ABOUT US

The Team

Alex Hartley: Artist and Project Director

• Tania Kovats: Artist Collaborator
• Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol: Production and Engagement Programme
• David Bickerstaff: Film Director
• Bullet: Design and Web development

Alex Hartley
Alex Hartley is an artist of international repute. Well known for his encased photographs of the interiors of galleries, tower blocks and fictitious structures, Hartley has exhibited work for over 20 years, in Europe, North American and Japan. Hartley has also developed monumental architectural installations that create a disorientating fictional space that both perplexes and seduces the viewer. Long interested in the relationship and interdependence between architecture and nature, Hartley has most recently produced photographic works with sculptural architectural elements built up on the surfaces, filling images of actual landscapes with surreal studies of fantastic utopian architectural forms. In 2004, Hartley was one of the participants in the Cape Farewell Art/Science expedition to the High Arctic. This extraordinary environment inspired Alex, and his Nymark project caught the imagination of visitors to the acclaimed The Ship-The Art of Climate Change exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

Alex Hartley is represented by Victoria Miro Gallery.

Tania Kovats
Tania Kovats is a British artist whose primarily sculptural practice is an exploration of landscape. Her most recent work, TREE, was created as a permanent commission for the Natural History Museum to mark the bicentenary of Charles Darwin. Tania has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad and her sculptures and drawings are in many public and private collections. Her works for the public realm include MEADOW (2006) in which she transported a wild flowering meadow from Bath to London on a working canal boat via the inland waterways of central southern England. In 2007, Tania made a response to the 2000 year old chalk drawing, the White Horse at Uffington. The Museum of the White Horse was her travelling landscape museum, housed in a horse box. It visited museums, galleries, hillsides and race courses with her collection of artefacts relating the white horse. She is Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art and lives in Dorset.

Tania Kovats is represented by doggerfisher.

Situations
Situations is an award-winning public art commissioning and research programme based at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. Situations is dedicated to the commissioning of outstanding artists' projects, often outside conventional gallery or museum contexts, which open up new forms of public engagement with contemporary art. The programme was initiated in October 2003 by Claire Doherty, and now includes projects in New Zealand, Norway and Weston-super-Mare! From the start, the programme's guiding principles have been to create remarkable and memorable art experiences in unexpected places through a working process that responds to the most challenging artistic ideas.

David Bickerstaff
David Bickerstaff is an artist, filmmaker and creative director of digital media for narrative environments. David founded Atomictv as an umbrella organisation for developing immersive projects and artist collaborations. His multimedia and video works have been broadcast and exhibited both in Britain and internationally. David has won various awards for his projects including an Insight Award for Excellence from the National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists (USA), and was a member of the 2004 BAFTA judging panel for Interactive Art.

Bullet Creative
Bullet is a multi-skilled creative agency based in London who have been working together for over 10 years. They have extensive experience in all media, from print and identity to interactive web and DVD, including monthly magazines aimed at niche markets. Bullet is involved with all of Cape Farewell's media presence including their websites, HTML emails, event based promotional materials, ID and stationery, exhibitions, annual reports, books and DVDs.