University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 2):
Debi Holbrook
After a less than conventional life Debi ran away from home, domesticity and sheep herding to continue her Art education and in the process (quote) ”I lost everything, but gained so much more – except an oven, I still don’t own one”. Now a Leeds based exhibiting visual artist Debi uses a various media and sometimes diverse materials to create works mainly (but not exclusively) concerning absence, evidence + memory. A penchant for collecting discarded items, she uses her gut instinct to rework them with often uneasy results. Debi is currently a workshop assistant in the Learning department at Hepworth Wakefield.
[email protected]
http://twitter.com/debi_holbrook
Courses: BA (Hons) Avant Garde
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Duncan Lister
Duncan left school with 3 GCE O Level’s (the original and far harder to get type) and little idea what he wanted to do. After many years doing shit jobs Duncan went to art school. He still has no idea what he wants to do when leaves school. He does however have this to say about his artist practice:
“My chief concerns relate to the concepts of balance and imbala…”(the rest of this artist’s statement has been removed by order of the Department of Artwank)
[email protected]
duncanlister.wordpress.com
twitter.com/duncan_lister
Courses: NVQ Pedantics
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Bob Milner
Bob Milner was born in a different decade to most people reading this. His early life was marred by tragedy; the carpet and the curtains didn’t match. For anyone else, this would have been an opportunity to struggle through and prove to the world that nothing can stop them. For Bob, it was a sign that nothing was ever going to be right. A natural sceptic about the innate decency of people, misanthropy and a profound inability for empathy has contributed to the making of very little. His approach to art and living was shaped gradually over many tedious hours. Art is an itch, the kind you get in the middle of your back, the one you can’t reach. If he could reach, he would scratch it.
www.twitter.com/peepart
www.wordpress.com/bobmilner
www.milktwosugars.org
Courses: BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste & Diploma in Artwank
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Sparrow+Castice
Collaborative behemoth Sparrow+Castice are a Birmingham based creative duo thrust into art in an attempt to impress the other gender, owing to musical incompetence. Our interests lie primarily in doing as little work whilst pretending to do as much work as possible, puns, funs, and devoting a disproportionate amount of energy to hating artists with the initials A G. We’ve exhibited/screened at The Hepworth Wakefield, on a Henry Moore sculpture, at Flatpack Festival 2011 and in our garage. In 2012 Sparrow+Castice are set to replace Vic and Bob as the hosts of Shooting Stars on BBC2. The previous sentence was a lie.
Courses: MPhil Mistakes
