WCAF22 Open selection
AA034
Katie Aird
Life Death Entropy (2021)
A project that represents life cycles of nature through the process of scanography.
Previous solo show? No
AA149
Toby Allen
two views, 2022
glazed ceramic a cat who can look in two directions, actually a fusion of two cats with different personalities
Previous solo show? No
AA225
Alan Baker
Untitled 86, Trap and Snare Series, 2020
Graphite Drawing of freestanding sculpture, Capture in a moment of suspense before falling, trapping or ensnaring.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA219
Alan Baker
Untitled 87, Trap and Snare Series, 2020
Graphite Drawing of freestanding sculpture, Captured in a state of suspense before falling, trapping or ensnaring.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA070
Polly Bates
’Hand Boulder’, 2022
This work explores the many geological and biological relationships between rocks and humans. It also recognises the agency and vibrancy of clay as an Earth material. Although I collaborated with the clay to create this, I also manipulated it just as humans manipulate landscapes.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA208
Caroline Benzies
Within, 2022
The aim with my photography is to challenge the viewer, giving them something familiar but in an unfamiliar way. Taken in Griffin Wood, a community woodland in St Helens, several images have been blended together to transform and enhance the scene.
Previous solo show? No
AA269
Suzanne Bethell
Lucky Dip 2022
A polyptych of nine Urban assemblages collaged from fragments of mono printed material from an earlier Urban screenprint series, combined with hand drawn and painted elements. Both series were inspired by the contemporary architecture of Manchester’s Ancoats & New Islington.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA297
Sarah Blaszczok
Surplus 2
C-type photographic print mounted on MDF One of a series of ‘Surplus’ photographs Photograph of sculptural installation of 3D plaster forms
Previous solo show? No
AA295
Sarah Blaszczok
Envelop, 2021
C-type photographic print mounted onto aluminium Approx 70cm x 95cm Photograph of temporary 3D paper collage
Previous solo show? No
AA111
Judith Booth
Tattoos 2021
Oil on canvas. I used a limited colour palette without any blue to see if I could still capture the tattoos believably. The models pose and expression suggests a vulnerability with inner strength
Previous solo show? No
AA281
Clare Brumby
’45K’ (2020)
Digital Mobile Photography piece. Commissioned by Culture Liverpool for their lockdown 2020 ‘Rise Together’ programme, the piece explores the prevailing gender divide in the UK and across the rest of the world, which was further exposed during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Previous solo show? No
AA021
Stefan Byrom
FLOWERS
A Photograph of a flower arrangement behind textured glass
Previous solo show? No
AA223
Nerissa Cargill Thompson
No Man is an Island: Consequences I & II (2021)
Textiles cast with cement in waste plastic packaging, mounted on metal frames with heavy duty thread Newton’s Cradle demonstrates the conservation of momentum and energy. What will be the impact of our actions on the planet? How can we improve the conservation of our environment?
Previous solo show? No
AA204
Julie Cassels
We View Things Differently Now – After Genthe 2 – Tintype 2021
Tintype. Wet Plate Collodion process on Aluminium. A large format plate camera was used. The ‘We View Things Differently Now’ project looks at historical photographic processes. Considering how viewing has changed with scientific progress and social demands.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA047
Andee Collard
Replicated Roses 2022
Oil on canvas. 46x61cm. Still life made using a self built painting machine. I use digital fabrication technology as a tool for exposing new creative methods.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA192
Timothy Copsey
Billionaires Will Steal Our Moon
Stoneware, black clay, with Bleaklow grit, tenmoku and shino glazes
Previous solo show? Yes
AA192
Timothy Copsey
Breaking into a Jewellers Window
Earthernware, with cobalt details, tin glazes and 25 carat gold lustre
Previous solo show? Yes
AA324
Helen Davies
RAGE 2021
Hand-knitted costume in acrylic yarn. The work explores women’s rage, which is often dismissed. To illustrate this I used vibrant colours, cartoonish, frantic masked women, and symbols of resilience (the rat). The dress has a typical 1950s ‘feminine’ shape.
Previous solo show? No
AA152
Peter Davis
Girls like you
This painting is acrylic on canvas board. My aim is to capture the zeitgeist through contemporary portraiture. This painting, ‘Girls like you’, is part of my ongoing body of work that looks at our relationship with personal technology, a social documentary on our digital epoch.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA154
James Dewhirst
Some Strange Rain ‘2021’
Some Strange Rain is a photograph from an on-going body of work which focuses on the illusory nature of photography. the work aims to explore how we engage with changing landscapes in our lives and questions photography’s ability to communicate a fixed sense of reality.
Previous solo show? No
AA185
Charlotte Dobson
Our Water 2022
A multi-angled investigation of water as a meditative and transformative experience. What really is water? The projections can be displayed without a projector if not possible. Laser Cutting is a pattern of water onto coloured acetate hung by invisible string creating dancing lig
Previous solo show? No
AA150
Klaire Doyle
A Sensory Sea Experience For A Swamp. 2021
A film documenting a sensory sound installation performed to a swamp so that the swamp can experience the sea.
Previous solo show? No
AA329
Michelle Elackman
AptosMarBlanca
Print work inspired by personal original photographs.
Previous solo show? No
AA329
Michelle Elackman
Gran, Egypt
Print work inspired by personal original photographs.
Previous solo show? No
AA164
Sarah Eyre
from the series Shapeshifters 2021 – 2022 Diptych
Diptych – Photographs of analogue collage. Digital gliclee print, framed aprox 42 cm x 59.4 cm including frame
Previous solo show? Yes
AA095
David Freedman
Childhood
Photography Playing on the Beach Southport
Previous solo show? No
AA306
Sarah Gallear
The Way of Water 2020
A triptych of three images exploring the relationship with the Sankey Valley Canal and changing levels of water within and how necessary it is to keep our natural environment balanced when we’ve seen increases in floods and droughts. Images were taken on Polaroid film.
Previous solo show? No
AA073
Tony Green
Bounce
A Spontaneous piece inspired by animated movement acrylic / inks / pastels K
Previous solo show? No
AA300
Ben Gregory
Family, 2020
Paint and Markers on card. Family embraces openness and security through its vibrant colour scheme and patterns.
Previous solo show? No
AA293
Jayson Gylen
’Aperture’ (2022)
Painting as hybrid- at the threshold between gesture/object, 2 and 3 dimensions. A series of works that playfully reconfigure the painted surface and it’s support. Sandpaper, pigment, pigmented plaster. 36×27.5x2cm.
Previous solo show? No
AA141
Azra Haracic
Ko sam? Sta sam? Kako sam? 2021
Who am I? What am I? Where am I? When I think of the answer to these questions I come to think of one word… displaced. I am Azra. I am a Bosniak refugee. I am displaced. This explores my displacement emotionally and physically as a child.
Previous solo show? No
AA328
Mark Hobbs
Rope Swing At Lake Bled – 2022
Photograph from a series taken of teenagers playing on a rope swing. The mini-series was inspired by concepts of the transition between childhood and adulthood, masculine themes of working together while proving yourself within the group, and the sheer joy of summer days.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA323
Tracey Hollis Rowe
There Is A Light
Acrylic on panel This painting is inspired by the wild places of the North. Echoes of places roamed, translated into a painting the viewer can connect with. A view with a sense of familiarity about it, a place they have been to or somewhere that reminds them of home.
Previous solo show? No
AA076
Linda Izan
Myer – From Now Until the End of Time – 2022
What cultural links remain for the children of migrants. The work is an exploration into a story that has been told for millennia but each individual will interpret the cultural and family links in a unique manner. The work pursues the unlocking of time, within specific family.
Previous solo show? No
AA183
Isaac Jordan
Untitled, 2022
Oil on board, These paintings are a collection of figures that could just as easily be dancing as falling over. I start them without a predetermined image in mind, instead finding a visual balance and rhythm in the making and in one sitting.
Previous solo show? No
AA182
Isaac Jordan
Untitled, 2022
Oil on board, 16x22cm. These paintings are a collection of figures that could just as easily be dancing as falling over. I start them without a predetermined image in mind, instead finding a visual balance and rhythm in the making and in one sitting.
Previous solo show? No
AA247
Charlie Jordin
Bibendum (2022)
Clay and acrylic paint. A small sculpture exploring iconography and branding through a child’s eye in a playful, nostalgic manner.
Previous solo show? No
AA123
Iqra Khan
Azaad / freedom, 2021
Canvas, wires & plants. An artwork inspired by personal experiences.
Previous solo show? No
AA267
Lizzie King
Eucalyptus (2022)
Unique Silver Gelatin Print developed in eucalyptus based developer ‘Eucalyptus’ is part of a ongoing series ‘Tree Bathing’ a series of photographic prints and sound works based on the Japanese act of Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing).
Previous solo show? No
AA233
Hattie Kongaunruan
BACKUP
Sculpture Installation. Pink bug sculpture laying on its back against an old speaker on its side. A retro TV sits on top, playing a looped animation of an office chair inflating and falling over. The installation sits on a pink fluffy rug. All items are found, 2nd hand, upcycled.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA331
Justine Lesage
Do I fit in yet, 2022
Crockery, clay, acrylic paint, nail polish, paper. This work is a part of a series of projects about sharing food as a way to socialise.
Previous solo show? No
AA157
Charlotte Lilley
Comfortable, 2022
Monoprint and acrylic paint on card. A self-portrait – from a triptych – that conveys my most insecure and diffident self using the colour blue to emphasise uncertainty and clown makeup to portray how we ‘mask’ our identity.
Previous solo show? No
AA273
Katie McGuire
Let me rest, 2022
Knitted Backer Rod. A hand knitted sculpture representative of the labour of the working class.
Previous solo show? No
AA177
Shahrokh Nael
MOTHERS
MOTHERS – 2021 Tehran – 2021’s Collections MOTHERS Acrylic, Oil Pastel and Colour Pencils on Acrylic Paper 40cm x 40cm
Previous solo show? No
AA091
Robyn Nichol
Lovingly Made in Yorkshire (2020)
Cotton thread on calico. An ongoing series of hand embroidery works exploring the relationship between food, memory and heritage. Each piece focuses on a celebration of the everyday through depicting food or drink that I’ve shared with those closest to me since a young age.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA090
Robyn Nichol
Original Mushy Peas (2021)
Cotton thread on calico. An ongoing series of hand embroidery works exploring the relationship between food, memory and heritage. Each piece focuses on a celebration of the everyday through depicting food or drink that I’ve shared with those closest to me since a young age.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA055
Robyn Nichol
Giz A Chuddy (2020)
Cotton thread on calico. An ongoing series of hand embroidery works exploring the relationship between food, memory and heritage. Each piece focuses on a celebration of the everyday through depicting food or drink that I’ve shared with those closest to me since a young age.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA162
Sara Nowell
A. Feeling Blue (2021)
Digital Printed Velvet displayed in a pair (blue and red) created 2021 part of project titled ‘Mental Health Monsters’ Artwork explores depression and mental health awareness both artworks W120cm x H180cm
Previous solo show? Yes
AA274
Yelena Overchenko
Drowning, 2022.
Photography. The Inner Garden project is a visual interpretation of a person’s inner state, fears, emotions and feelings. Negative emotions the author tried to portray these feelings through the prism of his aesthetic view, creating a series of photographs.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA276
Sam Owen Hull
Flow/21, 2021
Acrylic, felt, reflective fabric, polyfill, paintskin, paper and embroidery on correx
Previous solo show? No
AA275
Sam Owen Hull
Ti Pb/21, 2021
Acrylic, collaged paintskins, embroidery and reflective thread on canvas, 2021
Previous solo show? No
AA309
norman payne
Elf shot, 2022
Found rock, cast plaster, acrylic paint, imitation gold leaf. I am interested in the stories surrounding stones, from stories explaining the origin of standing stones to the magical powers of so-called ‘hag stones’ and our ancestors explanations of ancient artefacts.
Previous solo show? No
AA254
Lasma Poisa
I became a mother.
Photographic self-portrait. Since becoming a parent in early 2022, my work has been reflecting on birth and motherhood through photography. ‘I became a mother’ was taken three days after my daughter was born revealing marks of a difficult labour.
Previous solo show? No
AA104
Kathryn Poole
Ford II (Polyptych, 2 of 4), 2022
Etching on Japanese paper. Each section of ‘Ford’ takes up to 270 hours to draw, a devotional practice requiring intense periods of time, focus and respect, paralleling the intention of funerary obits repetitively performed by parishioners preserving the memory of the deceased.
Previous solo show? No
AA103
Kathryn Poole
Ford I (Polyptych, 1 of 4), 2022
Etching on japanese paper.Ford I is one of four sections of grass that make up a grave located in Ford Cemetery, Bootle. Ford utilizes observational drawing and grieving rituals to explore how the resting place of a body can become a catalyst for growth.
Previous solo show? No
AA145
Jasmine Prisciandaro-Wood
Non lo so (this is my inheritance), (triptych), 2022
Hand embroidery and letterpress printing on naturally dyed fabric, hung on wooden drying racks. Influenced by an interest in memory, narrative, and autobiographical work, this work explores ideas of inheritance and identity through textile crafts, domesticity, and folklore.
Previous solo show? No
AA280
Rowan Pritchard
Latent Space Triptych (2020)
This looping video piece is fabricated using AI to visualise queer intimacy in a time of increasing virtual connection. Generated from images of queer kisses from popular culture, it considers how sites of queer comfort, saftey, and self-actualisation are constructed and found.
Previous solo show? No
AA272
Rowan Pritchard
I Want You (2022)
Medium: collage. ‘I Want You’ forms part of a series, constructed using content cut from the then-current weekend newspaper. With the content predestined by that week’s news, the work signals both the artist’s feelings as well as the wider context at the time the work was made.
Previous solo show? No
AA226
Marc Provins
Nine Walks (2021)
Photographic collage printed on Permajet Art paper, framed with black wooden frame and gallery glass – 86cm x 86cm
Previous solo show? Yes
AA107
Tina Ramos Ekongo
B.L.A.C.K. 2022
Paperpaste up on wood board
Previous solo show? Yes
AA315
Amrit Randhawa
No Worries If Not, 2022
Handmade cotton flags on felt. Inspired by every email I’ve ever sent. The work was created for a project at Soup Kitchen, Manchester. The work was removed from Soup Kitchen, prematurely, quite controversially and without my permission. It was removed due to the Queen’s death.
Previous solo show? No
AA271
Jake Robinshaw
A. Give or Take (Diptych) / 2022
Fuji Crystal Archive paper/Alu-dibond/Under acrylic glass. Illusions. Electron microscopy is used to image the surface topographies of grains of sand. I use the microscope much like a landscape photographer uses a camera but instead, to image objects smaller than light itself.
Previous solo show? No
AA330
Tom Shennan
Augmented Art 3 (settle!), 2021
Digital video, teleprompter (looping, 2’42’). In this series, an AI-generated script scrolls on a teleprompter facing a screen displaying a corresponding film created by the artist. This 3rd AI output, named ‘settle!’ by the artist, is inspired by their experience of tics.
Previous solo show? No
AA198
Emily Simpson
*mood*
Textile banner, satin and applique. Banner made whilst really not in the mood, struggling with mental health issues. It hopes to counteract some of the eternally hopeful messages of capitalism and it’s mindset – sometimes today is not the day. Sometimes, its best to rest.
Previous solo show? No
AA197
Emily Simpson
Words to Grieve: A Recipe Collection
This is part of an ongoing project between myself and another artist regarding grief and language. Risograph printed publication, containing recipes and reflections on living with loss. Fellow grievers were invited to share dishes reminding of people they lost, which form this.
Previous solo show? No
AA218
Holly Staniforth
i fall back asleep when i dream of you, 2021
A3 risograph print mounted on 2.1cm mdf wood. Digital collage using archival imagery and photographs taken myself, exploring subconscious self-expression, escapism via world building taking elements of the everyday placing them in a dream life surreal setting
Previous solo show? Yes
AA016
Sam Wallis
TERRARUM EXIGUUM (triptych), 2022
Photography printed on hemp paper and backed on wood including 2 supporting D-rings. An environmental project that explores the constant struggle between humans and the natural world.
Previous solo show? No
AA318
Sylvia Waltering
Solid Ground Drifting (Diptych), 2021
Giclee Prints in cloth frame on picture ledge, 10×8 inches each. Two portals invite close observation of the thingness of rock. In the age of the Anthropocene, the work encourages a re-evaluation of our relationship with and our perception of the natural environment.
Previous solo show? No
AA125
Chloe Watts
My Messy Body
My messy body is a series of 3D sculptures exploring the artist’s struggle with body dysmorphia. There are a variety of different sculptures with different attributes- a testament to the artist’s changing view of her body.
Previous solo show? No
AA194
Aj Wilkinson
Kingdom
In Kingdom I document the biker subculture, deconstructing the masculine rites and rituals and challenging the hypermasculine representation portrayed in its own history. A two-year visual exploration showing the male-dominated world of the chopper riders and their vulnerability.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA308
Iain H. Williams
Spring Breaker, 2022
Mixed media on unprimed cotton duck canvas. Exploring the abstract image and mark-making within an expressionistic form, to create a bold visual language and motifs, referencing urban links and contemporary imagery from the artist’s own photographic references and catalogue.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA144
Emmer Winder
Social Pharmacy Cabinet 2021
Wood/ glass medicine cabinet containing individual pill bottles. A collection of personal statements created by online participants during the pandemic. Words of advice, positivity and support are offered as daily cures to build mental resilience from others experiences.
Previous solo show? Yes
AA121
YISO
Untitled, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and spray-paint on MDF drawing board. Part of a series of work titled ‘Scatter & Pluck’ – exploration of / responses to my own neurodivergence, reflections on identity, and tensions between masking and authenticity.
Previous solo show? Yes