Alice Maude-Roxby (born 1963) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her fine art, photography, curation and authorship.
Maude-Roxby was born in London and did a foundation course at Brighton Polytechnic during 1981 and 1982 and took a fine art degree at the school of sculpture at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic between 1982 and 1985. [1] [2] She studied at the Kunstakademiet in Trondheim in Norway during 1989 and 1990 before shifting her educational focus onto photography in Berlin where she studied under Dieter Appelt at the Hochschule der Kunste in 1990 and 1991. [1] [2] [3] Grants and scholarships awarded to Maude-Roxby allowed her to research and create artworks internationally with various institutions and art councils. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and Europe, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [4] A current Fine Art Programme Leader at Middlesex University, [5] Maude-Roxby has previously taught at Winchester School of Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Kingston University and Falmouth University. Much of her work is focused on the position of the photographer [6] when creating artworks and the collaborative process of photographer and live artist. Her creative process has been described as the utilisation of 'live' and 'site specific' investigations [7] such as interview and the examination of archives.
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art.
David Royston Bailey is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties.
Middlesex University London is a public research university in Hendon, northwest London, England. The name of the university is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries of Middlesex.
Juergen Teller is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018.
Richard Billingham is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere.
Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey. From 1955 to 1973, when it was merged into Middlesex Polytechnic, it was called Hornsey College of Arts and Crafts. Teaching at Crouch End ceased about 1982.
Nicholas David Gordon Knight is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
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Virginia Agyeiwah Nimarkoh is a British artist and activist, based in London. Nimarkoh was born in London, and studied at Goldsmiths College London from 1986 to 1989, graduating with a PhD in Fine Art. Her practice combines mostly photographic and curatorial projects. She also works in community development and environmental regeneration initiatives across London. She currently works mainly with food, running a raw food business and food insecurity social enterprise in London.
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Lida Moser was an American-born photographer and author, with a career that spanned more than six decades, before retiring in her 90s. She was known for her photojournalism and street photography as a member of both the Photo League and the New York School. Her portfolio includes black and white commercial, portrait, landscape, experimental, abstract, and documentary photography, with her work continuing to have an impact.
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Kathy Rosalyn O'Dell is an art historian, theorist, curator, arts advocate, author, and special assistant to the Dean for Arts Partnerships at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is known for art theories, especially for contextualizing violence in performance art within social contracts and psychoanalytic theories.
Katie Pratt is an artist and abstract painter living and working in London. Born in Epsom, UK, 23 May 1969, she is most recognised for large paintings with heavy volumes of oil paint that combine geometric and organic detail in diagrammatic complex systems. She won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 2001.
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