Artists

	Gallery: Paul Stolper (Stand 146) Artist Ben Kelly and Morph Artwork Fac51 The Haçienda - Int a, 2009 Silkscreen on Somerset 410gsm paper. paper size 92.4 x 76.4 cm Image size 76 x 61 cm Published by Ben Kelly & Morph in association with Peter Hook
	Gallery: Paul Stolper (Stand 146) Artist Ben Kelly and Morph Artwork Fac51 The Haçienda - Int b, 2009 Silkscreen on Somerset 410gsm paper. paper size 92.4 x 76.4 cm Image size 76 x 61 cm Published by Ben Kelly & Morph in association with Peter Hook
	Gallery: The Lost Soul & Stranger Service Station @ The Bluecoat (Stand 156) Artist Benjamin Egerton Biography Benjamin Egerton was born in Liverpool in 1977. Since graduating in fine art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001 he has continued his practice as an artist. He held a studio at the Bluecoat for three years prior to the redevelopment while also teaching the Bluecoat's Life drawing class. Benjamin's work is an eclectic mix of poetry, drawing, graphics and painting that is developed into unique installations. Artwork 'Neko Installation' (2009)
	Gallery: The Lost Soul & Stranger Service Station @ The Bluecoat (Stand 156) Artist Bernadette O'Toole Biography Bernadette O'Toole's recent work continues to explore the relationship between drawing and painting within indeterminate spaces real and imagined that articulate both the interior and exterior. O'Toole's recent work though clearly stemming from an interest in formal minimalism uses a minimal visual language to create the kind of spaces that might be inhabited by recognizable objects. Recent work focuses on the psychological or emotional sense of self within the context of an architectural space, in this instance the metaphorically loaded corner. Recent paintings are constructed using a meticulously painted lattice work of lines creating an uneasy tension between the architectural space and the external space in which it resides. At times O'Toole's spaces seem stretched to their physical limits. In others they appear to be constructed from a translucent material at odds with the nature of solid walls, a space in the process of disappearing or becoming. By making slight shifts in perspective and by employing subtle variations of tone O'Toole is able to articulate a complex range of spaces, a restless world of edges and planes in state of continual slippage. Artwork Untitled (2009)
	Gallery: Mulberry Gallery (Stand 208) Artist BERNARD DUNSTAN, RA (b. 1920) Biography Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1939-41. Taught at West of England Art School in Bristol, then at Camberwell School of Art 1950-64. Member of New English Art Club & Royal West of England Academy, & elected RA in 1968. Has developed a keen following for his intimate interiors with nudes or semi-draped figures. Married to Diane Armfield, also an RA. Artwork The Black Fan 24x33cm Pastel
	Gallery: Webbs Fine Art (Stand 182) Artist Beverley Waller Biography Scottish artist, Beverley Waller paints vibrant canvases of sea, sky and shore. Her inspiration is drawn from the highlands of Scotland where the landscape exists within a changing cauldron of light and weather. Textured, colourful and irredescent large canvases. Artwork Burnished Sands
	Gallery: Castle Arts (Stand 264) Artist Billy Childish Biography A cult figure in America, Europe and Japan, Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published 30 collections of his poetry, recorded over100 full-length independent LP’s and produced over 1250 paintings. Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent. Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16 an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the artist’s only prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in ‘the tea huts of hell. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and before completing the course he was expelled for his outspokenness and unorthodox working methods. With no qualifications and no job prospects Childish then spent some 12 years ‘painting on the dole’, developing his own highly personal writing style and producing his art independently. Wikipedia Entry During the 1980s, Childish was a major influence on the artist Tracey Emin, whom he met in 1982, after his expulsion from St Martin's when she was a fashion student at Medway College of Design. Emin and Childish were a couple till 1986, Emin selling his poetry books for his small press Hangman books. In 1995 she was interviewed in the Minky Manky show catalogue by Carl Freedman, who asked her, "Which person do you think has had the greatest influence on your life?" She replied: Uhmm... It's not a person really. It was more a time, going to Maidstone College of Art, hanging around with Billy Childish, living by the River Medway. Her famous "tent" Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (1995) was first exhibited in the show, and Childish's name was displayed prominently in it. They remained on friendly terms until the formation of the Stuckists group, which offended her and caused a lasting rift. Childish left the Stuckist movement in 2001. Artwork Tea
	Gallery: Manchester Craft & Design Centre (Stand 210) Artist Blac - Ciara Clark / Hanne Lindeholm Artwork Jewellery
	Gallery: Robin Ross Gallery (Stand 118) Artist Blek Le Rat Biography "Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier." Banksy, 2005 Blek Le Rat (Xavier Prou) was born in Paris in 1951. He is a grand master of street art, and considered by many to be the originator of stencil graffiti. Blek has been adorning the streets of Paris with his hugely original and intelligent artwork since the early eighties, and he has been a massive influence on today’s graffiti and guerrilla art movements. He started decorating the streets of Paris in 1981 with a rat stencil, hoping to create an invasion of rats in the city. He was inspiered to created this stencil after seeing the graffiti in New York in the 70’s, but he didn’t just want to copy the American style he wanted to create a style that suited Paris and so he chose the stencil as he saw this something very Latin. Artwork HMV Dog
	Gallery: Castle Arts (Stand 264) Artist Blek le Rat Biography "Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier." Banksy, 2005 The "Godfather" of Graffiti Art, Blek Le Rat (or Xavier Prou to his mother) was born in Paris in 1951. Considered by many to be the originator of stencil graffiti, Blek has been adorning the streets of Paris with his hugely original and intelligent artwork since the early eighties. A massive influence on today’s graffiti and guerrilla art movements, Blek’s arresting images have a timeless, universal appeal that go beyond underground street art. “During 1981 to 1983 at the beginning of the stencil graffiti art I had the idea to use stencil to make graffiti for one reason. I did not want to imitate the American graffiti that I had seen in NYC in 1971 during a journey I had done over there. I wanted to have my own style in the street... I began to spray some small rats in the streets of Paris because rats are the only wild living animals in cities and only rats will survive when the human race will have disappeared and died out.” Artwork Space Cowboy