Hub-International artists

Trevor Avery is an artist and curator who has been based in London, The Highlands of Scotland and the North West of England. He has produced major touring projects including Gernika!, a touring exhibition of Scotland and Spain involving the Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Rock Drill and Beyond featuring a full reconstruction of Jacob Epstein’s iconic piece in association with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and Asylrecht involving the Bundesarchiv and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

His latest ongoing project is From Auschwitz to Ambleside and is a major European and international project emanating from the arrival of three hundred child survivors of the Holocaust to the Lake District of England in 1945. This work involves working with Auschwitz Birkenau Museum and Memorial and sites in Krakow, Plaszow, Lodz, Warsaw, Budapest, London, Manchester and the Lake District.

He featured in Thomas Hirsschorn's U-topia Room as part of the Commonwealth exhibition at Tate Modern in 2001.

He is featured artist on the Arts Council England. North West web site and has written for Third Text magazine. He has worked with leading Aboriginal Australian artist Dr Pam Johnston, Tanzanian artist Everlyn Nicodemus and Native American artists Linda Lomahoftewa and Jimmie Durham.

Anita Burrows' work ranges from the traditional skills of painting, drawing, printmaking to photography and digital media. Anita also works collaboratively with people and is interested in the way art can be used in the regeneration of urban communities. Her practice is grounded in socially engaging the residents and adopting strategies to gain trust, and thus enabling the participants to contribute to the developing agenda of the project.

Anita has recently been awarded an MPhil for her research into the social engagement of residents and regeneration and as part of this research produced a CD-ROM. The CD has been used as a strategy for disseminating information about this genre of art practice.

She has recently been involved in evaluating the project "Talking Shop"; which has explored independent shops and regeneration in Pennine Lancashire. Anita is also leading art events for the Bowland Arts Festival in June 2008, she will be accompanying walkers to the Clarion Tea Room in Newchurch and recording local stories regarding the history of the Clarion and walking in Pendle. These will be available for download via the web site for the festival.

Paul Clark works from Green Door Studios, Kendal. He is currently chair of Green Door and a member of the steering committee. He has been actively involved in planning and managing the Green Door programme of events for several years. He is also a member of the Cumbria Network Committee and its South Lakes Hub and a member of the Artists Information Company NAN Advisory Group. He has curated and installed solo exhibitions of work and co-installed many group exhibitions. He also collaboratively planned and executed the FRED 07 land art installation, ‘Full Circle’, in the River Kent estuary in Morecambe Bay. Paul is also a member of the Lancashire Artist Network.

Paul's work has for many years been located in his response to place, using underlying themes and ideas inherent in the coastal landscape to inform abstract painting, drawing and installation. A trip to Berlin two years ago has already started to influence aspects of his large-scale, abstract, automatic drawings and he is currently exploring ways to incorporate this style of drawing in site-specific ways.

www.paulclarkart.co.uk

Bryan Eccleshall has over the last two years been one of the team delivering FRED, and will do so again this year. His own art practice has seen him as consultant artist on a Sure Start programme and artist-in-residence at Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness. He had a solo show in Cockermouth, Cumbria in May 2007. He has also been commissioned several times to provide reviews of exhibitions for Artists' Newsletter.

The work Bryan produces tends to be series-based responses to the world - he is about a third of the way through his project to photograph all 133 Abbey Roads in England. He also produces one-off pieces (e.g. The Last Tree I Ever Climbed, The Sawrey Sculpture Trail) that offer witty and sly ways of looking at the world. He encourages viewers to re-engage with the mundane by imbuing it with new qualities.

www.bryaneccleshall.co.uk

Margaret James-Barber is both a solo and a collaborative artist.
She exhibits inside and outside the gallery, using simple accessible materials such as food, smell, light, shadow, text, billboards, and performance, as well as more traditional media in more traditional places.
Her work, as much concept as construction, is multi-layered and quite often interactive. It is frequently site specific and ephemeral. She often links work in different sites, across distant geographic locations. The work may make you smile and will make you think.

She has curated, created and hung many exhibitions, worked in schools, organised events, and delivered talks and workshops for the general public.

She is a committee member for the Cumbria Network, belongs to The South Lakes Hub, is a member of The Lancashire Artists Network and "Plaited Fog" artists' group.

Jill Pemberton is based at Green Door Studios in Kendal. Her work is a response to the "throw- away" nature of modern society which has emerged over the last 20 years especially with the concepts of waste, waste-land, toys as objects and child-culture. Both wall based and constructed, her pieces are humorous and questioning. She continues to exhibit widely in solo and group shows in Britain and overseas.

Jill is also Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at the University of Cumbria and has curated shows by visiting artists and students at the University Gallery for the last 2 years. She has coordinated many art events in schools and colleges in the North West.

Rosie Wates' work is concerned with aspects of memory and journey, both her own experiences of living abroad in Russia, South America and the Indian Sub-Continent, and her family's roots/routes in Russia and their experience as immigrants to this country (early 20th century). Themes such as outside/inside, belonging/stranger, making one's mark/leaving no trace, memento and memorial continue to inform abstract paintings, photo-based work and installation.

Rosie has been based at Green Door Studios in Kendal for nine years. She has been actively involved in the organisation for seven years as a member of the Steering Committee, and also for the past two years as the Administrator for the Studios and the wider membership of seventy artists. She has also been closely involved in the planning, developing and running of the events programme of the group (last year as joint project manager). She is a member of the Cumbria Network and its South Lakes Hub, and the Lancashire Artists Network. She worked as a part-time lecturer in Painting for St. Martin's College in Lancaster (now the Lancaster campus of the University of Cumbria) between 1999 and 2005. She has exhibited widely in England and abroad (solo and group shows) and has been involved in the curating and installation of group and solo exhibitions.

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				Anita Burrows' work ranges from the traditional skills of painting, drawing, printmaking to photography and digital media. Anita also works collaboratively with people and is interested in the way art can be used in the regeneration of urban communities. Her practice is grounded in socially engaging the residents and adopting strategies to gain trust, and thus enabling the participants to contribute to the developing agenda of the project. Anita has recently been awarded an MPhil for her research into the social engagement of residents and regeneration and as part of this research produced a CD-ROM. The CD has been used as a strategy for disseminating information about this genre of art practice. She has recently been involved in evaluating the project "Talking Shop"; which has explored independent shops and regeneration in Pennine Lancashire. Anita is also leading art events for the Bowland Arts Festival in June 2008, she will be accompanying walkers to the Clarion Tea Room in Newchurch and recording local stories regarding the history of the Clarion and walking in Pendle. These will be available for download via the web site for the festival.
				Paul Clark works from Green Door Studios, Kendal. He is currently chair of Green Door and a member of the steering committee. He has been actively involved in planning and managing the Green Door programme of events for several years. He is also a member of the Cumbria Network Committee and its South Lakes Hub and a member of the Artists Information Company NAN Advisory Group. He has curated and installed solo exhibitions of work and co-installed many group exhibitions. He also collaboratively planned and executed the FRED 07 land art installation, ‘Full Circle’, in the River Kent estuary in Morecambe Bay. Paul is also a member of the Lancashire Artist Network. Paul's work has for many years been located in his response to place, using underlying themes and ideas inherent in the coastal landscape to inform abstract painting, drawing and installation. A trip to Berlin two years ago has already started to influence aspects of his large-scale, abstract, automatic drawings and he is currently exploring ways to incorporate this style of drawing in site-specific ways. www.paulclarkart.co.uk
				Bryan Eccleshall has over the last two years been one of the team delivering FRED, and will do so again this year. His own art practice has seen him as consultant artist on a Sure Start programme and artist-in-residence at Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness. He had a solo show in Cockermouth, Cumbria in May 2007. He has also been commissioned several times to provide reviews of exhibitions for Artists' Newsletter. The work Bryan produces tends to be series-based responses to the world - he is about a third of the way through his project to photograph all 133 Abbey Roads in England. He also produces one-off pieces (e.g. The Last Tree I Ever Climbed, The Sawrey Sculpture Trail) that offer witty and sly ways of looking at the world. He encourages viewers to re-engage with the mundane by imbuing it with new qualities. www.bryaneccleshall.co.uk
				Margaret James-Barber is both a solo and a collaborative artist. She exhibits inside and outside the gallery, using simple accessible materials such as food, smell, light, shadow, text, billboards, and performance, as well as more traditional media in more traditional places. Her work, as much concept as construction, is multi-layered and quite often interactive. It is frequently site specific and ephemeral. She often links work in different sites, across distant geographic locations. The work may make you smile and will make you think. She has curated, created and hung many exhibitions, worked in schools, organised events, and delivered talks and workshops for the general public. She is a committee member for the Cumbria Network, belongs to The South Lakes Hub, is a member of The Lancashire Artists Network and "Plaited Fog" artists' group.
				Jill Pemberton is based at Green Door Studios in Kendal. Her work is a response to the "throw- away" nature of modern society which has emerged over the last 20 years especially with the concepts of waste, waste-land, toys as objects and child-culture. Both wall based and constructed, her pieces are humorous and questioning. She continues to exhibit widely in solo and group shows in Britain and overseas. Jill is also Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at the University of Cumbria and has curated shows by visiting artists and students at the University Gallery for the last 2 years. She has coordinated many art events in schools and colleges in the North West.
				Rosie Wates' work is concerned with aspects of memory and journey, both her own experiences of living abroad in Russia, South America and the Indian Sub-Continent, and her family's roots/routes in Russia and their experience as immigrants to this country (early 20th century). Themes such as outside/inside, belonging/stranger, making one's mark/leaving no trace, memento and memorial continue to inform abstract paintings, photo-based work and installation. Rosie has been based at Green Door Studios in Kendal for nine years. She has been actively involved in the organisation for seven years as a member of the Steering Committee, and also for the past two years as the Administrator for the Studios and the wider membership of seventy artists. She has also been closely involved in the planning, developing and running of the events programme of the group (last year as joint project manager). She is a member of the Cumbria Network and its South Lakes Hub, and the Lancashire Artists Network. She worked as a part-time lecturer in Painting for St. Martin's College in Lancaster (now the Lancaster campus of the University of Cumbria) between 1999 and 2005. She has exhibited widely in England and abroad (solo and group shows) and has been involved in the curating and installation of group and solo exhibitions.