Rachelle Carswell

The desire for the connection to ones past.

Rachelle's current work is concerned with the exploration of how our selective memory of the past creates our perceptions of the present. In these works Rachelle was fastidious in sourcing fabrics reminiscent of her childhood, which were then juxtaposed with images derived from old family photographs. Rachelle Carswell is an artist who works with metal & fabric and with found objects. Her themes explore the psychological references created by the chosen materials. Rachelle was born in Canada and is currently implementing her artistic career between Dorset, London & Toronto.

Esther Yarnold

The desire for repetition.

Sequence illustrates a walk with a loved one along the river Frome in Dorchester, with the desire for comforting repetitiveness and shared moments. It is a concertina book made of eight envelopes. Each envelope contains a snapshot taken at a point on the walk, along with other items to explore: a badge, a flick book, a CD-Rom and unreadable texts. The section of river illustrated within the book is drawn across each envelope, which can be viewed in its entirety when the book is unfolded. Esther Yarnold is an artist, designer and curator working with digital and installation art. She works in partnership with artist and designer Ben Trill, as www.interim.org.uk and also co-curates with artist and curator Helen Pritchard. www.picot.org.uk / www.geekfest.org.uk. She is currently studying part-time for an MA in book arts at Camberwell College of Arts.

Sophie Elliot

The potential for desire.

This series of pictures represent several different symbols that can fuel feelings of desire. It is up to the viewer to provide their own perspective or conclusion as to what these potential tools of desire could unlock. Sophie Elliot is an illustrator who leans towards drawing. Lines, marks, stains & spillages especially enchant her. Sophie would love to make works entirely of spontaneous happy accidents, but usually contorts, controls and limits the materials in order to stimulate them. Sophie is currently a freelance illustrator and teacher and has had work published in magazines.

Paul Hearn

The desire for order.

The digital works included here enquire into the unfashionable desire for order. Despite acknowledging the need for freedom and a certain degree of chaos in creative pursuits, Paul is also interested in the constraints we impose upon ourselves in our lives. Here Paul is interested in the way we order our personal space; the way we surround ourselves with "things" that comfort us; make us feel safe, and how we arrange these objects in pleasing ways.

Paul Hearn is an artist and designer whose work draws on art, photography and digital sources but is also tempered by science, music, mathematics and literature. In LustrousChemistry he has created an alchemical laboratory amidst an electronic age that uses the artistic process as an investigation into the nature of the world we live through.

GilbertandGrape

The desire to connect.

Lone Ranging Romance is a longing for larger than life hotdogs, utopian cream cakes, kaleidoscopes of Volvos and epic proportions. With a desire to connect with the people they meet GilbertandGrape have made a pledge to drive from the south to the north of Norway in a 1967 Volvo Amazon.... more GilbertandGrape is Anne-marte Eidseth Rygh and Helen Pritchard. They work within a genre that they choose to refer to as performance journalism. This work often takes the form of text, performance or video, through which they look to explore a longing to collaborate with each other and the people they meet. The have exhibited internationally since 2003 including Transmodernage (USA), Life/Art (New York), KISSS, conical gallery (Australia), RKS (Norway)
and Kunsthalle (Vienna).