ArtSpace

Henry Moore

Ted — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:30:57 +0000

Henry Moore is one of the most well known artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition focuses on his career from the 1920s to the early 1960s and challenges the familiar image of the artist. He emerged in the 1920s as a radical, experimental and avant-garde figure and was rapidly established as the leading British sculptor of his generation. His main subject was the human body, through which he believed ‘one can express more completely one’s feelings about the world than in any other way’.

U gallery – Intercool

Ted — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:25:08 +0000

Starting from an idea from a German gallery, this exhibition explores the European dimensions of the lives of young people and proposes that Arts and culture can help children and young people explore and deal with their issues. Artworks made by young people from Dortmund were displayed alongside those from Leeds.

Writing her label for her artwork Threads of Life Stacy Broadbent said,
“Life at whatever age can be strong, delicate, warm, happy or tense. Threads worked over each other relate to ideas and repetition in life. Threads left loose at the end represent journeys and life’s loose ends. Colours symbolise happier or darker periods in life’s threads.”

Sean Scully. Works from the 1980’s

Ted — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:55:18 +0000

‘I liked the idea of looking at a painting that you could not look at just from the front but had to move around.’ Sean Scully

Sean Scully is an abstract painter. From the 1970s, he restricted his use of shape to lines, stripes, and blocks of colour and made massive compositions. His artworks of the 1980’s have a visual tension, as the contrast between horizontals and verticals, strong and neutral colours, and symmetry and asymmetry was heightened.

Sean Scully makes paintings from interconnecting panels, which appear to project or receed from the space of the viewer. They seem to be physically three-dimensional when they are not.

Suzan Inceer

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:57:01 +0000

Suzan’s main preoccupation is experimenting with both 2D and 3D
materials, especially discarded resources. She recycles, transforms and
customizes these materials, sometimes combining them with more
predictable media such as paint, collage, textiles. Her studio, as a result, is more of a lab as she mixes the media. Combining culture, fashion and food are her particular interests.

Suzan loves an unusual brief or wacky idea and approaches art workshops as a ‘learning game’. Suzan works with all age groups and abilities, infusing the curriculum with creativity. Clients include The National Trust, The Equal Opportunities Commission and The Kings Fund. Suzan loves surprises, jokes, adventure, languages (communication), dancing, swimming …

Via art she strives to banish the mundane and predictable!

Steve Pool

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:52:53 +0000

Steve originally trained as a sculptor and now finds himself doing all sorts of different things that usually, but not always, end up in him making something. Steve is keen to develop educational work that challenges people to think differently and generate new ideas. He has extensive experience in working in schools and gallery settings, developing projects that respond to the needs of participants and focus on giving people an expressive voice.

His work always involves people and places and is concerned with how art can help to give insights and create new meaning. Steve continues to work with school groups as he always enjoys working with children, who he says ‘tend to make me laugh and brighten my days’.

Steve has delivered a number of projects for and creative partnerships
across the region.

Ruth Tyson-Jones

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:48:47 +0000

Ruth is a contemporary dance artist, interested in, and focused on, ’sited’ and ’site-specific’ work. Through this approach she is able to bring dance to people who may not ordinarily experience it, for example, through creating choreography for a town square, a particular architectural building or a supermarket.

Alongside her own practice, Ruth also works in theatre collaborating with directors, set designers, writers and actors. Her workshops/educational work can be focused on contemporary dance technique, creative movement and/or choreography, both for theatre or site-specific contexts.

Ruth Fettis

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:44:41 +0000

Ruth Fettis is a freelance artist, who has lived and worked in West
Yorkshire for over 20 years. She has worked extensively with schools,
community groups and galleries and exhibited across the region. She works in a range of media including printmaking, collage, drawing and painting, murals and illustration.

Her main area for her own work is print and she is currently working on
hand-made books and small-scale theatre set designs.

www.ruthfettis.co.uk

Nichola Pemberton

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:01:00 +0000

Nichola’s work is based in drawing. She makes large-scale, layered pieces based on mantle-piece objects; scratchy abstracts made through the movement of her body whilst performing activities such as trampolining or cartwheeling; and huge, conceptual, wall based works with paint.

In her education work, Nichola uses drawing to explore materials and
techniques. Drawing is used as a means of expressing thought, feelings and ideas. In her sessions, participants might think about representation and abstraction through alternative drawing methods or find out how mark making can communicate feeling. At all times participants question and reflect on activity at an age-appropriate level.

As a creative professional Nichola has been involved with sensory exploration with early years, cross-curricular development in junior schools, engagement projects in secondary schools and projects of self-discovery with sixth form groups.

Louise Atkinson

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:55:40 +0000

Louise has an interdisciplinary practice, using a wide range of media
including paper, photography, print, artist books, textiles and found objects. Her recent work explores language in art, specifically the cultural relevance of animal idioms from non-English speaking countries. She has used this as a starting point to create a range of work including carbon drawings and text art.

The various techniques within her practice include constructed textiles, origami, documentary photography of installation, bookbinding, drawing and printmaking. The concept and inspiration behind the work usually informs the techniques used and the form the work takes.

Through using creative interpretation techniques, Louise works with groups to explore gallery collections and create related art works. These have also been exhibited alongside the original work to allow audiences new insight into collections.

http://louiseatkinson.blogspot.com

Kathryn Welford

Dominique — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:47:27 +0000

Kathryn is a visual artist, producing mainly paintings, drawings, and
collages. Rooted in observation, her work is illustrative in the sense that images have a strong narrative, although this narrative can be ambiguous and multi-layered.

She is inspired by images found in old books, postcards, packaging and ‘quotes’ from and combine these second-hand sources to create new images and stories. Her work combines both painterly and graphic, precise and gestural qualities.

Kathryn works with schools and young people to interpret and explore an idea through visual and hands-on learning. She has worked with all key stages, both in a gallery/museum context and within a school environment.

Having worked extensively with the Creative Partnerships programme, she has good knowledge of creative teaching and learning and working in partnership with teachers.