Low Tides

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INTRODUCTIONPrivilaged to our access of the archives at Spike Island in Bristol, our group delved into a selection of folders for applicants in 1995 for an exhibition called ‘High Tides’, over 30 in total. After much debate we settled on the idea of using the best rejected applicants who really packed out their applications with intelligently described and interesting content about their work.

This publication is dedicated to the rejected artists shown ahead, and it attempts give them the recognition they deserve.

Due to the lack of known evidence or imagery of the work they describe, our team has decided to interpret their work in our own way using how the artists describe their content and what materials they use.

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DELLA GOODEN

D E L L A G O O D E N

Graduating from Braintree College in 1983 and finally at Birmingham Polytechnic in 1984, Della then proceeded to get her own studio at ‘Castery Studios’. She describes her work as using the wall to react with, and primarily using woods and metals to design sculptures.

SculptureInstallation

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Work In ProgressWoodAcrylic

IAN WELCH

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El Chorro 1;2;3Various

Painting

I A N W E L C H

Ian Welch is a working Artist whom has worked as an Art and Design Lecturer for 10 years. He has exhibited paintings in solo and group shows, predominately in the North of England, but has also been included in several open exhibitions abroad. His work is about the articulation of

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LIANE STEVENSON

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Redcliffe DocksideOil On Board

Painting

L I A N E S T E V E N S O N

Since leaving college Liane Stevenson has become a practicing artist and a fully qualified painter and decorator. Her work is inspired by the geometry and colour in our everyday surroundings, particularly the lesser known parts of Bristol.

MAGGIE ROYLE

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Your Children Aer Not Your ChildrenCharcoalPencilOil On Board

Painting

M A G G I E R O Y L E

Maggie Royle has been a member of ArtSpace since 1992 and has exhibited work at galleries in London and Brazil. After graduating from Bristol Polytechnic she became an educator of art past-time at the unit for school girl mothers. Her abstract paintings tend to be about past events in her life and aim to engage the viewer.

Work In ProgressMaterial

MARK BESSANT & JUSTIN MACCARTHY

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Stop Talking ShitSpray PaintCardboard

M A R K B E S S A N T & J U S T I N M A C C A R T H Y

Although from different parts of the country, Mark and Justins artistic backgrounds are both similar, coming from the spray can art era at the end of the eighties and early nineties. They have experience in various band design including record covers, flyers and posters. Currently they

PaintingElectronic Media

WHATNOTTO DO

Studio AAshley Kirby, Feyi Haley, Lily Stockley, Martin Bodger

WHAT NOT TO DO

How could these artists have improved there chances of having a successful application?

Excluding qualifications which aren’t always a neccesity in this case but it would’ve benefitted some of these applicants had they done things a little or if not, a lot differently.

Going through every application, we noticed the most common thing was the sheer lack of information, descriptions are important, not neccsarily having to clutter every detail with facts about your life but just enough to get an understanding of what it is you do and what the work is.

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INFORMATION IS KEY

There were a lot of applicants we decided not to include amongst the few we did in this publication, and it was a tough decision for the most part.

A lot of the artists that are highlighted in this publication did things right, they just weren’t fortunate enough to have been picked, but don’t let this little piece of history stop you.

PATIENCE

Take time with what you write, think about it, write keynotes, build and elaborate on whatever you can think to say, supply as much interesting information about yourself as possible, you may not think there is much but if you’re at the age most popular artists are at now, I’m certain you already have a lot to say, after all...

THINK CREATIVE

You’re an artist, why not treat this application like a piece of art, think of strange ways to apply information, it doesn’t neccesarily have to be all writing, what weird and interesting things could you do to your application to make it stick out amongst the rest?

MATTHEWWHITE

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JourneyVarious

Painter

M A T T H E W W H I T E

Matthew Whites work is hugely inspired by in depth research into the field of visual communication. He attended The University of the West of England where he gained a degree in fine art. His work attempts to question the form of indentity as he looks into the physical properties of the ‘mark’ and how it can produce multi meanings.

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Work In ProgressMaterial

MONICA WILEY

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Layer After Layer of Meaning and HeartacheComputer Treated Photograph

SculptureInstallationPaintingFilm/VideoPerformance

M O N I C A W I L E Y

Radio Frequencies. Strategy. Coordinates. Evasion.

PAUL HELLIWELL

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UntitledVarious

Painting

P A U L H E L L I W E L L

Buying into codes, a simulated but new way of constructing the perceptual mode and experience of our time. Reality enters a re-constructive picturing, joining, containing, overlapping and demarcating the psychological boundaries and terrain to which formal devices correlate.

SELVIN

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Serpent andTerestrial SlopeAcrylicCard

Sculpture

S E L V I N

An aircraft engineer with a natural talent for practical subjects. Selvin incorporates techniques into his sculpture that is used in the manufacturing of modern aircrafts as well as materials available in the factory. Selvin’s abstract sculptures are usually based on a theme,

SIMON GURR

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Sandwich Americano #1Photograph

Printing

S I M O N G U R R

Simon Gurr is interested in sequences of images that can give credibility to consistently portrayed characters, a cumulative impression of space and a concept of passing time to static pictures. Simon seeks to produce images that meet the challenges of depicting a living world on flat images.

STELLA SHAW

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BlueVarious

Painting

S T E L L A S H A W

Stella Shaw is influenced by life. Her current paintings are developing from the idea of blue.

Studio AAshley Kirby, Feyi Haley, Lily Stockley, Martin Bodger

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