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Carolyn Curtis Magri’s drawing process reflects uncomfortable positions and sharp, dangerous edges. The debris of institutionalisation is the underlying theme of her work. As a tutor and artist-in-residence working with offenders and ex-offenders, she bears witness to the physical and psychological effects of incarceration on a daily basis. Until 2012, her Windows Project paintings were dominated by unidentifiable but obvious backgrounds. Her work has recently undergone a stripping down seeking a more interesting trajectory.
Biography
Carolyn Curtis Magri studied drawing and painting at Manchester Metropolitan University, achieving an M. Phil in Fine Art in 2003. Since then, she has taught art and design in 5 different establishments of Her Majesty, in the South and the North-West and designed and taught Visual Poetry courses at The Mary Ward Centre in Queens Square, London. She is currently Artist-in-Residence with a charity promoting the work of ex-offenders in the community. She has exhibited her work in London, Malta and Brussels and has been collaborating with a poet at the annual Chicago Calling Festival since 2000.Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
The forms that Naomi Lethbridge creates serve as a record of her labour. In the drawings, lines are accumulated in a systematic technique, reducing any subject to a democratic language. By using a purposefully limited means of creating an image or form, a new entity can be created from its most basic beginnings, with each element under her control, regardless of the nature of the work.
Collection – of ideas, information, experiences – greatly influences the work, and the practice of classification, as a method of interpreting the surroundings, informs the aesthetic and concept. The style and its often eclectic and quirky nature is reminiscent of an historical approach towards acquiring knowledge, expressing the desire to know, understand and organise all that surrounds, and to commemorate it in physical form.
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Naomi Lethbridge graduated in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2004 and Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009. Her work has been shown widely throughout Britain and Europe.Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
The collection of drawings and prints that makes up 'Psalms of Black Light' is a form of diary. Originally planned as a hand-bound book, the work refers to anti-cosmic ideas and chaos theories within the popular underground culture of Scandinavian black metal. Pär's work takes inspiration from light and darkness, situated in mental and physical landscapes. Each individual work in this series, whether lithograph or original drawings, combines to give a sense of the whole narrative that is played out through the juxtaposition of images. A sort of metaphorical hymns or psalms or talismans or incantations of a darkness visible.
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Pär Strömberg (Örebro 1972) work and live in Stockholm, Sweden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 1996-1999 and from Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2011-2013 . Four time nominee for the Royal Dutch Painting Prize and winner of Wim Izaks paintings prize in the Netherlands and current holder of the Cecilia Frisendahls Lithography Grant from the Stockholm Lithography Museum. He has numerous of exhibitions across Europe and the USA and is represented by Ron Mandos Gallery in Amsterdam. Recent shows includes Charles Bank Gallery in New York, various art fairs across Europe and an upcoming show in Los Angeles with Coagula Curatorial (2014). His work is included in the following collections: Museum Het Domein Sittard (NL), Caldic Collectie Rotterdam (NL), Akzo Nobel Art Foundation Amsterdam (NL), Peter Drake Collection (NL), Hugo & Carla Brown Collection (NL), Örebro Läns Museum (S). Strömberg also teaches painting at the Örebro College of Art.Fine Arts, Painting2015 -
Phill conveys through his painting the “utter unbelievable horror,” and speaks of how “The destruction is completely beyond my understanding”. In the UK we have a secondary experience of the conflict, which is presented to us through the news. The media in this case becomes an intermediary through whom Hopkins begins to unravel and try to understand these historical events as they happen.
Biography
Born in Bristol England, Phill Hopkins studied at Goldsmiths College in London. He lives and works in Leeds. Known as a sculptor, his recent work has centred predominately around drawing. He was recently included in Becky Beasley’s ‘I Fall to Pieces’ (named after his piece) at Leeds City Art Gallery; Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War - Imperial War Museum North, Salford and Parallel Lines & Model Gallery, Leeds. He is represented in various public collections, including, Imperial War Museum, London; Stadt Dortmund, Germany; Hungarian Museum of Photography and Leeds City Art Gallery.Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
Richard Shields’ practice investigates varied contemporary issues through the use of the site specific, found objects and traditional skills. His pieces contain a duality between what is often seen as valuable permanence found in the process of drawing and mark making and the disposability of everyday encounters. Whilst producing contemporary works Shields looks to history both as an indicator and to contextualize events that occur in his own life and to the wider public. His past curatorial explorations in the site specific have seen him apply a range of media from oil paint to swimming pools, projectors and paper coffee cups. His topics of interest lie in financial posturing, religion and the autopsy of artistic process through an allegory with a sense of humour.
Biography
Richard Shields graduated from Manchester Metropolitan university in 2006 with a BA Hons in Sculpture. Shields is currently based in Manchester where he runs a small studio called ‘The Other Side of The Door Is Red’ in the Hotspur Press. He is co-founder and Director of 'Contents May Vary', formed in 2004, and has exhibited nationally and internationally both as part of the collective and on solo projects.Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2015 -
Simon Woolham's work is concerned primarily with occupied spaces and the narratives that unfold in them. His drawings of school playing fields, junked underpasses and the like often contain text with the tone of dialogue. Through these glimpses of speech the dilapidated environments come to life in a skint version of enchantment: a tree stump or a broken fence are filled with the meanings of the events that go on around and about them. In his attempts to unearth this unpredictable and fragile process of memory, he uses biro drawings, paper interventions, animation, video and text.
Biography
Simon Woolham is currently based in Macclesfield. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Lowry in Salford and Chapter Gallery in Cardiff, as well as numerous national and international group exhibitions. In 2008 he was included in the first Tatton Park Biennial and in 2006 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Baltic in Gateshead. He won the Mostyn Open 11 at Oriel Mostyn in 2001.Drawing, Fine Arts2015
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