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 practice that maintains a highly feminine quality.

It deals with identity and the idea of a feminine space within painting.

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, coupled with the reductive process of carving, allows new options to be presented at each phase of the work, allowing new forms to challenge the intended plan.

This decision-making process is the most crucial part of carving. As unconsidered options present themselves, the decision as to which route to follow becomes, increasingly, important to the final outcome.

'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 in hand built and cast fibreglass resin.

Exhibits nationally and has work in private collections in Britain, Europe and USA.
Commissioned to create Public artworks throughout the UK.

Extensive experience of leading workshops, projects and residencies with schools and communities.

Web: www.faithbebbington.co.uk

'Climbing figure with shackle' - Hand built fibreglass resin with iron shackle. Created for 'Hawkins & Co' exhibition at Novas Contemporary Urban Centre

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 forsaken plots.

Forming spectral, inverted images which intimate four dimensions.

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 – through the language of textiles she is able to uncover rich connections and communicate latent emotions.

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 21^st Century norms.

What is evident in his line of enquiry is the constant rewiring of liveness,  improvisational structures and the modes of presence within the narratives he creates.

Web: www.liamikey.co.uk

Wet From Birth

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 of your own – Sian will be running several one hour ‘Taster for a Tenner’ booked sessions during the weekend.

Booking for these sessions is essential. Contact Sian at art@sianhughes.plus.com

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 to real things in my painting even if they in themselves do not reflect a definite reality. Everything goes into the mix and is made visible on the canvas.

Hence there are references to historical events and hints at social comment and contemporary issues; straightforward studies from the everyday and of imaginary landscapes.

Imperfect Synthesis of Recolection II

Artist: Damian Cruikshank
Studio: The Bridewell