Current Members

Pete Williams

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Bio

Educated at Cheltenham School of Art BA Hons’ Printmaking 1986-89 then went on to Brighton University completing a Fine Art Printmaking Post –Graduate Degree in 1989-91.

Pete Williams is a print-maker, with a long-standing reputation as a professional artist in Wales. He is the co-founder & director of the Print Market Project Cardiff, est’1996 to the present day. Originally at Chapter Arts Centre until 2007 but relocated to a converted 18th Century Barn which now operates as a fully equipped printmaking studio and gallery.

Williams calls it ‘A most Important Space’

Exhibiting both nationally and internationally for over twenty years Williams has formed strong links in the world of Print in particular USA & China. He was made International Projects manager for Wales Arts International during this time and completed many residencies in both Wales and the Republic of Ireland from 2008-10

In 2009-12 he was the temporary exhibition curator for the Howard Gardens Gallery and the CBAT Gallery in Cardiff respectively.

He’s currently an associate lecturer in Swansea & Cardiff Metropolitan Universities and Carmarthen School of Art and more recently runs various print related projects at the Welsh School of Architecture.

In 2014 he was made Fellow of the RSA Wales/Cymru and Chair of the 56GroupWales in 2016.

Member Since 2014
Statement

I have run many miles over the years, which I find, helps me to relax and prioritise my thoughts. Although I tend not to think about anything but running. Being an artist that predominately uses print it was only a matter of time until my ideas and thoughts transgressed toward how I could use my time running into making art.

I guess it was inevitable, a natural progression.

In this case, zinc-etching plates are fixed to my trainers and record my journey from A to B.  I make note of the mileage, distance and steps taken but on return I simply ink up my plates and print the journey. A kind of unintentional map that has shown my route in a series of marks, dents and scratches. As dry points, the edition may be quite small but that is Ok because it gives me a good cause to go out running again.

www.printmarketproject.com

Peter Spriggs

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Bio

Peter Spriggs was born in Cardiff. He was awarded a First Class Honours in BA Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University and MA(RCA) from the Painting School, Royal College of Art, London.
Presently, he is a lecturer in Fine Art at Carmarthen School of Art at Coleg Sir Gar.
He is a recipient of Arts Council of Wales Awards: Travel Award – Barcelona and a Creative Wales Award  – Canada. A British Council International Programme Development Award facilitated a further trio to Canada as a Visiting Lecturer at Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
He has shown work in all Painting – Ysbryd/Spirit – Wales exhibitions throughout the 1990’s and all 56 Group Wales exhibitions since he became a member in 1997.
Recently he has worked with printmaking as well as painting and is one of Swansea Print Workshop’s Directors. An on-going project involves producing print-portraits of one hundred poets and writers in Wales.

Member Since 1997
Statement

A painting, or a print, is eventually completed and there was nothing easy about this.

It has layers of emotion and turmoil, time and labour, and eventually, resolution.

 

Kevin Sinnott

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Bio

Born in Sarn, South Wales in 1947, Kevin Sinnott is a contemporary Welsh artist with a truly international reputation. He trained at Cardiff College of Art & Design, Gloucestershire College of Art & Design and at the Royal College of Art, London. Kevin remained in London throughout the 1970s and 80s, building a very successful career, and exhibiting at leading London galleries, major galleries in the USA and mainland Europe.

Kevin’s work is collected worldwide and he is represented in many important public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His large canvas, ‘Running Away with the Hairdresser’ has proved to be one of the National Museum and Galleries of Wales’s most popular acquisitions.

Kevin returned to live in Wales in 1995 and has quickly established himself at the forefront of the renaissance in Welsh painting. While his work is primarily concerned with human relationships, the influence of the south Wales landscape is strongly felt in his paintings. He was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2007.

Member Since 2009
Statement

For most of my career I have invented the content of my pictures, sometimes relying for content on my knowledge of past and present art. I would conjure up some figures and perhaps place them in an imaginary albeit stereotypical landscape. Since 2007, however, I have occasionally been taking a box of oil colour outside when the weather permitted. In the summer just gone I spend several mornings and evenings in and over-looking Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan coast.The ‘en plein air’ oil studies are now all over the studio and the resulting larger canvasses will hopefully be exhibited next year.

http://www.kevinsinnott.co.uk/

Christopher Shurrock

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Bio

Christopher Shurrock was born and educated in Bristol, from 1955 at West of England College of Art studying Intermediate /Lithography, a rigorous regime of drawing continuing into the Painting School, qualifying with National Diploma in Painting (Special) 1959. Post graduate at Cardiff College of Art/University of Wales, Art Teachers’ Diploma (Dist’) 1960.

He was Art Advisor/Community Tutor, University Settlement, Barton Hill, Bristol 1961-2. Full time Assistant Lecturer with Cardiff College of Art from 1962, progressing to Senior Lecturer/Director of the Foundation Course in Art & Design, retiring in 1991.

Thereafter lecturing part time, founding Co-ordinator for Cardiff Open School and visiting lecturer for HND courses. Later developing structured life drawing programmes until 2011.

Invited to exhibit initially with Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff & Axiom Gallery, London from 1960’s
Represented in permanent public collections including, National Museum of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Bristol City Art Gallery, National Gallery of Slovakia, Bratislava, County Council, University and private collections.

Memberships:-
Royal West of England Academy elected 1971
Printmakers Council 1970-1976
South Wales Group 1960’s

Member Since 1967
Statement

(a draft for drawing towards structure)

It is a blessing to have senses; with drawing as a necessary external process, poised to unravel uncertainties inherent in observing, thinking and remembering, hopefully capable of clarifying doubt and eventually informing action.
Drawings are fundamentally working tools, confronting blockages, panics and confusions; the function of component marks continually interrogated their significance often in inverse proportion to superficial appearances. Thus a drawing on the verge of anticipated clarity can dissolve proposing yet more challenges. If it is the ‘anticipated content’ which is continually re-examined then deciphering the significance of marks can paradoxically be problematic. It is fortunate to have these opportunities, but the recurring dilemma is whether anything needs to be shown,
Drawing can cut through the obscure, but it requires a balancing of perception hopefully with probity to avoid assumptions and superfluities, such processes have urgent applicability in a wider world, time is needed ‘for the owl to fly’.

February 2016

 

Peter Seabourne

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Bio

Peter Seabourne was born in 1944 and trained at Newport College of Art, Manchester College of Art and Design, Cardiff College of Art (UWIC) and the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He taught in schools and colleges in both England and Wales eventually becoming Faculty Head at Coleg Gwent. He has exhibited throughout the UK including several one-man shows. He has work in a number of private collections and is a member of the 56 Group.

Member Since 2004
Statement

 

Corinthe Rizvi

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2018

Bio

Corinthe Rizvi was born in the UK, but grew up in Hong Kong and Canada and has traveled extensively. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins School of Art and Design, and Arts Computing at Goldsmiths College in London. Alongside making & exhibiting she also has a creative social practice working primarily with people with additional support needs.

Member Since 2015
Statement

Process leaves a trace: on materials / of the body / in the indexicality of a photograph / of the incidental in the planned. Making work, I conflate performance, symbolism and process. My process is deliberately loosely controlled to allow for the inclusion of chance and to force adaptations that are an essential element of the work.

I am interested in metaphors for awareness: the experience of sensory perception overlayed with the inescapable habits of the gestalt of pattern recognition, and in visual memory and nostalgia; images ‘in the minds eye’.

corinthe-rizvi.com

Tiff Oben

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Bio

Born in Essex, Oben studied at Camberwell and the University of Glamorgan, where she received both BA and MA.  Her graduate show won the Arts Council Wales Brian Ross Graduate Award and the University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize.  Oben continues her relationship with the university, teaching art history, theory, criticism at BA and MA levels.  Alongside teaching, Oben continues to make and exhibit her own artwork and has exhibited widely through out Wales and England including Tate Modern.  Following her two year fellowship with the 56 Group Wales, Oben was offered full membership and accepted the role as group secretary.

Member Since 2014
Statement

My work is multi-disciplinary comprising of performance, installation, and participation as well as more recognizable art forms such as print, collage and photography. Subject matter is often political and at times antagonistic, attacking even the institutions of art, its objects, its artists and its viewers. With tongue in cheek, I aggravate; with difficulty and guilt, I dispel ethics, always for our own good, to play with ideas of the artist as hostile, antagonist, insinuator, show-off, trickster, escapist, immoralist, deceiver and seducer in creative acts that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and lies.

tiffoben.wordpress.com

 

Alison Lochhead

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Bio

Alison Lochhead studied art and ceramics at Loughborough College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1971 – 1975.  During this period she became very interested in weaving and she received a scholarship to study tapestry weaving in Poland for a year.  On her return to Britain she set up as a tapestry weaver.  Alison has always loved traveling and in 1981 she got a job for three years in the Sultanate of Oman working alongside the Bedouins.  Alison was inspired by the incredible rock formations in Oman and back in Britain started to work with paper pulp creating large wall pieces and continued to work with paper until about 1997.  Alison then returned to working in clay, and in the last 8 years has incorporated cast iron within her sculptures; increasing the tensions of materials with the firing of the ceramic and the pouring of molten iron within the fired work. Recently Alison has started working with collograph prints, increasing her exploration of textures and layered imagery.

After working in Oman, Alison became very interested in participative development and the gender politics that surround the development process, as well as daily life.  She continued to work internationally in the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and Asia until September 2013.  The experiences from this work are reflected in her artwork. 

Alison Lochhead was born in Cardiff and grew up in Swansea. She was one of the founding members of the Swansea Arts and Designers in Wales (AADW) group in Swansea, who brought the present Mission Gallery to life, as well as the artists’ workshops above the Dylan Thomas theatre. After travelling the world Alison moved back to West Wales in 1994. She has exhibited widely from 1977 to the present day, with 20 one-person shows and over 60 group exhibitions.

Alison is a member of Sculpture Cymru and the chair of Celf Ceredigion Art, an organisation who ran the contemporary art space in Aberystwyth; Gas Gallery/Oriel Nwy from May 2013 – September 2015.

Member Since 2012
Statement

My work reflects upon the memory of actions and experiences of people over time. The earth retains the marks made by humans and the memory of their presence and the injustices inflicted. Each person’s memory and experience is different and only parts remain, there is no ‘wholeness’, only fragments, but when different memories are pieced together they make a collective reflection and memory.

I work with different materials, all integral from the earth and with their own strengths and reaction to heat and to each other; iron, clay, oxides, wood.  In the kiln alchemy takes place as the various materials are drawn together or reject each other, they are transformed.  The reaction of the molten iron onto the ceramic, wood and other materials is equally unknown. Memories are fragile and transitory; as is much of my work.

My recent work has been based on the lead mines in the Cambrian Mountains, Wales. Using mainly clay, cast iron, wood and rocks taken from the Cambrian Mountain lead mines; the work explores the stories and marks made on the landscape and the memories from deep within the mines. Current work is based on the layered memories of conflict and war as well as working with two other artists to explore creative interpretations of astronomical research with Leicester University.

www.alisonlochhead.co.uk

Kay Keogh

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Bio

Kay Keoghs artwork takes a critical view and works on the proposition that we regulate what is reveal and what is conceal about ourselves. This has stirred an interest into the sense of the uncanny, where secrecy is disguised with openness, a marked turn in general from reassurance toward a fascination with anxiety and angst. This generates a kind of negative aesthetic within her work.

Member Since 2014
Statement

The uncanny is something fearful and frightening, and as such it has been neglected in art history . But Modernism marks a turn in a general toward a fascination with the ugly, the grotesque: a kind of “negative” aesthetics. Freud’s essay The Uncanny makes a contribution to this, by examining what we might call the aesthetics of the “fearful,” the aesthetics of anxiety. 

http://www.kaykeogh.com/

Martyn Jones

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Bio

Martyn Jones is a contemporary painter who works from his studio based in Cardiff, Wales, U.K. Jones graduated M.A. Fine Art, at Chelsea School of Art, London and was awarded Junior Fellowship at Bath Academy of Art. Among his tutors were the British artists Patrick Heron and Peter Kinley.

New work for 2016 will be represented at Art Fair Cologne, Bebb Fine Art U.K. and Espacio 120, Barcelona. Solo shows have included Robert Steele Gallery New York, Artefact Pardo Gallery, U.S.A., Ffin-y-Parc Gallery and Kooywood Gallery, Wales. Work has also been exhibited at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales.

Member Since 1995
Statement

Colour has always played a fundamental role in my painting. The importance of colour was impressed on me at an early stage, by the British artist Patrick Heron. My paintings explore and are specific to, the theme of ‘place and time’. The work is descriptive in essence, natural shape and form taken from the world at large. Ideas for paintings begin with preliminary studies ‘in situ’, working directly from primary sources. Initial ideas are translated into larger scale paintings, working on paper or canvas. The compositional elements that are employed within each painting aim to capture a spirit of immediacy and simplicity.

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