Category: - Jo Barber

10. Laura Oldfield Ford

10/16/2012

Drawing
Ballpoint pen, acrylic and spray paint
She focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed, which regeneration seeks to concrete over. Following in the tradition of psychogeographers such as Stewart Home and Iain Sinclair, Oldfield Ford typically begins work with a city walk, documenting her finds through her drawings.
'Ferrier Estate' (2010) Found at http://www.varoom-mag.com/?p=1847
http://departmentart.co.uk/2010/09/laura-oldfield-ford/
lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.com

9. Gordon Cheung

10/16/2012

Multimedia artist – mainly painting
Spray paint, oil, acrylic and ink on stock listings.
An apocalyptic vision of the global collapse of civilization with biblical images alongside contemporary ones.
'Bear' seen in solo exhibition at ROOM gallery, December 2009
www.gordoncheung.com

8. Emma Stibbon

10/16/2012

Drawing & printmaking
Chalk on blackboard, pencil on paper, woodcut, ink wash
Her practice addresses environments that are in a state of flux or change and focuses on how the apparently monumental can be so fragile. She looks at how the appearance of a place can retain the structures and patterns of its evolution.
'Temple of Saturn', chalk on balckboard, seen in exhibition at the ROOM gallery, London, 2011
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/emma-stibbon

7. Ellen Harvey

10/15/2012

Multimedia artist
Variety of media including painting, video, installation and performance.
Her work uses traditional aesthetics and media in surprising ways to call into question the social or physical situation in which it is placed. Her goal is to “seduce people into thinking”.
This work is from her installation 'Arcadia' seen at the Turner Contemporary in 2011. She constructed a 3/4 scale reproduction of Turner's private gallery, and filled it with frameless, engraved and backlit plexiglass mirrors which depict a 360 degree view of modern Margate.

6. Ed Ruscha

10/15/2012

Artist, associated with Pop art
Wide range of media including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, film
He finds inspiration from book design and typography – his overarching theme is words and their constantly shifting relationships with context and message. He has designed his own typeface which he calls "Boy Scout Utility Modern"
'Pay nothing until April' (2003) seen in exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, 2009

5. Dorothy Cross

10/15/2012

Multimedia artist
Diverse media including sculpture, photography, video and installation. This image is one of a series of intaglio prints.
Central to her work as a whole are themes of sexual and cultural identity, personal history, memory and the gaps between the conscious and subconscious.
'Untitled' (2009), intaglio print, seen in Surface Noise exhibition at Jerwood Gallery, 2011

4. Dan Parry-Jones

10/15/2012

Painter/illustrator
Mixed meda, using a palette knife to create the textured backgrounds and then screen printing or illustrating on the top.
Currently looking at the themes of children and play – how resourceful children can be when left to their own devices.
'Freedom' seen in exhibition at Edgar Modern Gallery, Bath, 2010. Also see his website www.danpj.co.uk

3. Barry Cawston

10/15/2012

Photography
Wista Field camera with hood, wooden tripod and bellows.
His photography incorporates both sociological and architectural elements with a clear contemporary edge. His images are narrative based and attempt to draw the viewer into their story.
'Junkyard Kyusku' seen in exhibition at Paintworks, Bristol, 2008. Also see his website at www.barrycawston.com