Transvoyeur
Programme 2007
August
2007
Art
and Artists
Mike
Carney
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Title:
Sometime.
Media: Photographic Lamba Print.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: 100 cm x 100 cm. |
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Mike
Carney is a Liverpool based graphic designer, artist
and image maker. He enjoys working across many disciplines
and is interested in the everyday, the spectacular,
the mundane and absolute randomness. An experienced
designer, Carney regularly works with artists and arts
based organisations. His artworks have been published
internationally and he has exhibited in several group
shows in the UK. He's a bit of a creative chameleon
who dislikes categorisation and has the ability to find
inspiration in almost anything. 'Should be more focussed
and ought to try harder' (quote from artist).
Yuanning
Che
Title:
The Face of Nature.
Media: Limited Digital Reproduction.
Date: 2007/
Dimensions: Art 21 cm x 29 cm.
(Frame: 35 cm x 46 cm). |
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Yuanning Che, born in 1983, is a Chinese artists currently
based in Preston, England, studying for his Masters
in Fine Art Time-based Media and Photography at the
University of Central Lancashire. The art dontated to
the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Liverpool,
England) for the Transvoyeur Legacy Collection is set
on the concept of aesthetics in a nature and how beauty
is measured. Che is currently developing a new series
of photographic studies which explores the displacement
of Chinese residents in the United Kingdom and the intimacy
of their living space, which become panoramic visual
narratives.
Pete
Clarke
Title:
The Duver - Isle of Wight.
Media: Mixed Media on Canvas.
Date: 2004.
Dimensions: Art 90 cm x 104 cm. |
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Clarke
studied at Burnley Municipal College, Bristol Polytechnic
and M.A. in Fine Art Chelsea School of Art. He is Senior
Lecturer in Fine Art and MA Course Leader at University
of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. Clarke is the
principle members of the Eight Days a Week Arts Collective,
an international exchange programme between Liverpool
(UK) and Cologne (Germany).
Alex Corina
Title:
The Liverpool Kiss.
Media: Limited Edition Print (Framed).
Date: 2003.
Dimensions: Art 60 cm x 75 cm.
(Frame: 70 cm x 85 cm). |
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Born
in 1950, Corina studied at the Regional College of Art
in Bradford (England) before moving to Liverpool 20
years ago. Corina is best known for his picture the
Mona Lennon, which represents Liverpool's Past, Present
and Future but also symbolises its aspirations. His
work aims to capture the spirit and humour of the City
in the run up to the Capital of Culture 2008. 'My recent
work is experimental combining material and borrowing
techniques from painting, drawing, collage and photography.
As well as portraiture my work explores the dynamic
between the apparent immortality of art, and recycling'.
His art is highly collectible by many private and public
buyers. It has become iconic of the city of Liverpool
in the international arts market.
Rob Davies
Davies
graduated from Falmouth College if Arts in 2004 in a
Masters Illustration: Authorial Practice. His art is
varied in appearance, although predominantly figurative
and often resembles a graphic novel in that it includes
sequential segments and sections of narrative. From
an accomplished painter to illustrator, Davies is regularly
commissed by many authorities and establishments for
large scale projects. His work has been collected by
many private buyers throughout England.
Colin
Davis
Title:
The Whale.
Media: Screen Print on Fine Art Paper.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: Art 35 cm x 25 cm.
(Frame: 52 cm x 42 cm).
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Email:
shadedot@yahoo.co.uk
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Davis
is based in the Northwest of England and sold his art
to many private and public clients. He specialises in
screen printing, which the work donated for the Transvoyeur
Charity Art Auction is a new series researched and developed
on abstract forms and shapes.
Jo Derbyshire
Derbyshire
is a visual art who works in a range of media, from
figurative to abstract expressionism. She has exhibited
nationally and internationally and complete many private
commissions. She is formerly Head Curator from the Egg
Space Gallery. Her work is explorative ranging from
abstraction to figurative. She has been collected by
many authorities and private clients internationally.
Daiva Gauryte
A
graduate of Siauliai University (Lithuania) in 2005
with a First in a Fine Art Degree. She is currently
studing her Masters in Creative Practice at Liverpool
Hope University (Liverpool, England). Her art combines
a series of different creative techniques and styles,
particularly oil pastels and paints, graphite, etc..
Her art is formed on the semiotics of abstraction and
mark making. She exhibited international from her country
in Lithuania, England, etc.. Her work is rapidly being
collected with interest from private and commercial
collectors.
Tracey Griffin
Tracy
Griffin (nee Hill) is a Fine Art practitioner in various
media of print. 'The experiences of our natural environment
and the physical presence of moving through the landscape
have always inspired me. My work reflects the colour,
light, form and structure of these environments'. The
extent of her art applies the printmaking techniques
of etching, photo intaglio, lithography and embossing
with the objective to produce a sense of memory of a
place. She studied at Sheffield University in Fine Art
and is currently engaged at the University of Central
Lancashire (Preston, Lancashire). She has sold privately
and been commissioned for her unique and organic creations.
Jason
Jones
Liverpool
born, Jones, graduated with a Combined Honours Degree
in Psychology and Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University
College (England). He was later employed as an Artist
in Residence up until September 1999. Jones' work has
an origin based on personal experience with nature and
it's chaotic elements, the growth processes, the conflict
of forces meeting each other, the anger, tension and
more importantly 'emotion', a binding and important
element of the work. ‘Theory’ compositions
are an expression of the unpredictable and unexplained
dynamic aspects of chaos. Where out of something indiscernible
and incomprehensible, for a split second there can emerge
a ‘language’ or ‘a sense’ with
an integrity of its own presence. Within these compositions
the descriptive act of painting becomes the narrative.
He currently works as Curator at the Cornerstone Gallery
(Liverpool, England) and as an artist developing a new
series of art. His work has been collected by private
and commercial collectors through out England.
Tony Knox
Tony Knox a Northwest based artist who has abopted the
role of Curator. As an Artist his art work is diverse
through a range of Fine Art through more alternative
contemporary and digital media. His first practice was
with photography, which explored the icon and identity
in post modern society. He has exhibited internationally
in an array of festivals and galleries. He most recent
creative research has related to an idiosyncratic creature
known as Moth Man. A would-be hero that evolved from
a live art peice in the context of a wrestling arena.
He is currently finishing his Masters in Time Based
Media at University of Central Lancashire (Preston,
England). He has taken the iconic of the wrestling hero
and superimposed to the context of the Diddy Men in
a portrait of Ken Dodd, a famous comedian from Liverpool
now in his 80s, who has established an iconic status
himself through his extensive professional comic career.
This work is done in a screen print and the original
portrait image of Dodd derived from a photograph session
at the View Two Gallery (Liverpool, England) in 2006.
Laura
Lian
Title:
John Lennon.
Media: Resin Bronze Relief.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: Life Size Profile. |
Email:
Laura@LauraLian.co.uk
Website: www.lauralian.co.uk |
Lian
is a professional ‘listed’ artist having
sold at Christie’s auction house. Specializing
in sculpture her commissions are diverse, from portraits
with the likes of Gareth Chillcott, John Lennon Queen
Mother to an impressive bas-relief panel for the Dorchester
Hotel’s Health club reception in London. She has
won competitions in public work: A metal Relief Sculpture
for The Royal Glamorgan Hospital in South Wales and
a Themed parapet and gate design for North Wiltshire
County Council. She has been presented to HRH Princess
Royal for her work on ‘The Millennium Bridge project
in Melksham, Wiltshire. Her metal fibre optics work
can be found in public houses at The Ledger Pub in London
and Wilmslow, Manchester. She recently has completed
a Portrait sculpture of one of her icon idols, John
Lennon‘ Someone who inspired me with a focus for
Peace’. Which was shown at The Beatles Museum,
Liverpool from 2002-2004. Her Queen Mother Portrait
Sculpture was shown at the Royal West of England Academy
Show in Bristol autumn 2002. At the Children Nationwide
Fund raising event ‘Odudua’, African Earth
Goddess Bust sold for £5,500.00. This bust also
was accepted by the Royal Academy West of England 2002.
Laura’s work is sought after from corporate, public
and private sectors across the U K, included in her
collectors are Nickie Clarke and Rachael Hunter.and
Bernie Ecclestone, Dermot Desmond , Sharon Osbourne
and more.
This is a piece titled, ‘John Lennon New York’
and a bronze sculpture. Her work is highly collected
by celebrities, private and public bodies internationally.
George Lund
Title:
All We Need Is Peace, Love, Understanding.
Media: Mixed Media Paints on Canvas.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: 59 cm x 49 cm
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Email:
chic_geo@yahoo.co.uk
Website:
www.lundart.co.uk |
Title:
Merseys Waterfront.
Media: Mixed Media Paints on Canvas.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: Art 50 cm x 60 cm.
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Lund
gradated from BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree in 1993 from
Bradford University, England. He is inspired by the
colourist Naïve style. He specialised in Fine Art
and Printmaking, imbuing a rainbow of vivid colours
in his visualisations. Lund’s art has a freshness,
energy, liveliness and abundance of colour. He has been
commissioned by many private, commercial and public
bodies, including the Liverpool Culture Company for
a limited reproduction series distributed worldwide.
Richard Meaghan
Meaghan
is an international artists. Originally from Liverpool,
England, he has lived in London (UK), Torrevieja (Spain)
and Nago (Italy). He is a highly established artist
and his work is collected by both private and commercial
buyers. Richard Meaghan's paintings are invented and
an amalgamation of a number of differing experiences
that revolve around memory, making use of allegorical
and pictorial inventions and references from art history.
Meaghan's narrations are not linear, but rather associative
and analytical, so that the works function like short
stories, in which the plot is compressed into single
images. The fragments have to be pieced together and
thus can seemingly fall somewhere between dream and
nightmare. The resulting paintings appear as visions
of somewhere familiar yet strange, uncanny shimmerings
based on careful study of our world that in turn suggests
another.
Janet Manogue
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Title:
Passchendale Trenches #1..
Media: Etching on Fine Art Paper.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: Art 23 cm x 26 cm.
(Frame: 42 cm x 52 cm). |
Email:
janet.manogue@btinternet.com |
The
art of Janet Manogue is set on political events surrounding
conflict and remembrance. Her interest revolve around
World War I trench maps and aerial photographs in particular.
Her creative objective is to create an aged feel, a
link to the past, to an event that should not be forgotten
and to place these events in contemporary debates surrounding
conflicts around the world today. She states: “My
aim as an artist is to make the viewer think, to challenge
them to question their own knowledge and understanding
and to look at this subject in an entirely new way.
Whilst my work is set in the past, it is firmly in the
contemporary debate.” Manogue studied Fine Art
at the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, Lancashire).
She works in the erudition of art in the community to
promote arts and culture.
Neil Morris
Morris
is an international artist based in Liverpool. He works
as a Lecture in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University
(Liverpool, England). His art is highly collectible
internationally and he works between Liverpool (England)
and Cologne (Germany) on an international exchange programme.
Ken O’Hare
Ken
O’Hare graduated in 1999 from a BA (Hons) Fine
Art Degree at Liverpool John Moores University (Liverpool,
England). From 2000-2002 he attended an artists fellowship
programme, Drawlab, in St Helens (gland). He has exhibited
in the Independents of the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and
2004, an international festival for artists and culture.
He was awarded the National Painting Prize by the Holiday
Inn. He has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom
with and interest from many private and public clients
in the art market. His art explores shape and form through
strange intricate geometric abstractions, which absorb
the viewer into a journey of the visual labyrinth. He
currently works voluntary for the Tithebarn Community
Initiative, which provides workshop support to the elderly.
This relates to his interest in contributing to the
community arts and creativity in the broader spectrum
of society, so others can share and learn from arts
and culture.
Patrick O'Rourke
A
graduate in Fine Art, O'Rourke produces large scale
dynamic compositions. These at times combine mixed media
of found objects and are transformed in to installations.
The themes are set around socio-urban culture of people,
places and experiences and form a sense of familiarity
to communicate a narrative the viewer can relate. His
art has been commissioned by several galleries and art
organisation in the UK and internationally. His most
recent Artist Residency in Australia where he developed
a large client base and market interest in his art.
Rachel Pearson
Title:
Untitled .
Media: Mixed Media Paints on Canvas.
Date: 2007.
Dimensions: Art 89 cm x 89 cm. |
Email:
sarwabuddha@yahoo.com |
Pearson's
art is set on the visual dialogue of abstraction. The
creative process of each piece are to explore symbolism,
chaos, gesture, space, dynamics, ephermical, etc.. On
the ideas of nature, landscapes, memories and expressive
and emotive response. Pearson has exhibited nationally
and an interest rapidly developing her work. She is
a graduate in Fine Art and currently finalising her
Master at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston,
England.
Stephen
Siwiak
Stephen
Siwiak is a Fine Art practictioner. His art has explored
portraiture through linear form to convey the objectivity
of the subject, rather than the subjectivity of the
sitter. 'I have become interested in drawing heads,not
as portraits representing personailty or character,
but as object rather than subject. I consider form and
texture, juxtaposing darkness and light. Hard and soft.
Movement and stillness. Deconstruction and reconstruction.
Life, death and eternity, masculinity, identity and
displacement'. He graduated in Fine Art from Preston
University and has exhibited from Lancashire, London
and abroad. His art has bee collected by many private
and public clientele, including Lord Palumbo (as Chairman
of the Arts Council of England).
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney is a visual artist and graduate of Liverpool
John Moores University, England, in 2002. From painter,
scultpor, live artist and more. She is currently on
her doctorate and researching the body within contemporary
arts, science an culture. Her art explores the temporality
and spatiality of body politics within the post modern
environment and institutional structures. She has performed
and exhibited in an array of international events, such
as the Liverpool Biennial, Venice Biennial, Performance
Art Festival (US), Hong Kong Biennial and Berlin Kunst
Salon. Although she pursues her independent practice
in performance art, she is a strong advocate of contemporary
art practice, creating projects for exchange and dialogue
in the concepts and philosophies of post modern art
and society. To collaborate and share to realise new
and diverse modes of thinking and creative expression
in the international arts market. She is also founder
and Projects Co-ordinator of Gesquoi and TransVoyeur
UK, both research and management programmes in arts
and culture within the international market. She was
also one of the original founders of the Whores of Babylon
Arts Collective (UK).
Nick
Sykes
Born
in Huddersfield , Nick Sykes graduated from Liverpool
John Moores Fine Art School in 1995. Since then he has
continued to paint from his Liverpool studio, building
a burgeoning reputation on the North West art scene.
Since graduation Nick has exhibited both nationally
and internationally; locations include London , Dublin
, Munich and New York . He has presented work and curated
for the Liverpool based Parking Space Gallery which
he successfully co-founded in 1998. He was subsequently
invited to curate for the Liverpool Independent section
of the LiverpoolBiennale 2002 and is a visiting lecturer
for Liverpool Community College . His work is also held
in various esteemed corporate and private collections,
including those of designer Paul Smith, chef Raymond
Blanc and writer Alan Bleasedale. Nick has recently
moved to Parr Street Studios in Liverpool's creative
quarter and shown to critical acclaim at his solo exhibition
Chasing Tigers With Frank, at the Liverpool Biennial
2004. Nick is also a freelance Art Handling Technician,
who has worked for National Museums Liverpool, Tate
Liverpool and most recently the A Foundation.
Kevan
Whittle
Kevan
Whittle graduated from the University of Central Lancashire
in 2004 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art. He specialises
in the area of Printmaking and producing prints from
plant material in the form of etchings. In conjunction
with the etching, he produces silk-screen prints which
have been inspired from such programmes as the Eden
Project and National Trust Gardens. He is currently
Artist in Residence at UCLAN (England). 'My work is
carried out in a small studio which I have been equipping
since I completed my degree in 2004. During the last
twelve months I have been researching into local plant
life and have been experimenting with the fairly new
techniques of non toxic printmaking. I have had some
success producing etchings using both fresh and dried
plant material and am now at a stage requiring further
development in both scale and diversity. I am applying
for the AA2A scheme as I wish to produce some larger
scale work using the plant material and evolving into
some form of abstraction. However I am restricted due
to limited space and by the fact that I only have a
small etching press in the studio. I have chosen plant
life for research as a broad subject which offers great
diversity of colour, form and texture. I have always
had a keen interest in plants as I studied Horticulture
and Botany some years ago. I feel this subject will
lead to some interesting conclusions and artwork. I
hope it might also raise awareness of the vital importance
of plants to our existence.'
Cath
Wilson
For
the last five years, Cath Wilsons work has primarily
been depictions of the human face on a large sacle.
She works in chalk pastel, charcoal, ink and PVA glue
on heavy-weight cartridge and watercolour paper. The
images she uses come from photographs in magazines although
as the drawing progresses, facial characteristics and
expression change so the final image is sometimes different
from the original photograph. She further incorporates
other media to produce these large profound and intimate
portrayal of paper using sandpaper and erasers, which
give the drawing a textured and worn appearance. He
creative and conceptual objective is to convey expression,
emotion and the passing of time. Her art is sort by
private and public collectors through the United Kingdom
and she has exhibited from England to Sweden with a
rapid commercial interest in the art market for her
extraordinary portrayals.
Dave Woods
The
style and content of Dave Woods' paintings are described
by him as autobiographical. They are influenced by,
and developed from, an amalgamation of the techniques
and processes instigated by the 'stainers' and 'colour-field
painters of the late 50's and 60's in north America
- a pastiche of his favourite artists including Morris
Louis. Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still,
Richard Diebenkorn et al. The content reflects a personal
observation on the biological process of human memory.
The paintings take the form of fluid, abstract after-images
that represent a singular moment in the memory process
that lies somewhere between remembering and forgetting.
They are also, importantly, about the interaction of
colour. Woods is an established artists in Liverpool,
England. His art is collected by many private and public
bodies.
Alan Worswick
Alan
Worsick is a visual artist, printmaker, art tutor, amateur
social philosopher and more. His art work spans the
boundaries of the traditional and the abstract and is
meant to be viewed, questioned and enjoyed by all people,
at many different levels, and in people’s space.
The subject matter springs primarily from his personal
background and the sense of a human closeness/dependence
of the industrial, which is twisted and tied with new
symbology and narratives and entwined with stories and
social situations of everyday people in everyday life.
He graduated from Bolton Institute in 2000 and worked
as a visual art tutor in several colleges in the Northwest.
His work is primarily in fine art print and painting
and he has exhibited across England and have been commissioned
for work from Cyprus and Canada.
