artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Fiona MacDonald	Fiona MacDonald makes alternate realities, scenarios or details -paintings and sculptures that act together –which are constructed from various sculptural materials, found objects, living and natural organisms. Her work borrows from sci-fi, Romanticism and an overactive imagination as well as the ongoing experience and observation of nature. There is a constant exploratory roving between the act of making, dealing with the nature of the material, and the seductive gazing at or being in nature. She shows a way through the philosophical and aesthetic fracture between nature and our cognitive experience of it.
	Ford Crull	In Ford Crull’s paintings crosses, hearts, wings, and the human figure coupled with geometric shapes appear as a gathering of calligraphic mark making in rich, luminous colours maintaining at the same time a poetic, dreamlike and overtly cryptic expression. Bravura of graphic elements, colour and compressed energy, his works also take on a more contemplative spirit strongly evocative of Symbolist sensibility. He lives and works in Manhattan and studied at the University of Washington, Seattle. Selected exhibitions include: 2005 Howard Scott Gallery, New York. His work is held in collections of The National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Metropolitan Mueseum of Art, New York
	Foster	A Ticket Cylinder is being built inside The Bethnal Green Library untill 8th December 2007
	Fran Richardson	The work examines the subjective experience of the domestic interior exploring the dialogue between perception and mimesis. Emerging from the realm of the reverie the work captures an uncertain third place located between waking and dreaming where experience meets memory and the familiar slips disturbingly into the unfamiliar to induce a peculiar experience of strangeness.
	Francesca Simon	Francesca Simon works in Vauxhall and also in Glaisdale, North Yorkshire. Principally a painter, she also makes etchings. Time spent in the North York Moors is an important part of her practice. The grids formed by the drystone walls of the area are the starting point for the work she makes, which transforms elements characteristic of traditional landscape into a personal abstract language. She uses a restricted range of marks and a limited palette. Her intention is that each piece should be reduced and refined by an economy of expression.
	Freya Douglas-Morris	Working from documentation, photographs and drawings, as much as the memory of places traveled, from Scandinavia to The Baltic States and the forests of California, Douglas-Morris creates paintings of beautiful dreamlike idylls. Rather than relating to any specific place or destination, they are fleeting glimpses of landscapes that slip between the abstract and the representational; far removed from human presence. She lives and works in London and studied Fine Art at Brighton University. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Group Show, Start Gallery, Brighton. 2005: Picture This, The Bargehouse, London. 2005: Chase, RCA, London.
	Gabriel Tejada	Gabriel lives and works in London. He studied an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, 2004-2006,a Post Graduate diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, 2001-2002.Exhibitions Unnatural Histories, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust 2008, Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007, Jerwood exhibition space, London 2007, University of the Arts Gallery, London, 2005; Canning House, London, 2002; Telefonica Exhibition Space, Lima, 1999.Awards Shortlisted, Fine Arts, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2006; First Prize, Painting, Painters and Stainers Award 2005-6, 2005; First Prize, Fine Arts - Young Artists, 1999
	Gail Burton	Gail Burton’s drawings and paintings, often produced with ephemeral materials (including Kleenex tissues, rizla papers and tin cans) respond to everyday cultural and personal stories and exhortations. Fragments of news stories, government health warnings, extracts of diaries, and recurring words (like bits of songs that got stuck in your head) co-exist and repeat. Rather than fade into the distance of historical detritus, these fragmentary moments are extricated and commemorated in works that often deploy text, a single word, a portrait, or endlessly repeated dots. She is part of the collaborative live art project walkwalkwalk, and a founder member of WAN, the Walking Artist’s Network.
	Gavin Maughfling	SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Tooks Chambers, London 2005 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Sublime State' 2003 University Of Hertfordshire 2002 Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp 2002 Holland Art Fair, Den Haag. Galerie Van Der Planken 1999 Windsor Art Centre, Windsor 1998 Institute of Physics, London 1997 Orfeo Gallery, Luxembourg 1994 Philip Graham Gallery, London 1994 Pump House Gallery, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Wintry' 2007 CAP Projects, London, 'Close at Hand' 2006 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Talkshow' 2005 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Real Strange' 2002 Elzenveld Foundation, Antwerp 2002 Prenelle Gallery, London
	Gayle Chong Kwan	She lives and works in London and studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2006/7: Exhibition / Residency, Platform for Art, London Underground, UK; Solo Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, UK; Solo Exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK; Adonia, The Mothership Collective, South London Gallery, London. 2004/5 Commission, Autograph ABP, London. In 2005 she won the Arts Council England Individual Artist’s Award. Unidee Residency, Fondazione Pistoletto, Cittadellarte, Italy; Cockaigne, Solo Exhibition, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Commission, Autograph ABP, London, UK; Paradise Pending, Residency, Bolwick Arts, Bolwick Estate, Norfolk,
	Gemma Coyle	The structure of my work is based mostly from industry and architecture, however, the meaning comes from issues surrounding us: social, religious, political and environmental. My work has often been compared to that of Heath Robinson as it has an element of the mad inventor's quality to it. I feel that juxtaposing a natural or recognisable element within the mechanics, gives the piece life; a connection for the viewer to hold on to.Gemma Coyle is based in Edinburgh, Scotland
	Germaine Hampton
	Gerry Smith	The paintings of Gerry Smith take their form by imposing a rigorous simplification onto "found" images. The subjects, cities, squares, soldiers or text, have to compete with the optical effects of being translated into a few colours. The choices of "where" and "how" to simplify allow for an unpredictable outcome. These paintings look to the computer screen with envy. Priority is always given to the "hum" of the surface, with each colour clinging to its part of the picture and not allowed to wander (...) (C) Michele Minne He studied at Central School of Art. Selected exibitions: 1998 Clink Wharf Gallery, London 1999 The Glass Border, Danielle Arnaud, Londo; Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
	Gillian Cutbill	My recent works deal with the use of transparent and reflective surfaces in the contemporary environment. Reflected images appear out of context and are frequently superimposed on one another. In transit, reflections are glimpsed at speed, suggesting the voyeurism of film. Frames distance the viewer from the subject and the grid emphasises the flatness of the picture plane. The erasure of a painted or printed illusion is used as a metaphor for the power of accident and chaos, echoed by the deterioration of the surfaces. Gill Cutbill studied at Bristol and London Universities and Wimbledon and City & Guilds Art Schools. She worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institute of Contempo
	Glauce Cerveira	Cerveira’s luminous intensely patterned paintings reflect the powerful impact of fashion in contemporary society. By exalting clothing to the authority of icon, her visually arresting works bring the spectator face-to-face with mythical consumer counterparts to religious icons. Cerveira lives and works in London and studied at Central Saint Martins, London and Chelsea School of Art. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: V22:ON, V22 Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition; Outdoors, Danielle Arnaud, London; 2005 And it all went Brazilian, Design Shop, Edinburg Festival Fringe. She was shortlisted for the 2006 Celeste Art Prize.
	Grant Foster	The characters bear witness to the humanity in extreme situations, while the painting indicates inhuman and barbaric practices, like butchery and torture. Characters have included soldiers and martyrs, types that are typically male, where the displacement and corruption of power occurs. They are fetishes of the grotesque that mark their territory by pissing on themselves and everyone around them.
	Greg Rook	Contemporary figurative painters, like many others, find themselves in the congested territory of searching for a distinct subject matter that has the breadth and malleability on which to build a personalised mark making language. For Greg Rook, this quest has brought him to the rich imagery of the American frontier and Wild West. (...) J. Brooks Education: 2000-2002 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London 1997-2000 BA Fine Art (painting), Chelsea School of Art & Design 1991-1994 BA & MA Philosophy, Politics & Economics, University College, Oxford Solo Exhibitions: 2007 We live like this Lounge Gallery, London 2005 Myth II Gallery Min Min, Tokyo
	Gunther Herbst	He lives and works in London and studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. Selected exhibitions include: 2006John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 2004 Lushy Art & Projects. 1992 Linda Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. In 2002 he won the Observer New British Artists Award; and was the recipient of IGI Life Vita Art Now Award, Johannesburg South Africa, in 1993. His works are in the collections of Cambridge University and Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, amongst others.
	Guocheng Chen	My paintings are inspired by nature surroundings, such as trees, water, sky, clouds, reflections on water and so on, I working with personal expression and direct observation, reflecting the vision, using colours, textures, symbols, feelings, memory, dreams, fantasy and imagination, abstraction and realism tend to represent the ideal nature scenes,accordingly explore the relationship between the “inside” world of my mind and the “outside” world of natural environment, and also wakening people re-examine the relationship between themselves and nature around us.
	Guy Batey	Photographs of things that aren’t there: human presence and absence; disappearance and imminence; empty, ambiguous, and transitional space; silence, the uncanny and the unheimlich.