiting for something to happen; between one place and another, an in-between state. These poetic paintings record somehow the emptiness of space, an emptiness that denotes the notions of minimalist aesthetic still in a social context.
	Neil Butler	Born in Ireland and currently living and working in London. Educated at Byam Shaw London and Crawford College of Art Cork. Upcoming Exhibitions: August 2008 Solo Show No.72 Gallery Kilkenny Ireland. Recent Exhibitions: 2007 Seven Painters , Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford. 2005 Tuesday , Kingsgate Gallery , West Hampstead. 2003 Art Trail, Various Venues, Cork City 2002 3Down 4Across , Bodega, Cork City
	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
	Nicky Hodge	Playing with notions of memory, loss and transience, Nicky Hodge creates paintings of half-remembered landscapes: people isolated on streets, objects remembered from childhood, parts of roof tops and planes fading into backgrounds seem like left over narratives or pieces of lived life passing ‘through’ them. Taking Polaroids in parks and flower beds she deliberately moves her camera to produce blurred images, which are then used as source material for her, idiosyncratic and poignant paintings. She studied at Central St Martin’s College of Art and lives and works in London. Selected exhibitions include: Sense and Nonsense, Danielle Arnaud, London; Picturesque, Tullie House.
	Nicola Wills	Nicola Wills is an abstract artist living and working in south east London. She trained at the University of Arts London (formerly the London Institute) and graduated from the London College of Printing & Distributive Trades (now London College of Communications) in 1999. She has been involved in several group and solo shows in and around London as well as participating in the Deptford X 2007 festival.
	Nigel Grimmer	Nigel Grimmer's practice explores the relationship between public and personal imagery and its influence on the production of identity. An archive of ephemera from popular culture - comic books, action figures, joke shop props, snapshots and film stills - is drawn through his personal narratives and then returned to the public realm. Rendered both strange and familiar, Grimmer presents an alternative to mainstream culture, an acknowledgement of his experience by the conveyance of a unique sensibility, a subculture formed by the selection and editing of this material. Nigel Grimmer was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He completed his Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 1998.
	Nina Gehl	Nina Gehl graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2005 after studying painting at Buffalo State College in New York. She has been part of numerous group shows both in the UK, as well as in the USA and Hungary, where she held a residency in 2001. She lives and works in London.
	Nina Mangalanayagam	She lives and works in London and studies Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. Nina Mangalanayagam is a photographer of Sri Lankan-Swedish parentage. She won the 2005 Jerwood Photography Award for her Snötäckt series. Images of her work also appeared in the December edition of Portfolio magazine. She currently lives in London.Selected exhibitions include:2006: Bac!, CCCB Barcelona; Re-considered, Contemporary Art Projects. In 2006 she was shortlisted for Decibel, Visual Arts Awards.
	Odette England	Odette England is motivated by photographically exploring the relationship between two prepositions - versus and re - as they relate to memory. Visibility vs. void, interruption vs. continuity, [re]counting, [re]construction. Memory and dreams have long fascinated England as both a source material and motif. She is particularly interested in their link to identity and geography, and the way in which all four of these facets can simultaneously reflect, misrepresent and complicate a situation.