Andrew Brookfield
(b.1986, UK) Lives and works in Nottingham. Co-Founder and director of Backlit Gallery and studios. selected exhibitions ‘Ibid’ – Unit 3b, Sheffield’ 2010, ‘Come Together’ – Co-exist, Southend’ 2009, ‘Light Night’ – Nottingham 2010, ‘When Black and white meets the Grey Areas’ – WCS, Liverpool, 2009.
Lakshmi Sen
http://nanarongerdinguli.pbworks.com/
Lakshmi works in the enchanting city of Istanbul. She is a language teacher in an elementary school. Here she explores languages, understanding and learning through the pictures and stories her children and she create in class. She comes from a land of storytellers and can see all the characters come to life
Alexandra Wolkowicz and Marijke Brinkhof
HINTERLAND is a collaboration bewteen Marijke Brinkhof (Rotterdam) and Alexandra Wolkowicz (Liverpool). It emerged when we experimented with creating an imaginary landscape out of found objects. We embarked on a series using discarded items found on the beach and in the theatre’s prop and costume department.
Hinterland
Caroline Bridie Gower
www.caroline-drawer-maker-painter-gower.com
I want to create Carolines crazy world and for it to touch people like a poem, showing a true sentiment without being sentimental. My artwork comes in all different mediums from drawing, small sculptures and large to small paintings. My practise of my artwork is expressive, colourful, vibrate and energetic.
Tony Bishop
Tony Bishops style is a journey into contemporary art for abstract minds. A Merseyside artist who creates by using texture,tone and a whole lot of soul. Event: Mindscape – 24.11.2010
Mindscape
Jeni McConnell
A deeply embedded practice of questioning of how people experience places and change, and the role that objects, documents and images play in defining both individual and group identity, forming part of our connection to place. Event: Playful Order – 21.08-2010 –
Playful Order
Christine O’Reilly Wilson
Abstract painter who uses colour as the language to describe the beauty and sadness of the human experience. Born and brought up in Merseyside. Within the confines of the stretched canvas I attempt to convey, ” glimpses” of the passion and pain of humanity. Events: About Here – 17.09.2010
About Here
Ada Villa
http://art.artistes-sf.org/ada-villa/
Ada Villa, Italian artist based in Pescara, combines painting with creative thought and writing. She has collaborated with artist and curator Nicole Bartos during 2008 Liverpool Biennial. This time she will back to exhibit her paintings through Gallery4allarts, as part of ‘Meet me at Sunset 2010′ project.
Meet me at Sunset 2010
Louise Waller
www.artinliverpool.com/louisewaller
I work in Ceramics, Art and Education. I design make and exhibit Ceramics, my works are inspired by my interest in Minimal, Art Deco and Modernist styles. I work as a Freelance Artist Educator and also for Tate Liverpool as Educator and Information Assistant.
Eilish Culley
Favourite Quote: I didn’t want to make “high” art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn’t thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn’t want the work to seem like a commodity.
Mary Braithwaite
http://www.saa.co.uk/art/marybraithwaite/ArtistView.aspx
I was raised without a TV. I worked as a map maker and tracer with the Southern Electric recording the positions of high voltage electricity cables and then with the Forestry Commission making maps of the forest plantations.
Maria Stuart
As an illustrator I am always on the lookout for intriguing narratives, great characters and fascinating details which can provide the inspiration for the visual storytelling I create.
Helen Chatterton
www.perfectionofproduction.co.uk
Luxury cushions and scarves made from velvets, silks, scottish tweeds and tartans, cotton lawns. Smaller items include lavender bags and buttons. All handcrafted by designer/maker Helen Chatterton I am a designer/maker drawing on the traditions of the craft community.
The Fab Collective
We are a diverse group of Liverpool photographers who share a passion for capturing the city of Liverpool and its residents in our pictures.
The Fab Collective
Bronek Kram
“Migratory work taken from a number of terrains, overground, presented as a workings vein, underground.” Event: Come Into View – 08.10.2010
Come Into View
James Lavott
Mixed styles ranging from abstract to realism. The latest works concentrate on The Wine Bar style of vibrancy and movement associated with night scenes in bars and retaurants.
Pamela Sullivan
You use powerful words with no thought to the consequence. Event: Come Into View – 08.10.2010
Come Into View
Pauline Walmsley
De humani corporis fabrica – A visual landscape. Event: Come Into View – 08.10.2010
Come Into View
Oliver Lomax
Lomax, fine art painter. England’s new trinity of love. By Oliver Lomax My grand mother has laid away her best years and visionary tears, her body remains dead still in the chair. like the mahogany forest of the Volta she keeps her tender whimsical geometry motionless.
Laura Ferguson
Laura Ferguson was born in Co. Donegal, Ireland. She studied Contemporary Craft at Manchester Metropolitan before completing a PGCE at John Moores University. She lives in Chester and is currently a lecturer of Art and Design in Liverpool Community College. “Specialising in ceramics, I combine this discipline with others, including print.
Siobhan Charmichael
My work is multi-disciplinary, inspired by the environment it’s made in/for and the people I am working with. I gravitate towards the processes of painting, site specific, photography and metal sculpture, but always behind the work is a fascination with how people feel about each other and interact.
Richard Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/user/richiethepotter#p/a
I completed my ceramics degree in 2005 and continued to work at St Fagans pottery (Lloyd Ceramics) in the Museum of Welsh Life Cardiff until September 2006. I then found myself in Liverpool undertaking the role of ceramic technician at Liverpool Community College where I continue to develop my practice.
Lucy Jones
I am interested in concepts exploring trace and imagery born out of new technologies and science. Materials and process found in natural phenomena inspired my initial approach to fine art painting and drawing. More recently I have been asking questions through my work about the process of painting itself.
Edward Robert Bruce
Edward’s multimedia artistic practice includes drawing, printmaking and public art. His art springs from a sense of place and its languages and symbols. The work usually is a combination of the physical, (sometimes architectural in scale) and transient or ephemeral. Edward was born in Oxford in 1971.
Olga Barmazi
www.arttakesmiami.com/olgabarmazi
You can see in these works (oil on canvas) my latest trial to researce the potential of ‘realistics’ style of painting in ‘unrealistic’ images. I’m working in those kind of painting, that I general titled ‘Flows and Fragments’.
Christopher Muotoh
http://www.flickr.com/people/christophermuotoh/
I specialize in painting expressive art as well as portraiture, using my personal identity and emotions as a tool for subject. The media I use vary from ink to graphite and biro. The topic I am currently focusing on is dreams and thoughts.
Fanchon Fröhlich
http://www.fanchonfrohlich.com
Fanchon’s artwork unites philosophy of science and art, evident for instance in the ‘Position of Light in Art’ and the ‘Paradoxes of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art’ to the book she co-edited with Sylvie Le Seac’h (who was also a pupil of Hayter): ‘S.W. Hayter Research on Experimental Drawing’
Micheline Robinson
Micheline studied film animation at Concordia University in Montreal and Fine Arts at Ottawa University. She has produced a steady diet of commissions, both private and corporate in both Canada and the UK. She has most recently exhibited at the 8th Open Art Exhibition, Grovesnor Museum, Chester.
Dot Rowe
I am a designer/jeweller using different materials and techniques to interpret my ideas. I work to commission and have sold work in many galleries, nationally and abroad. My background is in jewellery, textiles and computer arts. These varied interests have led to a fascination with surface decoration.
Nathan Pendlebury
Award winning artist, Nathan Pendlebury has shown locally and internationally. He studied Fine Art at Liverpool JMU. He is known mainly for producing abstract painting and photography. Nathan gained a major commision on permanent display at Liverpool John Lewis Coffee Shop in 2008.
Charlotte Andrew
Multi media and interactive/socially-engaged artist. Ideas lead the work rather than the medium. My aim is to capture a moment, a feeling or an experience shared. Event: Where is the Heart of Liverpool? – 08.10.2010
Where is the Heart of Liverpool?
Jenny Wynne
Jenny Wynne is a painter, specialising in oil paintings whose working practise is strongly underpinned by drawing. She works as a commissions portraitist and is based on the Wirral. I draw and paint in fine detail in order to create a formal and accurate study of a subject.
Frances Walden-Jones
Wirral-based artist with a studio at home. Working mainly in acrylic but I plan to work in oils in the future. I am interested in the impressionistic style and sometimes work in pointillism. For the Liverpool Independents Biennial I am working on a series of paintings inspired by song lyrics.
Nicole Bartos
http://www.gallery4allarts.com
An artist fascinated by the metaphysical and spiritual philosophy and by the discovery of the extra-sensorial world; feeling the invisible; painting the feeling; meditating while painting and painting while meditating. “I also, love prayer of the heart and aim to link my art to this side of things”
Estelle Woolley
I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family’s long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by.
[category 2010 artists]
[tags 2002, Estelle Woolley]
Lin Holland and Jane Poulton
Lin Holland and Jane Poulton have previously collaborated on site specific installations in the two cathedrals of Liverpool. Their practices encompass work in two and three dimensions, projections, sound and aspects of performance. Holland and Poulton met and trained together in Manchester.
The Caravan Gallery (Jan Wiilliams & Chris Teasdale)
A photographic exhibition in a caravan showing the reality and surreality of contemporary Britain with a focus on Liverpool. The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and visual arts project run by Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale.
The Caravan Gallery
Jon Barraclough and Alex Wolkowicz
www.studiowolkowicz.com www.jonbarraclough.co.uk
Jon Barraclough Studied Fine Art Media at Bradford and Graphic Art at Newcastle before working as a photographer and designer in New York and London in the 1980sAlexandra Wolkowicz is a Polish/German photographer and artist currently resident in Liverpool UK.
Becs Andrews
Becs designs built environments and costumes for dance, opera, promenade theatre, tv and film. Originally training as a photographer and film-maker, she incorporates ideas that use light, illusion, scale, historical reference and humour. In this year’s Biennial I am exhibiting my visual research of Calcutta.
Jeanne-Marie
Originally from South Carolina, Jeanne-Marie completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004. She has been based in Liverpool since 2005. Jeanne-Marie’s paintings are inspired by memory, popular culture and ideas about beauty. Event: Dolls in the Dream House – 18.09.2010
Dolls in the Dream House
Up & Coming Arts
http://www.upandcomingarts.blogspot.com
Up & Coming exists to provide opportunities for Artists, Performance Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians and DJs to show off their creative talent with exhibitions, education and events. Artists include: Maria Cassidy (UK)David Thomas Crawley (UK)Sooim Jeong (S Korea)Farzad Kohan (USA) Michael J Mac Gabhann (IRE)Claire McCarthy (UK)Chris Pheysey (UK)Theo Simpson.
Up & Coming Arts
May Chong
May Chong is an artist specialising in illustrations. Having graduated with a Graphic arts degree and completing a fashion course, May’s work is a combination of different areas of art and design. May is a member of SOUP (a group of artists who all work together at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool).
SOUP
Eimear Kavanagh
Eimear’s sole purpose in life reveals itself though her passion for Art. As she partakes fully in this action of applying artwork, fully engaged and focused, a spontaneous meditation transpires; increasing intuition and awareness. Born in Ireland in 1973 and currently based in Liverpool UK; Eimear is a freelance Artist.
Cathy Wu
My calligraphy has given me tremendous joy and endless discoveries. It is not just a vehicle for artistic expression, it is also record of history, our sufferings in the past and wisdom from the great philosophers and our celebrations. A freelance artist of Chinese calligraphy, painting, and Tai Chi.
Emma Thackham
‘My work examines identity, I am interested in investigating the creative processes apparent if we look beneath the surface of a person, object or space.’ Emma’s connection with Liverpool is from studying at Liverpool Hope University where her interest in the subject of identity began to develop through performance.
Deena DeNaro-Bickerstaffe
Deena DeNaro-Bickerstaffe is an artist and international media professional that has over 10 years experience in film production, music videos and TV commercials for blue-chip clients such as Visa, Fed- Ex, Nike, and Toyota Hovering on the intersection of digital media and traditional craft & design techniques.
Patricia MacKinnon-Day
Patricia MacKinnon-Day was born in Glasgow. She studied Fine Art at Liverpool School of Art, Media and Design before completing an MA at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in the North West of England and is currently a Reader in Environmental art at Liverpool John Moores.
Linda Mary Evans
Linda is a Wirral based contemporary artist whose work explores personal imagery derived from the slate mining area of Snowdonia North Wales. With my latest series of works, I am striving to provide a new perspective on the intruguing abstract shapes within the lanscape of the moors.
Tony Knox
My personal work has explored themes of Icon and faded superhero, manifesting in the creation of ‘Mothman’, a six year, ongoing project exploring an almost self deprecating character of my own creation. Knox has exhibited internationally and synonymous for his character of ‘MothMan’.
Barbara Meynell
Batik artist and textile designer maker, working with wax resist and dyes to create pictures and unique hand painted scarves. Barbara Meynell creates vibrant sensuous pictures using the technique of batik. Each piece of work is totally individual due to the unique and unpredictable outcomes of using hot wax.
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples
www.susanmeyerhoffsharples.com
An international artist based in studios at Elevator, Liverpool and Wirral. Susan creates hybrid sculptural forms executed through the appropriation of materials and skills used within the construction, engineering and craft industries. Exhibitions, commissions and collections include: America, UK, Eire, Canada, Spain, Austria, Israel and 2011 Turkey.
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples
Jason Jones
Liverpool born, nationally and internationally exhibited artist, Jason Jones is currently the Curator/Manager of the Cornerstone Gallery and Fine & Applied Arts Senior Assistant at Liverpool Hope University. Jason’s practice has developed an emotive, psychological, sociological and reflective investigation surrounding the human experience, initially through colour and its method of application.
Gisèle Nzolameso
Gisèle Nzolameso is a Congolese born and a UK based contemporary visual artist. Her practice explores the themes of identity, gender, poverty, exploitation and genocide. She invites her audience to confront rather than escape the reality of socio-political issues.
Martin James Howard Greenland
Since foundation I have classed myself as an artist, though more accurately, perhaps stubbornly and somewhat proudly I class myself as a painter. I have had a long association with Liverpool especially through the John Moores Contemporary Painting Exhibition, which I won in 2006.
Barbara Harrison
Darkly ecstatic interdisciplinary artist. Art is as diverse as literature. Classic, romantic, fiction, documentary, humour, history, philosophy, conjecture and pure whim. The whole gamut of genres. I’m doing Dostoevsky meets the Coen Brothers. With a splash of Tarkovsky. Event: Twenty-Ten 17.09.2010 – 28.11.2010 Six Rooms, Group 3 – 04.11.2010.
Six Rooms, Group 3
Carolyn Shepherd
Sculptural installation artist with an interest in industrial and urban landscapes. My current work explores the concept of continuity. My influences are Cornelia Parker, Miroslaw Balka, David Nash. I trained at London Road Studios (Cheshire School of Art & Design) and graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from Liverpool.
Alison Bailey Smith
Alison’s work has spanned almost 2 decades and three different countries since leaving Edinburgh College of Art in 1990.The motivation behind Alison’s work comes from being the child of post war parents, Scottish thriftiness & an avid watcher of Blue Peter!
Wendy Johnson
Alongside having worked with people in health-related roles Wendy has always ‘made’ and ‘experimented’ with materials and ideas, sometimes making useful objects and more frequently experimenting further. She is now studying part time to create opportunities for further exploration. Event: Experimenting Links – 04.10.2010
Experimenting Links
Derek Culley
Abstract Amigos – An exhibition of prints by four abstract artists: John Hoyland RA (England) – Terry Sullivan (Wales)- David Lach (Mexico) – Derek Culley (Ireland) – 4 seperate shows running from 1st September thru 5th December 2010.
Abstract Amigos
Terry Sullivan
Abstract Amigos Prints by four abtract artists: John Hoyland RA (England) – Terry Sullivan (Wales)- David Lach (Mexico)- Derek Culley (Irelnad) – 4 seperate shows at 3345 from 1st September thru 5th December 2010 Terry has been influenced by the American School of Abstract Expressionism.
Abstract Amigos
David Lach
Abstract Amigos – An exhibition of prints by four abstract artists: John Hoyland RA (England) – Terry Sullivan (Wales)- David Lach (Mexico) – Derek Culley (Ireland) – 4 seperate shows running from 1st September thru 5th December 2010.
Abstract Amigos
John Hoyland
Abstract Amigos – An exhibition of prints by four abstract artists: John Hoyland RA (England) – Terry Sullivan (Wales)- David Lach (Mexico) – Derek Culley (Ireland) – 4 seperate shows running from 1st September thru 5th December 2010. Major British Abstract Master / Painter.
Abstract Amigos
Theresia Cadwallader
http://www.theresiacadwallader.com/
Theresia designs and custom-makes jewellery to order and also sells and exhibits her work at art and craft fairs and galleries around the country. Inspired by the textures and geometry of the natural world and the rich colours of paintings, Theresia transforms metals, gemstones, glass, beads, wood.
Daniel James
Contemporary Artist working in variety of media. The concept decides the medium, drawing a personal reaction to current trends in a surreal manner. Daniel James practice involves collaborating, either directly or indirectly. He looks for current trends to re-interpret and challenge.
Hannah Wiles
www.hannahwiles.blogspot.com and www.hannahwiles.com
Hannah Wiles is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Fine Art Textiles after having graduated with First Class Honours from the school of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007. Her practice is rooted in the urban environment and deals with issues surrounding dereliction and abandonment.
Art and Craft Guild of Lancashire
The Art and Craft Guild of Lancashire will be celebrating its silver anniversary next year. It was formed by a group of like minded artists and designer/makers to help promote each others work and to make a living from their artistic abilities.
Filippos Tsitsopoulos
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Filippos+Tsitsopoulos/30271.html
We see on his works a mix-up of all possibilities between joy, pleasure and politic identity,conformism and rebelion, mask and overexposed, spirituality and sensuality. Also Theater that is done by a painter and can be at the same time an actor that paints. All these things are our new possibilities.
Soup Collective
Soup was set up in 2001, by a group of artists who all work together at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool. Soup contains a broad spectrum of creative practitioners; from painters to poets, sculptors to actors, film makers to print makers.
Chris Yates
Chris Yates is a Stuckist artist also and his work is in collections internationally and has played for royalty as well as being in the Poors of Reign indie band. Chris Yates work stems from his interest in theology and stained glass.
Alice Rhenna Lenkiewicz
http://alicelenkiewicz.moonfruit.com/
Alice is an artist and writer. She is interested in creating and exploring images of women in magic, mythology and popular culture. Her other mediums are photography and video. I have an interest in history, folklore and poetry.
Wendy Williams
A mixed media artist working primarily with recycled materials. The choice of working with carrier bags, was quite a long process, that transpired through circumstances and a concern for the environment. I began using the plastic as a tool to see how far it can be manipulated.
[category 2010 artists]
[tags 2010, Wendy Williams]
Carol Ramsay
An installation artist working primarily with found or recycled objects. After graduating with First Class Honours from Wirral Met in 2009, Carol is now studying for her MA in UCLAN Preston and is currently artist in residence at New Ferry Butterfly Park.
Kaety Moore
Kaety Moore’s background is in fine art, music and writing. Her work weaves in and out of drawing, movement and song. It reflects emotional and physical landscapes and is inspired by storytelling, mythology and nature. Kaety works with soft sculpture, installation and performance to explore political questions posed by feminism.
Jasmine Maddock
Jasmine Maddock is a jasminist unique surreal artist model and poet and anti human fairy of the brunette wonderment. She is beautiful and adores persian cats butterflies and synth new wave and Richard Jomshof from Elegant Machinery 🙂
Daisy Delaney
Daisy Delaney has been commissioned to design and drive the Official Liverpool Biennial Cars of the International Curated Exhibitions of Made Up 2008 and Touched 2010. The cars, a 20v Fiat Coupe and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV can be seen at art events in the UK and Europe.
Olwen Holland
More details to follow Event: Blink Unblink – 07.10.2010
Blink Unblink
Susan Brown
http://www.art-shed-gallery.com/
A Liverpool based artist painting in oils and other media in a traditional style. An American artist who has now lived on Merseyside longer than anywhere else. Recently labelled a ‘Stuckist’ most work is done in oil in a traditional English style.
David Brown
Figurative painter and sketcher. Painter in oils – mainly figurative work and especially portraits and nudes – working mainly from the live model. Member of The Liver Sketching Club as well as Past President and Secretary. Secretary of the Wirral Society of Arts. Event: Six Rooms, Group 2
Six Rooms, Group 2
Jacqueline Boylan
www.greatcompany.memberlodge.com
I am a live artist with a background in theatre and community arts. I set up my own social enterprise Great Company, a social events group for people over 50 last year and am delighted to be working with the group and other artists to challenge age stereotypes with ImAgin’.
ImAgin’
Amanda Oliphant
http://www.amandaoliphant.co.uk/ http://www.postliverpool.com/oliphant.html
Amanda maintains a studio in the centre of Liverpool, lives on the Wirral and exhibits locally and Internationally, being an active member of three International artist groups, POST, LIVERPOOL INDEPENDENTS and MARKMAKERS with exhibitions within Manchester, London, Berlin and Austria. Her passion lies within Art and Ecology, and investigates relationships between people and place using collage and sculpture.
E D Soper
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Kathryn Pattullo
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Brenda Sharp
Brenda is a photographer whose work is predominately documentary, with a strong interest in capturing the beauty in the old, unwanted, decomposing and disintegrating. This altered aesthetic as objects degenerate from ‘new’ or alive, is captured as flowers wilt and become poetic sculptures and cars rust…
Bernard John Howden
A series of works made from found objects, an interactive book. The theme is depresssion and the coping mechanism is art, title of work is: “lights in a dark place”. Former student at Wirral Metropolitan College gaining a fine art degree. mainly conceptual. Event: Six Rooms, Group 2 – 08.10.2010
Six Rooms, Group 2
Michael O’Connor
Having returned to education as a mature student I studied Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University. Billy Cupboard is the name I use to paint and under which I exhibit. My works are thought-provoking pieces and leave the viewer to interpret what they mean to them. Event: How it Works
How it Works
Sharon Kayll-Mathews
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Kirsty E Smith
Sculptor and installation artist with an interest in film and performance. Work incorporates found objects and textiles. Memory and narrative are key. I make work which resonates on a deeply emotive level and acts as a vehicle to reconnect with a place or memory deep in our subconscious.
R. Saeeda
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Fadil Ademi
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Daniel May
(Hub Collective)
More details to follow
Colin Binns
Colin Binns is a contemporary artist living and working on the Lancashire coast of North West England, based at his studio in the town centre of Lytham where he makes mixed media paintings and drawings. I describe my work essentially as an attempt to connect internal myths and narratives.
Simon Mack
http://www.artreview.com/profile/simonmack
artist / curator / optimist / pessimist : conceptual /ready made / stencil / reason / logic / passion . Exhibited for the past decade in previous Lpl Independent Biennials, around Merseyside, London + recently in Berlin . further International shows + collaborations TBC . Curator of the Lauries Centre, Merseyside.
Marie Louise Williams
Inspired by physics, location and patterns which connect across time and space, I create installations using using a variety of materials, drawing photography and text.
Peter Charlesworth
A 19 year old foundation student from the Wirral, who enjoys making large structures.
Dave White
Dave White is a Liverpool based artist who exhibits internationally with global projects. Recent exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and his work is represented by galleries in Europe. Forthcoming projects also include an installation at Art Copenhagen 2010.
Rowan Seddon-Harvey
Rowan Seddon-Harvey is a visual artist using photography, industrial processes and found items to create installations, 2D and 3D objects. ‘Ours is a time of objects, to me art is a constant refining and redefining of the object, this has become an instrument I can use to communicate what is positive.
Stella Lang
I work instinctively using various elements of spatial awareness and relevance of source. Photography is used to capture the elements required, which are then morphed digitally into unique visuals. Traditional and contemporary methods are used to create mixed media canvas pieces.
Marco Brioni
2006 Founds “The Black Sheep” photographic association. 2006 Course of photography at “Ken Damy fine art museum” (Brescia) 2006 International Circuit “Gran tour delle colline”: Young Prize – Portfolio category 2007 Master in “Creative Portfolio” at “Ken Damy fine art museum” (Brescia) 2007 Mentioned in national prize in Vicenza, Foggia, Padova.
Pommefritz Crew
Pommefritz is an artistic collective born since the beginning of 2004 thanks to Massimiliano Boschini and Mauro Manuini, two Italian photographers eager to challenge themselves and share their experiences with their cameras. They realize it through a new interpretation of uncommon settings such as old Italian cottages, deserted and neglected places.
Matthew Thomas
I am a photographer with a ‘painters’ eye, merging the ‘decisive moment’ with concept and montage. My work has a visceral meaning that belies its visual surface/ process, and the process is as important as the final show. I try and not use the same methods for each project.
Sophie Gibson
I graduated from Liverpool John Moores in 2009 with a degree in Fine Art. Working around modern society and throwaway culture, my work visually explores these commercial issues through collage. I originally used discarded magazines as a starting point, until recently sourcing material from a wider variety of means.
Peter Corbett
www.axisweb.org/artist/petercorbett
I trained under Maurice Cockrill at Liverpool College of Art and Design (Foundation 1970-1971) which gave me a firm grounding in the basic vocabulary of painting and drawing, together with a very disciplined course for that period. I received a B.A. Hons (1971-1974) with tutor Brendan Neiland at Manchester Regional College.
Liverpoolgallery.com
Web-based Liverpoolgallery.com has been established for 8 years and shows work online for local artists and photographers. We also arrange exhibitions at various venues around Liverpool. Liverpoolgallery.com is run by local photographer Anita Smith. The website shows work by artists and photographers based in the Merseyside area.
John Davies
John Davies www.johndavies.uk.com
Living in Liverpool, John Davies mainly works on projects in the UK and other parts of Europe exploring the urbanised landscape. He is best known for his B&W photographs of ‘The British Landscape’ with a major exhibition touring Europe and book (Chris Boot 2006).
Stephen Connell
www.axisweb.org/artist/stephenconnell
My work appears to deal primarily with issues of space, particularly urban or architectural, an additional factor of interest to me is human impact or lack of it on spaces. Despite the absence of the figure in the majority of images I produce, there is usually trace evidence of human activity.
Juan delGado
www.filmpro.net/cremerprojects
Juan delGado was born in Cartagena (Spain). He lives and works in London. Over the past decade, I have produced an extensive body of work -combining photography, installation, film and video- relating to the subjects of displacement and identity. The theme underlying my work is trauma.
Thomas Williams
I paint with colour suspended in translucent media, floated onto canvas and randomized by gravitational drag. My practice plays with gesture as a tradition in abstraction supplementing the brush with rhythms initiated by physical forces. The practice derives from the notion of the expanded field, challenging borders, painting in space, utilizing performance.
Scott Conohar
Shot over a surreal weekend in January, Graced by Elvis is an uncompromising look at the world of Elvis Tribute Artists, competing for the title of European Champion in Blackpool, 2010. Photographed as they left stage, the Tribute artists’ seem caught in a moment of reverie; some are self-deprecating.
Leon Ellis Jakeman
Interdisciplinary Artist The human condition provides a fundamental source of inspiration within my work. ‘Our’ individual actions and mutual interactions, strategies, and patterns of behaviour offers a matrix of expression that allows me to investigate, display and transmit feelings. I ‘break-down’ my ‘compulsive’ complexity, simplifying my message.
Mark Willcox
Liverpool-born artist, Mark Willcox, creates complex, visually discordant artworks that convey an expressive response to the dissonance and chaos of contemporary urban life. His current practice continues to investigate the possibilities for abstraction using cameras – both film and digital – in an experimental way.
Stephanie de Leng
Stephanie de Leng is a photographer specializing in environmental documentary and special projects. Her primary focus is people. In 2004 she started an ongoing project titled “Body Landscapes”when she began photographing as honestly as possible body parts unloved by their owners.
Terry Duffy
Liverpool born Terry Duffy is an internationally established artist with a reputation for unique and challenging work. He has exhibited across the UK. International exhibitions include Berlin, Paris, Venice, Philadelphia, New York and plans for Seoul in 2010. The latest major project MONUMENTS sponsored by Sothebys, Barclays and the PH Holt.
Forough Yavari
Originally from Tehran-Iran, Forough has had her art work since 22 after finishing art university in painting major. She had several group and solo exhibitions in her country and an international competition participation. Recently she started to use new technologies in her art works, including digital photography mixture with traditional painting.
Amanda Griffiths
I am completing an MA in Creative Practice at Hope University and am a Design Technology teacher in St Helens. I was brought up in Prescot, did my Foundation at St Helens and completed my 3Ddesign degree at Manchester Polytechnic. I worked as a designer then travelled before teaching.
Liver Sketching Club
Work by members of The Liver Sketching Club. The Liver Sketching Club has been active in Liverpool since it was formed in 1872 – and rarely more so than today with around 80 members attending one or more of the 7 weekly meetings.
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