Anja Lubach

Anja Lubach's work explores the smooth, translucent and pure material properties of porcelain, through experimental manipulation of the soft clay surface. Figurative details are taken from religious figurines, the human body as well as a range of ornamental surfaces. These are then transferred as delicate 3D relief back onto the wheel thrown vessel walls, appearing to push through the surface of the vessels with a sense of animation and metamorphosis.The textures and forms are evocative and the viewer will create their own narrative, depending on personal memory and imagination.


www.anjalubach.com

Alexandra Dipple

Alexandra’s work describes an ongoing fascination with the written/printed word. Newspapers are the starting point and she has been working on two distinct bodies of work; one using full stops and dots and the other utilising dashes and hyphens. These graphic symbols are dissected from the body of the newspaper by hand and presented as collages. The missing words vibrate like dark matter and the finished piece becomes a delicate balancing act shaped by unseen forces.

www.re-title.com/artists/Alexandra-dipple.asp

Anna Kyriacou

Award winning artist Anna Kyriacou has a naïve style that is seductively simple. Her images of childhood journey through social and religious limitation and sensitively approach the expression and restriction of sexuality. Also her strong interest in the human condition has drawn her to explore the subject of school bullying.>In recent years Anna has won 3 awards for her artwork, including the Brighton Fringe Festival Visual Arts Prize in 2008.

www.annakyriacou.co.uk

Anna Tilson

Anna Tilson trained in Textile Design at St. Martins School of Art and is now an enthusiastic practitioner and teacher of mosaic making living in Brighton.
Each piece of her mosaic work is inspired and informed by the materials she uses. Car Boot sales and charity shops are scoured for interesting vintage crockery and mirrors. Items that were once in everyday use are transformed and given a new lease of life full of nostalgia.

www.crossstreetworkshop.co.uk
www.areaatlas.com/mosaic

Cassie Beck

Cassia Beck is a Brighton based photographer. She loves all things vintage and tries to bring it into her work, often using old cameras. Imperfections are a big part of Cassia's work; dust, scratches and blurs, all these flaws add to the atmosphere and character of the images she produces.

www.cassiabeck.com

Charlotte Squire

This work was created for a Portuguese cafe inspired by a global trade established between Portugal and China & Japan 500 years ago. I have reconstructed traditional motifs from Jingdezhen ceramics and Japanese laquerware but my materials here are empty drinks cans from the Portuguese café, with their bright seductive branding printed on aluminium and steel.
Part of my work process is to recreate new work from discarded and rejected materials, to recycle and reuse as a way of seeing things differently.

www.axisweb.org/artist/charlottesquire

Deborah Batt

Although my paintings have become increasingly non-objective over the years, all my work still originates from the idea of community, the towns we build, the cities and the way we shape and destroy the rural landscape. This was influenced by my interest in maps and aerial photography and looking at things from a different perspective. I hope to show within the limits of non-objective painting the shape of the environment as it changes, as it diminishes in one direction, grows in another. Non- objective artwork is an exercise in geometric abstraction, space related to shape. My subject being the painting itself.

www.deborahbatt.co.uk

Emma Harding

Maker of detailed paintings and objects using mixed media. I work in layers of drawing and paint and make objects that are modified in construct, surface and meaning. Recent works are inspired by certain forms and interpretations of ornamental animals and their imagined communication. Renewal of interpretation is a constant theme with these familiar objects as with my Charity Shop Orphans Project.I have exhibited in London and the South East and do sometimes accept commissions.

www.emmaharding.com

Gary Burns

I like drawing with black pens and obsessive dotting. I have a huge love for art from the east and the south pacific, and it is a constant source of inspiration for what i make. I screen print occasionally and I am a tattooist.

www.myspace.com/zoidling

Jan Lee Johnson

My paintings explore the language of paint, with the motif and repeat patterns of vintage fabric, which often form the canvas on which I paint: working from photographs, particularly from my childhood and family archive, a translation from image to painting, resulting in a game of visual Chinese Whispers between the photograph and myself, the painting and the viewer. By setting limitations of palette, scale, and the task of interpreting, endless possibilities emerge with brush and canvas and fabric.
Jan worked at BBC TV as a scenic artist and now lectures part time in London

www.janleejohnson.co.uk
www.axisweb.org/artist/janleejohnson

Jane Denman

Jane Denman lives and works as a full time artist in West Sussex. One of her latest paintings, 'Painted Kittens in the Night', delves into the lyrics 'God is in the House' by Nick Cave and is inspired by a scene from the film 'An American in Paris' and three Cuban cats. Jane’s inspiration and excitement to produce work often stems from other artforms, one of which is a particular interest in drawing dancers at speed.

www.janedenman.com

Jo Higgs

Paintings and drawings inspired by animals - anthropomorhization, playing with the romanticism of animals in the natural and urban landscape. Animals in a world without people, behaving like people. Exploring painting and mixed media, using photographic references and memory.

www.johiggs.wordpress.com

Julie Milton

Julie’s latest work focuses on blocks of colour, texture and the effect of the elements on wood and brick. Self-taught and still inspired by her surroundings, Brighton-based Julie enhances her photographs by experimenting with contrast and colour saturation, creating unusual impressions of everyday subjects.

www.juliemiltonphotography.com

Kate Osborne

I studied textile design in the 1970’s and worked in the industry for 20 years, including five years in the States, for one year living in a shack in an old coal mining town, painting wildlife and botanical subjects, and selling through a gallery in Santa Fe. As an illustrator I have worked for various clients including London Transport, Sainsbury’s and Quarto Press. Painting has gradually taken over and I now work very freely in watercolour, with the minimum of compositional drawing; this gives the paintings an unpremeditated look, which attempts to express the beautiful but transitory nature of the still life and natural history subjects.

www.kateosborneart.com

Lucy Jefferys

Lucy Jefferys is a local stencil artist who produces multilayer, spray-painted artwork on canvas and other surfaces as well as wall murals. Her inquisitive imagination and keen eye for detail takes her on varied explorations of subjects and locations. By using stenciling at a technique, Jefferys deconstructs the image, breaking it down into individual elements, and then rebuilds it in a more polarised form. Jefferys’ current body of work focuses on the warm tranquility of Brighton’s densely populated areas at night. She is happy to consider commissions.

www.stencilmoose.co.uk

Luke Hutson

I am a self taught artist who experiments with drawings and photography, expressing a reality in both my mediums. I am attracted to the hidden beauty of city life and the large range of human emotion. My motivation is to capture intense detail in my drawings and a cinematic feel to my photos. The vision of my art is to seduce the audience and the drive to keep an originality within my work.

cool.hand_luke@hotmail.co.uk

Mary Moox

Inspired by all things vintage and recycled I create wall mounted and free standing boxed sculptures out of a combination of found objects & collected materials. My boxed creatures draw from my own childhood memories and the 'make do and mend' thrifty nature of times past.

www.marymoox.co.uk

Natalie Martin

Born in 1972, Natalie grew up in an environment dominated by art and literature. Graduating from the University of Brighton in 2003 with a degree in sculpture, she continued to work in conceptual installation until discovering a talent and love for painting. Focusing primarily on depictions of urban architecture, her painting has developed into a highly detailed, representational style that still retains painterly qualities.

“Architecture stands as an artificial construct in the natural landscape and yet, like the human beings that build and inhabit the structures, they suffer at the passing of time, decaying and withering, the wear and tear a record of the lives and movement occurring in and around it, an archive of events told in erosion, oxidisation and rot.
There are no figures in my paintings but the absent hand of many can be seen through the very existence of the structures and the character they have developed. There is a sense of solitude but with serenity rather than loss. I also hope to create a sense of movement but only on the part of the viewer, the still structures inviting passage physically or from one state of mind to another.

I’m currently working on a new series of paintings exploring the idea of levels of reality, fictions and narrative.”

Natalie first exhibited her paintings at the Brighton Art Fair in 2007 and has expanded her portfolio by painting full-time since then. She has had work accepted by The Bath Society of Artists, The Society of Women Artists, The London Group and The Royal Academy.

www.nataliemartin.co.uk
info@nataliemartin.co.uk

Nicholas Wriglesworth

Nicholas studied at the Slade in London. The subject of his work is mainly the urban environment and dramatic effects of light found within overlooked spaces. A constant source of inspiration is the immediate surroundings of Brighton and Hove, where the artist lives and works.

www.nicholaswriglesworth.co.uk

Phil Lyddon

I am a professional member of the Craft Potters Association, and have been making pots in Brighton since the 1970’s. I am interested in the idea of the miniature and concentrate on small-scale works, mainly hand-thrown porcelain bowls. I aim to make graceful forms with restrained surface decoration, and I often distort the piece after throwing to add an element of asymmetry.I have featured in many exhibitions, and I currently sell my ceramics in galleries in Brighton and throughout the UK.

www.phillyddon.co.uk

Rob Macdonald

My photographic practice explores the delicate balance between presence and absence in the detail of the urban environment. My distinct approach to Street Photography takes as its subject the contemporary cityscape – its centre and its margins. My image-making in locations including Tokyo, Budapest, New York and San Francisco doesn’t concern itself with representing those cities individually or specifically but instead searches for what is resonant yet unseen within them.

In a sense there are definite echoes of Painting in my approach to Photography and I am inspired by the purity of Barnett Newman, the geometry of Callum Innes and the bold, flat colours of the Scottish Colourists. I aim to create photographs that assert a heightened visual presence.

My images scrutinise tensions and divisions within dynamic and definite compositional relationships. In evolving my own rigorous visual language I inhabit the space between making a picture and capturing an image.

www.robmacdonaldphoto.com

Robin Clare

Robin Clare works and lives in Brighton. Born in Belize to Jamaican parents, Robin has lived in Jamaica, Canada and the UK. She takes her inspiration from everyday life and blends them with acidic colours and hand-stencilled patterns inspired by her tropical background.

www.robinclare.com

Rory Walker

Rory Walker is an established and well regarded artist and illustrator working professionally in Brighton. He's worked in the arts and publishing industry locally and internationally for over 10 years. His recent illustrations have appeared in publications such as Country Life magazine and Macmillan books. This series was created from inspired views of regional England in pen & ink, and watercolours. Commissions undertaken.

www.roryroryrory.com

Toby Smith

Over a year in the making, “Light After Dark” is an aesthetic and conceptual ‘re-visioning’ of energy and British landscape. Throughout 2008 and 2009, I made repeat visits to all 32 power stations of England. My images are captured on Large Format negative with colour exposures ranging from 5 minutes to 5 hours and no digital post-production.

www.shootunit.com

Wendy Pye

Wendy Pye has been working in the creative industries for over 20 years. She recently returned to study and successfully graduated with an MA in Photographic Arts from the London College of Communication in December 2008. Over the last year her personal project 'Beachy Head' has been selected for a variety of exhibitions, including the 'Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed' show at The Photographers Gallery in London and she continues to develop her personal practice alongside her commercial photographic business.

www.wendypye.co.uk