Christine Philipp challenges the traditional expectation of representation and perception. She chooses day-to-day subject matters and estranges them from their original context and meaning. Ordinary places as a garage, playground or staircase are turned into distant and quiet environments. Through personal intervention her subjects become distorted and result in images that create an ‘unheimlich’ atmosphere. Christine has the ability to restrict her images to their barest essentials; she has the gift to show only what is really necessary.

Graciano's work is an investigated series in which dark humor and the technology of painting is used to explore the projection of subliminal messages that are rendered inescapable in the media; for instance using sex to sell.

She brings across a blunt, distanced evocation of popular culture elevating it to art status in a series of work leading to abstract still life, exploring the links that overlap “need verses desire”, “sex verses procreation” and “man verses woman”.

I live and work in London. After a spell in design I returned to painting and began working at the National Gallery of Art in London. My intention was to earn a living and improve my understanding of the craft of picture making. For many years since completing my M.A. from the Royal College of Art I have done nothing but draw. I valued the idea of letting my work develop organically away from the need to produce a finished product.