We can proudly say we have worked with some world-class artists, covering a wide spectrum of art forms, spanning from contemporary music, visual arts and writing, and we have facilitated collaborations between these genres. We believe in developing artists' careers through innovative solutions and hard work.
Hannah Ayre
Hannah Ayre is a participatory artist working with audiences where the boundaries between art, craft, performance & collaboration are blurred. Works range from small craft items to large scale outdoor sculpture, installations, performance and events. Materials vary widely to suit each project, including ceramics, textiles, found materials, though the common thread to her work is collaboration. Work may be realised through collaboration with fellow artists, with the input of volunteers or through workshops with formal and informal learning groups.
Stephen C. Nuttall
Manchester-based illustrator, artist and producer, Stephen creates new projects that concentrate of inclusivity in the arts, communication through the arts and subcultures in the creative industries. Added to this, he has also worked with Curated Place as a Creative Producer, developing and delivering numerous projects and events all over Europe.
Working with organisations including, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, The Whitworth, Manchester Histories, Arts Council England, Design Manchester, Head for the Hills Festival, The Met (Bury), Threshold Festival, BBC6 Music, Prestwich Arts Festival and artists including Emory Douglas, he has produced and delivered various creative projects, educational activities, arts events, exhibitions and publications over the past 15 years.
Lee Crocker
With over 30 years of experience in his practice Crocker combines illustration, graphics, painting and sketchbooks to tell his stories about everyday life from a surrealist perspective. His tagline of ‘Making The Mundane Memorable’ spills into his series of workshops which he delivers to a variety of groups including successful school projects and the award winning anti-art project ‘Dr Sketchy’. As part of the progressive Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre team, he is responsible for in-house productions of live events including, the long running arts workshops and live music events including Adamski, Edward Tudor-Pole & Wreckless Eric.
Gina Warburton
Gina Warburton is a curator, art historian, theorist and artist who is part of the creative team at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre. She has worked alongside Lynda Morris, Laura Koonika, Turner prize nominated Lubaina Himid, Simon Morris, Auke De Vries and played her part in elevating Bury's artistic reputation worldwide. Through a series of successful national and international funding bids, she is now in a position to put her unique mark on projects. She has developed her artistic skills, and with her extensive knowledge of 20th Century history and current affairs she is now investigating these subjects through her individual style of satirical illustration.
Fiona Soe Paing
Fiona Soe Paing is an Aberdeenshire based artist, working in electronic music and voice, across solo performance, audio releases, installation and theatre collaborations, and film. The critically acclaimed solo performance and accompanying soundtrack album “Alien Lullabies” combining Fiona's music and live vocals with projected animation by collaborator Zennor Alexander, was selected by Creative Scotland for their curated “Made In Scotland” programme in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2015. Other collaborations have included working with Brit Award winner Beth Orton in Brighter Sound, Manchester's Creative Director's series, with theatre company Dudendance for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, and with film-maker Sara Stroud for Spectra Festival 2017.
Sara Stroud
Sara Stroud trained in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and spent the early years of her practice engaged in traditional art forms. It was while working in Sydney that she was introduced to film making and the diversity of the medium. The ability to recreate images through a lens using light and colour really inspired her work and she returned to London to undertake a post-graduate in Digital Imaging and Animation. During this period Sara was commissioned twice by Channel 4 and produced motion graphics for broadcast. Residing in Scotland with her family Sara now teaches TV production part-time while also pursuing her own creative practice.
Ann Carragher
Ann’s visual art practice is relative to numerous ‘typologies’- (mixed and multi media – lens based/sound/installation). Implicitly inherent in her work is the idea of ‘place and space’; the ‘idea’ essentially refers to myths of implicitly gendered binary oppositions and the evidence of superiority and relegation within history. Recent work addresses states of ‘in-betweeness’ and ‘liminality’, relative to landscape and the architectural/ urban environment.
She presents works that weave together notions of loss and lament, by exploring the ambiguous and allusive qualities that manifest (physically and psychologically) in the intersection between space, place, mobility and memory. Border’s, hinterlands, thresholds (architectural proximities and adjacencies) are a recurring theme, where the past, present and future are conflated, mediating on paradoxes between materiality and the evanescence – alluding to uncertainties and anxieties of our time – a temporal and ephemeral metamorphic.
Sean Payne
Sean Payne is a Blackpool based artist and writer who explores the side roads of contemporary culture through the skeuomorphic and supposed redundant. Utilising sources as eclectic as 1970’s quiz shows to Betamax video covers; Sean Payne seeks to find the cultural through line to our present condition. It could be argued that a Mozart opera has more relevance than the Crossroads theme in today's society. Sean Payne's explorations go towards addressing this imbalance and laying bare the myth of high cultural value systems.
Matthew Wilkinson
Wilkinson’s practice predominantly specialises in video, photography and writing. Though these mediums continuously overlap offering their own outlets of expression, Wilkinson does not view his artistry as one with a primary medium. Creating bizarre sequences of scrabbled literature sourced from urban surroundings, poetry and overheard conversations; a key interest in Wilkinson's writing lies in the abstraction and juxtaposition of language, dialect and accents. Previous visual works have stemmed from an interest in composition, fragmentation and surrealism.