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1. Describe your work.
Simple ceramic plates and bowls in dirty colours, sculptural lighting in ceramic and steel.
2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?Got tired with starving in a garrett trying to paint, liking the possibilities of clay and metal.3. Where do you look for inspiration?Food, eating food, grey London skies4. What is your favourite place?bed, beach, bath
5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?would like more than one please..... a Yannis Kounnellis steel wall piece, a Tapies painting ( any big one ) would be nice....6. What is your favourite website?www.colette.frbrickett davda
1. Describe your work. The montages are lavish & wistful. The dioramas are sardonic. 2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?Having worked in stone for 6 years, I was drawn paper & scissors while recovering from RSI & never went back - God knows from what sociopathic crevice the dioramas sprang3. Where do you look for inspiration?Joseph Cornell, Saul Steinberg, Edward Gorey, John Nash, Billy Collins, a steady need to laugh at my depressive tendencies & absolutely nothing functions without music. I have recently entered a mournful folk patch but my tastes straddle all styles except 'wandering' jazz & reggae which bore me4. What is your favourite place? Outdoors: the banks of the Findhorn river at home in Scotland, Barafundle beach in Pembrokeshire, where I played as a childIndoors: nothing has yet surpassed the Taj Mahal. There is an inscription inside its marble dome that reads 'if there is a heaven on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this', which is not an idle boast. 5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?One, what d'you mean one? That's so unreasonable Adam.I would like The Valpincon Bather by Ingres, an empty room in fading twilight by Hammershoi and a small sketch by Holbein but really, you can't beat a white laundry on a washing line drying in the breeze: a global occurrence & free 6. What is your favourite website? Youfail.org is curiously cheering stlyrics.com/songs for exploding mondegreens...it puts you right when you think Hendricks is singing 'scuse me while I kiss this guy' or Creedance Clearwater Revival are pointing out ' a bathroom on the right''dance properly: advanced seminar' on zefrank.com taught me everything I know.Liza Campbell
1. Describe your work. My personal work is basically mixed media, my commercial work is "Creative Brand Communications". So this means I work with video, photography, graphic illustration, interaction design, and more recently heavy doses of audio... The line between my commercial work & my personal work is kinda thin, how I pay the rent & put food on the table is by working with Advertising & design agencies, and to a lesser degree Record Companies, & on occasion Film companies. Since I've been at GWS I've created: a 182 page coffee table book for the Apart art gallery, helps create the ideas behind 3skyphone then went on to work on the 360º nation wide launch campaign across the UK, created the multi media launch platform for the Aston Martin Rapide to the worlds press, created cinema ads for the theScreen.biz, helped Tyler Brulé & Dan Hill set up the digital broadcast devision of Monocle Magazine, created interactive on-line campaigns for Lexus, Blackberry & Waitrose, attempted to turned 6 Smart cars into a giant newtons cradle, created an on-line viral site "the worlds biggest mexican wave dot com" for British Telecom & Fon, made a film with SPECIALTEN about "Juergen Teller", directed a film about the making of Nil By Mouth featuring Gary Oldman, Ray Winston & Eric Clapton, done some nice 12" remix's for Ninja Tunes artist Luke Vibert ~ I'm maybe about to do some Limited Edition sneakers for New Balance & maybe a film with KRINK, i've got a new project about to come out called "Driptease", oh and I also created Kate Banazi's web site :) I don't really see a distinction between commercial work & my own really, as I have to sell both to live ~ I learned the hard way at Central St Martins that after my MA degree show the only way to pay off my student load was to sell my work to the ICA as a solo digital installation! which quite a while back now, I did. Ok so the ICA did not pay off my loan ~ the work it got subsequently certainly has. I think I'm right in that I'm one of two artists in GWS to have had an exhibition at the ICA ? or you can just go & laugh at http://www.slipmode.com
2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?I was & still am sh*t at maths & english, but I need to tell a story & engage people on an emotive level that goes beyond words & numbers, so an (F) in those subjects but an MA in communication Design... go figure on that one... what else was a kid from Notting Hill into graffiti, hip hop & street art gonna do when the the the rest of his peers went off to collage? Yep you guessed it ~ go to art collage...after that it's all been about work, work & more work, a great agent, an even better accountant most of all more luck than I think I deserve, but then again the harder I work the luckier I get :)
3. Where do you look for inspiration?
All over, anywhere I can, pretty much anything that gets my attention ~ I'm like a magpie or a very big sponge. When I'm lost I always go to the Mark Rothko room at the Tate Modern & sit there for hours until either I'm still lost or I need to go pee... then as I leave a see just how grey & flat London can be BANG there's my inspiration! As for other folk around me, Sean Alexander has always been a good friend & big influence on me, Protools Pete always has time for a music or Mac related chat, Kate Banazi for fags, coffee & printing techniques oh & dog vomit... Kate Gibb cos most of the Agencies I work with worship her, and she's very understated in spite of it & Tommy Penton cos his work make me think of the ice creams I used to dream of as a kid. As for the folk I've worked with, I'm very, very lucky to have worked with some great creative people, from Jane Campion, David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Nick Darken, Ray Brenen, Terence Donovan, John Stuart, Frank Lieberman, Mark Andrews & Paul Owen ...the bacon, cheese, egg & brown sauce sarnies at Steve's café have probably done more for me though!4. What is your favourite place?
In bed with my wife on a Sunday morning or on any beach, again with my wife :)
5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be? Pretty much anything by Mark Rothko or Helmut Newton6. What are your favourite websites? urm... i'm very into RSS feeds & "dipp'n" in & out of websites but otherwise:
ffffound.comstyleboost.comtimesonline.co.ukrainhamsheds.co.uk
1. Describe your work.At present I'm exploring mark-making. Looking at surface textures and compositions from the world around me, making marks that describe both the physical appearance and sensual characteristics of everyday surfaces. I'm interpreting what I see and think into creative observations that I hope communicate to my curiosities about sight and touch. In particular, I'm interested in road and pavement surfaces that show age and wear. Road markings are also of special interest to me.2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?When filling in my university application form, I decided to go to art college because a girl I fancied was going there. I never did get to date her, but instead I became interested in printing. I also spent a fortune doing six years at college gaining a few degrees along the way.My interest in road markings is a rip off from someone else's work, but I thought I could do a better job at it.Another way of looking at it is that I managed to get here by pure chance.3. Where do you look for inspiration?The road. On occasion, I venture down small alleyways and mews', but I mainly stick to places I know.4. What is your favourite place?My house. In particular; in front of the fire place.5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?Probably something by Picasso. Perhaps something in blue... or maybe 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.'6. What is your favourite website? Probably Screwfix
Mat Sant
1. Describe your work.A series of happy accidents..2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?Not sure, in my younger years I wanted to be a nurse. Screen printing satisfies my love of colour, traditional craft and paper. 3. Where do you look for inspiration?Anywhere and everywhere, it's completely random.4. What is your favourite place?I've many, but a constant would have to be Hampstead Heath but only if i've my dog with me. My studio would be in my top ten.5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?Off the top of my head, a silk screen by Gary Hume or Eduardo Paolozzo would do me proud.6. What is your favourite website?NHS Direct!Kate Gibb
1. Describe your work. Silk screen printed gift cards, stationery and design. Also part-time potter.2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do? Well those Fine Art degrees never really get you ready for the real world.....3. Where do you look for inspiration? Car boot sales, my favourite!4. What is your favourite place? Outside in the sunshine at Fanny's Farm, Surrey, this summer.5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be? Cactus and wall, 2000, pencil sketch, David Hockney6. What is your favourite website?
Ferryhalim/orsinal - It's a free game site that is really cute, Cranky Crabs is a good one but my favourite is ' Floats ' and, yes, I should get out more.
Lisa Jones
1. Describe your work.
Line and texture. Paint and plastic wood.
2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?
Taking a massive leap after being encouraged and inspired by others.
3. Where do you look for inspiration?
Current and vintage culture.
4. What is your favourite place?
Patmos, Greece - where the George Clooney Lookylikey fisherman and permanently drunk Art Bar owner lives.
5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?
Anything shiny by Jeff Koons.
6. What is your favourite website?
Its between ffffound.com and www.itsnicethat.com
Sean Alexander
1. Describe your work. I'm a life enhancer; giving nutrition to the stomach and soul.
2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?
Lack of any other possible skills or talents
3. Where do you look for inspiration?
Adam
4. What is your favourite place?
The back seat of my Dad's car
5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?
A Lynn Parotti painting would complement my home interior. Failing that a Giacometti sculpture - one small enough for the mantelpiece though.
6. What is your favourite website?
Google
1.Describe your work.Painting. At present it is mainly figurative, but over the last year, it has been predominantly abstract. I tend to work within a particular framework of ideas that connect up and disband. My work has tends to look cartoon-like, overtly expressive with clear gestural brushmarks and lots of drips, especially as the work is scaled up.. 2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?I started to think about certain elements of what painting can do for me that excites me. I then started to reason out a way in which I saw life around me and then decided to bring a strong degree of auto biographical elements into the work. Not always, however, as you can find groups of works like ‘Mummy loves Daddy’ as being less about that. 3. Where do you look for inspiration?Everywhere- on the street- I tend to draw a lot and it generally will lead to starting a painting- which then takes on its own life and heads off in another direction- I generally find that the act of painting is the main inspiration. 4. What is your favourite place?Tel Aviv, Sicily, particularly Palermo, to name two straight off- and London- as inspiration.5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?Rembrandt’s self-portrait in Kenwood.6. What is your favourite website?Hmmmm nothing comes to mind- David Ben White
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