ANTI-COOL
anti-cool "anti-cool + Duchess Says" Lone Orchestra 2008 DVD 10 min
I am an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in the field of performance art. I have presented my art in more than 10 countries in the last 10 years. The media I have used has been wide-ranging, such as installation, video, and performance art.
In many cases materials used were found near the exhibition site and as such were symbolic of the area, for example, beer, a tractor, sheep, cow dung, water from a lake, and a fishing rod.
Direct interaction with people in the local area is one of the most important elements of my work. This helps me capture the essence of the area, which I can integrate into the original idea and makes my piece more alive, unique and inclusive.
anti-cool aka Tomoko Takahashi - http://www.artgene.co.uk/artist.php?i=15
TURNHURST
TurnHurst You're So Seedy (After DH) And Cor That's A Big Un (AfterJF) - 2009
TurnHurst is Welsh-born artists Charlotte Turner and Rosa Tyhurst. Rooted in an aspiration to discover our desire to produce art, by leaning on the subject of anti-art, we began collaborating together to make a sort of ideas factory. There are no definitive rules for our practise as it is changeable and spans video, photography, performance, sculpture and painting.
TurnHurst - http://www.turnhurst.com/
MEGAN BROADMEADOW
Megan Broadmeadow Boot Up Live performance - 2009
I am a multi discipline artist, working in sculpture installation, performance and video. I mainly work site- specifically and am drawn to exploring traditional cultural activities and often make some association with leisure time and holidays.
I make objects that represent the area that they come from, mainly starting from finding a unusual or quirky object or character associated with the place I am working in. These may take the form of industrial tool, historical relic, or local mythological character, but may equally be inspired by contemporary counterparts.
Megan Broadmeadow - http://www.megartmix.co.uk/
KATHRYN ASHILL
Kathryn Ashill Gwisg Cenhenin Live perfomance 2010
Kathryn Ashill is practicing artist from Swansea who lives and makes work in Cardiff. The artist graduated from the BA Fine Art (Combined Media) at Swansea Metropolitan University in 2007. Her work concentrates on her physical interpretations of her surroundings that culminate in live actions that are documented through photography and film. Collaboration is a key element to the artists work as her performances focus around social interaction and interventions.
Ashill's work is site specific and people orientated. The performances are often in response to personal experiences, her understanding of a landscape and the people within that given environment. The artist has invited kissing, touching, hugging, squeezing, washing and holding to forge a bond with participants and the locality.
Kathryn Ashill - http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=14914
FEMKE VAN GENT
Femke van Gent Jump Mini performance - 2009
My work is a mixture of photography, props, video, performance, interactive installation and social art projects. I like working with people who are outside the mainstream art -world and show my work in unconventional places. Involving the audience in my practice is important to me. Often inviting the viewer to become part of the work.
Femke van Gent - http://www.femkevangent.nl/art/index.htm
LUCY PEDLAR
Lucy Pedlar Under, over, through, on, around, above, below...and some pink string Reclaimed timber, mason's line - 2007
I work with a variety of new and reclaimed materials to explore the way in which we traverse the built environment and compete for the occupation of space.
My most recent work has a strong formal element. Through manipulation of materials such as wood, cardboard and concrete, I investigate my ideas on a very physical level. The constructions often respond to the space within which they are built and create obstacles around which the viewer must navigate.
Lucy Pedlar - http://www.lucypedlar.com/
LOUISE BIRD
Louise Bird Black Hole of Carmarthen - 2006
My practice investigates the relationship between the unimaginably huge and the invisibly small. Researching the dissipating boundaries between art, science and religion, I have come to believe that art, science and religion are the same thing. Within each there is a language that describes the creativity of the universe.
Louise Bird - www.louisebird.me.uk
PAUL R JONES
Paul R Jones Boundary Interactions (Balancing Acts) - 2008/2009
In my practice I create dialogues with a large spectrum of networks that have included community interest groups; local history societies; Boundary Commissions for Wales and England; Flintshire county council; phytosociologists and linguists.
I am interested in the concept of the artist as researcher, someone who
utilises fieldwork techniques familiar to visual anthropology, sociology and geographical studies. This approach developed from research exploring geographical and social issues specific to border regions between England and Wales, which included appropriating methodologies such as interviewing and surveying.
Paul R Jones - http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=14852
BEN LLOYD
Ben Lloyd The Tourist An installation in a hotel bedroom, Warpool Court Hotel, St. Davids - 2009
Through my work I explore ideas of travel and boundaries. The Landsker Project and Fragments from the Landsker line archive were concerned with the 'Landsker line', a string of Norman Castles in Pembrokeshire defending the invaded/settled fertile land of south Pembs from the native Welsh of Preseli Pembs. Interdomestic Planetary and I'm sorry for the time the dinosaurs ruled the earth centre themselves on the interconnectedness of people through institution and habit and express travel as thought, a travel of the mind.
The Tourist was an installation in a hotel bedroom, Warpool Court Hotel, St. Davids, made entirely from things one can find or buy as a tourist there. So the bedroom became a museum that developed over my stay there, I was at once curator, tourist, tour guide, artist, collector. Through this project I was developing a new way of working, one in which the artist realises its place as an integral part of a process and event, in which the discourse and development is the artform, rather than the singular figure of authority of the studio artist.
Ben Lloyd - http://www.benlloyd.co.uk