Artist statement
Paintings really need to be seen 'in the flesh: it is difficult to get a sense of scale, of surface texture and precise colour relations that only an immanent encounter with a painting can give. The online gallery can give clues to what paintings look like, but screen based reproductions whilst they can effectively simulate depth and surface, are more succesful in rendering flat images such as prints.
I have always worked in both painting and printmaking and these recent 'paintings' re iterate the differences. Unlike prints, they are heavily textured and have been designed to be seen in different ambient light conditions.
Current and forthcoming events
- October - November 2013: Stuff and Nonsense, Tokarska Gallery, London (more info)
Qualifications and training
- 2008 PhD. Family Relations and the Relations of Art, Plymouth University, Devon, UK
- 1980 Masters, Sussex University, Brighton
- 1966 painting, Goldsmiths College of Art, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2003 Imprinting Works [PhD show], Dartington Gallery, Plymouth University, Devon
- 1988 Daddy's Girl, Sisterwrite Gallery, Upper Street, London
- 1987 Prints concerning motherhood, Exeter and Devon Arts Centre, Exeter
- 1980 Frameworks. [paintings], Women's Arts Alliance,, London
Group exhibitions
- 2010 Inspired byMorris, William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London
- 1998 Power of the Poster, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- 1994 Four prints on 'The Maternal', Exposition de Grabado Contemporaneo (Four British women printmakers), Madrid, (British Council sponsored)
- 1994 Wall Installation 'Does Your Mother Come from Ireland', Orchard Gallery, Spacex gallery, Derry, Eire, Exeter, UK
- 1989 NEWS Arts Council Sponsored exhibition of Women's Art,, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Newton Abbott; and Truro Art Gallery., Devon [touring] uk
- 1987 Prints With a Point. touring exhibition., Hard Times Gallery, Bristol, uk
Artist talks
- 2008 Feminist Aesthetics and Printmaking, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, [British Council], Spain
- 2007 Influence of Feminism on Art Education., Lanchester Gallery Projects (LGP) Coventry School of Art and Design,, uk
- 2005 paper:'Leap' for conference: E_motion in Motion., University of Berne, Switzerland
- 2001 talk and installation exhibition on the social construction of identity, Performing the World Conference, Montauk, New York, US
- 2001 The Creative Construction of Identity’, Performing The World Conference, Montauk, New York, US
- 2001 Vision ans Subjectivity, Parson's School of Art, New York, US
- 1998 The Construction of Identity in Art Education, XV Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, University of Rome, La Sapienza,, Italy
- 1997 Art Education and Consumer Identities, Association of Art Historian's Annual Conference, The Courtauld Institute,, London, uk
Educational experience - secondary
- 1970 to 1987 Art Teacher, Brighton Free School, Roedean School, Walworth Comprehensive School;, Brighton & London
Educational experience - tertiary
- 2003 to 2007. Senior Lecturer: .5 Psychology and Identity. [theory and studio practice] to MA Fine Art. Course Director, MA Art & Education., BCU Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, uk
- 1990 to 1994. PT .2 lecturer, printmaking, Plymouth College of Art and Design, Devon, uk
- 1987 to 1992.Senior Lecturer, .5, BA (Hons) Art and Social Context, printmaking/cultural studies, Dartington College of Arts, Devon, uk
- 1976 to /08. Pt Lecturer, FE, letterpress printing, University of California Santa Barbara, US
Publications
- 2006 ‘Feminist Methodologies in Art Education: Critique’ in the International Journal, n.paradoxa, vol 17 & Documenta 12 in Kassel 2007
- 2005 Textures of Memory, catalogue essay, Techniques of Memory, Barbara Howey's solo show, Norwich Art Gallery, UK
- 2004 Losing It: Catalogue essay, video exhibition: Losing It, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Eire
- 2004 Like” in Art Becomes You!, conference paper and journal publication. ed. Henry Rogers, Article Press, Birmingham
- 2001 Book: The Gendering of Art Education: Modernism Identity and Critical Feminism, Open University Press
- 1992 Modernism, Art Education and Sexual Difference’, in New Feminist Art Criticism. (ed.) Deepwell, K. Manchester University Press.
- 1982 Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon. Phillipe Phaidon
Other
- 2011 ONLINE ART REVIEWS, Tokarska Gallery, Walthamstow, London
- 2010 CITATIONS: British Posters: Advertising, Art & Activism. Catherine Flood. V&A books, V&A book, Victoria and Albert Museum Publication, uk
- 2004 Discussion of Pen Dalton’s art work ‘The Dress’ in Doy, G Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture. IB Taurus: London/New York., book, uk
- 1992 Power of the Poster, Timmers, M. (ed.) V&A publications., book, uk
Web links - gallery/work/projects
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