‘I am interested in the idea that the corpse or cadaver is a naturally occurring image - it is the perfect likeness of the living person, and yet it has become fundamentally different’.
Phrases borrowed from miscellaneous sources and found text feature prominently in Mark's work. These seemingly random texts and slogans have resonances that can be found in once radical, but now outdated, philosophies, the territory of the avant-garde.
Markus' practice is comprised of paintings, drawings and animation. His works utilise a plethora of painterly styles and genres that range from cartoons to graphic portraiture.
'Scottish painter of portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures, one of the most individual geniuses in European art. Born in Glasgow, he showed an aptitude for drawing early and first was encouraged by his mother, who was a woman of well-cultivated mind and excelled in flower-painting’.
In his drawings Peter Peri uses a highly detailed technique examining form in minutiae. His subject matter ranges from abstract forms reminiscent of Constructivist experiments to the cult objects of Catholicism.
The works of Shezad Dawood reflect a keen cultural awareness, appropriating various forms of popular image-making in both East & West.
Tariq's work includes drawings, collages and installations. His compositions often comprise of highly charged and explicit images cut out from newspapers, pornographic and fashion magazines and advertisements.
Juliana Sohn was born in Seoul, Korea in 1969 but grew up New Jersey. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and now combines advertising and fashion photography with editorial work and her own documentary photography.
Stewart is known primarily for his abstract views of the Scottish landscape as well as his soft paired down seascapes.
Uninterested in the exploitative quality of photojournalism, Winogrand injected the documentary photograph with empathy, often doing this by taking a step back from his subject matter rather than focusing in. Winogrand died in 1984.
Liz Collins was born in Birmingham, England in 1970. After completing a degree in documentary photography at Farnham she moved to London and has been combining documentary photography with portrait and fashion photography ever since.
There are four works in the Channel 4 collection by Rineke Djikstra, all Untitled they form part of the series If/Then made in 1998.
Much of Oddy's work deals with the relationship of human beings with the built environment, often exploring how interiors can be an expression of a particular social environment.
Roman Signer was born in Switzerland in 1938 and studied sculpture in Zurich and Lucerne before going on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.
Hatakeyama's work is seen to test the physicality of what it is possible for a still camera to record - a striking sense of dangerous close proximity that the human eye could never safely witness.
Although most well known for her photographs of New York sub-culture, at the heart of Goldin's work is the drive to document her life and record the present so that memories don't fade.
Boulton's works Gymnasium, Krampnitz and Potsdam featured in the Channel 4 Collection are part of a series that Boulton begun in 1998 called 41 Gymnasia.
