23rd July 2014 6:00pm-8:00pm Notes PRESENTERS: Kate MacFarlane, Co-Director and Curator of the Drawing Room, London, a not-for-profit gallery dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing. Prof. Anita Taylor, Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Yves Lecointre, Director of FRAC Picardie – a […]
Drawings
Open Forum event with Matt Roberts, BlueMonkey Network and Transition Gallery
The Open Forum event was with
Enchantment and Embodiment
I’ve been thinking about why I have this fascination with human forms found in trees. My latest film captures the movement of Ash as light changes branches from a sunlight web to dark, haunting fingers. But the form remains, it’s the effect of wind, movement, light that change it, animate it, bring it to life. […]
Treenude studies in oils
Have you ever noticed just how figurative trees can be? Have you ever seen the faces, torsos in your photographs, limbs that you didn’t discover until you looked at them back home? Some are astonishingly realistic so no wonder (see Forest) that many myths, legends and fairy tales take you to the deepest, darkest forest. […]
‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the Princes’ Sussex Folklore and Fairy Tale Symposium – University of Chichester 25.11.13
There is currently an exhibition at the Otter Gallery at the Uni – ‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the ‘Princess’. It’s full of books and illustrations, images that children gazed at whilst someone read to them, stories full of witches, castles, forests, princesses and heroes. What was missing was art inspired by these tales, the kind of […]