Artist: Emma Sumner Studio: Elevator Artists Visual Artist working in Mixed Media About My Work: My work is a hybrid practice that draws together the genres of painting, sculpture and textiles. It is an expanded practice, but draws mostly on the principles of painting.  It is a complex, yet decorative...

Artist: Janet Wilkinson Studio: The Bridewell Janet Wilkinson works with vintage textiles, stitch and print to produce pieces of work that evoke memories and strong personal responses.

Artist: Stephen Hitchin Studio: The Bridewell The role of drawing is vital in the relationship between the initial idea and the block of stone. As the work is loosened from the block, initial ideas and forms are always confronted by new options, some declined and some taken. The physical nature of stone,...

'Skydiver' - Cast fibreglass figure on a pulley, commissioned by Derby City Council for a new special school. See the original sculpture used for casting this piece at the studio. Artist: Faith Bebbington Studio: The Bridewell Member of Bridewell for over fifteen years. Creates dynamic sculptures...

Artist: Jim Loftus Studio: The Bridewell I reverse-engineer instruments associated with art, science, architecture and ritual. Proposing a notional point of convergence between these disciplines. I deploy these functional sculptures to survey the city’s dark matter of neglected structures and...

Artist: Tabitha Moses Studio: The Bridewell Tabitha Moses is an explorer of objects and clothing as transmitters of human experience. She utilises domestic materials and craft processes in creating work with conceptual weight and emotional depth. Fabric and stitch are central to her practice –...

Now My Heart is Full Artist: Liam Greenall Studio: Red Wire Liam Greenall’s practice is interdisciplinary. His work fuses together themes based around identity based politics, queer theory and cultural bodies within 21st Century norms. What is evident in his line of enquiry is the constant rewiring...

Artist: Sian Hughes Studio: The Bridewell Sian Hughes will be opening her first floor studio at the Bridewell during the Open Studio Weekend. (see Main Bridewell Studios Information for Opening times). You’re welcome to call in and see her work. If you would like to have a go at creating a Cyanotype...

Imperfect Synthesis of Recolection I Artist: Frank Linnett Studio: The Bridewell Working on the premise that all things are useful when decanting influences into a visual form, allows me to exploit a variety of disparate subject matter for my own ends. It is important that there are visible references...

Artist: Damian Cruikshank Studio: The Bridewell Folding takes place after appropriate lines are mapped out and scored, surfaces evolve and edges meet to create internal voids. Throughout this work I have been concerned with issues of frailty and transience, an opposition to our general expectation...

the ship Artist: David Penny Studio: Red Wire David Penny is a photographic artist interested in the life of functional and ornamental things. Working with still and moving image, and often incorporating found objects, his studio practice creates simple exhibition installations that are framed around...

genetrix mother Artist: Lisa Who Studio: Curve Born in Australia, Lisa Who has spent the past ten years travelling, working and exhibiting throughout Europe before establishing a permanent studio in Liverpool in 2005. She is also the co-director and curator of Curve Gallery Liverpool: an independent...

Artist: Karen OBrien Studio: Red Wire Painting. Drawing. Other stuff – but mostly painting

Untitled Book by me presents 2005 Artist: Julie Martin : me presents Studio: Red Wire I go by the pseudonym; me presents. I recycle imagery and text based on the idea of recycling thoughts and memories, based on my beliefs that memories are formed, can be altered and therefore recycled. Since graduating...

Artist: Katie Halsall Studio: Red Wire Katie Halsall has been resident at Red Wire studios for the past four years during which she has exhibited work both local and nationally, Katie’s current work sees her using imagery from vintage women’s magazines layered with acrylic paint, glue and...

Artist: electro33 Studio: Red Wire electro33 is the by-product of a lifetime of media over-saturation, high sugar energy drinks and late night mixed media marathons. Prone to making life-changing decisions on a whim, electro33 creates art to amuse and confuse; experimental, semi-mental and sentimental,...

Artist Alan Williams Studio: Red Wire Working in a number of different disciplines including drawing, sculpture, installation, video and sound Alan Williams aims to express and to communicate certain ideas surrounding the subconscious, Art, society, representations of sex and bizarre sexual fantasies. A...

Artist: Ilsa Parry Studio: REthinkthings In 2007  Ilsa was chosen to create public art for large companies such as Riverside housing association, United Utilities and the Culture Company and has won competitive tenders such as her design for the 08 Iconic public seating bench for the city of Liverpool....