Sarah Britten-Jones

Date: April – May 2011

Title: Mossbrosco

Statement: These two hangings are part of a triptych inspired by an old 'The Soviet Union' book found in Reading College Library. They were made following a short but eventful trip from Reading to Moscow in September 2010 and are a response to the coupling of these two places and Sarah’s own assumptions about her ability to adapt to place and culture.

Jenny Parkes

Date: February – March 2011

Title: Requiem

Statement: This installation is concerned with the representation of the inner workings of an old piano that nobody wanted. It evokes music that has been silenced, sounds deadened, voices that go unheard, and the many words that are left unsaid.

Charlotte McClelland

Date: December 2010 – January 2011

Title: Mirror – Mirror

Statement: I am fascinated by the film of reflections - fragments of light and patches of sky between buildings - which we look through in windows all the time. The seeming reality but elusive otherness and the shifting multiple spaces they present.

Anita Grosz

Date: September – October 10

Title: Fragile Transitions

Statement: Exploring the evident developments of a single form impacted by unfiltered and garbled information. Cultural rituals and adornments informing individuals yet never truly facilitating integration. How does this reflect in our identity?

Gemma Cumming

Date: July – August 10

Title: “Greetings From The Mantlepiece”

Statement: My work deals with notions of anticipation and tourism, using tourist images to create giant painted postcards with an ominous twist. In this installation I put greater emphasis on the strangeness inherent in the scale of the works, creating a set where postcards are joined by similarly scaled up objects.

Jane Glennie

Date: May – June 10

Title: Removal

Statement: When things reach the end of their useful life they hold stories I want to hoard. I want to grasp the old, the worn, the unappreciated. I want a piece, I want its story. For me, tipi-like structures symbolise story-telling tradition and represent transience built on need and practicality. Current culture is too quick to move on, to trash, to forget, a place where transience is built on dissatisfaction and boredom.

Janet Curley Cannon

Date: March – April 10

Title: The Last Picture Show

Statement: What remains after the show is over … the memories, the experience, the old promotional materials no longer of use, and the paraphernalia of empty frames and test prints.

Charlotte McClelland

Date: January – February 10

Title: Overdrawn

Statement: The initial idea for this piece was to remake/recycle a tree form from the chaotic tangled paper of shredded documents. I was interested in the possible narrative content of that process.

Tonia Maddison

Date: November – December 09

Title: Inconstant Vision

Statement: This installation is about the idea of connectedness with nature, something embedded in the earth, the organic and mineral intertwined. It incorporates reflections, both incidental and intentional, clear and obscured.  It suggests history and pre-history which resonate with the present, with concerns for the environment.  Are our actions reflected in our views of our changing planet?

Julia Rogers

Date: September – October 09

Title: Redundant

Statement: The spine, also referred to as the backbone, offers support, stability and durability. Having your spine ripped out of you is a metaphorical term which has specific resonance today.

Karen Jackson

Date: August – September 09

Title: Untitled

Statement: Small dwellings and outbuildings cut out from the context of a background, suspended disparately on wire and floating above a map drawn in sand laying on the floor. Are these photographs of dwellings we would inhabit? Although different types of buildings, built in different countries can we still find connections between them?'

Janet Curley Cannon

Date: June – July 09

Title: Recycling of the Urban Space

Statement: There is an endless cycle of architectural change as buildings deemed to old or no longer of value are demolished to make way for the new. Here a derelict façade left standing shows hints of the past lives that occupied it, while through the windows the 21st century shining towers of modern living can be seen.

Jenny Parkes

Date: May – June 09

Title: Transience

Statement: This installation is a response to urban development where layered metal grids form ghosts of buildings, new and old, floating and translucent; reflecting the cycle of demolition and regeneration.