Go Large Makers' Collective

28/05/2020

Throughout the last few years, I have pushed my art practice in new and exciting directions materially, stylistically and thematically, with the intention not only of expanding my skills but also to better understand what informs and drives my need to make art. Using my practice as research to investigate questions arising from my embodied experiences, I now work fluidly across various disciplines including painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture, assemblage, textiles, digital photography and creative writing.

Underpinned by a passion both for observational drawing and gestural mark making, my work has a tendency towards abstraction. Juxtapositions of strength and fragility, growth and decay, death and renewal, holding and letting go are all regular themes, alongside my concerns about humanity's fractured relationship with itself and with the natural world.

I enjoy exploring different perspectives on narrative, agency, materiality, space, place and trace, and my work often references the colours, textures and forms that inhabit the coast, woods and moorland near my home/studio. I also seek out strange objects and curios ephemera from the detritus of daily life which I can take through any number of processes and reworkings - augmenting, excising, deconstructing, modifying - in my attempts to make new meanings from old stuff.

28/05/2020

My name is Megan Wright and I am a mixed media painter. I experiment with a range of materials including acrylic, watercolour, spray paint, paint marker pens, oil pastels, in addition to collage and encaustic techniques.

When making new work, I set out to explore how I can best manipulate diverse resources so they might sit together harmoniously within an abstract composition. My main inspiration for creating comes from the spontaneity that gestural mark-making brings to my practice - through this it becomes experiment/process based, which I find exciting. I look at the relationship between materials, colour combinations and interesting compositions and work towards creating visually stimulating artworks.

Covid-19 has afforded me the space and time to appreciate and explore the materials I currently have available to me. I have given myself permission to try out new things but also to make mistakes. My most recent pieces are the result of an incentive to be more resourceful and to experiment without boundaries, and I am allowing this new way of thinking to drive my creative development.

28/05/2020

Based in her studio overlooking the North Cornwall coast, Cornish native Teresa Stabb is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work occupies the nexus of art, design and craft. With a background in ceramics and drawing, her practice encompasses both two and three-dimensional pieces.

A life-long appreciation of nature and an awareness of the beauty and fragility of the environment provides the themes for Teresa's work, and inspires her unique palette of hand-made inks and paints which she sources from plants, rocks and soil from her locale. Underpinning this profoundly materials-led practice is on-going historical research coupled with a strong sense of place.

Currently, Teresa is developing her bio-plastics and investigating their uses in her sculptural works, adding to her ever-increasing cache of art media.

28/05/2020

Henry Salvini's practice encompasses a range of disciplines. He typically situates his making within deep theoretical reasoning before starting to produce work in response to the context of his research. This allows the work to align with a set of self-imposed rules designed to satisfy Salvini's tick-boxes of intent.

Self-reflection plays a key role in the progression of Salvini's practice. When invested in a project, each piece of work is a development from the last. A looping critical interrogation is crucial to creating art which is not only the physical embodiment theory but also maintains overall forward traction.

In Salvini's portfolio you can expect to see a host of subjects, motifs and techniques. He often brings together different media to act as an ecology, investigating the formation of new pathways of interpretation and including multiple points of focus in one installation.

28/05/2020

As a multi-disciplinary and experimental fine artist, printmaker and exhibitor, my practice has developed from a deep investigation into the urban landscape. I utilise found and discarded objects as a means of exploring contemporary issues and art practice. In a world where the main documentation of human life has shifted into a digital format, it is the physical marks left behind on our surroundings that, over time, bear the most meaning and give testimony of humanity's presence.

As a society we are experiencing a shift towards creating objects of worth and longevity, as we find ourselves looking again to the idea of the handmade and how human imprints add a unique and additional value to an object or a surface. This concept sits at the core of my artistic practice, and incorporating these kinds of unintentional marks into my work is the main driving force behind my creativity.

27/05/2020

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Tina Kutter

10/04/2020

Taken from my exhibition 'Tales From the Riverbank'