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.”

Text and image reproduced from https://startartfair.com/exhibitions/start-art-fair-london-2022/exhibitors/2022/jodie-wingham-mmg-26/ (accessed 17/10/22)

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.”

Text reproduced from https://leamingtonopen2022.artopps.co.uk/ (accessed 15/10/22)

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.

Text reproduced from https://www.discerningeye.org/exhibition (accessed 02/10/22)

I’r stiwdio | Into the studio

24 September – 05 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 holder Clare 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.”

Image and text reproduced from https://www.missiongallery.co.uk/exhibitions/ir-stiwdio-into-the-studio/ (accessed 26/09/21).

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.

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.

We are pleased to announce our studio holder Denise Startin has an upcoming solo show in July. Hints for British Tourists is a series of site-based performative actions presented via photographic documentation. The work is the re-staging and fictional expansion of a found pamphlet (also titled Hints for British Tourists) containing instructions for travel. The work is a meditation on tourism, travel, leisure, time and memory. On show at City Arcadia Gallery, City Arcade, Coventry. Private view Thursday 7th July 6.30-8.30pm. Open daily 11-4pm until 16th July (except Sundays).

Extract from Exhibition Text by Anneka French

A figure in a bowler hat, waistcoat and rolled-up trousers brushes sand from their feet. They read a book in front of a painted beach hut, climb on rocks, clutch a newspaper, wait, fall asleep and look out to sea. In one moment after another, we see tourism performed and time laid out in photographic frames like film stills.

Coventry-based artist Denise Startin presents a series of site-based performative actions, seen here via photographic documentation. The genesis of the exhibition Hints for British Tourists comprises two chance encounters: the discovery of a tourism pamphlet on eBay (also titled Hints for British Tourists) and a wall plaque on Hertford Street, Coventry, dedicated to the historic watchmaking trade that lists craftsmen Samuel Vale and George Howlette. The exhibition represents a re-staging and fictional expansion of these two very different starting points.

Vale & Howlette are adopted as dramatis personae in a wider body of work by the artist, becoming primary characters in a narrative that explores ideas of travel, leisure, time and memory performed by Startin herself and her partner. Startin’s work makes enquiries, both serious and humorous, that question what it means to be a tourist in post-Brexit England, in a world grappling with a pandemic and climate catastrophe, in a physical body that requires care and rest, and in a landlocked city more than one hundred miles from the nearest stretch of coastline…

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We are pleased to announce our studio holder Denise Startin has an upcoming solo show in July. Hints for British Tourists is a series of site-based performative actions presented via photographic documentation. The work is the re-staging and fictional expansion of a found pamphlet (also titled Hints for British Tourists) containing instructions for travel. The work is a meditation on tourism, travel, leisure, time and memory. On show at City Arcadia Gallery, City Arcade, Coventry. Private view Thursday 7th July 6.30-8.30pm. Open daily 11-4pm until 16th July (except Sundays).

Thursday 5th May 2022 – Sun 8th May 2022, UK City of Culture Citywide Opening. Creative venues across the city are opening their doors to start the final month of City of Culture. Come & visit the Artists at Holyhead Studios and find out more about their work. Practices include Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Paper Engineering, Woodworking and Installation. Sat 7th May, 12-4pm.