Associate Artists
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.
Deborah Hirst
Having worked in the film industry on the script and production side for 10 years I graduated in 2004 from Central St. Martin’s College in Art and Design, now the University of the Arts London, with a BA in Fine Art and from Oxford Brookes University in 2008 with an MA (Dist) in InterdisciplinaryArt Practice (Social Sculpture).
Group Shows: ‘Bite” at Menier Gallery, Southwark (2002); “A Current Affair” at Menier Gallery, Southwark (2002); Degree Show CSM (2004); “Contact”, L’Espace Lhomond, Paris (2005); “Art Weeks” Oxford as member of Magdalen Rd Studios (artist’s cooperative) (2005); Ovada NightFair December 2007, MA Show at Ovada 2008, ‘She Works’, Said Business School 2008, Women’s International Festival, Jam Factory 2009,
Collaborations:
Group Shows: “Majam” Ovada Gallery with Oxford Contemporary Music at the Jam Factory, Oxford (2007) with Afroditi Aparti. Chisenhale Biennale, Mile End, September 2007; Obsessions, Modern Art Oxford, 2008 with Ruth Harvey Regan.
Collections: University of the Arts London Collection, Clerical Medical
Lucy Baxandall
My work springs from the following concerns and ideas:
- The accumulation of memory through the imagery of geological sedimentation. The role of language in this process.
- Definitions of home and community, and the influence of landscape on identity.
- The containment of emotional processes so that they are visible but crystallised, even fossilised.
- The tenacity of lifeforms surviving in harsh environments.
The media I use are handmade and reclaimed/recycled paper, traditional bookbinding materials, found objects, image transfer, various surface treatments and text.
Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker, bookbinder and installation artist. She returned to the UK in 2007 after ten years in Chicago, where she graduated in 2005 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College. She was previously a jewellery designer/maker in Belfast and has also worked as a teacher of French and German. She has exhibited her artist's books, paper-based sculpture and installation work in the USA and the UK. She is the artist in residence at John Mason School in Abingdon (2008-2010) and also teaches art there.
View more work at Lucy's web site.
Alun Ward
Alun Ward's Transporter Mix invites the audience to interact barefoot with intimate microenvironments, submerged in sounds of contrasting natural locations.
This participatory installation comprises several trays with a floor surface of earth, shingle, sand, woodland debris, and freshly cut turf. The artist manipulates the visitors' sensory experience from outside, mixing different sounds to alternately align the sounds to the surfaces, or to create disjunctions between the two. These audio recordings have been collected by the artist from across the UK - in a line that extends from the North West Highlands of Scotland to Brighton beach - in woodlands and meadows, on lawns, beaches, hillsides and riversides. The combination of auditory and sensory input serves to transport the participant to remembered or imaginary locations, whilst also creating a surreal and displaced sensory experience.
Alun Ward's practice ranges from painting, animation, film, and sound and he is a founding member of the 3jay artists' group. You can catch his work next at the Art in the Arboretum project this July at Harcourt Arboretum.
Visit www.alunward.co.uk
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.
Sharon Wyper
Contact Details
07854 868208
swyper100@hotmail.com
Education
Central St Martins College, London: MA Fine Art: 2005
Cheltenham School of Art: Post graduate Certificate: Fine Art: 2004
Cardiff Institute: Post Graduate Art Teacher's Certificate: 1992
Cardiff School of Art: BA Hon's Fine Art Studies: 1991
Selected Exhibitions
'Para-dox': Malchei Pet Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel: October 26 - November 26 2006
'Sensible/able spaces': University of Reykjavik, Iceland: May - June 2006
'Another Product': Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester: January - April 2006
'Advanz Art', Intermission Space, Knightsbridge, London: March 2006
'MA degree show, Central St Martin's College: September 2005
'Seeing stars',St Martins MA Symposium: Matts Gallery, London: July 14th 2005
'Numb'Theatre des Augenblicks, Vienna: May 2005
'Leviathan': Candid Gallery, Angel, London: February 2005
'Pulp Abstractions': RK Burt Gallery, Union Street, London: November 2004
'Free Range': Hanbury Gallery, Hanbury Street, London E1: June 2004
'New Beginnings': St Aldates Church, Oxford: May 2004
Teaching Experience
Sharon has taught Art in middle and senior schools as well as adult evening classes in several schools and colleges in Oxford. She currently teaches Art and some Photography at D'Overbroecks College and Leckford Place School.
Curatorial Experience
Solo Exhibition: Rewley House Oxford: June 1994
Art in Schools Exhibition: The Ark-T Centre: December 1998
Artist Residencies
E2L unit: Grange Town Primary School, Cardiff September 1991 Selected for Cardiff Institute's European touring exhibition 1991 - 93
'Sea Memories': Cardiff NHS: Art and Occupational Therapy Departments May - June 1992
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View more work at www.sharonwyper.co.uk