All Artist Profiles
Liz Ackerley
Biography Liz initially took a science degree and had a medical research career. Then, over twenty years ago she changed direction and graduated from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
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Rory Chisholm
Associate Member ‘Architecture does not only respond to the functional and conscious intellectual and social needs of today’s city dweller; it must also remember the primordial hunter and farmer concealed in the
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Paulette Bansal
Associate Member Statement I am an artist/printmaker who lives and works in Manchester. I work from a home studio space and am a member of Hot Bed Press. I exhibit
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Louise Ventris
Biography Louise is a contemporary painter based in the West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth. After studying Fine Art at Bristol, she spent several years working as a digital designer in
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Sammy Lai
Associate Member Biography Sammy Lai (b. 1996) is a Hong Kong–born visual artist based in Manchester, UK. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of
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Anastasia Borodina
Associate Member Anastasia Borodina is a contemporary artist who works in traditional techniques and mediums studying the transformation of traditional symbols of European culture in modern society. Her area of
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Emma Jackson
Biography Emma is an artist printmaker living and working in Manchester. After completing her undergraduate studies with a BA in Design from Blackpool, she worked in the creative industries for
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Linda Brill
Statement Still Life: My aim is to capture the material qualities of objects, the differing textures, the play of light. My work celebrates both the stillness and the life of
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Jayne Pellington
Biography Jayne is a Manchester based contemporary artist and printmaker, born 1967 in Newcastle-under-lyme. Jayne completed a Foundation Course at North Staffordshire Polytechnic before going on to study Fine Art
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Stefanie Trow
Biography Stefanie Trow graduated in 2004 from Salford University with a degree in Visual Arts. She draws her inspiration from intimate moments from her everyday life. Her work focusses on
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Eve Bridges
Biography Eve Lumai Bridges, also known as Eve Illustration, has recently achieved a masters degree in Illustration from the Manchester School of Art with distinction and in 2017 achieved a
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Peter Macaulay
Statement Pictures have a double reality being both the thing they represent and the thing they are. Simultaneously presenting an idea as an image and the image as a thing
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Edward Mackenzie
Statement I’ve been an artist for most of my adult life interspersed with periods of paid employment, mostly teaching. I was trained at the Cooper Union Art School in New
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Jude Wainwright
Biography Born in Sheffield, Jude Wainwright MAFA is a figurative and surrealist painter based in Manchester. Her work explores identity, emotion and storytelling through staged, symbolic self-portraits that blur the
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Terry Rushworth
Biography Born in 1950, Terry started drawing very early mainly to combat the bordom of extended periods of hospitalization. Drawing helped him to escape the dreary monotony of hospital life
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Michael Kirby
Michael was born in Liverpool in 1956, and after school went on to study Graphic Design and Illustration at Wigan School of Art and Design, but after two years, he
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Ross Miley
Statement My work delves into the interplay between nature, mood, and the transient beauty of changing seasons. Through abstract expressionism, the aim is to capture the delicate yet bold emotions
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Sandra Robinson
Biography I trained at Manchester School of Art graduating in 2005 with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the UK including
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Jen Orpin
Biography Jen Orpin graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art. She lives in Manchester and joined Rogue Artists’ Studios in 2000. As well as
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David Barrow
Biography David was born in 1959 in Parbold, Lancashire. He spent his childhood there prior to moving to Wigan. He began painting seriously when he was 19. He has vividly
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Tim Brennan
Tim Brennan is a Northern artist based in the UK. Brennan studied Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art and Public History and Historiography at Ruskin College Oxford.
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Lorraine Rudyard
Associate Member Biography Lorraine was born in Manchester and is a self-taught mixed-media sculptor, creating story boxes using wire, papier-mâché, and recycled materials to make three-dimensional figures. Her work is
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Rachel Arif
Biography Rachel was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, where she lived until her late 20s. She then moved to London where she currently lives with her husband and two young children.
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Dawn Limbert
Associate Member Biography Dawn Limbert was born in Yorkshire where she lived till her late 20’s. She now lives and works in Barnet, North London with her husband and son.
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David Edwards
Biography I was born in Manchester and attended Manchester High School of Art. I studied Graphic Design at Manchester College of Art (now MMU). I then worked in advertising, which
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Kate McKennan
Biography Kate studied Fine Art at Manchester College of Art and Design gaining a BA Hons in Fine Art in 1972 and a First Class Hons post graduate certificate of
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Paul Aston
Biography Throughout my working life I have acknowledged the place of my birth in the village of Awre, on the River Severn in the Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire. My
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David Sprakes
Biography David works in bronze, marble and steel using casting, carving and fabrication techniques. After gaining a First Class BA Honours Degree in Sculpture, he worked in academia for many years,
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Bohuslav Barlow
Biography Bohuslav Barlow was born in Bruntal, a small township in Upper Moravia, Czechoslovakia. When the Iron Curtain descended after the war he and his mother fled to Munich then later moved
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Barbara Sykes
Biography Barbara has a BA Hons. Degree in Fine Art and an MA in Printmaking and Art Theory. She has a studio near to her home and is a member
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Anthony Ratcliffe
Biography Anthony Ratcliffe is a now a full time printmaker after a career lecturing at Manchester School of Art. He has prints in many public and private collections including The
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Anna Thomas
Biography Anna Thomas is a contemporary painter working in acrylic, oil and mixed media. Her paintings often reflect her love of the British landscape and have been described as vibrant
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Andrew Kinmont
Biography Andrew developed a deep appreciation of nature during a childhood spent walking and enjoying the wildness of the African landscape. Completing his schooling with awards in Art, he studied
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Diamond, Alison (Rogers)
Biography Alison is an artist/printmaker working in County Durham. Her work explores various printmaking techniques such as etching, screen printing, relief print, monotype and Hybrid printing. She currently works as
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Joanne Risley
Biography Joanne’s work follows a tradition of sculptural object making where craftsmanship and hand finishing remain important. She uses a range of media including bronze, Cor-ten steel, oak and mosaic.
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