Meet the Artist: FROMTHEGROUNDUP (FTGU)
FROMTHEGROUNDUP (FTGU) is an interdisciplinary art and architectural design studio focused on working with reclaimed and natural building materials which have a low impact on the planet.
07 Mar 2024
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Clear filterMeet the Artist: Angelique Stephenson
Angelique Stephenson is a 47-year old semi self-taught artist. Born in London and raised in the Home Counties, she studied art up to foundation level, before going on to university and an 18-year career as a womenswear designer and technician.
03 Feb 2024
Meet the Artist: Fiona Carruthers
Fiona Carruthers is a visual artist working across installation, performance, sculpture and photography. She was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2022 with distinction.
10 Jan 2024
Meet the Artist: Jemisha Maadhavji
Artist Jemisha Maadhavji's work is hugely influenced by bold colours, patterns, and fashions. Jemisha uses symbolism and narrative to depict individuals from different cultural backgrounds and with different lived experiences.
20 Dec 2023
Meet the Artist: Nisa Khan
Nisa Khan is a critically acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, published writer and researcher. Khan is the recipient of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 award.
24 Nov 2023
Meet the Artist: Jonathan Alibone
"We find ourselves on increasingly shaky ground – trapped as we are in an unstable present, with an uncertain past behind us, and a precarious future ahead".
01 Mar 2021
Meet the Artist: James Ellis
James Ellis is a contemporary abstract artist based in Rutland, UK. Working with collage, he creates colourful compositions from meticulously arranged paper.
01 Feb 2021
Meet the Artist: Jane Domingos
Jane Domingos is an artist, best known as a painter but working in a variety of media, living in Leicestershire.
07 Dec 2020
Meet the Artist: Katharina Fitz
Katharina Fitz whose work comprises of sculpture and installation often in reference to architecture and industrial process.
09 Nov 2020
Meet the Artist: Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor is a landscape photographer and artist, born and raised in the East Midland countryside and living and working in Northampton.
12 Oct 2020
Meet the Artist: Joana Cifre Cerdà
Joana Cifre Cerdà is a Lincolnshire-based, Spanish artist based in the U.K since 1993. Performance is a central part of her multidisciplinary practice.
07 Sep 2020
Meet the Artist: Soraya Smithson
Soraya Sherif Smithson is an artist based in Norfolk who makes paintings and sculptures using precious metal leaf and lacquer technique.
10 Aug 2020
Meet the Artist: Christopher Samuel
Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics, often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience.
04 Jul 2020
Meet the Artist: David Ainley
David Ainley studied fine art and ceramics at Derby College of Art and art education at Manchester College of Art/University of Manchester. He was a member and secretary of the Derby Group of Artists 1962-1969 and was invited to become a member of The Midland Group of Artists in Nottingham in 1969.
07 Jun 2020
Meet the Artist: Ruth Singer
Ruth Singer is an artist-maker with 15 years professional experience and a previous career in museums. Her work comprises exhibitions, projects and residencies as well as collaborations and commissions, mainly working in textile with print, mixed media and installation work.
03 May 2020
Meet the Artist: Emily Hett and Grace Stones
Emily Hett and Grace Stones were interviewed on the occasion of their selection as 2020 Fellows on the Artist Benevolent Fund's Step Change Programme, at Loughborough University.
05 Apr 2020
Meet the Artist: Jackie Berridge
Jackie Berridge studied at Nottingham Trent University 1992-95 and the Anglian Ruskin University 2004-07. She set up and managed Harrington Mills Studios and Exhibition Space between 2007 and 2018, organising international exchanges and exhibitions.
09 Mar 2020
Meet the Artist: Yelena Popova
Yelena Popova was born in the USSR, and now lives and works in Nottingham. She works across mediums, including painting, video and installation.
10 Feb 2020
Meet the Artist: Charles Monkhouse
Charles Monkhouse is an artist, curator, and lecturer. He works in rural and public spaces to create permanent installations and temporary light works.
10 Feb 2020
Meet the Artist: Emily Stollery
Emily Stollery's sculptural practice is led by the seductive properties of materials. Where materials meet instinct to create forms born out of spontaneity.
10 Feb 2020
Meet the Artist: Karen Logan
Karen Logan is an artist and creative practitioner based in Derbyshire, her practice combines a range of media and techniques encompassing drawing, stitch, knit and sculpture.
13 Jan 2020
Meet the Artist: Gerard Williams
Gerard Williams is based in Lincolnshire. For over 30 years he has made and exhibited work in a wide range of contexts varying from artist run spaces to commercial galleries to national museums.
09 Dec 2019
Meet the Artist: Chanel Marbrow-Wright
Chanel Marbrow-Wright is in the final year of her BA (Hons) Fine Art course at the University of Derby. Her work is included in the new edition of No Jobs in the Arts zine showcasing young and emerging artists in the East Midlands.
09 Dec 2019
Meet the Artist: No Jobs in the Arts
Ryan Lee Boultbee is a visual artist and designer based in Nottingham and Charlie Collins is an artist and illustrator based in Derbyshire. Together they have produced the second iteration of No Jobs in the Arts zine showcasing young and emerging artists in the East Midlands.
09 Dec 2019
Meet the Artist: Dylan Fox
Dylan Fox is a Northamptonshire based artist, whose work unpacks the various barriers the transgender community faces.
11 Nov 2019
Meet the Artist: Jas Singh
Jas Singh graduated from Central St Martins in 2012 with a BA Fine Art specialising in 4D. His work addresses sociopolitical current affairs. His primary medium is dissonant audio interplaying with architecture, installations, sculpture, video as well as interactive art.
06 Oct 2019
Meet the Artist: Graham Keddie
Graham Keddie is an artist/curator who describes himself as a Fine Art 'Archaeologist' or 'Enquirer' and his practice as 'Examining the Philosophy of Ordinary Language, love and the consumption of milk'.
08 Sep 2019
Meet the Artist: Jagdish Patel
Jagdish Patel is a Nottingham based artist working within the realms of portraiture and documentary. Much of his work follows a process of socially engaged art practice, often working in collaboration within working-class communities.
11 Aug 2019
Meet the Artist: Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw is a practicing sculptor and Curator at Burghley House Sculpture Garden. He is currently researching the history of site-specific sculpture and inflatables as part of a practice-led PhD at Loughborough University.
07 Jul 2019
Meet the Artist: Sally Sheinman
Sally Sheinman is a prolific painter with an interest in contemporary technology and its potential uses in art production. She is a conscientious artist with a deep concern for communities (past, present and mythical), people, science and the role of the individual as a contextual starting point for creating accessible but thought provoking work.
09 Jun 2019
Meet the Artist: Ivan Smith
Ivan Smith is a sculptor based in Derbyshire. Born in Mexico City in 1965, he spent seven years developing site-specific nocturnal one-night-only exhibitions in the West Midlands with the artist-led Fine Rats International.
04 May 2019
Re-Meet the Artist: Emma Davies
Quite a bit has happened since being Meet the Artist in 2017; but most importantly, has been the development of my practice.
06 Apr 2019
Meet the Artist: Sumiko Eadon
Sumiko Eadon is an artist and freelance printmaking tutor and associate artist of Leicester Print Workshop based in Loughborough. She was born and raised in Japan and became a resident and citizen in the UK as an adult.
06 Apr 2019
Meet the Artist: Kate Genever
Kate Genever is an artist and farmer living in Uffington, near Stamford in South Lincolnshire. She is interested in the connections between people and where they live and investigates notions of dwelling, sense of place and way of life.
11 Mar 2019
Meet the Artist: Luke Harby
Luke Harby (b. 1972) is an artist who works solely with photographic film. Recent work has been shown with Noice Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, Float Magazine, Streitlab and Lumen London.
18 Feb 2019
Meet the Artist: Colette Griffin
Colette Griffin is a studio holder at One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, Creative Producer (Curation) at Mansions of the Future, Lincoln.
01 Jan 2019
Meet the Artist: Diane Hall
Diane Hall uses recycled, natural and repurposed materials in her work, which explores the history and future of the natural environment. She lives and works in Leicestershire and has a studio in Rutland.
10 Dec 2018
Meet the Artist: Olivia Punnett
Olivia Punnett is an artist, curator, and lecturer working across printmaking, installation, film, and projection. Her work appears in collections at the British Library, The Tetley, The Ruskin Archive, and Tate Library and Archive.
05 Nov 2018
Meet the Artist: Lois Gardner Sabet
Abstract artist Lois Gardner Sabet works primarily with watercolor and gouache on handmade Japanese papers, exploring themes of music, textiles, and organic forms through layered compositions created over extended periods.
30 Sep 2018
Meet the Artist: Alex Pain
Alex Pain is a Nottingham-based artist with a BA in Fine Art from NTU (2011). His work spans sculpture, furniture, and lighting, with pieces acquired by Arts Council England.
31 Aug 2018
Meet the Artist: Alexis Rago
Lincolnshire-based sculptor Alexis Rago discusses his multidisciplinary practice combining clay sculpture, sound, pinhole photography, and digital media to explore themes of origin, continuity, and existential questions about humanity's place in the universe.
31 Jul 2018
Meet the Artist: Daniel Cowlam
Daniel Cowlam is a painter and sculptor based in Leicester who creates works referencing imagery from novels, broadcasting, and design.
30 Jun 2018
Meet the Artist: Anna Mawby
Anna Mawby is a visual artist based in Derbyshire who creates contemplative pieces that explore the nuances of life.
03 Jun 2018
Meet the Artist: Byrd Brady
Byrd Brady is based in Nottinghamshire. Her practice is concerned predominantly with sound, photography, text and moving image.
06 May 2018
Meet the Artist: Sam Metz
Sam Metz is a visual artist working across performance. Their interests lie in experimenting with the body in relation to the built environment.
31 Mar 2018
Meet the Artist: Mita Solanky
Mita Solanky is based in Leicester. The natural environment and our connection to it is an important aspect in her work.
01 Mar 2018
Meet the Artist: Sophie Cero
Sophie Cero is based in Northamptonshire. She creates artworks that set perceptions at odds with understanding, where ordinarily familiar activities seem eerily unidentifiable.
14 Feb 2018
Meet the Artist: Mark Watkins
Mark Watkins is based near Derby. He uses discarded fragments of the past and present which are reimagined in accidental or deliberate juxtapositions to create new images – surreal worlds inhabited by exciting new possibilities.
08 Jan 2018
Meet the Artist: Michael Sanders
Michael Sanders is a sculptor and photographer working from a former military airfield in Lincolnshire. His practice often subverts the everyday, making gentle interventions at former Cold War and nuclear sites using tartan and textiles to challenge military symbolism.
04 Dec 2017
Re-Meet the Artists
Catching up with some of the artists who have been involved in Meet the Artist over the last three years. Find out what they've been doing since they were our featured artists and what they're working on now.
04 Dec 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Serena Smith
Serena Smith is an artist, tutor and collaborator with over 30 years practice in fine art printmaking. Since her original interview, she has been included in the Ruskin Prize shortlist, exhibited internationally, and taken up an artist's residency in China.
04 Dec 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Mik Godley
Mik Godley discusses his Considering Silesia project exploring Anglo-German identity through digital finger drawings, his community arts work with City Arts, and upcoming exhibitions on Nottingham's LED screens.
25 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Nína Óskarsdóttir
Icelandic artist Nína Óskarsdóttir discusses her exchange projects between Two Queens in Leicester and Ekkisens in Reykjavík, her Leicester Print Workshop fellowship, and the Brutal Náttúra exhibition.
25 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Steffie Richards
Derbyshire based Steffie Richards captures fleeting moments in nature. Since her original interview, she received Arts Council England funding for a project about the Transience of Coastal Cornwall, with exhibitions across the UK.
25 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: James Steventon
Endurance artist James Steventon updates us on his recent projects, including The Only Running Footman performance, a 16-hour drawing for Yasmin Canvin, and his new publication Sculptorvox.
25 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Nick Mobbs
Nick Mobbs is an Artist and Lecturer based in Nottingham whose practice combines photography and printmaking. Over the last year pattern has become more important in his work, along with experiments in lenticular prints and animation.
25 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Lucy Stevens
Sound artist Lucy Stevens discusses her collaborative projects including The Workforce Symphony, residencies at Cove Park and DeMontfort University, and her exploration of industrial soundscapes and endangered bird songs.
18 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Diana Ali
Diana Ali discusses her direct animation work on 8mm film, her international Engagement & Entrapment exhibitions, and her role as mentor on BBC's The Big Painting Challenge Series 3.
11 Nov 2017
Re-Meet the Artist: Danica Maier
Danica Maier discusses her ACE-funded Returns residency at the Spode Factory in Stoke-on-Trent, the Bummock project at the Tennyson Research Centre, and upcoming exhibition at Backlit Gallery.
04 Nov 2017
Meet the Artists: Lesley Farrell
Lesley Farrell is an artist working in photography and is interested in exploring how the sense of a direct connection with the past, often perceived in objects and places, can be communicated through the photographic image.
30 Sep 2017
Meet the Artist: Laura McCafferty
Laura McCafferty is a Nottingham-based interdisciplinary artist using photography, drawing, text, textile, costume and performance to explore repetition, excess and permutation within the context of the everyday and mundane.
03 Sep 2017
Meet the Artist: Khush Kali
Khush Kali is a Leicester-based artist who uses collage, drawing, digital media and sculpture to explore the everyday experience of the urban environment, influenced by the history of Leicester, migration and cultural identity.
06 Aug 2017
Meet the Artist: Louisa Chambers
Nottingham-based painter Louisa Chambers investigates how to depict three-dimensional shapes onto two-dimensional surfaces, working with gouache, ceramics, and folded paper forms.
04 Jun 2017
Meet the Artist: Ross Oliver
Lincoln-based sound artist Ross Oliver explores analogue audio technology through installation, performance, and improvisation, creating tape-based dioramas and collaborating with General Practice arts collective.
07 May 2017
Meet the Artist: James Smith
James Smith is a photographer based in Northampton. After completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, his work explores the architecture of territory and the projection of politics through aesthetic and cultural definitions of geographic positioning.
08 Apr 2017
Meet the Artist: Emma Davies
Emma Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Northamptonshire working across Performance, Live Art, Installation, Mixed Media, Constructions, Objects, Artists Books, Painting, Drawing and Theatre Production.
13 Mar 2017
Meet the Artist: Theo Miller
Theo Miller is a visual artist and printmaker based in Leicester. A graduate of De Montfort University, he recently completed a residency at Leicester Print Workshop exploring ink-making with alternative pigments and creating instructional artworks.
13 Feb 2017
Meet the Artist: Chris Wright
Chris Wright is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Nottingham, practising from Harrington Mill Studios. She explores borders and transitional spaces through sound, light, film, photography and sculpture.
16 Jan 2017
Meet the Artist: Daniel Sean Kelly
Daniel Sean Kelly is an artist based in Leicester and co-director of Two Queens, an artist-run gallery and studios. Working largely in painting, printmaking and ceramics, his work seeks to create a speculative space for the imagining of other realities.
16 Dec 2016
Meet the Artist: Joey Holder
Joey Holder lives and works in Nottingham and London. She is interested in the structures and hierarchies of the technological and natural world, mixing elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history against computer program interfaces.
10 Nov 2016
Meet the Artist: Claire Jarvis
Claire Jarvis works and lives in Northampton. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2009, she has since gone on to become an associate lecturer. Claire documents and transcribes the sea of everyday objects through hyperrealist paintings.
03 Oct 2016
Meet the Artist: David Booth
David Booth is a sculptor and painter based in Derbyshire. Originally from Manchester, he gained a place at art college at the age of 17 but instead took an apprenticeship. When an opportunity to study art as a mature student arose, he pursued a part time degree in Fine Art at Derby University.
15 Sep 2016
Meet the Artist: James Steventon
James Steventon is an artist based in Corby, Northamptonshire, whose practice explores the relationship between endurance running and endurance drawing, documenting physical exhaustion through continuous mark-making.
01 Aug 2016
Meet the Artist: Rachael Pinks
Derbyshire-based painter and mixed media artist Rachael Pinks works intuitively with abstraction, using layers of paint and paper that are scratched, rubbed and scraped to create compelling works.
03 Jul 2016
Meet the Artist: Nína Óskarsdóttir
Icelandic artist Nína Óskarsdóttir, now based in Newark-on-Trent, works across video, installation, performance and printmaking, currently focusing on stone lithography as a fellow at Leicester Print Workshop.
02 Jun 2016
Meet the Artist: Danica Maier
Lincolnshire-based artist Danica Maier explores dualities of material, object and site through installations, events and drawing, investigating expectations of site, traditional values, and labour.
03 May 2016
Meet the Artist: Michael Forbes
Nottingham-based photographer Michael Forbes explores themes of the Black Diaspora and Africa-Europe connections through his compelling photographic work, including his 10-year project documenting Caribbean Carnival.
07 Apr 2016
Meet the Artist: Lucy Stevens
Lucy Stevens is a Leicester-based sound and visual artist inspired by bird behaviour; in particular bird vocalisation, identification and conservation. She records birdsong to visualise their songs via printmaking and graphic illustration.
04 Mar 2016
Meet the Artist: Kate Buckley
Kate Buckley is an artist based in Boston, Lincolnshire. Working through sculpture, drawing, video, performance and curation, she explores aspects that have become relegated, drawing them back into experience.
05 Feb 2016
Meet the Artist: Leila Galloway
Leila Galloway is an artist based in Leicestershire. Her practice includes drawing, sculpture, and sound within installation, investigating elegiac, somatic qualities through material form.
08 Jan 2016
Meet the Artist: Sayed Sattar Hasan
Sayed Sattar Hasan is based in Northampton. His practice reflects on his personal relationships with people and places, exploring migration, identity and the unpredictable nature of life.
04 Dec 2015
Meet the Artist: Nick Mobbs
Nick Mobbs is a Nottingham-based artist who combines photography and printmaking, creating work that explores adults hiding or concealing their identity.
22 Oct 2015
Meet the Artist: Tracey Kershaw
Nottingham-based artist Tracey Kershaw discusses her practice exploring motherhood, maternal emotions, and the mother/child relationship through her project 'tell me about your mother'.
24 Sep 2015
Meet the Artist: Mik Godley
Nottingham-based painter and iPad artist Mik Godley discusses his 'Considering Silesia' project exploring heritage, memory, and digital ways of seeing.
27 Aug 2015
Meet the Artist: Tim Shore
Derby-based artist Tim Shore discusses his work exploring the impact of automation and technology on society through moving image, drawing, and installation.
30 Jul 2015
Meet the Artist: Juliet Goodden
Derby-based painter Juliet Goodden discusses her work exploring faith, immigration, and urban architecture through oil painting, including her residency at Lakeside Arts.
02 Jul 2015
Meet the Artist: Steffie Richards
Steffie Richards is based in Derbyshire. Her work relates to fleeting glimpses of personal experience – moments sometimes unexplainable, but which we identify with; ones which make us unique in the way we are.
05 Jun 2015
Meet the Artist: Ursula Rose Rae
Ursula Rose Rae is based in Loughborough. Her practice explores the possibilities of textiles to move away from traditional cloth into three-dimensional forms within space, creating experiential and imaginative environments.
07 May 2015
Meet the Artist: Rebecca Ounstead
Rebecca Ounstead is based in Nottingham. Her work includes sculpture, painting, performance, costume and photography, concerned with aestheticisation of gender roles, materiality, sexuality and consumer product identity.
09 Apr 2015
Meet the Artist: Kate Da'Casto
Kate Da'Casto is a fine artist whose practice spans drawing, photography, printmaking, installation and sculpture. Her work explores our use of animals as a way to tell stories about the human condition through myth and metaphor.
13 Mar 2015
Meet the Artist: Anna Krystyna Casey
Anna Krystyna Casey is based in Derbyshire. She creates sculptural pieces and functional products, transforming the familiar technique of crochet through process driven design into sculptures and wall art.
06 Feb 2015
Meet the Artist: Jessica Harby
Jessica Harby is based in Northampton. Her work explores the malleability of the self, drawing on feelings of foreignness, the idea of young women being treated as vessels for ideas, and the social construct of villainy.
09 Jan 2015
Meet the Artist: Ashokkumar Mistry
Ashokkumar Mistry is based in Leicester. He is a lens media artist working with video and photography, exploring how data is mediated and how people from different cultures form truths from the information at hand.
28 Nov 2014
Meet the Artist: Serena Smith
Serena Smith is based in Leicester. She works as artist, tutor and collaborator in fine art printmaking, supporting the work of other artists alongside her own studio activities and research.
31 Oct 2014
Meet the Artist: Jenny Seals
Jenny Seals is based in Derbyshire. She is a 2D artist using mixed media to achieve small, atmospheric pieces that describe a place or person, fascinated by how our senses can retrieve a memory.
02 Oct 2014
Meet the Artist: Diana Ali
Diana Ali is based in Nottingham. She is a visual artist, independent curator, lecturer and workshop leader. Her practice involves drawing, installation and text work, exploring correspondence, networking and connectivity.
04 Sep 2014
Meet the Artist: Joy Pitts
Joy Pitts is based in Derbyshire. Her practice begins with used garments from which she gathers the labels, carefully unpicking and sorting them according to size, colour and finish to create images.
05 Aug 2014