Peter Basden is an artist that produces candid, observational photography that attempts to capture a personal interpretation of honest, in-between, unposed moments. All of his photographs are made with persistence, patience, 35mm film and a small manual camera.
Hannah Sullivan is a young British artist living and working in Manchester.
Self-taught or art school?
I’m currently studying at Manchester School of Art in the UK, and am about to enter my graduate year.
If you could own one work of art what would it be?
Antoni Tapiés ‘Rinzen’ (Rinzen being Japanese for “sudden awakening”). I saw this in Barcelona last year, and it completely captivated me. The scale of the work is astronomical and completely overwhelming. I like the familiarity of the bed and the mess, and how destructive it feels floating in the air. This was displayed alongside one of his larger cement paintings that upon reflection tonally could have been a suggestion of a mattress. The contrasting ideas between harsh, physical materials and the more empathetic/understood ideas around what it is to be human is something I take a lot of interest in.
Batool Showghi was born in Iran and moved to England in 1985. She received a merit for her MA in Design & Media Arts from the University of Westminster in 1997 just after finishing her BA honours from the London Guildhall University. In 2001 she received a Certificate of Education from the University of Westminster. While continuing her art practice, she taught at Harrow College from 1998 until 2015 as a part-time lecturer. Since then she has dedicated her time to her art and exhibiting her work in both solo and group exhibitions in England and abroad.
Former broadcaster and artist Robin Ross has admitted to finding some cunning ways of escaping the clutches of the law in his youth. The 69-year-old, who grew up in St Annes, was one of many budding DJs pursuing a career in radio and started out the only way he knew – on pirate stations.
Born St. Andrews, Roanne O’Donnell is an award-winning Scottish painter currently working on the series, ‘Surface Work’. She studied Drawing and Painting at the prestigious Edinburgh College of Art and went on to obtain a Masters in Contemporary European Fine Art in Barcelona. After 18 years of professional practice in Northern Norway, she now has her studios in Andalucia and Fife, Scotland.
Kio Griffith is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and arts writer working across themes of social issues, geopolitics and migrating cultures, through multimedia, craft and technology-based works including graphic design, 2D and 3D objects, time-based sound and video compositions, performance, computer programming, writings, installation, and publishing.
