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My work is mostly about perception: the way we look at the world, building up an image of the whole from different fragments.

Jane Watt speaks to Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie about their practice, the Bata-ville project and working with Commissions East.

Paul Glinkowski talks to Mark Beasley at the start of his Fellowship at Kingston University.

It was raining. Real rain; I could feel the ink washing off the drawings I carried in a bundle under my arm.

I thought I was the audience and then I looked at you began by accident.

Jane Watt talks to Dalziel + Scullion about their collaborative practice, unusual studio set up and processes involved in their commission for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

Jane Watt profiles PACE, public art commissioning agent for Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

East Street Arts (ESA) is a model example of what the purchase and refit of studios involves.

More than just a studios building, Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA) represents a hub for artists in the area.

Artist Bill Drummond is twinning Kensington in Liverpool with Kensington in London – through kettles.

I’m drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.

There are things I want to touch or hold that lie beyond my reach, and ways to bring them closer.

Jean Grant believes in “Art Action Change

Peacock Yard, in Kennington, south east London, is the base for our artistic partnership formed in 1993.

I have always been inquisitive about technology.

In June 2003 I was awarded the art and science residency at Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire.

In summer 2003 I took part in Excavate Overlay, a multi-disciplinary project involving artists, a writer/ anthropologist, archaeologists and members of a rural community in Caithness, Scotland.

“I’m drifting far out in space with Michael Jackson’s face, and all I want to do is get back home.”

My practice as an artist is about escape, about losing myself in the process of making art, escaping the world.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 with an MA in ceramics, I have been practising as a ceramic designer and producer.

‘Painting with light’ was a phrase I first heard whilst studying for my degree in architectural glass.

Where do I start to tell you my story as an artist?

In the summer of 2003 I was one of five artists resident in Ivvavik Park, North West Canada.

Dark and claustrophobic, suffocating like it was no bigger than a box; upon opening its door her bedroom feels as tiny as a room in a dolls house.