West Midlands Open

Floor 3 | 20 May — 25 September 2022

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present, for the first time, the West Midlands Open, an exhibition of recent artworks in various media by artists from, or connected, to the region. The exhibition follows an open-call to West Midlands artists, including those currently attending an art school in the region or educated here in the past 10 years.

The Gallery received over 500 entries from across the region, spanning Greater Birmingham, The Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. From these, a panel of independent judges and Gallery staff selected 250 works for exhibition.

The West Midlands Open celebrates the quality, diversity and vibrancy of the local visual arts ecology and provides a platform and selling opportunity for artists in the region.

All works in the exhibition can be viewed below, ordered alphabetically by first name, and sorted via category;

…kruse — untitled

Print

…kruse — untitled

Print

…kruse — untitled

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is a text sent from the future via Inter_time. The Inter_Time app, also known as the Hindsight machine is/will be created by Cyb_Corp in the mid 2100s and is/will be how data can be sent back in time. This text was tagged Sender:Cassandra. Interestingly, all of Cassandra's messages are tagged Location: Unknown or Location: Off Earth. We do not know who Cassandra is but data indicates that she/they is an A.I. Information received from Inter_time indicates that the world two hundred plus years from now is almost unliveable. The number of human and non-human lives lost to floods, fires and other climate disasters is on a scale not seen on Earth since the extinction of the Dinosaurs.
  • Date:
    February 2022 and 13/05/2321
  • Medium:
    Digtal print
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://www.krusework.info/

Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

Painting

Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

Painting

Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Martin Luther King Jnr., integrated within the back drop of a brick wall juxtaposing Elvis Presley song lyrics, personifying King's famous words: "I Have a Dream". White-washed bricks concealing a graffitied truth, (revealed by illuminating the rear of the canvas), represent the nature of historical and contemporary cover ups, and the proverbial coming up against a brick wall for the truth to out.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and Acrylic Gel on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Alex Billingham — Bikini Killed The Atom

Audio/visual

Alex Billingham — Bikini Killed The Atom

Audio/visual

Alex Billingham — Bikini Killed The Atom

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    Bikini Killed the Atom is a short film shot entirely on location at STRYX gallery and the surrounding area. Considering how our relationship with Nuclear technology has changed and continues to evolve with particular emphasis on viewing it through a queer perspective. This is a natural extension of my previous work in this field and will be part of a solo show in Dispensary Gallery – University of Wrexham in 2022. Following the effective obliteration of the Bikini atolls by the US military when testing Atomic weapons the US reaction was the Bikini a word we are now so used to it’s almost lost all connection to the events which lead to it’s existence.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Film
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://alexbillingham.co.uk/
  • https://vimeo.com/alexbillingham
  • https://www.facebook.com/alex.billingham.7
  • https://www.instagram.com/billingham_alex/?hl=en

Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

Painting

Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

Painting

Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘End of the Rainbow’ is a collage on canvas. A clock-shaped, chaotic cycle of cute cartoons ask the viewer to read shifting symbols that hang uneasy in the indigo. Pastel tones and soft edges mask trauma, missing moments and invisible acts only seen on the faces on of the little ponies - cut and stuck in a state of fight or flight. Within the circle is a cluttered collage interior, creating a labyrinth littered with domestic obstacles. Just above centre sits a baby’s bassinet, a paper pocket, that holds a miniature sealed envelop enclosing a hand printed letter, written to ‘Baby Unborn’. Through this gesture, the canvas itself becomes a message to absence, illusion and the endless hope that limitless love lies at the end of the rainbow.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Paper, acrylic paint and hand-printed letter in envelop on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.alicewalter.co.uk

Aliya Perager — When I close my eyes

Mixed Media

Aliya Perager — When I close my eyes

Mixed Media

Aliya Perager — When I close my eyes

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    'When I close my eyes' is a mixed media piece which uses acrylics, watercolours, oil pastels, modelling paste, acrylic pens, soft pastels and gold leaf. When I created the piece, I wanted to show the different things I see when I close my eyes and how my mind wonders from one thing to the next. It explores how the mind can sometimes be comforting with bright colours and on the other side, the thoughts we may feel when we are down. I want to show how the mind is a marvellous thing. The central part of the piece is a face with flowers coming out of the head. For this, I hope to show it as a reminder that we must continue to 'water' our minds with friends, family, art, doing something that makes us feel great - for us to keep blossoming. And that's why I have the watercolour drips and the flowers so bright and vibrant. I used patterns that related to my culture and experimented with techniques that my mind wanted to see come alive.
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Amelia Hawk — It’s ok

Audio/visual

Amelia Hawk — It’s ok

Audio/visual

Amelia Hawk — It’s ok

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is a collaboration video with dancer Vidya Patel. We framed our response as a proposition that would say; What can movement/choreography do to act as a remedy for feelings of anxiety, sadness or uncertainty. What would movement look like that was supportive and acted as a way of saying ‘it okay’, or ‘lets get through this together’. Vidya specialises in Kathak dance and works with contemporary choreography.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Video
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    http://www.amelia-hawk.com

Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

Painting

Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

Painting

Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting is part of an ongoing series that presents the artist as a cat. The character represents the experience of being an immigrant in the UK and the feeling of not belonging to a specific place. This is accentuated by the background which makes the subject float without any spatial references. Each work contains symbols specific to the East European cultures, presented in a humorous manner. For example, the headscarf, branded clothes (Adidas in slav cultures), and the half-naked figure that usually is observed at male-only, not females. In this way, the work brings into conversation East European gender stereotypes. The cat is also a street animal in the UK, which in relation to immigration, serves as the outsider. In art history, the cat has been used as a describer of the female character, usually in a negative manner. Here, the cat is characterised using other symbols which brings mystery to the piece.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylics on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/andreeapislaru90/?hl

Andrew Howe — Refuge II

Other

Andrew Howe — Refuge II

Other

Andrew Howe — Refuge II

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    From a series of drawings and paintings inspired by walks in Shropshire and surrounding areas, in which I made observations of cabins, caravans, sheds and make-shift shelters of various kinds. Each place revealed evidence of previous or ongoing habitation, usually by persons unknown. The circumstances of their abandonment are also unknown or ambiguous, which provokes curiosity in the human stories behind these secretive dens. In their isolated woodland surroundings, these places could be viewed as idyllic retreat or desperate refuge. In the works, I invite contemplation of primitive living from multiple perspectives including the dual viewpoints of ancient human history and a dystopian future. Gaston Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space” was a reference in my reflections on precarious living conditions.
  • Date:
    May 2020
  • Medium:
    digital drawing, giclée print on paper
  • Category:
    Other
  • Website/s:
    http://www.andrew-howe.com
  • https://www.facebook.com/andrew.howe.503645/

Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

Painting

Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

Painting

Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    From a series of drawings and paintings inspired by walks in Shropshire and surrounding areas, in which I made observations of cabins, caravans, sheds and make-shift shelters of various kinds. Each place revealed evidence of previous or ongoing habitation, usually by persons unknown. The circumstances of their abandonment are also unknown or ambiguous, which provokes curiosity in the human stories behind these secretive dens. In their isolated woodland surroundings, these places could be viewed as idyllic retreat or desperate refuge. In the works, I invite contemplation of primitive living from multiple perspectives including the dual viewpoints of ancient human history and a dystopian future. Gaston Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space” was a reference in my reflections on precarious living conditions.
  • Date:
    July 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.andrew-howe.com
  • https://www.facebook.com/andrew.howe.503645/

Andrew John Smith — Eine Kleine Nicht Musik (Homes Under The Hammer)

Mixed Media

Andrew John Smith — Eine Kleine Nicht Musik (Homes Under The Hammer)

Mixed Media

Andrew John Smith — Eine Kleine Nicht Musik (Homes Under The Hammer)

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Eine Kleine Nicht Musik, is part of a series of works begun during the period of lockdown. I spent a lot of time stuck inside reading Derrida and watching Homes Under The Hammer (amongst other things). I became interested in the rooms shown in the tv programme, particularly the more abject ones pre-transformation. Thinking about the reading, and processes of citationality and iterability, I took photos of some of those rooms, from the tv screen, and began painting on them. Perhaps in relation to the period when these works began, the painterly modifications often present an expansion/extension of the space of the room. Also, I’d like to think that the works offer an implied comparison between the forms of value accrued by the various property developers in Homes Under The Hammer and the value of the artistic work.
  • Date:
    October 2020
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on digital print
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.andrew-smith-h-r-smoke.com

Andrew John Smith — New Smoke 10

Photography

Andrew John Smith — New Smoke 10

Photography

Andrew John Smith — New Smoke 10

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    New Smoke 10 is from a series of photos derived from translations of writing about the paintings of Neo Rauch. I translated these writings using Oulipian methods, made various models based on these translations, and I then photographed the models – so a kind of conversation between painting, writing and photography.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Digital print
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.andrew-smith-h-r-smoke.com

Andrew Kirkland-Perks — Artisan

Sculpture

Andrew Kirkland-Perks — Artisan

Sculpture

Andrew Kirkland-Perks — Artisan

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a portrait of a mature women who I imagine has worked creatively all her life. Her hands are a portrait in themselves, conveying as they do the years of hard use that they've been put to.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Plaster
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Andrew Woodhead — Mission To Mars (Diptych): i. Gentleman Astronauts Club; ii. In-Flight Meal

Drawing

Andrew Woodhead — Mission To Mars (Diptych): i. Gentleman Astronauts Club; ii. In-Flight Meal

Drawing

Andrew Woodhead — Mission To Mars (Diptych): i. Gentleman Astronauts Club; ii. In-Flight Meal

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    Jeff Bezos saves humanity by burning large quantities of fuel in his private rocket. As Mars approaches, he is served spaghetti with a gold bar instead of meatballs while listening to his favourite song - "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey - on his portable retro personal cassette player (£19.99 on Amazon Prime).
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Gel Pen and Watercolour on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • https://www.instagram.com/andrew_dronfield/

Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

Painting

Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

Painting

Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Recently I have been using landscapes to explore the notion of trying to create images that produce an almost common emotion irrespective of the observer. My current work is centred on Birmingham City centre landscapes that result from the reflective surfaces that adorn many of its recent buildings; in particular Grand Central Station. Here are images that are ambiguous and bizarre , real structures presenting unreal reflections in a kaleidoscope of changing colour and pattern but which hopefully instil in the observers an underlying feeling of spontaneity and transience, as they are drawn into these scenes of distortion.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting

Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

Painting

Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

Painting

Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Recently I have been using landscapes to explore the notion of trying to create images that produce an almost common emotion irrespective of the observer. My current work is centred on Birmingham City centre landscapes that result from the reflective surfaces that adorn many of its recent buildings; in particular Grand Central Station. Here are images that are ambiguous and bizarre , real structures presenting unreal reflections in a kaleidoscope of changing colour and pattern but which hopefully instil in the observers an underlying feeling of spontaneity and transience, as they are drawn into these scenes of distortion.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting

Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

Painting

Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

Painting

Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting is from a body of work originally started at the beginning of the global pandemic, when our love of bird song was briefly renewed and our reliance on the natural world for our own sense of well-being intensified. A comment on our human intervention with the fragile natural world and loosely based on Victorian dome jars, it aims to reflect on the inescapable evidence of humankinds’ need to take what we can at any cost. The purposely inverted colours in the painting aim to give it a nocturnal feel, suggesting time suspended, dreamlike, on hold, pending the dawn of an uncertain future.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic on linen
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.angelamaloney.co.uk/index.html

Anisa Nazz — Grief

Painting

Anisa Nazz — Grief

Painting

Anisa Nazz — Grief

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    A golden female silhouette turning her back on sorrow and grief. The harsh etchings coming out from the sides depict the pain of this woman. The geometric style patterns represent the complexities she is going through. This painting was created at a time of loss for me. I struggled to grieve and so I threw myself into painting this day and many hours of the night. Ironically, it helped me come to terms with losing a loved one and address my sorrows. Even though it was created during a very difficult time, this piece was so healing for me that I am actually left with positive emotions whenever I see it.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on cotton Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.anisanazz.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/anisa.nazz/

Anne Guest — Borderland

Mixed Media

Anne Guest — Borderland

Mixed Media

Anne Guest — Borderland

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world (Natural History Museum 2021). The intensification of agriculture has resulted in loss of habitats and there is an increase in pollution due to our throw away culture. 'Borderland' explores these issues. I am interested in with how we simultaneously celebrate nature whilst trashing it with our detritus. As natural habitats decline will nature be able to adapt to these new constructed habitats? The gold metal leaf detail represents a ‘ray or glimmer of hope’.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Cyanotype with gold metal leaf detail
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://anneguest.co.uk

Anne Guest — Home from Home

Mixed Media

Anne Guest — Home from Home

Mixed Media

Anne Guest — Home from Home

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world (Natural History Museum 2021). The intensification of agriculture has resulted in loss of habitats and there is an increase in pollution due to our throw away culture. Home from Home explores these issues. I am interested in with how we simultaneously celebrate nature whilst trashing it with our detritus. As natural habitats decline will nature be able to adapt to these new constructed habitats? The gold metal leaf detail represents a ‘ray or glimmer of hope’.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Cyanotype with gold metal leaf detail
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://anneguest.co.uk

Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

Painting

Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

Painting

Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting is informed by a black and white photograph found in a discarded tourist guide. The image has been adapted with many figures removed leaving the focus placed on the relationships between the remaining subjects.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.axisweb.org/p/annettejanepugh/

Anthony Hall — Blue

Painting

Anthony Hall — Blue

Painting

Anthony Hall — Blue

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I love working in oil on gesso because you can move backwards and forwards with sanding , painting and drawing. I was introduced to the work of Roger Cecil through a series of posthumous exhibitions at Machynlleth, Cardiff and Brecon and have been influenced by his edited back abstracted way of working . This painting 'Blue' is a series of shapes and the spaces in between with two elements of colour, the Blue is the title of my most played album by Joni Mitchell.
  • Date:
    Februry 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on gesso on panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Atlanta Ellis — Mixed Tangiable

Photography

Atlanta Ellis — Mixed Tangiable

Photography

Atlanta Ellis — Mixed Tangiable

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Before lockdown, I was always that individual that kept herself quiet and didn't want to express my feelings because I was afraid of any type of judgement if I expressed my own opinion or feelings. But during the lockdown, to even now, I have changed. I started to know about myself more as a person regarding my own identity and the environment that I live in (which many times I have overlooked). When being in my personal space has led me to create such a personal powerful project around my self-representation exploring my own identity. Many times, I have faced a wide range of negative comments regarding myself, whether it's the colour of my skin, how I portray myself as a 'biracial individual' but mostly the issues do circle around my hair. I started to unlock that side of the past and I was determined to create a positive out of the negative, which has led to the images that I have created today.
  • Date:
    March, 2021
  • Medium:
    Digital
  • Category:
    Photography
  • https://www.instagram.com/alive.visuals/

Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

Painting

Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

Painting

Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    ''Crooked cops'' - Oil on gsm paper Following the grotesque murder of Sarah Everard the public felt vulnerable and incensed with those designated to protect and serve. However anger, resentment, and hatred, after all, tend to disappear when one makes a serious attempt to understand the unfathomable. Much in the same way Creams conveys his understanding of the ways of the world, Creams has a way of portraying dark elements within jigsaw pieces wrapped with a veil of optimism...of hope - a light that stirs even the darkest of souls.
  • Date:
    01/04/21
  • Medium:
    Oil
  • Category:
    Painting

Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

Painting

Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

Painting

Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'big squeeze' exudes embrace. It is a depiction of a hug, however I try not to put too much emphasis on what I see in my pieces and welcome interpretations from others. This is why I champion abstraction in each painting and allows me the freedom to have multiple possibilities in each piece; before and after creation. If I don’t feel connected to the moment whilst creating, my feelings and to the colours, I struggle to create. It’s this connection that fuels my process. For this piece in particular I wanted to paint that connection.
  • Date:
    06.02.22
  • Medium:
    spray paint on MDF board
  • Category:
    Painting

Benjamin Crawford — From the End of the Road

Audio/visual

Benjamin Crawford — From the End of the Road

Audio/visual

Benjamin Crawford — From the End of the Road

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    From the End of the Road is a 24 minute documentary that poetically reflects on the nature of cities. Through the responses and experiences of 4 acclaimed children of the region, the film uncovers varying strands of Birmingham’s history, the UK’s second city. Like a sea creature with tentacles continually sucking things into it, and spitting things away, Birmingham has long been a metropolis born of other places. From the End of the Road ruminates meditatively on the effects of redevelopment across the urban sprawl. With contributions from Carl Chinn, Kate Green and Karamat Iqbal, alongside poetry performances by Casey Bailey, the film also includes a hypnotic, industrial soundscape from Fernando Gimeno and an animated Castle Vale estate by Tom Evans. From the End of the Road seeks a closer look at our urban and rural environments, unravelling the stories hidden under the surface - those that tell us where we have come from, where we are and where we might go.
  • Date:
    August 2021
  • Medium:
    HD Video
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://benjamin-crawford.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/bencrawfordfilm/
  • https://twitter.com/benncrawford

Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

Painting

Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

Painting

Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    As we are a couple of West Midlands superstars, my dog and I were invited to the annual disco/jelly buffet to celebrate. Upon entering the premises, we were immediately brought in to a conga line with Jasper Carrott, Dipsy from The Teletubbies and who I thought was Alison Hammond, but may have just been a lookalike. Dr Samuel Johnson, the most distinguished man of letters in English history, was too late to join the conga and so sulked upon a space hopper. John Cadbury was not actually invited, but somehow bribed Brum to sneak him in. He was later removed by the security team, who was made up of English new wave band Duran Duran.
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paint on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bethanjayne.co.uk/

Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

Painting

Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

Painting

Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I was testing out some recipes from my new Gino D’Acampo cookbook ‘Italian Family Adventure’ and decided to try a supposedly delicious cauliflower-based pasta. However, as I got in to the cooking, I realised that I had to cook the cauliflower for an entire hour and forty minutes, which left me so hungry. In a fit of rage, I hunted down Gino, which was very easy due to the large neon sign which said ‘Gino this way’. I entered him evil lair, which had a floor made a spaghetti hoops (the most evil of foods). Gino was stood creating plans on his chalkboard while his assistant Jason Panini Press stood on his shoulder. I threw the cauliflower at him, which disintegrated on impact due to the long cooking time. This created a cauliflower mask on his face. As I left, I managed to take a look at the plans on the chalkboard. Gino was created a Grandma Bike (a bike with the head of a grandma). She takes you all the way to Grimsby and Werther’s Originals come out of her mouth.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paint on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bethanjayne.co.uk/

Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

Painting

Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

Painting

Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Painting of Birminghams Iconic Smallbrook Queensway. An area I have walked often, and became a favourite view when sitting from coffee shops above. It's not only full of nostalgic memories of walking to meet my dad after a day roaming around town but also an incredible example of what Birmingham has left of its Brutalist scene.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic paint and pens on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

Painting

Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

Painting

Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Original artwork of Birmingham's now lost Pershore Street. Once again, rich in nostalgia for me as a frequent visitor to the markets, ice rink and city centre as a whole as a kid we would often park here. It's been a heavy feature in my artwork for years but mainly in Photography. When they started knocking it down I wanted to immortalise it for life. Contrasting the dull grey tones with bright backgrounds has become a common factor for me in trying to portay a lighter side to brutalism.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic paint and pens on canvas board
  • Category:
    Painting

Black Hole Club — D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better (2005): A Polyptych of Stephen Snoddy

Mixed Media

Black Hole Club — D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better (2005): A Polyptych of Stephen Snoddy

Mixed Media

Black Hole Club — D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better (2005): A Polyptych of Stephen Snoddy

Mixed Media ×

Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

Painting

Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

Painting

Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Purple Rain was a response to: 1. That horrible kind of rain that just takes up a whole day and is constantly just dripping down your window. My work is increasingly becoming inspired by nature and how I respond to nature and my surroundings. I was so sick of rain and those days where you don’t want to leave the house. I wanted to try and make something beautiful out of one of those blue days and convince myself that you don’t always need blue sky to have a good day. 2. Exploration of the limits to which I can push oil paint. I enjoy experimenting with oils to see how far I can push them. In this piece I tried to add as much spirit as possible without removing colour. I love how this brings the extra texture and pattern to the piece. I hope that people viewing this work will relate to the constant that is the British weather, get a little cultural nod to Prince and be able to look deeper into the work to see the textures and patterns to show that even rainy days can be beautiful.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil and Spray Paint on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bobbiewhittakerart.co.uk/

Boyana Aleksova and Tony McClure — Aperture (Struma) l

Audio/visual

Boyana Aleksova and Tony McClure — Aperture (Struma) l

Audio/visual

Boyana Aleksova and Tony McClure — Aperture (Struma) l

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    Aperture (Struma) l is an installation, using documented video captured during an artist-led socially-engaging eco-activist event, highlighting the environmental impact caused by the build-up of rubbish in rivers, this time focused on the river Struma in Novi Chiflik, Bulgaria. Using apertures as unconventional windows to reveal the often obstructed viewpoint, where these obstructions are often used as barriers to avoid environmental issues. We ask viewers to reengage with a subject that is becoming an increasingly important and urgent discourse. We need to be the voice of many rivers. “The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.” – John Ruskin
  • Date:
    04 February 2022
  • Medium:
    installation, TV, MDF wood, video
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://www.boyanaaleksova.com/

Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

Painting

Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

Painting

Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Currently I am working in mixed media and exploring a more illustrative way of working, my recent works have centred on current events and emotional and mental health. “Cutting myself to pieces”; is an illustrative mixed media piece I created during a creative frenzy in lockdown. I am interested in contemporary visual language and figurative work that mixes text and image as is often the case in the majority of shared media we currently consume.
  • Date:
    Aug 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Painting

Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

Painting

Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

Painting

Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    New Place I uses acrylic based paints and inks on wooden panel, to create an abstract sense of light and movement through a landscape space. The surface of the panel introduces the sense of a natural materials within the work.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic based paint and ink on wooden panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Caitriona Dunnett — Untitled 10

Photography

Caitriona Dunnett — Untitled 10

Photography

Caitriona Dunnett — Untitled 10

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  • Artwork description:
    I work with alternative photographic processes and build on my prints. I have been experimenting with incorporating the landscape into my process by working with materials foraged from the land. These prints are phytograms, an organic camera-less photographic process created by Karel Doing. The technique employs the chemistry of plants to produce prints on analogue photographic surfaces. They were made with leaves, petals and berries sourced close to my home in Warwick. I enjoy the materiality of this process, layering the flora directly onto the paper and exploring colour, marks and impressions.
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Phytogram
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    http://www.caitrionadunnett.com/

Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting

Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting

Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of my journey as a passive and regular traveller preferring to stare out of the window. This was on a journey from Birmingham to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in September 2021.Here the poetic in the everyday is symbolised in the old shed, whose use we can only guess at, contained within the confines of National Rail land. This shed standing proudly nestled below the trees has also become the canvas for the graffiti artist.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.carolynblake.com

Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting

Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting

Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of my journey as a passive and regular traveller preferring to stare out of the window. My intention is to give the unremarkable a presence. The unremarkable in this instance is the content of the composition, a clump of trees, shown slightly off centre, growing on land occupied by housing. In the middle ground, an extended fence decorated with graffiti butts onto railings which semi exclude a parkland area. In the foreground is the unattended area of railway land between the tracks and boundary fencing. Nothing special, just a passing moment.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.carolynblake.com

Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

Painting

Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

Painting

Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

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  • Artwork description:
    A cluster of the oldest stars in the universe, based on the Hercules Globular cluster in M13 contains stars of 12 or so billion years old, their light takes 22 thousand years to reach us and though the spent stars in their final stage of life are gathering together, they make a wondrous, delightful form which I relate to the smaller scale, yet no less incredible feat of the human brain, of neurons and the excitement of idea formation, of the similar unknowns between the landscape of the brain and the landscape of the universe. The known, the unknown and the vast spaces in between. A childhood habit of mine was to mentally put the unfathomable universe in a cardboard box in a giants home and now I am thinking about what happens when you remove the box?
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.wynnepaton.co.uk/

Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

Painting

Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

Painting

Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate) is part of a series based 0n site visits to the Park Lane Industrial Estate in Wolverhampton. Painted loosely and quickly, it depicts a stack of skips - its provisional quality reflecting the precarity and contingency of the industrial estate and its communities. This work (and Stack1) explore the contemporary experience of the industrial estate to make visible underrepresented communities of labour and to explore the legacy of Midlands Industrial giants that closed at the end of the seventies.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on board (birch plywood)
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.celiajohnson.co.uk

Celine Llewellyn-Jones — Flowers in winter light

Drawing

Celine Llewellyn-Jones — Flowers in winter light

Drawing

Celine Llewellyn-Jones — Flowers in winter light

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    In this artwork I was intent on capturing the cool dappled winter light shimming behind a vase of flowers. I used a lot of water, and bled the ink to suggest the wavering light and quivering translucency of the flowers.
  • Date:
    17th January, 2022
  • Medium:
    Ink on Awagami Masa paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.celinellewellynjones.com

Ceridwen Raynor — Light of the World

Photography

Ceridwen Raynor — Light of the World

Photography

Ceridwen Raynor — Light of the World

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Charlie Hurcombe — Newport Conversation

Mixed Media

Charlie Hurcombe — Newport Conversation

Mixed Media

Charlie Hurcombe — Newport Conversation

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Newport Conversation' is a wall mounted relief and is one of an ongoing series of works exploring the utilisation of reclaimed and found materials, repetition of form, colour, aspects of manufacture, fabrication, assembly and construction, unity and fragments, and exists as an heterogenous object referencing diverse aspects of the Baroque and Minimalism. ‘Baroque, Barraco, A jeweller’s term: an irregular shaped or flawed pearl.’ (The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture, Greg Lambert, Continuum 2004). 'Newport Conversation' and related works are a development of concerns made evident following the commission awarded by artsNK Sleaford in 2012 where found materials from the Lincolnshire coast were utilised in the production of a sculpture.
  • Date:
    June 2020
  • Medium:
    Birch plywood, Perspex, Formica, sheet acrylic, vinyl, found plastic and screws.
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Home

Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Home

Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Home

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    A piece to remind someone of their safest place, a place in which we can call home, no matter the creature, human or animal or mythical being, we all have somewhere to call a home.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Resin, concrete, clay and natural stones and flocking
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Emerald Isle

Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Emerald Isle

Sculpture

Chloe Pitt — Emerald Isle

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  • Artwork description:
    The base of the model along with the stalactite crystals are made from epoxy resin, the base is mixed along with small stones and multicoloured epoxy resin mixes. The skeletal model is made from a wire mesh frame with clay over the top, that is then painted with acrylic and watercolour paints, and the whole model is covered in artificial moss foliage. The multicoloured stones are natural stones painted with metallic acrylic.
  • Date:
    24/09/2021
  • Medium:
    Resin and clay with artificial foliage
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (Into Flames)

Mixed Media

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (Into Flames)

Mixed Media

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (Into Flames)

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The collages submitted to the West Midlands Open were made late in Chris’s life when he was physically suffering and acutely aware of his own mortality. The themes explored in these works are topical to Chris’s personal life and include reflections on the afterlife and the changes that took place as his illness progressed. The compositions also reflect the interplay between symmetry and asymmetry in the body, while a recurring motif in many of the collages is a stitched outline of the organs attacked by the artist’s cancer. The collages also evidence Chris’s longstanding interest in Dadaism and the cosmological depictions found in religions, spiritualism and the occult. There are also observations on contemporary life - the making of these works was overshadowed by a pandemic among other things.
  • Date:
    2020-21
  • Medium:
    Mixed media collage on paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (You Are Only Here Once)

Mixed Media

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (You Are Only Here Once)

Mixed Media

Chris Reynolds — Untitled (You Are Only Here Once)

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The collages submitted to the West Midlands Open were made late in Chris’s life when he was physically suffering and acutely aware of his own mortality. The themes explored in these works are topical to Chris’s personal life and include reflections on the afterlife and the changes that took place as his illness progressed. The compositions also reflect the interplay between symmetry and asymmetry in the body, while a recurring motif in many of the collages is a stitched outline of the organs attacked by the artist’s cancer. The collages also evidence Chris’s longstanding interest in Dadaism and the cosmological depictions found in religions, spiritualism and the occult. There are also observations on contemporary life - the making of these works was overshadowed by a pandemic among other things.
  • Date:
    2020-21
  • Medium:
    Mixed media collage on paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Christian Emanuel — Femme Fatale 21’

Photography

Christian Emanuel — Femme Fatale 21’

Photography

Christian Emanuel — Femme Fatale 21’

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The mindset for this image was to provide representation for members of the LGBTQ+ community and empower them by bringing them into a space that hasn’t yet been made accessible. I wanted to cast a gay man as a femme fatale, the seductive and dangerous woman that you’d see in a bond film that the protagonist lusts after only to fall victim to a trap after being charmed. The aim was to showcase modern attraction and provide the nuance which is still missing from today’s cinema.
  • Date:
    15/11/2021
  • Medium:
    Film photography
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://christianem.myportfolio.com
  • http://instagram.com/novocem/

Christian – Emanuel — Bonnie & Clyde 21’

Photography

Christian – Emanuel — Bonnie & Clyde 21’

Photography

Christian – Emanuel — Bonnie & Clyde 21’

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    A modern black love story showcased through the recreation of the infamous duo ‘Bonnie & Clyde’. This image aims to represent the diversity of new age black relationships, highlighting a same sex couple. I relied on my filmmaking influence to bring this to life, providing each subject with their own distinctive personality by the clothing, backdrop and tattoo choices.
  • Date:
    25/11/2021
  • Medium:
    Film photography
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://christianem.myportfolio.com
  • http://instagram.com/novocem/

Christine Gordan — Magpies

Painting

Christine Gordan — Magpies

Painting

Christine Gordan — Magpies

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    My painting Magpies is based on my observations of Magpies on my regular walks out in nature at my local nature reserves - Priory Wood and Forge Mill Lake. I love the character of these birds and their distinctive black iridescent and white feathers. I love their boldness, cockiness, intelligence and their distinctive chatter, which can often sound very frenzied. Despite the bad press that these birds can sometimes have attached to them Magpies are quite amusing and a joy to watch.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paints on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Claire Buckerfield — Nine Buildings in Willenhall

Mixed Media

Claire Buckerfield — Nine Buildings in Willenhall

Mixed Media

Claire Buckerfield — Nine Buildings in Willenhall

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Nine Buildings in Willenhall' is a work that explores our surroundings through a different lens and celebrates that which largely goes unnoticed. I chose to focus on architecture in a small local town rather than the more imposing buildings in a city or its recognisable landmarks. The intention behind the work is to highlight the beauty that can be found on our doorstep if we dare to look deeper. Each individual component of the work references a different building in Willenhall and is made with tape and ribbon as an alternative to the more traditional materials usually associated with drawing. I use simple line and form as the interpretation for these buildings. The bright colours are my way of elevating the subject matter and celebrating the banal by extrapolating elementary detail from the original buildings. The result is an artwork that can be appreciated purely as an abstract design but one that also ask questions about what is considered beautiful in a man-made landscape.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Tape, Ribbon, Paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • https://www.instagram.com/clairebuckerfield/

Clarissa Harris — Velvet Ribbon

Photography

Clarissa Harris — Velvet Ribbon

Photography

Clarissa Harris — Velvet Ribbon

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    This woman is confidently applying her red lipstick, her war paint. But the ‘shaky’ image suggests that something else is going on; she is unsettled, she is preparing for something. I hope this image encourages viewers to form their own story about what she’s going through and ask questions such as what is she thinking about? What/who is she getting ready for? Is she okay?
  • Date:
    October 2021
  • Medium:
    Taken on Polaroid 600 film using a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar camera
  • Category:
    Photography

Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

Painting

Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

Painting

Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This scene is an amalgam of many local pub and restaurant interiors I have visited. I have attempted to capture the noisy and busy atmosphere of such places
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

Painting

Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

Painting

Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This piece embodies the transitional state of ones sense of self - depicting internal dialogue [thought] surrounding the biracial identity. Playing with the material obligations of traditional art objects. This piece anchors collective consciousness // shared perspectives surrounding political race relations and de-colonial practices. This piece belongs to a collection of works with underlying themes of freedom, identity, social change, race, memory and space-time consciousness.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    installation
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://courtenaywelcome.com/

Cristina Celestini — Frida

Drawing

Cristina Celestini — Frida

Drawing

Cristina Celestini — Frida

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This drawing, which is part of a series completed in coloured pencils, depicts my daughter wearing her favourite t shirt which has a portrait of Frida Kahlo on its front. I started this drawing, like the others in the series, using old sketches and photos, during one of the lockdowns, when my adult children could not come and visit me, and drawing helped me cope with the loss and longing we all felt during these periods. Although it would seem that the t-shirt takes centre stage as my daughter's face is out of sight, this drawing is very much a portrait with just enough information to offer us an insight into her personality.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    coloured pencil on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://celerrissima.wixsite.com/website

Cristina Celestini — The way you left it II

Drawing

Cristina Celestini — The way you left it II

Drawing

Cristina Celestini — The way you left it II

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This drawing, which is part of a series completed in coloured pencils, depicts one of the t-shirts my son left behind when he moved out. The t-shirt is hanging to dry in the sun. During the lockdowns, unable to see my grown-up children, I started washing, drawing, and tiding up their old clothes. This domestic, time-consuming process helped me cope with the pain of not being able to see them, the clothes and the process of drawing replaced the pain with memories.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    coloured pencil on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://celerrissima.wixsite.com/website

Crow Dillon-Parkin — Keppra Diaries II

Mixed Media

Crow Dillon-Parkin — Keppra Diaries II

Mixed Media

Crow Dillon-Parkin — Keppra Diaries II

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    I made ‘Keppra Diaries II’ in 2021 as part of coming to terms with my late diagnosis of epilepsy after a major seizure in 2018. I have had minor seizures all my life without being aware that there was a name for those experiences. I covered the individual canvases with patient information leaflets for my seizure control medication and extracts from my journal notes. Everything is partly hidden by the layers of blue tissue. Blue for ‘out of the blue’, blue for ‘blue sky thinking’, blue for ‘feeling blue’. The torn edges are held together by lines of gold ink, like the lead in stained glass windows or the gold in kintsugi mending. Connections are made, and interrupted, by the edges of the canvases. Trying to bring fragmented experiences back together, trying to incorporate a different definition of myself, adding more layers to my personal history, and trying to share how all of that feels. I wanted to make something soothing and beautiful from something confusing and frightening.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    Collage on canvas
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.crowdillonparkin.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/crowdillonparkin/

Dan Booth — Raft

Painting

Dan Booth — Raft

Painting

Dan Booth — Raft

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting is based on a found image of migrants in the back of a lorry in Austria. This type of image has become ubiquitous as the various migrant crises have unfolded in recent years. I considered the image hopeless and tragic, and it sat in my sketchbook for a while before I decided to use it. It is not clear whether the figures are still alive. It also seemed to reflect a voyeuristic role on behalf of the viewer which I found unsettling - the observer sees the forms inside the back of the lorry from a distance. When I came to make the painting I altered the colours and flattened the forms, giving as much attention to the inanimate mechanism of the lorry as to the human figures. I wanted to enhance the cold, dehumanising aspect of the image. I gave the painting the title Raft in reference to Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa and have used a similar palette and introduced some elements from this painting.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://dannyvile.co.uk/

Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

Painting

Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

Painting

Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The subject of this portrait is my wife Laura and son Peter, who was then 4 months 2 days old. At that point we were still sitting with him every evening while he slept on us on the sofa before going to bed. I wanted to contrast the banal routine and domestic environment with the actual emotion of caring for Peter, and the strength of my wife. I have left some of the underpainting visible and used loose brush strokes for the background to contrast with the sharper details of the figures. I want the room to look like it might fall apart if it wasn’t for Laura’s presence.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://dannyvile.co.uk/

Daniella Turbin — 1km

Sculpture

Daniella Turbin — 1km

Sculpture

Daniella Turbin — 1km

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    1km is part of an ongoing investigation into the visualisation of a walk through artist materials, in this case cartridge paper. When I returned to my studio after walking from Birmingham to London there was a box of cartridge paper on my studio floor and I wondered 'what does 1km of cartridge paper look like?' and 'how long it might take to roll by hand?'. So, I grabbed a pencil, cut up the paper and started rolling.
  • Date:
    October 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    http://www.daniellaturbin.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/daniella_turbin/

David McGuire — Place

Painting

David McGuire — Place

Painting

David McGuire — Place

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  • Artwork description:
    ‘Place’ 2022 This location is nearby. It is not a place where we would chose to spend our time, but so much is owed to this place. The old factory has had old windows and doors bricked up and new doors added so many times. It has been adapted in order that people may continue to work and prosper, and as new demands are made it will be altered again. It has seen off the Kaiser, Adolf, Red Robbo and Dominic of Barnard Castle, they all come and go, but this place stays.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and collage on board
  • Category:
    Painting

David Stokes — Hitchcock Homage

Mixed Media

David Stokes — Hitchcock Homage

Mixed Media

David Stokes — Hitchcock Homage

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    A homage to Alfred Hitchcock, combining elements from two of his films, The Birds and Rear Window. And featuring, as always, a cameo appearance from the director himself. This piece combines elements of scale models and collage enclosed in a box frame.
  • Date:
    20-01-2022
  • Medium:
    Box frame, scale models, collage.
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • https://instagram.com/scottymadethis

David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

Painting

David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

Painting

David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Celebrating Florence Nightingale’s statistical achievement. In 1858 Florence demonstrated, using a rose diagram, that epidemic diseases caused far more deaths than battlefield wounds in the Crimean War. Soldiers were dying from preventable infections and the cleanliness in hospitals reduced these deaths by 99 percent. Rather that presenting her evidence as a dry bar chart, she created a graphic diagram using coloured wedges to deliver her message. Her rose chart was the inspiration for my series of shaped paintings.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on wood
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.davidwaltonart.co.uk

Daya Bhatti — Devi

Painting

Daya Bhatti — Devi

Painting

Daya Bhatti — Devi

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of identity and culture. The essence of the piece is a celebration of woman and culture - depicting a strong and empowered woman who embraces her identity. The piece is a connection to culture, and how generations foster connections with family and ancestors through tradition. At its core, Indian adornment is a visual expression. The role of the adornment in the painting is to express cultural identity, display creativity (represented by the paintbrush) and as a whole is a tool for self-expression and belonging . The nath (nose ring) is considered to have spiritual significance. The adornment of the necklace is believed to attract bliss for the wearer and impacts the aura of the women. The name ‘Devi’, meaning divine, relates spirituality with the feeling of empowerment from wearing traditional adornment.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on Paintbrush
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.dayaillustrations.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/dayaillustrations/

Daya Bhatti — Complexion

Painting

Daya Bhatti — Complexion

Painting

Daya Bhatti — Complexion

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This collection explores women of colour of South Asian Heritage. The series was made in response to colourism within the culture which is a big issue even today. Instead these paintings celebrate and empower women. The focus on the eye purposely illustrates a vision for change and for a future of equality, inclusivity and representation.
  • Date:
    Nove 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.dayaillustrations.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/dayaillustrations/

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #33

Photography

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #33

Photography

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #33

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Amorphous form, created by a female body in motion for 2.5 seconds
  • Date:
    27/8/2021
  • Medium:
    Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art paper from a digtal photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://drewk.photo/artworks/

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #38

Photography

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #38

Photography

Drew Kirkland — Danseuses #38

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  • Artwork description:
    Amorphous form, created by a female body in motion for 2.5 seconds
  • Date:
    9/4/2021
  • Medium:
    Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art paper from a digtal photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://drewk.photo/artworks/

Ed Isaacs — Riot

Drawing

Ed Isaacs — Riot

Drawing

Ed Isaacs — Riot

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This drawing shows riot police
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Coloured pencil
  • Category:
    Drawing

Ed Isaacs — Path / Explosions

Drawing

Ed Isaacs — Path / Explosions

Drawing

Ed Isaacs — Path / Explosions

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This drawing shows a footpath near my home and some explosions
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Coloured pencil
  • Category:
    Drawing

Edgington — JE1233177

Painting

Edgington — JE1233177

Painting

Edgington — JE1233177

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The title of this work is taken from the artist's patient number whilst a patient with the mental health home treatment team in 2012. The nude male body is used to explore vulnerability, truth and isolation.
  • Date:
    January 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed media on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edgington-co.com

Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

Painting

Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

Painting

Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The starting point of this series was the romantic idea of swimming at night with a group of friends. The original studies were quite figurative but these evolved through their encounter with the painting process to become something much more mysterious and abstract. Although vestiges of the figures still remain I became much more interested in the abstract idea of forms dissolving and appearing across the surface.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edwardjeavons.com/

Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

Painting

Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

Painting

Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The starting point of this series was the romantic idea of swimming at night with a group of friends. The original studies were quite figurative but these evolved through their encounter with the painting process to become something much more mysterious and abstract. Although vestiges of the figures still remain I became much more interested in the abstract idea of forms dissolving and appearing across the surface.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edwardjeavons.com/

Egle Gelaziute-Petrauskiene — Enclosure encounter

Mixed Media

Egle Gelaziute-Petrauskiene — Enclosure encounter

Mixed Media

Egle Gelaziute-Petrauskiene — Enclosure encounter

Mixed Media ×

Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

Painting

Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

Painting

Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work represent a "place" where you can think and rest, to make choices and decisions in a safe, relaxed, nostalgic and imaginative cocoon, which provides an opportunity to create at anytime and anywhere, free from fear and distraction. It is a return to ones nature in order to find answers to what you are searching for.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    egg tempera
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.eiko-matsuura.com

Elena Thomas — The Pin Prick and the Edge

Drawing

Elena Thomas — The Pin Prick and the Edge

Drawing

Elena Thomas — The Pin Prick and the Edge

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    Heavy watercolour paper is saturated with water and acrylic inks. Seasalt grains are scattered across the surface. When dry, these are rubbed away, but some crystals still cling to the surface and catch the light.. The drawing is worked afterwards, with the ink in various dilutions, using old metal nibs in various widths to give a line that is responsive to pressure. Blots occur when more pressure is applied, or when the nib encounters any remaining salt crystals. The resulting images are reminiscent of nebulae, topography, geology, plant and animal cell structures.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Ink and salt on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://elenathomas.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/elenathomas13/

Elena Thomas — You Held Your Breath

Drawing

Elena Thomas — You Held Your Breath

Drawing

Elena Thomas — You Held Your Breath

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    Heavy watercolour paper is saturated with water and acrylic inks. Seasalt grains are scattered across the surface. When dry, these are rubbed away, but some crystals still cling to the surface and catch the light.. The drawing is worked afterwards, with the ink in various dilutions, using old metal nibs in various widths to give a line that is responsive to pressure. Blots occur when more pressure is applied, or when the nib encounters any remaining salt crystals.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Ink and salt on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://elenathomas.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/elenathomas13/

Ellie Lilly — Under Wilsons Pier Teinmouth Devon

Photography

Ellie Lilly — Under Wilsons Pier Teinmouth Devon

Photography

Ellie Lilly — Under Wilsons Pier Teinmouth Devon

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The waves underneath pier in Teignmouth, the colours of the wood and the circles that surround each pillow
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Photography
  • Category:
    Photography

Emma Bowater — Re-growth

Mixed Media

Emma Bowater — Re-growth

Mixed Media

Emma Bowater — Re-growth

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Derelict spaces succumb to the power of nature and time. This piece was created from a digital photograph manipulation using Procreate. The juxtaposition of elements of colour act as a marker for the gradual discolouration of buildings. The ash-like decay of brickwork contrasts against the new life of the natural forms that begin to take over. The image was transferred using gesso to further create a sense of textural decomposition, imitating the irregular growth pattern of moss. The image is deteriorated, much like the physical spaces and memories within.
  • Date:
    December 2020
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Emma Plover — Bodies of Nature

Audio/visual

Emma Plover — Bodies of Nature

Audio/visual

Emma Plover — Bodies of Nature

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    Bodies of Nature is an audio/visual work using my queer neurodivergent experience to connect with the “other” or “more-than-human” in a time of devastating climate change and a global pandemic. Through rich textures and a mythological exploration of the landscape, it highlights the importance of remembering our connection to the earth in a time of crisis. A walk through my eyes, guided by my own words, the piece posits nature as healing, as an antidote to a society that has distanced us from the land and neglected our mental health for so long. The piece allows others to experience and embrace my position as a Rural Other, one who holds a direct line to the other worlds, the spirit worlds, the more-than-human. With the overlaying words, I tell of how I listen to the memories and knowledge held in the land to forge connections with ancient stories, stories that are older than any human definitions of what is good and what is bad.
  • Date:
    15/10/21
  • Medium:
    Video
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://sites.google.com/view/emmaplover/emma-plover-artist

Eric Gaskell — Sunset

Print

Eric Gaskell — Sunset

Print

Eric Gaskell — Sunset

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Over the last two years Covid has impinged on travel, travel that usually use as the basis for new work. This has led me to reuse old drawings (of which I have 40+ years supplies) and relying on memory to create new work. This is one of the latest linocuts I have made. Parts of it are taken almost directly from earlier works, parts that I think work. Although recreating a new work does tend to shift balances and structure and those changes then affect the colour values used. The idea of the "harbour' and safety through these times has clearly had a subconscious influence on me.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Reduction Linocut
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    http://www.egdesign.co.uk

Eric Gaskell — Safe Harbour

Print

Eric Gaskell — Safe Harbour

Print

Eric Gaskell — Safe Harbour

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    My work over the last two years has become more about texture, pattern and recreating memories of place, rather than any reality. I have basically used each print as the basis for the next, taking elements I thought worked and recreating them in a new composition. More recently I have been interested in recreating drawing methods and “collage” effects, using two or more linocut blocks.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Reduction Linocut
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    http://www.egdesign.co.uk

Fae Kilburn — Captivated

Print

Fae Kilburn — Captivated

Print

Fae Kilburn — Captivated

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    This Silkscreen print celebrates her experiences and showcases how Fae experiences the landscape and how her perception of colour has changed The print is in shades of blues and translucent pinks. In the foreground of the image are branches reaching upwards, surrounding a lake. The left and right side of the print are blurred, depicting Fae’s sight loss. This piece documents the blurring of boundaries that have arisen and captures the beauty she is still able to see. Avoiding any notions of pity. Using methodologies including comparison colour charts and her partner’s audio description of the landscape have enabled Fae to create prints inspired by what she has seen, experienced and been told was in front of her.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Silkscreen Print
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://www.faekilburn.co.uk

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Recalibration

Photography

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Recalibration

Photography

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Recalibration

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Taken at HMP Send, this image was inspired by RHS records from WW1 prison camp gardeners. The women I was working with wanted to recreate one of the archive group portraits. This physical performance of solidary showed a recognition of shared experiences and, wanting to be seen in that context, participants asked for the picture to be sepia. The group became confident in directing me as a photographer to make the most of the rare opportunity of having a camera in the prison. We agreed our artworks should be shared where possible, to build public understanding, but this would only be agreed by authorities if works were anonymous. I decided to use the archive’s digitising photography colour calibration chart as a censor bar, which linked with discussions we had about archives and agency. Visibility is itself a form of resistance: prisoners refusing to be hidden away are asking society to question itself and its difficult issues.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Photographic print
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.fayeclaridge.co.uk

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Plants, Prisons & Potential

Audio/visual

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Plants, Prisons & Potential

Audio/visual

Faye Claridge with women from HMP Send — Plants, Prisons & Potential

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    Reflections on gardening on wellbeing recorded in polytunnels at HMP Send during the covid pandemic. I took in RHS archives from a WW1 prison camp gardening club to act as inspiration for participants. A line from one of the 1916 camp letters resonated deeply and became the inspiration for portraits we made together. It said: “Without you I feel that only part of me is here.” The semi-transparent, partially grounded portraits that followed provide anonymity to participants and ask us to think about absence and presence as something other than physical states (particularly relevant amid the rise of remote communication). The degree of visibility and access allowed to prison experiences is also at question. As Jackie Wang writes in the foreword to Hatty Nestor’s Ethical Portraits: “prisoners are at once hyper-present and absent, sometimes made transparent for the sensationalist pleasure of the viewer, at other times consigned to invisibility to assuage the public’s conscience.”
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Video
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://www.fayeclaridge.co.uk

Fiona Cullinan — Female Calculations

Photography

Fiona Cullinan — Female Calculations

Photography

Fiona Cullinan — Female Calculations

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Female Calculations is a digital photo collage showing a series of entrances to footpaths in Birmingham where the artist feels a degree of anxiety. The photos are aggregated into a grid format via a sequence of repeated images in rows. This is in order to denote the multiple ways a solo female assesses and computes the space in which she is about to enter. This is based on the idea that women in particular have subjective algorithms of fear based on their lived experience, biases, presence of potential predators, visibility, dress and many other data points (both positive and negative). The riso print invites the viewer into the spaces and denotes a seemingly computerised view of these overlays and calculations. The work was developed as part of a British Council-sponsored cultural art exchange with Indonesian artists. It was not exhibited in this format but created as a separate limited edition print of 30 for sale.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Digital photo collage riso print
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    http://fionacullinan.com/projects/walking/
  • https://www.instagram.com/editoriat/

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

Painting

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

Painting

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘Syncope’ – Menopause series depicts the sensation of fainting brought on by anxiety. The oil painting was started in June 2021 inspired by an Indian ink drawing I created at the end of 2019. Part of my Thin Tissue sub- series. I have kept part of my charcoal drawing visible to make it more other worldly. This piece is part of a large body of work (over a 100 pieces) about the Menopause, started back in 2017. Depicting or conveying emotions and experiences around the menopause and body ageing. Trying to explore imaginative narrative, that is often unclear and secret, brings ambiguity and gets at things not realised. Once made, the personal becomes less private and the viewer can interpret the images as they want.
  • Date:
    June 2021 - Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil paint and Charcoal on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Social Gathering

Drawing

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Social Gathering

Drawing

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Social Gathering

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘Social Gathering’ Indian ink drawing is also part of my Thin Tissue/menopause series but over laps my isolation works started in 2020 to do with Covid lockdowns. I made figures/beings out of tissue paper, my companions to party with.
  • Date:
    July 2020
  • Medium:
    Indian Ink
  • Category:
    Drawing

Gemma Moore — Should Have Taken 5 Minutes

Photography

Gemma Moore — Should Have Taken 5 Minutes

Photography

Gemma Moore — Should Have Taken 5 Minutes

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    My responses were photographed on Edmund Street and outside the Birmingham School of Art. The photographs are responses to street violence against women. In particular, they are responses to the Sabina Nessa murder case. I was horrified by this and wanted to initiate my Fine Art Masters studies by responding to this. As a Feminist based artist keen to represent issues that affect many women's lives today, including the violation of women's street safety, I couldn't help by responding to this issue. My response was unavoidable and I wanted to use my visual Fine Art practice as a way of acknowledging and raising awareness. I hope that upon viewing the photographs the public will re-consider how the street is not always a safe or comfortable space for women; it can be dangerous and life-threatening. This work will enable the lost lives of women to never be forgotten. I hope the images will raise awareness of how we can work together to make the streets safer for all.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Photograph of a performance.
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://gemmamooreart.wordpress.com/ https://thefeministpersona.wordpress.com/

George – Stokes — Moshpit

Print

George – Stokes — Moshpit

Print

George – Stokes — Moshpit

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Moshpit linocut, the print is a4 size and the paper is 35x50cm.
  • Date:
    15/12/21
  • Medium:
    Linocut
  • Category:
    Print

Gillian Holtom — Bound

Mixed Media

Gillian Holtom — Bound

Mixed Media

Gillian Holtom — Bound

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Inspired by the impression of a bound woman, blocked by a tree, so much to think about and do she can never be free… Bound by expectations, fashions, society, lack of vision, lack of access, loss of voice, blocked and blind, using images cut from women's magazines of the late 70s and early 80s including images of what we used to call slave bangles that went up the arm.
  • Date:
    May 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and collage on paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

Painting

Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

Painting

Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Topical, expressive work dealing with spread and dispersal of Covid 19 and dispersal and decay of leaves, seeds and red, referencing spread of natural forms and of the Virus. Work deals with movement and transience of the above as seen in space basically depicted here as as a white painted background.
  • Date:
    Autumn 2021
  • Medium:
    mixed media collage on canvas unframed
  • Category:
    Painting

Grace Clifford — Cone of Chips

Sculpture

Grace Clifford — Cone of Chips

Sculpture

Grace Clifford — Cone of Chips

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    My practice raises questions and aims to provide a platform/space for communities to engage with art who may have felt that traditional art spaces and contemporary sculpture is not for them. I feel this sculpture works well because its direct play on words and simplicity in materials. The work explores various things that link to my heritage and growing up, and will be familiar for many people, the novelty signs you see outside shops, or the subversive use of traffic cones often the product of a drunken night out- usually ending in takeaway chips. I love exploring the ideas surrounding the ‘chippy’ - I always show off to friends about orange chips and the excellent chippy’s in the Black country, as it is a strong part of my pride and identity growing up. The idea of seeing such ‘low brow’ items in a gallery space, or presenting questions around what is art, and who is art for is something that excite me greatly, and is something my practice hopes to challenge and examine further.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Traffic Cone, chips, spigot
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://graceclifford.cargo.site/

Graham Chorlton — Interior

Painting

Graham Chorlton — Interior

Painting

Graham Chorlton — Interior

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting shows a domestic interior. The image is arrived at through layering of acrylic paint, each layer responding to the last. Certain details are picked out more precisely with oil paint. The image is only just suggested in places, implying a fragility to our experience. The chief visual element here is illumination, and there is a consciousness of the emotional power of light in the history of painting.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.birminghamartspace.org/

Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

Painting

Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

Painting

Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The ethereal illumination depicted in this painting is derived from a pool of light formed by headlights in a deserted nocturnal car park. There is very little detail here, the image on the edge of existing or being read. This is part of a series of work that uses light and empty space to suggest the mystery of the every day.
  • Date:
    2020-21
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.birminghamartspace.org/

Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

Painting

Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

Painting

Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Addict is based on Caravaggio's Bacchus another part of my series portraying recognizable images and shifting their focus to emphasize certain characteristics of the original painting. This image gives the viewer no focal point the gaze is shifted to reveal multiple faces unsettling the viewer. The painting is painted using traditional methods of glazing to replicate Caravaggio's piece It is a painting in which the title explains it all
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Hannah Mary Taylor — The [ Hope ] Chest

Audio/visual

Hannah Mary Taylor — The [ Hope ] Chest

Audio/visual

Hannah Mary Taylor — The [ Hope ] Chest

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    As a sufferer of chronic illness, there is always a permanent anxiety that my body will not hold me as I would like, or turn against me when I need it most. You begin to fear your own vessel. Then, during my first pregnancy in 2020, out of nowhere, the world was hit with Covid-19. Letters were sent, mine and 2.2 million other extremely vulnerable people began their isolation, their ‘shielding’ and waited. This piece examines the forgotten, unspoken, but very real realities of bringing life into the world, of being a vessel, a carrier, and simultaneously gives agency to voices of contemporary women and their lived experiences, whilst acknowledging the often-forgotten sacrifices made by women past, whose service to society in baring children was overshadowed by patriarchal expectation, anxiety and death. These chests, their empty interiors stand now like empty tombs, the bodies of which deserve commemoration.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Video and performance to camera
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://www.hermasks.co.uk/

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

Painting

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

Painting

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Light #1' depicts a minimal window structure with a view out to a warm toned sky. The painting invites the viewer to stop and spend a moment of quiet reflection. The structure guides the viewers gaze upwards out of the window, aiding the narrative of a grander structure beyond the canvas borders. Bold lines of architecture provide a sense of place and grounding. This is contrasted by the muted blend of colours that make up the sky. They provide a soothing warmth that is reminiscent of summer evenings and a lingering, low-lying sun.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahparkes.co.uk

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

Painting

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

Painting

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Light #2' depicts a minimal wall structure with a view overlooking a blended warm toned sky with translucent clouds. The painting invites the viewer to stop and spend a moment of quiet reflection. The structure provides a frame in which the viewer is able to gaze at the vista beyond. Bold lines of architecture provide a mixture of place and grounding combined with slight abstraction. Warm strips of orange bouncing from the sides of the structure provide insight into a setting sun to the right of the viewer. The light touch of clouds in the distance offer a glimpse of movement in what is a largely still scene. Blended colours of the sky further provide a soothing warmth that is reminiscent of summer evenings.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahparkes.co.uk

Hannah Quill — Hang tight

Painting

Hannah Quill — Hang tight

Painting

Hannah Quill — Hang tight

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Both ‘Where did it come from?’ and ‘Hang tight’ were created and completed mid pandemic. Varying in scale, surface, colour and materials, both paintings explore the structures and surfaces of bodily forms within. Investigating internal bodily processes, the process and medium of painting acts as a bodily medium itself. The title ‘Where did it come from?’ suggests the unknowing, capturing light, surroundings and tonal ranges. ‘Hang tight’ includes bodily structures gripping to the surface of the canvas, and the exploration of layering as a method.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    PinkGrip, white acrylic paint and fluorescent pink pigment.
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahquill.wixsite.com/hannahq

Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

Painting

Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

Painting

Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Both ‘Where did it come from?’ and ‘Hang tight’ were created and completed mid pandemic. Varying in scale, surface, colour and materials, both paintings explore the structures and surfaces of bodily forms within. Investigating internal bodily processes, the process and medium of painting acts as a bodily medium itself. The title ‘Where did it come from?’ suggests the unknowing, capturing light, surroundings and tonal ranges. ‘Hang tight’ includes bodily structures gripping to the surface of the canvas, and the exploration of layering as a method.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahquill.wixsite.com/hannahq

Hannah Rollason — Encompass

Sculpture

Hannah Rollason — Encompass

Sculpture

Hannah Rollason — Encompass

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘The Discourse of a Pumpkin’ is an evolving project including ‘A Plant. A Crop. A Commodity.’, ‘Blank Space’, ‘Encompass’ and ‘Humilis Cucurbita.’ The main emphasis is to raise questions surrounding agriculture, consumerism, and progression. This project explores the pumpkin as a symbol in society deriving from contextual references both historical and contemporary. Inspired by still life as an art form, ‘Encompass’ has evolved from the concept that natural forms and objects are embedded with connotations and denotations. Changing materials emphasis’ these semiotics, the form of the pumpkin remains. Organic matter is replaced by a mixture of clay and porcelain, creating contrast, being neither living nor dying. Stripped of boundaries, status, and value, to become something new. An alienation of what we know. The pumpkin continues to adapt both in its natural form and as a symbol, leading to question; where does this place the pumpkin post Anthropocene?
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Mixed media
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahrollason.wixsite.com/artist

Hazel E Hutchison — Route: glass landscape

Sculpture

Hazel E Hutchison — Route: glass landscape

Sculpture

Hazel E Hutchison — Route: glass landscape

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    My work Glass Landscape consists of seven glass photographic panels and serves as a smaller model for my larger artwork sculpture and photo book Route (2021). Route: Glass Landscape (2021) depicts a personal path of recovery resulting from my experiences with surgery and confinement during the lockdown. I wanted to highlight finding beauty indoors while juxtaposing domesticity with the outdoor environment. Walks in the countryside inspired me because I saw adaptability and endurance in rock formations or trees due to external factors, which I then related to my post-surgery body. When feeling trapped, I would photograph these adaptations to duplicate their forms with my body at home. I wanted to display my connection and admiration for nature and its ability to change, in the hopes of securing resilience for myself. The images are anchored upright to convey a feeling of strength and delicacy, as well as the sensation of being like a structure or my own unique universe.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Fused photographic glass, decal transfers, Analogue Photography
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://www.hazelhutchison.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/imagesbyhaze_/
  • https://www.facebook.com/imagesbyhaze
  • https://twitter.com/HazelEHutchison

Hazel E Hutchison — Route

Print

Hazel E Hutchison — Route

Print

Hazel E Hutchison — Route

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Route 2021 illustrates a journey of personal recovery, which stemmed from surgical experiences in recent years and confinement during the pandemic. I have been drawing on lessons from resilience in nature, as a way of representing my own emotions and desire to adapt after life's challenges. I wanted to demonstrate a motivation to be out more in nature while inside during lockdown and to reflect the connection between myself, my body, and the adaptations found in the natural world. Conceptually, I decided to explore how external factors affect appearance and draw comparisons with my own body post-surgery; observing the idea that humans and nature both go through challenges. I wanted to showcase domesticity (which was my landscape during lockdown/surgery) by creating indoor self-portraiture influenced by a natural adaptation outside.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Book, Printed book, analogue photography
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://www.hazelhutchison.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/imagesbyhaze_/
  • https://www.facebook.com/imagesbyhaze
  • https://twitter.com/HazelEHutchison

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing Indigo

Drawing

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing Indigo

Drawing

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing Indigo

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    The paper has been scored, folded and stained. A white ink line is drawn along the uppermost edge of the paper, traced from left to right horizontally across the page. This action is then repeated, each time trying to draw a steady, straight line across the surface. A fine mapping nib is dipped into the ink bottle and the line drawn as close to the line before as possible. A quasi-mechanical activity which is doomed to imperfection, but creates a field of frisson/noise/interference that is specifically autobiographic. Therefore the most systematic procedure is not merely pure process – it is actually producing a drawing that is intimately expressive.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Ink on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.helencass.com

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing 3

Drawing

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing 3

Drawing

Helen Cass — Folded Drawing 3

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    The paper is folded and stained, a wide nib has drawn a series of horizontal lines, then a layer of short black lines are overlayed onto the white lines with a fine mapping nib. The accumulation of so many similar lines create a field of visual noise.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Ink on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.helencass.com

Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

Painting

Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

Painting

Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Limpet Ecosystem' is a watercolour painting which is part of a body of work investigating and illuminating the entangled relationship between humans and limpets over time. Limpets are commonly encountered all around Britain’s shoreline, seen in abundance clinging to rocky outcrops at low tide. So familiar in fact that they go largely unnoticed but, if given a little attention these fascinating creatures emerge in all sorts of other places, revealing a complex trail of archaeological, historical, ecological, scientific, cultural, and imaginary lines. My initial research shows that limpets have played a significant role in human history as food, fishing bait and grave offerings for example. They are also the focus of scientific research covering many disciplines including medicine, engineering, and marine ecology.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting
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  • https://www.instagram.com/helenchanges/

Helen Grundy — The Last Can Of Gasoline

Mixed Media

Helen Grundy — The Last Can Of Gasoline

Mixed Media

Helen Grundy — The Last Can Of Gasoline

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    This piece is part of a larger project, funded by The Arts Council. I have been given funding to create new work and develop my practice. I am currently working with discarded/found objects and then using them as a starting point to create narrative works that I am calling Eco Dramas. I wanted to use the vintage can of gasoline and imagine a scenario where this is the last can of gasoline left. I intially intended to place a collage inside the can but then decided to create a 3D installation, a miniature set. Using brown paper, blue tissue paper and collecting second hand Corgi cars I then made my own tiny ladders and barricades. I spent a long time playing with composition and then photographed the set and added collage figures digitally. The work references ideas about panic buying and also the film Mad Max where fighting over 'guzzolene' creates the breakdown of society.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    found object/model making/collage/photography
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.helengrundy.org
  • https://www.instagram.com/grundyhelen03
  • https://www.theasylumartgallery.com/the-spaces-inbetween
  • https://www.fcac.co.uk/artist/helen-grundy/

Ian Andrews — “Your guess” from the series “The Shuffle of things.”

Drawing

Ian Andrews — “Your guess” from the series “The Shuffle of things.”

Drawing

Ian Andrews — “Your guess” from the series “The Shuffle of things.”

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  • Artwork description:
    A 40-page hand-drawn book, white ink on black tissue paper, inspired by a “significance absence” of 2020.The large hadron Collider at CERN was turned off throughout the year while being upgraded to achieve higher energy levels necessary to search for the phenomena of dark matter. The drawings speculate what traces dark matter might leave and the white ink on the black ground reference cloud chamber images from the detectors of the late 19th Century. Just as the interactions of the elemental particles create matter and everyday reality so the book is created by interactions between the ink and the absorbent pages of tissue paper. The ink leaks through several pages leaving traces which guide the next sequence of images. Initially I limited my use of media, only pen and paper but this book reflects my recent work in adopting a richer range and use of materials in an attempt to embody the idea in the matter and “stuff” of drawing rather than just a coded graphic notation.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Hand-drawn artist book, 40 pages, white ink and black pen on black tissue paper.
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://thesketchbookandthecollider.com/
  • https://twitter.com/IanAndrewsArt
  • https://www.facebook.com/thesketchbookandthecollider/

Imogen Morris — Michaela Coel

Mixed Media

Imogen Morris — Michaela Coel

Mixed Media

Imogen Morris — Michaela Coel

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Here I depict a portrait of actress and writer Michaela Coel. I deliberately chose Michaela Coel as, alongside being a talented and inspirational creative, Coel represents a type of female who is simultaneously bol and defiant but vulnerable and fragile. Her work tackles uncomfortable truths about the female experience in a confronting and stark way. I have made Coel’s portrait using nail and thread. My method of making consists of wrapping thread around nails which pinpoint the contours of the face to build up a mesh-like form made up of triangles. I build up layers and layers of these triangles to detail the subjects' features and create depth to the image. Alongside this I have added a second layer of coloured thread stitched into clear acrylic to distort the image of Coel beneath. The result being a bold but fragile depiction of a woman. While the triangular forms in the subject’s face are strong and harsh, they contrast with the delicacy in the materiality of the thread itself.
  • Date:
    20th February 2022
  • Medium:
    Nail, thread, acrylic on plywood board, framed in a MDF box frame
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    http://www.imogenembroideryart.com

indie illo - Fleur Ward — Skyscape (Series 3)

Print

indie illo - Fleur Ward — Skyscape (Series 3)

Print

indie illo - Fleur Ward — Skyscape (Series 3)

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Skyscape (Series 3) is the latest print in an ongoing series of photographic screen prints I have been producing. I personally find looking at the sky quite peaceful and when I’m going through difficult times due to my mental health, I find that it calms and grounds me. I wanted to share this feeling through this print by utilising a circular shape to create a portal effect. As well as choosing a pink hues colour palette to mimic a dream-like effect. So far in this series of works this is the largest I’ve printed ones of these skyscapes. I though this exhibition would be the perfect opportunity to tackle something of this scale, as I hope people will be able to get lost in the detail and shapes in the image. This print was created using a photo of my own, which was converted into a halftone for use in a silk screen printing process.
  • Date:
    08�22022
  • Medium:
    Photographic Screen Print on Paper
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://indieillo.myportfolio.com/

Isabelle Homer — A Gentle Push

Mixed Media

Isabelle Homer — A Gentle Push

Mixed Media

Isabelle Homer — A Gentle Push

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    A Gentle Push (2021) represents the ship as the self, travelling through time. The pandemic offered the artist bittersweet feelings of being pushed onto new paths against her will, but found that the result was often beneficial once pushed. The imagery draws upon ancient textile tapestries and oceanographic maps, reflecting new discovery.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Metal threads, leather, cotton chenille, silk threads, beads on silk
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    www.isabellehomercostumier.com

jack foster — Studio light still life

Painting

jack foster — Studio light still life

Painting

jack foster — Studio light still life

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  • Artwork description:
    A still life painted during the winter of 2021/22 with changing light conditions
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

Painting

James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

Painting

James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting process and the physical expressive qualities of paint have always central to my practice .l do not wish to illustrate either a direct perceptual experience or conceptual idea.l think concepts develop out of the process itself which in turn gives rise to ideas . These small impasto oils are part of a current project preceded by three or four volumes of small drawings completed in situ in the local park during lockdown.The paintings themselves are produced in the studio where process ,media and physical action stimulate memory and imagination which in turn creates for me internally found images which often seem to be more authentic in recording my experience in the landscape.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://jamesbyrneart.com

James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

Painting

James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

Painting

James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting shows a detail of the Eye Infirmary on Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton. Objects, spaces and the Built environment are explored through this series of paintings. A play of light, a silhouette, a partially open door or broken window frame. These objects or places can be read as metaphors for isolation, abandonment and solitude. Amidst the howling storm of contemporary culture, the artist is separate, alone, a silent observer, cut off from the cacophonous noise of the human condition. Are we not all alone amongst the baying crowds? The ability to project gives the viewer a kind of ownership over the scene, thus allowing a more direct experience. Empty spaces, devoid of human life, freeze the echoes of human existence.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting

James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

Painting

James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

Painting

James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a painting of the Girls’ High School in Doncaster town centre, as it was undergoing demolition. Continuing this series, elements are deleted, obliterated or obscured. By redacting essential aspects of a scene; a line, the form, a detail, the thing described becomes lost but more present. It is the Absence of selective detail that engages – The sparsity in the work, that which is missing, forces the on-looker to fill in the gaps, facilitating a unique reading of the image, not as the artist saw it but as the viewer actively experiences it. If you depict an absence, you also reveal the presence.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting

James Stacey — Vacant

Painting

James Stacey — Vacant

Painting

James Stacey — Vacant

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting was created as part of my investigation into the ways different people acted on public transport. I found this image captivating of a young teenage girl completely absorbed and transfixed by social media. Even though there were so many different people on the bus everyone seemed to be so far away - disconnected almost. There was a misery which i looked to capture also, the monotony of an everyday routine to head to school. I could sense the female subject had become all too acustomed to this journey. I chose to paint this image onto defaced corrugated cardboard as this mirrored the withered and tired nature of the girl.
  • Date:
    30/1/2020
  • Medium:
    Oil paint
  • Category:
    Painting

James Turner — Cardboard Bundle

Print

James Turner — Cardboard Bundle

Print

James Turner — Cardboard Bundle

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘Cardboard Bundle’ 21, 5 colour screen-print on 270gsm bread and butter paper 500x686mm. My latest works are an attempt to find interesting sculptural forms in the everyday, showing scenes or objects boldly backlit with block colour to soften or frame, extenuating what I find interesting and posing the question: is this public art? Each image is the result of a deliberate act, for example the crushing and binding of the cardboard by shop workers to make the transportation of the material easier, or the person or persons pushing over traffic cones in the streets. I see myself as collaborating with these unknowing (and unknown) artists to record their public performances and installations. I created these works by using the process of screen-print; building layers and hand pulling each screen bringing a 2D print back into the realm of 3D. I also made multiple prints to make the work more widely accessible.
  • Date:
    December 21
  • Medium:
    Screen print
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://press-file-print.com/

Jane Spence — Red Black Green

Painting

Jane Spence — Red Black Green

Painting

Jane Spence — Red Black Green

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is one of my smaller works developed from a cache of found images that I keep by me to help me conjure a sense of the strange, the uncanny: accepted reality skewed. Figures I am drawn to are generally hard to assign. They are androgynous, and have something of the Fae about them. They are the flash in the corner of our eye, an image not quite registered, a shadow that flickers behind a half open door.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

Painting

Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

Painting

Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Windfalls These are Bramley cooking apples, from the tree at the bottom of my garden. Some fall to the ground and smash on impact, and what can’t be salvaged are eaten by the birds or composted. Others land on soft soil and are scooped up before they spoil. The lucky ones stay on the tree long enough to be picked from the branches. Whichever way they fall they are stored, frozen, or baked in a pie. I was particularly drawn to the patterns and blemishes on their skins, and chose to include a stainless steel jug to reflect their colours and distorted shapes. I cropped the image quite severely to create interesting shapes and to draw the viewer into the picture.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Pastel
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.jls-artist.uk

Jaskirt Boora — Jorvan

Photography

Jaskirt Boora — Jorvan

Photography

Jaskirt Boora — Jorvan

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Cherry blossom trees and birdsong is a personal reflection of family life during 2020. After spending a year feeling guilty and conflicted for working more than spending time with my children, on 23rd March 2020 all that changed. Britain went into its first national lockdown and walks around the block became the norm. Bird song was now the sound of the streets. The contrasting emotions of seeing beauty in the everyday but knowing of this horror gripping the world was difficult to comprehend and process. Yet I selfishly got to spend the quality time with them I had felt torn about all year. Seeing them grow, play and build their relationship was special. And whilst there was joy and warmth in those summer months, there was also moments of frustration, boredom and worry as the repetition of lockdown continued. As we move into the 2nd year of the pandemic it’s hard to fathom what the lasting impact of it will be on this younger generation.
  • Date:
    11/05/2020
  • Medium:
    Photography
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.jaskirtboora.com/

Jennifer Wallace — Our Earthly Delights

Mixed Media

Jennifer Wallace — Our Earthly Delights

Mixed Media

Jennifer Wallace — Our Earthly Delights

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Our Earthly Delights' was made in April 2021 in response to Quebec Collage's open call to celebrate World Collage Day that year using a palette referencing Picasso's blue period. Selected submissions (including mine) were shown in an online exhibition: http://quebeccollage.com/projets/bleu-world-collage-day-2021/ The materials are typical of my collages: the relatively small amount of print material I acquire in my daily life plus bits from magazines passed on by my sister. This recycling of print material from my own life is a key quality of my collages. Each piece of paper selected has meaning connected to its origins as well as to the COVID-19 pandemic, and its connections with several features of our complex relationship with our earthly environment. As with Picasso's Blue Period works, images made in a very negative context can, though, hold attention long enough for us to move deeper into and beyond our first reactions of despair.
  • Date:
    April 2021
  • Medium:
    analogue collage of found papers on cardboard
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • https://www.instagram.com/whichjennifer/
  • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100048943367967

Jenny Suffield — Chairs

Painting

Jenny Suffield — Chairs

Painting

Jenny Suffield — Chairs

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The painting considers the domestic space and furniture in the home. The chairs begin to take on the human characteristics of the occupiers as they are caught in the morning light. The paint application plays with the textures of the medium thickly applied in the sunlight, over thin layers in the shadows.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

Painting

Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

Painting

Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The growing up of children into young adults, learning independence, at moments holding onto games enjoyed as youngsters though at the same time wanting to be treated as adults. The painting explores the application of paint between the shadows and the sunlight.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Jodie Wingham — Hand Study

Print

Jodie Wingham — Hand Study

Print

Jodie Wingham — Hand Study

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Mokulito or what is known as wood lithography is a relatively new technique within printmaking originating in the 1970’s in Japan. The process itself is labour intensive creating the image from the artists own photographs, transferring this onto a plywood plate, processing and leaving it for several weeks to mature and then printing the image for the final result. The process allows for seductive washes and marks to be created which is commonly associated with the lithographic technique, the wood allows for another element to be included which is the wooden grain. Specifically chosen for this particular image, the process allows the woodgrain to become part of the image, these delicate lines bare a visual similarity to the lines of our hands referencing back to image. What this particular gesture reveals is left open to question, asking whether what is revealed refers to a universal language we all come to understand and be able to read or is based more on our subjective experiences.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    photographic mokulito on paper
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://www.jodiewingham.com/

Jodie Wingham — Nestle

Print

Jodie Wingham — Nestle

Print

Jodie Wingham — Nestle

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Mokulito or what is known as wood lithography is a relatively new technique within printmaking originating in the 1970’s in Japan. The process itself is labour intensive creating the image from the artists own photographs, transferring this onto a plywood plate, processing and leaving it for several weeks to mature and then printing the image for the final result. The process allows for seductive washes and marks to be created which is commonly associated with the lithographic technique, the wood allows for another element to be included which is the wooden grain. Specifically chosen for this particular image, the process allows the woodgrain to become part of the image, these delicate lines bare a visual similarity to the lines of our hands referencing back to image. Nestle captures the gentle embrace between a couple, intimate and though provoking.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    photographic mokulito on paper
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://www.jodiewingham.com/

John Davenport — Clive Beardsmore with beard

Print

John Davenport — Clive Beardsmore with beard

Print

John Davenport — Clive Beardsmore with beard

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    John created this linocut portrait from a life study of Clive Beardsmore. He selected the work for submission to the West Midlands Open Exhibition because of Clive’s long and distinguished association with both the Old and New Walsall Art Galleries and the Garman Ryan Collection. Clive’s interventions at the gallery are some of the highlights of his donation of 200 artworks he made to the gallery in 2014 which form the largest individual donation to Walsall’s collection since the Garman Ryman Collection itself. Clive worked in the Old Walsall Art Gallery in the 1970s and was Assistant to the then Curator Michael Mosesson at the time Walsall received Kathleen Garman’s gift
  • Date:
    Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Linocut
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    http://www.commissionaportrait.com/artistsportfolio.asp?id=134&ref=srch&seq=134

John Devane — Study for a portrait

Painting

John Devane — Study for a portrait

Painting

John Devane — Study for a portrait

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a portrait study. The picture has been developed over a number of weeks and the image has undergone a number of significant changes. It struck me that the frontal pose of the figure suggests a sense of confrontation degree or even apprehension perhaps. The table and palette in the foreground provides a foil to the figure and helps articulate the space beyond. To the right. there is a corridor which also adds to the spatial tension within the picture.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on stretched canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

Painting

Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

Painting

Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a painting of a 1960's chair that was located at my favourite home "Seven Stones Drive". The leather was so worn it was thin with age and had turned white. When I inherited the chair around 20 years later, I had it re-upholstered in soft leather but it never really felt the same to sit in. But when my sons were little, we would sit in it all together at bedtime, read a story or two whilst putting our feet up on the matching footstool. The background was painted with acrylic and vinyl stencil sections were then cut and stuck to the background. I then used a stipple brush and two different shades of Farrow and Ball emulsion to administer the pattern. Each stencil section needed two coats. I then painted the chair using a wet on wet oil paint adding much detail and softness to the leather and hopefully an interesting contrast to the flatly presented wall. The floor boards are in oil paint, with a bright under painting of orange and burnt umber worked into it when dry.
  • Date:
    3rd February 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil, acrylic and emulsion
  • Category:
    Painting

Kate Hall — A Girl

Painting

Kate Hall — A Girl

Painting

Kate Hall — A Girl

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I quite often isolate my figures from their backgrounds. This is one of three painted drawings that I made in 2020 using me and my twin brother as models. It is a drawing on grey board coloured in with gesso and acrylic . It is very simple a figure study and I like the awkward pose and low view point .
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Gesso and graphite on grey board with acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Kathryn Sawbridge — 310122-1740

Other

Kathryn Sawbridge — 310122-1740

Other

Kathryn Sawbridge — 310122-1740

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    My work explores various landscapes and scenes, stripping them back to their basic colour palettes without the details of a realistic image. My pieces aim to encourage the viewer to look beyond the details and explore their environment on a deeper level, without the everyday distractions. My work is made using paper as this allows me to work quickly in capturing the exact colours of the landscape at a point in time. This particular piece shows a slow sunset at the end of January over Bloxwich whilst waiting for the train.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Paper
  • Category:
    Other
  • https://www.saatchiart.com/K.E.S

Kathryn Sawbridge — Marking Time

Other

Kathryn Sawbridge — Marking Time

Other

Kathryn Sawbridge — Marking Time

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    This artwork uses images from calendars saved over a period of 10 years by my Grandmother. These images have been brought together to create a new scene which at first glance appears to look a very realistic scene however once looked at in more detail the image is more surreal. The overall composition entices the viewer to look at the work closer each time they see it, rather than think it is yet another purely pretty landscape photograph.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Collage
  • Category:
    Other
  • https://www.saatchiart.com/K.E.S

Keisha Tulloch — Unknown Departure

Photography

Keisha Tulloch — Unknown Departure

Photography

Keisha Tulloch — Unknown Departure

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The focus of this body of work is addressing the human relationship with nature/space & the relationship between beauty and significance by bringing attention to outside space including groves and merged, intertwined branches in nature reserves. The idea of photographing how nature has been left to evolve and change in its own way is just so satisfying as they haven’t been touched by the human hand after being planted there for hundreds of years so the feeling of walking through sublime can never be pinpointed but leaves you with a sense of internal reconnection while being an inherently natural force. This large print examines the way that sublime landscapes are one that is very unfamiliar to many so through this, I want to bring together the reality of existence and the beautiful significance that evolved landscapes shouldn’t be hidden as something dark and socially constructed. The sublime should be appreciated and kept in the light with immense nobility.
  • Date:
    29th November 2021
  • Medium:
    Medium format
  • Category:
    Photography

Kevin Line — Winter of days 1

Drawing

Kevin Line — Winter of days 1

Drawing

Kevin Line — Winter of days 1

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    In a departure from my normal portrait and figure paintings this series of autobiographical works reflect my emotional state at the end of a long period of lockdown and ill health. The louring dark hulks of buildings lurking in the dark exude no warmth. No lit window hints at human presence and potential welcome. The awareness of mortality and sense of cold, dark isolation from the rest of humanity pervade the deliberately monochrome drawings. The endless night awaits.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Charcoal and ink on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.kevinline-portraits.co.uk

Kurt Hickson — Supernova

Sculpture

Kurt Hickson — Supernova

Sculpture

Kurt Hickson — Supernova

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    Made out of chip forks set into a painted polystyrene ball, Supernova (2021) explores non-traditional materials and basic found objects. Creating something out of almost nothing, I feel the work reflects our current times of ‘just getting by’ and ‘making do with what we have’. The simplicity and silliness of things as trivial and everyday as chip forks used to suggest something as monumental as an exploding star underlines the importance of humour and scaling down in our daily lives.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    wooden chip forks, acrylic on polystyrene
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Leah Hickey — Eulogy

Mixed Media

Leah Hickey — Eulogy

Mixed Media

Leah Hickey — Eulogy

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Eulogy' is an organic lamentation upon bereavement following the very recent loss of my Father. The artwork reflects upon this sudden change with conflicting sorrow and joy, striving to illustrate a nuanced depiction of a man reluctant to share. Within the past few years, text work has become a foundational component of my artistic practice as a means of catharsis and exorcising emotional trauma. This work stems from a larger collection of autobiographical writing I have been developing surrounding personal experiences of trauma and loss as a young woman. 'Eulogy' is to be self-published later this year as part of an anthology aptly titled 'Grief (In Few Forms)'. I had made the decision to read this work at my Father's funeral, hence the title.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Matte giclée print on paper, wooden lectern
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.leahhickey.com/

Leanne Taylor — Solitary

Photography

Leanne Taylor — Solitary

Photography

Leanne Taylor — Solitary

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    This photograph is part of an ongoing documentary project of mine titled 'solitary'. It is well known that our society is sadly full of loneliness, and as humanity shrouds itself in social media, the real world seems bleak and empty but in fact its full of beauty and peace. This photo encapsulates the essence of being alone but not lonely. This is a grabbed documentary photo at the national war memorial. This young man caught my eye and I had to capture his life in my camera as he stood reading the leaflet about the graves around him. I assume he was looking for friends or family as he would always have them in his heart and never be alone.
  • Date:
    17/10/2021
  • Medium:
    DSLR Camera
  • Category:
    Photography
  • https://www.facebook.com/TheLensAdventure/?ref=page_internal

Lewis Graham — Memory loss

Print

Lewis Graham — Memory loss

Print

Lewis Graham — Memory loss

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    The work looks at an explosive skyscape, a place which I have been to before but cannot quite map the location. The title 'memory loss' looks into the ways in which people remember fragments of places or subtle details of areas which they explore throughout their lifetime. The blurred vision of a place that is left behind creates the memory that is once forgotten.
  • Date:
    6/12/21
  • Medium:
    monotype print - oil based printing ink
  • Category:
    Print
  • https://www.instagram.com/lewisgraham_studios/

Lewis Graham — A sense of hope

Drawing

Lewis Graham — A sense of hope

Drawing

Lewis Graham — A sense of hope

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    A sense of hope captures a storm over a vast landscape. The rising sun in the background and a path leading to the woods break up the composition and relate to the concept of hope. The work is charcoal combined with water washes in between layers to create depth and texture throughout.
  • Date:
    26/10/21
  • Medium:
    Charcoal on canvas
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • https://www.instagram.com/lewisgraham_studios/

Lilli Whitham — Your Poor

Photography

Lilli Whitham — Your Poor

Photography

Lilli Whitham — Your Poor

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The photograph captures a boarded up window display, the window has been painted roughly so a passer-by can't see inside. Scratched into the paint are the words 'Your Poor'. Although this appears to be a grammar mistake, it feels indicative of the economic decline in the neighbourhood and local high street that belong to the community. It is 'your poor', your problem, your community, your experience.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Photographic Print
  • Category:
    Photography

Lily Victoria Purslow — Self-Reflection

Mixed Media

Lily Victoria Purslow — Self-Reflection

Mixed Media

Lily Victoria Purslow — Self-Reflection

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Self-Reflection depicts a personal study which considers significant life changes from the past year, and how I have adapted to them. I have referred to ‘colour psychology’ and each colour used in paint and thread refers to specific emotions: Yellow - positivity and enthusiasm, turquoise - stability, blue - healing, navy - sadness and security, purple - sensitivity, cream/white - calm and maturity, black - control and fear. Thread sequences and repetitive motifs throughout the work refer to reoccurring events, and the layering of stitches represents the complexity of the events which have defined the past year. Abstract shapes refer to constant development and change. I am hoping viewers can recognise the intricacy and complicated imagery and together with the title form their own conclusion as to the meanings behind the composition and its importance.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    calico, watercolour, thread
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lilypurslowart.co.uk/

Linda Nevill — Rising

Mixed Media

Linda Nevill — Rising

Mixed Media

Linda Nevill — Rising

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    After a long period of near silent stagnation the city starts to rise again. Positive activity of both physical building construction but also re-building of lives out of a time of paralysis.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed media collage
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lindanevill.com/

Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

Painting

Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

Painting

Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'The Ghost of You' is a mixed media painting that resulted from collaborating with local poet Leanne Cooper who documents her struggles with her mental health through her poetry. Her poem 'The Darkness' is about depression, describing its physical effects and how it slowly seeps in and changes a person and it inspired me to convey these dark effects on a person through my painting. The background is multi layered with extracts of the poem, stencilling, bus tickets and other papers that related to the body of the poem. These were then painted over with acrylic paint, sanded back to reveal parts of the collage and then in parts repainted over to create a worn broken surface echoing the fragility of the person depicted in the poem. It seemed fitting to paint the face of a person partially emerging from the broken surface as if the ghost of the person is emerging from the darkness. I deliberately kept the person genderless enabling all viewers to be able to connect with the painting.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lindsaypritchardart.co.uk

Lisa Davies — Baba Yaga’s House

Mixed Media

Lisa Davies — Baba Yaga’s House

Mixed Media

Lisa Davies — Baba Yaga’s House

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is an embroidered artwork depicting the house of Baba Yaga, a witch often found in Slavic folklore. The story goes that she lives in an old wooden hut that struts around the forest on chicken legs. The artwork started as a pencil drawing, which I then processed through embroidery computer software. Material is then hooped up and embroidered, sections at a time. For the chicken legs, I stuck down black chiffon fabric before stitching, then used a teasle brush to pull away fibres to create texture. Once the machine embroidery was finished, I added extra detail with hand embroidery, for effects that can't be done by machine.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Embroidery on cotton
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lisamariedavies.com

Lois Hopwood — Playing in the ruins

Other

Lois Hopwood — Playing in the ruins

Other

Lois Hopwood — Playing in the ruins

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    Late last year I went to Tintern Abbey with Hereford Sixth form as visiting Artist . This is a 3D card model of Tintern Abbey with two small children playing in the ruins . When the students from Hereford Sixth form visited the Abbey they had to work with it as the subject for a 'sense of place' and it just felt so alien and empty. So that after extolling them to collage at college, I went away and began to repopulate the ruins with collaged people from an old National geographic magazine which immediately turned it into a small story telling set design. This image had a working title of 'No Ball Games'.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Card model
  • Category:
    Other

Lois Hopwood — The Sea

Other

Lois Hopwood — The Sea

Other

Lois Hopwood — The Sea

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    Late last year I went to Tintern Abbey with Hereford Sixth form as visiting Artist . The building was beautiful, very stony and apart from us, very empty. Reflecting on world religions , that at their beginning all religions seem to have a charismatic leader and need a lot of people to follow , I have put the people back into the Abbey , they are in the Sea and they are the Sea. This model is a cardboard cut out collage using my photographs of the Abbey and a beach scene from a 1983 National Geographic magazine.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Card and photocopies
  • Category:
    Other

Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

Painting

Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

Painting

Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Temporary shelter and Distant land are paintings that reflect on displacement, isolation and temporality. The tent as a motif has been a recurring theme as it symbolises fragility and defines boundaries. Demarcation of space creates a sense of possession however transitory this may be, generating a feeling of security and protection even though the framework is rudimentary to the point of collapse. These transient structures sit in dark uncertain spaces, the emptiness of the void in the landscape contrasts with the inviting glow of a distant coast line. The duality of space and limitation, presence and absence, the epic and the intimate, creates a narrative that is recognisable and familiar but at the same time unsettling and reflects upon our current times in a poignant way.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on copper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.loiswallace.co.uk

Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

Painting

Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

Painting

Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Polystyrene is so prevalent as a waste material, often despised if it is even seen at all. My work challenges people’s response to it and how they perceive the often unnoticed things around them. I’ve used this reclaimed polystyrene sheet as a canvas, celebrating and emphasising the texture and material through my use of paint. Looking closely at this type of polystyrene reminded me of the dots in old colour blind tests. I carefully painted the individual beads within a circle to evoke these, and wanted it to resemble a world/planet and a sense of journey through. I have used a flat matt black paint against bright, regular acrylics to suggest an illusory depth to the dots and create a different kind of eye test.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Paint on reclaimed polystyrene
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lorsencamps.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/lorsencamps

Lou Blakeway — Allie II

Painting

Lou Blakeway — Allie II

Painting

Lou Blakeway — Allie II

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    A small figurative painting in watercolour
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Watercolour on paper
  • Category:
    Painting

Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

Painting

Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

Painting

Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Oil painting on panel
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on panel
  • Category:
    Painting

LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

Painting

LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

Painting

LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The creation of 'Shining Moment' was mainly oil paintings of the tiny daily and special scenes of life. Through lights, shadows, and film-like compositions, they expressed real and film-like moments of life. This 'Shining Moment' project has Sisyphus-like dilemma and exploration of the meaning of life. WENJUAN LU wanted to use this creation to encourage her self, and others, to truly experience the feeling of living in the present, to cherish the present life and people. Even if these moments were tiny, they were nevertheless shiny.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://instagram.com/lunalu_artist?utm_medium=copy_link

Mac McCoig — Titanic

Painting

Mac McCoig — Titanic

Painting

Mac McCoig — Titanic

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work depicts 32 shoes in pairs, half women's shoes, half men's. The shoes are not new, they appear worn, but the owners are absent, yet the absence of presence is implicit within the shoes, as anyone who has experienced those left behind by a departed relative can testify. An enduring image for me was pictures of shoes scattered, but in pairs, on the sea bed around the sunken wreck of the Titanic; the only surviving remnant of the unfortunate passengers. The bright colours and high gloss finish of the work both belies and enhances the tensions of the absent presence of the wearers.
  • Date:
    2019
  • Medium:
    Acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

Painting

Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

Painting

Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This piece communicates my concern during lockdown for NHS staff and other carers and key workers. The stress and trauma they were being exposed to and experiencing themselves I felt would not be over when or if covid was under control. Much was worse than it should have been as resources and staff had been run down over previous years. I was hoping to communicate that this situation should not have been so bad for staff and we should not allow this to happen again and forget how precious the NHS and other key workers are.
  • Date:
    September 202
  • Medium:
    oil
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.maggieleaver.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/maggieleaver/
  • https://facebook.com/maggieleaverpaintings/

Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

Painting

Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

Painting

Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Earth is on the cusp of a new awakening, some would say a spiritual awakening. This piece depicts the separation of relationships, lovers, body from soul - the idea that some will transition to a new earth, leaving behind those unwilling to change.
  • Date:
    12/04/21
  • Medium:
    Digital
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://retromanni.myportfolio.com/

Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

Painting

Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

Painting

Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    An experiment with light. By illuminating only that which is necessary, the story unfolds from the darkness. A relationship between 3 shadows in a dystopian neon city street.
  • Date:
    12/09/2020
  • Medium:
    Digital
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://retromanni.myportfolio.com/

Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

Painting

Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

Painting

Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Before the first wave, I uncovered a history of sexual trauma, via a series of repeated memories. I began writing and documenting any recollection that recurred and found a pattern of peripherally violent and enabling behaviours. I then used heavily watered-down gouache to recreate the text. With memory comes a level of uncertainty and fogginess, so by turning the texts into misty poetry with vague narratives; I am able to visualise and make sense of a haphazard and precarious upbringing. Hypervigilant and Stocking are two 1m x 1m unframed gouache paintings on calico. They show a series of white text surrounded by watery paint applied in block sections bleeding into one another. The text explores anecdotes surrounding moments of childhood panic and comfort. This dichotomy being a prominent motif in my upbringing. Early memories of sexual trauma and an unhealthy obsession with sensational news both pushed and pulled me toward an understanding of safety hanging on a knife’s edge.
  • Date:
    Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Gouache on calico
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://marcusjkeating.wixsite.com/mysite

Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

Painting

Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

Painting

Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Before the first wave, I uncovered a history of sexual trauma, via a series of repeated memories. I began writing and documenting any recollection that recurred and found a pattern of peripherally violent and enabling behaviours. I then used heavily watered-down gouache to recreate the text. With memory comes a level of uncertainty and fogginess, so by turning the texts into misty poetry with vague narratives; I am able to visualise and make sense of a haphazard and precarious upbringing. Hypervigilant and Stocking are two 1m x 1m unframed gouache paintings on calico. They show a series of white text surrounded by watery paint applied in block sections bleeding into one another. The text explores anecdotes surrounding moments of childhood panic and comfort. This dichotomy being a prominent motif in my upbringing. Early memories of sexual trauma and an unhealthy obsession with sensational news both pushed and pulled me toward an understanding of safety hanging on a knife’s edge.
  • Date:
    Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Gouache on calico
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://marcusjkeating.wixsite.com/mysite

Maria Wigley — That Day

Mixed Media

Maria Wigley — That Day

Mixed Media

Maria Wigley — That Day

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Exploring metaphorical landscapes.  I am drawn towards the internal landscape. The land makes us who we are. We are part of the land, as it is part of us. The physical world but also an inner world.  A place of deep personal and sensory connection between an individual and a particular location. The work poses a sense of environment, a foreboding landscape somewhere distant. The scrambled words; traces of human tracks, and stories. Histories made, some permanent and past down, others just travel off in the wind deleted without a trace.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Paper, paint, silk, thread
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.mariawigley.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/mariawigley

Mark Houghton — Slotz

Painting

Mark Houghton — Slotz

Painting

Mark Houghton — Slotz

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Drawing made from board that had previously been used as a work table. "Accidental" and "inherited"marks were the inspiration for the composition.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    wood, paint, ink
  • Category:
    Painting

Mark Murphy — In the bag

Other

Mark Murphy — In the bag

Other

Mark Murphy — In the bag

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    'In the bag' is a hand cut paper collage made from found vintage print elements. It's abstract form combines figurative and urban fragments that suggest both a city and an undefinable human interaction, the colours of which suggest a possible surgical or healthcare setting, These disparate elements are bound together by a orange tube that weaves through the created perspective. This work was made in the weeks before the first national lockdown due to the Covid 19 pandemic. It creates an atmosphere that could be read as a building sense of uncertainty.
  • Date:
    February 2020
  • Medium:
    Hand Cut Paper Collage
  • Category:
    Other
  • Website/s:
    http://www.markmurph.co.uk

Mark Murphy — ‘Slowly unravelling’

Other

Mark Murphy — ‘Slowly unravelling’

Other

Mark Murphy — ‘Slowly unravelling’

Other ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Slowly unravelling' is a hand cut paper collage made from found vintage print elements. The work depicts a woman, elbows raised as if leaning, obscured by a textured band that wraps around her. A typographic and globe fragment fill the top left corner of the piece. The predominantly black and white elements are accentuated by a shard of deep magenta positioned to the left of the figure. This abstract work, plays with composition and what we can and can't see and the questions and interpretations this obscuring brings.
  • Date:
    April 2o21
  • Medium:
    Hand Cut Paper Collage
  • Category:
    Other
  • Website/s:
    http://www.markmurph.co.uk

Marwa Sayed — Facing

Painting

Marwa Sayed — Facing

Painting

Marwa Sayed — Facing

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    It is an attempt to enter the subconscious and translate or organize feelings using a few colours. In this painting, I express the idea of ​​facing things greater than one's own capabilities. Standing alone, a small child with an incomplete wing. He does not know if he should move forward or stand in the same place to avoid possible consequences.
  • Medium:
    Watercolours and Ink on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/marwa.kamall/

Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

Painting

Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

Painting

Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work forms an impression of Lower Trinity Street in Digbeth, a thoroughfare that links the Custard Factory to Dead Wax records, via the Night Owl Club. It is purposefully stripped back, without the customary street furniture, road markings, street art and graffiti typically found in the area.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.mattgreenhill.com/

Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

Painting

Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

Painting

Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The rustic and decorative frontage of Chez Michelle florist, until its closure in the Summer of 2020, was a popular location with London’s street photographers. This work is derived from a photograph I took in 2016. The shop was positioned on Stoney Street near to the entrance of vibrant Borough Market, a locality that attracts thousands of visitors each day as well as being a hub for the local Bermondsey community. In a previous location under the railway arches on Stoney Street, Chez Michelle served as the location for the Leaky Cauldren in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In the current climate of uncertainty the area is a beacon of resilience and recovery as in June 2017 it was the focus of a terrorist attack. This work depicts the everyday occurrence of a florist preparing cut flowers and a customer making an impulsive visit.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.mattgreenhill.com/

Melanie Woodhead — Transitional Spaces and Ages in Times of Climate Crisis

Photography

Melanie Woodhead — Transitional Spaces and Ages in Times of Climate Crisis

Photography

Melanie Woodhead — Transitional Spaces and Ages in Times of Climate Crisis

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Eco-anxiety and its psychological effects are increasing and having a disproportionate impact on young people. The artwork is from a current series based on practice-led PhD research exploring transitional spaces and ages in times of climate crisis. Winnicott defined transitional space as an intermediate area; a space of experiencing between inner and outer worlds where creativity exists. The piece merges an image of my thirteen-year-old son, with that of seed heads and leaf skeletons found on our walks together. Combining inkjet transfers with the transaquatype process, the image was soaked in water causing colours to bleed and behave unpredictably. New spaces emerge and create a fluidity that questions the gap between me and not me, offering alternative visions of our shared environmental future.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Inkjet transfer and transaquatype print
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://artandgardening.wordpress.com/

Meta Mezan — Static Time

Painting

Meta Mezan — Static Time

Painting

Meta Mezan — Static Time

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In the painting I am connecting computer-made imagery with the organic mark-making form. Added shadows transform the abstract object into a possible existing one, it adds gravity and the dimensional weight. The shadow is lively with the brush marks that reminds of the linocut print. The object is placed in an invented space, to bring it closer to the known world.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://metamezan.wixsite.com/mmart

Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

Painting

Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

Painting

Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In the painting I am connecting computer-made imagery with the organic mark-making form and geometric shapes. Added shadows transform the abstract object into a possible existing one, it adds gravity and the dimensional weight. The geometric forms are applied thicker with the technique of collage, and are standing out of the surface, which adds their own shadow, and continue the tension between the contrasts.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://metamezan.wixsite.com/mmart

Michelle Foley — Standing On Your Own One Foot

Mixed Media

Michelle Foley — Standing On Your Own One Foot

Mixed Media

Michelle Foley — Standing On Your Own One Foot

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    During lockdown I felt very alone and isolated. This is a drawing of a sculpture I made examining what I was feeling by being so alone.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed media including charcoal, sycamore leaf juice and used cooking oil
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Mikeala Dowling — Bowling 2022

Photography

Mikeala Dowling — Bowling 2022

Photography

Mikeala Dowling — Bowling 2022

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is another shot of the bowling balls used by my sister Lisa, as we continue to bowl in the new year 2022, as after two years we are still waiting for her day centre to open. After COVID happened,it was shut down for now two years and Lisa has been coming to bowl with me. All these funky colours represent our happiness at bowling together every week at Hollywood Bowl, Rubery, but also the balls are very different to the first Bowling 2021 image. We have been bowling every Thursday for that long, they’ve even renovated in that time. I noticed the change and it made me giggle, but the harshness of the colours and repetition of the shot also resembles the time we are still waiting to see when Lisa can once again bowl with her friends at day centre.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Photo print A3
  • Category:
    Photography

Natalie Brooks — Murmuration (Study for Decline)

Drawing

Natalie Brooks — Murmuration (Study for Decline)

Drawing

Natalie Brooks — Murmuration (Study for Decline)

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a study for a planned much larger piece which is about my own struggle with postnatal depression. The birds and bees are symbolic of a new chapter and motherhood, but with both of my children, I was not prepared for the decline in my mental health. The idea of the group murmuration of birds can be taken on the surface as a comment upon declining bird and bee populations, but to me the shape of the murmuration signifies the build up and sudden drop of emotion within myself and he resulting decline in my metal state. The dead birds are a reference to the horrors that my mind would conjure up whilst being expected to continue along with the flock of other women who must fill the obligation of day to day childcare regardless of overwhelming imbalance within. I think PND is something that should be out in the open and talked about more.
  • Date:
    Dec 2021
  • Medium:
    Pencil, Ink and Eyeshadow on Tracing Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing

Nathan McGill — The Photographer Is Me

Photography

Nathan McGill — The Photographer Is Me

Photography

Nathan McGill — The Photographer Is Me

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘The Photographer Is Me’ is a participatory arts photography project in collaboration with a community of West Midlands based asylum seekers. Catalysed by the desire to shift the power dynamic within photography, the project set out host virtual workshops with intent to educate, inform and cultivate a safe space for participants to express their creativity. Via the combination of participant photographs, emulsion lifts, oral storytelling and artist portraits – the project has realised into a photobook co-authored by McGill and his participants. Individuals seeking asylum in Britain often live on the margins of society after fleeing their native country, their life has been catapulted from one nation to another. Yet, even as they find comfort in Britain, they are met with the hostile environment imposed by the British government. It was always important to support the participants creative development through such a creative service that is often not provided to individuals seeking asy
  • Date:
    01/05/2021
  • Medium:
    Medium format 120mm
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.nathanmcgill.co.uk

Nathan McGill — The Women In Trees

Photography

Nathan McGill — The Women In Trees

Photography

Nathan McGill — The Women In Trees

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Women in Trees is an on-going collaborative portraiture project founded upon the the celebration of natural Afro hair. The work was inspired by the over-representation of Eurocentric beauty standards embedded into Western society. In particular, I encountered a photo-book that collated archival images found in flea markets of women photographed in and around trees. What I noticed was that all of the women were from European backgrounds, and so I felt an urge to challenge this domination of Eurocentrism. The Women in Trees provides a space for women that embody and embrace the beauty of their Afro hair to express their thoughts and opinions regarding their hair without the interference of external bodies suggesting what is acceptable and what is not. Through a series of open-calls, participants from across England were casted to participate in the body of work and have their portrait captured within nature. Alongside portraits, semi-structured interviews were conducted in order t
  • Date:
    10/01/2020
  • Medium:
    Medium format 120mm
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.nathanmcgill.co.uk

Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

Painting

Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

Painting

Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is part of 9 abstract, lyrical landscapes: Imagined Cosmos.inspired, somewhat by a conversation I had at the Hare Krishna temple in. Birmingham. I was told, something along the lines of, ‘Lord Krishna awakes before everyone and paints the skies’ to which I replied, ‘Why does he paint it the same every time?’ The response I got was almost blank, perhaps that as if I were a little crazy. However, to me as a painter it seemed bizarre, that it was pretty much the same every time, It is true, there are seasons, emotions and different moods, however, the pallet is a little too limited. The series is nine, 94 x94 cm acrylic on canvas, created on the floor, taking whichever approach allowed me to create what inspired me in the moment. Pouring paint, on the floor allows me to become a physical part of the work while I create it, while also allowing me to become meditative and, of the moment, working instinctively. I hope the work inspires inner peace and tranquility and healing.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://words-pictures-music.netlify.app/
  • https://www.instagram.com/ragmanjones/

Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

Painting

Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

Painting

Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is part of 9 abstract, lyrical landscapes: Imagined Cosmos.inspired, somewhat by a conversation I had at the Hare Krishna temple in. Birmingham. I was told, something along the lines of, ‘Lord Krishna awakes before everyone and paints the skies’ to which I replied, ‘Why does he paint it the same every time?’ The response I got was almost blank, perhaps that as if I were a little crazy. However, to me as a painter it seemed bizarre, that it was pretty much the same every time, It is true, there are seasons, emotions and different moods, however, the pallet is a little too limited. The series is nine, 94 x94 cm acrylic on canvas, created on the floor, taking whichever approach allowed me to create what inspired me in the moment. Pouring paint, on the floor allows me to become a physical part of the work while I create it, while also allowing me to become meditative and, of the moment, working instinctively. I hope the work inspires inner peace and tranquility and healing.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://words-pictures-music.netlify.app/
  • https://www.instagram.com/ragmanjones/

Niki Gandy — Moment: In Flux

Mixed Media

Niki Gandy — Moment: In Flux

Mixed Media

Niki Gandy — Moment: In Flux

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    One of an ongoing series of works exploring the limitations of memory and nostalgia in revisiting a single moment of nondescript domesticity. These pieces are left unfixed to enable the image to continue to shift and distort over time, the piece literally holding its own memory.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Graphite-glazed/hand-finished multiexposed digitised pinhole photograph on brushed aluminium
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    http://nikigandy.co.uk

Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

Painting

Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

Painting

Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The characters are objects from my mantelpiece. Bo Peep is from the fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. In the painting Bo Peep is depicted as a strong woman, she has been elevated from a cheap lime green ceramic object by subtly changing the glaze into Celadon Green. Celadon green was considered so beautiful that only royalty could look at it. Though the name celadon is French, for centuries the colour was known by the Chinese as mi se, meaning ‘mysterious colour." The word Céladon first appeared as a character in Honoré d'Urfé's 17th Century French pastoral romance, L'Astrée (1627). Astrée's lover, Céladon was a shepherd who wore pale green ribbons. Bo Peep now wears the colours of the shepherd. Her sheep have been replaced by a powerful ‘Cappamore Ram,’ an Irish souvenir. The painting is pure artifice, the matt surface fakes the impression of a shiny glaze, and references collage within its dropped shadow.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.nitanewman.com/

Oliver Jones — Doll #135

Drawing

Oliver Jones — Doll #135

Drawing

Oliver Jones — Doll #135

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    Barbie, an image once used as a reference for feminine ideal, continues to diversify and incorporate a much wider cross section of society, (shown here by "Fashionista Doll #135") As much as this is a very positive step in representing groups who are under-represented in such areas (in this instance, individuals with skin conditions/vitiligo) it again eludes to the ‘media/industry machine’ being responsible for standardising the image of ‘normality’ whilst simultaneously differentiating between what is or isn’t acceptable within societal norms. Who are the custodians of what is ‘normal’ and who is responsible for choosing that which is used to represent it?
  • Date:
    May 2021
  • Medium:
    Pastel on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.olivercjones.com

Oliver Jones — Untitled

Drawing

Oliver Jones — Untitled

Drawing

Oliver Jones — Untitled

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This an observational work from a series that comments on the DIY/self-help beauty therapies, processes and regimes prevalent on the internet, social media and sold to us through the media and industry. It comments on the lengths to which we are prepared to extend in order to conform to the standards of acceptability within society whilst in pursuit of 'perfection’
  • Date:
    April 2020
  • Medium:
    Pastel on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    http://www.olivercjones.com

Olivia Cormell — What is Missing?

Drawing

Olivia Cormell — What is Missing?

Drawing

Olivia Cormell — What is Missing?

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is a drawing of Coventry City Centre. There are tall buildings, a water feature and little market stalls. There are blank spaces within the images where I've removed the green spaces from the drawing.
  • Date:
    22nd October 2021
  • Medium:
    ink on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • https://www.instagram.com/olivia_cormell_art/

Olivier Jamin — Drawing hand – Free as a Bird

Mixed Media

Olivier Jamin — Drawing hand – Free as a Bird

Mixed Media

Olivier Jamin — Drawing hand – Free as a Bird

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Inspired by one of Escher‘s best-known images, this lithograph of two hands drawing each other presents several of the artist’s favourite concepts. Many years ago, I heard a song called 'Free as a Bird' from the Beatles which was on the B-side album of 'Christmas Time (Is Here Again). "Free as a Bird" is a single released in 1995 by the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon, the band's founding member. In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon was murdered, his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio version incorporating the demo. You may be puzzled that as someone born Deaf (Artist) it does not mean I cannot hear music. I am able to hear the sounds and some of the words through use of my hearing aids. Reading the lyrics does help and give me further understanding of their meaning.
  • Date:
    20/02/2022
  • Medium:
    Hand drawn using Posca pen with colour taped and holographic/glitter hand sticker on card
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.ojart.net/

Paul Crook — Escalators

Painting

Paul Crook — Escalators

Painting

Paul Crook — Escalators

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In this painting the architectural forms are abstracted into a fragmentation of shape, light, colour and space; a broken but inter-connected geometric surface. I am interested in the reading of the image as being simultaneously about the flat foreground, alongside the recessive illusionary elements. The escalators are readable as three-dimensional structures but also as a series of orange and green interlocking two-dimensional shapes.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.paulcrookpaintings.co.uk

Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

Painting

Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

Painting

Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Over the last few years I have been making a series of paintings based on subways. This is one of a number of locations that have become a significant part of my personal geography. These places are far more than merely functional public spaces, they form part of our remembered shared significant histories. In the paintings I attempt to slow down the moment of ‘passing through’ and take a more measured view of the beauty that exists in these utilitarian places. The painting is equally about the process of its making. I am interested in the journey taken during the construction of painting, the decisions made to slowly establish something fresh and removed from what was initially observed.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.paulcrookpaintings.co.uk

Paul Newman — The Last Day Revisited

Mixed Media

Paul Newman — The Last Day Revisited

Mixed Media

Paul Newman — The Last Day Revisited

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Last Day Revisited 2020. ‘The Last Day’ has a history, originating as a studio performance in 2012, a photographic print and a digital animation at mac birmingham in a solo exhibition ‘Stage’ 2015. The set up in the studio depicts painting related ephemera, studio detritus, and performance props including the main character ‘the man with a sugar cube for a head’. The image was composed and presented like a painting. It’s sort of a fictional self-portrait featuring several reoccurring motifs from my practice. The narrative of the artist’s studio references depictions such as Studio by Phillip Guston, 1969. ‘The Last Day Revisited’, 2020 was created during the first lockdown. Taking one of the prints I had at home, I painted over the photograph, adding new elements of abstraction, and intertwining the relationship between the photograph and painting. The result is a darker, queasier version of the original…
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Acrylic paint on C-Type photographic print
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://paul-newman.net/

Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

Painting

Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

Painting

Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Mechanical Fly Study 2021 The Human Fly has been a recurring character in my paintings, drawings and performance works since 2007. It was originally Inspired by a B&W movie still from The Return of the Fly 1958 in an old Monsters of the Movies book, depicting a suited man fly standing in a doorway. This has been expanded, exploring the matter-of-fact acceptance of accelerating mutation in David Cronenberg’s tragic 1986 film version of the Fly which in turn references Franz Kafka’s short story Metamorphosis 1915. Mechanical Fly Study depicts a version of the fly framed or trapped in some form of architectural structure. The environment the fly is embedded is in itself in a state of flux and links to another series of works; ‘Interior studies’. In this series various characters with references ranging from Romantic era paintings, movie monsters and Don Quixote, are trapped or wandering through imaginary landscapes in a state of flux, never reaching a destination.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Water colour, gouache, ink on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://paul-newman.net/

Philip Singleton — Imperial 1 Window

Photography

Philip Singleton — Imperial 1 Window

Photography

Philip Singleton — Imperial 1 Window

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Pause Project; the images capture a reflective, meditative, intimate view of buildings that are in a pause state, life has left them, they await death by demolition or new breath through new use. Often the marks and scars of use are recorded on walls and surfaces, but human life has departed. The body of work is growing as each building is accessed through careful negotiation and recorded as a memory to be shared. Philip sees this as an important gathering of memories as towns and cities once again embark on the growing pains of massive regeneration. “Defining : The moment of discontinuity : The state of in-between”. “Acting : To dwell in the moment and capture the interstitial state”. Philip has exhibited in Birmingham and London and has his work hung by collectors in Hong Kong, London and Birmingham.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Printed onto aluminium sheets 750x750mm
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    www.philipsingleton.art

Philip Singleton — Imperial 2 Seats

Photography

Philip Singleton — Imperial 2 Seats

Photography

Philip Singleton — Imperial 2 Seats

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Pause Project; the images capture a reflective, meditative, intimate view of buildings that are in a pause state, life has left them, they await death by demolition or new breath through new use. Often the marks and scars of use are recorded on walls and surfaces, but human life has departed. The body of work is growing as each building is accessed through careful negotiation and recorded as a memory to be shared. Philip sees this as an important gathering of memories as towns and cities once again embark on the growing pains of massive regeneration. “Defining : The moment of discontinuity : The state of in-between”. “Acting : To dwell in the moment and capture the interstitial state”. Philip has exhibited in Birmingham and London and has his work hung by collectors in Hong Kong, London and Birmingham.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Printed onto aluminium sheets 750x750mm
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    www.philipsingleton.art

Rachel Doughty — Loss

Mixed Media

Rachel Doughty — Loss

Mixed Media

Rachel Doughty — Loss

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    This art work has been made from textiles, linens and small found objects from my parent’s house, found whilst clearing their house last year when they both died within 6 months of each other. The very process of the handling of the cloth, manipulating it into soft sculptures and adorning it with found objects is part of my healing process. In much of my work the process of making is just as important as the final outcome. The forms within this piece are made by hand stitching and stuffing and then the use of needle sculpting alters the forms. Some of the forms need repairs where the fabric is worn or have been hand stitched which not only decorates but attaches found and recycled objects. These forms are then stitched together and although some consideration is given to composition, the shape of the final piece evolves in a very organic, unplanned way. The cathartic process continues and I will be making many more sculptures in homage to my parents.
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Textiles, found objects, polyester stuffing and thread.
  • Category:
    Mixed Media

Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

Painting

Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

Painting

Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Smeared Digits' explores the mythic intangibility and pretence of contactless and immateriality shrouding digital technology. The greasy finger swipes on screens, clunky hardware, infrastructure and mined minerals tell otherwise of user's and labourer's bodies, and a variety of component materials. For this painting, Rachel has used a palette knife to smear paint across the screen creating a tension between the haptic and the optic, two and three dimensionality, surface and depth.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on iPad
  • Category:
    Painting

Rafal Zar — Perseverance

Painting

Rafal Zar — Perseverance

Painting

Rafal Zar — Perseverance

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Perseverance belongs to a series Braided People. They all consists of 3 ingredients. Their imaginary bodies are made of 2 ribbons. They are like 2 forces. 1 negative, destructive and the other positive and loving. The 3rd ingredient is a face made of fragile membrane, always smiling. This represents fragility of my psyche and endless attempt to find joy & happiness in life. Every painting in this series is a reminder to stay positive in life.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.brushwithdeath.org/

Ralouka Montesi — No beginning No end

Photography

Ralouka Montesi — No beginning No end

Photography

Ralouka Montesi — No beginning No end

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    A couple is passing by a large scaled painting. It feels like they are transported by this dynamic reality that is presented to them. ICM has been used in order to show further the incessant repetition and movement of these patterned circles as if they were signs of the eternal existence of life with all its various scenes. The photo is in B&W to express better this idea.
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.raloukamontesi.com

Richard Scott — Time-Gestalt

Drawing

Richard Scott — Time-Gestalt

Drawing

Richard Scott — Time-Gestalt

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    This drawing contains 75,600 dots made with a permanent marker on 12 sheets of A4 graph paper. The diamond shape which is visible is a natural artefact of the drawing process. I started the picture at the centre of the diamond and built outwards, clockwise along four diagonals - the tendency of any given dot to most closely resemble those drawn immediately before and after it causes a pattern to appear which delineates the order in which they were made. I knew that variations in shape and size of dots would occur naturally, (due to changing pressure of the pen, ink running at different rates, changing sitting position, etc.) so I didn't try to control them, I just stuck to my order and let the pattern occur by itself. The title is a reference to this process: the linear character of time alone forms the perceptual gestalt (shape) seen in the drawing.
  • Date:
    August 2020
  • Medium:
    permanent marker on graph paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://richard-scott.info/
  • https://www.instagram.com/richarddaviescott/

Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

Painting

Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

Painting

Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I have tried to capture the essense of this busy fishing harbour at low tide. The dark harbour wall provides the perfect backdrop to the colourful fishing boats, crates and other miscellaneous fishing equipment. With the tide being out it left all the boats sitting in the mud at interesting jaunty angles.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic/collage/mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.robleckeyart.com

Robert Page — Africa exploited

Sculpture

Robert Page — Africa exploited

Sculpture

Robert Page — Africa exploited

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    "Africa exploited" is my response using a female portrait to the historical invasions of Africa.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Bronze Resin on Portland Stone plus steel, silk and raffia
  • Category:
    Sculpture

Ross McCormick — The Worker

Sculpture

Ross McCormick — The Worker

Sculpture

Ross McCormick — The Worker

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    Leaving an unimaginable period of uncertainty and isolation, 2020 was particularly hard on working class families. We all were subject to Co-vid outbreaks, linked to a family member working in the NHS or at worst had to endure the passing of a loved one. Front line staff working in retail and hospitality were fighting for their jobs and the NHS was under tremendous pressure with the pandemic impacting the way we work as a result. But throughout this devastating time, working people stood together and displayed an incredible sense of strength and character. This ready-made sculpture ‘The Worker’ is foremost in reference to this inspiring act of human solidarity and togetherness accomplished by our key workers. The common street bin with its broom; litter picker and rake in gold, blue and red are symbolically coloured in reference to that of biblical paintings, for which some viewers may find solace. Divine, sacred and thankful, a renewal of spirit enriched by our undeviating grafters.
  • Date:
    05 April 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil Slick iridescent paint, salvaged street bin, colour anodised tools
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://www.rossmccormick.xyz/

Ruth Radcliffe — Painted Ladies

Mixed Media

Ruth Radcliffe — Painted Ladies

Mixed Media

Ruth Radcliffe — Painted Ladies

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    The collage has been inspired by Carol Rama and my own childhood drawings. It is a spontaneous work that came about through experimenting with layering and repetitive images. The linear drawings focus on the female form with a particular emphasis on their gaze.
  • Date:
    21/06/2020
  • Medium:
    Pen and ink on tissue paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • https://www.instagram.com@ruthyradcliffe

Ruth Spencer — Kimono

Painting

Ruth Spencer — Kimono

Painting

Ruth Spencer — Kimono

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In the summer of 2021, when we were allowed to meet up in groups with family and friends I went on holiday to the seaside . I was very struck by the brilliantly striped and coloured windbreaks and parasols. which seemed like a great burst of colour after the constraints of lockdown. It was also very interesting how people on the beach recreated domestic spaces on the beach, filled with chairs, tables, ice boxes , towels, mats and hats. It seemed even when we were 'let out' we had to retain a safe domestic space . I wanted to express both the exuberance of the colour and light and also the domesticity of the created spaces.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.ruthspencer.co.uk

Ruth Spencer — Parasol

Painting

Ruth Spencer — Parasol

Painting

Ruth Spencer — Parasol

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In the summer of 2021, when we were allowed to meet up in groups with family and friends I went on holiday to the seaside . I was very struck by the brilliantly striped and coloured windbreak and parasols. which seemed like a great burst of colour after the constraints of lockdown. It was also very interesting how people on the beach recreated domestic spaces on the beach, filled with chairs, tables, ice boxes , towels, mats and hats. It seemed even when we were 'let out' we had to retain a safe domestic space . I wanted to express both the exuberance of the colour and light and also the domesticity of the created spaces.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.ruthspencer.co.uk

Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

Painting

Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

Painting

Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    It depicts the most famous artwork with a draped head. Based on the veil ban in France-the artwork is still recognisable by the pose and beautifully shaped hand that is synonymous with the painting. The face remains hidden-but we are still aware of the smile.
  • Date:
    25th January 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on stretched canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

Painting

Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

Painting

Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is about being fashion conscious and decorating oneself with garments, objects, etc. It also takes on a sculptural element signifying self importance and exhibitionist elements
  • Date:
    30th July 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Sally Bailey — w/hole

Painting

Sally Bailey — w/hole

Painting

Sally Bailey — w/hole

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I consider that my paintings are created and exist within a liminal space - an imagined transactional and transformative psychophysical plane located within the processes of painting itself. This painting simultaneously presents a structure and an antistructure, the 'holes' within the 'whole'. Here, we are in/between; unsure of what we are being asked to see, ovoid cellular spaces reveal visceral glimpses of something eerily beautiful. It is hopeful for the future.
  • Date:
    August 2021
  • Medium:
    oil, acrylic, resin on board.
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallybailey.co.uk

Sally Bailey — Specimen No. 1 (Fleshcube)

Sculpture

Sally Bailey — Specimen No. 1 (Fleshcube)

Sculpture

Sally Bailey — Specimen No. 1 (Fleshcube)

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    This small artefact was made following a very long period of creative stagnation caused by the pandemic. Unable to access my studio during lockdown, I felt very separated from my practice, and my confidence was exhausted. I had to find a refuge within my own being where it felt safe to think about my work, to plan exit strategies from this period of withdrawal, and to explore new ways of working in these non-normative conditions. It seemed appropriate to reduce the scale of my work, to echo the shrinkage of our lived experiences since the imposition of lockdowns, distancing and isolation. This reductive process also extended to the materials I would choose. My aim was to make something with paint (but without painting) that could perhaps illuminate a path back to painting; to develop a restorative process of intimacy with the paint, to illicit a trust that had become so lacking. This small object is strangely visceral, an abject representation of a captured moment.
  • Date:
    June 2020
  • Medium:
    oil paint, acrylic resin on wire support
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallybailey.co.uk

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers IV

Mixed Media

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers IV

Mixed Media

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers IV

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    This ongoing series of Collagraphic Monoprints are made from gendered coverings, including ‘real’ surfaces like human hair, mixed with ‘artificial’ ones, such as lace, ribbon, hair nets and tights. The hand drawn elements work alongside the printed elements and are reminiscent of the female reproductive system (fallopian tubes, milk ducts and vagina-like parts). These pieces play with notions of the ‘monstrous feminine’, intending to provoke desire and disgust at the ‘unbounded’ female body. Borders are playfully transgressed as outer feminine coverings merge with internal female body parts, permeating between seductive textures, protective coverings and visceral embodiment.
  • Date:
    September 2020
  • Medium:
    Collagraphic Monoprint with Pencil
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallybutcher.com/

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers VIII

Mixed Media

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers VIII

Mixed Media

Sally Butcher — Uncovered Covers VIII

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    These ongoing series of Collagraphic Monoprints are made from gendered coverings, including ‘real’ surfaces like human hair, mixed with ‘artificial’ ones, such as lace, ribbon, hair nets and tights. The hand drawn elements work alongside the printed elements and are reminiscent of the female reproductive system (fallopian tubes, milk ducts and vagina-like parts). These pieces play with notions of the ‘monstrous feminine’, intending to provoke desire and disgust at the ‘unbounded’ female body. Borders are playfully transgressed as outer feminine coverings merge with internal female body parts, permeating between seductive textures, protective coverings and visceral embodiment.
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Collagraphic Monoprint with Pencil
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallybutcher.com/

Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

Painting

Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

Painting

Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work in 12 parts is inspired by botanical studies of plants, bees, pollination and our relationship with nature, encouraging a proactive connective response - that we are nature and not separate. One of the panels has a person turned into a flower shape, another a person climbing close to a hive to collect honey; others are exploring the feeling of being mesmerised by staring into the flower core and I have enjoyed pairing colours like colour wheels, this is also a symbol of connectivity. This work connects to my recent commission at Birmingham Museums Think Tank for the climate change gallery. Here the work is entitled Collapsing Colony, We Foragers Unquiet. My hope is that the sublime beauty of nature will inspire more people to work toward repairing and protecting this world.
  • Date:
    2019-2022
  • Medium:
    oil on linen board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallypayen.info
  • https://www.instagram.com/sallypayen/

Sam Hale — The Red Jumper/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing

Sam Hale — The Red Jumper/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing

Sam Hale — The Red Jumper/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    Red Jumper/ Here is Where We Meet- I recently came across a red jumper knitted for me by my mother as an 18th birthday present. The feel of it somehow conjured her, needles clicking, talking, laughing, glasses perched unnecessarily on the end of her nose- she could have knitted with her eyes shut. Looking at it all of these years later I appreciate her work and craft. This object of power is where we meet.
  • Date:
    19/02/2022
  • Medium:
    Pencil and soya sauce on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing

Sam Hale — The Ring/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing

Sam Hale — The Ring/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing

Sam Hale — The Ring/ Here is Where We Meet

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    The Ring/ Here is Where we Meet I inherited my Mother’s wedding, along with the wedding rings of my Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers. Collectively the rings represent more than 250 years of marriage. For many working-class women, they are one of the few objects left behind after their deaths. Mom’s ring perfectly describes her finger, and she never took it off for 52 years. These objects are a physical representation of these strong women and add to my feeling of being hefted.
  • Date:
    20/04/2021
  • Medium:
    Pencil on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing

Sanah Iqbal — Fajr / A New Dawn

Photography

Sanah Iqbal — Fajr / A New Dawn

Photography

Sanah Iqbal — Fajr / A New Dawn

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Working with ReFramed, I adopted a documentary approach when examining the effects that Covid-19 is having on the Muslim community. Using fragments of light and shadow, I highlight extracts of the mosque which are overlooked, and give them a renewed perspective. The ambience created within the space reveals how detached we have been with each other but a light shines through bringing hope for a new dawn. Throughout this series, I explore the significant changes that have emerged in religious spaces as a result of Covid-19. I focus on the muslim community, showcasing how mosques have enforced social distancing measures to ensure the safety of individuals coming together to pray. Prayer is an essential part of a muslim’s life. Pre-Covid mosques were bustling for individual and communal prayers. When congregating everyone stood in straight rows shoulder-to-shoulder. The arrival of Covid-19 has shaken the practice of congregational prayers, enforcing social distancing which is now the
  • Date:
    20220
  • Medium:
    Photography
  • Category:
    Photography

Sangita Kumari — Shanti

Painting

Sangita Kumari — Shanti

Painting

Sangita Kumari — Shanti

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Shanti, 2020 Inner peace, reflected outwardly. Water colour pencil and ink on paper, 5 x 7inches.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Water colour pencil and Ink
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://masonsdesign.com/

Sangita Kumari — Gully

Painting

Sangita Kumari — Gully

Painting

Sangita Kumari — Gully

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    In the streets of India are you see the hustle and bustle of everyday life, but now and then, you will find a pocket of peace.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://masonsdesign.com/

Sarah Byrne — Dad’s home before home

Print

Sarah Byrne — Dad’s home before home

Print

Sarah Byrne — Dad’s home before home

Print ×
  • Artwork description:
    Sarah Byrne is an artist interested in themes surrounding memory, family, nostalgia, identity and home. After a period of time exploring photographs of her childhood and unpicking her relationship to her mixed heritage, Byrne's life was flipped as her father became sick. She lost him some months later, and in the following return to her practice, it has been impossible to ignore her grief and the loss of her family as she knew it. Her practice continues to be led by the involvement of found family snapshots, however they have now been refocused around her father. 'Dad's home before home' is a series of images taken from a collection of his photographs found posthumously.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Found photographs
  • Category:
    Print
  • Website/s:
    https://sarah-byrne.com

Sarah Byrne — Working from Home

Sculpture

Sarah Byrne — Working from Home

Sculpture

Sarah Byrne — Working from Home

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Working from home' is a significant term in 2022 - flung into everyday vernacular in 2020 by the pandemic. Growing up, my dad had always worked from home. Significant since this meant my father's presence was consistent, reliable, and embedded into daily home routines. Like myself, dad was a home-body; comforted by the familiar and the familial. This series of work explores the notion of working from home in the context of art work. While grieving, crochet quickly became an activity to allow my hands to pour over. Mindless knotting of yarn, repeating patterns and satisfying colour changes. Soon the process of creating these squares became less about the product being made, and more about the drive to make. I was making, I was home, and I was allowing my mind the space to meditate on the significance of all of these things. A process of working through grief; of making time feel real.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Yarn installation
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://sarah-byrne.com

Sarah Fortes Mayer — mum

Painting

Sarah Fortes Mayer — mum

Painting

Sarah Fortes Mayer — mum

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    mum started out as a portrait of my mother when she was 30 years old. Initially in charcoal. I did not feel I was capturing her, except her penetrating eyes, her gaze does not falter. As I worked I was becoming angry about Covid and the restrictions. I felt I was losing precious time when who knows how much longer I will have. I hate wearing masks and in anger I wiped out the mouth as I felt we were not being heard or seen. The elderly were being wiped out again. This image has a slight resemblance to The Queen and on reflection I have always felt that she is gagged not free to speak her mind.
  • Date:
    2020/21
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Sarah Goudie — ‘Listening gift : a dawning’

Sculpture

Sarah Goudie — ‘Listening gift : a dawning’

Sculpture

Sarah Goudie — ‘Listening gift : a dawning’

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘Listening gift : a dawning’ one of a series of drawn /sculptural works made in the early and later hours of a day over extended periods of time. A bedroom wall performs a reliable, private place of slow return where a drawing process gathers, harmonises and settles disquiets of the mind and body. Working a surface through graphite forms a narrative capturing skin; pressed, rolled, burnished and nuanced. Over time, this surface absorbs and relocates daily exchanges of longing. It captures imprints of a listening body and conjures the mapping of a dream, this slow method of making, draws out a form that teases the two dimensional and offers the possibility of finding a sculptural offer. These ‘gifts’ weave their way out into the world as a reply to extraordinary work delivered via recorded lecture series and zoom events with generosity and a yearning to exchange learning. With thanks to the Sh+me project, shining light on the enquiries of sexual violence https://shame.bbk.ac.uk/
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    pencil on paper
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://sarahgoudie.com/

Saranjit Birdi — Just One More Tune

Painting

Saranjit Birdi — Just One More Tune

Painting

Saranjit Birdi — Just One More Tune

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    After suffering isolation and alienation through the last two years of the pandemic, this painting series, ‘The Dance’, explores the euphoria, intimacy and intensity of the night club dance scene pre-Covid and the longing for the energy of physical proximity. The work also reflects on Birdi’s experiences of disco dancing from the late 1970s to the present, being an active member of the UK underground jazz-fusion dance scene, especially Birmingham, from 2000 to now. He has a mention in ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion To Acid Jazz: The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene’ by Mark Cotgrove,(2009)
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://saranjit.birdi@btinternet.com https://axisweb.org/p/saranjitbirdi
  • https://www.instagram.com/saranjitbirdi/
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/saranjitbirdi/

Sharon Baker — Folding 1

Mixed Media

Sharon Baker — Folding 1

Mixed Media

Sharon Baker — Folding 1

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    These pieces originated from drawings based on net curtains in a window. My first studies were highly contrasting drawings. In an attempt to soften graphic black and white of the images I experimented with paper marbling layers of ink to evoke the suggestion of folds in fabric. My results have an element of this but I now see them as drawings containing a tension: a folding in or a breaking out, a tautness. The pattern of the net curtains is pushed in-between rock-like textures suggesting a squeezing, a suffocating, a hemming in. For me the images have become metaphors for my feelings of constraint about the work I want to make and the time I need to do it and the pull and push of everyday life.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    pen & ink, paper marbling on handmade paper
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sharonbaker.co.uk
  • https://www.facebook.com/sharonbakerartistprintmaker
  • https://www.instagram.com/sharonbakerartistprintmaker
  • https://www.axisweb.org/p/sharonbaker/

Sharon Ryal — ICE

Painting

Sharon Ryal — ICE

Painting

Sharon Ryal — ICE

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Abstract acrylic on canvas - 94cm x 94cm - part of a set of paintings depicting the effects of climate change, ICE is a stand alone piece painted in 2021 as part of my show for level 4 Fine Art at Wolverhampton University.
  • Date:
    Nov 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/shazzamart/

Sharon Ryal — HOME

Painting

Sharon Ryal — HOME

Painting

Sharon Ryal — HOME

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Oil on MDF - 28cm x 61cm - part of a set of paintings depicting the effects of climate change, HOME was painted in 2021, one of the first paintings I did at the start of my BA in Fine art at Wolverhampton University. A highly textured painting, HOME is part of the Ice & Fire series.
  • Date:
    Oct 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on MDF
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/shazzamart/

Shaun Hughes — Mind Paths

Painting

Shaun Hughes — Mind Paths

Painting

Shaun Hughes — Mind Paths

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This small watercolour is part of my 'pathway' series. It explores imaginary paths, routes and connections. It is inspired by reading about neural pathways in the brain. For me it is a kind of a depiction of the brain but also represents complex city type areas contrasted with calmer and more ordered environments. The centre of the image is a mass of confused and congested paths (thoughts) cut across by large sweeping ring roads. The colours are warm greens and reds as opposed to the cooler blues and blacks of the areas outside of the brain.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Watercolour and Pen
  • Category:
    Painting

Shaun Morris — Zona

Painting

Shaun Morris — Zona

Painting

Shaun Morris — Zona

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I see myself as a painter of landscapes, although I strive to avoid many of the associations with the tradition of landscape painting. I don’t paint the seemingly picturesque; the bucolic countryside or the dramatic coast as, from my surburban home, I don’t live anywhere near these places. I prefer to paint the landmarks of the Supermarket car-park, the local bus stop or the disused telephone box. I may paint nature, but it’s the nature of the common edgelands and woods, or the nature found down by the canals or underneath the motorways and at the feet of the pylons that loom dumbly and menacingly on the edge of the housing estates. In my painting I want to see my everyday experience reflected back, but also to find the myriad stories and histories locked in or buried in the ruins of the post-industrial landscape.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.shaunmorrispaintings.com

Shaun Morris — Highway Anxiety

Painting

Shaun Morris — Highway Anxiety

Painting

Shaun Morris — Highway Anxiety

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I see myself as a painter of landscapes, although I strive to avoid many of the associations with the tradition of landscape painting. I don’t paint the seemingly picturesque; the bucolic countryside or the dramatic coast as, from my surburban home, I don’t live anywhere near these places. I prefer to paint the landmarks of the Supermarket car-park, the local bus stop or the disused telephone box. I may paint nature, but it’s the nature of the common edgelands and woods, or the nature found down by the canals or underneath the motorways and at the feet of the pylons that loom dumbly and menacingly on the edge of the housing estates. In my painting I want to see my everyday experience reflected back, but also to find the myriad stories and histories locked in or buried in the ruins of the post-industrial landscape.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.shaunmorrispaintings.com

Sherie Sitauze — mbedzi land, our land, queens land

Audio/visual

Sherie Sitauze — mbedzi land, our land, queens land

Audio/visual

Sherie Sitauze — mbedzi land, our land, queens land

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    The video concerns an attempt at piecing together fragments of a history where documentation is scarce. Fragments of the history are revealed during a nuanced and intimate dialogue. Through video montage, the work seeks to navigate some of the traditional myths and histories of the Vhavenda while averting the colonial gaze and its Eurocentric ideologies. It demonstrates a history independent of colonialism while also touching on migration, the movement of peoples and seeks to challenge preconceived ideas regarding migration and the construction of Otherness. It employs the power of storytelling in order to educate, share and cultivate and evocative of the experience of displaced peoples in navigating their own histories of home while in a state of diaspora.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Moving image
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    www.sheriesitauze.com

Sherrie Edgar — Fluidity

Audio/visual

Sherrie Edgar — Fluidity

Audio/visual

Sherrie Edgar — Fluidity

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    3 minute art film representing the questions; what makes art? By displaying the embodiment of the material. I personify the energy that is embodied in the material. Women are objectified and subjectified in art, in this film I am the art. I want to liberate female art because of the inequalities experienced as a female. This is part of my ‘Pink!’ series and a visual representation of the lack of opportunities for women in the arts, the discrepancies of women in film, and the deep-rooted inequalities women experience. As an act of activism, a performative visual representation of feminism, continuing the pink haptics and characteristics. Feminism connects to my primary theme of loneliness and the social politics of isolation. Continuing my research of conceptual art origin and the attestation of gender roles which continues. This work galvanizes Yves Klein's Anthropometries reflecting back on the personal, social and political perspectives.
  • Date:
    18th December 2021
  • Medium:
    Digital Film
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://sherrieedgar.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/sherriegram/
  • https://twitter.com/TweetSherrie
  • https://www.facebook.com/SEVisualArt/
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESjGPG1z4NqS0QidZVD0kA/videos

Shirley Szwarc — Woodland Tree

Painting

Shirley Szwarc — Woodland Tree

Painting

Shirley Szwarc — Woodland Tree

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    I regularly sit in woodland to draw trees, my favourite medium is charcoal. A few years ago I attended a screen print workshop and used some of my charcoal drawings to create prints. During lockdown I used one of the imperfect prints as a starting point to this painting. I wanted to create an imagined environment which captured the rich textures and enveloped the viewer, similar to what I experience when out drawing. I used some of my charcoal drawings for reference.
  • Date:
    Summer 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Sophia Moffa — inner houses, outer houses

Sculpture

Sophia Moffa — inner houses, outer houses

Sculpture

Sophia Moffa — inner houses, outer houses

Sculpture ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘inner houses, outer houses’ in an installation the artist has made in response to the question of ‘home’ that she has asked while working with asylum seekers in Birmingham. The work questions the idea of what home is by those who are recreating it here in Birmingham. The houses are made from the soil of Birmingham, which has been filtered to make clay, impressed by the leaves of the trees surrounding us and fired back in the ground with the saggar technique. Our stereotypical image of home are these little square houses with pointy roofs. We cling to this safe appearance but our feelings of what a home is, is influenced from our lives as children and keeps changing as we grow. ‘home’ is riddled with incoherencies and paradoxes, the more we question what home is, the more its image becomes abstracted. Every side to the house is engraved with the veins of the leaf, acting like roads, cut by the sharp edges of the house, like boarders. Yet they are all belonging to the same house.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    clay
  • Category:
    Sculpture
  • Website/s:
    https://sophiamoffa.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/sophiamoffa/
  • https://www.instagram.com/the_travellers_tree/

Sophie Huckfield — Break The Frame

Mixed Media

Sophie Huckfield — Break The Frame

Mixed Media

Sophie Huckfield — Break The Frame

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Made in lockdown 2020, the work: Break The Frame, incorporates contemporary and traditional craft processes: from hacking open source technology, puppetry, poetry, a musical score, stop motion and moving image, as a tool to deconstruct the narratives around ‘Progress’ in relation to precarious labour practices, social class and technological development. The work was developed in response to my Dads redundancy in September 2019, he worked as a bookie for William Hill in Walsall for 43 years. His redundancy was deemed ‘inevitable’. This is not a new story. It is one replayed throughout history. Those who do not step away in the relentless pursuit of 'progress' are considered regressive and against the inevitable order. Building on the Midlands history of the Luddites, the work seeks to challenge how we are treated as workers. Beyond the veil of innovation is an old story, this story must be challenged and the tools to hand co-opted to question the narrative we are told to follow.
  • Date:
    June 2020
  • Medium:
    Moving Image and Sculpture
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    https://sophiehuckfield.com/

Sophie Huckfield — …it is time that we become human again

Audio/visual

Sophie Huckfield — …it is time that we become human again

Audio/visual

Sophie Huckfield — …it is time that we become human again

Audio/visual ×
  • Artwork description:
    The work interrogates how automation is often used as a political tool to deskill and displace workers over upskilling. It parallels the implementation and impact of automation inn different industries, from surgery to food packing, using the metaphor of the’ cut’ as a material action and a symbolic and economic reality. The contemporary technologies of surgical trade embody a collaborative relationship - with human interaction/interface intrinsic to how they operate. These tools are operated manually by Surgeons. They are designed to upskill - opposed to deskilling. The narrative around Surgical robots sits at odds with the dominant histories of machines displacing workers, researching the historic and social backdrop of surgical tools development, the work is centered on the idea of the ‘cut’ both as a literal and historic action and as a symbolic and economic reality. Incorporating the action of the ‘cut’ throughout the work which explores the complex reality of automation.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Moving Image
  • Category:
    Audio/visual
  • Website/s:
    https://sophiehuckfield.com/

Stella Carr — Moon Tempest II

Painting

Stella Carr — Moon Tempest II

Painting

Stella Carr — Moon Tempest II

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    A landscape at night during Storm Eunice under a full moon with tempestuous clouds racing, obliterating the light from the moon for sometimes minutes then illuminating the landscape detail. Working in moonlight enables colour and texture to be stripped down to a felt resonance rather than a visual one. The foreground is a merge of ghost figures and thick foliage with the silhouettes of distant buildings offering thin protection from the elements and the spirits that pass through. Fundamentally a view of the vibrational effect the world is made up of. This painting speaks of the symbiotic relationship we have with our environment, we the ‘audience’ become ‘participants’. This boundary-less connection with ecology takes its form from a sensed system that we all cohabit. Ecosystems are blurred edges; multitudes of species, each growing with individual characteristics, whilst existing as one linked system. This is an image of what we cannot see yet feel.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Body colour, Gouache, Walnut Ink
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    stellacarr.co.uk

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Threads of Fate

Photography

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Threads of Fate

Photography

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Threads of Fate

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The image features a constructed sculptural tableau that is photographed in a high contrast backlit studio environment and subsequently manipulated digitally with a post-production technique normally eschewed by professional photographers. Threads of Fate, with a title taken from Timothy Morton's Dark Ecologies, depicts entangled, botanical phantasmagoria, inspired by the 1930’s ‘Jungle Paintings’ of Max Ernst and surrealist sculptural assemblages. The work explores the human relationship to the natural world, the environmental impact of mass consumerism, and the potential consequences of climate change. Alluding to a Ballardian theme of nature’s retribution that questions the myth of human supremacy and the return of nature in the PostHuman.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Photography
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://stephanierushton.format.com/rushton-mallinson-collaboration

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Skip of Fools

Photography

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Skip of Fools

Photography

Stephanie Rushton & Mally Mallinson — Skip of Fools

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Located in ecological posthumanism, this work explores the cultural imaginaries of science and speculative fiction; a blend of the sculptural and photographic that seeks to make manifest, dystopian myths of the near future. ‘Skip of Fools’, refers to book VI of Plato’s Republic about a ship with a dysfunctional crew, the skeletal figure pushes a skip/ship up a mountain of architectural debris, an allegory to the Greek myth of Sisyphus and the eternal loop of our self-destruction on earth. The skip is full of live botanicals, a reference to the film ‘Silent Running’ a 1972 American post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, set in the future after all plant life on earth has perished. The last surviving forests have been collected and preserved in a series of giant geodesic domed greenhouses attached to spaceships, located just outside the orbit of Saturn.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://stephanierushton.format.com/rushton-mallinson-collaboration

Steve Coel — Wildmoor Pool, Long Mynd

Painting

Steve Coel — Wildmoor Pool, Long Mynd

Painting

Steve Coel — Wildmoor Pool, Long Mynd

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    Formerly a place of industry and hard labour. The landscape retains all the marks as nature slowly erases the memories.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Steve Evans — Earth Beams

Drawing

Steve Evans — Earth Beams

Drawing

Steve Evans — Earth Beams

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    A small geometric abstract/linear drawing made using contemporary and traditional technical drawing pens and sepia acrylic inks. It is dedicated to late tenor saxophone player George Adams and titled for one of his compositions.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Ink on Paper
  • Category:
    Drawing

Steve Evans — Fast Track

Drawing

Steve Evans — Fast Track

Drawing

Steve Evans — Fast Track

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    An abstract geometric/linear drawing made on black card using contemporary and traditional technical drawing pens and white and blue acrylic inks.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Ink on Card
  • Category:
    Drawing

Stuart Brambell — 60’s Wallpaper

Painting

Stuart Brambell — 60’s Wallpaper

Painting

Stuart Brambell — 60’s Wallpaper

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This work is also in three parts. An image of Lee Harvey Oswold getting assassinated while leaving the courthouse, a detail of an Edouard Manet painting of a dead bull fighter and a pop graphic image of a Greek classical sculpture. Again, I am providing the audience with tools to unpick the narratives themselves. There is not one singular narrative in art, and I want the viewer to glean what they can with the tools I have provided them.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://stuartbrambell.wixsite.com/mysite

Susan Krejzl — Three yellows and a grey

Painting

Susan Krejzl — Three yellows and a grey

Painting

Susan Krejzl — Three yellows and a grey

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This painting has been formed by the preparation of a wooden block through cutting and sanding to create an almost egg shell surface. The surface was primed and then layered with egg tempera applied with small brush strokes to create a skien of colour, finally layered with a protective skin of beeswax. There is no system behind the making other than an intuition. The surface brush strokes employed three yellows and a grey. When placed the yellow gently pools reflectively on the wall surface.The facets of the paintings pick up the light and the light causes shadows. This piece provides a more intimate looking, It is not just a marker for a larger space but a small moment that offers some time for contemplation. I see my work as detailed and delicate and very much about noticing and paying attention. The act of making is in itself political, but here is the quiet ‘politics’ of small everyday acts, often unnoticed, but cared for.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Egg tempera over wood
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.ahskeditions.co.uk

Tess Radcliffe — Freedom is Imagination

Photography

Tess Radcliffe — Freedom is Imagination

Photography

Tess Radcliffe — Freedom is Imagination

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    'Freedom is Imagination' is a self-portrait which documents a personal period of ill health, which often resulted in my isolation and frequent bed rest, where my return to good health was nurtured by my engagement with the natural world. I am an avid wild and garden bird enthusiast and decided to create a haven for birds in my garden in order to counteract the decline in numbers through creating an inviting environment in which many varieties could thrive (which was a great success!). I then photographed the variety of birds which visited my garden, to observe them and to learn more about them. I found that I was inspired by their beauty, entertained by their curious behaviours and fascinated by their interactions, all of which facilitated my own healing and recovery. In this image I am surrounded by an adult and juvenile Goldfinch, a Blue Tit and a House Sparrow, where the birds symbolise freedom whilst I dream of making art.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Photomontage print, paper
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://tessradcliffeartist.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/tessradcliffe/?hl=en

Theresa Bradbury — Keep Intact The Circulation Of Pretence By Enveloping Herself In Femininity

Photography

Theresa Bradbury — Keep Intact The Circulation Of Pretence By Enveloping Herself In Femininity

Photography

Theresa Bradbury — Keep Intact The Circulation Of Pretence By Enveloping Herself In Femininity

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    The performer seeks sanctuary within the familiarity of the net curtain, partially hidden, but vulnerable in her nakedness, is the textile providing peace or is it stifling in its position as representing a culturally dictated femininity. Presenting herself as a live sculpture, she is posed. Performing the rhetoric of the pose, she is immobilised by their gaze and the gaze is immobilised her presence. The surface of the body as the site of cultural inscription, bound by political forces. In this masquerade, the woman is concealed by reproducing the dominant image of femininity through the discipline to societal norms and viewed through a patriarchal lens. The work draws influence from consumerist capitalism and explores the idea of the female body as inherently performic. An exploration into the ideas of Joan Riviere that femininity can be viewed as a masquerade, performed by mimicking what being a woman is meant to be about; woman concealed behind the mask of a patriarchal femininity.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    C-Type Photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.axisweb.org/p/theresabradbury

Theresa Bradbury — Of Never Being Simply One

Photography

Theresa Bradbury — Of Never Being Simply One

Photography

Theresa Bradbury — Of Never Being Simply One

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    With the work, I am exploring and interrogating social boundaries and acceptable codes of exposure; the appropriate/inappropriate dichotomy in relation to femininity. Referencing a disruption of the social and symbolic ordering of the female body and a rejection of woman as idealised surface; subverting the socially dictated artificial femininity represented through media imagery. Disembodied female body parts are used within the media as Capitalist advertorial eroticism. The work explores the idea put forward by Sandra Bartky of the self-policing female, committed to a relentless self-surveillance and an obedience to patriarchy; paralysed as commodity. Women’s bodies are bound by the societal norms which shape them into a constraining corporeality that is difficult to inhabit, assessed against the narrow framework of patriarchal governance. Of Never Being Simply One offers a disruption from the regulation and scrutiny involved in being a female body.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    C-Type Photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    https://www.axisweb.org/p/theresabradbury

Tom Ranahan — Foggy Morning along the Tame Valley Canal.

Photography

Tom Ranahan — Foggy Morning along the Tame Valley Canal.

Photography

Tom Ranahan — Foggy Morning along the Tame Valley Canal.

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    Colour Photograph taking during a recent walk along the Tame Valley canal on Boxing Day. The foggy weather gives it an eerie/moody feel. it features the Freeth bridge over the canal.
  • Date:
    26th December 2021
  • Medium:
    Colour Photograph
  • Category:
    Photography
  • Website/s:
    http://www.tomranahan.com

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Birthday Girl

Photography

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Birthday Girl

Photography

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Birthday Girl

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    A photographic self-portrait inspired by a family snapshot taken when I was about eight years old. This images challenges and disrupts the discourse of femininity.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Inkjet Print
  • Category:
    Photography

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Naughty Teddy

Photography

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Naughty Teddy

Photography

Vicky Hodgson — Untitled from the series: Naughty Teddy

Photography ×
  • Artwork description:
    A photographic self-portrait inspired by a professional photograph of me taken when I was about 2 years old. This image challenges and disrupts the discourse of femininity.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Inkjet Print
  • Category:
    Photography

Vicky Roden — Why Be The Next That When I’m The First This?

Mixed Media

Vicky Roden — Why Be The Next That When I’m The First This?

Mixed Media

Vicky Roden — Why Be The Next That When I’m The First This?

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    Why Be The Next That When I’m The First This? is a lighthearted response to a sentence I’ve heard many times over the past couple of years. I’m incredibly proud of the things businesses in Digbeth have achieved over the past decade or so, with much of this being led by the creative industry. It’s incredibly frustrating to be told (in an exceptionally well-meaning way) that one magic day Digbeth could attain the same heady heights as Shoreditch. I prefer to think of it being the only Digbeth. The only way to become a definite thing that you are not is to sell your soul. There’s a myriad of tales of transactions with the devil at crossroads, but this act takes away all that you could independently achieve in favour of a more definite, fantastical future. As the prosperity of Digbeth grows it slips out of the budget of the artists, musicians & makers who did so much to improve the area. Here’s hoping that it retains its soul & avoids the easy path of becoming an inevitably inferior copy.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Textile/Embroidery
  • Category:
    Mixed Media
  • Website/s:
    http://vickyroden.com

Vicky Wyton-Mills — Beneath the Ballroom

Painting

Vicky Wyton-Mills — Beneath the Ballroom

Painting

Vicky Wyton-Mills — Beneath the Ballroom

Painting ×
  • Artwork description:
    This is painted from a photograph that I took at Edgbaston reservoir as it goes beneath the now derelict Tower Ballroom. The pigeon in flight was a happy accident. I am always drawn to turn up the volume on the beautiful colours in the shadows in urban decay and here they complimented the algae on the concrete posts disappearing into the water. The extinction rebellion graffiti made me contemplate on the extinction of the fun times that many Brummies remember from the Ballrooms heydays. I aimed for the composition to express the weight of all that concrete, the figure giving it scale and the cold reflected January light and the bird in flight suggesting hope and release from the darkness. Who knows perhaps the building will be saved and reinvented?
  • Date:
    January 2021
  • Medium:
    oil (water soluble) on linen board
  • Category:
    Painting

Vincent Louis Stokes — An Immaculate Conception

Drawing

Vincent Louis Stokes — An Immaculate Conception

Drawing

Vincent Louis Stokes — An Immaculate Conception

Drawing ×
  • Artwork description:
    In An Immaculate Conception, the artist explores the iconography of western religious art and how its compositional devices and aesthetic principles may be employed to reconsider our perception of the everyday. In Stokes’ drawing his daughter stands upon a table yielding symbols of vitality and creativity. Beneath her sit her parents and pets who gaze with reverence. Her father strums an E chord, the first letter of his daughter’s name. Below the table are toys. With their benign smiles they assume the role of saints, bearing witness to the scene. Behind the child are photographs, scenes from her life as well as her lamented brother’s. These images denote transcendence. The stairwell to the left accentuates the motif of ascension. Beside the child stands a pelike, within which is a bouquet of tulips, a symbol of unconditional love. The pelike details the birth of Athena, goddess of wisdom.
  • Date:
    17/08/2021
  • Medium:
    pencil on paper
  • Category:
    Drawing
  • Website/s:
    https://www.vincentlstokes.com

Vivien Hew — All fur coat and no knickers

Mixed Media

Vivien Hew — All fur coat and no knickers

Mixed Media

Vivien Hew — All fur coat and no knickers

Mixed Media ×
  • Artwork description:
    ‘All fur coat and no knickers’ is a collage of my photos of Birmingham printed onto canvas overstitched with free machine embroidery ,then refined with acrylic paints . The gorilla has a real ‘fur coat’ but the title could also apply to humans. Our 1st impression is that the gorilla is a menacing presence .A more nuanced look shows an alternative possibility. The bemused gorilla is in Birmingham, inciting terror and panic amongst the inhabitants, most of whom have never actually met a gorilla but whose perceptions are based on the fake image of brutish gorillas running amok in films like ‘King Kong’. Ms Fossey, a naturalist, who lived with gorillas for 13 years, described them as’ altruistic’ ‘shy and gentle’ and also ‘one of the most maligned animals.’ The humans ‘go ape’ at the sight of this calm , passive ape, yet ,ironically ,it is the humans who pose more threat to the gorillas globally by encroaching onto their lands , poaching , and driving them to the edge of extinction.
  • Date:
    8th February 2022
  • Medium:
    Canvas , Print, Embroidery , Acrylic Paint
  • Category:
    Mixed Media