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Claire Rousell "Give up belonging, that was the only way to free yourself" – Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit Claire Rousell's work intertwines our collective histories and private memories. In creating images, she combines diverse sources, ranging from official documents such […]
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Kim von Kothen Kim von Kothen’s self-reflexive practice is based upon observing, condensing and synthesising her impressions of her environment into poetic form. Her project “Conversations in between strangers” began by undertaking close observations of the conversational ‘dance’ between herself […]
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Richard Glynn Richard Glynn presents two projects. The first is a study of one of the most intensively industrialised sectors of the economy, and one which every citizen is dependent upon, but which only roughly 3% of the UK workforce […]
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Jennifer Kirk Jennifer Kirk's preoccupation is with the everyday artefacts that order and control our lives without us scarcely being aware of it. Her project is to picture the promise of technology, and to make plain how we are all […]
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Toby Lloyd Toby Lloyd works in the tradition of conceptual photography established in the late 1960s and early 1970s by such figures as Keith Arnatt and John Stezaker. Lloyd has remarked that Arnatt’s series of self-portraits, titled as the ‘Impossible […]
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Iain Harker Iain Harker’s series ‘The Food Front’ present a fully-formed fictional domestic landscape, set in an imagined future. His photographs are constructed scenarios, and collectively they recall the science-fiction narratives of cinema and novels, in part. He gives shape […]
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Corinne Lewis The triptych series Transmutations is the culmination of an enquiry into the complex subject of Man’s relationship with Nature. With the application of the symbolic use of the natural and the manmade, I examine the very fabric of […]
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Juliet Chenery-Robson It is estimated that there are at least 250,000 people in the UK suffering with the chronic, disabling illness Myalgic Encephalopathy or ME as it has become known. All types of people at all ages are affected with […]