artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Dave the Chimp	He's one of the most captivating graffiti artists in London.
	David Bate	David Bate studied Film and Photographic Arts and the Social History of Art. His visual works have been shown widely in contemporary galleries and his writings published in such journals as Afterimage, Creative Camera, Portfolio, Source and Third Text. His book on Photography and Surrealism is published by IB Tauris. He is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster.
	David Hancock	With an almost dispassionate sociological gaze, Hancock engages in the critical examination of contemporary subcultures, specifically Youth Culture and teenage rebellion. Influenced by gothic romanticism and pop culture he creates hyper-real paintings portraying his sitters’ personal spaces- at once a Bohemia and an everyday scene. He lives and works in Manchester and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 The Beautiful People, The Agency, London; I-Pod Killed the Video Star, Showroommama, Rotterdam. 2005 The Beautiful People, Leicester City Gallery.
	David Leapman	Leapman’s paintings are populated with architecture-like units constructed with discrete planes of brilliant unmodulated colours. Simultaneously organic and slick like computer-generated three-dimensional design, they embody a post-cubist language bordering on the non-verbal and non-narrative. Often there is an implied syntax in the repetition of forms and occasionally nameable objects like doors, wings, boxes and dwellings appear. Rather than being loaded symbols they are hyper-ambiguous combinations of forms, delineating self-contained idiosyncratic worlds. He lives and works in Riverside California and studied at St. Martins School of Art, and Goldsmiths College.
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	Dilys Finlay-Stephens	Dilys Finlay-Stephens portraits are very much influenced by her grandfather, the American portrait painter Thomas Edgar Stephens, who painted the entire Eisenhower cabinet and the last life portrait of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Her portraits concentrate more in depicting her subjects as products of their urban environment. Finlay-Stephens looks to Dutch Masters and also colour photography for her influences. Feathered shapes are pressed against glass and here sometimes the contest between motion and stillness, like life and death, seems to suggest trapping, and the states of suspension, transience, and metamorphosis.
	Discreet	Discreet is an owl. Realized free hand in different shapes and colours it can be seen around the Brick Lane.
	DJ Roberts	Roberts seeks poetry and adventure in the most unassuming elements of daily life. In his paintings abandoned factories, dwellings, industrial units, deserted stadiums and parks shrouded in the ordinariness of the everyday, are rediscovered and transformed into enigmatic images. Memories of growing up at the RAF base and fascination with the wasteland glamour of film noir are major influences in his work. He is based in London and studied at Cambridge University and Central St Martins. In 2003 he was short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Selected Exhibitions include: 2005 Point Blank Lounge, London. 2004 Contemporary British Painting Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex.
	Donna Irvine	Donna Irvine lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. www.donnairvine.com
	Donna Sadler	I am an artist living in Melbourne Australia, originally from Perth and I have been living and working in London for the past 5 years. My art takes on varying forms and uses of media including painting, collage, sketch, sculpture, photography, graphic illustration and sound art/music. I promote regular events most recently my night 'Rock n roll aint noise pollution'. I have a piece of artwork exhibited permanently in the Woodvale Community Library in Perth, Western Australia and have more recently shown London at The Pool-Curtain Rd.