#open frequency

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If you ever need something fixed, be it a watch, radio, bike, or car, I can get it done! Tell me what’s wrong and I’ll get it up and running before long!

Dr Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the V&A, profiles the work of established ceramic artist Carol McNicoll for Open Frequency.

Artist Dawn Youll profiles the work of Glasgow-based James Rigler for Open Frequency.

James Rigler makes work predominantly in ceramics, but increasingly incorporates other complementary and functional materials such as metal, wood and fabric into his sculptural works. His large-scale pieces employ a rich language of architectural features, domestic ornaments and utilitarian objects, evoking both intimate and monumental settings. 

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Laura Sillars, Artistic Director of Site Gallery, profiles the work of London-based artist Laura Buckley.

Laura Buckley works expansively with light, sound and sculpture. She cannot be summed up with a simple media-based affix and at its most affective her work generates aesthetic, atmospheric conditions that encompass the viewer.

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Patrick Henry, Director of Open Eye Gallery, profiles the work of Manchester-based photographic artist David Penny. 

Manchester-based artist David Penny makes absorbing, provocative still life photographs. It’s not easy to do this. Photographs are bound up with our desire to know something about the world out there - their lifeblood is contingency. The canon of photography (as art) is dominated by the documentary tradition. The further still life photography gets from the language of documentary, the more it swims against the tide. Still life at worst circumscribes an airless space, cut off from the world, accessible only by the obscure, absolute desire of the photographer. 

Penny has found some unusual ways to breathe life into this space. He creates simple, meticulous compositions, photographing single objects against plain backgrounds, populating his frame with undecided objects - objects that pose questions and engage the imagination. His approach is tentative and interrogative - it makes us look again at what surrounds us and where it has come from. It's photography from first principles - innocent photography, strangely reminiscent of the earliest experiments in photographic picture-making by Niepce, Talbot and others. ...

ndependent curator and researcher Karen Gaskill profiles the work of Ruth Beale.

London-based artist Ruth Beale considers the evocative relationships between culture, governance, social discourse and representation. Beale’s practice includes drawing, performance, video and the collection and re-presentation of archival materials.

Her contexts draw from the history of social structures and the way in which knowledge has traditionally been used as an instrument of social control. Her interest in the hierarchies revealed through the availability of knowledge to a public interestingly connects to the role of the archive as preserving not just bodies of knowledge, but also these hierarchies themselves. ...