Over the past four months I’ve been working at Bluecoat Arts Centre with a group of volunteers on their Growing Creativity Project, which is helping people with learning difficulties and disabilities to reshape the Bluecoat Garden and create some unique artwork for the outdoors space. The Bluecoat Arts Centre is situated in the heart of …
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I have been very fortunate to work with Groundwork Cheshire on a commission at their Grozone project since October. The commission is an extended participatory project – working with volunteers and visitors to the Community Garden to create an arts trail using materials from the garden around the theme of Humans within our Landscape. At …
As part of the arts trail commission for Groundwork we have been working with willow grown in the community garden at Grozone in Northwich. Using nature’s own resources and working with the ethos of Groundwork, the garden and the volunteers we used willow cut freshly from the grounds and from the weeping willows along the …
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First exhibited at the Buy Art Fair 2011 in Manchester, here is a new piece of work, constructed out of laser-cut perspex: A series of hearts cascade down from one central heart shaped, perspex centre-piece with individul letters, spelling out the words “I am virtually invisible’, suspended from the hearts. The mobile, which catches the …
In 2001, using dictionary definitions, found language and well known quotations, I created and distributed a series of leaflets in Stratford upon Avon, my birthplace and where I lived. Each leaflet contains a distinct theme – consumption, prejudice, objectification and art itself. The idea of low-fi creation of work for the public realm and outside …
Finale Night: Thursday 8th December 5-7pm Place your bids by 6pm! I have been invited to produce some work for the MMU 5.8 x 4.1 Exhibition to help raise funds for the year 3 Embroidery students. This exhibition has a twist… with artists being asked to anonymously produce a piece of work the size of a …
I am frequently asked about why I use words in my artworks. I love language – its construction, its foibles and the complex layers of meaning that can lie within a single phrase or sentence. In 2000 I did an art foundation course and it was then that I started making work with text – …
A few months ago I was contacted to complete an artwork commission to celebrate the wedding anniversary of a couple. The piece focused on the time and place that the couple met and gave me the opportunity to create a unique marker of not only their wedding anniversary but also their way of meeting. The …
EVOKE//INVOKE//PROVOKE For the duration of the Chorlton Arts Festival a selection of my work incorporating text will be on exhibition at the Nip and Tipple in Chorlton, Manchester. The works span from 1999 to present, offering a precursor for other work being developed for the Buy Art Fair in October at Spinningfields in Manchester City …
For the Chorlton Arts Festival I will be undertaking a discussion with fellow artist Jackie Wylie and Illustrator Caroline Coates on the subject of Women, Art and Text. We will present a brief history of the use of text in art and go on to discuss the use of text in our own works and …
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