Lin
Charlston - a book artist and a founder member of the group "Faction"
who exhibit regularly in London. Her work is held in public collections
including Tate Britain, the British Library and the John M Flaxman Library
, Chicago.
www.faction.org.uk
Image: " WYSIWYG - first thing in the morning" 2004. Printed on metal foil and bound with white towelling. Three vectors of reality compete for attention in the bathroom.
Mike
Clements - has undertaken several mail art events in the past,
including a celebration of HM The Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002. Mike
runs The Sidney Nolan Trust's
printmaking programme and studio at Presteigne, exhibits regularly and
teaches fine art printmaking. He has also been involved as a volunteer
with CPRE for many years.
Image: some of the 144 participants at a mail art event to celebrate HM The Queen's Golden Jubilee tribute in 2002. Each participant was sent by post a postcard-sized fragment of a mystery image and all came together at the event to reassemble the full picture. Nobody guessed in advance that the fragment they had received was simply part of a large version of the second class postage stamp that was used to send their cards.
Amanda Attfield - a founder member of the Hereford Poetry Group. She has run and facilitated poetry workshops and performed poetry in a variety of settings. Twice short-listed for the Housman prize. A member of Border Poets; recently her work was exhibited as part of a Border Poets collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts Alumni. Recent poems:
| SUSPENSION Half things. Half trees, half light, half dark. A place of half people. One shoe. Half a satin bra. A single sock, and though it is nowhere near the sea, a beach sandal. Buildings here are skeletons, that rattle out a bony existence, a defensive line defying designers. And who first quoted door furniture? - as though doors were to sit on, or fit out in shabby chic. Where are the other halves? Did they start with two and lose one, or was one always lost? A seagull chases up from the Wye, a broadening, sickle shaped plough share, sky opener, cloud compass. It stoops and boomerangs half back toward the ocean, holds the air, cuts half here, half there, a hanged man. The seagull’s unfinished call echoes in hill top hollow, spills out over Bartonsham flats below. Amanda Attfield April - revised 29th May – 3rd July 2006 |
SHAKING In the dining room all around were stacks of paper, silt left by a retreating sea. I wondered could we relocate this wholeness, like Ephesus rebuild pillars and streets, refind sacred places, make some sacrifices maybe, if we knew which gods to pray to, ask them to retilt our axis and resolve ourselves like the clouds. I don’t know why hands tremble sometimes, and whole bodies shake, but they do. I remember that Larsen trap and you caught a magpie and fed it, watered it every day to lure the others to it. Then you dealt with them. You did that because you had to because you said it had to be done. It all had to be done. Amanda Attfield 16th May 2006 |
Barbara Bromhead-Wragg - a fine art painter/printmaker/photographer, with a strong interest in landscape conservation. She works from home and from The Sidney Nolan Trust's studio near Presteigne. She has exhibited in group shows prior to graduating in 2003 and a solo exhibition in 2005. Barbara has worked for CPRE Herefordshire, providing Admin support, since 2003. She is also the curator for this exhibition.
Image: "Haven" painting
Jason Hodges - a fine art digital photographer and an exhibiting member of two local art groups: The Hereford Arts & Crafts Society and Artistree, based in Ledbury. Jason has exhibited at a number of joint or solo shows in Herefordshire & beyond, including "Paradise Lost" at St Peter's Church in Hereford.
Image: "Blue Harvest" - digitally altered photograph
Inge Wright - fine art printmaker. Exhibits regularly, in UK and overseas, including in America. Works from her studio in Whitney-on-Wye and from The Sidney Nolan Trust's printmaking studio near Presteigne.
Image: "White Menace" - collagraph print
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