The Align artists are Lou Baker, Victoria Collins, Veronia Gayle, Ellie Gray, Liz Harding, Sandra James, Sally O’Neill, Nicola Pearce, Soraya Schofield, Lily Urbanska, and Maura Zukina.

Most of the Align artists during the take down of the Scratch exhibition at Centrespace, June 2013.
Soraya's taking the photo!
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Align at Bristol Guild Gallery, Bristol, January 25th – February 15th 2014
Exhibition statement
‘Align explores the boundaries of mark making using a multi disciplinary approach. As a group of Bristol based Drawing and Applied Arts students we showcase a diverse range of work that spans both 2D and 3D visual imagery and is unified by our playful sense of curiosity. Through this exhibition we hope to challenge perceptions of what it means to draw.’
Align at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, June 7th – 11th, 2013
Press release
‘Drawing with concrete? Making soup? Knitting a shroud? Filming from a train window? These are some of the processes that members of Align have been investigating over the last year as we have been exploring identity and retrospect as part of the Drawing and Applied Arts course at UWE.
We are a group of 12 second year students, all women, all obsessed with drawing and making, and our exhibition at Centrespace from the 7th to the 11th of June is our first public exhibition as a group. We have called the show Scratch, as through our work we hope to challenge the perceptions of what it is to draw.
Some aspects of our drawings are intensely physical - scratching, gouging, cutting, forming, stitching; others are more contemplative – smoothing clay, filming, printing, knitting; some involve elements of alchemy, magical moments of change in control that affect the final outcome, firing and felting; but all our work is driven by curiosity and playfulness. What will happen if…..?
For Scratch we have selected an intriguing and diverse collection of works. Some are two dimensional, some sculptural, some involve text and film; but all are thought provoking. Led by concentrated interactions with materials yet concept driven, we investigate the boundaries of mark making, each artist adding her own personality and sense of play to her work. This is what has brought us together as Align.’