Having studied art at school, Adam Jacobs took a prolonged break – not producing any pieces until after he had finished university. Once Jacobs moved to London from Essex he didn’t want to just sit in front of the television every night. He decided to get back into art and has produced around three pieces a year since 2005.
Exploring curating and art-making as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood, Alexandria (Ally) Zlatar examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience through specifically focusing on the philosophical discourse, body image, embodiment and ethics. Zlatar acknowledges there is a power within the un-well body and believes there is tremendous value and potency through examining these subjects through the contemporary art lens.
Paul Alty is a Liverpool born and bred musician and award-winning lighting designer with an unhealthy interest in all things that combine music and sound, lighting and lasers and all other art forms into immersive sensory experiences.
As a musician, Alty has released music digitally since 2013 and currently has 13 releases on iTunes/Spotify etc. Of particular interest is his series of Behind The Clock albums – these are a soundtrack to a story dealing with time, space, mortality and our position in space and time and the story is the foundation for a number of multimedia installation pieces he is working on.
Brought up in Belfast, Warren King was given a thorough grounding in painting and drawing from an early age by his cousin Brian Audley, a lecturer in art at Queens University. Frequent trips to the Antrim coast set in motion a lifelong love of nature – references to the vibrant colours of rural Ireland and endlessly kinetic power of the sea can be found in many of the paintings he produces. As an abstract artist, King firmly believes in capturing the essence of energy, movement and spontaneity that nature, in its purest form, offers us all.
Michelle Mildenhall is a UK based artist, whose work explores fetish subcultures, drawing influences from a broad range of sexual fetishes including rubber fetishism, BDSM and sexual objectification. Through her bold imagery, Mildenhall examines both empowerment and vulnerability often by fetishising iconic personalities in her distinctive pop art style. Her work is confronting and has the power to shock and move the viewer, a feeling that is increased further by the use of a restrained palette, seducing the viewer into a world of disconcerting beauty. By using popular but somewhat taboo BDSM themes, her artworks exude sexual association but never touch on obscenity.
