I am delighted to announce the opening of the MA Fine Art Exhibition Bedazzled 10 to 18 September 2019. Private View 11 September 2019 6-8 pm. Artone the University of Chichester. Do come along and see mine and other artists latest work.
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MA Interim Show
FinalElement is the MA Fine Art interim show. I am delighted to be showing some of my recent work at this exhibition in the Otter Gallery, University of Chichester. The Private view is on Thursday 15 November 2018 6 to 8pm. The exhibition then runs from 16 November to 18 December. Mon-Fri 9am – 7pm, Sat-Sun 11am – 3pm. The Otter Gallery can be found at The Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane, Chichester PO19 6PE.
Work in Progress Summer Studios
So during the summer we get access to the studio spaces, which means we can experiment with our work and try out new things.
I have been recently using my MRI images to inspire my work. These have mostly been fairly small pieces.
I have been exploring going bigger, making a piece that is life-size.
Studio space for the Summer
So this week we were able to move into our studio spaces for the summer. I am looking forward to creating lots of new work.
May Exhibitions
May Exhibitions
May always brings a glut of art to look at and enjoy particularly in Brighton where we have the Brighton Festival. This year the guest director David Shrigley has put on an interactive installation Life Model II at Fabrica Gallery. The installation features a larger than life mannequin in the middle of a typical life drawing set up. Visitors are encouraged to take part and draw the model, these efforts are show on the walls.
David Shrigley Life Drawing II
A big part of Brighton Festival is the Artists Open Houses. Artists open their or their friends homes to the public for the purpose of selling their wares. This gives people chance to bag a locally made bargain while having a good nose around other peoples houses in different parts of town. The reality is that a lot of houses are operating as a craft fair selling jewellery, home-wares, prints of assorted Brighton landmarks such as the Royal Pavilion and the pier, seagull models and other assorted products of varying quality accompanied by tea and cake in the garden. This is I think the result of the high cost of being part of the artist houses trail. But occasionally you find a house showing good quality paintings or sculpture. This is the case with the Collectors Selection, part of the Hove trail, which is showing a good selection of Sculpture. Including work by Eve Shepherd and Fiona Morley.
Eve Shepherd
Fiona Morley
Phoenix artist studios open weekend was a great opportunity to see a wide variety of professional artist’s studios and the work they create. It was also great to catch up with Lucy Brown, Michelle Cobin and Eve Shepherd and see their latest work and be encouraged with my work.
Lucy Brown ‘In 1962 the birth control pill was available… but only to married women’
Michelle Cobbin Composure
Last but not least is the degree show at the University of Chichester. Students present an exhibition which is the culmination of three years study.
Mai-ly Medjantseva
Annabel Graham-Black
Charlotte McCarthy
Gabriel Olalekan
Digital Images of Spine Lesion
These images were taken from a MRI scan of my spine which show a lesion on the lumber spine. The image hue has been manipulated in Photoshop
March Exhibitions
March’s exhibitions were in places not normally open to the public. Candida Stevens galley presented part of Stephen Farthing’s collection of paintings Museums of the World in the private gallery of Simon Draper, former chairman of Virgin Music Group. The paintings were interspersed with Simon’s impressive collection of contemporary art.
Bridget Riley Set Fair 2 1990
Nina Saunders Milk and Honey 2004
Patrick Caufield Terrace 2002
Richard Long Monkton Cross 2004
Stephen Farthing The Museum of Post Cubist Painting, 2017
A friend invited me to see her friend Ann O’Daly’s exhibition A Forward Step Back with Ann Cook. The art was interesting because it was inspired by bodily experience. I also enjoyed the colour and application of paint.
Ann O’Daly
Ann O’Daly
Ann O’Daly
Ann Cook
Ann Cook
February Exhibitions
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White at the National Gallery, London examined art works in Monochrome, which as someone obsessed with colour it was quite informative.
Olafur Eliasson created a light installation using yellow light which rendered everything in the room monochrome.
Hard Painting at the Phoenix Gallery provided the Colour and Abstract art that inspires my own practice.
Another fascinating exhibition where art and science meet is Deconstructing Patterns at the Francis Crick Institute, London.
Karen Lintott 