Artists announced for NORTH pt1
Callum Bell
"In using that which is familiar to myself, materials that usually have an association with the 'home' & thus domesticity are employed. My logic is that, as I want to make work about things familiar to me then the work should start with the 'home,' as a concept, material & source of inspiration.
My intention is that in these artworks the viewer approaches that which is familiar to themselves in a fresh way, as I am challenging, provoking & using what is mundane to myself.
In Hut the radiator is used as a symbol of domesticity and its associations, such as warmth, protection and comfort through exaggerating these attributes to a hyperbolic state of physical excess.
The radiator is a microcosmical symbol of wider associations of a home. Here I am removing then re-using it as a symbol, exaggerating it in making a symbolic and impractical shelter."
Kevin Boniface and Shaw & Shaw
"Shaw & Shaw are photographers. They have been documenting the built environment of Huddersfield and the people that shape it for over ten years.
Kevin Boniface is a writer and artist. He has been documenting the people of Huddersfield and the built environment they shape for over ten years.
They have collaborated many times before, presenting their findings in exhibitions, books and live events.
In this show they commemorate the tenth anniversary of their first collaboration, the 'zine' White Dog Biz, with a selection of work from 1999 to 2009."
http://web.mac.com/victorygarden.mac
http://www.shawandshaw.co.uk/
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/
