Mohamed Bushara

I worked from nowhere, without an idea. It is a feeling. I attacked the surface then the white was no longer neutral. There is a dialogue between the surface and myself. Ideas begin to build up. The more I work the more things develop until I become in control of the image. The images are elusive. They are both free and entrapped at the same time.

Jan Crombie

Visit: www.jancrombie.com

Lucy Donald

My work explores the concept of people not engaging with their surroundings. Themes of narcissism; self-obsession, self-importance, introversion. Mass-communication and the degrees of interpretation and misinterpretation. Aspects of chance. The change an artwork encounters once it is situated in the public domain. These changes may come about as a result of the ever changing contexts and interpretation of individuals or as a result of the medium of broadcasting/publishing. The distortion of reality and yet the comfort found in a kind of scientific certainty of the electronic media age. I am interested in the many strata of our everyday communication.

I work with a variety of media including paint, printmaking and video combined with computer animation techniques.

Alan Franklin

'I once read that the colour of the universe is a shade of turquoise green. I read on to discover that it is and it isn't. The colour between
aquamarine and turquoise is the colour you would see if all the visible light of the universe was mixed together.....but of course there is no reason for this ever to happen except in the mind of an absurdly curious astronomer.

My enjoyment of this hypothetical fact is in the poetry that is born out of this curiosity for the world and the universe we live in. When we look at the world sideways we turn up things that might never otherwise be revealed and we are surprised by the revelation.'

Alan Franklin was born in 1954 in Oxford. He studied sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art, West Surrey College of Art and Design and Goldsmith's University. Since completing his MA in1984 Alan has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including exhibitions in India, Japan, Sweden and Poland. He works for both indoor and outdoor venues, using a wide range of materials and found objects. Examples of his larger outdoor work can be seen at Grizedale Forest in Cumbria, in the Gardens of Gaia in Kent and in Kielder Forest in Northumberland.
Alan was a founding member of the Chiltern Sculpture Trail and Trustee between 1990 and 1998. He is currently a senior lecturer on the BA Fine Art course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College at High Wycombe.

Contact: Tel. 01865 242945 or e-mail: alanf@macunlimited.net

Helen Ganly

Helen Ganly was educated at the Slade School, London, 1958-1962. She has lived and worked in Oxford since 1966 and taught for ten years at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Oxford Brookes University .  She has exhibited widely in Europe and the UK and her most recent solo show ‘Journey into Light’ was at Modern Art Oxford in the Lower Gallery Jan-Feb 2008. The conceptual element in her work has always been present but in recent years her work has become ever more fragile and ephemeral.

‘The Radcliffe Camera as a celebration cake’ was eaten by the ten artists at the close of the group show ‘1982’ at Ovada in 2006. It only exists in the visual memory.
The trial model will never be eaten and is occasionally exhibited.

John Goto

Digital photography is a figment of the imagination. It is a medium of dreams, allegories, symbols, myths and metaphors. It is a vehicle for exploring the past and the future. It inhabits the wild zone of the id and mocks everyday common sense. It celebrates the carnavelesque, the absurd and the parodic, the fake and the hyperreal, the grotesque and the mutated. It is irreverent, improper, exaggerated, hyperbolic, excessive and ambivalent. It resounds with fearless laughter. It was born of Mars and Venus, of the military and of art, and it is the first squalling infant delivered to the bloody new world order. It is a medium for our times.

View more work at www.johngoto.org.uk

Tang Jo-Hung

1975 Born in Taiwan
1993-1995 Graduated from Fu-Shin Trade and Arts School
1995-1998 Graduated from Fine Art Department, Tung-Hai University (BFA)
2001-2002 Graduated from Graduate School of Universidad de Salamanca (MFA)
2003-2006 Photographer of National Palace Museum

Diane Jones-Parry

With simple acts of observation and constant questioning I try to make visible the way in which we encounter a world that obeys fundamental laws, yet has a disposition for disorder, complexity and unpredictability. I like to examine the spaces and relationships between our ideas; allusive references and associations that trigger our imagination, and this has influenced my choice of subject matter and materials. There are many levels on which a work existsor comes into being, and I'm conscious of a desire to allow each piece to emerge, to retain a sensitivity to process and materials in order to see and experience a world that consists of shifting realities.

Exhibitions include: Eclectica; Final Year Degree Show in Oxford, June 2000; a group show at BMW, Summertown, Oxford, July 2000; Geography; at Stroud House Gallery, Gloucestershire, August 2000; and regular exhibitions at Magdalen Road Studios

Hilary Kneale

Emma Kwan

A bottle suspended in mid air suggesting falling. The pure colour of white represents innocence falling into darkness. In 2007 I was shocked by the government giving permission for pubs across the U.K. to open 24 hours a day. Once there was a spirit of innocence when everyone might have a drink for fun or with their food on a daily basis but today it has become an addiction and one of the biggest problems in the U.K. for youngsters and adults. Recently we have seen the problem getting worse and children are learning the norm of 24 hour pub culture.

Suzanne Lizette

Daniel Perry

Combining interests in both Fine and Commercial Art, Perry has worked in many visual disciplines. Whilst at the Royal College for instance he spent time in Berlin in '89 working on the Wall. An avid interest in the use of graffiti then developed which lead to time spent in Brooklyn, New York, before his return to London. This interest has continued to the present day and influences of this can be seen in the work produced today.

As well as exibiting and selling work through the gallery system, Perry has worked on many commercial projects encompassing traditional and digital media, involving such diverse projects as graphic and illustration work, large scale murals, working in theatre, designing and building sets, to design projects on cruise ships.

Ann Rapstoff

Rite Of Passage?
Ann Rapstoff
Fresh Festival Reading, 2006
A performance sequence of rituals, which allude to ceremonal acts
while endeavouring to stay in the moment.