Participating Artists - Clara Ursitti

Clara Ursitti, From the Dolphin Girl Collection, 2009, bronze and found objects. 10x10x10cm
 

Clara Ursitti is interested in questions surrounding what it means to be a human animal, and how our senses figure in this. Combining visual and non-visual senses, she creates meaning and experience for those encountering a work of art.

Participating Artists - Rachel Goodyear

 

Dog Digging, 2008, Pencil and watercolour on paper, 42 x 30 cm. Courtesy of International 3 and the artist.

Rachel Goodyear’s soft hand drawn visions of figures, burnt gateposts, abandoned clothing and violent images of wild birds and animals create an unfamiliar landscape forcing the viewer to readdress their own experience of suburban life.

Participating Artists - Matt Lippiatt

Nightcruising #1, digital print, 1 of 6, 2009, 150 x 85 cm

Matt Lippiatt’s large scale prints are reproductions of stills taken from his video Nightcruising (2009), a collaboration with pornographer Liam Cole. Matt has re-edited video clips from a porn scene shot at night in London's Hampstead Heath, manipulating the sound and speed of the footage to foreground the ominous character of the nocturnal woodland setting and the ambiguous activities taking place.

Participating Artists - Pete Smith

Bedsitter parts I, 2009, mixed media, various sizes

Pete Smith’s human forms mechanically mimic the shadowy patterns of everyday rituals grown from memories of his childhood and his experience of working in menial roles or on factory floors.

Participating Artists - Steve Bishop

Hitting me Where It Hurts Most, 2009, bed sheet, underwear, sock, fluorescent tubes, wood, electronic ballast & wires, 180 x 100 x 80 cm

Steve Bishop is concerned with the tensions between the natural world and the man made. With foxes impaled on neon lights and squirrels submerged in concrete blocks, he creates a collision between the wild and the mundane materials of everyday life.

Participating Artists - Wendy Mayer

Self portrait as a Matryoshka part II, 2007, Papier-mâché, wax, glass eyes, 37 x 29 cm

Wendy Mayer’s work centres around the evolution of the self. Exploring perceptions of the ageing process to embrace her interest in the uncanny, she utilizes dolls and figurines to project images of herself that represents various stages of her evolving psyche.