Freida
McKitrick- print
Liverpool
based fine artist and printmaker Freida McKitrick’s work reflects the
time-honoured practice of taking common, ordinary images and objects and
placing them in an artistic context, but with a little twist: She selects
images or things that are or were at home in ordinary human life but have some
extra significance. Freida’s art
is based on observations of life using a variety of subjects to record events,
situations and ideas that have inspired her, or given cause for amusement. Freida works from a studio in a
renovated mill in the heart of Liverpool city centre, she draws her inspiration
from the eclectic mix of architecture, people, and culture that radiates from
Liverpool and other cities that she has been fortunate to have visited.
Nathan
Pendlebury - painting
Nathan
Pendlebury studied Fine Art at Warrington Collegiate Institute and also at
Liverpool John Moores University. He grew up in the North-West of England in
Chester, Salford, Manchester, and Warrington. Nathan lives and currently works
full-time for National Museums Liverpool, he also has his a studio space in
Liverpool City Centre.
Gill
Curry- print
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Gill
studied Art and Contemporary Dance pursuing a career teaching Art and
Design. During the past 20 years
she has specialised in a variety of print methods (screenprint, linocut,
woodcut and etching) exhibiting locally and nationally. In 2006 she read for an
MA in Fine Art (Print) at Chester University and took part, in 2007, in an
exhibition at the Bluecoat Display Centre commemorating 200 years of
slavery.Gill completed a series of etchings recording the crossing of the
Atlantic on a container ship (May 2009) from Liverpool to New York. Her recent print projects have been
exploring the life and work of Merce Cunningham, contemporary dancer and
choreographer and capturing the landscapes of Hilbre Island and Les Alpilles,
Provence.
Michael
William Burn- photography
Mike
is a painter and decorator by trade. He discovered photography enhancement
quite by accident, when in 2007 he started playing around with a computer
programme which changed the colours and appearance of photographs. He really
liked the eye catching effect and started manipulating my favourite
images. His work is mainly
inspired by a love of iconic buildings and the ever changing Liverpool
waterfront.
Linda
Mary Evans- painting
Linda
is a Wirral based contemporary artist whose work explores personal imagery
derived from the slate mining area of Snowdonia North Wales.
Siân
Bailey- illustration
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Siân
Bailey studied Illustration at Newport and Brighton Colleges of Art. She has
been illustrating books for children for forty years and has worked for many
publishers and with well known authors. She has a special interest in the
illustration of Fairytales, Myths and Legends and Poetry. Most of her paintings
are miniature in scale, usually still lives, landscapes or imaginative
subjects, sometimes inspired by poetry.
Lisa
Waldman - silver jewellery
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Lisa
Waldman is a jewellery designer and silversmith based in the Wirral. Lisa has
been designing and making her collection for over 10 years. She has a new
selection of ‘ready to wear' contemporary pieces in silver anything from simple
flower earrings and silver gem stone rings to gorgeous vintage pearl necklaces
and the stunning butterfly range.
Theresia
Cadwallader- beaded jewellery
Theresia
Cadwallader was born and brought up in Java studying civil engineering at Leeds
University. She worked on building a university campus, bringing infrastructure
to the jungles of Sulawesi and designing irrigation system for Lombok and
Sumbawa. After taking a master degree in Irrigation Engineering at Southampton,
she practised as an engineer in Jakarta and Sumatra. She then settled in Oxton.
She continued working as a water engineer in the North West for a few years.
She then studied fine art and jewellery design at the Wirral Met. Theresia’s
work combines a strong feeling for earth and stones, often geometric with
rigorous design skills, and influenced by her early years among the colours and
sounds of Indonesia.
Mary
Bryning - framed embroideries and cards
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Patterns
on the land and the structure of towns and roads have always fascinated Mary,
from her early days of studying geography. She is interested in them not only
for their visual impact, but also in the effects that human occupation,
development and activities have on the landscape. She has been collecting
antique maps for years and recently have also been influenced by the aerial
photographs.She began formal art training in her late forties with an A level
in Art Textiles followed by City and Guilds Creative textiles. Her work usually
includes techniques of appliqué, print, hand-dyed fabrics and machine
embroidery, resulting in a combination of line, colour and texture to interpret
my ideas.
Rachael
Howard- textiles to be worn and for the home
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Rachael
Howard was one of the Royal College of Art’s first six embroidery postgraduates
in 1992. Since then she has
practiced as a textile artist and designer exhibiting nationally and
internationally and she has undertaken a wide variety of commissions and
projects including being shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Prize for
Applied Arts (1997). Howard has a
fascination with everyday life; she likes to sketch people – their postures,
expressions and movements. These
spontaneous sketches, notes and scribbles are then translated into
screen-printed, appliquéd and embroidered narrative images. They embellish her large wall-hangings,
small framed works and range of fashion and interior accessories.
Christine
Toh- Textile/print/jewellery
Christine
grew up in the north of France and discovered printmaking when she moved to
England in 1992. In 2008 she graduated from John Moores University, Liverpool
with a BA (Hons. 1st Class) in Fashion and Textile Design.
Judith
Brown- jewellery
(new
to art @ the incubator)
Judith
Brown hand stitches with fine wires to create feminine jewellery with an
intricate and delicate feel, her techniques have developed from her degree in
Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University.