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 …
Working in acrylics and with gold leaf, Zosia paints landscapes, interiors and small scenes, finding inspiration in everyday environments. She works from a mixture of found photographs and her own excursions, combining tactile textures with the painted image to make objects to be measured.
Roman Vaughan-Williams makes artworks which map a landscape of relationships: within the outside world, inside his psyche, and between these two spaces. Roman’s works are often made up of juxtapositions of material; rusty iron A-frames come up against graphite-covered MDF and trompe l’oeil representations of woodgrain. What appears like disparate matter is drawn together into …
When Debi looks at a scene, she immediately speculates about what is going on. She is fascinated by the ways people relate to each other and the world they live in. The wide-ranging mixture of Yorkshire’s industrial and rural landscape provides endless scope for visual storytelling. The artist may direct attention with colour and tone, …
A self-taught artist and maker from a young age, Joolz creates a variety of work across several media. Her quirky portrait paintings are influenced by folk art, and Joolz’ mixed media canvas pieces incorporate a variety of collage, found items, photography, texture, and mystery. She also makes quirky whimsical creatures. Her work is inspired by …
Final year, level 3 Art and Design students at Shipley College have been creating work across a wide range of media – including print, illustration, ceramics and textiles. Pots that draw on the Yorkshire moors, prints that celebrate Shipley’s architecture, handmade idiosyncratic characters and objects. Whilst pursuing their own ideas and processes as individual makers, …
Glass artist Louise and furniture designer John are independent makers who work to commission with neighbouring workshops in a former Yorkshire woollen mill. They have joined their talents to produce a selection of highly crafted furniture and lighting for the contemporary interior under the collaboration WatsonFlexen. Working in their chosen disciplines, these Yorkshire-based makers beautifully …
Lithuanian born Virginija Knowles lives with her English family in Bradford and dedicates all her spare time to the artistic education of primary and secondary school children. Textile sculpture is a new field to Virginija, inspired by wildlife photography. Her colourful heroes are the various inhabitants of the forest, handsewn from wool felt and dressed …
Predominantly a machine embroiderer Angie has recently moved to collage, mixing paper, textile and stitch. Inspired by many subjects from celestial events, foreign climes and closer to home, gardens and natural forms. The interest in collage came from research for her other work, teaching textile workshops on Zoom. She uses a broad range of methods …
Ralph is a contemporary sculptor and designer working in wood and metals to create pieces with intriguing textures and form. His material led design process forms sculptures which push the materials to new areas, using bending and casting techniques he has developed. Ralph’s work is inspired by the making processes, and how this can influence …