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Sean Williams My paintings are views of the fringes of suburbia, places that feel as though they are familiar, but then escape our conditioned response. I aim to place the viewer as ‘still points of a turning world’ – alone, for a while, then possibly watched as they look on. The scene switches between mundane…

Enzo Marra Enzo Marra’s imagery is marked by an immediacy and directness, the explored themes expressed made visible via instinctively applied linear and blocked out passages, executed to an intimate scale. Their largely angular nature conveying realtionships with symbols and sentiments related to the outside world. The purposely limited palette, allowing the depicted imagery to…

Mandy Payne Mandy Payne is a painter based in Sheffield.Her work is inspired by issues of gentrification, social housing, Modernist architecture and notions of utopias and dystopias. For the past 13 years her work has focused on Park Hill, the Grade II* listed Brutalist Sheffield council estate which has been undergoing regeneration. More recently she…

Karl Bielik I make visceral process driven oil paintings where the surface evolves out of chance encounters between marks and colour, the paintings are often heavily layered and reveal the history and doubt of the decision making.  I work on thirty or so paintings at a time which range in scale from intimate to large….

A Geography of colour Aaron Kudi This month Ruth Philo interviews painter Aaron Kudi. This episode of A Geography of Colour is with Aaron Kudi, a contemporary painter, born in Bauchi, Nigeria, who lives and works in London. He grew up between Nigeria and London and Devon in the UK. He has a BSc in…

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Phil Illingworth Phil Illingworth’s painting practice is almost wholly experimental. Driven by concept rather than discrete process, his choice of materials and the quality and method of execution is always very carefully considered. Working across a variety of media and playing with scale and form he explores a broad spectrum of concerns. Much of Phil’s…

Natalie Dowse Mise en scène brings together a number of series based on cinematic tropes: a cut to the cheek framed within the eye of the lens; actors crying for the camera; a woman with a cut lip. I work with a single frame, which I extract from obsessively watching hundreds of hours of film…

Joanna Whittle Joanna Whittle’s paintings explore transient rituals concealed within the landscape, through small-scale paintings which draw the viewer into an uneasy, unpeopled world. The temporary structures depicted sink into flooded land, acting as fragile ruins of the recent past with lights illuminated and the unsettling sense of a recently departed presence. Her shrine works…

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