STEW INGREDIENTS

Edward Ahlstrom

End Game
Edward Ahlstrom looks at the issue of global warming in his work. Ahlstrom is trying to display in his highly constructed imagery how personal of a matter global warming really is and how it will affect all of us. His chosen method for delivering his message has been in the form of a postcard, since Ahlstrom believes that this is one of the most personal and powerful forms of delivering a message to another individual. By addressing the recipient directly makes the whole experience of viewing and receiving the message more personal.

Ayla Akdemir

Ayla Akdemir documents a friend’s journey through the removal of tumours from her pancreas and liver. The physical changes that take hold of the subject’s appearance reveals the equally turbulent emotional journey. We also see her reaction to her environment as a whole: being photographed and her struggle with acclimatising to hospital life.

Michelle Anderson

‘268’ investigates my Grandfather’s house, which has remained relatively unchanged since his death in 1994. The house has a feeling of emptiness and has been affected by the passing of time, which is reflected by the use of an imperfect camera. The work documents this dated space but also reveals aspects of my Grandfather’s personality, habits and hobbies.

Michael Anthony

Michael looks at the idea of the spirit, and the path it must take from this life to the next. Using an alternate process (liquid emulsion onto watercolor paper) Michael attempts to allow the viewer to be a part of this tranquil and spiritual journey.

Becky Beynon

beckybeynon@hotmail.com

The careful construction of the stretched stockings across the scenes of domestication, aims to raise questions upon the placement of the female role within contemporary society. The work references specifically the paradox between the sexualised and domesticated female identity. The use of stockings, take on organic forms that literally restrict the normal functioning of the spaces and appliances. Domestic appliances for which are associated with the upkeep of the home, traditionally the domain of the female.

Ben Bird

sgtpepper000@aol.com

Ben Bird looks at vacant spaces of Berlin, a city of change and transience. This waste ground is a reminder of past, present and future. The work looks at areas of the Cities former division with, imposing manmade structures surrounding it. This anomaly in the city's heart forms a juxtaposition, questioning urban form flux, and contemplates its existence.

Cassandra Brayham

Cassandra Brayham has constructed and photographed a series of sets which involve imagery from a recurring childhood dream. Within these images the room acts as a stage rather than a representation of reality, where normal objects are made strange and an unknown presence lurks in the empty spaces.

Rachel Clark

www.rachelclarkphotography.co.uk

Rachel Clark has taken into deep consideration those elements of both fear and desire that affect her emotionally. During this process she has asked herself why she might have such feelings; does the world around her, especially the society she lives in, have a strong influence upon these fears and desires?

Annuska Dal Maso

www.annuskadalmaso.com

Home Bittersweet Home is a series that handles the feelings that evoke in me when returning back to the place I grew up, my former home. The series raises the feelings of being an outsider in a space I used to be an insider. The images are strongly constructed works loaded with metaphors.

Emily French

www.emilyfrench.co.uk

The sea is leaving now. The land can grow and survive again. The silence and stillness is returning. Meresig is an insight into a change, a shift and an acceptance. Emily French has journeyed back to a place named Mersea, an island deep rooted within her past, to record how this unique place is being regularly consumed and shaped dramatically by the water that surrounds it.

Ditch Green

www.ditchgreen.com

Ditch Green is primarily interested in allegorical narratives and epic storytelling, often influenced by male-centred folk and fairytales. His large-scale photographic composites reference ancient forms of pictorial storytelling such as scroll paintings, tapestry, murals and fresco cycles.

Virginie A. Hebert

So I asked the Darkness.
From the series ‘The Dolly Chambers’, 2008.
Like a mirror in a recurring dream…the series explore the manifestations of the subconscious in the conscious life of a daydreamer. Being human, asking questions, trying to find a way out, some answers, being on a spiritual journey…are all themes dealt with within this work

Johnny Ho

The London Council Estate is a distinct and unknown territory isolated from the rest of society. It is the world of the displaced where no one from outside enters and where the inhabitants stay, an area synonymous, in the public mind, with poverty, crime and ethnic conflict. These are external perceptions however.

Johnny Kangasniemi

www.johnnykangasniemi.com

Solid / Talk about this Gavin
"I do not know how to draw. But I know how to talk about a line." - Gavin Turk

Has the recent boom of conceptualism in photography made content essential and aesthetics an accessory?

Katri Kärkkäinen

www.katrikarkkainen.com

Anomaly is an exploration of the relationship between culture and nature. The two concepts are often understood as opposites of each other, but nature and culture are entwined together. This was inspiration for Kärkkäinen in making work that forces her to intervene with the landscape, as she imposes different tools of visual mediations as frames into the landscape.

James Kilgallon

jameskilgallonis@inbox.com

This body of work draws upon the many socio-consumerist values found in everyday modern “shopper” life, later reflected through the arts, creating diverse yet congruent parallels between the degradation of worth and ostensible capital evolution.

Series of 15 prints, available in short-run, handmade, hardback book.

Karin Klint

In traditional painting, the woman portrayed in the landscape has been stereotypic. In my series of images, I am aiming to break with that tradition and redefine the space in which we see ‘the woman’. She is no longer oppressed, inactive and objectified, but something more unexpected.

Agnieszka Kozlowska

www.kozlowska.eu

On Photography, a body of work consisting of three distinctive parts, is an outcome of my interest in going beyond the surface of photography and subverting what is usually taken for granted about the medium. Balancing between the artistic and the scientific, it is a playful invitation to question what a photograph is in its essence.

Harry Lambert

This projects revolves around my unrealistic desires to be adored and admired. As a male i want and should be able to be this person within the images yet i do not achieve this through my insufficiencies in appearance. I only become my aspirations through the photograph, these characters forever being constructed and false. My work aims to deal with male identity and the documentation of mens concerns and desires regarding body image

Andrew Longstaff

www.andrewlongstaff.com

The separation between event and photograph is the main area of investigation in this series of work. By creating a camera that works against the normal logic of the modern camera Andrew Longstaff looks into the event of making a photograph and what we expect to be able to see in the final image.

Arron Mitchell

This body of work intends to investigate the themes of death, grief and the fear of loss. On one hand, this series illustrates my own desire of memorising people that have been lost to me. The other part of this series, illustrates my fear of loosing those people that are close to me. Yet alive, these people are ‘bruised’ by their own mortality.

Kristine M. Omlid

kristine.omlid@gmail.com

This series of images attempts to visualize some of the emotions that follow from the sensation of loosing ones creativity. These psychological spaces represent not only the artist's own personal experiences, but are meant to portray some of the most generic human emotions.

Chris Palmer

Chris Palmer's series "Fleeting Strangers: A Brief Encounter" explores the isolation we enter on train journeys. Each subject is captured with a combination of twilight and voyeurism and what is achieved from this, is a sense of distance. We find ourselves longing to know more about these strangers: a lack of information, emphasized by the use of high grain 35mm film.

Robert Peck

Robert’s work looks to discuss the issues of living alone in the latter stages of life. His work documents his Grandfathers day-to-day life and marks out the struggles he faces living alone. The work discusses how ‘Bills’ home of fifty years changed from a personal haven to his personal prison.

Erno Raitanen

www.ernoraitanen.com

Bacteriograms are made without a camera, by cultivating bacteria on a gelatine surface of the negatives, using a similar process as the one used in laboratories to grow bacteria on Agar plates. What these images represent and reference is entirely depending on viewers own subconscious.

Wendy Robinson

Gøril Sœtre

goerilsasetre@hotmail.com

Gøril Sœtre’s portraits intends to critically engage with the issue of female identity in contemporary society, exploring the diversity and the contradictions within today’s female identity by questioning the stereotypical image of an ideal woman and question roles and types of women created through the representation in the media.

Emma Suominen

This project is an exploration to the idea of the family portrait. The images are self-portraits with my family members taken in my grand parents house in Finland. The house with its particular style contrasted with its inhabitants together form the fabric of the images, and explore matters such as belonging and, on the contrary, estrangement.

Toby Tellefsen

www.tobytellefsen.com

This series is a personal investigation in to the artist’s inability to voice his anxiety and depression on others. Tellefsen’s images metaphorically talk about the hardships of overcoming such an issue, and also looks in to the feeling of losing control – a feeling that is representative for Tellefsen’s mental health problems.

Rebecca Vassie

CommonGround documents the interior spaces of an iconic building of British aviation achievements. The working floors photographed metaphorically comment on the effects the decline of industry had on social economy in Britain, and challenges how much of our country should be regenerated to suit modern needs of consumption. Subsequently, as these spaces are demolished or decaying, tradition, pride and glory of our past follow.

Dru Watts

www.druwatts.co.uk

Dru Watts’ work for STEW looks at the life of her great great grandmother. The investigation started by the chance discovery of a death certificate from 1965 and resulted in an extremely unusual journey through the history of this woman and the mental health system in Britain through the forties to the present day.

Nel Wilkinson

www.nelwilkinson.com

This body of work has developed from the personal experience of losing a friend. I have used steel plates to produce photo-etchings, rusting them to interpret how I saw the depression decay him.