I’m please to announce that four of my artworks have been selected for the Food for All exhibition at Kingshill House in Dursley, Gloucestershire.
KingsHill House
The exhibition is on from the Wednesday 26 October 2022 – Tuesday 28 February 2023.
Artists taking part in the Food for All Exhibition
Food is an important part of culture and traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the next. Food tells us who we are, and where we’ve come from. It is what defines us, builds, and creates happy memories.
Food for All Exhibition, Kingshill House
Giant Cauliflower Harvest, part of the Food for All Exhibition
I’m pleased to announce that The Giant Cauliflower Harvest will be on exhibition at Win It 2022. The mixed-media exhibition takes place at Aire Place Studios, Unit 2C, Aire Place Mills, Kirkstall Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS3 1JL, Monday 1-24th June 2022.
The full line up can be viewed here – don’t forget to vote for your favourite on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aireplacestudios/
Giant Cauliflower Harvest
Aire Place Studios presents Win It! 2022, our very first art prize exhibition. Showing, sharing, and celebrating talent, this exciting visual arts competition offers winning artists valuable prizes to aid their future practice. Launching on Friday 10th June, this premier edition of Win It! features the works of 40 talented artists. Join us at Aire Place Studio’s Gallery from 6-9pm to mark the breadth of creative genius and congratulate the winner of the £750 Win It! award, as chosen by our judging panel.
Following the big reveal, voting commences for the 2022 People’s Choice Award. We need you to help us decide the deserving winner by telling us your favourite on our Instagram, with the winner of an additional £250 prize announced at the closing of the show.
Our Prizes:
Aire Place Studios Prize: £750 cash prize.
The People’s Choice Award (selected by a public vote): £250 cash prize
Our Prize Exhibition judging panel have the tricky task of naming two worthy artists to receive the top prizes. The panel consists of four passionate industry experts: Sarah Francis, Founder and Curator of Aire Place Studios, Joss Cole, Gallery Owner of Coles Gallery, Hannah Merril, Artist & Tutor and Lucy Fiona Morrison, Artist & Curator. Together they have toiled to debate the winners; “I’m really happy with our final selection and hope that it will have a positive impact for all of the artists involved”, Judge Sarah Francis.
Giant Cauliflower Harvest, is my latest piece of needlework created as a companion piece for the upcoming Fifty Bees 5 exhibition curated by Textile Artist Lydia Needle.
The exhibition concept is that Lydia hand stitches 50 British bees and each invited artist creates a companion piece for just one of the bees.
My little bee is the Long-Fringed Mini Mining Bee (Andrena niveata).
This little Mining bee is a solitary fellow foraging amongst crucifer-rich habitats along cliff tops and heathlands, excavating burrows as its home. As agriculture & erosion have slowly changed this beautiful landscape the bee numbers have declined and it has been listed as rare since 1987. In 2008 it found a new home when it was spotted on an allotment, foraging amongst a vegetable patch full of crucifer vegetables such as kale, broccoli, cauliflower and sprouts. This reminds me of some of my fondest memories including Dad’s allotment and the year he produced a bumper crop we named ‘The Giant Cauliflower Harvest’!
Size 21 x 21cm. Vintage Sylko thread, cotton cloth.
The exhibition is open at ACE Arts in Somerton, Somerset from the 8th April – 14th May 2022.
Giant Cauliflower Harvest
This piece forms part of a body of work about my Lancashire roots.
