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| Sue Blandford The subject matter and it’s context that i am attracted to is frequently subconscious, but often exists in a Liminal space. A poetic juxtaposition, something displaced, or revealed through fleeting transformative light. The objects that attract me are imbued with their practical uses as well as their evocation. The magic in the mundane that gets passed by. I look for beauty but often find it shining in the dark or uneasy. Actual figures are rare in my paintings, a silhouette on a tent wall, the movement of water around a body. I prefer to use objects that infer a human presence or absence. The writer Jennifer Vuglar said of my work ‘There is nowhere settled and stable, the places of possible habitation are transitory, too fragile to be a home. Even the vegetation is of the edgelands. But the paintings remind us that these places are also places of survival, of fragile resistance, of belief. The glass houses wait out winter, nets for the seas to rise, ladders for angels to enter the world. Discarded objects shimmer with past touch; the chairs have been sat on, the door once opened. Here in the forgotten places light is entering the world.’ Art Education: 1991 BA (hons) in Sculpture – Norwich School of Art 1984 Diploma in General Art and Design – Yarmouth School of Art Exhibitions: 2021 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Gallery London 2021 Snape Maltings Gallery 2021 Chappel Galleries solo exhibition 2018 Solo show: Glasshouses & Daydreams, Viva, London 2017 Cavaliero Finn, London 2016 Beauty in the everyday, Cavaliero Finn, London Cavaliero Finn, Open Door, London 2015 ‘Time and tides’, The Hide Gallery, London Dulwich Arts Festival, London 2014 The Dairy Gallery, Londonart South London Women Artists, London Dulwich Arts Festival, London 2013 ‘Swimming against the tide’, The Hide Gallery, London ‘Up the tempo’, Londonart Solo exhibition, Romeo Jones, London 2012 Solo Show, ‘Winter’s Edge’, Norwich Lambeth Open, London 2011 Annie McCall Hospital, London Art at the Claremont, Hove Solo Exhibition, Bromley Arts Centre, London 2010 Bankside Gallery, London Dulwich Arts Festival, London 2009 Portrait Exhibition,The Centre, London Stockwell Studios Summer Exhibition, London 2008 Brighton Arts Festival 2005 Annie McCall Hospital, London 2003 Solo Exhibition, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich 2001 Selected Show, London Art Company 2000 Commissioned sculptures, Knebworth House Restoration Painted Card collection for Victoria & Albert Museum 1999, Stockwell Studios Summer Exhibition, London Gallery Wahrenberger, Zurich 1997 3 group exhibitions at Wrentham Gallery, Suffolk Summer Exhibition, Copula Gallery, Sheffield Gallery Wahrenberger, Zurich 1996 The Warehouse group show, Norwich Bronze, Marbella, Spain 1995 Solo Exhibition, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich 1994 Castle Art Show, Norwich Castle Museum, Alternative Arts, London 1993 Castle Museum, Norwich Group exhibition, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich 1992 Warehouse Artists, Contact Gallery, Norwich Selected show, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich 1991 Fresh Art, Business & Design Centre, London Contact Gallery, Norwich King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich Commissions: 1991 – Mural – Bright Horizons 1995 – Garden Sculptures – private collections 1997 onwards – paintings for private collection. 1997 – Assistant on Metal Weaving Commission . 2000 – Gargoyle sculptures – Knebworth House. 2000 – Painted Card Collection – Victoria and Albert Museum Residencies / Arts work: 2011 onwards – ceramic sculpture workshops, 2004 onwards – Arts project teacher, 2000 – 2003 Reviewer for London Arts Board, 1996 – Independent Artists in colleges network – Norwich School of Art. 1996 – Parlade Residency – Spain 2004 -Artist in Residence – Allen Edwards School London. 2015 – Adult education painting course. 2009-2020 co-ran educational ceramics facility London | |||||
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