Cuckoo Farm Studios
30 Studio Holders
All With Their Own Unique Practices
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Abigail Ryman
MONOCHROMATIC PAINTER
Ryman enjoys the drama of black and white tones. Occasionally work with colour too. Her work fluctuates between large canvases and smaller ink drawings.
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Bram Winterford
Sharing with Gary Winterford
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Clare Iles
SCULPTOR
Anthropomorphism, fables, colour, re-using, deconstruction, assemblage, wood, recycled furniture, 2D reliefs, sculpture, installation.
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Colin Brown
BOOKBINDER
Book binding, restoration/conservation, gold-tooling and box-making.
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David Smith
PAINTER
Abstracted landscapes, narrative paintings, collages, portraits. North Essex, Yorkshire and Spain are points of reference.
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Demelza Fanshawe
Painter and Sculptor
2024/25 Graduate Awardee
Demelza Fanshawe is an Essex based process painter and sculptor. Influenced by previous career spanning 22 years in the British military.
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Dennis Coote
PAINTER
Paintings inspired by both nature and mythologies, working in series, each of which are ongoing.
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Gary Winterford
ARTIST + PAINTER
Painter, working in oil & acrylic paint on canvas, board and glass.
Sharing with Bram Winterford
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Hanne Mannheimer
INSTALLATION ARTIST
More often than not, it begins with a found object, like the texture of a thread or the memory of a porcelain figurine.
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Hilary Owers
PAINTER
Black ink, black paint - Marks on Paper
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Iris Dina Gunnarsdottir
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST + EDUCATOR
Gunnarsdottir is a conceptual artist and ceramicist working within a feminist framework and is focussed on using sustainable resources.
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Janette Lazell
SCULPTOR
Lazell works with mixed media and specialised in working with metal during her degree but is also interested in working with textiles and wood.
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Jayne Knowles
ARTIST + MAKER + EDUCATOR
Knowles is a maker and educator and long term tenant at Cuckoo Farm Studios. She combines her making with a career in education and is Dean of Performance Arts, University of the Arts London.
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Jean Muir
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
Ceramic and kiln fused glass, sculptural forms, panels and hangings.
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Karina Carrington MRBS
SCULPTOR + PHOTOGRAPHER
Carrington is a sculptor and photographer, and an elected Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
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Liam Hennessy
SCULPTOR + 2D RELIEFS PAINTER
At present Hennessy’s practice is primarily focused on ceramic figurative sculpture.
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Linda Theophilus
CURATOR + CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
Theophilus’s work focuses on specific locations and their histories. She often uses materials collected from sites, with their impermanence an essential part of the work.
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Lisa Temple-Cox
ARTIST + INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER
Temple-Cox’s work explores interstices: between science and religion, the normal and the pathological, the familiar and the uncanny.
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Lupe Cunha
PAINTER
Fine Artist and Workshop Facilitator with MA from University of Hertfordshire and CertEd from University of Greenwich working in multiple medias.
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Maggie Leggoe
TEXTILES + MIXED MEDIA
Focusing on working with textiles and stitch as well as digital fabric print exploring the layering of materials to include a three-dimensional element.
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Marley
MULTIMEDIA ARTISTS
Filmmaking, photography, videography, design.
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Nicholas Rowe MSDC
ARTIST WOODTURNER
Creating unique works from locally sourced Essex & Suffolk wood.
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Pam Schomberg
CERAMICIST
Potter working in stoneware and porcelain. Nonfunctional hand-built sculptural pots. Studio in courtyard
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Peter Jones
ARTIST + DESIGNER + MAKER + EDUCATOR
Having run his own workshop over the last two decades Jones has been very much concerned with the concepts and reality of process, material and skill.
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Rebecca Jordan
DRAWING + INSTALLATION ARTIST
Drawing and installation work using line to explore space through repetition, excess and duration.
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Ruth Philo
PAINTER
Ruth’s paintings explore abstraction through colour and surface. They are often site specific, emerging from encounters with place and walking. Material and immaterial elements, both conscious and unconscious combine to reveal a sensory experience.
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Sarah Milne
PAINTER
Landscape painter of the internal weather as well as the external. She uses mainly oils and soft pastels.
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Sarah Sabin
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST + PUBLIC REALM + EDUCATOR
Sabin’s work is informed by archaeological practices, and she uses a range of media to explore sites of interest, and what might be hidden there.
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Sheena Clover
PAINTER + MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
My work is multi-layered and textured using a variety of media and techniques. It is often a response to the landscape of remembered and familiar places and is between abstract and figurative in style.
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Stuart Bowditch
SOUND + INSTALLATION ARTIST
Stuart’s practice is rooted in places and communities that exist on the fringes, both geographically and socially, with a particular interest in the sonic landscape, capturing overlooked and overheard noises and using sound as a documentative and creative medium.
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Tom Armstrong
ARTIST + CARTOONIST + EDUCATOR
Tom contributes cartoons to Private Eye (under the initials T.E.A), teaches art classes, draws comic books and sometimes makes big artworks.