Pei-Yao Chang is a media artist, a researcher and a two-year novice freediver currently based in London. Her practice investigates space(s) and the implication of embodied experiences based on gravitation from land and her weightless freediving journey. As such, fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates and explores embodied cognition. Pei-Yao Chang’s current work …
Rural Ireland has a lot of abandoned houses. Often they have been left with contents intact but subsequently ransacked and windows broken. The torn curtains left exposed to the elements were sad reminders of previous inhabitants who had to leave for unknown reasons. The scenes invoked sadness and raised questions about what had happened In …
Jo is a BA Fine Art graduate from Bradford University (2002) and works from her art studios in Fossgate York. Her work is initially inspired by horizons, vast land, seas and big skies experienced growing up in Australia, travelling to and from by sea, and by sailing oceans in her 20’s, working on yachts – …
Saira’s work brings together textiles, screen printing, linocut, and hand embroidery to distort and manipulate the natural forms of age rings created by trees, with some becoming almost unrecognisable. She has used these materials to represent humans’ manipulation and damage to nature. It is a commentary on how deforestation is destroying important ecosystems and how …
Teresa is a Leeds-based illustrator and children’s book author who has written and illustrated for publishers in the USA and UK in addition to creating personal artworks for exhibition. Her current work reflects her interest in nature and botanical themes with figurative historical and folkloric elements. She uses mixed media processes including printed ephemera and …
Ally’s work occupies a relaxed middle ground between mixed media and abstract painting: using embroidery and a detailed use of stitch, she is able to express her interests with mother nature and in particular, lichen. Through her work, the artist presents what would otherwise be overlooked into a space where it can be viewed and …
Bev seeks to convey her emotional responses to nature; distilling the feeling of the moment. Her mark making and monotypes use grasses and foliage from where she lives in Thornton, Bradford. Layers of mono-printing, forms, shapes and the subtle imprints of the foliage capture the voice of this Bronte landscape. Bev also creates abstract landscapes …
Ian makes collages which reflect his interest in creating art from discarded materials. He combines photographic and graphic elements. He includes hints of narrative and characterisation, observations and commentary. His pictures have been selected for inclusion in group and solo exhibitions in UK, Russia, India, Indonesia and USA. Images have been included in books and …
Mistry explores the properties of paint, resin, solvents, inks and pigments. He draws influences from the natural sciences, the cosmos and nature. This includes desire lines; the curves of organic forms. He uses these influences and combines them with both microscopic and macroscopic views of the world. He revels in manipulating the physical properties of …
Hang Zhang’s projects usually arrive from a personal place but explore wider issues surrounding identity and equality. This space shares recent and new projects that blur politics, fiction and storytelling in an accessible and engaging way. Zhang’s practice-led PhD project is on investigating the epochal impacts of post-colonisation on the cultural images of lamoid species …