In January 2007 we began featuring some of the people who are taking part in the One Million Points of Light Project.

These include artists, photographers, holographers, musicians, writers, academics, students, galleries, collectors and people who just wanted to "switch on" some light, take part, and connect their illuminated block to a favourite website.

With such an wide variety of people involved in the project, this "Featured!" section offers a brief glimpse into the sites they have connect to. Each month we selected (completely at random) one of the people helping to make One Million Points Of Light into a global "group show" which is now on view in 121 countries world-wide.

Featured participants over the past three years are listed below.

December 2009:

Gonzalo Oxenford

Name: Gonzalo Oxenford
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joined the Project: December 2006
Website: www.gonzalooxenford.com

Gonzalo Oxenford, is the final person to be included in our 'Featured!'section as we come to the end of the year and the series.

He is is a visual artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Much of his work uses photography and there are a number of examples on his website, which also includes information about some of his solo and group exhibitions.

His site also has a link to his Flickr blog and photostream where there are many more examples of his work.

For more details about Gonzalo's work visit: www.gonzalooxenford.com

November 2009:

Rori Knudtson

Name: Rori Knudtson
Location: LA/Denver, USA
Joined the Project: October 2009
Website: www.rknudtson.com

Rori Knudtson is one of the most recent people to take part in One Million Points of Light, joining in October. Rori works in the space of in betweens: physical and mental architecture, memory and immediacy, material and immaterial, in an effort to question the possibilities of transmutation.

She is fascinated by the dematerialized and shifting moments of spatial connections. She works with architectural concepts, installation, video, sound and performance. She is currently working on a project based in the Norwegian Arctic merging biological networks and the soundscape.

Rori is a visiting assistant professor of art at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA as well as a lecturer with the University of Colorado-Denver, College of Arts and Media and the University of Colorado-Boulder, College of Environmental Design.

For more details about Rori's work and an extensive collection of images from 2003 to the present, visit: www.rknudtson.com

October 2009:

Virginia Folkestad

Name: Virginia Folkestad
Location: Colorado, USA
Joined the Project: March 2007
Website: www.virginiafolkestad.com

Virginia Folkestad�  is a sculptor working in a variety of media which focus on two main 'paths' - one evoking the natural world and the other exploring the human condition.

She sees her sculptural installations as being akin to riddles, "I give hints to content but much is left to viewer interpretation. I like to keep the viewer thinking".

Virginia exhibits extensively in the USA and has recently completed a work of Public Art,�  an interactive light installation, commissioned by the City of Denver for the Wynkoop Bridge.

In 2008 she was awarded a three year Artist-in-Residency at Red Line, an urban laboratory for art.

For a full list of her work, as well as images, visit:�  www.virginiafolkestad.com

September 2009:

PlaceOfPlaces.com

Name: Placeofplaces.com
Location: Trogen, Switzerland
Joined the Project: September 2007
Website: www.placeofplaces.com

Placeofplaces.com is an online project which joined One Million Points Of Light back in 2007. Set up by artist H. R. Fricker, it offers a selection of 30 x 30 cm enameled metal signs with the wording 'Place of...'

Well known for his work with mail art since, Herr Fricker tries to avoid the term 'artist' or 'art' preferring rubber stamps with descriptions like "Office for artistic activities"and "I'm a networker (sometimes)". He has also worked with text on a number of public installations.

He explains that Placeofplace.com "...combines traditional artwork, networking strategies and space awareness causing the picture to be transformed into a sign."

These signs are available for sale as 16 different word combinations such as Place of Chaos, Place of Crisis, Place of Fun, Place of Women...and each can be made in one of 16 different colours. As they sell, and many of them have been snapped up by collectors around the world, the purchaser is asked to return a photo of where the sign is hung. This is then displayed on the Place Of Place website.

For more details about the Place of Place project visit the website, which is available in English and German: www.placeofplaces.com

August 2009:

Robert Rathbone

Name: Robert Rathbone
Location: Nottingham, UK
Joined the Project: February 2006
Website: www.robertrathbone.co.uk

Robert Rathbone was one of the very first people to take part in the One Million Points of Light Project and has illuminated several different blocks, starting in February 2006. Robert is an award wining photojournalist and has worked on some of the most high-profile news stories, the biggest sporting tournaments, and for some of the best magazines in the business over more than 20 years. In addition, he has wide experience of commercial, TV and arts photography, as well as the teaching of photojournalism.

He is currently on the photographic board of the National Council for the Training of Journalists where he is helping the next generation of photojournalists to develop their skills. Approved as an Arts Council photographer, Robert has extensive experience of theatre and TV photography, having worked for organisations such as Central TV, Granada, Channel 4, ITV, BBC, Derby Playhouse, The Theatre by the Lake and Nottingham Playhouse.

For more details about the type of work Robert has produced, take a look at his extensive website: www.robertrathbone.co.uk

July 2009:

Gordon Milne

Name: Gordon Milne
Location: Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.gordonmilneart.com

Gordon Milne studied printmaking and sculpture at McMasters University where he received a BFA in 1974. Gordon worked as a printmaker producing original etchings, woodcuts and linocuts that were exhibited and sold both to individuals and corporations.

During the past decade Gordon has been commissioned by the Canadian Sport Centre to produce a series of large-scale portraits celebrating the achievements of remarkable Canadian Olympians. The Canadian Sport Heroes Collection is now made up of paintings and will be unveiled during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games.

Images of many of these sport pieces, as well as other portraits, can be found on Gordon's website. For more details visit: www.gordonmilneart.com

June 2009:

Carwyn Evans

Name: Carwyn Evans
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Joined the Project: November 2007
Website: www.carwynevans.com

Carwyn Evans studied sculpture at Cardiff School of Art and has exhibited extensively in Wales.

His work, in mixed media, photography and installation, is concerned with issues related to his 'sense of place': 'Most of my work deals with my own cultural experiences. Its purpose is to question those aspects that are inseparable to language, community and a region's character - aspects that should be protected from further destruction.'

Carwyn's bi-lingual website (Welsh/English) has extensive details about his work, exhibitions, articles and a large selection of links to other relevant websites. For more details visit: www.carwynevans.com

May 2009:

S Mark Gubb

Name: S Mark Gubb
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Joined the Project: March 2006
Website: www.www.smarkgubb.com

Mark Gubb is an artist based in Cardiff who makes regular trips to Nottingham where he is an associate lecture in fine art at the Nottingham Trent University and involved with numerous projects there, including new site specific work for the Hinterland project.

He recently installed his first solo show 'My Empire of Dirt' at the Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, is exhibiting with the gallery at Volta 5 in Basel during June and will take part in the "Empty"exhibition, spread over 12 vacated sites in Manhattan, during October.

Mark's website is packed full of material covering many of his recent projects. You can download his most recent catalogue, published as part of the Ceri Hand gallery show and access examples of his work with sound and video.

For more details about S Mark Gubb, visit: www.smarkgubb.com

April 2009:

Adam James

Name: Adam James
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: May 2007
Website: www.mradamjames.com

Adam James studied printmaking at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. He not only works with photography, sculpture and installation but has also created, and taken part in, a number of performance events.

Adam has shown in the Tate, London, as well as galleries and festivals in Iceland, Spain, Germany, the USA, Greece, Italy and the UK. His website is packed with images, exhibition listings and selected press articles.

For more details about Adam James, visit: www.mradamjames.com

March 2009:

Jo Mitchell

Name: Jo Mitchel
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: October 2007
Website: www.jo-mitchell.net

Jo Mitchel is an artist based in London. She works with video, installation,, performance and photography.

In 2007 she presented "Concerto for Voice & Machinery II", a re-enactment of a concert by members of the Berlin post-punk industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten at the ICA on 3 January 1984. This is now available as an HD 40 min DVD.

She has exhibited her work internationally in solo and group shows and much of her practice is documented with images and text on her website.

For more details about Jo Mitchel, visit: www.jo-mitchell.net

February 2009:

Joey Holder

Name: Joey Holder
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: November 2007
Website: www.joeyholder.com

Joey Holder is a painter "..consistently drawn towards the ugliest and most unusual aspects of nature." She has exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK and USA. At the moment she is undertaking a Master of Fine Art degree at Goldsmiths College, London.

As she says on her website, " I aim to confront the viewer with images that are difficult to digest and yet always manage to retain a certain fascinating beauty." There are images of her paintings from current works through to before 2003. Her site is easy to navigate and contains a list of all her exhibitions.

For more details about Joey Holder, visit: www.joeyholder.com

January 2009:

Paul Redman

Name:Paul Redman
Location: Wales, UK
Joined the Project: May 2006
Website: www.predman.co.uk

Paul Redman originally studied computing at Staffordshire University but then went on to carry out a degree in Fine Art at the North East Wales Institute. He not only works with oil on canvas but has produced several site specific installations.

In 2006 he produced the installation '123PR20060602' bringing together elements from his computing background including an artist modified keyboard and a number of DVDs displayed on the wall like small graphic works. More details about this installation and other pieces produced around this time can be found on his website: www.predman.co.uk

December 2008:

Janet Cook-Rutnik

Name: Janet Cook-Rutnik
Location: St. John, Virgin Islands.
Joined the Project: June 2007
Website: www.cookrutnikart.vi

Janet Cook-Rutnik was born in Albany, New York, and, in 1969, moved to St. John in the Virgin Islands. Her work has evolved over the past 40 years from landscape painting, and very personal abstract imagery, to contemporary, conceptual work in installation and new media. She not only offers an extensive selection of images and exhibition details on her website but can also be found on the Saatchi Gallery site.

She has worked with painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, projection and video.

For more information about Janet visit: www.cookrutnikart.vi

November 2008:

Gordon Dickinson

Name: Gordon Dickinson
Location: Wiltshire, UK.
Joined the Project: April 2006
Website: www.gordondickinson.co.uk

Although Gordon Dickinson describes himself as a self taught Painter/Sculptor. His practice includes video and photography. His work has been shown in London (Whitechapel Gallery, Brick Lane), Manchester, Liverpool, Henley, Reading, Oxford, Swindon, Bristol, Cornwall, Wales, USA and Jamaica.

On his website, which is packed full of images from different areas of his practice, he comments..."I love my work. It pays the bills and keeps me happy".

Gordon has just had a piece of sculpture accepted by the Royal West of England Academy, for inclusion in their current exhibition.

For more information about Gordon visit: www.gordondickinson.co.uk

October 2008:

The Residence

Name: The Residence
Location: London UK
Joined the Project: May 2006
Website: www.residence-gallery.com

The Residence is an exhibition venue (and home) located in Hackney Wick, London. Open to visitors by appointment only, its private views are password protected for members who receive details about new shows via e-mail.

Set up in 2005 by Ingrid Z, a Canadian artist who studied fine art at Toronto's York University, it..."does not represent Artists. Artists represent The Residence." Located in Verger's Cottage, attached to the bell tower of a church opposite a small park, it has organised numerous exhibitions and events and most recently took part in Hackney's first major art festival "Hackney Wicked".

For more details about current exhibitions and an archive of previous activities, take a look at The Residence website: www.residence-gallery.com

September 2008

Thomas Roppelt

Name: Thomas Roppelt
Location: Cologne, Germany
Joined the Project: May 2006
Website: www.thro.net

Thomas Roppelt is a multi-media artist based in Cologne, Germany. He originally studied painting at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf and then completed a postgraduate diploma at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where he was introduced to a wide variety of visual processes including: digital production, online media , lasers and holography.

He has exhibited his media projects/installations internationally and an archive of many of these is available on his website. Here you will find documentation of his painting, graphics, objects, installation, photography and video as well as a number of internet/online based works.

For more information visit: www.thro.net

August 2008

Anne Morgan

Name: Anne Morgan
Location: Penarth, South Wales
Joined the Project: May 2007
Website: www.annemorgan.co.uk

Anne Morgan produces contemporary jewellery from her studio in Penarth, South Wales. She graduated from The Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 1996 with a BA(Hons) in Designed Metalwork and Jewellery and, in 1998, she was selected for membership to the Makers Guild in Wales.

Her recent work incorporates Japanese Washi paper, which is lacquered and inlayed into silver. The paper gives the illusion of enamel with its glass like finish.

Anne has just received a grant from the Arts Council of Wales to produce a collection of jewellery incorporating USB sticks (illustrated here). The pieces are modern day lockets that can contain access to a myriad of multimedia: photographs, music, sound, video etc. Treasured memories, stored in jewellery, each piece individual and customizable, unique to the wearer.

Anne's website is packed with images of her unique designs which you can order online. For more information visit: www.annemorgan.co.uk

July 2008

Jill Tattersall

Name: Jill Tattersall
Location: Grantham, UK
Joined the Project: November 2007
Website: www.jilltattersall.co.uk

Jill Tattersall is a mixed media artist located in Grantham, UK, about 30 minutes drive from Nottingham, where the One Million Points of Light Project is located. We have never met but, like all people featured in this section of the project, Jill was chosen at random from everyone involved.

She used to earn a living researching the medieval world-view in early French literature but turned to full-time art in the mid-90s and has been exhibiting and selling work since. Her influences are broad, ranging from flora and gardens to a long standing interest in recycling.

Her website catalogues a wide range of her work, lists solo and group exhibitions and contains numerous images in easy to navigate gallery albums.

The piece illustrated here is the torso section of an 'Exquisite Corpse', made of recycled materials, put together with two other artists as an exhibition centrepiece. More details can be found at: www.jilltattersall.co.uk

June 2008

Nicholas Bernard

Name: Nicholas Bernard
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Joined the Project: March 2007
Website: www.nbernard.com

Nicholas Bernard is a ceramicist based in Arizona, USA, who combines design influences from American Indian ceramics, Art Deco, Op Art and the ancient Japanese technique of raku firing. He has exhibited his work widely and has a number of pieces in permanent collections in the States.

All of his works are unique and the culmination of 30 years of work as a studio potter. The pieces are thrown with a heavily groged white earthenware clay and sometimes stretched, cut, reassembled and altered further while wet. "...Form is everything, I stretch clay to make canvases for decoration. Texture, pattern and color are successful additions when the shapes are impeccable."

His website not only provides images of his ceramic works but lists his previous exhibitions, an outline of his technique and also provides links to a number of craft based groups and organisations: www.nbernard.com

May 2008

Eric Vandamme

Name: Eric Vandamme
Location: Mecheln, Belgium
Joined the Project: January 2007
Website: www.eric-vandamme.be

Eric Vandamme lives and works in Mecheln, Belgian. His work focuses on microscopic details and many of his images are based on assembled photographic material from scientific areas such as genetics, cell biology and nanotechnology.

He often zooms in and by focusing on this microsopic detail he is able to highlight the immense space which surrounds his images. Sensitive to the multicolored 'over kill' which bombards us in everyday life he has chosen to limit the colour he uses to a series of muted blacks and whites.

"...in this zapping era, in which images are tumbling one over another at warp speed, he creates time and space for silence and contemplation."

His website provides more details about his working philosophy, his exhibitions and includes a slideshow to give an impression of the images he explores. Visit: www.eric-vandamme.be

April 2008

Christian McLeod

Name: Christian McLeod
Location: Toronto, Canada
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.christianmcleod.com

Christian McLeod is an artist based in Canada. A graduate of Toronto School of Art, he has exhibited his paintings in many solo shows in Toronto. His work has also been included in a number of group exhibitions in Canada, Brazil, Spain and Italy.

"...ultimately my work operates first and foremost on an aesthetic level, with substantive themes being hinted at but never dominating the overall visual impact"

"Christian McLeod is a painter who is completely secure in his own skin, not duped by art-world fetishizing of the new and confusing of the new with the important." Reflections on Christian McLeod, Painter, by Craig Scott (February 2008)

His website provides examples of his paintings as well as links to essays and reviews.: www.christianmcleod.com

March 2008

Eric Pelka

Name: Eric Pelka
Location: Brooklyn, New York.
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.ericpelka.com

Eric Pelka defines himself as a self taught artist. He studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, USA, and is now based across the river at a studio in Brooklyn.

"It was the mystery that first made me paint. Can I actually display my thoughts onto something physical and tangible?"

Eric's work, influenced by the portrayal of unexpected feelings from our conscious and subconscious minds, has been exhibited in solo shows in Hiroshima, Tokyo, as well as New York City.

His website contains a selection of paintings as well as biographical information and links to some of the other sites he is featured on: www.ericpelka.com

February 2008

Hancock & Kelly Live

Name: Hancock & Kelly Live
Location: Nottingham, UK
Joined the Project: November 2006
Website: www.hancockandkellylive.com

Hancock & Kelly Live, Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly, have presented live performance work in a wide variety of festivals and exhibition spaces across the UK, Europe and Australia.

In March this year they will be leading a new workshop project "I thought you'd never come..." at Felix Ruckert's Schwelle7 in Berlin, Germany.

Their website holds an archive of previous projects and provides information about their current and future live events: www.hancockandkellylive.com

January 2008

Galerie Lucy Mackintosh

Name: Galerie Lucy Mackintosh
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined the Project: April 2006
Website: www.lucymackintosh.ch

Galerie Lucy Mackintosh opened in December 2004 with the aim of featuring contemporary art from Swiss and international artists.

The interior was specially designed by architects Decosterd & Rahm who were invited to create a 'white canvas' which redefined the norms of contemporary gallery spaces.

Their next exhibition, Home Alone, work by Juan Bolivar, will open on February 2nd.

You can find more details about this, an archive of previous shows and details of exhibiting artists, by visiting their website: www.lucymackintosh.ch

People, groups and organisations who were featured during 2007:

December

Julia Schwartz

Name: Julia Schwartz
Location: Santa Monica, USA
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.juliaschwartzart.com

Julia Schwartz has been working for more than a decade as a psychoanalyst and draws on this experience in her paintings, which often deal with psychological annihilation, alienation, and traumatic loss.

She has had a variety of solo and group exhibitions in the States, recently exhibited at the Advocate and Gochis Galleries in Los Angeles, and will have a solo exhibition in January 2008 at the TAG Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Images of her painting and background details about her work and ideas can be found on her website:

Visit www.juliaschwartzart.com

Michael Prax

Name: Michael Prax
Location: Mannenbach, Switzerland
Joined the Project: March 2007
Website: www.prax.ch

Michael Prax produces work which incorporate light. These include sculptures with visible light tubes as well as paintings displaying a subtle 'glow' from their inbuilt lighting systems. He works with a number of small companies in Switzerland and Germany to produce the miniature luminous 'tubes' which can be incorporated into the fabric of his paintings and the more structural objects he builds.

Michael's website is packed full of images from the various series produced since 2006 with details about his work, construction and art philosophy (all in German).

Visit www.prax.ch

October

Hiromi Kaneda

Name: Hiromi Kaneda
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: August 2006
Website: www.k163.sakura.ne.jp

Hiromi Kaneda is a Japanese artist currently living and working in Tokyo. Obsessed by lines, Hiromi uses elements from architectural drawings to produce a range of linear images in ink pencil and paint. The untitled piece, illustrated here, is an A4 work using pencil produced during 2007.

Hiromi studied painting at Camberwell College of Art in London and graduated in 2006.

For more details, and a selection of paintings and drawings, visit the website:

Visit www.www.k163.sakura.ne.jp

September

Adam Stenhouse

Name: Adam Stenhouse
Location: Glasgow, UK
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.adamstenhouse.co.uk

Adam Stenhouse is a photographer. Born in Durham, England, he studied Visual Communication Photography at the Glasgow School of Art and graduated in summer of 2006.

His website is packed full of work which explore "significant places within communities and the balance between man and nature", and his monthly photographic 'diary' is well worth a look as it contains some significant 'moments'.

You won't find a massive amount of background information about the artist here, he clearly wants the images to speak for themselves - and there are some seriously engaging images!

Visit www.adamstenhouse.co.uk

Lumia

Name: Lumia
Location: LA, USA
Joined the Project: March 2006
Website: www.wilfred-lumia.org

The Lumia website showcases work by artist Thomas Wilfred who invented the term "Lumia" to describe his kinetic light compositions.

The illustration here is a still taken from his Opus 4 compositon which is in the private collection of Eugene and Carol Epstein. They have several works by Wilfred and are involved in renovation projects for other works. The Epsteins have provided work from their collection for inclusion in exhibitions worldwide including the Tate Liverpool, UK and the Pompidou Center, France.

The Lumia website was created to provide details about work in the Epstein collection and document the renovation progress.

For more information about the pioneering work of Wilfred and where work from the Epstein collection can be seen visit. www.wilfred-lumia.org

Gail Barlow

Name: Gail Barlow
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: March 2007
Website: www.gailbarlow.com

Gail Barlow produces paper sculptures and limited edition digital prints. She graduated from art school with a first class honours degree in Fine Art and Photography and is now based n the East End of London.

Her complex, architectural, sculptures are constructed using the 'sliceform method'. She then digitally photographs these and manipulates the resulting images using Photoshop. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, London, Summer show.

Images of both Gail';s sculptures and digital prints can be found on her website. www.gailbarlow.com

Yohei Yashi

Name: Yohei Yashi
Location: London, UK
Joined the Project: February 2006
Website: www.yoheiyashi.com

Yohei Yashi, an Artist and musician born in Japan, is now based in London.

She studied applied chemistry of engineering at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, and then fine art in the UK. In September this year she will graduated with an Master in Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London.

Much of her visual work involves the use of video and installation, which she has exhibited in a variety of locations. Images of many of these video pieces can be found on her website.

Her work has just been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 'Newcontemporaries 2007' exhibition and will be seen in Walsall, London and Manchester this year.

As a musician she is part of 'Woman' (with Guy Crouch, Kristian Goddard and Steven Warwick) and has just released their second album "Silver Wolf Dog" on Sea Records.

More details about Yohei's visual and musical work, with links to gig reviews, and places to purchase the 'Women' albums can be found on her website: www.yoheiyashi.com

May

Nina Todorović

Name: Nina Todorović
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Joined the Project: February 2007
Website: www.ulus-art.co.yu/Nina_Todorovic/index2.htm

Nina Todorović is an artist based in Belgrade.
Born in Serbia, she graduated, with a masters degree, from the University of Arts , Department of Painting, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2002
and has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions.

Much of her paintings explore urban landscapes and architecture. The painting illustraited here is "Blue Skies Smiling III", 2002. Oil on canvas, 143x195cm. Most recently she has also been working with mixed media installations and completed 'Watermark(ed)' which was shown as part of 'BombArt', held in Abruzzo, Italy.

More details about Nina's work, including an extensive collection of images, can be found on her website: www.ulus-art.co.yu/Nina_Todorovic/index2.htm

VINEspace

Name: VINEspace
Location: London, England
Joined the Project: June 2006
Website: www.vinespace.net

VINEspace, a contemporary art gallery on Vyner St, East London, has developed a reputation for showcasing innovative work. In 2006/7 The PROJECTspace was home to a large, ambitious video and painting installation - 'Painting with People' by video artist Sean Branagan, and a residency for Una Rose Smith in the summer, enabled her to create her installation that was part of the exhibition 'Wall to Wall'.

Other artists amongst many that have been exhibited include Laura White, Cath Ferguson, Richard Box and Ian Johnson.

The current exhibition through April entitled '....light reflecting booster technology' features sculpture by Kevin Wright and digital prints by Simon Morse. The image shown is a piece entitled 'A Bruntling Unbus FORELEST-1' by Simon Morse.

When an exhibition is showing, the gallery is open Thursday to Sunday (12-6) Entry is free. More details about VINEspace and the exhibitions held there can be found on their website www.vinespace.net

Erik Neukirchner

Name: Erik Neukirchner
Location: Chemnitz, Germany
Joined the Project: January 2007
Website: www.erikneukirchner.de

Erik is a sculptor working in Chemnitz, part of the former East Germany. He began making sculptures in clay, ceramics and stone during 1994 but also works with photography, water colour and drawing. In 2001 he established his own bronze foundry in Chemnitz.

The work illustrated here is a detail from one of his large standing figures made in bronze during 2002.

More details (in German) about Erik Neukirchner's sculpture, and work in other media, can be found on his website: www.erikneukirchner.de

Andrew Payne

Name: Andrew Payne
Location: Bedford, UK
Joined the Project: November 2006
Website: apaynephotography.info

Andrew is a landscape photographer who has been taking pictures of water near his home for many years - the river, lakes and other areas of water in this landscape. In 2006 he started working with video in order to capture the movement of water previously represented as still images.

The picture shown here is a still image from a video entitled 'Weir' which is in the Waiting Project for Arts for Health Cornwall, supported by Arts Council England, which brings creative arts into primary care and community health settings.

There is a statement by the Victorian photographer Peter Henry Emerson that encapsulates what this work is about: Nature is full of pictures, and they are found in what appears to the uninitiated the most unlikely places.

More details about Andrew Payne's work, including images, statements and video stills, can be found on his website: apaynephotography.info

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January

Amy Youngs

Name: Amy Youngs
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Joined the Project: December 2006
Website: www. hypernatural.com

Amy creates mixed-media, interactive sculptures and digital media works, that explore the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally and is assistant Professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

The work illustrated here is her 'Digestive Table' an interactive sculpture which digests scraps of left-over food (using microbes and worms) to produce a compost which nourishes the plants growing at the base of the table. An LCD screen allows you to view the digestive process.

My work engages viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm, to elicit a dialogue regarding the relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self.

More details about Amy's work, exhibitions, installations and publications can be found at www. hypernatural.com