Studio members

NAP & Nico

Posted on Feb 6, 2012 in Studio members | 0 comments

As a studio member of Backlit I am a practising in-house artist focusing on Abstract Surrealism that develops from the subconscious inner sanctum of one’s most deep desires and thoughts. Just as I write my poetry and reviews, I paint quickly, utilizing the texture and movement of oil paints to create a blurred vision of colourful in site into my own personalities, which allows a open and frank debate into my own subconscious. My art is completely self-centred, a reflection of my experiences and surroundings that is institutionalised into subconscious thought, which is then transferred...

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Tracey McMaster

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in Studio members | 0 comments

Tracey McMaster

            Tracey McMaster is an artist and curator whose work originates from the social and cultural context within which it is produced, involving the audience as catalysts and collaborators, making the familiar humorous and absurd. McMaster experiments with restrictions, language and the dialogue with the audience, often making the audience rethink their own environments through the form of live art, video,...

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Jon Pask

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in Studio members | 1 comment

Jon Pask

            In 1972, Jon Pask was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn’t commit. He promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Jon...

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Heather Connelly

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in Studio members | 0 comments

Heather Connelly

  Statement I am currently a PhD researcher in the Fine Art department at Loughborough University. My research uses art practice to explore translation, focusing on the process and the transformations that happen in translation, using linguistic translation to explore and amplify the cultural role of translation and its creative potential. I see translation as inherently dialogic and my praxis reflects this in its methodology, production and execution i.e. by interviewing and working with translators and bilingual speakers, creating works or facilitating events with others and devising...

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Rachel Parry

Posted on Jan 24, 2012 in Studio members | 0 comments

Rachel Parry

          Rachel Parry is an Experimental Live Artist. Parry works in a variety of media including site-specific installations, video, physical theatre, live interactive experiments, dance, intimate one on one performance pieces and stealthy...

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Martin Lewis

Posted on Jan 24, 2012 in Studio members | 0 comments

Martin Lewis

              Biography Martin Lewis background was in ceramics. He exhibited widely throughout the UK, including shows at the Anatol Orient Gallery and the Hart Gallery in London. Articles written about his work appeared in the publications Ceramics; Art & Perception. Sister Wendy Beckett wrote on his work for Ceramic Review.  In 1990 he became a fellow of the CPA.  In 1992 he began teaching at Warwickshire College as well as being a visiting lecturer at Loughborough College of Art. In 1998 he studied fine art part –time at Sheffield Hallam...

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