Zuzana Lola Hruskova

Title: THE PEN PAL

Zuzana Lola Hruskova works with moving image, photography, text, installation and performance. Her approach can sometimes be characterised as bleak humour, and invites a discourse on ideas of vulnerability. Her work isn’t about capturing for the sake of hope, rather, the camera or any lens-based medium embodies the approximation. Her more recent work plays with the understanding of and the use of lens based media. Her work has been exhibited regularly in international arts events and moving image screenings.

Mike Berners-Winters

Title: ‘One thing. Anything. Two things. Many things.’

(A playground chant recorded in Bethnal Green in 1972 by Mike Talbot.)

Mike Berners-Winters loves folk: ordinary, decent, honest, hard-working, god-fearing folk. Since retiring from the Royal Navy twenty-five years ago, he and his brother Bernard Berners-Winters have traversed each and every highway and byway of the island of Ireland, from Dublin to Galway and Malin to Mizen, exhibiting the enormous wicker dog on wheels they have christened ‘Sorebutts’. And great has been the innocent merriment generated among the ordinary, decent, honest, hard-working, god-fearing folk of the island of Ireland by the sight thereof! Mike Berners-Winters considers himself thoroughly provincial: all art is his province, and ‘Sorebutts’ is his guide.

Clare Wilson

Title : unquiet interval

Clare Wilson graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and has lived and worked in London since 1997.She has exhibited her work at Stephen Lacey Gallery,The Royal College of Art aswell as in Art Futures and in Art Fairs in London and Paris.She has had residencies at The Florence Trust Studios and Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ireland.

Her paintings evolve out of a process of layering, removing and pushing paint to find an inevitable form with subtle shifts of tone and a restricted palette referring to the intervals and diffused light of landscape. To see more examples of her work visit www.clare-wilson.com

Nic Rawling

Title: contents of an English travelling gentleman's pocket

Nic Rawling is an artist and illustrator based in Dorset and London. He is the main driving and creative force behind the world's first paper cinema currently touring in Europe/UK.
www.thepapercinema.com

Sam Lee

Title: Venus & Mercury

Graduating in fine art from Chelsea College in 2003 Sam Lee has spent the last 6 years doing everything but make art. The subsequent journey has seen Sam study and perform as a burlesque and contemporary dancer, teach outdoor wilderness living and eventually become a steadfast Folk singer, promoter, teacher, researcher and animateur. Joyfully back amongst his first love and métiers of canvas and PVA glue, Sam’s most recent return to his ‘art overalls’ was collaborating with artist Matt Stokes on his 2009 work the Gainsborough Packet in which Sam sings and plays the role of the films protagonist John Burdikin.

Gwen Brinton

Title: Nottingham to London

Gwin Brinton is a photographer and performer currently based in Nottingham. She founded the band 'Wee Jimi Wombat' and publishes her own zine on art and music.