"I began performance work in the Sixties without ever having a clear idea of why I was doing it. In some ways I think it's a way of giving yourself permission to show off. In the forties and fifties my dad sang songs and told jokes in clubs and pubs. He could be dreadful. I suppose I'm carrying on the family tradition".

"Work is underpinned by the system of Cuisenaire rods, which associates certain colours to numbers. I have been applying this approach to my work over the past 5 years, utilising numbers, and other sequential systems

For Snapper! the work shown, features my energy wave drawings, and my groupings of Aura soma colour healing bottles.. Information on both is available elsewhere on this site"

"My work concerns states of becoming or what is metamorphosis rather than metaphor and process that have as an off spring the creation of a new character through the encounter between human, animal and the object/machine. My work is currently being shown at a film festival in Bologna, Italy. I am studying at Goldsmiths College, BA Fine Art- History of Art".

"These paintings are samples of London from travels around my studio. Camberwell and Camden Town and Brixton. They depict local events, new CD's, gigs and trainers.

The paintings also convey something outside of the language they adopt. On one level, there is a collection of images familiar to contemporary culture. These hand painted gouache posters are fakes of standard, street-side walls. However, on another level, the specific shape of the painting, the arrangement of the contained images, the selection of particular words and colours, there lies the intention which is to subvert these images from the consumable & throwaway into the particular & the unique.

For this exhibition in Brixton I have chosen to show three large circular paintings which have been inspired by my reaction to loss and also the 'Samhain', the pagan practice of helping guide those who are lost."

" My current images are the continuation a theme which has been running through my work for the last ten years. This began as a project called 'Thought Shapes Abstraction and Reality' which was concerned with the way people think and the structures we build in the mind. The first thought we can ever have is a differentiation between what was and what is. The two diverging circles on which my earlier paintings are based reflects the way this awareness structures all subsequent thoughts and how we learn to polarize every experience, every notion.

As well as the more obvious fact that I'm choosing many of my colours by numeric values, there seems to be a logical predetermined order to the way I introduce colours into each piece. My work takes on a life of its own and runs in my mind like a background programme. Working this way also invites the random chance element as systems don't always produce the same result twice".

MARK
MCGOWAN

"In an extraordinary art performance, I intend to tie up and gag an old age pensioner and put her inside one of those brown pre war wardrobes, I will cut out a little hole in the front of the wardrobe, which will then be covered by a grate, this is so people can look in and watch her.

A looped recording from a local reggae radio station turned up full blast will accompany the old lady inside the wardrobe. The event which is to take place outside a shop in Brixton Indoor Market is called Imprisoner, dealing with issues around old age pensioners, their fear of entrapment at home and loud music.

Previously I pushed a monkey nut along the road with my nose for 7 miles, I am currently doing an MA in the History of Art at Goldsmiths College".

"I am attracted to minor events which say something about the less comfortable trappings of modern living. The scenes I have chosen to draw are ones that I have witnessed, participated in or seen on popular TV shows. As snapshots of contemporary lifestyles, they are very much of this era and are likely to date very quickly, but are intended to be appreciative of long term endeavors".

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"Documenting the absence within spaces and objects is an important issue for me. For the Snapper exhibition I will be making an installation which can be viewed from the outside".