Artists Nick Cass and Lizzie Hughes use found images relating to geography to create drawings, installations and moving image works that map perceptual and social networks. Cass's works draw on an art historical engagement with form and perspective while Hughes interprets geographical and topographic space through time and scale.
Dave Ronalds, a founder of the Black Dogs collective, and East London artist duo Matt & Ross create objects and events that explore how we attribute value and use to objects or situations. Ronalds creates works in an array of media that.suggest a creative potential in apparently mundane activity while self-styled unlikely lads of the East End art scene Matt & Ross find their inspiriation in a wide variety of subjects, from Constable paintings to mobile phone snaps.
Noah Sherwood and Greek born Janis Rafailidou from Leeds are choreographers of space. While Sherwood creates dazzling sculptures that give form to the architectonics of the gallery, Rafailidou's performative events unearth the social and cultural conventions that define spatial dynamics.
Amy Stephens and Rory Macbeth juxtapose different materials to create surprising visual encounters. Stephens' sculptures are assemblages of found objects which create surreal and poetic associations; while Macbeth plays with image and text to create conceptual and often playful interventions into the everyday.
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Matt&Ross and Dave Ronalds 'Provisional Mechanism (The Way Things Blow)'
Amy Stephens and Rory Macbeth - work in progress
Noah Sherwood 'Florentine'
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