Wen Wu
2012
Description
All the flesh and material in Wen Wu’s paintings seems touchable, it is both inviting and enigmatic. The beauty and sensuality are combined deep within the personality of the paintings. Wu’s love of beauty motivates her to create my unique painting style with innovative composition, tasteful colour, and a particular attention to the appearance of the beauty of the figures.
Biography
Wen Wu graduated from Tsinghua University's fine Art Department in 2001 before moving to London. She completed her Masters at London Metropolitan University in 2005. She has had several solo exhibitions including The Agency, Satorial and Hua Gallery in London, and Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, where she also completed 2 artist-in-residencies. She was selected for the BP Portrait Prize in 2011
Biography
Wen Wu graduated from Tsinghua University's fine Art Department in 2001 before moving to London. She completed her Masters at London Metropolitan University in 2005. She has had several solo exhibitions including The Agency, Satorial and Hua Gallery in London, and Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, where she also completed 2 artist-in-residencies. She was selected for the BP Portrait Prize in 2011
Fields
Fine Arts, Painting
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She hears her being murmur…
Oil on Paper
2012
£400
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It Enters the dark hold of the head…
Oil on Paper
2012
£400
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If we had to exist to become the one we love…
Oil on Paper
2012
£400
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Can I but became like her
Oil on Paper
2012
£400
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Bliss of tiny creature that remain forever in the womb that brought him forth
Oil on Paper
2012
£400
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Alice Bradshaw works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. Bradshaw creates or accentuates subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane.
Biography
Alice Bradshaw curates collaboratively and is founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish and University of Incidental Knowledge, co-founding director of Fundada Artists' Film Festival and Contents May Vary and co-curator for Westgate Studios and Holmfirth Arts Festival.Fine Arts, Photography, Writing2012 -
Fulya Çetin’s art consists of a body of portraits where she freezes, questions and consolidates the concepts of identity, existence, nature and life between her own image and that of the paper. The objects and subjects within Çetin’s works reflect the facets and surfaces in which she searches for their true essence as she opens them up to integrate with the viewer. These paintings have a look. A look with which the viewer is faced... They are stripped of space and time; between a state of existence and disintegration, near a neutral state, focused on the neutral, they are within a space where they search for pure consciousness.
Biography
Fulya Çetin was born in Istanbul in 1970. After graduating from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in 1995, she participated in various group exhibitions and created projects with the “Hafriyat Artist’s Group”. Çetin lives and works in Istanbul. Paper will provide the first opportunity to view Çetin's work in the UK.Fine Arts, Painting2012 -
"Jenny Core's drawings, suggestive as they are of an almost cloistered reverie. Core takes functional objects and imagines their dysfunctional use as props and animated protagonists in her own private dream world. Here the proper conventions of domesticity and the simple laws of physics no longer hold sway: an angle-poise lamp shoots out a beam of blackness; hairdryers pose in animated mid-performance; an office fan emits an ectoplasmic cloud. It's unashamed graphic escapism..." - Robert Clarke, The Guardian
Biography
Jenny Core graduated in 2009 from The University of Huddersfield with a BA Hons in Fine Art: Drawing and Painting. Core now lives and works in Manchester and exhibits her drawing works internationally. Core's previous exhibitions include: And Let The Walls Loose, Paradise Mill, Macclesfield (2012); Twitter Exhibition, Moss Library, Norway (2012); Contemporary Experimental Art Exhibition, Studio 1D, London (2011); Drawing Connections. Siena Art Institute, Italy (2011). Core has been shortlisted for the Neo: Artprize 2012 and The Art & Escape Awards.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 -
Philip Davenport is one of a new wave of British experimental poets who acknowledge contemporary art practise as much as poetics.
Davenport’s work has been praised (‘Daring and elegiac.’ The Scotsman) and dismissed (‘These aren’t even poems.’ City Life). The poems are made from found text: journalism, porn, txt messages, overheard voices: the daily, unnoticed, backdrop of us. His poems appear in art galleries, recordings, posters, publications, performances, streets and shop windows. He runs the small press imprint APPLE PIE EDITIONS, whose output ranges from books through to 3D objects, posters and sound recordings.
Davenport has exhibited in the Henry Moore Institute, the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, the Turnpike, the international Text Festival; residencies include America, China, Holland.Fine Arts, Writing2012 -
Julie Dodd is an installation artist who mainly works with paper. Books and magazines form the source of her materials alongside other discarded materials, recycled to form installations, bringing a new life and meaning to them. Her work is rooted in environmental issues, using her practice as a platform to reflect her concerns of our consumption and environmental responsibility. Based on repetition and inspired by pattern and shape found in nature, her artwork appears as multiples, used to mimic life, growth and regeneration.
Biography
Julie Dodd graduated from Wirral Metropolitan College in 2009, before taking part in IMPACT 6 International Printmaking Exhibition and Conference. She spent the following year at Wirral Metropolitan College on the fellowship program. This ended with an exhibition which was part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial. In 2012 she was chosen by SCIBASE to be shown at the Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair, she became Wigan libraries resident artist and spent a month working with the community as part of another residency program ‘Comma’. She has work is in several collections around the World and often shows her altered books at artist book fairs.Fine Arts, Sculpting2012 -
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.Drawing, Fine Arts2013 -
Poppy Green utilises drawings, sculpture and urban interventions to examine ideas of material culture within the framework of metropolitan society.
A city dweller, born in rural Suffolk, Green’s work explores how increased urbanisation affects human behaviour and ecological evolution. Blending the real with the imagined, Green deconstructs accepted realities in order to re-imagine a dark world where pondweed threatens and engulf its surroundings and birds steal Nike Air Maxes.
Biography
Poppy Green received her BA(Hons.) in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005.
She has exhibited extensively in London and regionally across the UK, as well as in Australia.Fine Arts2012 -
Bethan Hamilton’s work is an exploration of the obese female form through mark making - with a focus on mass, weight and disproportion. For the series of etchings presented at Paper,Hamilton creates images of ambiguous forms, indeterminate in sex, species or context. She has sought to visualize a selection of these 2D forms as tangible 3D sculptural objects through a series of individual frames viewed within a 360°rotation.
Biography
Bethan Hamilton completed her Master at the University of the Arts London, in 2009. In 2011 she had a solo exhibition at the Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton. She has been in a number of exhibitions across the UK, and was selected for the Neo:Artists prize in 2012. She is currently undertaking an Associate Artist-in-Residence at Manchester Metropolitan University.Fine Arts2012 -
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 is currently undertaking a PhD at University of Salford. Hancock will have a solo Exhibitionat Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2013.Fine Arts2012 -
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 -
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 -
Narbi Price's new series of lithographs are based on the locations of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888, as they are today, now variously car parks, schoolyards, loading bays etc. There is no immediate indication to the viewer of the depicted site’s histories. The only acknowledgement is that the work’s titles are suffixed with the victim’s initials in brackets - it is therefore possible to decode the provenance of the site. The viewer’s experience and reading of the work changes irrevocably with knowledge of the history of the depicted site. By withholding or encoding the historical significances of the depicted sites, Price wishes to question how the formal selection of the imagery and the painting process itself can evoke a mood and suggest an autonomous authority and to explore the relationship between a site and its representation.
Biography
Narbi Price was born in Hartlepool. He currently lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He completed his Fine Art Masters at Newcastle University in 2010. He has been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize on the last two occasions. This year he was a prizewinner for the work Untitled (MJK).Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2012 -
Anna Puhakka is an interdisciplinary Finnish artist who uses a multidisciplinary approach to making art. In her work Puhakka explores her relationship to identity, religion, ritual and the balance of power often through her Karelian heritage. Her practice incorporates an array of mediums such as installation, photography, sound, performance, video and text through which she creates atmospheres for the viewers to experience.
Biography
Anna Puhakka (b.1983, Tampere) is a Finnish artist who has lived in the United States of America, Australia, France and England. She graduated from Sunderland University in 2007 and has been an internationally practicing artist ever since. Puhakka is also the curator and editor-in-chief of the monthly creative art magazine, HESA inprint and the lead singer and co-songwriter for the band Tristan. Currently Puhakka lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.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. Previous group exhibitions include; Fine Art Degree Show, Manchester School of Art (2012); Silent Auction, Holden Gallery, Manchester (2012); Nine, Kraak Gallery, Manchester (2011).Fine Arts2012 -
Through her photography Roshana seeks to capture the unnoticed intricacies of daily life and to reveal things the eye's don't. As well as documenting the subtleties of the every day, her work also explores the nature and location of 'self'.
Roshana studied Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and spent two years making performance art. She has been taking photographs to document her daily life since a young age, which developed into her first project Glimpse. This ongoing collection is a personal invitation into a series of intimate moments that are shared but never fully revealed. The work is a way of connecting more directly with the present moment rather than an act of remembering. Film Start Time is a collection of the frames before the first full image, taken from the strips of negative that have documented the photographer’s life over the last 10 years. Roshana has exhibited in solo and group shows across the UK and has worked on commission internationally - with organisations including British Red Cross and performers such as Ron Athey. She is one of the Culture Cloud winners exhibited at New Art Exchange and will also be exhibited as part of World Event Young Artists in September 2012.Digital Photography, Fine Arts2012 -
Lucy May Schofield’s practice attempts to capture moments. Focussing on the overlooked, she consistently documents vulnerability. Her desire to memorialise the unspoken and make a record of mortality or place are often manifest in the paintings, prints, books and installations she creates.
Biography
Since graduating from London College of Printing in 2002, Lucy May Schofield has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is held in public and private collections in the UK and abroad including Tate Britain, Yale Center for British Art, Chelsea College of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and the State Library of Queensland. Her artist multiples are stocked in London, Paris, San Francisco and L.A. She is the curator of ‘The Bibliotherapy Artist’s Book Library’ (BABL), a touring mobile library home to over 150 artists’ books.Fine Arts, Painting2012 -
Richard Shields practice is primarily concerned with drawing and painting but takes inspiration from objects, environments and situations. Allowing the spaces he exhibits in to direct the work conceptually is a decision that has fed through into his daily studio practice in which anything that happens to him becomes the work. From credit debt to coffee drinking Shields employs the mundane and monumental. Through exploring the pursuit of realism, process and the use of objects, he creates self-reflexive works where images, objects and mediums can be intrinsically linked or contrasted. Using detail and detritus he looks to investigate a balance within the components and occasionally, challenge the idea of the artist as alchemist within his practice.
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 Arts2012 -
Nicola Smith is a visual artist who makes work in response to the context of her surroundings using different mediums such as live art intervention, performance, installation and video. She punctuates situations in public and private spaces by playing ‘host’ and acting out a series of actions. Smith's actions take on many forms such as public speaking, directing, singing and dancing in order to engage and disrupt the expectations of the audience. These performances happen in semi-public spaces to allow accidental audiences to take part.
Biography
Nicola Smith completed her Masters at Liverpool John Moores in 2010. She has undertaken performances at Bluecoat (Liverpool), Green Room (Manchester) and Arnolfini (Bristol). She participated in Finissage at Future Everything, Manchester in 2010 and undertook a Breathe residency at 501 Arts Centre, Chongqing. In 2011 she performed at Night of the Arts in Helsinki.Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Photography2012 -
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 -
Miranda Whall’s recent and current work includes drawings, paintings, video, photography, animation and sound through which she recurrently plays out representations of herself, presenting self portraits that explore the representation of both her body and her experiences. By constructing fantasy scenarios where she co- exists with other things, inanimate objects or living creatures Whall makes humorous, unlikely and uncanny connections, dynamics and relationships. Whall constructs fictional contexts in which she can play out both extremely personal, exhibitionist and explicit representations of her sexual, fertile, expressive and intimate self in order to draw attention to and discuss the appropriateness and place for these dimensions of ones self as well as both the politics surrounding feminine identity and of trying to be the author and owner of her own sexual and feminine image.
Biography
Miranda Whall is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Whall studied B.A Fine Art at UWIC, Cardiff between 1989 –1992 and Fine Art, Sculpture at The Royal Academy Schools between 1993 -96. She was an Associate Research Student at Goldsmiths College, University of London between 2001-02.
Her work has been shown in a number of venues and events including Glasgow International ‘06, Site Gallery, Sheffield, LPT, London, BALTIC, Gateshead, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Salon 2007 New British painting and works on Paper, VANE, Newcastle, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Prospects Pizza Express Contemporary Drawing Prize and the Jerwood Drawing Prize.Drawing, Fine Arts, Print Design2012 -
Clutter, noise, the debris of old drawings, shiny new materials, found imagery, pens, papers, crayons, spray paints and ready-made things heaped onto her desk create an ideal breeding ground for Sarah Kate Wilson's drawings. It is only when she allows this cacophonous racket to build to a deafening level that the direct, pared down and concise drawings emerge.
Biography
Sarah Kate Wilson (b. 1982 Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) graduated from her Masters Degree (Painting) at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 and has been exhibiting widely since. We are pleased to announce that she has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. Selected exhibitions include: Malerei; Painting as Object, (UK touring exhibition), NewBridge Project, Newcastle, Transition Gallery, London; A Wall is a Surface, presented by LeandaKateLouise, Londonewcastle Project Space, London (2012); Marmite Painting Prize 2010, (UK touring exhibition) and The voice and nothing more, Woburn Research Centre, London (2009). Residencies include Utopia and Youth organized by Athens School of Fine Art in Rethymno Crete (2009) and a 3 month residency at John Jones Project Space, London. Awards include the Duveen Bursary (2009) and the Pocock Award (2009). She lives and works in London.Fine Arts2012 -
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 has an impressive CV, which includes solo exhibitions at the Lowry in Salford and Chapter Gallery in Cardiff and numerous national and international group exhibitions. He is currently based at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. 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 -
Dawn Woolley’s artistic practice encompasses photography, video, installation and performance. She uses photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation. Her artwork forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis, phenomenology and feminism, Woolley examines her own experience of becoming an object of sight and also considers the experience the viewer has when looking at her as a female, and a photographic object. Voyeurism and exhibitionism intertwine as she attempts to disrupt relationships of power in purposefully provocative scenes.
Biography
Dawn Woolley completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2008. She has developed a photography-based practice that encompasses digital video, installation and performance as well as photo-based installations. Dawn Woolley currently lives and works in Cardiff, UK and is a photography lecturer at Bridgend College. She is co-director of the curatorial project Another Product, which she founded with James Moore in 2003.
Recent exhibitions have included; “Virtually Real” at The Blyth Gallery, London (2010), “Start Your Collection” at The London Art Fair (2009), “Fotomonth” in Krakow, Poland (2007) and solo exhibitions in Ffotogallery, Cardiff (2011) and Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Lithuania (2012). Her artwork is held in a number of private collections in the UK, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado and in the Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato, Japan.Performing Arts, Photography2012