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Since completing an MA, my career has included solo and group shows both in the UK and New York. My images are informed by cultural theory and I work on themes gleaned from graphic illustration, Manga, Pop Art, Postmodernism and […]

I collaborate with artist Cas Holmes under the name ‘Art for Alternative Spaces’ and have just finished a Year of the Artist residency in a caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It is a remote area, bleak […]

There has always been a quirky side to my work. I love anything that is eccentric, especially costume that is ridiculous and impractical. Performance costume and fashion have always influenced my work. I aspire to the drama and glamour built […]

As part of the Year of the Artist I was the visual artist-in-residence in First Direct Bank’s call centre. A call centre is an invisible public space. As users of a call centre we make contact, transact and are off […]

In the February 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE London-based charity Bag Books, which specialises in creating and producing tactile stories for people with profound disabilities, advertised for a full time Craft Worker. The post was given to Rebekah Thomas who talks about the company’s objectives in fullfilling the literary and creative needs of people with physical and learning abilities.

I am an artist and designer at the start of a career specialising in contemporary architectural glass. I aim to create pieces in response to a given environment which allow people a variety of views on their surroundings and hopefully […]

Wax sculpture has traditionally been associated with the creation of doubles or stand-ins for the human body, whether for ritual or medical purposes. My work references these traditions, using wax bodies to explore fantasies of growth, decay and fragmentation. I […]

AdDressing Baby was a Year of the Artist residency at the Royal Pump Rooms Art Gallery and Museum in Leamington Spa, involving young parents and myself. The project brief was for the group to produce a series of conceptual baby […]

This exhibition houses a total of eighteen small canvases containing a host of discarded objects. ‘Excavations’ is an exploration of the spirituality of signs and symbols. Each piece is enhanced with painting, stitching and text in an attempt to reconfigure […]

I am working as artist team-leader on Artlink’s FUSION project that has been taking place in hospitals throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians. In my time on this programme, I have explored new ways of working through creative collaborations with patients, […]

“My deepest desire regarding contemporary music is to hear it all, not successively, but all at once at the same time. Everything together! But perhaps that’s a perverse wish”, John Cage. My wish is to make something contrary to what […]

I was commissioned to design a light sculpture for West Street in central Brighton as part of the ‘Per Cent for Art’ project. The project aims to improve the environment of the city’s urban spaces and is being run by […]

The paintings from my year-long residency at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit at the Royal London Hospital are a visual record of the faces unveiled during surgery, and the resulting changes in the appearance of the sitters. They are […]

Zarina Bhimji and Nicola Percy were artists in residence at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for thirty days, between September 2000 and January 2001. The NIMR, the largest institute of the Medical Research Council, is dedicated to biomedical research on a cellular level. The residency was research-based and each artist followed a different path.

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1992, I have pursued a parallel career as a practising artist producing work for exhibition and as a tutor. I am currently a part-time tutor at the Visual Arts Studio @ Tramway, […]

Since I can remember I have been fascinated by optical illusions. During my degree in three-dimensional design at the University of Central Lancashire, I researched into the work of Op artists such as Bridget Riley and Victor Vasserley. Using the […]

Throughout my work, I have used a range of materials, whilst trying to maintain their unique peculiarities and characteristics. In the last few years I have become increasingly interested in casting, and have experimented by pouring concrete into moulds, excavated […]

My Interest in movement in relation to natural change has led me on a personal quest into the exploration of changed states of matter: decay, disintegration, movement, relocation and reformation. My enquiry has enabled me to make links between the […]

In January 2000, all West Sussex schools were invited to participate in an art and design project in celebration of children’s ideas about their environment. The aim was to encourage four to sixteen-year-olds to contribute pen drawings, which showed their […]

In the November 1998 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE, Corridor Arts advertised for a multi-media artist to work on a three-year project with a range of people to produce their own digital images and video art. The post was given to artist Helen Ward, who talks about this opportunity to combine both her participatory and commissioned work.

My current projects are very diverse, allowing me to operate within dramatically different scales, concepts, sites and media. My career has involved solo shows at home and abroad, and commissions from art foundations, museums and corporate bodies to create installations […]

My interest in funerals began when I was asked to make a coffin for a newborn child who had died and was to be cremated. Prior to this, carrying a coffin, lowering it into the earth and the scattering of […]

I love the rich ambiguity that arises in written language and this enjoyment extends into the visual language of my photographic artwork. My current touring exhibition, ‘Translucent Exposures’, consists entirely of photograms. The fascination of these images for me is […]

A Year of the Artist residency gave me the opportunity to work in Gateshead Civic Centre for 1.5 days per week over a period of a year. During the last few months I have been involved in a range of […]