We are pleased to announce our studio holder Phoebe Hardwick has had her painting accepted to the Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum Open Competition, the exhibition is on from now until 8th January 2023.
“Last seen in 2019, the Open has been a regular and popular feature of Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum’s (LSAG&M) programme since the 1930s. Open 2022 is sure to be an eclectic mix of artistic forms, with previous Opens featuring, amongst others, sculpture, photography, installation pieces, computer generated imagery and textiles.” Phoebe primarily works with oil paints.
Denise Startin, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Screenprint, 76cm x 56cm
Our studio holder Denise Startin was shortlisted for the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize 2022. Each year the specialist Art Law & More team choose their 10 favourite artworks from Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, as a shortlist for the prestigious prize.
The pieces are then exhibited at the Boodle Hatfield offices for a wonderful evening next year celebrating the very best of printmaking, where the winner is announced.
The winner of the prestigious prize receives a 2023 solo showcase at the following year’s event, and their artwork is purchased for the Boodle Hatfield collection in Central London.
Our studio holder Jodie Wingham has had a terrific year at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Jodie’s works were selected by three of the curators including Gita Joshi, an independent curator and award-winning art dealer and the host of The Curator’s Salon – a podcast and website focussing on the art world with advice for early and mid-career artists, as well as celebrated British Artist Gavin Turk and Jack Bullen, co founder of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Jodie’s print featured above also won the Curator’s Salon Award 2022.
Jodie Wingham, Unbuttoned 2017, Screenprint on aluminium, 61cm x 89cm
Our studio holder Jodie Wingham recently exhibited at StART Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London and was one of 50 artists shortlisted for the Martin Miller’s Gin Prize. “Jodie presented Unbuttoned, 2017, a screen print on aluminium with stainless steel frame depicting the torso of a man in a suit with a shirt button undone. Wingham toys with the temptation of the viewer to look at the small section of exposed skin, subtly commenting on the voyeuristic tendencies and the need to be discreet in staring at those around us in public settings.”
We are pleased to announce our studio holder Luna Lu Wenjuan has had her painting accepted to the Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum Open Competition, the exhibition is on from now until 8th January 2023.
“Last seen in 2019, the Open has been a regular and popular feature of Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum’s (LSAG&M) programme since the 1930s. Open 2022 is sure to be an eclectic mix of artistic forms, with previous Opens featuring, amongst others, sculpture, photography, installation pieces, computer generated imagery and textiles.”
We are pleased to announce our studio holder Luna Lu Wenjuan’s painting Time Capsule has been selected for the ING Discerning Eye 2022.
“The ING Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small, domestic scale, works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. It provides a rare opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside contributions from internationally recognised names.” The show takes place at Mall Galleries, London 12th-21st November 2022.
Glenys Cour | Catrin Jones | Angela Maddock | Mark Eley | Rhian Hâf | Clare Pentlow
“I’r stiwdio | Into the studio, Mission Gallery, Swansea is an exhibition that celebrates the art of making. It brings together the studio practices of six brilliant alumni of Swansea College of Art, UWTSD. Glenys Cour, Catrin Jones, Angela Maddock, Mark Eley, Rhian Hâf and our studio holderClare Pentlow, alumni artists from across years and creative disciplines. We’re delighted to be presenting both new and archival works by the artists.
Hooked into the show, will also be sample pieces by current students of the Design Crafts and Surface Pattern and Textiles undergraduate courses at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD. Fundamental to making are learned processes; from cutting to stitching, drawing to etching, folding to fitting. The sample works will illustrate many different processes and explore traditional and contemporary techniques.
Perhaps first introduced at college, you’ll see how such techniques inform the original character of the works by the alumni artists. Add pattern, form, texture and colour to this and I’r stiwdio | Into the studio promises to be a joyous appreciation of applied practice.”
JodieWingham, Nestle 2022, Mokulito print print on paper, 84cm x 42 cm
We are pleased to announce our studio holder Jodie Wingham’s print Nestle 2022, has been selected for the RBSA Prize Exhibition Thurs 15th Sept- Sat 15th Oct 2022. RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
Jodie Wingham is an artist, predominantly based within the field of printmaking, whose work investigates the nature of looking. Using imagery with voyeuristic tendencies, where private moments are captured, she offers the audience the opportunity to fill in the gaps, interpret a narrative within the image in order to explore the act of looking and the roles of viewer and ‘voyeur’ in her work.
Since graduating her work has been selected for shows across the United Kingdom, recently she was selected for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2021, one of 12 artists selected for The Flourish Award, a touring exhibition celebrating excellence in printmaking and provided Arts Council Funding for her DYCP project looking at photopolymer printmaking.
The Index of Love, Screenprint (1/15), 69cm x 94cm
We are pleased to announce our studio holder Denise Startin’s print The Index of Love, 69cm x 94cm (1/15) has been selected for the RBSA Prize Exhibition Thurs 15th Sept- Sat 15th Oct 2022. RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
Denise Startin repurposes found images and objects into new performative relations, processes include re-staging, re-presentation and restoration. This work is linked thematically to a body of work called The Labour of Love Series, which is based on failed relationships, failed communication, and unrequited love.
Denise works across printmaking, photography and installation. Central themes to her practice include history, memory, narrative and myth, a continually recurring relation is the passage of ephemera between public and private realms. Denise reimagines and restores these decontextualised objects into new narratives and new performative relations, inventing new histories.
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