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Bálint Bolygó

Bálint Bolygó’s creates mechanisms animated by natural universal forces and the unpredictability of the human touch, resulting in an independent act of creation. His work involves a process of invention, science and engineering. Steel weights, wires, motors and pulleys are transformed into mechanisms animated by natural universal forces. In constructing these kinetic devices the artist is creatively challenged to investigate how an underlying scientific structure or process can change or shape an object. The practical solutions to physical problems concerned with friction, weight, tension, and compression are all elements that give idiosyncratic aesthetic to his kinetic devices. Bolygó is currently showing in Mind over Matter at Phoenix, Exeter following a solo show In Budapest in late 2009.

Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan has undertaken solo shows, residencies and commissions across the UK, and exhibited internationally. At an early stage she developed a strong interest in the organic, and natural processes. This formed the basis for her practice as an artist creating sculptural installations and continues to influence her work at present. She also explores a painstakingly repetitive and precise way of working. The challenges presented by her chosen materials and techniques have become an important part of her practice. In January 2010 her solo show Life. Blood. opens at Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris.

Debbie Lawson

Debbie Lawson's carpet sculptures and wood panels take you on a psychological journey through domestic space, where everyday objects are eerily animated and the very fabric of the interior comes to life. Lawson graduated from the RCA in 2004. Solo shows include Living Rooms at Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Norway, supported by the British Council, Dysfuncadelia at Nettie Horn and Chairway To Heaven at The Economist Plaza, commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society. Her work is included in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Mario Testino and the University of the Arts London.

Peter Liversidge

Peter Liversidge works across drawing, performance, installation, photography, painting, sculpture, interventions, artist's books and multiples. While his work has an assured lightness of touch and a quiet poeticism, there is also an underlying streak of dark, absurdist humour. A central aspect of Liversidge’s practice is the making of Proposals, groups of hand-typed and posted suggestions that range from the sublime to the ridiculous, forming the basis for exhibitions, works and performances.

Three forthcoming solo exhibitions are planned - at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh in February-April, 2010, Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh July - September 2010 and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington in Summer 2011.

Photo: Midsummer Snowstorm, 21st June 2009, a proposal for the Sculpture park Jupiter Artland, Scotland installed on Midsummers Day

walkwalkwalk

walkwalkwalk are Gail Burton, Clare Qualmann and Serena Korda. They have been making site-specific work together since 2005 responding to place through walking. Starting with an exploration of their routine walks in London’s East End, the emphasis is to uncover and archive the overlooked and everyday through object, encounter and story. This process inspires text works, prints, sound, photography, film, artists books, ephemera and live art events - often in the form of night walks.

Recent work includes a live art residency at Camden Arts Centre in 2006, Chip Shop Tour of E8, for Transition Gallery in 2007, and Stories from the Exeter archive, for Spacex gallery in 2008.

Zoë Mendelson

Zoë Mendelson is based in London and has a mixed-media practice incorporating drawing, collage, objects, performance and text. Her research brings together interests in archives, architecture/ function and psychological space. Mendelson’s work has been shown widely internationally, including public spaces such as the Fondation Cartier, Paris; Chapter, Cardiff and CRAC Alsace and she is represented in France by Galerie Schleicher + Lange. Mendelson is currently engaged in AHRC-funded doctoral research: Her project involves posing as a fictitious researcher and building an archive to compulsive hoarding. Alongside her practice Zoë Mendelson lectures at Central Saint Martins and Wimbledon College of Art.