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The Artists
We are proud to be able to present the following artists who have kindly agreed to exhibit their award-winning work in the Luminous Lawn Gallery.
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Robert Jakes
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Robert is based near Stackpole, Pembrokeshire and makes large scale carvings in oak, illuminated procession sculptures, entrance archways, sculptural seating, benches and story telling seats and a variety of other projects.
He makes pieces in response to specific locations and communities, schools and forests in the UK and abroad. More information is available at his website.
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Darren Yeadon
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The complex and strategic logic of nature is my inspiration. I celebrate aspects of this in my interpretations and realize them in a timeless and permanent material- carved stone. I carve sculptures predominantly figurative but sometimes monolithic and abstract, I use stones sourced from quarries around Europe. My favourites are Michelangelo marble from Carrara, Bluestone from the Pembrokeshire hills and sandstones from Yorkshire; where I started off my career by serving a seven-year apprenticeship as a banker mason. Life taught me lessons and I am driven to give something back by creating something new and beautiful for others to enjoy, if it makes you smile it is work well done! The tradition of carving stone dates back thousands of years practically unchanged in technique and I feel honoured to be carrying on this art. There is some reality about stone, it’s a piece of the very earth we live on and will always be there.
Visit Darren's exhibition, "In Rocks Blue" at Castell Henllys from 30th June to 30th September 2011.
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Alex Marsden
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Alex is a feckless PhD drop out who, disillusioned with the London art scene, settled here to study semi-abstract watercolour landscape. Much of his work is a result of his collaboration with beautiful wife Jessica, and takes as its subject - "the way in which we as a society conspire to keep inconvenient truths safely hidden". |
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Martin Bellwood
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I trained as a sculptor, and have been living and working in Pembrokeshire for over 20 years. The current work uses motifs of simple recognisable images in order to explore their volume and frailty, the subtle surface detail being described by light and shadow. I use a wide variety of materials and techniques, including digitally produced objects. I run a fine arts foundry near Clunderwen, producing bronze castings for artists in the UK and Europe.
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Tom Fisher
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With my current work I am exploring the use of light, whether it be sunlight or an alternative light source at night. Using the translucent qualities of high-fired porcelain, I have obtained a series of effects that are both tranquil by day mesmerising at night.
I am continuing to explore the use of light within my work and it's visual inpact that it can have at night. The introduction of different display concepts, should make this years installation both fresh and new.
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Charlotte Cortazzi
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Charlotte is a painter and has recently been doing large scale paintings on silk. She has also been running art workshops with the Pembrokeshire Youth Offending Team. Further work can be seen on the website www.charlottecortazzi.co.uk
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Soozy Roberts
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Soozy Roberts is an artist who works with performance, installation and video. She explores the body, objects and environment as an accumulative site for work in an often surreal and darkly humorous nature. Tainted with nostalgia, Soozy's work draws on family, femininity, Welshness, and domesticity. She often engages with food and drink substances in performance and uses her body to address poignant questions around the female body, in a world obsessed with beauty and glamour.
Soozy has shown work at Experimentica (Cardiff), Arnolfini (Bristol) Points d'Impact Festival (Geneva), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow) and was the winner of the Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award 2008 (Swansea).
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Dominic Bagnall
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Being a self taught craftsperson, who has never been able to do straight lines, I was happy to learn that you don't always need them when working with the natural forms in wood.
Each piece comes together, for want of a better word "organically". I tend to mix up different types of wood to make some wonky pieces that can also have a function.
I enjoy the challenge of putting unlikely pieces together to my own surprise sometimes they work.
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Ms Mitten
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Ms Mitten is an artist who likes to dabble with image, perspective and sound; whether through her love for collage,installation or DJing. Through turning objects or the conditioned thinking of her audience upside down and creating a new perspective Ms Mitten hopes to inspire the artist that she believes is in every one of us to come out to play.
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Karen Lauke & Helen Newall
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Karen Lauke and Helen Newall have worked together for many years on sound and visual projects: Karen has designed sound for theatre productions which Helen has directed for Edge Hill University, including Odyssey, More Light and The Book of the Dead. Their piece, Dreaming the Silence, a sound and visual installation work, has been installed and performed in Manchester, Barcelona, Lisbon, Toronto and Munich. Last year The Whispering Tree featured the story of Blodeuwedd, the woman made of flowers who was turned into an owl for her infidelity.
This year Karen and Helen have worked on two sites for The Secret Light Garden: The Whispering Tree and the pond in the Walled Garden. Their theme for 2011 concerns the Celtic myth of The Korrigan, a fairy woman who steals children. She lives underwater, and is a beautiful woman by day and by night a grotesque hag.
Helen Newall is a Reader in Performing Arts at Edge Hill University. Her work as a writer includes: The Spring Stone, an opera performed in Chester Cathedral; Alastair’s Cat at the Millennium Dome; Light of the World: New Mystery Plays for the National JC 2000 Millennium Project; new libretto for The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra for Carl Davis and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; A Thousand and One Nights, The Icarus Game, The Glastonbury Tales for Cheshire Youth Theatre; Big Nose, Beowulf and Frankenstein for The Chester Gateway Theatre; Remote Control for HTV-West Television Workshop; Dumisani’s Drum for Action Transport Theatre Company; The Great Gromboolian Plain for Hampshire County Youth Theatre; Anthem for Doomed Youth, Grimms’ Tales, Shoah and Another Sun for The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. She is currently the Writer-in-Residence with Theatre in the Quarter Theatre Company for whom she has written Sweet Sixteen; Silent Night; Home For Christmas; James; Forgotten Fortress; and A Jacobean Christmas, which was written specially for performances at Hampton Court Palace to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.
Karen Lauke is a Programme Leader for Music, Sound and Drama at Edge Hill University and a PhD student at Leeds University. She is also a composer, sound artist and designer and primarily interested in creating original experimental music and sound for theatre, installations, live performance and exhibitions. Karen's work has been presented and performed in New York, Germany, Barcelona, Canada, Prague and Portugal with recent sound design work winning a joint award at World Stage Design (Korea, 2009). Her design credits include, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Seagull, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Odyssey, Book of the Dead, More Light, The Tempest and most recently the north-west tour of All Because of Molly. In addition to her sound design work, Karen has performed and been commissioned to install a number of projects nationally and internationally. She was the curator for the Society of British Theatre Designers National Sound Design Exhibit in Cardiff (March 2011) and is due to curate an extended version for an exhibition for the V&A Museum in 2012 in association with the SBTD.
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Sian Boissevain
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Sian is a freelance Community Artist and DJ specialising in UV banner painting and décor which she taught at Pembrokeshire College on the Entertainment Technology course they held there for 6 years.
She continues to teach with Arts Care in youth clubs which, she says, never ceases to excite people to paint with glowing paint and its great fun!!
Her inspiration comes from the early UV Parties in Goa where the grass trees and leaves were all painted creating a magical beautiful glowing effect deep in the jungle. This is where she started painting this way and wants to recreate this effect deep in Picton Castle Gardens!
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Michelle Cain
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Michelle Cain is a willow artist based in North Pembrokeshire. Trained in both Fine Art and basket making, she uses her skills to create sculptures for festivals, events and communities. Her work can be seen at various events throughout the UK and Ireland during the summer. Much of the willow used in her sculptures is grown by her or locally. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and skills and is happy to run workshops in both willow sculpture and basket making.
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