Alice Maher

I came accross Alice Maher in 1999 when I was doing my foundation course and wrote and eassy on Irish Female Artists. I'm facinated by Mahers work, her use of materials and the themes that she deals with in her work.

Chika Ohgi

From Textural Space exhibition 'Originally trained in print, Ohgi became interested in the nature of paper and its fibres and, eventually, in the making of it. Her works are constructed from paper that she has made herself from kozo, ganpi, cotton and ramie. The unitary method of construction she uses enables her to cover large areas; ‘Walking Around The lake’ comprises 60 pieces. The 5 towers of paper ‘Water Pillar’, each nearly 6 metres high, are also constructed from a modular system. The final installation is already in her mind as she makes the paper, the space, and the work within the space take on equal value becoming one integrated whole.'

Emma Johnson

'The work questions perceived symbolism by removing objects and images from their original context, deconstructing and recycling found materials, and rendering them "useless", or using them for something other than their intended purpose.'

Alexandra Dipple

'Utilising these basic signs from newspapers could be seen as a rejection of meaning or a visual representation of information overload. Limiting my view to these simple forms creates a highly charged space for reflection.'

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New Realisim

Image Pierre Arman, Bateaux de papier.

According to Arman, the formal structure of the objects destroyed in the rages determines the aesthetic of the work and endows it with either a Baroque or a Cubist character depending on whether curves or straight lines are predominant. Thus Chopin's Waterloo belongs to the series of "Cubist" works, recalling, irrespective of the materials employed, the line of descent between his work and the inventors of pasted paper and assemblage, something with which he has always shown himself to be preoccupied.

terms used by Pierre Restany, to a "poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality"

Andy Goldsworthy

"One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die."

"I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before going back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it's not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying."[