-Artists 2008
100%Scouse
100%Scouse www.facebook.com (Scouse Stew) 100percentscouse@googlemail.com I derive from the word lobscouse meaning a meat stew which was commonly eaten by seamen. Lobscouse was a dish eaten by seamen throughout Northern Europe, and became popular in seaports such as Liverpool. Shortened to Scouse the name for this meat stew eventually came into common English usage to
Absalom, Mike
Mike Absalom www.mikeabsalom.com mikeabsalom@hotmail.com Mike Absalom is an Irish painter and printmaker. He was born in England and educated and brought up both there and in Canada and Sweden. His family roots are in Wales and County Clare. He has lived and worked in many parts of the world including Europe, Canada, Iran, Paraguay. In
Adams, Gillian
Gillian Adams gillis.bellaluna@hotmail.co.uk A recent graduate of Wirral Art School, my degree work focused on mental health awareness. To promote the recognition, and acknowledgment or empathy, of the symptoms of mental health, To challenge the perceptions and stigma attached to its sufferers, To speak the unspeakable, open dialogue … The manipulation of sensual materials is
Alcaniz, Agata
Agata Alcaniz www.agataalcaniz.net contact@agataalcaniz.net Environmental Performance is a project that explores the human impact on our environment. Environmental Performance @ Liverpool European Capital of Culture highlights the disposable culture that characterises Europe in our times. Àgata Alcañiz is an artist from Barcelona based in Salford, north west of England. She has devised Environmental Performance project
Ali, Curator
Curator Ali Curator to Serendipity Exhibition at LCAD Serendipity is supported by the independent curator, Ali, a new and upcoming innovator in contemporary arts and culture. She has formerly been involved in many different creative initiatives as an artist and writer. Her visual art has been figurative and abstract with a distinct style developed.
Andrew, Charlotte
Charlotte Andrew charlotteandrew@mac.com I am a New Zealander who originally trained and worked as a nurse. Following on from this I had a family and a career change which enabled me to study art in Northern Ireland, the US and the UK. In the past year I have concentrated on the participatory aspect of the
Andrews, Becs
Becs Andrews www.becsandrews.com becs.andrews@gmail.com Becs creates environments for all kinds of live performance. Originally training as a film-maker, she incorporates ideas that use light, illusion, scale, historical reference and humour. Solo projects include including a giant pinhole camera containing live dancers at BAC, and a fake archaeology of Edge Hill Station. ‘Each project is
Appleton, Peter
Peter Appleton http://hopestreetproject.blogspot.com/ hopestreetproject@gmail.com Appleton is an artist and musician. He is currently a Reader in Creative Technology at Liverpool John Moores University Appleton’s enquiry into electro acoustics and interactive environments has resulted in internationally commissioned exhibitions, sited objects and performance shifting between worlds of experimental Jazz , installation and sound sculpture. Two
Ashton, Steven
Steven Ashton Artist and Musician based in the North West. Interested in changing states of structure through time, in the fixed and the fleeting, in how we glimpse, perceive and interpret. Artist – working mainly at present through painting, although also through sculpture and installation. Musician – member of Liverpool based band Mugstar –
Ashworth, Richard
Richard Ashworth ashworth_richard_66@hotmail.com Make visual images for a sensory world. Make thinking images for a thinking world. Lives and works in Liverpool. “It first starts in my head, then it turns into material before my eyes” Event: In An Ideal World – 20.09.2008 –
Baines, Paula
Paula Baines kabaines@blueyonder.co.uk I am a recent graduate from Liverpool Hope University. My current work involves degenerating photographs through a repeated reproduction process – this distorts and breaks up the image revealing the cells that appear to hold it together. The main influence for this work is memories. Photographs give us a way of
Ball, Stephen
Stephen Ball www.dontthinktwicecollective.blogspot.com Spirit_of_the_sun@hotmail.com Stephen Ball, founder of Merseyside based arts collective, Dont Think Twice. My work is pure unconditional thought. What ever comes out, to most sometimes can be pointless, yet in that respect it isnt, just look at it for what it is, something without hidden meanings, something free from other influence, something
Ballantine, Stephanie
Stephanie Ballantine www.stephanieballantine.co.uk stephanie.ballantine@hotmail.com Stephanie Ballantine explores notions of systems and structures within different environments, she is interested in sculptural objects that interrupt patterns in nature and architecture. Stephanie graduated from Sheffield University two years ago with a BA in Politics and Philosophy which has contributed to her developing art/ documentary photographic practice. Since then
Bartos, Nicole
Nicole Bartos www.gallery4allarts.com nbartos@gmail.com Preoccupied with the philosophical and spiritual side of art, I create and curate as a means towards therapy/healing, growth and expression of both spiritual and physical wellbeing. Love the idea of freedom though art and aim towards connecting and communicating energies. Mostly, I create 2D works, paintings, mixed-media, photography and installations,
Beales, Katriona
Katriona Beales www.katrionabeales.com katriona@katrionabeales.com Mixed media visual artist based at the Bluecoat. I am a mixed media visual artist interested in the dialogue created by the spaces in between disciplines. Much of my work is concerned with social commentary and with pattern, repetition and anomaly. The resultant work is often quite time or labour
Bird, Joel
Joel Bird www.joelbird.com joelbird@joelbird.com Paintings, sculpture and sound. I use expressionist and formalist ideas to represent our struggles to include thoughts to a natural order. The lines of flux in my work are an attempt to reconcile our duality as nature has. I visualize magnetic fields, knots in wood or water erosion in rock. I
Black, Caroline
Caroline Black caz.black@blueyonder.co.uk Caroline Black’s practice explores the value of a gesture, sentiment and value systems; her work explores this through actuations, film, sound and live performance. Caroline has shown nationally and internationally. Caroline is currently in her second year of a Master of Arts in Archive Interventions. Gesture, attitude, sentiment, value systems and gifts
Blackler, Matt
Matt Blackler www.matt-blackler.com Currently my work deals with process/the aesthetic of and the construction of histories. Event: tbc
Boros, Crina
Crina Boros www.flickr.com/photos/absurdhorizon/ crina.boros@yahoo.co.uk Transilvanian reporter living in London. Huge fan of travelling, photography, writing and philosophy. I believe that, without a sense of purpose, our lives are useless http://absurdhorizon.blogspot.com/ My art is rooted in human rights, the absurdity of life, the small significant details and the inner worlds that drive our acts.
Brown, Anthony
Anthony Brown www.100heads.co.uk info@emso.co.uk Liverpool born artist, designer, illustrator $ musician. Studio based in Kirkdale, Liverpool. Studio visits by appointment Anthony Brown was born in Liverpool on New Year’s Day 1961. He is an artist, designer, illustrator, musician and composer. Studied Graphic Design and Illustration at the Wirral Metropolitan School of Art and
Bruce, Edward Robert
Edward Robert Bruce bruce.e@merseymail.com Edward’s multi-media practice explores places, “languages” and signs. Some of his work is quite architectural and some is ephemeral. His current work attempts to combine these two elements successfully within locations and communities outside the mainstream. Edward Bruce is a Professional artist and educator. He has run his own art practice
Burr, Ally
Ally Burr allyburr@hotmail.com My work is textile based, using an eclectic mix of fabrics – mainly recycled. The theme tends to be quite nostalgic and patchworky, using a variety of appliqué and embroidery techniques. I try to do my textile work as much as possible. I sell some work in Landbaby, in the Bluecoat. I
Butler, Deborah
Deborah Butler www.splash-art.co.uk deborahbutler1@aol.com Liverpool based artist working mainly in oils on canvas. Event: FOCUS at Calderstones Park 06.10.2008 –
Campbell, Michelle
Michelle Campbell faerywoods@hotmail.co.uk www.faerywoods.com Michelle Campbell was born in Liverpool, England in 1967 and enjoyed drawing from a young age. At the age of seventeen she attended City College, Liverpool, studying Graphic Design Thereafter, Michelle worked in numerous jobs, selling her paintings and hand painted cards at local craft fairs and to local and national
Canon, Diane
Diane Canon aprilskies1204@yahoo.com Serendipity Exhibition at LCAD Diane Canon, a unique individual, whose life has transcended through many experiences. As a relative new resident to the city of Liverpool, she learned of the history and culture. Through the mentorship of the associate established artists to the exhibition, over the course of 2008 has been encouraged
Carney, Ray
Ray Carney ray.carney@tate.org.uk My paintings are based on childhood memories of Achill island, which is situated off the West coast of Ireland. Event: North by North West: Soup vs Peripheral (Tate) – 29.09.2008 –
Cassidy-Smith, Elena
Elena Cassidy-Smith www.wooloo.org/elenacassidysmith elenacassidy-smith@hotmail.co.uk I am a multi-disciplinary visual artist working with sculpture, installation, site responsive/contextual approaches, interventions and hybridised live art. My practice explores ideas around consumerism, humorous paradoxes, sense of place and the domestic domain and my choice of medium is determined by the idea. I am a West Midlands based artist and
Christie, Mary
Mary Christie www.artfair365.co.uk/artists/marychristie marychristie@tiscali.co.uk Mary Christie is a painter, demonstrator and art tutor living in St Helens, and working throughout Merseyside and Cheshire. Mary’s forte is dramatic and colourful figure studies and textured abstract landscapes. She is regularly commissioned to paint portraits, and has also done themed murals on bedroom walls. She runs ad-hoc demos
Clarke, Terry
Terry Clarke www.coroflot.com/terrytc terrytc@ymail.com I am a Graphic Designer from Liverpool, I have a degree in Graphic Arts and am currently expanding my experience. Event: tbc  
Cooke, Pamela
Pamela Cooke pammycooke@gmail.com I have recently graduated from Loughborough University and gained a (BA Hons) degree in Fine Art. When starting University I had a strong interest in printmaking, mainly the more traditional techniques and experimented with this to a great extent. As time passed I became more and more interested in the most basic
Corbett, Peter
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 of
Costa, Christian
Christian Costa These photos are from the N.EST project, started in 2004 and exhibited lately in Naples at MADRE Museum and in Florence. I’m working on it since September 2007. I usually work with places and the idea of genius loci, so it was really exciting to get involved in this thing. The project
Cotton, Andrea
Andrea Cotton www.andreacotton.com andreacotton@mac.com My work starts out as very simple lines, doodles or words. These, when repeated obsessively and carried to extremes, develop into unique surfaces marked with the history of their own making. My work is an autobiographical response to the way I feel about myself; how I feel others view me; and
Crawley, David Thomas
David Thomas Crawley http://www.davidtcrawley.co.uk davidtcrawley@yahoo.co.uk I work in the new media and currently working on a project titled ‘Photo Booth 2008′. I work as an artist, educator and curator and feel that there should be no distinction between the understandings. I am originally from Liverpool and have worked on many projects to do with Liverpool
Culley, Derek
Derek Culley www.derekculley.com funkypaddy@btinternet.com “19Days” dances with “boobtubes” Born and educated in Dublin, Derek Culley is mainly self taught and intuitive in approach.The language Culley uses is basically that of Abstract Expressionism in its various manifestations through Pollock and De Kooning, adding to the mix some references to Celtic and other sources. But if his
Cunningham, Jennie Ann
Jennie Ann Cunningham jenniecunningham@blueyonder.co.uk Working in forensic photography for eight years, I returned to study BA Hons Graphic Design/Illustration followed by post-graduate study in Animation & Sound Design at Norwich School of Art graduating in 2003. I now work as a freelance visual artist using a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, installations and
Davenport, Philip
Philip Davenport philipjohndavenport@hotmail.com Philip Davenport is one of a new wave of British experimental poets who are as much artists as writers. ‘a long poem about everything’ is a citywide billposter project by artist/poet Philip Davenport. The words for the posters have been taken from a yearsworth of newspapers, reordered and reshaped. The names
Davies, Bruce
Bruce Davies www.peripheral-artists.co.uk bruce@henry-moore.ac.uk I am an artist currently living and working in Leeds. I am one the organisers of the Peripheral artist collective; a group of Information assistants from the Henry Moore Institute. My work deals with the sociological aspects of the gallery space, how people react to and engage with the work and
Davies, Neil
Neil Davies Presently working on a series of paintings inspired by music and the moving image. Sphere No.1 was created by attaching digital images to music. The images are stretched and distorted by sound. The distortion is then translated into an acrylic painting. Event: tbc
Davies, Robert D
Robert D. Davies http://www.robertddavies.com/ robdavies72@yahoo.co.uk I was born and have lived most of my life in Wirral, although I have lived in other parts of the country including Falmouth and The Lake District, the latter being a source of inspiration for a number of watercolour landscape paintings. Landscape has been a recurring interest for me,
Derbyshire, Jo
Jo Derbyshire www.joderbyshire.co.uk aprilskies1204@yahoo.com Serendipity Exhibition at LCAD. Jo Derbyshire is a visual art who works in a range of media. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and complete many private commissions. She is an activist in contemporary art practice and research and previous Curator of the Egg Space Gallery and associate Curator to
Deubner, Birgit
Birgit Deubner www.axisweb.org/artist/birgitdeubner bdeubner@gmx.net ‘In the forest with Virgil’ (bamboo installation, dimensions variable, suitable for outdoor and indoor) I make multidisciplinary installations and performances. Allegorical syntheses of traditional and new media; folk tale, parable and contemporary culture; drawing and dance performance. Event: The Baltic Frame – 25.09.2008 –
Dilnot, Colin
Colin Dilnot http://hopestreetproject.blogspot.com hopestreetproject@gmail.com Dilnot is a writer who has archives, collects and records information about all facets of soul music Dilnot has had countless articles published world-wide, hosted radio shows and contributed research to many projects dedicated to soul music in the USA, Europe and Japan. He currently runs In Dangerous Rhythm
Dison, Wendy
Wendy Dison www.wendydison.com milvientos@eircom.net I was brought up in Liverpool and am now living in Ireland. I’m a painter and a printmaker. I’ve exhibited extensively in group shows and had two previous solo exhibitions. I grew up in Liverpool surrounded by immigrants from every continent but the children I went to school with were
e-space lab
e-space lab e-spacelab.net A group of artists exploring the possibilities of new technology through communicative action. e-space lab have made links to Shanghai, sister city to Liverpool, since 2006. Our aim is to encourage a collaborative or dialogical practice, using, for example, face-to-face or online dialogues, events or collaborative visual editing environments. The 7th Shanghai
Edwards, Nic
Nic Edwards nicoladesign@msn.com Display designer/artist; beatles recognition art, workshops, props, displays, designs, clothing, production and construction designs, animations, hoardings, themes and events, functions, festival and parade etc etc etc Event: Horse Power – 12.09.2008 –
Egerton, Benjamin
Benjamin Egerton Benjamin’s work is a mix of poetry, drawing, graphics and painting that is developed into unique installations. Benjamin Egerton was born in Liverpool in 1977. Since graduating in fine art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001 he has continued his practice as an artist. His project for the 2006 biennial was ‘Flitch Swicking
Evans, Bev
Bev Evans Bev studied Graphic Design and Illustration in Liverpool and Stoke on Trent, gaining a BA (Hons) in 1984, but has been involved with photography from an early age, taking her first pictures when she was just seven. Working in Liverpool city centre as a graphic designer for over 20 years, she has also
Feldt, Vigdis Elisabeth
Vigdis Elisabeth Feldt vigdiselisabeth@msn.com My style is expressionistic, naturalistic and naivistic. This exhibition shows the naivistic and absurd side of my production. I grew up with pictures around me. Two of my uncles were painters. My father’s brother died very young, and left my parents some inspiring pictures for me to admire and to copy.
Fennelly, Ian
Ian Fennelly www.watergatestreetgallery.co.uk/exhibition.htm alex@watergatestreetgallery.co.uk Ian Fennelly is an acclaimed cityscape artist and will be exhibiting his stunning artwork in the RENEW Rooms at Liverpool’s Tea Factory in association with RIBA Northwest and Chester’s Watergate Street Gallery. ‘The Greatest Hits of Liverpool’ Chester’s famous Watergate St Gallery is back on tour, this time in Liverpool
Fitzpatrick, Mary
Mary Fitzpatrick www.maryfitzpatrick.co.uk Mary Fitzpatrick is a contemporary Fine Artist working with mixed media. Her recent projects include the aftermath of Gulf War in the Middle East and the continuing conflict in the West Bank. Mary will be showing work at Metal Edge Hill and in Liverpool International Artists at Novas. Mary Fitzpatrick will be
Foroutan, Aida
Aida Foroutan www.AidaForoutan.comAida.Foroutan@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Painter, Designer, Poet, Choreographer and Performer. BSc in Industrial Design from the Al-Zahra University of Tehran. MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Manchester. Currently doing a PhD in Visual Arts and Drama at the University of Manchester. This series of work of art, consist of 31 paintings in Surrealism style
Francis, Paul R
Paul R Franciswww.3chordart.co.ukpaul@3chordart.co.uk Paul R Francis is an artist from Liverpool in the UK. He is new to the world of art, with only a grammar school background in the subject, and hopes to make an impact with his developing styles. His work takes elements of pop culture, social commentary, stereotyping, advertising, music, satire, cinema,
Gilmour, Helene-Marie
Helene-Marie Gilmour www.helene-mariegilmour.co.uk helene-marie@gilmour2004.freeserve.co.uk I have been a Graphic Designer and Illustrator for 12 years and worked for a number of companies producing artwork for childrens products, Christmas cards and gift wrap, ceramics, textiles and packaging. With the stresses of life and work, I always enjoy the way art allows me to create my own
Gratrix, Garth
Garth Gratrix garthgratrix.blogspot.com garthgratrix@hotmail.com Garth Gratrix’ work crosses over many disciplines that often result in the creation of installations comprising objects of both found and personal reference, lighting and experimental video. The work borders between the public and the private, the visible and the invisible, the legitimate and the contraband. He deconstructs reality and displays
Green, Sarah
Sarah Green sjgreen07@hotmail.co.uk Sarah works across a variety of medium including photography, film, books, and installation. Her work often deals with narratives shaped through documentation and the photographic image. Through ‘acting out’, and in creating, documenting and representing images and artefacts veiled as authentic, yet embodying some kind of hyper reality and tension between medium
Griffiths, Gareth
Gareth Griffiths g007sublime@hotmail.com Welsh sculptor, lives and works in Leeds, studied at Bretton Hall (Leeds Uni) – BA(hons)fine Art Sculpture and an MA Design at Leeds Met. I have exhibited my work throughout the country, in art galleries in Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool, and London. I was also short-listed for the Young Artist Award for Wales
Halsall, Katie
Katie Halsall redwireredwire.com katiehalsall@yahoo.co.uk Katie Halsall is based at Redwire Studio’s on Victoria Street and works as a Gallery Assistant at Tate Liverpool. Katie is exhibiting with Soup as part of this years Independents. Event: North by North West: Soup vs Peripheral (Red Wire) – 25.09.2008 –
Hanratty, Katie
Katie Hanratty http://inspector-marmalade.blogspot.com/ inspector_marmalade@hotmail.co.uk Katie graduated UCLAN July 2008 with a BA (Hons) Illustration and is a working freelance illustrator in the Norh West. She is one of the contributing artists on the Mothman Comic Book. Event: Mothman Comic Book  
Harding, Rachel
Rachel Harding Two images juxtaposed onto one canvas allow the viewer to peer though one image to see another. These can be two contradictory subjects, which are in opposition to each or the same subject from a different perspective or period in time. My work is concerned with the duality of images, perception and symbolism.
Harrison, Barbara
Barbara Harrison www.barbaraharrison.net barb_harri@hotmail.com I am currently painting on canvas as well as working with digital images. The two cross over, one influencing the other. Photographs are ‘found’ paintings anyway. If I have a category it would have to be a constant remix of anger, compassion and the sublime. I gave up art 40 years
Harry, Liz
Liz Harry info@lizharry.com Illustrated artwork by Liz Harry and Gavin Wood Event: Artwork in Tabac Cafe  
Haskins, Kay
Kay Haskins kayhaskins@hotmail.co.uk Key interests are a variety of mixed media techniques including collage, dyeing, construction, printing and embellishing a variety of surfaces to a professional standard. Current work highlights the issues surrounding Alzheimers disease and the loss of memory. My specialist area is mixed media and textiles that highlight ongoing debates such as gender,
Hatjoullis, Mike
Mike Hatjoullis Former Principal Lecturer in Printed Textile Design at LJMU Event: ‘Paradise Project’ at Editions
Hibbert, Catherine
Catherine Hibbert Exploring issues associated with iconography, beauty and fame I am interested in creating works of colour which deal with the importance of self identity and notions of stereotype. Event: North by North West: Soup vs Peripheral (Andrew Collinge) – 21.09.2008 –
Howard, Bill
Bill Howard www.billhoward.co.uk liverpoolbiennial08@billhoward.co.uk Bill Howard – Idiosyncratic drawings on illuminated transparency. With mechanical installation and film. Addressing concerns of landscape, body and memory. Event: The Projection Gallery @ The Salon – 06.10.2008 –
Howard, Ghislaine
Ghislaine Howard ghislaine.howard@btinternet.com Ghislaine Howard has just been named as a ‘Woman of the Year’ for her achievement as an artist and her contribution to society. This exhibition charts the development of her recently completed painting ‘The Empty Tomb’ which was created specifically for Liverpool Cathedral’s Capital of Culture celebrations The painting was inspired by
Jackson, Ian
Ian Jacksonwww.artinliverpool.com Ian Jackson is Director and Webmaster of artinliverpool.com, the primary online resource for the Liverpool Art scene. Ian also runs several other websites and blogs. Along with his wife, Minako, he established the annual Liverpool Art Prize www.liverpoolartprize.com and ‘Digital Show’ the online exhibition of digital art which will have a show during
Jackson, Lynn
Lynn Jackson www.lynnjackson.ca jackson@lynnjackson.ca Hand knit copper wire. Based in both Toronto and Liverpool, Lynn Jackson is an artist whose work explores themes of emotional and physical displacement. Using primarily metal, Jackson creates work that is informed by her years as a student of goldsmithing and costume design. She has sold her work across North
Jakeman Leon Ellis
Leon Ellis Jakeman space13@hotmail.co.uk Drty30+, Proportional Large Build (plb), Tall, Blonde, Blue eyed, GSOH, Adrenalyn Junkie, Tatts, Likes Country Walks, Cosy Nights in, Stuff, Loves Cooking, Riveting Conversation, AA fellow, Into Strong Cheeses, Seeks Attention, Loves Animals (but not in that order!) – seeks likeminded individuals/groups for fun, poss more – psml, he he!! The
jane+dannythecatholics
jane+dannythecatholics www.janeanddannythecatholics.com look@janeanddannythecatholics.com Gentle and intelligent antidotes to contemporary mass culture: secret interventions, anodyne guerilla actions, smiles and lots of nice made things… Previously practicing as independents sugar love and danny boy these two spirited iconoclasts have more than 40 years of creative practice between them. Now based in liverpool, they have
Jones, Barbara
Barbara Jones www.myspace.com/barbart2002 barbart2002@hotmail.com My art is inspired by electron microscope images of life forms. I am drawn to an examination of these cells which possess a universal attraction for the viewer. Through the beauty of the abstracted elements of cells I construct images which are mysterious yet reveal something of the basic elements of
Jones, Nick
Nick Jones http://www.lemurpatrol.com info@lemurpatrol.com I am a painter living and working in Liverpool. My work is inspired by popular culture, the natural world and great big guns. I have a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art History and Theory. My works are held in private collections around the world, including in
Kavanagh, Eimear
Eimear Kavanagh www.eimears.co.uk sursari_art@yahoo.co.uk Born in Ireland in 1973 and a graduate in Textiles & Surface Pattern Design from Bretton Hall University of Leeds, Eimear is a contemporary artist who delicately uses colour, texture and symbols to communicate her feelings. ‘My journeys in Asia have led me to explore the arts and culture of a
Kemp, Gareth
Gareth Kemp www.garethkemp.com mail@garethkemp.com Liverpool based artist and curator. For the past few years Gareth has been working on a series of paintings called Fifteen feet of pure white snow. These canvases are inspired by a set of old family photographs of a remote part of Wales where he grew up. The paintings allude to
Knox, Tony
Tony Knox www.tonyknox.org.uk tonyknox99@hotmail.com A comic book that will be free in venues throughout Liverpool and a PDF www.mothman.org.uk features the secret of the mothman, this features artwork by Tony Knox, Andy Prior, Anna Mc Dade, Katie Hanratty. Event title: Mothman Comic Book
Lang, Stella
Stella Lang www.purplemonkey.co.uk stella@purplemonkey.co.uk I work instinctively and through experimenting with various materials my work develops through context of source and by textural surface qualities. My aim is to allow the unpredictability of the elements used, to form and shape their own destiny of which I then try to snatch back control. I would consider
Lei, Liang
Liang Lei http://www.LeiLiang.com emailoffice5@sohu.com I am a Chinese oil painter in Beijing. My art is a special Chinese type painting, and it reflects the typical Chinese concept and multi-cultural opinion: east and west. This is a mountains and waters picture based on western techniques. What I am doing is to provide a brand-new experiment in
Lenkiewicz, Alice Rhenna
Alice Rhenna Lenkiewicz http://www.geocities.com/poetshideout/alenkiewiczdrawings.html poetshideout@yahoo.com My medium is varied but often involves the use of oils and acrylics on canvas or paper. I create assemblages and often use found objects. Drawing, photography and sketching are also an important part of my work. I see my style as visionary, working from the imagination. I focus on
Liverpool, SOUP
SOUP Liverpool www.freewebs.com/tatesoup soupliverpool@yahoo.co.uk SOUP are a group of artists brought together by their mutual employment at Tate Liverpool. There are approx 30 artists in the group. To coincide with this year’s Liverpool Biennial, the Tate-based art collective SOUP have collaborated with our counterparts from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds known as Peripheral. Starting
Lockhart, Phil
Phil Lockhart verymadpip@hotmail.com Phil is a multi-disciplinary artist studying his final year of a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Wirral Metropolitan College. He is also an associate member of Arena Art & Design Association. Phil’s current practice straddles the boundary between minimal & conceptual sculpture engaging notions of the ubiquitous & insubstantial, specifically light
Lund, George
George Lund www.lundart.co.uk chic_geo@yahoo.co.uk Serendipity Exhibition at LCAD. George Lund is Fine Artist with a colorist Naïve style adopted in his artwork. His creativity was expressed since a child and became self taught in early adult hood in his unique and distinct approach. Twenty years later, as a mature student, he took this innate skill
Mack, Simon
Simon Mack www.myspace.com/artnut77 smack77@ntlworld.com Colour abstract “urban” artist concerned with means of codes, confusion and control, waste, dynamism + frictions of contemporary society. I have lived and exhibited in both Liverpool + London over the last ten years. Active at present in Liverpool. Approached by artbelow ltd < ldn for July 08 underground exhibition (see
Maddock, Jasmine
Jasmine Maddock www.artwanted.com/wonderful imaginationjas@yahoo.co.uk Surrealist Persian cat loving 30s film star brunette, into anything arch, Jeremy Irons, customising clothes, 30s film, surrealism and Agatha Christie novels. Surreal innovative and award winning artist and illustrator who has been 10 years creating commissions and participating in exhibitions. Described as ‘The best artist I have ever seen…gifted’ by
Markmakers
Markmakers Markmakers are a visual arts collective based in Halton, Cheshire. Members practice in a broad variety of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, glass, textiles, painting and sculpture. Markmakers have recently held a series of successful exhibitions looking at the river Mersey, which visited Birkenhead Park, Castle Park Arts Centre, The Albert Dock and
Maxfield, Paula
Paula Maxfield www.artonsilk.co.uk paula@artonsilk.co.uk Hand painted Art on Silk – paint/make many different items, handbags, purses, scarves, ties, pictures, cards, cushions, keyrings, bookmarks etc. Silk painting, batik and shibori. Member of The Art & Craft Guild of Lancashire. The art of silk painting – my greatest delight is to experience the sheer abundance of colour
May, Danny
Danny May www.the-green-fuse.co.uk greenfuse@hotmail.co.uk Rope the Blowing Wind is to make automatic moving sculpture, powered by the wind and inspired by Victoriana. I make sculpture and art objects that come to life through movement, sound light etc by power of wind on turbine blades. The objects that inspired me were folk art toys and
McCubbing, Nicki
Nicki McCubbing www.myspace.com/nickimccubbing nickimccubbing@hotmail.com I am an artist, working in the Bluecoat Studios in Liverpool and I make sculptures/ installations. My work uses everyday, cheap, crude, funny, throwaway objects and ideas. I use objects that I find in second hand shops, pound shops and joke shops etc, or that I find on the
McDade, Anna
Anna McDade www.annamcdade.co.uk info@annamcdade.co.uk Digital artist and illustrator working in a variety of visual styles. My aim is to create a visual narrative within each piece of work which evokes a emotional or cerebral response in the viewer. Event: The Mothman Comic Book  
McHugh, Helen
Helen McHugh Helen.McHugh@tate.org.uk Creative Poet. I write poetry about every day life, but I use the poems as an art form, creating forms with groups of words. Event: North by North West. Soup vs Peripheral  
McKenna-Jones, Patricia
Patricia McKenna-Jones patricraft@gmail.com My practice is varied. I like doing portraits – sometimes in fabric, also nature. I’m a percussionist also and recycling is the way I unify these two parts of my work. I delve into as many areas of art as I can – printing, painting, murals, quilting and sculpture. My children are
Meldru Medjivepjis, Mikael
Mikael Meldru Medjivepjis www.myspace.com/urbanalaguna intersound@hotmail.com I work at trying to silence that inner voice that is a relic from the past, that continually comments on the merit, scope and execution of the music originating from somewhere deep inside of me. Improvisation is a fundamental tool in the process of producing work and is a vital
Mercy, Nathan
Nathan Mercy www.showmercy.co.uk nathanmercy@googlemail.com Mercy is a Liverpool-based team of irrational creatives who specialise in supporting emerging talent. We do this by producing art exhibitions, live literature events, AV performances and music gigs – all alongside a quarterly magazine that is distributed across the UK. For the Biennial, we will be collaborating with Wave Machines
Meyerhoff Sharples, Susan
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples www.susanmeyerhoffsharples.com susanmeyerhoffsharples@hotmail.co.uk Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, B.A.Hons Fine Art, an established northwest based sculptor continues her professional practice at Arena Studios, Liverpool, working to commissions and exhibitions internationally. Her work is concerned with evolution, provocative defence systems and the primal instinct for survival achieved via diversity and adaptation. In the ‘Cultural Crossings Series’
Mirutziu, Alex
Alex Mirutziu www.alexmirutziu.blogspot.com amirutziu@gmail.com “Leave Gordon alone” performance is a passionate and emotional manifestation on the main figure of Gordon Brown. Born in 1981, in Sibiu, Romania. In 2004 he finished a BA (Hons) in painting at the University of Fine Arts, Cluj, Romania. Between 2001 – 2007 he has worked and collaborated with Grit
Molyneux, Michelle
Michelle Molyneux www.bridgeman.co.uk williamsonartgallery@wirral.gov.uk During her years at the Royal College of Art, encouraged by Prof John Hedgecoe, Michelle honed her unique style of photo-collage. Since then she has exhibited nationally and has won the Darwin Award and the Vogue Award. In a world made up, Michelles work takes on a new perspective in creating
Moreno, Marina
Marina Moreno www.myspace.com/urbanalaguna urbanalaguna@blueyonder.co.uk artist, choreographer, installation, video-sculpture, performance, dance, live art, site-specific deconstruction of social coding and the physical, spatial, geographical and cultural displacement as a tool of reflection, forward thinking and change and exchange the transnational as ideal and fluid mindscape. Event: Liverpool International Artists – 20.09.2008 –
Morgan, Louise
Louise Morgan www.louisemorgan.co.uk I am an illustrator using both inks and digital media. My style is spontaneous and lively, mainly focusing on architecture and food. My work can be seen in magazines, newspapers, books and packaging. Exhibiting with the group ‘SOUP’ Event: North by Northwest: Soup vs Peripheral (Coffee Union) – 20.09.2008 –
Munday, Roy
Roy Munday www.roymunday.com roymun@cybase.co.uk Roy Munday has been an artist the past 10 years, including 3 years obtaining a fine art degree at Liverpool’s JMU. His work is very representational with a strong emphasis on colour. Much of his work is bought by individuals and corporations. After graduating from Liverpool’s JMU in 2004, Roy
Newman, Madeleine
Madeleine Newman maddyclare@hotmail.com Madeleine works in mixed media producing abstract paintings using acrylic, household paint and gouache. Her work explores colour and space through the medium of paint. She has also recently produced a series of light box works. Madeleine graduated with a BA (Hons) in History of Modern Art from the University of Manchester
Nicholson, Sarah
Sarah Nicholson www.sarahnicholson.com sarah@sarahnicholson.com Artist/curator with studio Watch out for new and massivly updated website at www.sarahnicholson.com coming really, really soon… Event: Doing Strange Things to Toys – 07.09.2008 –
North by Northwest PV at Tate
North by North West. Tate Liverpool Group Reception RoomPrivate View Monday 29th Sept. from 6.30pmExhibition runs until 12th Oct. To coincide with this year’s Liverpool Biennial, the Tate-based art collective SOUP have collaborated with our counterparts from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds known as Peripheral. Starting from September, the two groups will cohabit numerous
Norwood, Tamarin
Tamarin Norwood www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk tamarin@kulturfabric.org Tamarin uses language and objects to articulate the gap between the familiar and the unknown. Informed by her training in linguistics and translation, her works close in on this gap by disrupting their own narratives – videos with mismatched subtitles; translations that don’t quite reach; appropriated objects that look somehow out
Oliphant, Amanda
Amanda Oliphant www.amandaoliphant.co.uk man.ol@btinternet.com Amanda has lived and travelled extensively and now is based on the Wirral where she finds her inspiration and materials but also maintains a studio in Liverpool. Her passion lies outside of the conventional art practice and is driven by a varied love of transforming materials into new creative assemblages. Undertaking
Olsen, Phil
Phil Olsen www.freewebs.com/tatesoup2 polsen76@hotmail.com For me, the ideas are more important than the execution. At least that’s my excuse for shoddily finished pieces. I miss painting. These days I tend to document the world with my camera and my notepad in a sort of obsessive-compulsive defense-against-memory-loss security-blanket kind of way. Plan being that
Payot, Laurence
Laurence Payot www.laurencepayot.com Laurence Payot is a French artist, living and working in the North West of England whose practice primarily incorporates intervention, installation and painting, often within a site specific and relational context. Laurence Payot finds her inspiration in everyday life, exploring and questioning seemingly familiar objects and phenomena. Her approach is based around
Pendlebury, Nathan
Nathan Pendlebury www.erpenstudios.co.uk natpendlebury@hotmail.com Born 1973, studied Fine Art at LJMU. Grew up in the North-West of England in Chester, Salford, Manchester, and Warrington. Now lives and has a studio in Bootle. Won acclaim for both painting and photography being selected to show in the 2007 International Chelsea Fine Art Competition in New York, as
Potter, Theresa
Theresa Potter theresa.mari@hotmail.co.uk Currently studying Ba Hons Fine Art at Wirral Metropolitan College. In March 2008 I exhibited a piece of work at the ‘Metrospective’ show in the Liverpool Academy Of Art. My previous work has developed from my love of forms and shapes within nature. Also I have recently looked at life and the
Poultney, Tom
Tom Poultney tompoultney@mail.com I am a 25 year old artist from Birmingham, currently living and working in Leeds. My work deals primarily with the deconstruction of digital imagery and interfering with the workings of AV technology. I adapt machinery, technology and imagery to operate outside of its original and intended function. This process of deconstructed
Prudente, Cristina
Cristina Prudente www.piczo.com/cristinaprudente cristinaprudente@gmail.com Abstract Expressionist Paintings I had already started my career as a solicitor, when I bumped by accident into art courses. It became immediately clear to me that I had to change direction and catch the opportunity to enter the artworld, as this was feeding a kind of hunger. Currently my work
Quinn, Anna Marie
Anna Marie Quinn www.annaquinn.com annamariequinn@hotmail.co.uk Move over Hirst! Anna Marie Quinn Anna Marie was born in Belfast in 1966. At 21 she fell in love with Liverpool and has been based in and around this area for the last 21 years. Whilst studying for her B A in Fine Art at Liverpool’s John Moore’s University
Rafailidou, Janis
Janis Rafailidou www.janisrafailidou.co.uk ioannajraf@hotmail.com Janis Rafailidou works with film, photography and environmental-installations. Born in Athens (1984), for the last six years she has studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds and currently teaches on the undergraduate course. Janis has been awarded by AHRC for her PhD (2010) and MA (2007). Also, she has been
Railton, Tom
Tom Railton tomrailton@yahoo.co.uk Tom Railton lives and works in Leeds, where he indulges a common and likeable tendency toward the macabre. He deals in distilling and installing myths, superstitions and tall tales. Recent works show evidence of a faltering desire to control, and more than a touch of the Black Museum. Event: North by North
Roberts, Alice
Alice Roberts alice75aroberts@yahoo.co.uk I create collages using photographs, digital or otherwise, and various found objects. Sometimes these incorporate text which may or may not relate to the images, in a random Dada way. Generally my work is either in the form of a digitally manipulated composite photograph, comprising various images melded together like a photomontage,
Roberts, Arthur
Arthur Roberts www.myspace.com/loopart looop@hotmail.co.uk Arthur Roberts is exhibiting graphite drawings from the “Divine Proportion” series which explores the visual, spiritual and mathematical components of phi 1.6180339887… “The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not
Rutherford, Ailie
Ailie Rutherford www.ailierutherford.com New work produced during six months working within the printmaking department at 68 Hope Street. Books on show in the Art and Design library at Aldham Roberts from 13th September to 8th November. Drawing on Dreams will be housed in the library’s permanent collection. Event: Ailie Rutherford: New Books (and Boxes) –
Scheel-Edelmann, Rebecca
Rebecca Scheel-Edelmann beccaedelmann@yahoo.co.uk Lives in Bristol, works Mcjobs, makes art primarily in clay, but will happily make things out of anything close to hand. Worked with some of the members of Peripheral once upon a time. Event: North by North West: Soup vs Peripheral (Tate) – 29.09.2008 –
Sinek, Roger
Roger Sinek roger.sinek@virgin.net I’m from Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and started taking photographs when I was 11. I originally came to Liverpool to study architecture and play drums.These days I do personal work and undertake commissions between working at Tate Liverpool. I exhibit with Soup and the Oxton Artists After an initial foray with a plastic
Small, Benjamin
Benjamin Small benjaminsmall.com benbogart@hotmail.com Benjamin Small a Liverpool born painter. Studied illustration at JMU liverpool, UCLAN preston and the BAUHAUS weimar germany. Works at Tate Liverpool and draws people on the 82 bus on the way into work. Has a particular interest in working from life and figure drawing. Event: North by North West: Soup
Solesvik, Ingrid
Ingrid Solesvik http://solesvik.com isoles@lyse.net I have always painted what I see and have an affection for painting water and maritime motives, perhaps this comes from living in Stavanger, close to the sea, and having the opportunity to sail at weekends and holidays, in the fjords and along the coast around Norway. The contrast of light
Sollars, Gary
Gary Sollars www.garysollars.co.uk dollmandisco@hotmail.com Gary Sollars, renowned for his incredible skills as a painter on subjects usually derived from popular culture, his eccentricities in his live art events and his alter ego of ‘Dollman’ are invading Bold Street with an array of collection of inspiring art and thought provoking art. These will be presented
Soukup, Markus
Markus Soukup Is currently working in the field of moving image, typographic experimentation, sound design and digital graphics At the moment Markus Soukup’s projects are still kept portable enabling a kind of self-contained way of transport and presentation. Fascinated by the screen as a window opening up to the virtual space, he searches for a
Speed, Emily
Emily Speed www.emilyspeed.co.uk emilyspeed@hotmail.com I am interested in buildings and in the way that architecture can act as a metaphor for our internal selves (the body as a building that houses the mind). My work incorporates drawing, artists’ books, sculpture and projection and is concerned with the enduring sense of memory and/or personal identity that
Stapleton, Elaine
Elaine Stapleton www.insightphotography.co.uk goodlookin@estapleton.fsnet.co.uk Elaine Stapleton, an established Photographer, in the private and public sectors of the cultural industry, she has been commissioned extensively on a range of initiatives. She applies an innate eye and captures a profound inspirational quintessence in the subjects. She is a cultural entrepreneur in the commercial research and
Sykes, Nick
Nick Sykes www.nicksykesart.com nsykes62@hotmail.com Liverpool based artist showing with Arena ,Cube Noir and Soup see website for further details. Since graduation in 1995 has exhibited nationally and internationally, locations include London,Dublin,New York , Munich and Cologne. Continues to exhibit and paint in his Liverpool studio.Has also work in corporate and private collections including
Taylor, Christine
Christine Taylor kingcardine@aol.com Skyline 1 – Oil on Canvas Size – 166cm x 135cm Skyline 2 – Oil On Canvas Size – 180cm x 120cm. Paintings inspired by regeneration, the old and the new. Hi I’m a member of staff of Tate Liverpool. I exhibit regularly with SOUP. A group of artists who all work
Taylor, Richard
Richard Taylor www.rich-taylor.co.uk richtbiscuit.1@googlemail.com I am a part time practitioner living and working in Leeds. I have recently exhibited at Arts@Trinity, HydeOut Gallery and The Leeds Art Fair 2008. I am involved in Peripheral a Leeds based group; who are collectively exhibiting alongside Liverpool’s Soup in a joint exhibition entitled ‘North by North West’. My
Tenneson and Dale
Cherry and Nicola, Tenneson and Dale www.axisweb.org/artist/tennesonanddale tennesonanddale@yahoo.co.uk Our ongoing artwork, ORDER ORDER, explores the link between the Houses of Parliament (the epitome of order); the Minimalist movement (the ordered, pure art) and the various forms of public information signage (the physical manifestation of order). We test combinations of the components which constitute the
Thorne, Simon
Simon Thorne www.simonthornemusic.co.uk hopestreetproject@gmail.com Simon Thorne is one of the leading composers and theatre artists working in Wales today. A master of ambience, his is music of enormous range and rare beauty. Simon Thorne is a composer, and theatre artist who lives and works in Cardiff. He is also an accomplished pianist and free
Tooth, Emma
Emma Tooth www.emmatooth.co.uk emma.tooth@gmail.com Emma Tooth is a portrait painter based in Derbyshire, UK. She also teaches occasional oil painting classes. Her recent project, Concilium Plebis, supported by the Arts Council England, is bringing her work to a wider audience than ever as it tours the UK from 2008. Her Caravaggioesque portraits are filled with
Turnross, Chiz
Chiz Turnross www.chizturnross.co.uk chizturnross2@hotmail.com ‘make believe’ card board cut out project. Appearing over Merseyside, somewhere near you. Artist, musician. Watch out for my 1000 bird paintings show. Also showing as part of the local heroes show at the veiw two from the 23rd Oct to Nov 1st. where i will perform some new
Urcan, Oana
Oana Urcan www.oanaurcan.com contact@oanaurcan.com I am originally from Romania and part of my visual language was formed there. My allegorical symbolism is deeply rooted in the Transylvanian tradition, in the ‘land beyond the forest’. Through the mediums of film, video and photography, I am exploring time, memory and place. My work is an intuitive quest
Vallejo, Roslyn
Roslyn Vallejo www.myspace.com/roslyn_vallejo roslyn_vallejo@hotmail.com A montage for me is about trying to follow through a desire for transformation. I use what I understand to be the pictorial language of photomontage to express and explore images – everything is image led. Ouvrir ici is a print using inexpensive printing methods, based on a photomontage of mine
Villa, Ada
Ada Villa www.adavilla.com adavip@yahoo.it Ada Villa leaves the others the understanding of its pictures: it suggests the reading in ironica key. Even my new series, flies, is none other than the awareness of an inevitable end, to which we can not shirk (sometimes irony helps). Then the sunset not only died pink but also
Waldron, Sacha
Sacha Waldron sachawaldron@googlemail.com Is currently interested in Sculpture and objects floating in space. Events: Liverpool International Artists – 20.09.2008 – 15.11.2008 The Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station – 19.09.2008 – 10.10.2008  
Wallace, Susan
Susan Wallace www.storieswanted.com suzyscreen@hotmail.com This is a prose poem I wrote before European Capital of Culture on what it means to me to be Liverpudlian. Click image to read full poem (pdf file) Writing a poem is about as much time as I can buy to pen a creative writing effort, due
Waller, Louise
Louise Waller www.artinliverpool.com/louisewaller louisedotwaller@yahoo.co.uk Ceramicist. Initial inspiration for my work came from motifs found in Art Deco Design; this research led me to Modernism and eventually to Minimalist Art. I build in series and enjoy creating variations of a piece, saturating an idea then moving on to the next stage by developing the most successful
Weetman, Claire
Claire Weetman www.claireweetman.co.uk claireweetman@hotmail.com Claire Weetman is a visual artist based in St Helens, producing artworks for exhibition, facilitating workshops with communities and project managing arts activities. Claire Weetman is a visual artist using drawing to explore movement and space. Based in St Helens, she splits her time between delivering community arts projects and creating
White, Stephen
Stephen White ste83w@yahoo.co.uk Artist/ Curator based in the North. Sporadic art practice tends to form around a fascination with forgotten/ unusual sites, discarded objects and overlooked or reclaimed materials. I aim to explore the structural, spatial and aesthetic qualities of whatever catches my eye, maintaining an experimental and playful approach. Vague as this description may
Willcox, Mark
Mark Willcox www.markwillcox.co.uk markwillcoxbtinternet.com@btinternet.com Originally from Liverpool, Mark Willcox has had a successful, multi award-winning career in design and is formerly the Head of Design for Eurostar. He now works as an artist based in the North West and uses photography extensively as a medium. In the Liverpool International Artists exhibition at Novas CUC,
Williams, Alan
Alan Williams www.alan-williams.co.uk Working in a number of different disciplines including painting, sculpture, installation, video and sound Alan Williams aims to express and communicate certain ideas the subconscious, media, society, representations of sex and bizarre sexual fantasies. A strategic emphasis in producing the work is not entirely placed on the transmission of information, but rather
Williams, Nick
Nick Williams green4go@hotmail.com Nick Williams is an artist based at The Bluecoat. TV is education, current affairs, aspirations, escape, history, future, science, culture, art, music. The greatest variety of experience instantly, everyday always there. Wanted it as my subject for art but didn’t know how, by depicting a person makes the work about him.
Williams, Wendy
Wendy Williams wendwilluk@yahoo.co.uk I am primarily a painter, but I also use photography and textiles as tools to explore certain mediums. My work has gone through many transitional stages, especially after studying interior design, when I began to see a more decorative quality in my work. I have been exploring the intricate qualities of marble
Willow, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Willow www.curvegallery.co.uk violetelizabeth@poetic.com Elizabeth is a fine artist whose practice involves a number of pursuits including bookbinding, flower arranging, light haulage, dance, suspected theft, taxidermy and embroidery. She likes to make things from stories, memories, found objects and contradictions. Her current preoccupations are imagining foxes and collecting more feathers. Elizabeth seems somehow
Woolston, Robyn
Robyn Woolston robyn24_7@hotmail.com My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience. From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the notion of our
Wright, Breda C
Breda C. Wright www.bredacwrightphotography.com bredawright@mac.com Breda C Wright is a freelance photographer who grew up in Birkenhead, Wirral and is now based in Hull, East Yorkshire. Breda returns to education in September to complete a ‘lens based media’ degree at Hull School of Art and Design. Her current work concentrates on the experiences of women
Wynne, Anthony
Anthony Wynne amw.sculpture@tiscali.co.uk Graduated from Liverpool Art School in 2002 and went straight into teaching…spending every day teaching students to do what I should have been doing myself…making art! I am totally open to all kind of influences in my work. Preferring to work in 3D form rather than paint, I respond to found objects,
Wynne, McCoy
McCoy Wynne www.mccoywynne.co.uk mail@mccoywynne.co.uk Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynne are based in Merseyside with a commercial photographic partnership and a fine art practice relating to landscape and the environment. Event: Quiescence – 07.10.2008 –
Yell, Iain
Iain Yell www.arena.uk.com yelly2006@tiscali.co.uk Iain is a painter working from Arena Studios in Liverpool and a member of Liverpool Contemporary Artists. He recently took part in the highly successful L39-Liverpool Linked exhibition at the Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk. Iain’s recent work refers to the urban landscape and in particular, the City of Liverpool. His primary interests
Yung, Kai-Oi Jay
Kai-Oi Jay Yung www.myspace.com/kaioi jayprojects@hotmail.com My interdisciplinary practice invites viewer to participate in a multi-sensory reassessment of how things can be, deploying his/her memory. Through sculpture, video, deploying my body in performance, I seek to understand cultural forms; customs, languages, governing laws … all feed into how nations evaluate/categorise each other and myths perpetuate I