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
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
Roger Perkins
Current Practice Summary & Statement:
Oh dear! That one!
Every artist I've known struggles with that question. And like them, so do I. It's not an unreasonable question of course. You want some idea of who/what I am and what I do/have done.
It's not that I haven't the vocabulary or the thought processes to put something into words- the problem lies in identifying and clarifying a life's work (one still in progress!) in a few succinct and catchy sentences. (The 'strap-line' or 'sound-bite' on which to make a judgement or decision- that, somehow, feels inadequate). Yet, to do myself 'justice' would need many pages to explain- an exercise that would take far too long and, ultimately, bore you to death.
Better just to look for now...the rest will follow.
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.
Jan Crombie
Visit: www.jancrombie.com