ARTISTS
Brian Catling
Philip Ryder
Aaron Williamson was born in Derby in 1960 and is profoundly deaf. He studied a degree at Brighton Polytechnic and then MA at the University of Sussex, completing a Doctorate in textual theory entitled ‘Physiques of Inscription’ in 1997. He has exhibited and made performances across Europe, North America, China and Japan and lives and works in London. He was awarded the Helen Chadwick Fellowship in Rome, 2002, and the Wheatley Fellow in Sculpture at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, the University of Central England (2002 – 03) where he is now currently AHRC 3 Year Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts (2004 – 07). His books include Hearing Things (2001, Bookworks).
Katherine Araniello is a video artist. She completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 2004, and was awarded the Warden's purchase Prize for her Pop video I Like That. In 1999 she received a first class honours degree in Fine Art from London Guildhall University and was awarded the Owen Rowley Prize for her film Slapping. She has also performed in her multimedia singing duo under the pseudonym of Plastic Anorexic at venues around the UK, including the ICA in London. In 2002 Araniello received arts funding from the London Arts Council of England for her film Amplify. Her work has been screened at festivals throughout Europe, including the National Film Festival London and Retour D' Images in Paris, 2003. One of her concerns is how the films are read; is it possible for a non-disabled audience to critique the work from a neutral position? Dr Paul A. Darke, a writer and cultural critic, comments: “Katherine’s style and delivery is undermining the basics of non-disabled people’s lives – validation and rewards of being ‘normal’. She challenges their belief in normality.”
Brian Catling has produced a unique body of work that encompasses sculpture, poetry, installation work, performance art and video. He trained at the Royal College of Art and was the first Henry Moore Fellow of Sculpture at Norwich School of Art. His solo exhibitions and installations have an international reputation and include shows in London, Norway and Holland. Brian Catling is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford and Head of Sculpture and Graduate Studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His film works include Vanished and The Cutting (with Tony Grisoni and featuring Aaron Williamson).
Charlie Fennell
From very small age Charlie has had the passion and talent of show buisness! He later went to study drama, and then got the opportuntiy to attend one uk top drama school, which he graudated from. Sice then Charlie's credits includes various tv soaps, tv commericals, dramas and many theatre productions.
Laurence Harvey has been producing performance art pieces for over twelve years, sharing his absurdist world view of side-show morality, comic book semantics, cocktail chic and tender autobiographical moments with audiences at galleries and festivals throughout Europe, including: National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; The ICA, London; Ave Festival, The Netherlands; Avignon Festival, La Friche, Marseilles, etc. Television work includes numerous productions of The Warp (1998/99). Theatre work includes Leonce and Lena (Gate Theatre), The Man With the Absurdly Large Penis (Young Vic), The Man Who Walked Through Walls (BAC) and Bock and Vincenzi’s Breathtaking (BAC, UK tour and Edinburgh Festival). He has an MA in Fine Art Theory from Wimbledon CA.
Simon Raven was born in Gotham, Nottingham in 1978. He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and is a recent graduate from the MA sculpture course at The Royal College of Art. Raven is currently participating in a 7 month research program at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan. In 2001 he made a solo sculptural exhibition at the Voxx Gallery in Chemnitz, Germany, curated by Till Exit.
Juliet Robson is an artist who has been utilising mainly installation,sculpture, performance art, film and video for the past 11 years to explore and deconstruct the idea of the ‘norm’. Previous work has used her own unique language of movement when not using her wheelchair, to invite voyeurism from audience members and include them in a real time dialogue in order to challenge and question this voyeurism. She continued to explore these ideas as an academic visitor at the Computer Science, Creativity and Cognition Dept. of Loughborough University, funded by the Arts Council. Juliet produced and co-curated VITAL with Nottingham Casle Museum and Art Galleries, a season of contemporary art in venues throughout Nottingham, profiling new commissions from international artists. Alongside working as an artist, Robson has worked as a disability consultant for Arts Venues, organisations and events since 1996, was a board member, regular adviser and panel member for Arts Council East Midlands. Before starting her MA she was commissioned by Nottingham City Council, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, City Arts and YOTA to make a perminant sculpture for The Arboretum Park in Nottingham City Centre. She was recently awarded an Artist’s Bursary by Artsadmin based in Whitechapel, London. She has collaborated with Robert Pacitti a number of times, most recently in order to make one of the 3 Duets Premiered at Inbetweentimes, Arnilfini, Bristol. She has had two pieces of work chosen for The Ida Branson Memorial Exhibition at The Atkinson Gallery, and is completing an MA Fine Art at Reading University.
Philip Ryder work cuts right through the mediums of sound-sculpture, performance, installation, video, and film, and he was the founding member of culture-jamming group FANCLUB, and now the new STOMAC group. His work has been exhibited/toured in Europe, USA and Australia. Eight years ago he developed a condition preventing him from using his hands without physical pain. His determination to continue to practice as an artist and musician has directly inspired a set of hands-free works dealing with issues of hazard, deterioration and challenging artistic dexterity.