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 …
Working with Willow at Grozone with Groundwork Cheshire Read More »
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 …
Wordy Women – a discussion about Women, Art and Text Read More »
Acrylic medium, hair & glue on box canvas 61cm x 30.5cm This new work uses real hair, sewn into the canvas in patterns that create the words ‘ I can’t get you out of my head’. The hair is both appealing in the shapes that it creates, swirling and twirling like an ornate typeface, but …
As promised here is a sneak preview of my new artwork: “I Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” Hair, medium and glue on Canvas 2010 The work was created by threading real hair into the canvas forming the series of words that you see in the images. The work uses direct language …