Consuming Nature

Dawn Lippiatt

2010-05-21T06:05:00.000-07:00

Dawn Lippiatt , Bed 14 , 28 metal beds, 1 plaster fox

Beds: H 15-180cm x L37 cm x W23 cm

Fox: 21H x 60 x 47 cm

metal and plaster sculpture

Gulliver, MDF mug, rope, stitched cowhide

approx size 2m x 2m x 2m 

Dawn Lippiatt

Artist Statement

Brought up in a thoroughly urban environment, Dawn Lippiatt - now a farmer's wife - uses sculpture, video and installations to interpret country life from a totally new perspective. She struggles to come to terms with many contradictions: the role of a modern woman in very conservative surroundings, the rural versus the urban and the ever-changing political views of the farming world.

Deeply fascinated with the fragility of health, life and physical circumstances, she likes to draw on a variety of materials in order to make potent visual connections. In particular animals and animal matter play a pivotal role in the production of her work. She uses them as a metaphor for control; the need to be in control and the fear of being controlled.

Like a stage set, her work often adopts theatrical/fairy story roles, where elements play a part in some mad charade, in roles that they may not have chosen but have been somehow thrust upon them. In works like Bed 14, small metal beds and plaster animals and Gulliver an over-sized mug, cow skin rug and rope, all use size manipulation to determine the viewer's "role" in the installations. Though materially and topically very different, they all play with reality versus the unreal and ultimately for her, symbolize the life we pretend that we live in as opposed to the one that we really do.

Dawn Lippiatt
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Education2009 BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture (1st) Bath Spa University
2006 Foundation Art and Design Bath City College

Exhibitions
2010
14 May-11 June After the End Elysium Mansel St Swansea
28 May-20 June Wilderness American Museum Bath
14-24 June Consuming Nature The Octagon, Milsom Place, Bath

Dispensary Otago Gallery Larkhall Bath
21 Artists and Designers Candid Arts Trust Galleries Angel, Islington, London
2009
Christmas Tree Sculpture Victoria Gallery, Bath
Urban Wildlife Queens Wood London
Free Range Truman Brewery 52 Brick Lane, London E1
Wilderness 09 American Museum, Bath
Domestic Fantastic (Bath Fringe Festival) 7a Lower Borough Walls
Open Studios & Exhibition Bath
Influence Widcombe Studios, St James Park Bath
Spring Art Exhibition Royal United Hospital Bath
Because We Never Have Before Print Room Gallery, Bath School of Art and Design
2008
Wilderness American Museum Bath
2007
Matter of Life and Death Holburne Museum Bath
Wilderness The American Museum Bath
Play On Words Bath Spa University Newton Park Bath
2006 Butterfly Effect, Bath City College,Bath
Articles
2007 Sam MacRae for Play On words Exhibition

Fiona Cassidy

2010-05-17T13:05:00.000-07:00

Fiona Cassidy

Units for Habitation

sand, cardboard box

installation sculpture

Fiona Cassidy
Artist Statement

However carefully we move through the world our impact, be it great or small, is constant. Fiona Cassidy’s work expresses her abiding fascination with the aftermath. Her inspiration is the ‘made’ environment, the human imprint; her materials are selected from the items we discard or leave behind; her style of working is deliberately simple, relying largely on manual techniques – fabric is hand-stitched, cardboard cut and fixed with paper tape, sand is moulded into shape.

Empty builders’ sacks, jiffy bags, plastic flowerpots, stacks of chairs, even flakes of old paint are deployed sparingly to create freestanding sculptures and installations. These autonomous structures serve to illustrate the intrinsic beauty of the commonplace and the lowly while amplifying the connection between people and the constructed space they inhabit. Eventually these sculptures will be broken down into their component parts and re-used – nothing is wasted.

Cassidy explores both the hierarchy we impose on our objects and challenges the priorities of our way of life. We are invited to stop in our tracks, to look differently at places and materials, to share her love of and concern for our immediate environment and to delight in the small things which travel with us through our lives.

FIONA CASSIDY

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FIONA CASSIDY lives and works in Bath, UK
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2003 – 2010 BA Fine Art, part time study, Bath Spa University
2002 – 2003 Foundation Art and Design Diploma, City of Bath College – Distinction
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Fiona Cassidy – Bath Spa Gallery, Weston-super-Mare
2009 Spike Sculpture Dispatch Office – Spike Island, Bristol

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Consuming Nature Milsom Place The Octagon, Bath June 15-24th 10-6pm daily

Private View Friday June 18th 6-9pm
52 – Room 202, Gloucester Road, Bristol
2009 Salon 09 – Matt Roberts Arts, Vyner Street, London
Espy – Bath Spa University
Introspective – Free Range, Truman Brewery, London
Bath Spa Degree Show – Bath Spa University
Wilderness 09 – The American Museum in Britain, Bath
Art House Gravy – The Blue Rooms, Bath
Because we never have before – The Old Print Room Gallery, Bath Spa University
2008 Control Art Delete – Free Range, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
Wilderness 2 – The American Museum in Britain, Claverton Down, Bath
Locus – Fringe Arts Bath, 1 Saville Row, Bath
2007 Wilderness – The American Museum in Britain, Claverton Down, Bath
Better Late Than Never – Bath Spa University Gallery, Sion Hill, Bath
2004 Out There – 18 Monmouth Place, Bath

AWARDS
2009 Short listed Metro Recreate 2
2007 Short listed for Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize

Jenni Norman

2010-05-07T08:00:00.000-07:00

Untitled
20 x 20 cm
Mixed Media: graphite, cardboard and paint
Jenni Norman
http://www.jenninorman.co.uk/

Jenni Norman
Artist Statement

Completing a degree in Fine Art at Bath Spa University in 2008 she went on to complete a Post Graduate Degree in Teaching at the University of the West of England. Jenni works with limited resources with the understanding that restricting what you work with in no way limits the outcome. In fact the idea is that with the development of how to become more efficient, creative and experimental then the outcomes should become more diverse and complex.

Drawings are approached delicately with great consideration to composition, visually there is long standing interest with the mix of nature and the man made item. The use of recyclable materials and ones that are considered as useless can be found in her work. The notion of items that are deemed to be no longer valuable is an incentive to bring back their glory by making them into new forms of interest and regenerating the instinctive beauty. Jenni continues to reside in Bath working mainly in and around schools in Bristol.

Zannah Cooper

2010-02-12T08:53:00.000-08:00

British Bulls Eye97 x 60 cm
Lace, Vintage Flag

Venture Adventure172 x 85 cm
Vintage Fabrics, lace, flag

Fabric Stories15 x 10 x 5.5cm
Vintage Textiles, metal, resin box

Zannah Cooper

http://www.zannahcooper.com/

Artist’s Statement
Zannah Cooper is a textile artist and designer. Her work explores cultural identity through the layering of patterns, symbols and materials from across parts of the world. Zannah’s recent work makes use of national flags, with embroidery, patchwork, lace and vintage fabrics.

An interest in the material remnants that make up cultural environments, as well as personal stories has fed into her creative practice. Whilst collecting materials with unique cultural and visual biographies, such as potato sacks from Bolivia, the notion of a palimpsest came to play in her work.

Exhibition photo Fabric Stories

Zannah Cooper

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Exhibitions
Blood Arts Monger, Milson Place, Bath 11/09
Exhibited by Anthropologie at the Rockefeller Centre, New York 08/09 
New Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington, London 07/09 

Green Art Project’ at Coral Quay Fairtrade, 06/09

Bath School of Art and Design Degree Show, Sion Hill, Bath 05/09

Education
2006-2009 Bath Spa University, BA Hons Fashion and Textile Design, First Class Honours
2004-2005 Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge Diploma in Art & Design Studies, Distinction
2002-2004 Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge A Levels: Art and Design, History of Art, AS Level Photography

Awards
2004 Savill’s sponsored Sixth-form Student Design Prize Curwin Print Studios, Cambridge

Carol Denn

2009-11-04T07:30:00.000-08:00

Carol Denn Rusty Crows, acrylic stencil and metallic paint on linen canvas, 122 x 91.5 x 4 cm

Forest Fashion, Mixed Media oil and acrylic paint, silver, shirt pattern collage on linen
101.5 x 76 x 4 cm, Self portrait of artist depicting woman with antlers and men's shirt pattern and silver mask in reference to nature and the business side of art.

Carol Denn
http://www.caroldenn.co.uk/

Carol Denn
Artist Statement
I am creating representational oil paintings with collage on linen canvas. The raw linen canvas remains visible and a feature in this work. I create narratives with paint, collage, text, fabric, stencils and objects around a central theme such as nature, memories and childhood. I am also interested in creating different visual planes by contrasting flat areas of paint and stencil with hand painted elements and tactile objects in low relief like keys, bees or fabric.

Having grown up in historical Yorktown, VA and now living and working from my studio in Bradford-on-Avon near Bath, history and storytelling have become a vibrant part of my paintings. Alongside having a strong graphic sense probably from my degree in Communications years of life drawing has led me to paint the essence of what I represent in hand painted outlines contrasted with flat areas of colour. In Home sweet Mortgage I have built up layers of meaning and depth by including supporting and subversive collage text that form a nest in low relief.
Some of the collage elements in this work are very personal and others have different symbolic meaning depending on how the viewer interprets them such as rusty keys or butterflies. This participation of the viewer to create their own narrative based on the meaning they bring to the collaged objects is what makes these works different for everyone.

Exhibitions
2010 Consuming Nature Location: The Octagon, Milsom Place, Bath, UK
June 15-24th 2010, 10am -6pm Private View: Friday June 18th 6-8pm

2009 6@TheOctagon, Fringe Arts Festival Bath, England
2008 Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, Bath Spa University
2008 MA Interim Show, School Gallery, Bath Spa University
2007 L'Horizon, Monaco

Private Commissions

2008-2009 collage painting consisting of 9 smaller canvases hinged together Private Collection, 5 portrait commissions two of which were double portraits Private Collection

Education

2007- 2008 MA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University, England
2003-5 Three years of figure/life drawing study at the Lycee Henri IV Paris, ADAC studio, working in oil, pastels and charcoal
2003-4 Attended weekly Art History Conferences at L'Ecole du Louvre Paris
2003 Semester of oil painting at the Ecole de Beaux Arts Paris
2000 BA in Art History minor in Communications University of Georgia, USA
1998 Study Abroad in Paris through Wells College, Life Drawing and photography at Parsons College

Victoria Purver

2009-10-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

Victoria Purver
Ophilia printed silk stretched over wood

100 x 100 x 2 cm

Persiffa printed silk stretched over wood

100 x 100 x 2 cm

www.victoriapurver.com

Victoria Purver

Artist Statement

Victoria Purver is a Welsh textile designer and artist. She designs vibrant and individualistic digital prints derived from her original paintings, which are inspired by the exuberance and vitality of nature observed by Still Life’. Her work has been used internationally in fashion, interior and publishing and in trend prediction by forecasters such as Nelly Rodi, Paris.

Victoria has exhibited her work Paris regularly since graduating with a Masters from Bath Spa University. Previously to this she worked as a designer in Scandinavia and felt that the culture and art in Denmark inspired her painting. Her style can be likened to the work of painters such as Raoul Dufy, who’s lively yet ‘moody’ work defined the art Deco movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s, a period which Victoria sights as inspiration.

Victoria’s need to paint comes from a passion to capture and immortalise something as transient and fragile as a flower or bud that’s appearance is ever changing and passing. It is a fascination with all things ephemeral in a world that is becoming controlled and pre-occupied by all things Urban and concrete. The work is a testimony to Mother Nature who is eternally reinventing herself and coming back with new disguises which can be likened to the world of fashion.

Rebecca Cains

2009-10-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

Rebecca Cains Alan Halls Reclamation 83 x 98 x 2 cm oil on canvas

Disused Petrol Station 52 x 68 x 2 cm oil on canvas

Awards
2010 Awarded first prize at the Open Painting Show RWA Bristol
2009 Andrew Brownsword Prize for an oil painting, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2008 Best Regional Artist, Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol

Artist Statement
Rebecca Cains born in Radstock near Bath, is an artist who works in oils and the paintings are inspired by the fraying edges and less familiar areas around the cities of Bath and Bristol. Her representational paintings capture the haphazard shapes, colours and textures which can be seen at abandoned derelict architectural settings seldom viewed and otherwise taken for granted.

Her subjects include Bath Gas works and a Disused Petrol Station on Lower Bristol Road, Bath. Her work has also been based at a scrap yard in a once coal mining area (Radstock) The visual impact of the Scrap yard is powerful, with varied remains of vehicles in various stages of decay, stacked together like forms of sculpture. One of ordered chaos set against a backdrop of sombre beauty. Her main inspiration is taken from the ‘kitchen sink school’, which focussed their work deliberately on the unglamorous.

Rebecca Cains
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Education

2007-2010 B.A fine art painting, Bath Spa University
2006-2007 Foundation in art and design, Radstock, Somerset
1985-1988 Diploma in Dance ‘The Arts Educational Schools,’ London

Exhibitions

2009
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Royal West of England Academy, 157th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
Bath Society Of Artists,104th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Shortlisted, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield.21stSummer Show, Street, Somerset
Bath and West Show, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Bath Society of Artists, 103rd Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, 20th Summer Show, Street, Somerset
Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
2007
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 120th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painter’s Hall, London
Royal West of England Academy, 155th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol

Awards

2008 Best Regional Artist, Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
2009 Andrew Brownsword Prize for an oil painting, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2010 Awarded first prize at the Open Painting RWA Bristol