Andy Whall

Moved to St Ives in 1996 from Cardiff. He currently describes himself as an artist and curator and director of Art Surgery.
Whall’s creative practice embodies many of the defining characteristics of contemporary art. His work is self consciously discursive and utilises video, text, drawing and sculpture. His work consistently examines the relation of the self to the spaces he sites his work in, whether it be cities or the elemental landscapes of Penwith In Cornwall.
His artworks indicate a sense of the work as something ongoing, something which is always in one way or another in progress.
Whilst he may make visible and tangible references to landscape, the space (the work) is treated as metaphysical construction - an intellectual plain or gap - seen as analogous to the space between ideology and language and where these enter a social framework.




Delpha Hudson

What concerns me are ideas; philosophical, psychological, practical, non-sensical...art is not just visual . I believe that art can change not just how and what we see, but what we understand. Art is a collection of ideas, written, enacted, presented to all of the senses.
I am interested in the potential of dialogue between performance, video, documentation, archive,... and above all the possibility of re-representing ‘female.’

Since re-training as an artist in 1997, I have worked with a variety of media including performance, video, text and installation. My original degree in history informs my work, using research, versioning and text to play with perceived ’truth’ and misapprehensions. Much of my work is based around feminist theory and writings; endeavouring to re-represent women and mothers, examining the contradictions and discourses of the Other, and playing with presence, absence, invisibility and performativity.
There are various strands of activity in my performance work: durational actions, interventions in public spaces and site-specific work, ‘installactions’ (in which the act of making an installation is the performance), time-based performance & video combinations, and pseudo-historical tours. Interaction and dialogue with the public is as significant as the visual and textual elements that form the core of my artistic practice.