Madelaine completed her MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practice at Goldsmiths in July 2009, studying part time alongside teaching full time, focusing on the pedagogic role of the sketchbook and sculptural artforms that become relational objects. This has lead to freelance self-employment, and Madelaine now works in a variety of contexts: with other artists and ceramicists, groups and organisations, developing workshops, events and collaborations, alongside developing a small business. Madelaine has a range of threads in her studio practice, exploring objects, both found and created. Bits of boats are explored in terms of functionality and recontextualised disfunction. Objects include shrines, drawing from her childhood in Ireland. Madelaine also creates participative artwork drawing on references and experiences of toys and games. Madelaine has strong commitment to education through the arts as essential for the development of the individual and for the community. Madelaine Murphy directs artistmeet, lives and works in Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK.

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www.exvivolibris.net
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“I create sculptural forms, using painting materials, which sit directly in the viewers’ space. I try to build a dialogue between the illusionistic spaces of perspective and composition inherent within painting, and the experience of navigating real space around my objects. Although the objects rarely reference things in the world openly, I do want them to relate to architectural spaces and therefore also the functions of these places. This discourse between object, space, function and viewer is where the core essence of my practice resides.

I like to think of my practice as painting without setting out to paint. Aspects such as the characteristics of a surface, the weight of canvas, the rigidity and stiffness of dry paint all come into the equation as vehicles to create structure. There is a pictorial and compositional quality inherent in painting which informs my thought process, yet ultimately they are sculptural forms and hence they need to be articulate within the language of objects.
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Stories emerge from apparently random elements, symbolic objects. There are suggested relationships, even where people present themselves in isolation. Fran is currently interested in how power is established and maintained, whether for good or bad. Her art is influenced by travel in India. Fran draws, etches, makes lo-tec films and works as an arts educator.


www.franwildeartist.com

17- sitting sketch - me, a broken chair and a great deal of balance, 2010

"The pre-occupations of my work and thinking lie in how humans function within the world and the gaps that are created when our desires - to reach an un-specified potential - are faced with a different ‘reality’. My practice involves elements of deconstruction and analysis, reparation and reformation then re-situation; exploring the notions of humanness - imperfections and transience, longing and potentiality - using the deconstruction process as a vehicle to search for the poetic in the everyday.

Currently I am smashing to pieces my current art practice, with the aim of challenging every aspect of it, to shatter my whole perception of practicing as an artist - my ideas, my techniques, my habits ...and rebuild it all from scratch.  To put everything through the deconstruction process I have put found objects through."

www.amymckenny.com

Stuart is someone who works in many ways. He is mostly inspired by his love of open air, spaces and places. His interest in sound and the natural rhythms and routines of everyday life have shaped the methodology of his work, which revolves around noises and sounds which he finds, records and processes. He loves to travel, near and far, and the recordings he makes become a document, a sound memory, of his time spent in each place. He often works with individuals or groups to record new sets of sounds and over the years has built up a large archive of recordings which he draws upon to make songs, soundtracks to films and art installations. In this way of working he tries to make sense of the world he lives in and his place within it. Simultaneously, the creations and experiences of others end up intrinsically embedded in his work, creating a rich texture of layers, representing his life and those he as encountered along the way.

www.stuartbowditch.co.uk
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Constantly trying to find an experimental way to express objects and their relationships in life Joe’s work relies on nothing but the uncertainty it may or may not create. Rules and limits are removed allowing him to explore matter in a different light without boundaries inventing a new way to see the conventional. Working much like a inventor he takes the “rubbished” and often mass produced and plays with the matter celebrating the process as much as the final outcome. In this way Joe often explores probability, chance and luck, but still enjoys categorizing hoping in the chaos of play some order will follow.  A central part of Joe’s work involves large quantities of one particular subject matter.

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