Approved: 20.10.2006

June Kingsbury

Artist, Maker, Teacher

Approved: 20.10.2006

I am nearly three years old. My father is carrying me on his shoulders down to the river to feed the swans.  I walk part of the way and fill my pockets with banded snails, Cepaea Hortensis.  Feathers.  Small treasures.

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Artist Statement

I am nearly three years old. My father is carrying me on his shoulders down to the river to feed the swans.  I walk part of the way and fill my pockets with banded snails, Cepaea Hortensis.  Feathers.  Small treasures.

My father was for a time a shepherd. We learn the names of the trees, of the flowers and birds. My mother collected the broken glass from church windows, my grandfather a glassblower in the Netherlands.

I am half Dutch. Stories of war and of loss. I am half English, trout swimming, birds singing, summer green and endless, leaves falling in autumn.

In my pocket, a leaf, the brilliant iridescent blue banded feather of a jay.

In my hands a memory. On the table an accumulation of small treasures. Poetry stones of clay, creatures of the forest, antlers, a wren. Windows of brilliant cast glass - colour, diamonds of light. By my side my granddaughter and now also a grandson not yet unfurled, small stones, a leaf, a feather.

 

CV & Education

Qualifications and training 2006 - MA Ceramics with Glass , Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe Solo exhibitions 2005 - Wardrobe Stories, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead Group exhibitions 2010 - British Glass Biennale, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge, DY8 4HF 2010 - Essence, The Glass Art Gallery, London 2008 - Beautifully Crafted, National Glass Centre, Sunderland 2008 - British Glass Biennale, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge 2008 - British Glass Biennale 2008, The Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote, Stourbridge, DY8 4HF 2007 - Art for Youth, The Mall Galleries, London 2007 - Glass Sellers Prize 2007, London Glassblowing Workshop and Glass Art Gallery, London 2007 - MA all, Stroud house Gallery, Stroud 2007 - Perspectives: Special Trees of the Chilterns, Natural History Museum, Tring 2007 - Perspectives: Special Trees of the Chilterns, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead 2006 - British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Amblecote 2006 - Surfacing, The River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on Thames 2006 - The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2006, The Royal Academy, London Competitions, prizes and awards 2009 - Finalist: International Garden Photographer of the Year, Kew Gardens, London 2008 - Finalist: International Garden Photographer of the Year, Kew Gardens, London 2008 - Winner: The Royal Landscape Photography Competition 2008, Savill Gardens, Windsor 2006 - The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Student Prize, Worshipful Company of Glass sellers, London Publications 2011 - New Glass Review 32 2008 - New Glass Review 29