Who we are
Project Directors
Caitlin Heffernan
Caitlin Heffernan is an installation artist who uses materials as metaphor. Her installations, embroidery pieces, drawings and photographs have been triggered by domestic objects, fabrics and family photographs that recall a previous time and moment.
Website: http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=8158
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Polly Harknett
Polly Harknett is the contemporary craft curator for Hove Museum and Art Gallery, supporting contemporary artists and makers locally and nationally. Her work aims to encourage debate and broaden enjoyment of contemporary craft.
Matt Smith
Matt Smith is an artist who works mainly with ceramics. He has shown at the V&A and the Barbican. Matt has a background in museums and curates craft exhibitions.
Website: www.mattjsmith.com
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Steering Group
Paul Brown
Paul Brown’s work is based in a field of computational science called Cellular Automata or CA’s. CA’s are part of the origins of the discipline known as Artificial Life or A-life. Over the past 30 years he has applied these processes to time-based artworks, prints on paper and large-scale public artworks.
Website: www.paul-brown.com
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Gavin Fry
Gavin Fry an embroiderer living in Brighton in East.Sussex. He trained at Goldsmiths College and later at RCA. He has worked in the fashion industry and in psychiatry.
Website: http://embroiderystory.blogspot.com
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Ingrid Plum
Ingrid Plum is a multi-disciplinary installation artist working with sound, video, photography and sculpture to create work that is often site-specific, meditative and creates a dialogue between people and environment.
Website: http://www.ingridplum.com
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Lizzie Thomas
Lizzie Thomas is a Brighton based maker who crafts intricate pop up narrative scenes out of hand cut paper and wood.
Website: www.lizziethomas.co.uk
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Associated Artists
Tagny Duff
Tagny Duff is a Canadian artist working with biomedia. Cryobook Archives is a new project exploring the use of mammalian skin and viruses in handmade bookmaking practices and biotechnology.
Website: http://cryobookarchives.wordpress.com
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Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer’s work explores the intersections between textiles, technology and the body, on historical, constructional and conceptual levels. Her work often incorporates tactile elements such as candy, knitting and machines to represent intangible computer codes and conceptual spaces.
Website: www.rachelbeth.net
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Penny Green
Penny Green makes handmade painstakingly crafted objects and decorative forms.
The subject matter is mythical and psychological storytelling, the human body, animals and fairy tales weave narrative paths through her work.
Website: www.pennygreenceramics.co.uk
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Katie Hobbs
Katie Hobbs was previously employed as Assistant Curator of Craft for Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton. Her area of interest is dress and textiles. She is also the unravelled project administrator.
Sharon McLean
Sharon McLean’s precious metal and ceramic artefacts explore a relationship between micro/macro structural forms. Sharon casts, raises, throws and builds with reference to seed-pods, alien forms, and Irish-Gaelic stone circles.
Website: www.ambientart.co.uk
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Kira O’Reilly
Kira O’Reilly’s visual arts practice is both wilfully interdisplinary and entirely undisciplined; it employs performance, writing and biotechnical practices with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of body and bodies.
Website: www.kiraoreilly.com/blog
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Maria Rivans
Maria Rivans’ collages are created using an array of meticulously and intricately cut vintage printed ephemera. They refer to an existence without limitation, celebrating life amongst all the chaos and negativity
Website: www.mariarivans.com
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Laura Splan
Laura Splan’s work explores perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery to explore these dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body.
Website: www.laurasplan.com
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Theresa Sundt
Theresa Sundt’s work is focused on the aesthetic, scientific and psychological properties of colour which she explores through visual art and performance.
Website: www.color-discovery.com
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Thea Willcocks
Thea Willcocks’ work is concerned with this fiction building, and in particular the mistaken identities found in memory i.e. the misplacement and reinterpretation that occur to the past as represented through images and objects in the present.
Website: www.wooloo.org/thearae
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Jayne Wilton
Led by investigations into transience and the polarities of fragility and resilience, perfection and imperfection, order and chaos, Jayne’s work has increasingly focused on making connections between ordinary materials, traditional or natural processes and the human experience.
Website: www.jaynewilton.com
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