Fresh Air 09 will exhibit the work of over 100 sculptors and below you will find an alphabetical list of some of the artists who will take part in the show. New artists will be added between now and February 2009:
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Carole Andrews
Carole is an associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and has a degree in Fine Art. She manipulates 2 dimensional materials into 3 dimensional form to make sculpture with an organic influence. Movement, reflection and translucence have become important factors in her work which has been exhibited widely around the UK and USA in both gallery and landscape settings. This work is based on the experience of snorkeling over coral reefs.

www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=6394

Charles Bray
Born in Salford in 1922. Charles is a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology, a Fellow of the University of Sunderland and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of “A Dictionary of Glass”, “Ceramics & Glass – A Basic Technology” and “Glass Blowing”.


www.bizcraft.co.uk

Gary Breeze
Gary Breeze was born in 1966 and is acknowledged as one of the most talented artists/craftsmen in his profession of lettercutting. One of his most ambitious works is the 35 metre frieze in the atrium of the High Court of Justiciary, Glasgow. More recently he was commissioned to produce lettering for the threshold to Queensberry House for the Scottish Parliament's new building in Edinburgh and the Bali bombing memorial in London.

www.garybreeze.co.uk

Robert Bryce Muir
Since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1987 Robert has been working as a sculptor and teacher in London . He is passionately committed to drawing the human figure and in expressing the emotional drama which is expressed in its movement.

Nigel Cann 
Nigel Cann works under the name of Stone Rainbow. He gained a National Diploma in Design at Bristol and had a career in graphics. He experimented with art techniques, including natural materials which led to stone-cutting. An artist friend of his gave him stained glass offcuts which he combined with his stones resulting in a Chelsea Designer's Commission. Nigel continued to develop the concept of garden installations and now produces stone sculptures in monolithic form pierced with stained glass. The reflection of light and the shadows formed by these imposing creations contrast beautifully with their outdoor environs.

www.thehuntergallery.com/artists/stonerainbow.htm

Lynn Chadwick
He was born in London in 1914 and began his working life in an architect’s practice and his independent development of the mobile derived from his experience in exhibition design. These elegant objects demonstrate a sophisticated fusion of sculptural form and engineering. Alongside the mobiles he developed so-called stabiles, one of which was among the most important sculptures at the Festival of Britain. In some works, including The Inner Eye 1953, he incorporated chunks of glass into the rough-cut, welded sheet steel forms, investing them with a mysterious and iconic feel. Lynn Chadwick came late to sculpture but he showed two major works at the Festival of Britain in London in 1951 and was launched onto the international stage as one of a new generation of British sculptors shown at the Venice Biennale in 1952. His co-exhibitors included Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi. When he beat Alberto Giacometti to win the International Prize for Sculpture in Venice in 1956 it was the sensation of the Biennale. He went on to secure an international reputation with works in many of the great public collections of Europe, North and South America and Japan.
During the 1950s he developed a new way of working that involved welding an iron armature which was filled with Stolit, an artificial stone compound of gypsum and iron filings. This material provided an evocative, textured surface which would, over time, acquire a rich ferrous colouring. While he retained this working method, he later cast the works in bronze. Bronze dominated his work until the 1990s when he made a number of monumental sculptures in polished steel.
Throughout his career, Lynn Chadwick’s work drew upon the natural world. His sculptures were largely based on the human figure or animal forms. Though he would insist on the primacy of formal and technical concerns, in both animals and humans he seems to express the fundamental conditions of life. While the animals explore states of aggression and vulnerability and the ambiguity between the two, the later figures examine details of human movement, interaction and sexuality. Chadwick’s work seems archetypal, an aspect amplified by his later use of standard forms for male and female heads.

www.gallery-pangolin.com

John Creed
John’s interest is across the whole spectrum of metalwork; from one-off site specific projects within the field of architecture, sculpture as public art or for the garden, to small objects for the home such as a hat and coat stand, music stand, fruit dish, or silverware for the meal table. His work is innovative and original. It challenges conventional thought and often uses a combination of materials to achieve a concept. Ideas and process combine to explore and develop an idea to its ultimate conclusion.

www.creedmetalwork.com

Alison Crowther
Alison was born in Yorkshire in 1965. She gained an MA for Furniture Design at the RCA in 1989. She taught at Bedale’s Craft and Design Dept until 1998. She has exhibited in the UK and USA . Notable clients include John and Nanya Sainsbury, Paul Welland and Lord and Lady Hartington.

www.sculpture.uk.com/artists/alison_crowther/

Matthew Durran
Matt makes installations and sculptures. His work often refers to houses, hives, bell jars and containment. In the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2004, he reproduced his glass artists studio as an installation using over two thousand pieces of glass.

www.mattduran.com

Sally Fawkes
Sally graduated from Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 1998. She sculpts in cast glass from her studio in Stroud, Gloucestershire creating art works for exhibition and to commission internationally on a scale appropriate to the space and context in which it will be received. She has work in many public and private collections. Recent exhibitions include “Traversing” Ebeltoft Glass Museum , Denmark 2005; “Collect” at the V & A, London 2005, and SOFA Chicago 2004.

http://sallyfawkes.com

Matthew Fedden
Matthew was Blacksmith in Residence at the National Waterways Museum in Gloucester 1989-92 and built a separate workshop in the Forest of Dean with facilities to cope with large items. He generally works to commission.

www.galanthusgallery.co.uk/artist_detail.asp?artistNo=62

Colin Hawkins
Loco Glass is a studio glass partnership formed by Colin and Louise Hawkins in 1998. Their distinctive style of glassmaking explores the fluidity, texture and transparency of the material. Using a combination of traditional and modern techniques they produce exciting contemporary glassware, from functional pieces to special commissions and sculpture.

www.locoglass.co.uk

Neil Henderson
Individual pieces of Art and Design are not only the recognisable achievements of a given artist but also a reflection of the period, area and culture in which they were created. Today we live in a globalised society, where influences of art and design cross continents and cultures, all contributing to the movement and development of international art and design as we experience it today. The collections that I produce are part of that global perspective. The design origins come from architecture and art, the materials include 'green' native hardwoods, bamboo, bronze, steel, fabric, glass, stone and sheet material.
The new collection is centred around sculptural birdbaths and feeders for the garden. These are designed to blend in and enrich the garden environment, and through their use attract more wildlife into your garden as well as creating a dynamic focal point.

www.neilhenderson-designs.co.uk

Nicky Hessenberg
Nicky has been making textiles for 20 years. She did a course in constructed textiles which expanded her knowledge and use of different techniques. She tries to use recycled fabrics whenever possible, especially materials which are in common use around the house and garden.

Wendy Hoare
Wendy gained her BA Hons Fine Art degree at reading 1963-67 where she specialised in sculpture. An interest in ceramics grew during her years of teaching art and she set up a work shop in 1989. She is a professional member of the Craft and Potter’s Association.

http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/html/pgal-wh.html

Marigold Hodgkinson
Marigold studied at RAS and Goldsmith MA London, and lives and works in London and Warwickshire. She has carried out Site-specific projects in Lithuania Poland Holland Sweden, Italy and the UK. Recent sculpture-installation consist of floating site-works in a river, a moat and a lake (for Fresh Air 05, ‘Utopia’ at William Morris Museum 05 and ‘Hidden Delights’ Pines Garden Deal 06). She was artist in Residence at SACI Florence in 04, taught MA Site-Specific Sculpture/Wimbledon until 1999 and is Associate Lecturer at Byam Shaw School of Art -University of the Arts

http://www.baytrust.org.uk/html/artists2006.html

Richard Jackson
Graduating from West Surrey College of Art and Design, Richard then went on to work and study in San Fransisco , USA followed by extensive travelling worldwide. He now works from his studio in Gloucestershire making unique sculpture for exhibition and to commission. Recent exhibition include M.A.V.A Alcaron, Spain 2004; “Traversing” Ebeltoft Glass Museum , Denmark 2005; “A Sense of Space” and the London Art Fair 2005.

http://richardjackson-glass.com

Aimee Layland
Layland's ceramic work is influenced by journey and duration: the nature of a walking journey and passing through places, and mapping routes. These ideas are adapted through the process of constructing the forms, through manipulation of the material and physical interaction with the clay.Using heavily grogged weather resistant brick clays, combined with slips and engobes, Layland produces hollow clay cylinders forming the components of tall stacked floor sculpture.The object's function within families to portray the graduation of the physical theme.

http://www.axisweb.org/grCVFU.aspx?SELECTIONID=16835

Damian Llambias
Damian, having studied Fine Art, Psychology and the Built Environment is a cross-artform artist working in sound, photography, architectural intervention and curation – his work ranges from large-scale public architectural interventions to sublime re-curations of historical collections all exploring individual relationships to place and objects.

Barry Mason
Barry Mason was born in 1952. He studied fine art at the University of Reading and the Slade. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1998. Towards the end of the 1980s Mason began to introduce water as a vital element in his stone sculpture. He gradually incorporated further materials such as copper, bronze and stainless steel, which he also used with water. He has exhibited extensively in the UK .

www.barry-mason.co.uk

Bridget McCrum
Bridget trained at Farnham College of Art. She atarted carving in 1980 and was elected RWA in 2007. She has had exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the RWA, the New Art Centre, Goodwood Sculpture Park, Dartinton Hall and the Plymouth City Museum. Public and private collections include work for the University of Surrey; Lismore Castle; Charter Bank; the Golden Door Foundation, San Diego; and the National Trust.

Miranda Michels
Born in Herefordshire, Miranda is self taught. Originally known for her equine sculptures and her time spent in Africa , she has a deep interest in wildlife generally. She has exhibited extensively in the USA , Ireland and the UK . She now has her own gallery in Cirencester where her work can usually be seen.

Pete Moorhouse
Pete Moorhouse studied Sculpture at Bristol School of Art and Design, has exhibited widely, undertaken major commissions and leads sculpture workshops. Pete Moorhouse specialises in creating high quality sculpture for the outdoor environment. The sculptures have strong visual impact and range from abstract pieces to representational work.

Sophie Ryder
Sophie studied at the Royal Academy. In 1986 she was offered a three month residency at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She was chosen from a small group of artists had been selected by Elisabeth Frink. She also became artist in residence at Salisbury Cathedral in 1987. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1989 at the Berkely Square Gallery in London and in the same year she moved to Gloucestershire where she still lives and works. She won the Art Newspaper Award for best sculpture in show at the Discerning Eye, 1992 at the Mall Galleries. She has work in many private and public collections including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, de Beers, and Barings Bank.

www.sophieryder.org

Mike Savage

Mike studied for his BA at Camberwell College and gained an MA at the Royal Collage of Art, London. Inspired by seed pods and plant forms, he works with sheet metal to create garden and conservatory sculpture that explore the scale of the natural world. He is intrigued by the complex shapes of organic segmentation and industrial forms.

Antonia Spowers
Antonia is interested in the ability of materials to convey ideas. The resonance of the site, the continuity of history, things seen and unseen, and threads of connection to a larger whole inform the work. Exhibitions include 1995 Pump House Gallery, Battersea Pk , 1998 Unfolding, Allen Gallery , Alton1998, Unfolding, Red House Museum , Christchurch , 2002 Brecknock Museum and Gallery, Brecon,2002 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh.

www.antoniaspowers.co.uk

Andrew Stonyer
Andrew Stonyer studied at Northampton University, Loughborough University, DeMontfort University and the Architectural Association. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire. His work is concerned with implied and actual movement. He has exhibited and completed major commissions in the UK, Holland, Turkey, Canada and the USA.

Almuth Tebbenhoff
Almuth was born in Fürstenau in north-west Germany . In 1969, a year after completing her secondary schooling, she moved to England where she studied ceramics at the Sir John Cass School of Art from 1972 to 1975. Following that, she set up a studio in London and for the next six years made studio ceramics, while she developed her ideas for sculpture. Tebbenhoff is inspired by process: the simple fact of working with her hands to distil from dull, reluctant matter pieces that are always interesting, always challenging, invariably searching, frequently witty, often profound, and sometimes breathtakingly lovely.In 1981, Almuth established her Southfields studio in a former church hall. At first she worked in clay and wood, but in 1986 she started a two-year course in metal fabrication at South Thames College , London.

www.tebbenhoff.org

Sophie Thompson
Sophie graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1992. She works mainly to commission and exhibits widely. Animals are a recurring theme in her sculptures, the diversity of form, texture and movement being of endless fascination to her.

Brian Usher
Brian Usher is a full-time practising artist. He exhibits internationally in sold and group exhibitions. His work is for both domestic and architectural locations. Brian recently had a solo exhibition in London and completed a 2 x 2metre commission for General Electric.

www.brianusher.com

Johannes Von Stumm
Johannes was born in Munich in 1959 and studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art there. He worked with Peter Layton and Clifford Reney in London in 1989 and subsequently taught sculpture in Munich. In 1995 he opened his studio workshop in Wantage. He is a Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He is a Fellow and Treasurer of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. He exhibits widely and has been commissioned for many public works.

www.vonstumm.co.uk

Carole Waller
Carole was born in Birmingham. She studied painting at Canterbury College of Art and her MA is in Fine Art Textiles from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, Michigan. She has been exhibiting internationally since 1987 and her work is held in such collections as the V&A, London and the Forestry Commission at Westonbirt Arboretum.

www.carolewaller.co.uk

Shona Watt
Shona studied at Ravensbourne College of Art. She received an Individual Artist Award from Northern Arts in 1995 and the Craft Council Award in 1997. Large scale commissions include the openings of the Millenium Footbridge, the Hungerford Footbridge, the London Eye and the opening of the Melbourne Museum in Australia.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams lives and works in London. He is also a curator and Course Director of the Post Graduate Diploma, University of the Arts London. His work is held in many public and private collections in the UK and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Vector, L'Espace Martineaux, Paris 2003; Surveillance, Gallery ON, Poznan, Poland 2005; Occupied Territory, Olin Gallery, Roanoke University, Salem, USA 2006