Artists Statements
Bruce Davies
Bruce’s work looks at the sociological aspects of the gallery space, how people react to and engage with the work and the environment in which it is displayed. His work has ranged from fairly large scale built environments usually with an audio visual content to photographic work and drawings. His current line of enquiry takes ideas of repetition, difference and individuality in the built environment as its starting point whilst using various devices to encourage people to actively engage with and participate in the creation of work.
Richard Taylor
Through working in galleries, research libraries and archives Richard has developed an interest in how such environments conceptualize forms of creating, presenting and archiving artwork. His work is largely object based dealing with how drawing can be a cross-media activity: his projects often consult variable architectures and site-specificity, developing presentation as a medium next to which drawing, note making/taking and documentation are re-defined.
Sarah Dale
Sarah’s work explores repetitive gestures created by organic natural forms highlighting the subjective impact on our emotions. This is explored through a range of media based on its tactility qualities. The work also invites the viewer to re-examine and to re-consider how the use of these materials/media can be seen out of its usual context.
Emma Fitzjohn
Questioning the way community and space is constructed, both structurally and metaphysically; Emma’s practice concerns notions of territory and ownership through the exploration of ‘boundary’ and architectural forms. Designed environments direct and compartmentalise human traffic, creating a dichotomy between defined trajectories and the personal existences we each experience within them. Within her practice inhabited spaces are miniaturised, interpreted and distorted via a combination of sculptural maquettes, drawings and photography. By manipulating scale and using architectural elements, she creates vacant and dislocated forms that question human interaction with the built environment.
