Bloc Studio Artists
Bloc Studios is an artist-led studio complex hosting 70 artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, film/video, live art, art writing and print. Its mission is to create a creative and stimulating environment for artists to work in. The site also houses Bloc Projects gallery, a not for profit artist-led project space that hosts a programme of exhibitions, events educational projects.
John Bainbridge | Studio 9 |
The moorland and grit-stone edges of the Derbyshire Peak District provide the visual stimulus which motivates and informs my paintings. It is interesting to explore how the colour and texture of paint, and the many ways of applying it to create a surface, can relate to the colour and texture of “wild land”. That a defining correspondence of exchange can occur between the physical forms of land and our own “inner landscapes” may be beyond analysis. But it is also beyond doubt. My paintings are an attempt to explore that correspondence of meaning in paint as a contemplative celebration of the vitality and mystery of the “awe-inspiring” in landscape. johnbainbridgeart.com
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Ladoza | Studio 44 |
My work plays on the not so straight line between abstraction and narratives, a visual language and dialogue influenced by landscape, nature, emotion and experience. I experiment with lots of techniques and media as I find the practical process vital in exploring how best to create my ideas and concepts. Over the past 10 years photography has become a huge part of my work process. It now exists as a source of research and experience, getting me out exploring different weathers, seasons, the unexpected and the questioning of self. ladoza.co.uk
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Victoria Lucas | Studio 10-11 |
Victoria Lucas’s work is concerned with spatial contexts and how they can be read in terms of their history and relevance to social, cultural or political perspectives. Referring to theoretical and literary texts, current work investigates urbanity, absence, memory, imagination and spectrality from a decisively female perspective and in relation to both natural and man-made landscapes.
Lucas will be showing her film Lay of the Land (and other such myths), a work-in-progress. victorialucas.co.uk
David James Riley | Studio 52 |
Sheffield born artist David James Riley works as a visual artist, model-maker, and as an acoustic singer-songwriter. His visual work varies across different media, with a focus on shade and texture, which can be seen in his realistic portraits of famous faces from popular culture, music and cinema. Here he uses mostly monochrome pencil, or charcoal and chalk, to capture facial features through line, shade and shape, with the occasional use of watercolour for increased vibrancy. Oil paintings comprise portrayals of sea life with rich and vivid colour. A more personal and abstract approach can be seen in the surreal Cerebral Rain, which shows a greater scope to the artist’s ideas. behance.net/the_riley_man davidjamesriley.com
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Nick Grindrod | Studio 14 |
Nick Grindrod is a painter and mark maker working in acrylic and other media. The main theme in his recent work is colour.
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Charlotte A. Morgan | Studio 55 |
Charlotte A. Morgan works with writing, print, sculpture, photography and performance. Her work draws from the interplay of memory, fiction, narrative and temporality within architectures and interior spaces, and often focuses on the performance of objects and structures and the language of archiving and display. Charlotte is co-founder of COPY, a network and platform for writing in the field of visual art and performance, and collaborates as part of Homeland, an interdisciplinary research and production space exploring myth and utopia. charlotteamorgan.co.uk
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Susanne Palzer | Studio 15 |
Susanne Palzer is a cross-disciplinary artist, researcher and performer based in Sheffield, UK. Her current practice investigates the intersection of digital and analogue forms, in particular the fusion of digital technology and physical performance. Susanne Palzer is a co-director of Access Space, Sheffield and the curator of the performance events OPENPLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. arandomprocessexperiment.blogspot.co.uk
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Rita Kaisen | Studio 56 |
My current projects are focused on drawing. The work is largely figurative and inspired by every-day objects, conversations and occurrences, but will tend to transform these observations into something new. The work is inspired by notions of myth-making, popular culture, signs & symbols, and the use of scale and repetition.
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Stephen Todd | Studio 17 |
“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre” (A Berlin Chronicle 1932, Walter Benjamin). The way we look at the landscape, the way it is recorded and represented, determines how we understand and internalise it. It defines what we expect to see. Facts are constructed. “A meaningful connection to the past demands, above all, active engagement. It demands imagination and empathy” (Why History Matters, 1997, G. Lerner) stephen-todd.com @artfulstevie
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Sean Williams | Studio 18 |
The locations portrayed in my paintings represent the in-between spaces of everyday life. Factual and symbolic, the subject matter often relates to states of being and feeling that can be as unfixed, open to question and awaiting definition as any geographical locale featured… My paintings mimic the medium of photography until the marks of the brush are revealed upon closer inspection. This discovery of intense labour shifts the viewer’s focus from the subject matter depicted to the medium itself. In this respect, the work is as much a comment about the production of art as it is a reflection of contemporary urbanity. swseanwilliams.wordpress.com