Bev Broadhead is a visual artist and an active member of her community.
Bev Broadhead is a visual artist and an active member of her community.
Artist member of The Green Fuse Collective @thegreenfuse.
Participant in Cromer ArtSpace
Coordinator of Norfolk branch Artists' Union England (AUE) www.artistsunionengland.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/AUEnorfolk/
Secretary of the Campaign for Mental Health Services in North Norfolk
Living in a rural, coastal town, much of Bev’s work is influenced by psychogeography and situationist theory. ‘The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.’(Iain Sinclair).
Bev Broadhead draws on the texts of Soja, Thirdspace and Kees van Deemter, Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness to explore the blurred edges of visual language and the representation of truth. Her interest in spatiality attempts to make sense of ‘our place’ in the world and points towards environmental possibilities.
Bev creates a visual language that swerves between abstraction and representation. Forms are often semi-recognisable, animated, and enigmatic. Bev paints to animate the inanimate. The world that emerges is often playful, comedic, and one where errors occur. Recent work focuses primarily on grids and repeating patterns that go astray.
Bev is curious to form a relationship with the surrounding environment, be it physical, psychological, or political. She hopes to highlight interdependence, frailties, and imperfections.
Education
2011 Norwich University College of the Arts, MA Fine Art
2007 Norwich University College of the Arts, BA Hons Fine Art Painting, First Class
2001 University of East Anglia, Norfolk – Advanced Certificate in Education and Development – Teaching Art in the Primary Classroom
1992 University of East Anglia, Postgraduate Certificate in education
1985 Reading University, BA Hons History of Art and Italian
Group Exhibitions
2020 - present, Power Up! The Green Fuse Collective
2019, Interfaces, Nunnsyard, Norwich
2017, Letting Go, Nunnsyard, Norwich
2016, Why one stroke when a hundred will do? Nunnsyard, Norwich.
2015 Fabric Warehouse, Coast in the City.
2013 Residency Blickling Hall, Norfolk
2013 The Cut, Halesworth
2012 Here is where we meet, residency and exhibition Queen of Hungary Project Space, Aylsham, UK
2012 Threadneedle Prize for Painting Selection Exhibition, London
2012 Islington art Factory, Stray, London
2011 CASAF, Does paradise exist? Tourist Information Centre, Cromer, Norfolk
2011 NUCA, MA Final Show, A Game of Three Halves
2011 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, The Late Shift, Displacement.
2010 Stew, Future Perfect Group Show
2010 Unit 5 Open Studios
2009 Norwich Arts Centre, Artists’ Platform, Wasps in the Apple
2008 Outpost Members Show Kunstwerk Bazarre
2008 Unit 5 Group Show Fives – recent paint-drawings
2008 Unit 5 Other/Other/Other, Kiss Me Quick video MSN performance
2007 Outpost, Norwich, performance with George Sadotti Another Ring
2006 Gresham’s School, Holt, In the Open
2006 Norwich University College of the Arts, 2 Headed Monster
2006 Portsmouth Festival of Film and New Media,
SixtySecondFilm, Gretel Goes walking…
Solo Projects
2017 - 2018 Residency Radar Museum, Neatisthead
2018 Paint Cello, Belfry Arts Centre, Overstrand
2014 Space Invaders, Nunn's Yard, Norwich
2011 NUCA, Pass, Performance
2010 Cromer and Sheringham Arts Festival, Cromer Station Postcard @ Industrihousse
2008 Outpost, Norwich, performance Meeting/Play
2007 Norwich University College of the Arts,The Land That Time Forgot
2006 Special Project Fund Award, Berlin Trip : Lost
Publications
Broadhead, Bev, A Postcard From Cromer Train Station, a collaborative postcard project, Blurb Inc., 2010
