Manipulating surfaces and new ways with mark - making

Lucio Fontana:

Interested in spacialism, abstractism and using new technologies, Fontana questioned traditionsof art on a flat surface and realises the time had come for fine artists to be producing images of a 3D and 4D format.

 "Matter should be transformed into energy  in order to invade space in a dynamic form"

He asaulted the surfaces of his canvas', slashing and making holes in itor sticking random shapes onto the surface.

Implied Line: a line in a work that is subtlety perceived by the viewer but has no physical form.

Sian Bowen: 

Primary medium is drawing using papers that are embedded with a history of their own - wallpaper from a lighthouse, letters, documents and oiling or smokimng these papers to embue them with depth. 

Caroline Broadhead:

Makes textiles and sculptural installations.

'Dress with Holes'

Plays with the object, uses the dress as a metaphor , and looks into people, their belongings and their shadows- and making the shadow an artistic element in itself.

Machiko Agano :
Japanese master weaving artist, makes elaborate woven structures to be installed in specific places.
'Translucent coloured materials to portray delicate natural emotions allows characteristica of the surrounding space to penetrate and reflect the work.'

Masa Kobayashi:
Creates installations using natural and manmade materials.

Andy Goldsworthy:
Enviromental sculptor, uses natural surroundings, seasons and weather, leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand , clay, ice and snow. Uses photographs to document his work.

Walter de Maria:
Contemporary Art/ Minimalism/ Earth Art
Occupied with Earth's relationship with the universe. Creates situations where landscape and nature, light and weather become intense experiences.