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.
Carlos Bernal
Carlos Bernal is an audio-visual artist, graphic designer and Art Director based in Manchester. He’s works is focused on projections of light in space and it’s influence on our perception generating installations and site specific light sculptures. As he’s work evolved, he began to play with structures through the physics of how light can be used to manipulate perceived reality creating site specific architectural projection installation, performances and temporary-permanent installations. he collaborates with artists in a huge range of artistic expressions like dance representations and theatrical performances which allows him to present a creative process each time in different ways.
Elisa Artesero
Elisa is a Light and Text Artist using installation to address themes of transience, the nature of happiness and hope. She has exhibited in the UK, France, Montenegro and the Faroe Islands; receiving international press as far as Mexico in the country’s second-largest newspaper, Excelsior. Awarded Curator Choice for Fine Art at NOISE Festival 2014, she was selected from over 5,000 entries by Tim Marlow, Director of Artistic Programmes at the Royal Academy. Her winning entry, ‘Sun Scroll’ was exhibited at the Buy Art Fair in Manchester, the Tetley in Leeds and at Better Bankside and on London’s Southbank.
Andrew Brooks
Andrew Brooks is an artist, photographer and film-maker based in Manchester,UK. He is interested in the history and stories of locations. Getting lost amongst and within the buildings, cityscapes and landscapes, he archives the forgotten spaces in order to tell the tales of these sites. Andrew Brooks has worked with clients including the British Council, the BBC Philharmonic, RAK Recording Studios London, Museum Het Domein in the Netherlands, the University of Manchester and Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Club.
SOLA
SOLA is a professional photographer and light artist who straddles the hinterland between fine art and street art, working on projects that range from community and arts projects (Lightfest Birmingham, Enlighten Bury, City of Colours) to worldwide advertising campaigns including Harvey Nichols and Nike.
Stand + Stare Collective
Stand + Stare is the artistic collaboration of brother and sister, Barney Heywood and Lucy Telling. They create interactive exhibitions and installations with a narrative focus for a range of settings including festivals, theatres and museums. Their work often uses documentary and archival material, but, with roots in theatre, they are not afraid to stray into fiction. They tend to focus on tangible, real things, such objects you can interact with or books you flick through. These are enhanced through the use of digital technology, which allows greater depth to the experiences they create.
Jenny Dockett
Jenny wants to share the moment of discovery, the moment of wonder when someone discovers a little bit more about the world than they knew before. She creates experiences so that people can have moments of discovery in a hands on way. Jenny works on science communication, heritage and arts projects. She aims to show people the beauty of the natural world around them, one they might not see for themselves. She takes inspiration from colour, light, geometry and the natural world - and wants her creations to be beautiful and interactive.
Antonin Fourneau
Although born in Bristol in 1965, Jim Buchanan spent most of his formative years on the Donegal coast of Ireland. His childhood play space was defined by how far he could walk or run, and then return home, in a day. This freedom of movement across wild landscape, dotted with pre-Christian archaeological spaces infuses his current work, and that of his major past-time, running. Jim has being based in Dumfriesshire for over twenty years, setting his studio practise within a rural landscape backdrop, with a maritime light quality. Jim Buchanan is author of “Labyrinths for the Spirit” published by Gaia in 2007.
Jim Buchanan
Although born in Bristol in 1965, Jim Buchanan spent most of his formative years on the Donegal coast of Ireland. His childhood play space was defined by how far he could walk or run, and then return home, in a day. This freedom of movement across wild landscape, dotted with pre-Christian archaeological spaces infuses his current work, and that of his major past-time, running. Jim has being based in Dumfriesshire for over twenty years, setting his studio practise within a rural landscape backdrop, with a maritime light quality. Jim Buchanan is author of “Labyrinths for the Spirit” published by Gaia in 2007.
Impossible Arts
Impossible is an innovative participatory and digital arts organisation that work to intrigue and involve a wide range of people. Combining a well-developed understanding of audience interaction alongside cutting-edge technology they develop highly rewarding experiences to a wide range of audiences. They produce creative projects that fuse innovation with involvement and have expertise in making installation, digital and live arts events. They work in a wide range of locations with projects that can range from large-scale visual poetry to intriguing participatory activities.
Double Take Projections
Double Take Projections Ltd is an innovative Scottish design consultancy specialising in creating immersive visual experiences using a technique called Projection Mapping. They are a bespoke company, creating unique one-off spectacles. They are able to radically alter the character of an environment or object by projecting from different angles onto a variety of surfaces.
pa-BOOM
pa–BOOM is a company of artists, sculptors, designers and technicians creating and producing work, shows and projects using the medium of sculpture and theatre animated by fire, light and pyrotechnics to engage, excite and enthral audiences. They design events that have a modern feel and push forward the use of fireworks to explore and expand the pyrotechnic art. pa-BOOM is established as one of the most imaginative and exciting companies in the country.
Mark Page
Specialising in socially-engaged creative photography with a satirical edge and a distinct Northern voice, Mark Page has been a practising artist for fourteen years since gaining a BA Fine Art & Documentary Photography from Liverpool John Moores in 2001. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally (Holland, France and Italy) seeing his works acquired for both public and private collections including The Public Library of Savignano Italy, The Indie Photobook Library Washington, USA and Sir Anish Kapoor’s private collection. Seeking to explore the impact of the digital revolution on photography as an art form Page’s current work uses photography, ephemera and images sourced from the internet to build dioramas and collections, experimenting with different approaches of recording, archiving and satirising contemporary British life and the photographic and institutional traditions used to document it.
Mark Page’s Sodley-on-Sea project - article
Hanni Bjartalíð
Hanni is a Faroese artist who attended art school in Kokkola in Finland. He has held exhibitions in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Finland, Germany and has featured in Biennial shows in the United Kingdom. Originally a painter he has been compared to the Italian Arte Povera artists by using found materials close at hand. Bjartalíð recycles his canvases to such an extent that they are almost always heavy with paint, even the small paintings. The majority of his work now takes the form of 3d sculptures created from found materials. Just as with his paintings Bjartalíð recycles his sculptural objects often reusing parts from works shown.
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.