artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	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
	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. Already the winner of several major awards and prizes for his unique approach to the traditions of painting Georgeson has most recently been nominated for the 2008 Jerwood painting prize.
	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
	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.
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	Vibeke Luther	Vibeke Luther (Norway 1979) currently living in Oslo. Completed a Masters degree in Digital film from London Guildhall in 2006, and been a part of several shows in London and Oslo. Her work is based around an overload of source material as images taken from films and magazines to reuse them and to be put in a different context. She uses techniques from animation and film as tracing, editing and photography, to be able to reproduce imagery with multiple compositions, layers and loose reference points hinting towards motion and observation at the same time.
	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
	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.
	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.
	Yanna Kubic	Yanna Kubic is a European interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, interactive art, installations and virtual art. She began painting at the age of 14 and spent a short time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. However, influenced by the anarchic element in the work of Katarzyna Kozyra, Kubic decided to cut short her academic career and pursue independent study in Berlin. As an active member of kunsthaus Tacheles and influenced by the philosophy of Lyotard whom she met shortly before his death in Paris, Kubic's work began to explore the manner in which communities and individuals form independently credible narratives about their existence.