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  • William Parker

    Location: Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
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    I am a carpenter and furniture maker based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. I create unique, one-off sculptural assemblages from old tools, reclaimed timber, metal and found objects. Combining practical craftsmanship with humour, surrealism and visual storytelling, I transform familiar workshop objects into unexpected characters and narratives, exploring conflict, identity and transformation. I retain

  • Glen Ogden

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Glen Ogden is a Leeds-based artist working in sculpture and performance. His practice explores labor, value, and futility through endurance-based actions and industrial motifs, reframing repetitive work as both monumental and absurd while exposing the physical and psychological costs of a work-oriented society.

  • Julia Keenan

    Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
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    This practice was selected for the 'Platform' Graduate Award by C.V.A.N. south east. An associate at ASPEX Portsmouth and CAS Arts Andover. Collaborator with Museum and Gallery spaces. Recipient of the U.C.A. Grad award 2015 Recipient of the Aspex Associate Bursary 2021

  • Francesca Busca

    Location: London, United Kingdom
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    As a radical ecoartivist and trashure mosaicist, Francesca Busca sees waste as "trashure", sole material for her artworks, dismantling disposable culture. Her practice pivots around community engagement and merges art, activism, and environmental urgency, envisioning systemic change towards planetary wellbeing. Founder of ArtforTrash, Payment in Kind(ness) and the GREENy bastARTs collective.

  • Jonathan Oakes

    Location: United Kingdom
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    I am by definition an abstract artist who mainly specialises in painting. I use acrylic paint and mixed media to create my artworks, typically on large abandoned photographs, paper or canvas. The general theme behind my work is rooted in environmental issues and explores the contrasts between a natural existence and a synthetic environment that many of us find ourselves living in.

  • Becky Atherton

    Location: United Kingdom
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    Through my work I want to explore the mythological representation of women and how stories have been influenced and reengineered by patriarchy. How women have been written out of folklore and how stories have been changed to fit in with this ideology.

  • Finn Dobson

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Finn Dobson (b.1992) is a Leeds-based self-taught visual artist and poet. Working with textiles and mixed media, they address themes of queer, trans, disabled embodiment, whilst noticing the nuances and interconnectedness of experiences. Community involvement and research, and repurposing found and inherited materials, is integral to their practice.

  • Steve Murray

    Location: Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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    Based in the north west of England, i retired from a long career in the NHS in 2015 and have since concentrated on painting, a life-long passion.

  • Robert Melia

    Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom
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    Ex Army Father of two beautiful girls and I work as a HGV driver in the UK. I got into art literally by accident, after a work place accident and recovering at home ,I took up pyrography to take my mind off the recovery. Since then and work permitting I do my art when I can. Only having weekends off from the road I love to dive into a piece for hours on end, the smell and sound is fantastic.

  • Joy Bowhay Artist

    Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Joy Bowhay is an artist living amongst the North Yorkshire Dales. Her main genre is landscape painting. She creates a sense of place within ethereal worlds, inspired by the countryside and nature that capture her imagination. Painting in an intuitive style, she connects to her emotions and subconscious, while remaining attentive to tone, colour, composition, and the wildness of the land.

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