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The project I am currently working on is filmed in one of the BBC’s open-plan offices, an indirect result of the exposure involved in participating in ‘Beck’s Futures’ this year.

Usually I’m on the move. I have a tendency to spend between two days and two weeks somewhere and then move on.

I relate to my work as moving still-drawings rather than animation or video.

I studied at London College of Printing and spent the subsequent decade attempting to master print as a medium.

My performances are not shown in public. I build objects that are not sculptures and I use photography for documentation without a second thought.

My work explores the boundaries between the physical body and the body of a site.

My inspiration comes from the visual impact of an aggregate assembled with many small components.

For the last five years I have painted cowboys, explorers and criminals – men seeking liberation outside the laws and limits of society in dangerous, exhilarating places.

My watercolours came about when I realised how traditional perceptions of art can be.

In 1999 we visited Moscow for the first time and whilst there contacted the British Council to propose a new work looking at aspects of the Russian space programme.

The more I see of painting, the less I understand it. But I know how it makes me feel.

I work predominantly with glass and light, experimenting with these combined mediums to discover visual qualities that inform my ideas.

Over the last ten years I have been involved in a series of ambitious publicly sited projects that have been diverse, both in their physical appearance and their scale, whilst fulfilling various conceptual criteria.

Over the past twenty-three years working with glass I have come to love the material even more than when I started.

My first exhibition after leaving college was the Serpentine Summer Show (sadly no longer in existence) which catapulted me into the art world.

I usually make a distinction between working collaboratively, as one third of Brass Art, and the work I make alone.

I like to make extraordinary things derived from the ordinary.

My practice is concerned with social and political issues; the visual language I use resides within a traditional aesthetic of truth and beauty.

Curiosity for transformation is the driving force behind my work.

As an artist-photographer my work is broad and covers many genres of photographic imagery.

My past projects led me to reflect on the fact that commissions were affecting the way I made work, I felt that I needed to work without deadlines or commission agendas.

I have been painting for over fifteen years, and I always feel there is something new around the corner, waiting to be discovered.

Laurence Ward, artist-in-residence for the Community Arts Project (CAP), Darlington shares his experience of working with adults with learning disabilities and how this has enhanced his own practice.

My work explores representations of physicality and the relationship between physical and virtual space.