Artist Mark Templer

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MARK TEMPLER

Have you ever wanted to climb out of the aeroplane window and touch the clouds? 

Mark Templer makes time-lapse films of the dynamic scenes around us that we often overlook. By capturing them and altering their timebase, the intricacies and development of form are revealed.

In this installation (Soar 1) he uses time-lapse movies of cloud formations as they gather and soar. These are projected through mesh screens in a darkened space to create an environment that gives the viewer a multi-dimensional experience of walking among the clouds. He adds a spiritual element to the piece through the use of 12th century choral music... as the angelic voices soar, the clouds build, creating an atmosphere that transports the viewer to a place where they can feel connected to the natural world.

 Soar 1 (multi-media installation), 2012

marktemple@aol.com

Artist Alice Wilson

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ALICE WILSON

It is the balance between what is real and what is perceived to be real, and also the use of nature as a representation of an ideological reality that are key to my practice. With particular interest directed towards the lens, I am considering how our experience of the landscape is understood and attempting to assess the many differing ways in which technology plays a role. I am interested in whether or not we are more inclined to accept a photograph as a genuine depiction of reality, and the way in which painting and photography has informed what we think of as landscape.

A view  through Alice's work

From the late 18th century, Romanticism reacted against the rational thought of the Enlightenment and tried to negate prescriptive qualities of science. It explored the emotions that could be caused by the contemplation of the world and often that of nature, the philosopher Immanuel Kant drew attention to emotions such as terror and awe as being triggers of the Sublime. Through my work I attempt to asses these histories relevance in a contemporary context, and ask where it is we might find a modern day comparison.

www.alicewilson.org

Artist Sasha Bowles

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SASHA BOWLES

Sasha is exploring the ways that memories can ebb and flow 

from one thing to another. Starting from a found souvenir, an

 anonymous memory, she plays with it until a new form evolves.

 Though subtle and large changes the souviner morphs into new

 memory and meaning. Using the object in the manner of a

Japanese Scholar stone,  contemplating and evoking memories

 real and imagined. Memories can be called up deliberately or

 rise up involuntarily from a trigger. Memory that is 

re-remembered gives us a new memory in a new context. Each

 re-visitation givesemory, a layering of memory and 

interpretation.

Body forms

Darkroom Installation

go to www.southern-row.blogspot.com to see film of installation

www.sashabowles.co.uk

Artist Matt Gee

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MATT GEE

Matt’s work involves covering, melting, placing, arranging of spaces and objects.

There is a concern with the authenticity of materiality, the source of materials, jostling with the modern materialistic demands of human sensory decadent desire, a society that ecpects, and ‘I want it now’ culture.

His main interest is in questioning the source of materials, whether they are man made or naturally occurring. Gee takes this dichotomy of the synthetic versus the authentic and applys it to his art practice through methods of imitation, replication and manipulation and elevates it through methods of display. The result can be repulsive or seductive to the viewer.

An extraordinary scene of intrigue

www.mattgeeartist.com

Artist Matthew Luck Galpin

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MATTHEW LUCK GALPIN

My aim is to find the meaning and value of things in a world often misunderstanding making. It is clear to me that the distance between the back glance of knowledge and the true, ever still, place of becoming is as great as it is invisible . At the start of all traces of the manifest is the problem of immanence. Therefore a true sense of doubt is first and foremost to understanding the possible.

The eerily beautiful singing glasses

www.matthewluckgalpin.wordpress.co.uk

Artist Ralph Anderson

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RALPH ANDERSON

Ralph's work aims to explore the

possibilities of space, light, movement and

perception within the realms of modern

painting. Wanting to delve into the

materiality of the painted surface whilst

keeping the transcendentalnature of the image

true and strong, he hopes to produce artworks

that reflect society’s hopes and fears in a

world that is inspired by, yet, evermore

reliant on science and technology.

Autumnal Wave

Autumnal Wave(alternate view)

www.ralphanderson.co.uk

Artist Katy Lynton

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 KATY LYNTON

Katy is interested in the relationship of forms (and mark making) and questioning whether they are emotional, spiritual or physical; which one is dominant and how something can become manifest when two or three entities are put together. The forms sometimes appear to be almost sparring within the space, which in turn keeps a keen sense of awareness for the viewer, so the works are always active and full of energy.

The LED lights are programmed to gracefully slide across the canvas and subtly change colour

www.katylynton.blogspot.co.uk

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Artist Caitlin Smail

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CAITLIN SMAIL

Caitlin's current perspective centres on art

 as a therapeutic outlet for traumatic and

 repressed memories of events and situations

 in the past. Using a wide range of media

 and combining some of the products of these

 differing media and techniques, I experiment

 with ways to give voice to the subconscious

Caitlin transforms the former scientific production space into a forest of dreams

A traveller exploring the forest of dreams

www.caitlinsmail.co.uk



Artist Fiona Long

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FIONA LONG

Long’s “Concrete Poetry” series is an exploration of how it feels to live in the city. These chaotic images investigate the fast-paced lives we lead both visually and almost viscerally. An archaeological approach to painting shows the contrasts of the impact that both people and nature have on the manmade structures we are surrounded by. The Eastern aesthetic of the beauty of transience is contemplated to interpret the ever-changing urban landscape. A fascination with material is coupled with areas of representation using personal street photography and collages from free London newspapers as source material.

Fiona's concrete painting seemingly commenting on the house

Leading the way up the stairs

www.fionalongart.co.uk

Artist Lucille Dweck

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LUCILLE DWECK

Lucille Dweck is an artist that specialises

in painting water, seascapes and portraits

Installtion view in the former Nautilus Press

The dramatic swimmer plunges to the deep.

www.lucilledweck.com

Artist Angela Jones

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ANGELA JONES

I am interested in the stories that objects tell about the lives and values of people. My fascination with crocheted doilies springs from this. Their patterns have a symmetry which seems to suggest order and that everything is just right. Is this view a little sugar coated?

Angela's delicate doilles casting dramatic shadows

angelawyerjones@yahoo.co.uk

Artist Nikki Williams

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NIKKI WILLIAMS

Colour is the most exciting aspect of glass making, allowing the vibrancy and transparency of the colours to shine, all our pieces are bright and full of glorious colour, including dichrioic flashes, silver and gold.

View from the hall

The beautiful blue glass, like an explosion in the room of collapse

www.kinki-glass.co.uk

Artist Alex March

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ALEX MARCH

My research and studio practice reflects an ongoing investigation of the domestic archive as everyday portrait and place for identification and the formation of identity, and explores in particular the image/object relationship of the family photograph.

The exploration of the family photographic archive elevates the humble yet treasured origins of family history ephemera to status of artwork. Through their exploration the audience is able to both identify with the archetype: for everyone has seen, or owns pictures like these; and empathise with the clichéd impulse to relive remembered moments; but also to embrace notions of identity as formed by experience.

Trace II (Other people's Memories)

Trace I and III

Large drawings in pencil based on found studio photography

www.artofalexmarch.co.uk

Artist Alistair Lambert

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ALISTAIR LAMBERT

Alistair has twenty years experience enabling creative collaborations in schools, public spaces and institiutions. Working with a range of materials and processes in new and ambitious ways develops skills and builds confidence in participants. His imaginative approach breaks down barriers and engages those who may otherwise be hard to reach.

Cathedral/ Party Room (view 1)

Cathedral/ Party Room (view 2)

Cathedral/ Party Room (view 3)

www.alistairlambert.co.uk

Artist Justin Piperger

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JUSTIN PIPERGER

 

Justin is an artist and photographer working

in the UK and abroad. His latest body of work

includes life painting and drawing along a

Burlesque theme,as well as paintings of

Cacti and Hothouse flowers from Kew Gardens.

 

The emphasis is on beauty of the line, the

translation of the objective world into a

meandering internal pathway to fill the soul.

 

 

 

Justin Piperger

 

 

Justin Piperger

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

www.justinpiperger.com

Artist Amelia Critchlow

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AMELIA CRITCHLOW

 

My work seeks to explore identity, myth and

symbolism, with a focus on folktales and

stories, paying particular attention to the

way in which these narratives have been

imaged and the effect this has on the

construct of the ‘feminine’.

By appropriating and referencing mainstream

popular imagery and already established signs

 and signifiers, the aim of my work is to

examine, subvert and re-image cultural icons

 encouraging new narratives and alternative

readings to emerge

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Amelia's projections spanning from one room to another.

 

 

 

Intervention with the scientific equipment

www.ameliacritchlow.co.uk

Artist Magdalena Groszek

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MAGDALENA GROSZEK

A practising artist working independently but also therapeutically. She is involved with music, especially singing, and Brazilian music. Magdalena is a qualified Psycholotheropist with a medical and transpersonal background. She is currently working with individuals on freeing up the creative process. She has passionate and broad interests and doesn’t believe that there is so much division between areas of work when one is compassionate and creative, in whatever field one applies this to.

Madalena Groszek Room View

Close Up

Two sumptuous Abstracts in the entrance

magdalena.groszek@yahoo.co.uk

Artist Kitty Stirling

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KITTY STIRLING

 

Much of Kitty’s subject matter is enigmatic, operating on a border between figuration and abstraction. References to the real world can be found in her smaller works, which begin in the form of drawings, opening up ideas as she works with mixed media, oil and collage. The process of applying layers of paint allows the potential image to construct its own narrative, becoming mysterious and abstract, resurfacing transformed. Dominant subjects of recent years include the series ‘Allotment’, a place Kitty returns to draw finding it a source of unkempt simplicity and human endeavour.




 

Kitty Stirling Room View
 

Close Up

Close Up





Shed Drawing

 



www.kittystirling.com
 



An inpirational exhibition

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Paper Nautilus was a great success.

 

 A huge thank-you to everyone who took part and for all the wonderful people who came. The positive energy of the place was palpable. It was a joyous expression to collaboration, between the artists and the houses. An inspirational week of creativity.

 

 

The actual Paper Nautilus.

 

"The Paper Nautilus," about the act of creation as maternal protectiveness and watchfulness, moves from images of an externality, to an internality, and back again: