Artists
In this section you will find the artists contributing to the project. By clicking their name you will be able to view a short biography and installation shots from the Saint-Omer site.
Paul Cheneour
Lives and works in Dover, Kent
Paul Cheneour is a flautist/composer. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music London under professor Rainer Schuelein and has, since then, played, composed, taught and run workshops and master-classes in England , Europe, Mexico, and Greece for the last 36 years. He has 35 CD albums, 4 major films, including EMMA award winning 6th Happiness and Hideous Kinky, 4 videos and 4 documentaries including BBC 2's Egyptian Journeys by Dan Cruickshank to his credit. From 2000-2005 he lived on the Mexico/ USA border co-founding 7Changes and Inner Silence and was a regular featured soloist at the Bebop Jazz club in Monterey, Mexico. In 2005 he was voted No. 74 in "The world's best jazz flautists of all time" by www.digitaldreamdoor.com readers. Current projects include 2 cds and books of poetry with Brian Lee, the new jazz-fusion group 4JQ and the album 'Time and Space' with Richard Bundy.
Isabelle Froment
Lives and works in Lille
Isabelle Froment received her Diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique from the Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts de Reims (ESAD) in 1995 followed by the Licence Arts plastiques in 1996 at the Université Charles de Gaulle in Lille.
Isabelle Froment has shown work at several video festivals, including the Festival international d'art vidéo de Casablanca (2003). Recent exhibitions of her work include "Les faux bonheurs", a solo show at Espace 36, Saint Omer (2005) and E.R.O.A a solo show at the collège de Thérouanne (2006). A video projection on the theme the superheroines was shown in 2007 on the façade of the Printemps department store in the boulevard Haussman in Paris (2007).
Nigel Green
Lives and works in Pett Level, East Sussex
Nigel Green has recently completed a PhD in Arts and Communication at the University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone which follows an MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton.
His recent exhibitions include 'Dark Season Botany', a project made in response to the city of Copenhagen, Botanical Gardens Copenhagen (2007); 'Vanishing Point,' mixed Exhibition, Brighton Photo Fringe, Grey Area, Brighton (2006), 'From Brighton'. mixed exhibition, Diaphane, Montreuil-sur-Breche, France (2006) and an exhibition of fragment photographs at Freshfields for Zelda Cheatle Gallery (2005). His work has been published by Photoworks in 'Dungeness' (2004), with essays by David Chandler and Jonathan Glancey and 'Calais Vu Par' (2001), published by Museum of Fine Art, Calais.
In February a selection of Green's Dungeness photographs will be shown in 'The Nuclear Dilemma' at the International Red Cross museum in Geneva and in March Green will be showing a body of photographs documenting reconstruction architecture in the region of Picardy. The exhibition will be shown first at the Museum of Tapestry in Beauvais and then at the Phoenix Gallery for the Brighton Photo Biennial.
Johanne Huysman
Lives and works in Lille
Johanne Huysman studied at the school of Fine Art in Calais and then at the Ecole Régionale Supérieure d'Expression Plastique in Tourcoing, where she obtained her post-graduate qualification in fine art in 1986. Galleries showing her work include Frédérik Storme (Lille), Frontière$ (Lille), and J.Bastien Art in Brussels. Johanne Huysman also showed work at the biennale d'Art contemporain de Denain (2006), "la nuit d'Art-ventures" Place St sulpice in Paris, and in "l'humour dans l'Art" as part of Lille 2004 European capital of culture.
Johanne Huysman is continuing her scientific, ethnological and journalistic research into the myth of the siren, which involves working with photographers and photographing sirens in various locations and countries.
Joanna Jones
Lives and works in Dover, Kent
After studying at Northwich and the Byam Shaw Schools, Jones received her NDD in painting from Goldsmith's College, before going on to the Royal Academy Schools. She spent over 20 years in mainland Europe developing her practice, exhibiting internationally and lecturing extensively on her work before returning to the UK in 1997. Her work encompasses performance, photography, film and painting. She is a recipient of several professional awards including a scholarship from Kuenstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an Arts Council Year of the Artist award for a work at Samphire Hoe, Kent in 2001. In 2006 the Pharos Trust brought out a major publication on her practice 'Joanna Jones' now available from www.cornerhouse.org/books.
Jones is currently developing projects with sound where the viewer/listener can create their own aesthetic experience from the interaction of painting and sound.
Jones is co-founder of Dover Arts Development and involved with developing a cultural life in the area where she now lives. Together with the London Biennale group she initiated a one-day Museum of Arrows and Archery to coincide with the Archery championships in 2007 in Dover and is planning another similar event in May this year.
Sylvain Lainé
Lives and works in Villeneuve d'Ascq
Sylvain Lainé studied at the Ecole Régionale Supérieure d'Expression Plastique in Tourcoing where he obtained his postgraduate qualification in Fine Art 1999. Since 2003 he has worked with a number of art projects with young people and members of the wider community.
Recent solo shows include "faire reliquat d'amas lourds" at the Médiathèque Marguerite Yourcenar, (June 2005) and "stock options room" (November/December 2003) at the MJC maison des arts in Sin le Noble as part of "Watch this Space", curated by the "réseau 50° Nord".
He has worked on a public art project in Reims to restore the "parc de Champagne" and has also taken part in group exhibitions, notably "watch this space 2" at the Hospice in Havré and the "maison folie" in Tourcoing (July/August 2004).
Olivier Michel
Lives and works in Amiens
Olivier Michel studied at the University of Picardie, Amiens.
Solo shows include, Sans aucun autre motif apparent at the Espace Camille Claudel, Université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens (2007), Suite - Engramme at the Centre de production en estampe - Complexe Méduse, in Quebec (Canada) and Pour suite... - La Bande vidéo at the Complexe Méduse in Québec (Canada) (2006).
Group shows include 10 Saisons at the Galerie du Haut Pavé in Paris, Chemins Croisés 1 de terre et d'eau with the Association nect'arts at the Cathédrale d'Amiens in (2007). He took part in MAPxxl – mobility in art process as part of Art4lux, 3ème Forum européen de la jeune création at the Casino Luxembourg and the associated exhibition at the Abbaye de Neumünster (2007).
Other exhibitions planned for 2008 are a solo show, ça tourne pas toujours rond at the centre d'artistes en art actuel REGART è Lévis, Québec (Canada) and a group show L'art dans les chapelles (2008) in Brittany curated by Olivier Delavallade, as well as an installation of commissioned work for the Collège de Noailles.
Roy Smith
Lives and works in Hythe, Kent
Roy Smith is currently studying for an MPhil in Fine Art Practice at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, having completed his MA in 2005. His MPhil research focuses upon the interaction between artist and public. An exhibition of this research is planned in Canterbury in Sept/Oct 2008.
Recent exhibitions include 'The Dollhouse Club'. (Video Installation), Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone (2007), The East Coast Sculpture Show. 'A Bridgeable Stance'. (Exterior digital photographs) Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW, Australia (October 2006-January 2007);The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, 'Perspectives' MA Final Show; (Super 8, construction installation.) (September 2006), Max5 film festival. Video 'Hythe Ranges' The Cafe Gallery Projects; London. UK (August 2005).
Roy Smith is currently coordinating two projects with TATE Modern Education Department.