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Brian Catling RA (23 October 1948 – 26 September 2022) was a British sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker and performance artist. He held the post of Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford and was a fellow of Linacre College. He exhibited his work internationally since the 1970s. Some of his most notable works and performances included: Quill Two at Matt's Gallery, Dilston Grove in 2011, Antix at Matt's Gallery in 2006, a commissioned memorial to the Site of Execution, Tower of London in 2006, Vanished! A Video Seance made with screenwriter Tony Grisoni in 1999 and Cyclops at South London Gallery 1996.
In 2001 he co-founded the international performance collective Wolf In The Winter. As a writer he published poetic works, including one compendium, A Court of Miracles, in 2009. His first prose book Bobby Awl was published in 2007. He completed The Vorrh trilogy of novels in 2018.
Denys Blacker born in London (1961), now lives and works in Spain. She has been making live art work for over 30 years in Spain and abroad. Her work whether it be performance, sculpture or drawing reflects an internal journey; a searching for symmetry and precision, an interaction between intention and improvisation. She is a member of the Wolf in the Winter, she is the artistic director of Gresol and also the founder of FEM, an annual festival reflecting the work of female performance artists.
Aaron Williamson - Born in Derby, England, (1960), Williamson’s work is informed by his experience of becoming deaf and by a politicised, yet humorous sensibility towards disability. At a University of California San Diego lecture in 1998, Williamson coined the term ‘Deaf Gain’ as a counter-emphasis to ‘hearing loss’. Over the last twenty five years Aaron Williamson has created more than 300 exhibitions, performances, interventions, videos, installations and publications for galleries, museums and festivals including: the Venice Biennale; Nippon Performance Art Festival – Japan; DaDao Festival – China; ‘Intercambio’ – Argentina; Columbia Uni., Chicago, USA; Taipei Performance – Taiwan; ‘Eruptio Action Art’ Transylvania; ANTI Art Festival – Finland; the British School at Rome; and many other European venues. In the UK: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Hayward Gallery, South London Gallery, The Showroom, Gasworks, ICA (all London); Spike Island & Arnolfini Bristol; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Bluecoat & Liverpool Biennial; Chapter Arts, Cardiff; and many others.
Kirsten Norrie / MacGillivray is the matrilineal pen and performance name of the artist and musician. The author of four collections of poetry published by Bloodaxe in the UK and Red Hen in the US, she has made nine records, working with producer and musician James Young (Nico, John Cale) and her music features in the soundtracks of three films by avant-garde British director Andrew Kötting. She became a member of Wolf In The Winter in 2001.
Anet van den Elzen (1963) is a visual artist creating physical images using sculpture, drawing, performance, photography and film. Through British performers she connected to performance art as a living part of her professional practice. Performance became a common thread in her work. Since 1992 she has had an international dynamic professional practice where, in addition to making visual work, she also organizes performance events and festivals. Besides founding Wolf In The Winter in collaboration with Brian Catling, she also founded the Performance Foundation in 2000 it produced tobepresent.nl in order to organise stages for performance art. In 2003 together with Denys Blacker she co-founded Gresol, the art association based in Girona (Es) now run by Denys Blacker. From 2009 to 2011 Anet van den Elzen was the first curator and organisor of a renewed PuntWG in Amsterdam (NL).
In 2002 Ralf Wendt, Germain artist from Halle, former East germany, became a member of Wolf In The Winter, after joining Die Wülfe in Der Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
Ralf Wendt works within the time-based and literary arts on the deconstruction of human and animal language and questions orders of things. Since the mid-90s, he has addressed a poetics of suprasegmentalia in performances, films and radio art and works as a curator of art, music or radio art festivals, where he brings together different artistic expressions interested in utopian/dystopian social disruptions.
