Simon Raven studied at BFA Ruskin School, Oxford and completed an MA in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London.

Raven works in performance, video and other media. Made as a response to everyday living/working circumstances, often filtered through a specific body of imaginative or artistic research. Having studied for a Philosophy BA before switching to Music Production, then Art, Ravens work usually combines multiple fields of influence and research. He often collaborates.

Some of his work refers to his experience of having been treated for depression and hypomania, and an interest in disability arts more broadly. In 2012 Raven was awarded the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for artists working with a disability, with a residency at Camden Arts Centre. In October 2015 Raven will start a PhD in Disability Art Criticism at Northumbria University.

www.nevarnomis.com

Bruce uses​ digital and social media, popular culture, marketing and small-scale production to make artwork. An active internet presence is​ at the core of his practice: his online TV show, The Social Media Takeaway, use​s​ the quick-fix, low-brow, throw-away nature of YouTube as a platform to produce artworks and performances.

www.bruceasbestos.info/

Tom Godfrey is director of TG, a gallery based within PRIMARY, Nottingham and is also Gallery Resource Manager of Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University.

Godfrey co-directed the artist-led gallery ‘Moot’ from 2005-2010 and during this time curated the commissioning programme ‘Keep Floors and Passages Clear’ which culminated in an exhibition at White Columns, New York and subsequently entered the Arts Council Collection in 2015; the first curatorial project to enter the collection.

Between 2009 – 2014 Godfrey curated the publishing programme ‘Marbled Reams’ which was shown at The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Limoncello, London and Donlon Books, London.

In 2012 Godfrey completed his MFA at Glasgow School of Art and shortly afterwards developed and opened his gallery ‘TG’.
www.tgal.co / www.marbledreams.com / www.keepfloorsandpassagesclear.com / www.boningtongallery.co.uk

Jacobs uses exhibition making alongside the production of moving images, objects, products, graphics, electronic music and environments that support and develop individual and collective ideas, to explore how the sense of self is shaped by the habitual cognitive immaterialisation of production.

Recent & forthcoming exhibitions include; (2015) Following, FACT, Liverpool; Alien Radio, The Space, Nottingham Contemporary, curated by Simon Raven; Under A Thawing Lake, Dark Arts International, Material Art Fair, Mexico City; Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, EM15 – the East Midlands Pavillion at 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; EXHALE, Cactus, Liverpool (solo); (2014) INHALE, Project Number, London (solo); Sansoucci Realty, Tank.TV, London, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini; The C(h)roma Show, Bangalore, India, curated by Maria Laura Ghidini; Manchester Contemporary, SYSON, Manchester.

Online projects include Sunscreen; Sleeping Upright and Accidentally on Purpose.

Marianna Simnett completed her BA at Nottingham Trent University in 2007 and her MA at the Slade School of Art in 2013. Simnett works with video, performance and drawing. Her recent body of work explores themes of sexuality, innocence, corruption and martyrdom. Her videos involve collaborative processes with non-actors playing the part of themselves in heightened, suspended realities. In 2013 she won the Adrian Carruthers Award and William Coldstream Prize, and in 2015 she was a recipient of the Jerwood/FVU Award. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Comar, Isle of Mull and Park Nights at the Serpentine Pavilion.

www.mariannasimnett.com

Polly Brannan is currently Education Curator at Liverpool Biennial. She is an artist and educator who has produced projects at Frieze Art Fair, Serpentine Gallery, The Barbican, ICA, Tate Britain, Lisbon Experimenta Festival and Nottingham Contemporary, amongst others. She was Collaborations Curator at Studio Voltaire from 2006-9, and Education Curator at Serpentine Gallery from 2011-13.

She is co-founder of the network ‘Avant Gardening’, an arts and environment project which engages all sectors of the community with environmental and sustainability issues, she was also a member of public works 2005-2011, an artist and architect collective whose projects address how the public realm is shaped by its various users and how existing dynamics can inform further proposals.

http://www.biennial.com

http://www.avantgardening.org

http://www.publicworksgroup.net/home/

http://letterstothecity.com

Craig Fisher is an artist and Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. He gained his MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Fisher makes paintings, objects and sculptural installations using various fabrics and textile techniques to question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes.

Fisher has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery and Stand In, The Small Collections Room, Nottingham Contemporary (2015). He was commissioned by LOCWS International in partnership with the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea to exhibit a large-scale public artwork in Art across the City 2014.

Fisher curates Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, a project that presents the work of contemporary artists in exhibitions in an unconventional gallery setting, a walk-in cupboard at Primary.

For more information, visit

www.craig-fisher.com
www.mrsrickscupboard.com