ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR TEMPORARY ART SHOW (part 1)
Rachael Allen
"A bittersweet life.
A one-way journey.
Are you travelling comfortably?
Miniature model-making provides a stage for the exploration of mortal existence, where the fine-line separating birth and death highlights our vulnerable condition as human beings. The miniature vehicles emphasise the uncomfortable reality that is the brevity of life; before long, the vehicle that drives one from birth to youth is replaced by the vehicle that drives the unfortunately disabled to their inevitable death.
To be seduced by these unique miniatures is to enter a diminutive world where annihilation rubs all around; just like looking in the mirror."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rcallen_artspace
Georgia Boniface
"Georgia Boniface's background in fashion and textiles is brought to bear on canvas. Traditional appliqué techniques combine with a powerful compositional and graphic sensibility to bring about a vivid, hand-made, ephemeral and precise explosion of military hardware, pin-badges, british flora and fauna and icons of punk rock and modern art."
http://web.mac.com/victorygarden.mac
Kevin Boniface
"Kevin Boniface is an artist/writer. He has exhibited irregularly at galleries around the UK. He writes a diary all about being a postman in Huddersfield which won some awards and was published by Old Street Publishing last year as Lost in the Post; The Independent said it would be "a cult classic" and a man on the Amazon website said it was "Utter Rubbish". Kevin has also made a zine called Compact News which Tom said he liked.
Chris at work once said he thought Kevin might not really be a very good artist and that he might just be out to shock people for the sake of it; Kevin told him to go f**k himself."
http://web.mac.com/victorygarden.mac
Alice Bradshaw
"I work 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. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane."
http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk
Edward Cotterill
"Edward Cotterill makes work that although uses basic materials and skills operates on a sub fantastic level; striving not to be "beautiful" (creating beauty out of the mundane) but less beautiful than the individual objects/materials used. An inverse notion of the term greater than the sum of its parts occupying a world where it is lesser than the sum of its parts, which paradoxically lends the work a skewed aura of beauty. Highlighting how the world is put together."
http://www.theparlour.org.uk/artistspages/edwardcotterill/edwardcotterill.html
