David Hancock
2012
Description
David Hancock’s work concentrates on the notion of a 'Generation X'. He attempts to make palpable the psychological gap between the world that we physically experience and the psychological states through which it is apprehended. Though his use of watercolour on paper, he presents escapist fantasies, whether through youth subcultures, the fantasy worlds of computer games or by directly referencing historical utopian visions.Rooted in the tradition of Romanticism, Hancock appropriates signifiers are taken from historical works of art, sources and themes. In his current work he has immersed himself in the Cosplay subculture, where participants act as their favourite avatar in the urban landscape.
Biography
David Hancock graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 and has been exhibiting widely since. He has appeared in a number of prominent exhibitions such as the John Moores 21, Young Masters and the BP Portrait Prize. He has had solo and group shows across the UK and Europe as well as New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He recently completed a PhD at University of Salford. David's recent solo exhibitions include Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Touchstones, Rochdale, and 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe. In 2015 he will have solo exhibitions at Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge and Howden Park, Livingston.
Biography
David Hancock graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 and has been exhibiting widely since. He has appeared in a number of prominent exhibitions such as the John Moores 21, Young Masters and the BP Portrait Prize. He has had solo and group shows across the UK and Europe as well as New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He recently completed a PhD at University of Salford. David's recent solo exhibitions include Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Touchstones, Rochdale, and 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe. In 2015 he will have solo exhibitions at Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge and Howden Park, Livingston.
Fields
Fine Arts
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Badger (Into the Trees)Watercolour on Paper21 x 29cm2015£350 (framed)Click to purchase this work via Paypal -
Badger (Facing West)
Watercolour on Paper
21 x 29cm
2015
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Rikku (Fay)
Watercolour on Paper
29 x 21cm
2014
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Advent Children III
Watercolour on Paper
21 x 29cm
2013
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Johnny Reaper (Angie),Watercolour on Paper,13 x 15 cm,2013,£200 (framed)Click to purchase this work via Paypal -
Nelliel (Linda)Watercolour on Paper6 x 9cm2013£150 (framed)Click to purchase this work via Paypal -
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Badger: The OriginArtist made book21 x 29 cm14 pages (b&w + 1 colour plate)Edition of 252014£30 (including p&p)Click to purchase this work via Paypal -
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David Hancock CVBorn, lives and works in Manchester, UK. Co-founder and director of PAPER gallery.Education:2010-14 - Graduate Teaching Assistantship with PhD, University of Salford2008-10 - Master of Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University1993-96 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan UniversitySelected Solo Exhibitions:2015 - ‘Cosplay’, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge2015 - ‘Cosplay’, Howarth Art Centre, Livingston2014 - ‘Cosplay’, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe2013 - ‘Cosplay’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery‘Cosplay, Touchstones, Rochdale2011 - ‘Time to Pretend’, Hub, Manchester2010 - ‘Game’, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe2008 - ‘That’s Not My Name’, The Agency, London2007 - ‘How Can Someone so Young Sing Words So Sad’, Transit, Mechelen, Belgium2006 - ‘Who Will Eat my Sadness’, The Agency, London2005 - ‘The Beautiful People’, The City Gallery, Leicester2004 - ‘Jane Says…’, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley2003 - ‘The Beautiful People’, Comme Ca Gallery, New York, USA‘The Beautiful People’, Kirkby Gallery, Kirkby Liverpool‘The Beautiful People’, The Storey Gallery, Lancaster2002 - ‘The Beautiful People’, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China‘The Beautiful People’, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax2001 - ‘The Beautiful People’, View 2 Gallery, Liverpool‘The Beautiful People’, Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester2000 - ‘The Beautiful People’, Cartwright Hall, Bradford‘The Horrible People’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool1998 - ‘The Beautiful People’, Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby1997 - ‘Princess Leia was my first Kiss’, Phillips Contemporary Art, ManchesterSelected Group Exhibitions:2014 - ‘Snow in Summer’, Peek-a-boo Gallery, Perth, Australia‘Manchester Connexions’, The New School House Gallery, York‘ID’, Hanmi Gallery, London‘Far Lands’, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield‘Human Clay Revisited’, The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber2012 - ‘Polemically Small’, Orleans House Musem, London2011 - ‘Polemically Small’, Charlie Smith, London‘In Safekeeping’, The New Schoolhouse Gallery, York‘Future Can’t Wait’, Torrance Art Museum, California‘Citizen’, TactileBosch, CardiffMarmite Painting Prize III, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry & The Nunnery, London2010 - Marmite Painting Prize III, Central Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester‘This is England’, The Aubin Gallery, London & Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, ItalyAnti Design Festival, London/Newcastle Space, London‘Salon 8’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong2009 - ‘The Lure & The Seducer’, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark‘Connexions’, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark‘Karma-1’, Gallery 44a, Istanbul, Turkey2008 - ‘The Future Can Wait II’ (curated by Ellis & Rumley) Truman’s Brewery, London‘Kapellmeister pulls a Doozy’, Seven Seven Gallery, London‘The Past is History’(curated by Ellis & Rumley) Changing Role, Naples & Rome, Italy‘The New London School’(curated by Ellis, Rumley & Max Presneil), Mark Moore, LA, USA2007 - ‘Teenage Kicks’(curated by Melanie Moreau), Vegas Gallery, London‘The Future Can Wait’, (curated by Ellis & Rumley) Truman’s Brewery, London2006 - ‘I-POD Killed the Video Star’(curated by Ken Pratt), Showroomama, Rotterdam, Netherlands‘I Ain’t No Yesterday’s News’, Gallery Likovni Krug , Exitfest, Serbia & Tour2005 - ‘Portreto Formate’, ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania & Tour‘Children of the Grave- Masters of Reality’ (with Ross Sinclair), The Agency London‘Young Masters’, (curated by Flora Fairburn), Art Fortnight London‘Hand in Hand we Walk Alone’, Clapham Art Gallery2004 - ‘Forever Beautiful’, Clapham Art Gallery, London2003 - ‘Thermo 03’ The Lowry, Manchester2002 - ‘A Word from our Sponsors’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 02‘Perverse Pop’, Catto Contemporary, London
‘The Battle for Realism’, (curated by James Hyman) Inside Space, Selfridges, London2001 - BP Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London2000 - ‘Inferno’, LMN Project, Guildhall, NewcastleBP Portrait Award 2000, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 - John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool1996 - ‘Northern Graduates’, Royal College of Art, LondonSelf-curated Group Shows:2012 - ‘Digital Romantics’, Dean Clough, Halifax & Aubin Gallery, London2007 - ‘Fantasising Fairies’, 501 Art Space, Chongqing‘Faith’, Dean Clough, Halifax & Gallery Primo Alonso2006 - ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 06 & Gallery Primo Alonso, London‘Jerusalem’, Dean Clough, Halifax‘Manchester, So Much to Answer For’, Warsaw Projects, Manchester2004 - ‘Le Petit Paysage’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 04 & Comme Ca, Manchester‘We Didn’t Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It’, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery,Hertfordshire University, St Albans & Collins Gallery, Glasgow2002 - 'I’ll be your Mirror', Warsaw Projects, ManchesterLive Art PerformancesCollaborative performance with Yingmei Duan2011 - ‘Once Upon a Time’, BS Visite, Braunschweig, Germany2010 - ‘Pathological Aesthetics’ Performance festival and Symposium at University of AppliedSciences Nijmegen, Netherlands2009 - ‘Dreams’, at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UKAwards:2010 - Arts Council Development Grant2007 - British Council CtC Development Grant2002 - British Council for DDM Warehouse ResidencyShortlisted for BOC Emerging Artist Award 20022001 - City Life’sVisual Arts Exhibition of the Year 2001
Shortlisted for Fresh Artist 2001 AwardNorthwest Arts Board- Individual Artists AwardCommended in BP Portrait Award1998 - Northwest Arts Board- Individual Artists AwardResidencies:2011 - York Theatre Royal2007 - 501Art Space, Chongqing, China2004 - Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington2002 - DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China1998 - Walker Art Gallery, LiverpoolOthers Projects:2012 - Co-Founded PAPER, Manchester2009 - Established Mirabel Studios, Manchester2008 - Co-Founded ‘Art Group’, a peer group of Manchester-based Artists2002-4 - Established and curated Warsaw Projects @ Open Art Studios, Manchester offering emerging artists their first solo exhibition2005 - Published the artists books ‘A Cure for Everything’ & ‘Lost Beneath the Waves’ by Brya Weths
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Jenny Core’s work is an investigation into the potential and diversity of drawing as a medium and not ‘just a process’. Her works are time led and explore performative processes. The object is captured on paper. It dissolves, explodes and ceases to exist in its current form. What remains is a mark of an object that once existed, a moment captured in time. These created forms have then been manipulated and appropriated to create playful narratives.
Biography
Lives and works in Berlin. Core studied Fine Art at The University of Huddersfield (2009). Core curated The Drawing Project at Castlefield Gallery in 2014. Other exhibitions include: Some Misunderstanding, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. (2013) Self Portrait Exhibition, Brooklyn Art Library, New York. (2012); 60 Drawings Exhibition, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester (2012); Drawing Connections. Siena Art Institute. Italy. (2011); Twitter Art Exhibition, Exhale Unlimited (E.U.) Gallery, Los Angeles (2012). Awards include: Special Recognition Award, Abstract Competition, Light Space & Time Gallery, USA. (2013); Shortlisted for the Neo: Artprize 2013, Bolton. (2013).Drawing2012 -
Andrea Cotton's work is about the repetitive, mundane and monotonous. Her practice fits within these parameters but the results are widely dissimilar. She employed the process of doodling and the necessity of counting and translated these tasks to the extreme, using monotony and ennui of prison life (witnessed as a teacher within an institution) into pieces of artwork that raise questions and demand a new look at what exactly goes on in such places.She strives to convert everyday data into accessible pieces that, as well as being of immediate appeal, will also raise questions. Cotton's work is about obsession, particularly when born out of boredom or institutionalisation, and the processes in which such circumstances arise.
Biography
Andrea Cotton completed her Masters at Liverpool John Moores in 2010. She was included in 6&7 at Oriel Mostyn in 2008 and the Oriel Open at Oriel Davies. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Oldham and Kirkby Gallery, near Liverpool.Drawing2012 -
Frances is currently exploring the notion of presenting artworks in a state of flux, unresolved and tipping into the next stage of transformation. She would like to expose at what point an artwork becomes an actual piece of art and the mechanisms an artist employs to make this process possible. Frances is primarily a printmaker, though her practice pushes the boundaries of what can be achieved through these processes. Starting with a simple form, she will explore this through photography, sculpture, drawing, as well as printmaking.
Biography
Frances completed her printmaking masters at the Royal College of Art in 2004. She is based at the Royal Standard and lecturers at Liverpool Hope University. She is also manager of the Bluecoat print studios in Liverpool. She recently completed her Exploring PAPER residency and is currently working towards her solo exhibition at PAPER in January 2015.Fine Arts, Painting, Print Design2014 -
Susannah Douglas is concerned with the representation of the human figure through the conventions of portraiture. She plunders images from a range of sources; art historical examples, via photocopies; anonymous photographs uploaded to the Internet and glossy magazine spreads. These fragments are spliced together, the poses, gestures, attire and composition are examined, repeated, reconstructed and reflect back upon themselves.
Biography
Susannah Douglas lives and works in London. She graduated from Wimbledon College of Art with an MA in Fine Art in 2010. Her work has recently been exhibited at Bermondsey Project, London and in Bristol as part of Incub8; Motorcade Flashparade's series of solo exhibitions by selected emerging artists. In 2013 she was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Griffin Art Prize, and Art Laguna. In 2014 she will have a solo show at the Globe Gallery in Newcastle and a two-person show at PAPER.Drawing, Fine Arts2013 -
Bethan Hamilton’s work is an exploration of female sexuality, identity and body image through mark making – with a focus on mass, weight and fat. She is currently working on a large portrait drawing series, of female sitters consuming a variety of foods. Through these images, Bethan seeks to further examine the contradictory attitudes regarding the female form and the sexualisation of women within the media and popular culture.
Biography
Bethan Hamilton completed her Masters in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, in 2009. Recent exhibitions include; Snow in Summer, Peek-a-Boo Gallery, AUS (2014), PAPER#12: Party Favours, PAPER Gallery, UK (2014) and 20:20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press, UK (2014). Shortlisted for Miniprint Finland, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland (2014), Pushing Print Prize, Pie Factory, UK (2012), neo:printprize, neo:gallery22, UK (2012) and neo:artprize, neo:gallery22, UK (2012). Selected as Print Artist in Residence, The Bluecoat, UK (2014) and AA2A Artist in Residence, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2011). Bethan lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Fine Arts2012 -
Phil Hopkins’ drawings have a devotional quality. Drawing on the humble, mundane materials and images that dominate our everyday experience, they worry away at them until their physicality and their meaning is transformed. The kitsch poetry of paint-colour names on DIY store colour charts carry the pathos of suburban aspiration, and catalogues of furniture or consumer goods reveal the ways in which we strive to assert our individuality within the limitations of commodified options. These are carefully chosen surfaces on which to draw, and their sheen of advertised sophistication is erased when Hopkins works with these materials. The erasure takes place not decisively, not cleanly, but partially, hesitantly, by means of a roughly scumbled layer of paint reminiscent of the white-smeared surface of windows behind which redecoration work is taking place. The schematic image of the house, and the narrow line of the garden path, ubiquitous in Hopkins' work over many years, remind us simultaneously of a place of refuge and a place of confinement. They signify both the private home of the 'nuclear family' and the social space of the housing estate, embodying both the separateness of the individual and the uniformity of the mass. (Derek Horton, 2014)
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.
Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
Sharon Leahy-Clark allows the work to grow organically without editing so that the poetic qualities of the materials used is shown and all working processes and natural accidents are left visible; nothing is erased. This way of working references the Freudian idea and surrealist practice of ‘free association’.
Biography
Sharon Leahy-Clark graduated from the Royal College of Art MA Fine Art, Painting (2001). She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally (including in Japan , Hong Kong , Berlin ) and has been the recipient of several awards including the Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize. Her work is held in several collections including British Airways. Selected Exhibitions include: Jerwood Drawing Prize (2013, 2008); Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts (2013, 2009); Derwent Art Prize(2013); Sunday Times Watercolour Prize (2013); British Glass Biennale 2008; Celeste Painting Prize 2007 (finalist); FaithCAS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (2004); Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn, Wales (2002); Figuring Cezanne, Lethaby Gallery and Tate Britain, London (1996).Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
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.
Biography
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 Arts2012 -
Richard Meaghan's works on paper are born from imaginations, thoughts and inventions manifested in oil and graphite. Their varied beginnings invariably start with questions of human existence and why we are here. From the cosmological to the merely topical, Meaghan's thoughts take on an evolutionary journey from ancient history and theology to ideas of globalization, control and political agenda. Here, with world affairs as they are with climate change and genetic engineering Meaghan's landscapes often have eschatological connotations that could be depictions of our future or echoes of our past.
Biography
Richard Meaghan (born 1970) lives an works in Liverpool. He has exhibited nationally and internationally as artist and curator. Recent exhibitions: 'Lure & the Seducer' Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (2009) 'Getting off at Edge Hill' Metal, Liverpool (2009) Liverpool Art Prize (2009) FACT (2010), Cornerhouse, 'The Last Adventure of the Great Alonso, Primo Alonso, London (2011), Liverpool Biennial (2012) 'Beautiful Things' Next Door Projects, Liverpool (2013)Fine Arts, Painting2013 -
Architectural spaces, computer games and photographic realism all play a part in James Moore’s work. The highly detailed paintings are heavily informed by the aesthetics of games, comics, sci-fi novels and, sometimes, by real places.
These paintings all picture something expansive, something concrete, conjured up from fictional environments, sketches and photographs. Motives differ from one painting to the next. One work may depict a virtual space, from an imagined world, while another might show a city park or a building from the real world. The painted scenes are never unbelievable spaces – they always stay close to the real, on the border of fiction.
Biography
James Moore is an artist and curator based in Cardiff. He studied a Fine Art degree at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. He was recently shortlisted for the Welsh Artist of the Year competition, and also exhibited two paintings in the National Eisteddfod in Wales.
James exhibits regularly in group exhibitions and within his own curatorial projects. Over the past few months his work has been included in ‘Digital Romantics’ at Dean Clough Gallery in Halifax and in ‘Virtually Real’, in the Stanley and Aubrey Burton Gallery in Leeds and Blyth Gallery in London.Digital Art, Drawing, Fine Arts2012 -
Leanne Richardson's work focuses on appropriation and reproduction to create an illusion of questioning the use of materials, to show how advertising plays with senses in seducing the viewer. By creating one off reproductions to include animals, creates absurdity and uses their vulnerability to entice the viewer. Collage shows this use of reprodcution in magazines and the animalistic society we live in of discarding everything we no longer desire. By using paper in the same way as paint, Richardson creates an illusion of what materials are being used, manipulating judgements like advertising has the ability to do.
Biography
Leanne Richardson graduated in 2012 from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA Hons in Fine Art. Leanne has been included in Making Faces, The Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk (2014); Silent Auction, Holden Gallery, Manchester (2012); Nine, Kraak Gallery, Manchester (2011). In 2013 she had a two-person exhibition with Lucy May Schofield at PAPER.Fine Arts2012 -
Jenny Steele’s practice explores the relationships between our occupation of digital space and physical space, their corresponding architectures, and our suggested movement within these spaces. She has recently been focusing on tracking inhabitation within the urban spaces of the North West. She explores her ideas through the processes of animation, printmaking, bookmaking and drawing.
Biography
Jenny Steele has been practicing as an artist for ten years, and is a graduate of MFA at Goldsmiths (2007) and BA Fine Art (First Class) at DJCAD (2002). She exhibits internationally, and has undertaken residencies in the UK and China. She is currently Artist in Residence at Manchester School of Art, and is completing a commission for InCertainPlaces (Preston). She has also recently been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012.Fine Arts2012 -
Graham Watson’s practice is a continuation of the Surrealist practice which aims to resolve the contradictory conditions of dream and reality. Using image appropriation and traditional cut and paste techniques to create collages primarily concerned with the evocation of the magical, a childhood sense of wonder, and possibility and consequently nostalgia, it’s power both equally ecstatic and melancholic. Watson embraces free association in his practice and avoids narrative an underlying impetus often pervades the work.
Biography
Graham Watson (born 1974) lives and works in the Lake District. Graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 1996. Played nationally and internationally as former drummer in art band ‘Black Basque’. Recent exhibitions include: ‘1964’ P.S. Mirabel Manchester 2014, ‘End of the Line’ Paper Gallery Manchester 2013, ‘Yellow’ Rheged Gallery Penrith 2013, C-Arts Open Studio Cumbria 2013. Residency and exhibition at Rogue Studios Project Space Manchester 2011.Fine Arts2014 -
Lisa Wilkens’ work is fundamentally based in drawing and the understanding and exploration of images, their reproduction and development through drawing. With a strong interest in the photographic image – as cultural object of representing ‘what is\was’ – she sees her practice as a means for analysis, a method to understand and process images. Choosing images of international affairs, online news and archives, her drawings can offer a new form of reading located between personal stories and political histories.
Biography
Lisa Wilkens was born in Berlin and grew up in Bremen, North Germany. She completed a degree in scientific illustration at the University of the Arts, Zurich Switzerland graduating in 2005. In 2007, Lisa completed an MA in printmaking at Camberwell College, University of the Arts London. Her work was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 and exhibited at the SS1 space Sheffield and the ICA in London. Further exhibitions include Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Paper at Saatchi Gallery, and Block 336, Brixton.Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
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.Drawing2012 -
Hannah Wooll's work has always been concerned with imagery that is slightly off kilter, exaggerated or fabricated. The portraits of women who at first glance are beautiful and uncomplicated then reveal themselves to be anything but, subverted from the magazine pages and old master paintings from which their heritage derives; laying sloth like in dead winter trees which belong in Technicolor film sets, or starkly lit in deliberately contrived and manufactured environments which are oddly dreamlike. More recently paintings have been inspired by uncanny museum painted dioramas, figures strategically lit by phosphorescent fish tanks, and reflections in glazed paintings; portraits within portraits, gaze upon gaze. The paint itself is as powerful an enticement as the carefully chosen imagery; a slippery, fallible, distortive tool, rendering limbs and features clumsy and unreal, existing to be just a painted mark, which in itself lends a surreal layer of reference.
Biography
Hannah Wooll (b. 1977 King’s Lynn, Norfolk, UK) studied at Norwich School Of Art (1995-96), Manchester Metropolitan University (1997-2000) and The Royal Academy Schools (2000-03) where she received the May Cristea Award for Fine Art for her final show. Shows include: Solo Show Natural Habitat, Twelve Gallery, London, (2010); Solo show, Contemplating Life and Stuff, Comme Ca, Manchester (2007). Selected group exhibitions include: Portfolio North West, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, (2013); Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, California, (2011); Beyond Fontanna, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London, (2010,) Jerwood Drawing Prize (2009) and (2010), Jerwood Space, London and tours; The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London, (2007); New London Kicks, Wooster Projects New York, (2005). Wooll currently lives and works in the North West of England.Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
By manipulating, deconstructing and distorting the architecture and objects that are within documents and imagery, Rachel Wrigley attempts to invent new forms; and provide a distorted version of reality by investigating space as a moveable, impermanent fixture. It is these explorations that Rachel likens to the process of drawing, trying out the potential for larger scale ideas. Her playful exploration of paper explores the boundaries between drawing and sculpture. It’s papers potential as a sculptural material that allows her to re-imagine the way we create spaces and household objects.
Biography
Rachel graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2012 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Sculpture, in 2013 she completed PAPER's first ‘Exploring PAPER’ residency and presented her first solo exhibition 'Staring at the Artex Ceiling' in 2014 at the gallery. Rachel is now based in Manchester and regularly participates in exhibitions across the UK.Drawing, Fine Arts, Sculpting2013