Visual Arts

Diana, born in Manchester, is a Bangladeshi-Asian Visual Artist and Curator. She has been lecturing in Fine Art for six years and is also a workshop leader. She has exhibited in the TINAG festival in London, as part of the Roaming Biennial in Tehran, Other Asia’s exhibition ‘ReDo Pakistan’ in Karachi, Pakistan and her text work has featured in The Disarmory Newspaper, New York. Her current practice explores text, correspondence and connectivity through curatorial instructional methods to global participants. Her curatorial projects include directing ‘Up & Coming’ at the CUC in Liverpool, the ‘Defamiliarization’ touring exhibition in London and Sheffield and she is an assistant curator for Pop Samiti Arts Magazine. ..

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Angels.- from 9th November to 24th December at:
A&D Gallery
51 Chiltern Street
London W1

tel 020 7486 0534
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Local contemporary Photographer Sculptor and Video Artist...

The Sun rises over London and another day begins in the life of the travelling artist, amidst monuments that have stood the test of time sits an architectural illustrator. ..

Jamaican Patwa' language linguist, bilingual writer, poet; published author, performer and visual artist.



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Dijana is a Chelsea graduate with extensive experience in painting. She has participated in numerous shows and is closely affiliated with ‘Brent Artist Resources’. She regularly exhibits at Willesden Library Gallery. ..

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Billy Teare and Kathleen O'Sullivan have a formidable
international reputation as a story and song combination. Representing the finest aspects of the verbal arts, their work is an entertaining cultural treasure trove of stories, songs, poetry and music for all.
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Over the past 7 years I have been making various types of paintings and experimentations, and since graduating in 2005 and have been focusing on simplifying a group of paintings in my studio in London. All of them are based on the premise that paint is better wet than dry; a common assumption of painting is that you paint a picture and the paint should dry. I have always seemed to want to challenge this assumption. I have always been interested in the process of a painting and the life of paint, from its state in a tube or can, to its mark onto a surface. I am not interested in re-inventing painting but like to look at what has been and what I can do that might be different. All my paintings begin with a drawing and I see this as a very important process which helps me to free my mind of ideas. In the studio I try to have as few rules as possible, I think more like the type of work I don’t want to make and start from there. I believe that the fewer the rules I have the more ideas and accidents I encourage. I think everyone and everything can be vulnerable and my paintings are no different. I try to give them an element of fear and caution. I have always wanted to have the idea that a painting can live on - literally. That it can move with us, at the same speed. It can change its mind, change direction, disappear, live and die all at once. ..