RESIDENT ARTISTS

Hannah Browne

Hans Browne describes themselves as a performance based artist, who's work explores the relationship between trust and control. Their work has been presented nationally, from the Bridewell Gallery in Liverpool to The Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey, as well as travelling internationally to Moscow in early 2024.

"I use play to consider how we can interrupt the systemic pressures we face from day-to-day and lead audiences through interventions where they must focus on their own decisions. I often use walls and secrets to present people with a moment in which they must face a vulnerability, then consequently find a way to embrace it moving onwards. My work is often led by what participants bring to the situation and is an exchange of presence."

Clare Buckley

Having worked in London, Paris and Australia and with a background in storytelling, Clare has a particular interest in poetry and photography. Specialising in art direction and fashion styling, Clare is drawn to vintage and analogue image making, along with still life and food photography.

Clare has worked extensively in creative art education and has developed creative degree programmes both in Lancashire and London. Clare is currently working on a book and exhibition project with the Colombian French photographer Karen Paolina Biswell in Paris . In recent years she has collaborated across numerous publishing, media, film, music and art projects, combining these interests with both celebrity and editorial photography work.

Lucy Sanderson

@lucysandersonart

Lucy Sanderson works with a wide range of media and artists. Over the last 15 years, a consistent theme in her work is the creation of highly textured, layered and unique effects. Lucy has considerable experience in shaping accessible and engaging events for all ages, through an exciting range of projects, including community led festivals. In 2020, Lucy designed, developed and delivered a 12-week programme of accessible online art classes.

"I have always found peace, inspiration and connection through creativity and find it a tonic to the more mundane and difficult elements of life. I work to embrace the uncertainty and unpredictability of life and to develop an artistic practice that is congruent with my values, skills and purpose. I am inspired by the natural world and the creative people in my life."

Adam Thomas

@adamm.tthomas

www.adamthomasfilms.co.uk

A BAFTA nominated photographer and videographer, Adam Thomas comes to us with a wealth of experience ranging from film to music videos.

"I have always enjoyed portraying the real person in front of the camera or trying to add that extra depth to the character in my films. My latest project is entitled Artisan Artists, where I am filming a series of various people with artisan skills. I hope to produce a book to go along with the film incorporating photographs and extracts from interviews conducted with the artists."

Naomi Ryder

Naomi Ryder is an early career Oil painter, who's large scale portraiture work has previously been awarded the Welsh Portrait Award.

"My art is connected to people. I want to make work that reflects people, who they are and their inner self. Their connection with the world around them, how that plays out, the representations of themselves, their thoughts and their beliefs."

Andrew Craig Jones

@andrew.craig.jones

With a background in textile design, having studied at Glasgow School of Art, Andrew Craig Jones worked in the interior and furniture design industries. Returning to his artistic practice, Craig studied classical realist drawing and painting at Barcelona Academy of Art.

Craig develops his work by observing nature and combining ‘plein air’ studies and botanical drawings. His technique of paint application creates a textural quality to his work, which includes both landscape and still life paintings. Currently working from his studio in Lancaster, Craig has lived in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Jane Timshle

www.timshle.com

As a self-employed artist for more than 30 years, Jane Timshle's creative endeavours have taken on many forms. Originally trained as a sculptor (BA Hons, Sheffield Hallam and MA, Virginia Commonwealth University), she has since turned her hand to teaching adults and young people, creating props and sets for theatre, installation and events and photographic performances along with continuing her own work.

"When not collaborating and just doing my own thing, thoughts arise that then need expressing through the creative making process. I may take a few years to get it ‘right’, but eventually it communicates back to me - then it’s done. Older work which evokes empty spaces where people have left, has more recently, been supplanted by abstract figurative sculpture and printmaking."

Meg Bowyer

@meg_bowyer_

Meg Bowyer is an artist, writer, and curator from the northwest of England, whose work seeks to explore personal relationships with home landscapes, territories, and ecologies. Megs visual works utilise a variety of different mediums including soft pastel, graphite, digital print, egg tempera, ceramic, and foraged plant matter. Meg is primarily trained in drawing, having recently graduated from Paris College of Art with an Master of Fine Arts in Drawing.

Her 2023 graduate exhibition 'My Flaws and Charms Won’t Work Here' was displayed at the Bastille Design Centre in Paris,
and looked specifically to the complex ecology of Cumbria and Lancashire - linking graphite mining, nuclear power, agriculture, and folklore. Meg’s works in drawing, ceramic, and writing aim to hold a mysterious narrative quality, depicting strange, weird, and queer events within the landscape, often featuring mythic personal objects and mutated biologies.

Alice Evans

www.aliceevansfineart.co.uk

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Alice Evans is a visual artist and filmmaker working in a range of media. Alice has exhibited her work prolifically both in the UK and further afield. In 202O she was awarded a PhD from Chelsea College of Art having undertaken practice-led research “Five ‘Exits’ from Brecht - Towards New Brechtian Subjectivities in Artists’ Film”.

Rae Tribbick

www.raetribbick.co.uk

www.raeceramics.co.uk

@rae_tribbick

Rae Tribbick is a process driven artist, writer, and sculptor. Her work is largely about exploration and innovation, trying new forms of work until they teach her something new about herself or those around her. She is a trained medical statistician, and strives to bring that love of science into her work as an artist.

"My work explores identity. I examine the ways in which stories we tell ourselves influence our own identity: Memories from childhood. Genetic inheritance.

I look at how we can enjoy, preserve and honour these relationships and stories through a range of mediums including free form writing, poetry, mark making and sculpture. My 3D work uses found objects and natural fibres, but I specialise in ceramics, enjoying the tactile nature of clay."

Sarah Galloway

www.sarahgallowayglass.com

@sarahgallowayartglass

Sarah Galloway is a UK based artist working in contemporary architectural glass, drawing, painting and screen printing. One of the original artists to work within Birmingham's Custard Factory in the nineties, Sarah continues to experiment and adopt innovative techniques in glass. Her glass and public realm works can be seen in over fifty public venues across the UK, including at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, West Leigh Baptist Church in Essex and Oban town centre.

"My drawing and fascination with flowers and plants is an ongoing theme that I have. They are visual collection of moments in time, memories and journeys. I was given my first flower press when I was 6 years old, along with a book of wildflowers. Over the years I have become interested in the symbolism of plants, their healing qualities and their use in medicine. My practice involves collection, pressing, drawing, painting and screen printing my observations and studies."

Alan Morris is a teacher, social documentary photographer and writer. Alan has taught in a number of institutions, including as MA Course Leader for the Entrepreneurship for Creative Practice programme at Arts University Plymouth and Course Leader for the BA(Hons) Fine Art programme at the University of Gloucestershire. From his portraits of Birmingham residents facing eviction, to an exploration of Morecambe Bay, Alan's photography explores the impact of political choices on our social and topographical landscape.

"My project United Kingdom explores the adverse impact of capitalism and the increasingly divisive policies pursued by British governments in recent decades. Documenting aspects of both the current social and environmental fabric of the United Kingdom, I am seeking to reveal some of the realities of pursuing an increasingly damaging neo-liberal political agenda."

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