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____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ View Two Gallery: Established in the mid 90’s, owned and operated by local architect Ken Martin, three floors of gallery space. The gallery is open for this show Tuesday - Friday12 – 4 and Saturday 12 – 5. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________Chris Boyd: Graduated from Interactive Arts in 2006, 2004 received the Microwave award from FACT - the UK's leading organisation for the development and exhibition of film, video and new media - He won the Big Art Challenge 2005 –channel 5 series, aiming to seek out the next Damien Hirst/JMW Turner with £10,000 prize. Received Priestley prize 2005, took part in 40 artists 40 Days - a Tate Britain project supporting London's Olympic bid that brought the Games to Britain in 2012. The Calling is a painterly video piece addressing the complex inter-relationships between creation, destruction, wave-particle dualities and libidinal energy. Drawing on the capacity of new media, fluid forms of organic growth are endlessly simulated reflecting dense mutating selves enduring the agonies and ecstasies of creation. Advocating the possibility of infinity to be thought within an enclosed system. Boyd is a draughtsman who creates videos addressing the complex inter-relationships between nature, technology, creation and destruction. He draws reference from wide variety of sources that create dense narratives and produce’s intense visceral experiences. Working at the cutting edge of technology, Boyd integrates techniques that date back to the Renaissance, such as empirical observation and chiaroscuro with techniques of modern computer animation and visual effects. www.myspace/boydism ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Jennifer Dean: Graduated from Cumbria Institute of the Arts with a Degree in Fine Art June 2006 and was elected for the Northern Graduates 2006 exhibit in London. Jennifer’s Untitled works, three wall mounted boxes with fish eye viewing lenses, insignificant at first glance are an attempt to create sublime magical other spaces and reward the viewer’s curiosity for peeping. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Nina Elliott: graduated in June 2006 from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons.) in Interactive Art. Lemons 2006 and Voltaic Pile 2006 explore the border of science and nature using electricity as its central motif. Mould 2006 looks at the other worldly images created by macroscopic decay when viewed under a microscope._________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Nick Hardy: graduated in June 2006 from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons.) Degree in Interactive Art and has since gained a position with a North West art gallery. Having recently exhibited his work at the Sydney College of Art, Australia the artist also has an installation programmed for the Cube gallery, Manchester in 2007. Iconless (2006) and Sometimes Life is Easier When We Block Out The Light (2006) are two pieces of work that continue to explore the artist’s fascination for the world of 3D, miniature objects and spaces. Using a variety of media in combination with sculptured light, movement and sound, Nick creates illusory microcosms. These reconstructed spaces challenge issues of perception, absence and claustrophobia in attempting to transport the viewer to virtual, other world. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Austin Houldsworth: graduated form Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons.) degree in interactive art (June 2006). He has since been screened internationally in Stroud as part of the site arts festival 2006, Overexposed at the cornerhouse Manchester, Mannheim Castle Germany in the Re/act festival. Still Life 2006 records home made pyrotechnic experiments to create an interactive video instillation which exemplifies humanities fascination with destruction and subsequently creation, highlighting these as our own projections onto an alienating materialistic world. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Joseph Richardson: graduated form Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons.) degree in interactive art (June 2006). Currently working as Artist and Studio Manager with UHC a Manchester based Art collective. The collectives most recent show ‘Incursions in The knowledge Capital’ (June 2006) explored collaborative practice and the urban environment. Dog Ball is emblematic of Josephs current practice explores found objects, their origins, geography and personal or political context through photographic and video documentation. www.uhc.org.uk www.joe-richardson.co.uk ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________ Press Contact: For more background information, interviews or photo calls please contact:Gallery co-ordinator / Press Officer Sam Skinner: Email: [email protected]