CAROL HARVEY

Carol Harvey's work focuses on the vulnerabilities of baby and parents, she examines the uncertainties and anxieties a new being brings. Parenthood as well as childhood can be a challenge with its expectations, deliberations and ensuing consequences. The photographic work has an ability to touch on universal human experiences, allowing the viewer their own intimacy with the image as well as a sense of collective awareness.

BUFF LANCASTER-THOMAS

Most of Buff Lancaster-Thomas' artwork is generated by a concern with a wide variety of social issues, frequently embracing the marginalized or the abject. Mundane materials are transformed into diverse ‘mindscapes’ which invite the viewer to participate in an exploration of the tactile, sensual, evocative and conceptual. She has created a new installation for 'Artshot', based on a continued exploration of the complex life of bees, drawing visual parallels between their society and that of the human.

 

NIC THOMPSON

Nic Thompson is exploring the temporal dimension of video, while controlling its other attributes, camera movement and lens movement. To begin with these regimes allowed the energy of the subject matter to be expressed by the static camera. Later by using the handheld camera he emphasised its slowness, embodying the effects of his own frailty in the face of nature. Recently the camera broke free, and its movement became unlimited by bodily restraint. This is the antithesis of previous work, as free as the wind, the subject revealed by the drawings of invisible planetary and ultimately universal forces.