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Kira O'Reilly
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Kira O’Reilly

Kira O’Reilly is the latest in a long line of female practitioners to investigate issues surrounding representation of the body and gender via that most direct tool of the artist’s palette: performance art. Below she writes about the principle concerns of her practice, whilst also assessing suitable contexts for the mediation of such work.

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Urban Myth
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John Mackechnie

A five-week photographic expedition to the USA in 1982 gave me the opportunity to travel to Miami, New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco.

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Rotating Door
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Tom Cox-Bisham

Using sculpture and installation, much of my work deals with the reinterpretation and colonisation of space – both hidden and visible.

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High Noon at 12
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Pat Naldi

My work centres on physical and cultural colonisation on a personal and political level.

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My Favourite Shoes (detail)
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Andrew Tims

Court shoes, wedding hats, posh handbags and pearly-pink eyeshadow are among the day-to-day objects which have fascinated me since I was a teenager.

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epic
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Marion Coutts

I am in Liverpool for six months. At the moment my studio in the Tate Liverpool contains some large items of gym equipment, a working lion’s-head fountain, a tea urn, several televisions and hundreds of lightbulbs.

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Daisy Chair
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Ticky Lowe

I use constructed textiles to create sculpture built onto the carcasses of old chairs.

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You could be anywhere 2000
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Shauna McMullan

The gradual loss of a sense of place (because we live for the most part nowadays in ‘in between’ or ‘virtual’ places), and the disorientation which arises as a consequence, are among the factors which have created an obsession within my work with topography, urban plans, and the printed word.

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Creation dub
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Sean Fairman

I wanted to create a painting that resonated the sense of an echo, a rolling rhythm, a song without words, a version of creation.

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Bigg Market
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Jim Medway

My drawings are based on the observations, or are extrapolations from objects such as ice pop wrappers, empty boxes of bangers, and pledges of love scrawled on bus seats.

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blessed
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Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio was at the forefront of the 90s generation of contemporary visual artists – exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world.

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Fortune
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Chila Kumari Burman

My current installation work challenges what I believe to be one of the most mysoginistic and succesfull ad campaigns of the 90s – the Wonderbra advert.

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