Alan Hathaway
Born in London, Alan Hathaway is a visual artist who works with installation, print and drawing. He is currently based in the North East of England.
His work is held in private collections internationally as well as the British Museum’s drawing and print archive. Since 2015 he has been artist in residence at MIMA, The Auxiliary, Northumbria University and CVAN (North East). He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and recent awards include Arts Council England DYCP, Artist’s Network North East (facilitated by BALTIC) and AIR ABODE (DCMS).
Recent solo exhibitions include; Forever and Just for One Day (A-M-G5 Glasgow) 2022 and No Dark Things (Platform A Middlesbrough) 2019. Recent group exhibitions and art fairs include: MAW21, MAW19, Edinburgh Fruitmarket print & book fair, ENTER (Copenhagen), RNOP Road Paintings (Australia and Kiev), The Manchester Contemporary, and Barbican Arts Trust, London.
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Beth J Ross
Beth J Ross (b.1973 in Liverpool, UK) is a visual artist who explores the relationship between memory, emotion and place. She has used light, photography, soft sculpture, riso print and is currently working with paint on canvas. Ross returned to college to study Fine Art, after a twenty year, international teaching career, graduating in 2014. From 2015-2018 she lived in Vienna, Austria and was part of the Friday Exit artists collective, which ran a gallery and project space, attached to the Academy of Fine Art. She was selected for the Collective Studio 2018-2019, an artists’ development programme run by The NewBridge Project and Newcastle University. Ross received the 2020 ‘Creative Time and Space’ residency from NECVAN and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. In 2021, Ross received an Arts Council England ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ grant to work on some new ideas. Ross has been awarded commissions for public art by Lumiere, Durham, Refocus, Stockton and North of Tyne. Her work has been included in exhibitions in the North East of England, London, Manchester, Leeds, Somerset, Liverpool, Vienna and online. Ross has a studio at UNIT in North Shields.
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Ronan Devlin
Ronan is a visual artist & graphic designer based in the North East of England. His work looks at the intersection of emotion, sense perception and the material world. Working across print, screen and multi-sensory installation, he produces self-motivated and commissioned works that have been widely exhibited.
He has developed and delivered ten successful, public-funded (National Lottery) projects as lead artist, as well as several high profile private commissions: In 2022, he was commissioned by Galwad (National Theatre Wales, Unboxed Festival) to make a large-scale light & water artwork ‘Anomaly’, on a lake in the slate mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. The piece was central to the finale of a week-long live performance event, televised live on Sky Arts. His 2019 public artwork ‘Loom’ with Swiss coder Michael Flückiger was commissioned and installed for British Land at 3 Broadgate, London. He was winner of Open Call 2 by the BBC/ACE initiative The Space and commissioned by them in 2016, with large Arts Council of Wales project grant support, to make ‘Veillance’ a typographic data artwork that was shown at White Box, Pontio, Bangor University. His 2014 work ‘In Flow’ was awarded a large project grant by Arts Council of Wales, reached the short list of the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Art Prize and was finalist in the Lumen Prize, through which it toured to UK, China and USA. He has shown works at several public art events including: Winter Lights Canary Wharf, Lightpool Blackpool, Lightnight Liverpool, Lightnight Leeds, Lightwaves Salford.
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Sara Cooper
Sara’s practice encompasses drawings, print, film and objects; often developed collaboratively in response to natural/urban environments and associated social histories. In 2017, she gained a post-graduate award in Collaborative Practice where her research addressed how artists engage with landscapes and ecology.
Her work has been represented in group shows including: Architectures of Displacement, Tate Exchange, Liverpool (2017), #Untitled10, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (2019) and Fragile Earth: weeds, seeds & plastic crust, Mima, Middlesbrough (2019).