Laura Towersey
E-mail ljtowersey@hotmail.co.ukWebsite www.lauratowersey.co.uk
Telephone 07783 410 554
Biography
Laura Jane Towersey was born in West Bromwich in 1987. However she relocated with her family to Cheshire at an early age. She completed her School education and went on to study for a National Diploma in Fine Art at South Cheshire College. She then moved on to study for a Degree in Photography.
Her latest project is based around two crucial elements; Water and Oil.
“Our planet and universe is vast and full of the unknown. Water and oil lurk deep underground. When they are brought together they repel, pushing against each other, almost fighting for recognition. Their combination forms magical landscapes. They hold mystery and beauty within dark spaces, between this world and the next.”
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Nick King
E-mail n.g.wking@btopenworld.comBiography
After a career in Retail Buying Control and then in Sales, Nick determined in 2005 to realize a longstanding ambition to work as a Photographer. Accordingly he underwent a basic course at South Cheshire College, Crewe, before attaining a Foundation Degree at Mid-Cheshire College, Northwich, and this he hopes to have converted to an Honours Degree this year at Stockport.
Together with a former student colleague Nick plans to develop a small business focusing on People and Pets while pursuing his principal commitment to Documentary Photography.
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Jennie Fielden
E-mail jenniefielden@hotmail.comTelephone 07917 854 057
Biography
Delta is 7 years old. Delta has autism. This is his world.
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Sarah Dixon
E-mail sarahdixonphoto@hotmail.comWebsite www.sarahdixon.info
Biography
Ever since she can remember, Crewe born photographer Sarah Dixon has been passionate about animalism.
“Dioramas are staged models, which typically displays a three-dimensional, replica scene that use a tilted plane to represent what would otherwise be a level surface, a painted background of distant objects”
Photography often has the status of being the purveyor of truth. These images are fictional and a contrast between fabrication and truth. Sarah's work presents a fiction, which challenges this notion.
These images are a critical response to actuality of the animal kingdom, they record idealism and reality, contrasting and pushing the boundaries which are shown within the media, from realism to idealism portrayed through children's books and films.
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Sian Gouldstone
E-mail mythoughtsarecurly@gmail.comWebsite www.siangouldstone.co.uk
Biography
Sian is a Manchester based photographer and has been studying contemporary photography for three years. Her interests are centralised around the juxtapositions between society and the planet, between human nature and nature itself. This work considers the notion that between street and room, in many terraced houses, there lies a transitional space.
The objects, and subsequent thresholds, of both gate and door, offer boundary stages in the journey to the assumed comfort and privacy of the domestic.
This collection of images suggests a metaphor for the changing state in which one finds oneself through a transition; a journey that presents a change in condition from open to closed, exterior to interior, to eventual privacy and the notion of home. These transitions can engage a physical, mental or temporal change, and the nature of the journey seen here can be considered to contain both literal and metaphorical reference to one or more of these dialectic shifts.
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Christopher Marshall
E-mail c41marshall@googlemail.comBiography
This work considers the contemplative moment. The time at which one finds oneself distracted from the domestic, the mundane, the ordinary or the routine. Focus is distracted from the task at hand, and for a fleeting moment an alternative existence is considered.
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Danielle Baguley
E-mail daniellebaguley@hotmail.comTelephone 07738 009 095
Biography
Danielle Baguley's interest's lie in portraiture, she has a passion for working with people whom may be deemed to be living on the fringes of society. Through her work Danielle challenges people's perceptions and pre-conceived ideas.
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Jan Fyfe
E-mail info@janfyfephotographer.co.ukWebsite www.janfyfephotographer.co.uk
Telephone 0161 491 5845
Biography
Jan Fyfe was born in London and currently lives and works in Manchester where she has just completed a BA (Hons) Degree in Documentary and Fine Art Photography. She was shortlisted for the Epson Art Photo Award 2007 in Dusseldorf and exhibited at Cube, Manchester in 2008 for the Mid Cheshire Foundation Degree open.
Her interests lie primarily with landscape photography. The work she has just undertaken is based on memory, traces, time and place where she has taken the idea of palimpsest and used it to discuss arrangements of space and their unfolding in time.
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Simon Priestley
E-mail syrup_photography@hotmail.comWebsite www.simonpriestleyphotography.co.uk
Telephone 07896 817 288
Biography
Simon Priestley, a fine art and commercial photographer based in Manchester, creates beautifully cratfted and highly stylised images. Conceptually led, he constructs tableaux that are tense and psychology charged. Drawing from a cinematic aesthetic and informed by Jungian analytical psychology, ths images and the visual worlds he creates deal with the confrontation of opposing archetypal components of the unconscious, and explore issues of gender, sexuality and crisis of identity in a post-modern environment.
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Nicol Couter
Address 176 Masseyfield Road, Brookvale, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 6ABTelephone 07702 789 442
E-mail nhcoulter@hotmail.com
Biography
Nicol Coulter is an artist and photographer who combine both a minimal colour pallet with confined compositional work methods. Working in this way enables Nicol to have some form of reoccurring visual pattern and consistency running throughout her series. This Series concentrates on Nicol's general concern for the landscape and land use. On average, from 2000 to 2025, Britain will need almost four million additional households. By documenting architectural structures within the landscape she makes us aware of the damage we are inflicting on the land.
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Nunez Parmar
Telephone 07752 558 045E-mail nunezparmar@hotmail.co.uk
Biography
Nunez Parmar's work is largely landscape based and heavily influenced by topographic photography. Documenting structures within their locations links his practice and interest of land use in peripheral areas. Nunez works using traditional methods, and is based in Manchester.
Given Britain's ever-growing population, developments of superstores have increasingly been built onto our edge-of-town and rural areas.
Whether regenerating industrial sites, or expanding onto green-belt land, these stores often transform their surroundings. Convenience and low prices are most likely to keep custom over smaller, closer retailers, especially with regards to the nation's current economic condition.
The augmentation of the “big four” supermarket chains and the spread of settlements will continue to parallel the way our vacant land is spent.
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Sophie Reece
Telephone 07872 165 041E-mail sophie_reece@hotmail.com
Biography
Sophie has been studying photography for five years; over this time she has explored many mediums as means of expressing her work visually. With a range of socially challenging work, she has recently begun to investigate our conflictions and convergence with wild and domestic animals. In 2008 she created a book, A Rat's Tail that compiled photographs of roadkill with children's stories. Sophie's last project, The Dogs Are In The Traps And The Hare Is On The Move, used moving image to convey an infinite cycle about man's best friend, examining a matrix of adrenaline, patience, anticipation and observation.
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Zuzana Salajkova
Telephone 07830 806 535E-mail salajkova4@yahoo.co.uk
Biography
Zuzana Salajkova was born 1983 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. In 2002 she relocated to Manchester, U.K. where she work and live. Her photography and projects are based on personal experiences.
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