Rogue Gene Collective

Rogue Gene Collective is a small group of artists who are committed to helping each other attain a higher level of visibility for their work. We do this by pooling resources, information, knowledge and contacts. There are currently nine full time members, and a few guest artists.

As well as being artists, all members act as agents, couriers and publicists for the other members. The members have been chosen to be different in locale, gender, education, artistic genre and preferred technique. This means we offer a wide variety of quality original artwork to the collector, occasional buyer or corporate buyer. Promotional pamphlets are available from the downloads page.

We also arrange exhibitions of our work around the country, and there are usually some of our members present at each Addingham exhibition. See the Events pages for more details.

View the most recent artworks.

All members are happy to consider requests for commissions.

Members

The current members are:
  • Andrea Farmer expressive abstract, floral still life, landscape, sunset and seascape paintings in oils and/or mixed media. Chelmsford, Essex.
  • Rob Kirbyson Fine artist in acrylics and oils with a keen interest in the environment. Pershore, England.
  • Tony Broadbent Contemporary abstract artist from Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
  • Amanda Hunt Acrylic Landscape, Seascape and Abstract Artist, Cookham, Berkshire, UK.
  • Kosana Marton Scottish artist specialising in acrylic, mixed media and watercolour.
  • John Boyle Contemporary portrait and figurative artist in Oils and Acrylic. Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  • Mike Finley Fine Art photographer, primarily monochrome floral and landscape photography.
  • John A Birch Exciting images in pastel, a contemporary approach to art. North Yorkshire, England.
  • Aitch Acrylic abstracts with a particular love of precise shapes and patterns combined with instinctive painting.

Guests

We like to feature a few guest artists on our site for short periods of time. These are artists who have caught our attention for some reason, and add to the diversity of work shown on this site. The selection of guests is likely to change from month to month.

  • Liz Alderdice, artist and photographer, creativity lecturer and occasional housewife!
  • John Luce Lockett, painter and artistic anatomist, working predominantly in oils.
  • Cliff Warner, contemporary figurative artwork.

Latest News

Andrea Farmer at Hylands House, Chelmsford, Essex

Andrea - May 2nd, 2008
Andrea is currently exhibiting with Activate at Hylands House. The group exhibition of artworks is held in the Blue Room, Hylands House, London Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 8WQ. The exhibition runs until Sunday 1st June 2008.

Rob Kirbyson at Evesham Arts Centre - 'Animal Magnetism'

Rob - April 30th, 2008
Rob has an exhibition entitled 'Animal Magnetism' installed at Evesham Arts Centre - Next to Prince Henry's School. The exhibition will run until the end of July and works on display will be changed over periodically. Rob officially takes over as Exhibition Coordinator for Evesham Arts Centre after refurbishment in August 2008.

Copyright, artists, and orphan works

mike - April 26th, 2008

There has been a lot of discussion recently on various forums about a US 'orphan works' bill, and the impact it will have on photographers and artists whose work is visible on the internet. One site that's trying to bring the links together and summarise is Copyright Action

In essence this bill will allow anyone who cannot determine the owner of the copyright of an image found on the internet (or elsewhere) to use it without penalty, and also sets up commercial registries that artists in the US are expected to register their copyright works with (at a price). If this passes in the US, similar legislation is likely to follow in other countries, despite the fact that it flies in the face of the Berne convention on international copyright that most countries are signatories to.

One thing artists should consider doing is adding copyright metadata to the jpeg images they upload onto the internet, and to check how to upload in such a way that the hosting site does not remove the metadata.

Rogue Gene at Dedham Arts Centre, Essex

Andrea - April 22nd, 2008
Rogue Gene Collective are currently exhibiting at the Dedham Arts Centre, High Street, Dedham, Essex CO7 6AD. Dedham is situated on the Essex/Suffolk border, 1 mile off the A12 between Colchester and Ipswich on the banks of the River Stour. Open 10.00am – 5.00pm every day. Free entrance. The exhibition runs until Saturday 31st May 2008.

Rogue Gene at Kidderminster - 'Multiculture'

Rob - March 18th, 2008
Rogue Gene have an exhibition at Kidderminster Library Gallery until March 29th 2008. We chose the venue as it is one of the most attractive gallery settings in the Library Service, completely on its own floor. 23 works are on display from all the members on this site. The exhibition is called 'Multiculture' with examples of Fine Art photograpy, Abstract and Geometric painting, contemporary oils and acrylics and abstracts taken from natural codes.

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