Sabine Kussmal (Abstracted)

 

Sabine is intrigued by the universal nature of structures and patterns.

Some obviously visual, others with no direct visual representation, she is fascinated to discover them as networks of lines, if temporary or permanent.

The surface of the Earth, footprints of animal movement on snow, erosion of riverbeds, a geological cross section through sediment. All of those are inspiring manifestations of a more complex "weave" of life's features of which those generated from data are equally relevant, like the spectral analysis of the light of the atmosphere, graphs illustrating the population numbers of birds on a Scottish Island or the mortality of mothers in childbirth in developing countries. 

All such structures are affected by change - essentially change in a sequential time frame. This notion of change is fascinating to comprehend and distils itself into the art-making process and then into its process of "usage".

Textures and patterns as described above appear to Sabine like background contexts or "environments". She perceives them as the platforms on which events happen, or, in a more visual sense, shapes and constructions are becoming manifest. The design of shapes, some designed by nature, e.g. leaves, the body of an insect, a termite hive, a blood cell,  others constructed by man, bear an interesting relationship to its background context, like a building relating to the environment in which it is constructed or the design of an animal's body as a functional response to its living conditions

Architecture and clothing are two such constructions that are typical of man's intentional relationship to its environment and an expression of his/her self-understanding. With a background in Fashion & Design, Sabine is much interested in the design of garments and how they "house" our bodies and relate us to our environment and life-style.In a wider sense, architecture provides a similar relationship but is more permanent in its expressions. Sabine likes to use architecture in the context of an image in a metaphorical, poetical way to "house" or provide "shelter" for a feeling, a mood, a memory and to play with the notion of inside and outside.

In Sabine's thread and canvas artworks she uses drawings made from thread and stitched onto transparent fabric, which are then suspended over a canvas background. The activity of weaving and sewing is one of the most archaic processes of creating. Letting the drawing develop on its (canvas and painted) background "atmosphere" it appears like some small event occurring, delicate and with a temporary nature to it, as one of many possible ones. String and line as solitary elements are forming recognisable images, but are also playing with their own deconstruction.

Shapes and drawings cut from steel are permanent; some have even got sharp edges. This nature contrasts heavily with the fragility of a drawn image, binding them both together by this opposition and the shadows they cast onto the same background.

 

 

Petra Lee (Macarbe Macclesfield)

Petra Lea is a Congleton based artist who works in both figurative and abstract styles. Often working with oil paints and mixed media / collage

 

Her work is very diverse and she is interested in a range of subjects including Japanese art and pop culture, oddities and the unusual, as well as portraying landscapes both internal and external.

 

Her most recent work displays a high degree of experimentation using collage and paint, mixing found images with painterly mark making.

 

 

 

Bruce Lyons (Macrbe Macclesfield)

The subjects for Bruce's paintings are drawn from any number of sources: from imagination; from direct observation and experience; from man-made media and art history. In a world overflowing with still and moving images, nothing and everything is a worthwhile subject.

 

The starting point for his work originates in many different places and they all develop along the same set of processes. Although landscape is dominant in his ideas, Bruce has developed an interest in the textures formed by the various methods of decay on materials, man-made and natural. A recurring theme in his work is rust with its multitude of colours and textures.

 

Bruce has always had a keen interest in the work of the Japanese woodblock printers of Ukiyo-e, the Floating World, the painters of the Renaissance, and twentieth century artists too numerous to mention. Artists who deal with a combination of the abstract and qualities of texture such as Tapies, Anselm Kiefer and David Nash have been strong influences in Bruce's development although he is always looking, learning and changing.

 

Pete Marsh (Gifted)

 

Pete began painting and printmaking again in September 2009 following the discovery that

Feeling compelled to produce his own work again for the first time in nearly twenty years, Pete is exhibiting and selling once again.He feels his work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional rather than intellectual and he prefers expression over realism, subtlety over sensationalism, substance over noveltyand intuition over reason.

Marcia Micheal (The Collection)

 

Marcia Michael, studied BA Photography at Derby University, heading back to London  where she was born and raised.

At this time Marcia freelanced, working with fashion designers and magazines in the UK and world wide and taught part time at London College of Printing.

In 2009 Marcia attended London College of communication and completed an MA in photography passing with a distinction. Upon leaving, Marcia won a bursary from Rhubarb Rhubarb, in which her work was exhibited as part of a group show at Flowers East gallery London and Rhubarb East gallery Birmingham. 

Marcia's work The Study of Kin' won as a finalist in the International photography awards "family section, she won Honorable mentions in Lens culture and Santa fe awards and is currently participating in the  Lucie Foundation E-pprentice. Mentor program.

Marcia's work The Study of Kin was chosen as one of 14 International discoveries at Fotofest Houston 2011.

Marcia's work The Study of Kin won the Spotlight Award in the 2010 FotoVisura Grant', while as part of the 2010 Taylor Wessing Photographic portrait prize held in the National Portrait Gallery London, Marcia's image 'Back of girl was chosen for exhibition and traveled to Sunderland in 2011.

Marcia Works has appeared in numerous publications, on and off line, with the latest being a portfolio piece in Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education.

Marcia is not just a photographer she has had poems published and is also an accomplished bookmaker.

Marcia has an upcoming show in 2012 at the New Art Exchange Gallery Nottingham  UK in their new central gallery for emerging artist.

 

Davide Moaine (The Collection)

 

In this work, while attempting to link photography and performance together, Davide explores notions of selfhood in relation to its surroundings and language. The images are conceived as sketches of situation or annotations of ideas that comment on the way people interact with each other and the way we look at ourselves and identify with the other. Accordingly, while using a visual rhetoric open to interpretation, Davide is interested in highlighting the ambivalence between essentialist truth (or the quest for it) and the interplay with fictional selves imbued with humour and self-denial.

Davide was born in 1978 in Milan, Italy. In 2007 he graduated from a BA in Photographic Arts at the University of Westmisnter. In the same institute he completed an MA in Photographic Studies in 2011. Davide's work has been exhibited in the UK, Russia and Italy. Some of his work is held in private collection.

 

Mocksim (Contra-Invention) 

 

An Arts Councill funded exhibition of the photographs Traffic Wardens take, as evidence, in one British Town.  Over a two year period artist Mocksim managed to obtain hundreds of these images of other people’s illegally parked cars. Occasionally Wardens inadvertently capture themselves in reflection and the artist manoeuvred his way into a number of the pictures. A selection of night shots have been chosen for exhibition and the infamous catalogue will also be available. 

 

 

Joan Jose Montegrande (Macrbe Macclesfield)

 

Joan Jose Montegrande was born in South America and has travelled widely, giving him plenty of inspiration for his work, before settling in Macclesfield with his wife Gillian and their three sons.

 

Many methods are used to create his paintings but his preferred medium is oil due to the versatility and vibrancy of colour. Joan Jose, known as Monty to his friends is not happy and indeed does not feel complete unless he has a brush in his hand and a canvas in front of him and has stated that he will paint until he dies.

 

He has exhibited and sold work to private collectors throughout the UK and most notably from the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester

 

 

Judy Musselle (Abstracted)

 

Judy is an artist and illustrator living in Southport. Her work has been widely and exhibited featured in a children's book commissioned by Harper Collins.

Judy studied Art and Design at Doncaster College of Art and Bradford College of Art where she  went on to teach Illustration.  Her work has sold worldwide as posters, greeting cards and stationary and has been used for advertising, educational books and magazines. Clients have included Paper House, Canns Down Press,  Mothercare and  Bookstart . Judy has also won the Bohemia Award at the recent Open Exhibition at The Ferens Art Gallery in Hull.

Judy's pieces are created in acrylics and she is also a printmaker using linocut and etching. She also considers herself to be a muralist;  creating murals as solo projects or with groups of children and young people with 28 schools in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Judy  draws her ideas from the people and landscapes around her, memories and her children but she is also inspired by stories and dreams of magical faraway lands.

Judy aims to describe visually  her thoughts on the complexities and fears of childhood and adolescence , the loss of innocence and facing up to responsibilities.  Judy's paintings have a strong narrative quality and it is clear she enjoys using colour and pattern. The stunning works have been described as humorous and but dark. 

 

 

Liz Mylonakis (Macrbe Macclesfield)

Liz Mylonakis is a painter from Macclesfield, Cheshire

 

Her paintings explore simple organic / biomorphic imagery and shapes inspired by forms in nature with an emphasis on bright colour and striking, bold composition. She also sometimes uses a variety of found materials in her mixed media work.

 

Sam Paechter (The Collection)

 

With an insatiable appetite for fiddling and a background as a composer of music for theatre and site-specific performance Sam came across 3D photography through his interest in Victorian illusion - the praxinoscope, mutoscope and stereoscope. In his art he tries to reproduce for the 21^stcentury viewer something of the wonder of the Victorian sideshow.

Sam uses techniques invented in the 1850s and developed in the mid twentieth century by American air force reconnaissance technicians, along with digital processing to make anamorphic anaglyphs - 3D photographs which give the impression of an object being really there.

His subjects are objects and people that are important to him or are specific to the venue in which they are to be displayed. 

Previously Sam has concentrated on site-specific installations in public spaces. For example inThe Ironmongers of IllusionI worked in a functioning DIY shop, replacing items of stock with anamorphic anaglyphs of those items; a playful, interplay between the real objects and their illusory counterparts.

More recently Sam has been exploring the compelling and unsettling potential of life-size,  and larger than life, portraiture.

Charlie Penrose (Abstracted)

 

Charlie's practice seeks to question subjectivity and objectivity in relation to human existence. He employs language and text in his exploration of this dichotomy, and in doing so indulge a fascination with the strengths, weaknesses and intricacies of these as communicative tools.

Charlie's work finds him recurrently questioning the subtleties of interaction and communication that permeate human existence as well as analysis of iconography, social constructs and ingrained philosophies. Charlie is as interested in the grand narratives that underpin our being as he is in the trivialities and frustrations of day to day being. Charlie's work adheres to no one philosophy or sys­tem of belief in particular, instead he is interested in delineating common and distinct themes that pertain to an idea of 'the self'.

Apparent in his practice is a desire to define and establish some sort of justification for his own purpose within an ever ex­panding sea of nothing, and it is this dynamic and uncertain position that provides the starting point for much of Charlie's work.