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about the artists

Fildes & Katrina McPherson, his collaborator of 15 years, are both keen climbers and liken the movements used in bouldering to dance. Rock geology can force different choreographic styles on to the climber, they represent this with a series of video pieces from which they have created new bouldering 'scores' for the climbs based on Labanotation, a standardised system for analysing and recording any human motion.
 
Henderson is concerned with “being” between things taking inspiration from a quote from Eva Hesse, for whom art in the early days, was something that happened between things “…I did it at camp between basketball and swimming.” Henderson’s drawings, photography and Neon line drawings proceed on the basis that art is a mode of thinking and that he does this thinking between the moments he wakes in the morning to falling asleep at night. Henderson is also a professional mountain bike guide and he bridges his worlds with Artcyclescotland where he uses expeditions as a new way to approach art. Artcyclescotland, along with Active Schools (Dundee), delivers a responsive mountain biking skills session linked with poetry, general literacy and visual arts activity for Primary and Secondary Level pupils, most recently with pupils from Downfield Primary, Dundee
 
Roberts considers himself an artist and an athlete and the two are inseparable. Roberts is currently jumping just below international standard in the high jump. His art practice draws upon the experience and knowledge gained from being an athlete. This can be seen not only in the often very physical nature of the work but also the concepts that drive them, most notably being ‘in pursuit of the impossible.’

Ellsworth presents Training, an exploration of where art and exercise overlap by engaging bodies in motion. For two-weeks exercise equipment in the University’s gym and the moving bodies of volunteers will form a collaboration and function as finely sharpened drawing tools. The outcomes (drawings) of these Training sessions will be exhibited in the Hannah Maclure Centre’s gallery.

Running's work expresses the spirit of the west. Her documentary and fine art photo based explorations are contemplative and symbolic reflections of her interests in social and environmental concerns. The work for this exhibition celebrates the vibrant culture of the national sport of Mexico, the Charreada, a formal style of rodeo. Rich in pageantry and showmanship her work captures Mexico’s pride for family, history and country demonstrated through its nation’s sport.
 
As an up and coming artist Walker’s work with video, sound and installations has explored western perceptions of masculinity and femininity, in particular gender behaviour whilst in a competitive sporting environment. Presented are still images from a game of Subbuteo that start her on this investigation into the behavioural differences displayed whilst under competitive pressure.