about the artists
Katy Beinart
Katy Beinart's practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of her work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. She is interested in creating work in public places, which offer opportunities for participation and interaction for residents and users of spaces, creating dialogue and inviting users to collaborate in the process of place-making.
Beinart trained as an architect at the Bartlett, University College, London and Oxford Brookes University, and her practice involves a research process often using architectural representations, including map-making and drawing, photography, and film. Outcomes vary from installations and interventions into the environment, public art works, and performance, to gallery based work documenting a process. Her work seeks to offer views into the past, re-presents the present, and investigates the future.
Her current area of research and work is an investigation into genealogy, migration and environment, using the history of plant transfers and environmental change to explore questions of identity and belonging. For more about work by Katy Beinart click here >>
Alex Buhagier
Alex Buhagiar works with groups and organisations to highlight what they do, and in particular, what they do well.
Another feature of her work is to consider how we respond to constant reports of disasters and wars. In 4 very different works, including 2d, performance and installation, she has responded to feelings of responsibility, guilt and denial in relation to the war in Iraq.
Clare Carswell
Clare Carswell MA(RCA), is an interdisciplinary artist working with performative action, drawing and time-based media. She has exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.K., Europe and Scandinavia and also works as a writer, curator and lecturer in Fine Art in the UK and abroad.
A recent series of works, GAL, reference and rethink ethnic ritual and customs from English folklore that are connected to fertility. Referencing erotic medieval sculptures found in Oxfordshire she makes visual and gestural links to selected locations in the region.
Her most recent performance works PLAY OUT and SIREN explore the potential of the relationship between performer and audience by using strategies of impromptu dialogue and unmediated interaction with a largely non-art audience in rural locations. By juxtaposing the ancient with mobile phone technology, Carswell presents a challenging and engaging series of works. Visually seductive, inventive and comedic yet compelling, Carswell’s work reflects the enquiry and vibrancy of the dialogue between artists in The Ideas Exchange. For more about work by Clare Carswell click here >>
Catherine Charnock
Catherine Charnock works primarily through painting and drawing using oils and mixed media. Subjects include still life and landscape, and sometimes hover between the two, through ‘constructed’ landscapes using toys or found objects. Sometimes the ‘subject’ is simply a vehicle for exploration of colour, technique, materials, and approaches to painting.
Catherine is particularly interested in issues around the nature of painting itself: the tension between representation (illusion) and painterly abstraction (the desire to be ‘true to materials’ and to exploit the physicality of the paint); and between depth and surface, including the way the paint on the surface relates to its support, the canvas. Her work experiments with how to paint in a way that makes visible some of the artistic process, while still creating paintings that are visually arresting or beautiful.
Her landscape paintings are usually created as an emotional response to something in the environment: it may be something sinister or ominous, or something beautiful or intriguing. Signs, found objects and symbolic elements often play a part in this; at other times the colours or the light are the inspiration for her work.
Catherine was born in South Africa and studied Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. For more about work by Catherine Charnock click here
George Mogg
George Mogg's video works capture unusual casts of light upon interior surfaces and spaces. Her real-time records of shadow-play transform natural forms into poetic sculptural films. Mogg’s videos document moments that cannot be recreated. The light play captured is specific to the time, location and weather conditions of the instant it was recorded.
Mogg’s practice of capturing fleeting moments of illumination is often characterised by frustration and cruel denial. After days, weeks and months of waiting an opportunity may arise to film, it is at this point patterns and illuminations reveal themselves.
Darla Rae Oglesby
Darla Rae Oglesby is an interdisciplinary artist who is currently interested in exploring the concept and role of motivation in every area of life and art. Concerned with the integrity of her own work and her own motivation, she has created a body of work entitled Another Artist For Sale. This work questions the very nature of the artistic process and the role of artist as citizen. For more work by Darla Rae Oglesby click here >
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