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Gordon Beswick was educated at Newcastle Under Lyme and Brighton College of Art. Gordon Beswick’s films have been shown at Tate Britain, The South London Gallery and The Institute of Contemporary Art. Harry Pye has curated many exhibitions including ‘100 Mothers’, ‘Viva Pablo’ and ‘For Peel’. Collaborative paintings by Gordon and Harry have appeared in celebrated shows at Sartorial Contemporary Art in King’s Cross and Galeria Thomas Cohn in Sao Paulo.
In November 2012 Beswick & Pye were featured in The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Gallery.

Over the past two weeks, egg hunters have been cracking eggs-elent puns on Twitter, as part of our #BigEggPun competition. Picking the best pun from the 170 entries we received was EGG-stremely hard… but our judges had never had that much fun!

The egg features Cartoon Network’s alien morphing boy superhero Ben 10 and it’s as much about the inside as the outside! Peer through the Omnitrix magnified port holes and catch sight of brand new aliens from Ben 10 Omniverse in dramatic green lighting. The egg design features Ben 10’s trademark green, plus you can download the free app and scan the Ben 10 logo on the egg plinth to watch a Ben 10 video and have your photo taken with Ben!

Maria Zahle is a Danish artist based in London. She received her BA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, and a PhD in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools. Her work was shown most recently in ‘Zippy Zippy’ at Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, Hamburg; ‘And Annika’ at ARCADE, London; and the Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London, all 2012.
Forthcoming projects include a new work made for ARCO Madrid Solo Projects, Spain; a text included in the publication Flash500 edited by Akerman Daly; and a group show in Illum’s Bolighus, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Torgny Wilcke.

Anna Barlow is fascinated by the culture of celebrational food and of how food tells a story of the people it’s for and place it’s in. A full stand of melting ice creams could suggest a hot day or treats abandoned for some mysterious reason.
Anna’s work is the result of long research into techniques, texture and glaze. Her methods are a combination of hand-building, slip-casting and press moulding and she uses both porcelain and earthenware. The techniques create a ‘visual edibility’ to the work; it is up to the imagination of the viewers to decide how it will taste…

David Cochrane has a multi-faceted based practice which includes the use of video, sculpture, drawing and embroidery.
His work looks at our collective notions of time, memory, language and the ambiguities that arise within these subjects.
He has exhibited widely in Britain and internationally, including shows in Sweden, Amsterdam and Berlin, as well being selected for New Contemporaries 2009 and the 2010 Venezuelan biennale.

​Network Rail owns and operates Britain’s rail infrastructure and is working to transform rail travel across the British Isles – they are also The Big Egg Hunt’s location sponsors. Network Rail asked their creative agencies to submit ideas for their egg and then put all the entries to a staff vote. The winning idea, All Aboard, was hatched by Clinic and represents how Network Rail’s work is at the heart of journeys to see family and friends, as well as the eggs’ journey as they visit each of the cities hosting The Big Egg Hunt.

Featuring lovable characters from Cartoon Network’s wacky hit show Adventure Time, this egg shows Jake (a wise old dog with a big kind heart) giving his best friend Finn (a silly kid who wants to become a hero) a big hug. These two dudes are all they have in the ways of family, and they depend and lean on each other through thick and thin! More importantly, they crack each other up by acting like idiots and telling ridiculous jokes as they traverse their way across the magical land of Ooo.

Our vision.Our vision is a world where all children and young people have a sense of belonging and are loved and valued..A world where they can break through injustice, deprivation and inequality to fulfil their potential, shape their own destiny a…

Thomas Whittle’s art is visually and conceptually mongrel in nature. Formally his paintings and drawings are reminiscent of the aftermath of a punch up between Martin Kippenberger, Sean Landers, Joe Coleman, George Condo and Magritte’s vache paintings. His work functions as an analogous embodiment of our digital culture. For instance, a motion graphics sequence may combine content and techniques from different media such as live action video, 2D animation, painting and drawing. In his use of found imagery Thomas morphs his ‘original’ source material compositing it together in an analogue mashup, which gives birth to hybrid, mongrel-creatures of his own.