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Participants
julie ashworth
(b. 1961, Burnley) Lives in Bradford.
Julie Ashworth is an illustrator, furniture designer and jeweller. Originally trained as an art teacher, she worked as a designer, illustrator and writer of children’s books, publishing dozens of titles and twice winning the English Speaking Union Prize. She now works across a diverse range of design and manufacturing disciplines and has exhibited jewellery and furniture at Rufford Craft Centre and Leeds College of Art.
jivan astfalck
(b. Berlin, Germany) Lives in London.
Jivan has an MA in History and Theory of Modern Art and is working on her PhD (fine Art) research, both at Chelsea College of Art & Design. She is currently Senior Research Fellow and MA course director at BIAD, UCE, UK.
Recent exhibitions include; Hnoss, Goetheburg, Sweden (Solo - 2006); Raum fuer Schmuck, Cologne, Germany (Solo - 2006); Maker-Viewer-Wearer ‘European Narrative Jewellery’, Glasgow, UK; The Scottish Gallery, UK; Galerie Marzee, NL (2005); Hide installation for ‘Self’, touring Angel Row Gallery; Ursprung/Origin, Forum für Schmuck and Design, (touring) Germany + UK (2004). Written publications include; Jivan Astfalck - ‘Love Zoo’ (2005); Jewellery as a Fine Art Practice in ‘New Directions in Jewellery’ (2005); Difference and Resemblance in ‘Six Views on a Practice in Change’ (2005).
Funded Commissions of New Work include; I-con, Jahresgabe für Fördermitglieder des Forum für Schmuck und Design, Germany (2005); Hide, for ‘Self,’ exhibition, Craftspace-Touring (2004). She was Chair of the Symposium Maker-Viewer-Wearer, European Narrative Jewellery, Glasgow School of Art (2005); Has presented specialist lectures at Ulster Museum, Belfast (2006); Konstfack University College of Arts, Stockholm (2004); Fachhochschule Trier, Germany (2003).
dave ball
(b. 1978, Swansea) Lives in London.
Dave has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College. Recent exhibitions at The Nunnery Gallery, London; Associates Gallery, London; Fold Gallery, Cumbria; Surface Gallery, Nottingham; Neal’s Yard, London; ADi Gallery, London; Exposure Gallery, Swansea; Euroart Gallery, London. Recent film screenings include: Art Video Screenings, Village, Västerås, Sweden, SSA 2005, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Eat Art, Riverhouse Barn Gallery, Surrey , Max5, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, Max10, Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth, Island Art Film & Video Festival ‘04.
Other projects include: Coryat’s Crudities, various locations in Nottingham; Discotheque project exploring notions of tourism, using the suitcase as a central motif; The Wisdom of Solomon, Neal’s Yard, London; Discotheque project based on the production of a series of collaborative works made by splitting and rejoining existing work; The Glorious Twelfth, Deptford X, London; Discotheque investigation into the implications of an urban recontextualisation of a traditional grouse hunt.
Publications include: The Glorious Twelfth (2005) catalogue to accompany the Discotheque event; AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) (2002) edition produced by Disco; Disco Box (2000) edition of works by Disco artists, published in association with RGAP.
www.daveballartist.co.uk
www.discotheque.me.uk
elizabeth callinicos
(b. 1966, Cardiff) Lives in Oxfordshire.
Elizabeth has an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art. She is currently Senior Lecturer & Research Fellow at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Mirror, mirror’. Installation. Arsornata, Manchester (2007); Installation. ArCo, Lisbon, Portugal (2002) and ‘Labels & Things’, Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam (2001). Group exhibitions include; ‘Home Sweet Home’ (working title). Collaboration with Andreas Fabian. Paris & London (2007); ‘Heirlooms’, ACJ membership exhibition. (Concept, co-ordinator & exhibitor) St. Botolph’s Church, London (2006); ‘Ceremony’, The Pumphouse Galleries, London (2005).
Work can be seen in the following public collections; ArCo School of Applied Arts, permanent collection. Lisbon; Bowes Museum, Collection of Contemporary Jewellery, UK; The Kruithius Collection, Holland and The Crafts Council Collection, London. She was a key organiser of ‘Carry the Can’ The ACJ conference, London (2006). She has delivered specialist lectures and workshops at Konstfack, Stockholm; The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; The V&A Museum, London; The School of Decorative Arts, Geneva; Lappeenranta, Finland; ArCo School of Applied Arts, Lisbon.
lin cheung
(b. 1971, Hampshire) Lives and work in London.
Lin has an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art. She is currently Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University and Bishopsland Educational Trust, South Oxfordshire.
Recent exhibitions include ‘Process Works’, University of Hertfordshire Gallery, UK (Touring exhibition, London & USA) (2007);The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (2006); KORU 2 International Contemporary Jewellery, Lappeenranta, Finland (2006); Gallery Deux Poissons, Tokyo (Solo) (2005); ‘Table for 2’ & ‘Picnic for 2’ Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Belgium (2005); Galerie MARZEE, The Netherlands (solo) (2005); ‘Tafel Plezier’ ontwerpen voor de tafel, Kruithuis Museum, The Netherlands (2003); ‘Treasure’ The Pearoom Centre for Contemporary Crafts, UK (with Laura Potter) (2003) and ‘Approaching Content’, The Crafts Council Gallery, UK (2003). Work can be seen in the following public collections: The MARZEE Collection; Contemporary Art Society and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, UK. She has received awards from: The Arts Foundation; The Crafts Council; The Deloitte & Touche Award for Excellence (RCA); The Goldsmiths’ Company and The Royal Mint.
http://www.lincheung.co.uk
john clark
(b. 1960, Saltburn) Lives in Sheffield.
John Clark is director of Bank Street Gallery and Studios in Sheffield, opening in 2008. He has a degree in English and Drama from Lancaster University, a Masters Degree in Linguistics from Leeds University and studied Contemporary Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Publishers include: Harper Collins, Longman, Oxford University Press. Twice winner of The English Speaking Union Prize.
www.bankstreetarts.com
martyn crucefix
(b. 1956, Wiltshire) Lives in London.
His poetry has won numerous prizes, including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. Collections include Beneath Tremendous Rain (1990), At The Mountjoy Hotel (1993), On Whistler Mountain (1994), A Madder Ghost (Enitharmon, 1997) and An English Nazareth (Enitharmon, 2004). His translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies was published by Enitharmon in 2006.
www.writersartists.net/crucefix.htm
alec finlay
(b. 1966, Inverness) Lives and works in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alec is an artist, poet and publisher. In 2002 he became the first BALTIC Artist in residence and recently worked as an artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he created a series of art projects on themes connected with nature and contemporary culture. His most recent exhibition was ‘The Sunken Bell’, a collaboration with Guy Moreton, as part of Waterlog, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art and Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich.
www.alecfinlay.com
shelby fitzpatrick
(b. Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA) Lives in Sturry, Kent.
Shelby’s recent exhibitions include ‘Designer Crafts’ (2007), Mall Gallery, London; ‘Ars Ornata’ (2007), Manchester; ‘Art In Action’ (2007), Waterperry, Oxford; ‘Contemporary European Artists’ (2006), Eupen, Belgium; ‘Heirlooms’ (2006), Association For Contemporary Jewellery Conference, London; ‘Botanicals’ (2006), Arboretum Kalmthout, Belgium; ‘Cheongju International Craft Biennale’ (2005), South Korea; ‘Society Of Designer Craftsmen’ (2005), Castle Arts Gallery, Canterbury; ‘Thirty Necklaces’ (2005), Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow; ‘Jewellery With A Purpose’ (2004), Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, USA; ‘Interlacements’ (2003), Fibre And Metal - Biennial Exhibit; ‘Women In Textile Art’ (2003), Valencia, Venezuela; ‘Love Story’ (2003), Goldsmiths’ Hall, London; ‘Ring Spektakel’ (2003), Safiro Gallery, Munich.
Shelby is a fellow and Council Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen, and the Chairman of the Designer Jewellers Group. She is also the curator of ‘Fusion’ (2003-6), a touring exhibition of collaborations between members of the Designer Jewellers Group and textile artists from the UK and 6 countries.
www.shelbyfitzpatrick.com
rachel garfield
(b. 1963) Lives London/Wolverhampton.
Lecturer in Visual Arts at Salford University; Phd in Fine Art, RCA, 2004; MA, CSM, 1998. Arts Council funded touring solo exhibition entitled ‘You’d Think So, Wouldn’t You?” with an accompanying catalogue that includes essays by Matthew Shaul and Amelia Jones. Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2006), University of Hertfordshire Galleries (2005), Artsdepot (2005), London. ‘Culture Bound’ at the Courtauld Institute group show (2006), video invitational at fa projects, International 3 Manchester (group show) (2003). Screenings include, Provopolis Original Projects, Norwich (2005), Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY (2004), Whitechapel Art Gallery (2004). The work of Rachel Garfield has been featured in the following texts: Pam Skelton. ‘Restretching the Canvas’, Rosemary Betterton (ed.), Unframed: The Practices and Politics of Women Painting, IB Tauris Ltd, 2003; Amelia Jones. The Undecidability of Difference: The Work of Rachel Garfield, Rachel Garfield catalogue touring show, UH Press, 2005: “Implications of Blackness”, Pauline de Souza, in Blackwells Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 (2006).
www.axisweb.org/artist/rachelgarfield
mark goodwin
(b. 1969) Lives on a boat, near Leicester.
He was awarded an East Midlands Arts Writers’ Bursary in 1996, and received an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Mark was BBC Wildlife Poet of The Year 2003. His work has been published widely in literary magazines and ezines (work recently published by Liminal Pleasures, Litter, Raunchland, Shadowtrain, Shearsman, Stride Magazine, Tremblestone. Fiction often published by Skrev Press’s Texts’ Bones. Work forthcoming from The Coffee House, Dusie, Great Works, Tears in the Fence, Tripod). He does poetry readings/performances with seven other Inky Fish Poets and has been working as a community poet for nearly 10 years. He works in primary and secondary schools, with mental health service users, and on collaborative projects with visual artists.
www.inkyfishpoets.co.uk/Mark_Goodwin.asp
mark gubb
(b. 1974) Lives in Nottingham.
Recent residencies include Arts Council of England’s International Fellowship at Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland, and Wheatley Fellowship, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
Exhibitions include ‘Terra Incognita’, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, ‘His Life is Full of Miracles’, Site Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Come With Me, Don’t Ask Me Where ‘Cos I Don’t Know’, VIVID, Birmingham and ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’, Transition Gallery, London.
Mark has recently been artist in residence at Epic Skatepark in Birmingham; part of a nine month series of residencies and exhibitions which he has curated.
Currently working towards a solo project with the ICA and curating a touring project rooted in the relationships between art and skateboarding, partnered by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Chapter (Cardiff) and City Gallery (Leicester). Also working on a project for Grizedale Arts in Egremont (Cumbria), towards a solo show at City Gallery, Leicester in 2008, a two person show at Castlefield Gallery late 2007. Mark lectures in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and is a freelance journalist for a-n Magazine.
www.smarkgubb.com
sarah hannah
(1966-2007)
Sarah Hannah, of Waban, Massachusetts, died tragically on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at the age of only 40. She will be remembered as a lover of nature who loved to sit by the Charles for hours, communing with frog, turtle, bird and dragonfly. Her intellect was vast, her sense of humor legendary, her talent extraordinary. She earned her MFA and PhD at Columbia University, and taught at Emerson College, Boston. Her first book, ‘Longing Distance’ (Tupelo Press, 2004) was a semi-finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was nominated for the Norma Farber Award, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Foreword Prize. Her second book, ‘Inflorescence’, was posthumously published by Tupelo in 2007. Poems from ‘Inflorescence’ have been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Parnassus, The Southern Review, The Harvard Review, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Western Humanities Review, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, The Crab Orchard Review, and Ibbetson Street, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.
www.writersartists.net/shannah.htm
maria hanson
(b. 1967, Hull) Lives and works in Sheffield.
Maria has an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art. She is currently Reader in Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2006 she became a Freeman of The Goldsmiths’ Company and The City of London. She was nominated for the Jerwood Applied Arts prize for Jewellery in 2000. Solo exhibitions include the DESIGNyard, Dublin; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh and ART BOX, Weregem, Belgium. Recent Group exhibitions include; ‘Protect and Serve’, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (2006); ‘Heirlooms’: St Botolphs’ Church, London (2006); ‘Hanging in Balance’, El Paso, Texas, San Antonio, Texas and Cambridge, MA (2005). Work can be seen in the following public collections; The Goldsmiths’ Company, London; The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Crafts Council Collection, London and The National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. She was on the first executive committee of the ACJ and a key organiser of its conference ‘A Sense of Wonder’, Birmingham (2000). She has delivered specialist lectures and workshops at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada; The National College of Art and Design, Dublin; The Goldsmiths’ Company, London; Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales and The Crafts Council, London.
chris jones
(b. 1969) Lives in Sheffield.
He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1996. From 1997 to 1999 he worked as the writer-in-residence at Nottingham Prison. A pamphlet collection entitled ‘Hard on the Knuckle’ was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2003, concerning his experiences of working behind bars. He has recently put together a sequence of poems (‘At the End of the Road, a River’) that explores the trajectory of the River Don as it curves through Sheffield. A full-length collection, ‘The Safe House’, will be published by Shoestring Press in 2007. He works as a freelance writer and teacher.
www.chris-jones.org.uk
julia keyte
(b. 1976, Taunton) Lives in Sheffield.
Julia has an MFA from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and a BA in jewellery design from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. She is currently full time Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Group exhibitions include; ‘Schmuck 2007’, Munich; ‘Heirlooms’ (2006), London; ‘Pic-nic for 2’ (2005), Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode, Belgium; ‘SNAG exhibition in Print’ (2005); ‘Oudnieuw’ (2005), Museum Amstelkring, Amsterdam; ‘Jewellery Unlimited’ (2005), Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester; ‘Items’ (2004), Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; ‘Van Het Klooster Naar De Kerk’ (2003), Galerie Intermezzo, Dordrecht; ‘De Nederlandse Designprijzen’ (2003) nomination and exhibition, Amsterdam; ‘Spoons’ (2002) Galerie Ra, Amsterdam.
Julia has been a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art (2004), and has undertaken a teaching exchange with the Escola Masanna, Barcelona (2005). She will contribute to the European Academy of Design conference ‘Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse and Disaster’ in 2007.
david kirshner
Lives in Tealby, Lincolnshire.
‘Stuff Happens’ - Group Exhibition - Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 2006. ‘Conflict’ - Group Exhibition - 20/21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, 2006. ‘Dialogues’ - www.axisweb.org, 2006. Winterlights Festival, Workington, 2005/6. Construction of studio in Tealby - full time creative work, 2005. Exhibition at University of Brighton Gallery, 2001. PhD ‘Language Games in a Visual Environment’, 2000. 1st prize, Artists’ Books, University of Brighton, 1996. MA Printmaking, 1993.
www.davidkirshner.org.uk
anna lorenz
(b. 1967, Germany) Lives in Birmingham.
Anna studied Silversmithing and Jewellery at The School of Jewellery UCE following a Goldsmithing apprenticeship in Regensburg, Germany. She is currently Part Time Lecturer at the School of Jewellery, UCE in Birmingham, UK. Recent exhibitions include the 15th Silver Triennial, Ambiente, Frankfurt, Germany (2007); Seikatsu Kobbo, Setagaya Cultural Life
Information Centre, Tokyo, Japan (2006); Itami International Crafts Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Japan (2006); ‘women at work’, ceramic and metalwork, Nabburg, Germany (2005); ‘Surface, Structure, Texture’, Axis Gallery, Tokyo Japan (2005); ‘Jewellery Unlimited’, Bristol (2004) Grassi – Messe, Leipzig, Germany (2003) and ‘SPOONS’, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2003). She was a recipient of an Arts Council, Grant for the Arts award in 2006; she won best product awards at the Chelsea Craft Fair and the International Jewellery London Fair (2004). Work has been featured in Elle Decoration (2006); GZ Art + Design (2005); The Financial Times (2003) and The Sunday Times (2003). Work can be seen in the Grassi-Museum Collection in Leipsig, Germany.
She has been a visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and has worked within the Jewellery and Silversmithing Industry in Birmingham, UK and Ulm, Germany.
http://annalorenz.com/
simon morris
(b. 1968) Lives in York.
Artist. Exhibitions include Bibliomania (Printed Matter Inc., New York, USA), The Royal Road to the Unconscious (The Freud Museum, London) and Re-Writing Freud (An Art of Readers, Rennes, France and The First International Festival of Media and Electronic Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Re-Writing Freud is to be included in Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmiths’ forthcoming publication, ‘Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing’, MakeNow Press, Los Angeles, 2008. He has received repeat funding from The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England and The British Council.
Simon Morris has a PhD in Fine Art Practice from The University of Leeds, a Masters degree in Contemporary Art & Theory from Winchester School of Art and a BA Hons. degree in Fine Art from Kingston University.
Christine Morris (b.1973) is a Canadian living in York, England. She has a Masters degree in Creative Technology from Leeds Metropolitan University, and a BSc. Hons degree in Computing from the Open University.
http://www.informationasmaterial.com
ilona niemi
(b. 1975, Finland).
She studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland, for her BA (Hons), and is currently finishing her Masters at SIUC, Carbondale, IL. Niemi has exhibited widely, and her work has been shown in the National Portrait Gallery in London, as well as in numerous group shows in England, Finland, Norway, France, Japan, and the US. She has had solo shows in New York, Chicago, Scotland, and Finland, and won various awards such as the Royal Scottish Academy Painting Prize.
www.ilonaniemi.com
simone nolden
(b. 1970, Grevenbroich, Germany) Lives in Sheffield, UK.
Simone studied Product and Jewellery Design at the University of Applied Science, Dusseldorf, Germany and completed a PGCE in Design Technology at the University of Brighton. Recent exhibitions include ‘Must Have’, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (2007); ‘Series’, Gold Digger 79, Belfast (2007); ‘Rarefind’, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK (2006); ‘Limited Edition’, Manchester Craft and Design Centre (2006); ‘Jewellery Unlimited’, Bristol Museum, UK (2004); ‘…pretty sharp’, Hanau, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Dusseldorf, Handwerkskammer; Leipzig, Grassimuseum; Hannover, Kestner-Museum (2002-04) and Grassi Messe, Art & Craft Museum, Leipzig (2001). She was a recipient of an Arts Council Grant for the Arts award in 2006; A Crafts Council Development Award and ACJ Travel award in 2004.
http://www.simonenolden.com
mario petrucci
(b. 1958, Enfield, Middlesex) Lives in London.
Four times winner of the London Writers competition and recipient of an Arts Council of England New Writers’ Award, Mario Petrucci is an Arvon tutor, the Poetry Book Society’s inaugural pamphlet selector and a founder member both of writers inc. and of the experimental performance group ShadoWork. Petrucci is also an ecologist, physicist, educator and war poet, with the distinction of having been the only resident poet at the Imperial War Museum and BBC Radio 3. A Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Petrucci masterminds numerous literary and literacy projects here in the UK and abroad with the British Council, producing public work and educational material for institutions as varied as the Cabinet War Rooms, the Museum of London and Imperial War Museum North. ‘Shrapnel and Sheets’, his debut collection (Headland), won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was followed by ‘Bosco’ (Hearing Eye). ‘The Stamina of Sheep’ (London Borough of Havering/ Bound Spiral Press) received the Essex Book Awards ‘Best Fiction’ Prize 2000-2002. ‘Heavy Water’ (Enitharmon) won the Daily Telegraph / Arvon International Poetry Prize and is now the subject of a major new film by Seventh Art entitled ‘Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl’.
http://www.writersartists.net/petrucci.htm
jo pond
(b. 1968, London) Lives in Derbyshire, UK.
Jo has an MA in Jewellery, Silversmithing and related Products from the School of Jewellery, BIAD, UCE. She is currently Visiting Lecturer at De Montfort University; the School of Jewellery, UCE and Technical Tutor at Loughborough University School of Art & Design. Recent exhibitions include; ‘SCHMUCK 2007’, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich; (THE) UNINTENDED DETAILS, Pickfords House Museum, Derby (2007); NEW FACES , V&A Museum, London (2007); EFFERVESCENCE, West Dean, Sussex (2006); TAKE ME HOME, Contemporary Applied Arts, London (2006); HEIRLOOMS, St. Botolph’s Church, London (2006); NOESIS, The School of Jewellery, Birmingham (2005). She was a recipient of the Birmingham Design Initiative Industry & Genius Awards (2005); A British Jewellers Association award (2005) and a William Dudley Trust bursary (2004-05).
www.jopond.com
tony rickaby
(b. 1944) Lives in London.
Studied Portsmouth College of Art & St.Martin’s School of Art. 1967-70: Working with the Archigram and Light/Sound Workshop groups. 1970-78: Dealing with the relationship between art, popular culture and politics; in his own self-published books, in group exhibitions such as Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art For Society and Art From the British Left and in solo exhibitions at Franklin Furnace, New York and Art Net, London. 1978-90: Using buildings as metaphors for economic, ideological and political power. Solo exhibitions included C Space, New York, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and Art Net, London. 1990-2004: Paintings, constructions and installations on the theme of poverty and homelessness, reflecting on ‘cardboard cities’ and housing estates. Group exhibitions included East International and Whitechapel Open and solo exhibitions at Central Space and Standpoint Gallery, London, Mission Gallery, Swansea and Colette, Paris. 2004-Present: Current work concerns the economic realities behind the production of canvas and also historical/autobiographical reflections on the 1940s. Seen in Arttextiles 3, Canvas, Babylon Gallery, Ely and Threads of Meaning, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk.
www.tonyrickaby.co.uk
fiona sampson
(b. 1968) Lives in Oxfordshire.
Fiona has published fourteen books – poetry, philosophy of language and books on writing process – of which the most recent are The Distance Between Us (Seren, 2005) and Writing: Self and Reflexivity from Macmillan. Common Prayer is forthcoming from Carcanet in June 2007. Her awards include the Newdigate Prize; ‘Trumpeldor Beach’ was short-listed for the 2006 Forward prize; and she has been widely translated, with eight books in translation, including Travel Diary, awarded the 2003 Zlaten Prsten in Macedonia. Educated at Oxford and Nijmegen, she has a PhD in the philosophy of language and was AHRC Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2002-5. She consults internationally on writing in health care and contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications. She is the editor of Poetry Review.
www.writersartists.net/fsampson.htm
matthew sweeney
(b. 1952, Co. Donegal) Currently living in Berlin.
Most recent publications Sanctuary (2004) and Selected Poems (2002). New book, Black Moon, coming out in 2007. Has also published poetry and fiction for children. One of the DAAD’s Invited Writers to Berlin 2005/2006. Has held numerous residencies, including one at London’s South Bank Centre in 1994/95.
www.writersartists.net/msweeney.htm
pam thompson
(b. 1955) Lives in Leicester.
Pam has published three pamphlets Spin (1999) Waldean Press; Parting the Ghosts of Salt (2000) Redbeck Press and Show Date and Time (2006) Smith-Doorstep. Her work has been published in several literary magazines such as The North, The Rialto, Mslexia and Smiths Knoll and various anthologies. She has been shortlisted and won prizes in the Poetry Business, Cardiff, Arvon, Mslexia, and Nottingham Poetry Competitions among others. Pam performs with a group of poets called Inky Fish and is a lecturer at De Montfort University.
www.inkyfishpoets.co.uk/Pam_Thompson.asp
julian walker
(b. 1954) Lives in London.
Julian studied at St Andrews University, London Metropolitan University and St Martins College of Art; he works with museums, collections and preserved sites and objects, using installation, video, photography, text, live-art and sculpture. Recent group exhibitions include: Art Out of Place, 2005 at Norwich Castle Museum; Treat Yourself, 2003 at the Science Museum; Hygiene, 2002 at the London School of Hygiene; New Contemporaries, 1999 at the Liverpool Biennial and Beaconsfield, London. Other projects include Do Bees Like Van Gogh? 2005, with Lars Chittka. He has worked with the British Museum, Hastings Museum, Liverpool Museum, Worcester Museum, Kettle’s Yard, Norwich Castle Museum, was The Natural History Museum’s first artist in residence, and winner of the Art & Work Award 2002. He writes on material culture, and runs workshops for children at schools and the British Library.
http://walkerjulian.tripod.com
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