http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/paul-haywood.aspx http://www.eborstudio.co.uk

Professor Paul Haywood is the Deputy Dean of the School of Art and Design at Middlesex University where he holds a Chair in Social Arts Practice. He holds an honorary Chair in Creative Community Engagement at the University of Salford. Having started his career as an independent artist he has collaborated across many disciplines; producing projects in diverse contexts that have covered a full range of; educational settings, social programmes, empowerment and inclusion campaigns, and both physical and social regeneration initiatives. In recent years he has deployed his experiences in the service of sustainable initiatives led by voluntary sector organisations and citizen networks. All of his work is collaborative. He has developed experiences of working with enterprise systems as a tool for co-creation and collaborative cultural activism and continues to pursue long-term interests in; environmental aesthetics and place identity, and, design craft responses to localised social campaigning. He continues to practice as an artist at Ebor Studios in North Manchester.

http://www.awst-walther.com

Since 2006 the German-Welsh couple Manon Awst and Benjamin Walther have lived and worked in Berlin and Wales. In their work they examine questions of human existence and discuss behavioural standards and social values. The main subject of their artistic interest is space. And this is where they combine different materials like gelatine or ice as well as light to create visual metaphors.

Her latest project, Barclodiad-y-Gawres, Anglesey, explores our understanding of nature and environment, looking at the roles and responsibilities that confront contemporary human beings in the face of climate change, ecological imbalances and unprecedented technological advances.

http://www.mattbaker.org.uk

Matt Baker an artist working with and for public spaces. Art projects consciously engage with the natural and social processes that shape our environment. Currently working in South West Scotland as co-curator of Environmental Art Festival Scotland and as part of The Stove artist’s collective and involved in projects in Govan and leading a coast-to-coast artwork in north England – Way of the Roses: Travelling Histories.

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