Simon Woolham

2012

Description

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.

Fields

Drawing

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Triad
Biro on Paper
21 x 29cm
2015
£275 (framed)
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The Dippers
Biro on Paper
21 x 29cm
2015
£225
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Take it Back
Biro on Paper
21 x 29cm
2015
£225

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Nan
Biro on Paper
29 x 42cm
2013
£300

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Where the fuck have you been?

Biro on Paper

29 x 42cm

2011

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The Field
Biro on Paper
29 x 42cm
2011
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Sticks & Stones
Biro on Paper
21 x 29cm
2011
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Fuck n' Run
Biro on Paper
29 x 42cm
2011
£300

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Nan's Chair

Biro on Paper

21 x 29cm

2013

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Back Garden

Biro on Paper

21 x 29cm

2013

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Hanging out at the lampost

Biro on Paper

21 x 29 cm

2013

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The Bomb

Biro on Paper

21 x 29cm

2013

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The Skeggs across the way

Biro on Paper

21 x 29cm

2013

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Simon Woolham // Artist Editions // Books
‘Sticks and Stones – The Game’
By Darkcorner (AKA Simon Woolham)
Self-published Game Booklet
10 Pages
21x15cm
Unlimited Edition
2012
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‘The bridge was a good place to throw stuff off – Drawings, Lithographs and Pop-Ups”
By Simon Woolham
Published by Marmalade – Publishers of Visual Theory
Lithograph Pop Up Book, 96 Pages
15x21cm
Limited Edition of 50
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Installation in Soft Estates @ Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2013
Installation @ Chapter, Cardiff, 2008
Installation @ Floating IP, Manchester, 2004
Installation @ Hoxton Distillery, London, 2001
Videos
Performing Paper

9 mins

2013
Wythy Talks

12 mins

2014
Scanners

1 min 30 seconds

2008
The Hollows (excerpt)

25 secs

2008
On the Run (excerpt)

28 secs

2008
Hey Wayne!

37 secs

2008
CV

Education:

2012 – 2015   AHRC Funded PhD Candidate at MIRIAD - Manchester Metropolitan University

1999/2000    M.A. Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, Grade: Distinction

1996/1999     B.A. Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Grade: 2:1

Exhibitions:

Solo Shows:

2013             The Wanderer 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

2008             The Short Cut Kings Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk

                    The Invader (curated by Elena Schmitz) Chapter Gallery, Cardiff

                    Dark Corner Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans

2007             The Bridge was a good place to throw stuff off Leicester Art Gallery, Offsite

                    Shreds of Evidence (curated by Danielle Arnaud) Museum of Garden History, London

                    On The Run and The Passage Wexford Arts Centre, Enniscorthy, Per Cent Commission

                   Our Place BLOC Space, Sheffield

2006             Pop Up’s and Interventions The National Glass Centre, Sunderland

                   ARTS COUNCIL North East Offices Show and Commission

                    BALTIC centre for contemporary art Launch of Publication, Newcastle Upon Tyne

                    Jerusalem Book Space Installation Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax

2004             Hanging Out at the Lamppost The Lowry Residency, Commission and Solo Show

                    Floating IP Gallery Plan-chest Show, Manchester

2001             Hoxton Distillery (above the Macbeth) Shoreditch, London

Selected Group Shows:

2016             Sound and Vision (curated by Simon Woolham) PAPER, Manchester

2015             We shape our buildings: therefore they shape us London Art Fair

2014             Unstable Ground (curated by Simon Woolham) PAPER, Manchester

                    Jonbar Archaeology NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

                    Soft Estate Spacex, Exeter

2013             Soft Estate (curated by Sara-Jane Parsons) The Bluecoat, Liverpool

                    Performing PAPER PAPER, Manchester

                    Fine Art Schools Group Show Kunst Acacedmie, Dresden, Germany

2012             Meanwhile (curated by Eloise Rose) John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton

                    Digital Romantics (curated by David Hancock) Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax

2011             Ink on Paper DLI Museum, Durham

                    In Close Succession Group show, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich

                    Virtually Real London, Leeds and Cardiff

2010             Partnering Wysing Arts Centre, with Abbas Hashemi and as M4SK 22

                    Virtually Real London, Leeds and Cardiff

                    The Great Outdoors Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

                    Performing Presence The National Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg

                    Animated Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

                    Eastern Open 10 Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk

2009             Open End Tank TV (online), London

                    Parlourdoor And All Through the House, Group Show, New York

                    The Event Various Venues in Birmingham

                    Project Pigeon - Pictorial (curated by Alex Lockett and Ian England) Birmingham

                    In between the Lines - Recent British Drawing (curated by Jeremy Cooper) Trinity

                    Le Roman Du Lievre: Marginalia MTS Gallery, Anchorage

                    Blue Sky (curated by Nancy J Clemance) Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

                    Celebration of Earth Day The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

                    The Kiss of A Lifetime (curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson) Rogue Project Space

                    Place, Identity and Memory Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries

                    Eastern Open 09 Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk

                    TESTCARD (curated by Projeckt) Online Project, London

                    ANIMATED Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Nr Cambridge

2008             AQUA Art Fair with Danielle Arnaud, Miami, USA

                    LE60 Lumen Eclipse, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                    Time is Love (curated by Kisito Assangni) Octobre Gallery, Paris

                    Inside-Out (curated by Lotte Juul Petersen) Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Nr Cambridge

                    The Golden Record (curated by Mel Brimfield) Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

                    Stop Watch RSA Arts and Ecology/Animate Projects Commission, Various

                    Visions of the Nunnery The Nunnery, London

                    Tatton Park Biennial 2008 (curated by Parabola) Tatton Park, Knutsford, Nr Manchester

                    Margate Rocks Margate, Kent

                    Eastern Open 08 Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk (prize winner)

2007             ISOBAR (curated by Gaia Persico) Fieldgate Gallery, London

                    Bolwick 4 Bolwick Hall, Nr Norwich

                    Creekside Open APT Gallery, London

                  Harry Smith Anthology Alt.Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

                    Merdre! Pendu Gallery, New York, USA

                    Art Video Västerås, Sweden

                    Snow Domes The National Glass Centre, Sunderland

2006             Too Much Freedom! Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

                    One Love, The Footbal Art Prize The Lowry, Manchester

                    EXPO Sonic Arts Cornerhouse and Victoria Baths, Manchester

                    Visions of the Nunnery The Nunnery, London

                    Paper Cuts Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery and Various Venues

                    Another Product Cornerhouse, Manchester

                    Jerusalem Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax

                    London Art Fair Work curated by Danielle Arnaud and Pryle Behrman

2005             Artsway Open Artsway, Sway, The New Forest

                    Emergency 2 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

                    Perspectives 2005 Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

                    Future Landscape Shrewsbury Art Gallery, Shrewsbury

2004             La Petit Paysage Independent, Liverpool Biennial 04

                    Bad Kids' Warrington City Art Gallery, Collins Gallery, Margaret Harvey Gallery

                    I am a Curator (curated by Per Huttner) Chisenhale Gallery, London

2003             Keith Talent Gallery Drawing Show, London

                    Prospects Drawing Prize 2003 The Truman Brewery, London

2002             May it Return in Spades Bart Wells Institute, London

                    Blinc G39 Gallery, Cardiff

2001             Sparwasser HQ (Z-Bar Cinema), Berlin, Germany

                    If the wind changes you'll stay like that Mafuji Gallery, London

2000             Mostyn Open 11 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (prize winner)

                    Perspectives 2000 Ormeah Baths Gallery, Belfast

                    Dilated Pupils V.T.O. Gallery, Bethnal Green, London

                    Becks Futures Student Prize ICA, London

                    Uptight Outasight Plus Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

                    Exit 24hrs Chisenhale Gallery, London

Publications and Reviews:

2014             Unstable Ground Guardian Exhibition Previewed by Robert Clarke

                    Drawing Paper Distributed Newspaper Gallery, Liverpool

2012             Pop Up’s and Drawings Publication published by Marmalade–Publishers of Visual Theory

2010             Rubric Journal Spring Edition, Document

2009             Between the lines Recent British Drawings Publication Curated by Jeremy Cooper

2008             The Invader Guardian Exhibition Previewed by Jessica Lack

                    The Invader Metro Newspaper Exhibition Previewed by David Trigg

                    The Golden Record reviewed in The Times, The Herald, The Scotsman and Metro

                    Tatton Park Biennial 2008 Catalogue Published by Parabola, essay by Sally O’Reilly

                    Three Artists Views Engage Publication 22

2007             Shreds of Evidence Guardian Exhibition Previewed by Jessica Lack

                   ISOBAR Publication by Gaia Persico and Angela Kingston

                    Shreds of Evidence Publication Published by Parabola with an essay by Lisa Le Feuvre

2006             Our Place BALTIC/Creative Partnerships Residency Publication

                   The Lowry Work acquired for the Professional Footballers Association Collection

2004             Hanging Out at the Lamppost Metro Newspaper Exhibition Preview

                   I am a Curator Publication by Per Huttner

                   Bunk Publication Commission for Bunk

2002             Mined Publication Commission for Tank Magazine

Awards and Commissions:

2012             Arts Council England Funding for Publication of Drawings, Lithographs and Pop Ups

                   Brotherton Library 75th Anniversary Commission of new Pop Up's

2009             Arts Council England Funding for Artistic Development and Research

2008             Enquire Commission Urban Origami for Kettles Yard, Ruskin Gallery and Wysing

                    Tatton Park Biennial 08 Commission, Knutsford, Nr Manchester

                    Stop.Watch Animate Projects/RSA Arts and Ecology Commission for Ecologically Film

2007             Arts Council England Funding for ‘Shreds of Evidence’ Museum of Garden History

2006             50 Drawings in Snowdomes National Glass Centre Commission, Sunderland

                    Arts Council North East Offices Commission and Show

                    Per Cent for Art Commission and Residency Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland

2004             The Lowry Commission and solo show

2003             Bookworks Short listed for Chap Books Series

2002             Middlesborough Art Gallery Short listed for Drawing Residency

                    London Arts Board Artists Bursary Awarded

2001             Mostyn Open 11 First prize award winner

2000             ACAVA First Base prize winner (one year’s free studio)

Residencies and Education:

2015             The Manchester College Contemporary Art Practice Course, Artist in Residence

2014             Staffordshire University Foundation Course, Lecture and Tutorials

                     The Manchester College Degree Course, Lecture and Tutorials

2013             Lancaster University Degree Course, Lecture and Tutorials

2011             Fermynwoods Flow Interchange Residency 14 days Residency on a Narrow Boat

                    Fermynwoods 'Forest as Film' Public Residency Thrapston, Northamptonshire

                    Museum as Film Workshops at V&A

2010             Artist in Residence Bedford Creative Arts, Bedford

                    Imagine a Film Storyboard Workshop at Wysing Arts Centre

                    Wysing Arts Centre Escalator retreat

2009             Vital Arts Shrink Your World Project

                    Chisenhale Gallery and Vital Arts Residency, collaboration with Yara El-Sherbini

                    Creative Partnerships Artist in Residence in collaboration with Science and Art

                    Lancaster University Degree Corse, Lecture and Tutorials

                    Media Box Project Leader on Digital Project with Disadvantaged Children, WAC

2008             Various Schools in Cheshire Part of Tatton Park Biennial 08, Tatton Park

                    West Suffolk College Lecture and Tutorials, Bury St Edmunds

2007             Bolwick 4 Bolwick Hall Residency and Show, Nr Norwich

2006             The National Glass Centre Artist in Residence, Sunderland

                    Berwick Gymnasium Short listed for Berwick Residency

                    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Freelance Artist

                    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art/Creative Partnership Artist in Residence

2005             V&A Museum Digital Artist in Schools Residency

                    ACAVA Dianne Hughes Residency in Schools

                    Lancaster University Lecture and Tutorials

                    V&A Museum Digital Art Workshop Leader

2004             Lowry Art Gallery Drawing Residency with St Thomas Aquinas School

                    Warrington Art Gallery Residency at Young Offenders Institute, Warrington

2003             V&A Museum Digital Art Workshop Leader

                    CITAS Narrative/Image Workshops with refugees, Hammersmith

                    Kings Cross Workshops in Schools for production of Carmen

                    Manchester Metropolitan Lecture and Tutorials on B.A Fine Art

2002             ACAVA Selected for portfolio development and artists talks in schools

                    ACAVA Drawing and Storytelling Workshop with refugees

2001             Hurlingham and Chelsea School Children with Dyslexia

2001             Newcastle University Lecture and Tutorials on B.A and M.A. Fine Art

Conference Presentations:

2014             Thinking John Berger Conference Presentation at Cardiff University, Wales

                    Mapping Culture Conference Presentation at Coimbra University, Portugal

Public Collections:

Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

MMU Special Collections, Manchester

NN Contemporary Art, Northampton
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire

Texas State University, USA

Professional Footballers Association Collection

The Mag Collection

Fermynwoods, Northamptonshire

Poppy Sebire

Jenny Core

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).

Drawing

2012
Andrea Cotton

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.

Drawing

2012
Frances Disley

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 Design

2014
Susannah Douglas

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 Arts

2013
Bethan Hamilton

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 Arts

2012
David Hancock

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.

Fine Arts

2012
Phill Hopkins

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, Painting

2014
Sharon Leahy-Clark

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, Painting

2014
Naomi Lethbridge

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 Arts

2012
Richard Meaghan

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, Painting

2013
James Moore

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 Arts

2012
Leanne Richardson

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 Arts

2012
Jenny Steele

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 Arts

2012
Graham Watson

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 Arts

2014
Lisa Wilkens

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, Painting

2014
Hannah Wooll

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, Painting

2014
Rachel Wrigley

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, Sculpting

2013