My Personal Myth
In the 1950’s my mother was in Canada, working at Banff Springs Hotel. There she bought a hand painted Mexican skirt and was photographed wearing it. As a small child I thought the skirt was a wonderful object and I wore it to school. It was a long skirt on me.
When I was an even smaller child – about 3 or 4, I was attending a convent school. One day I brought home a caterpillar outfit, a green cap and smock which the mothers were supposed to sew brown patches onto. My mother, who hated sewing, instead painted brown spots onto the cloth, using my poster paints. I was excluded from the school photograph of the event! I have used this key influence a lot in my art work over the years, painting on fabric, making ‘art garments’ and making paintings which look like fabric.
Education:
1993 – 1994 Bournemouth University: MA Computer Visualisation and Animation
1986 – 1989 Leicester Polytechnic: BA(Hons) Fine Art 2:1
1985 – 1986 Leicester Polytechnic: Foundation Course in Art & Design
Art Practice
Productions:
2021 The Art Object as Data
2015 Elik – animation
2013 The Word Machine
2010 A Human’s Chaography – e-literature piece
2010 Erth – animation
1999 Sig.Nature – work for the net
1998 Jan Spindolls CD-Roms – funded by Southern Arts
1996-97 Spindolls – interface environment
1995 The Changing World of Aurora Lovelock – interface environment
Exhibitions:
2017 May The Art of Wellbeing Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
2016 May The Art of Wellbeing Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
2014 Sept BYOB event screened animation Erth, Bournemouth
2009 Sept Second Salon : Group show at Kube Gallery, Poole
1998 March New Currents : Portsmouth Arts Centre: Shockwaves festival
1992 – 1993 Fyfes Revenge : Group Touring Exhibition
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Commissioned to design an accompanying educational project
1992 June Group Exhibition, Woods Gallery, Leicester
1990-91 Solo Touring Exhibition, Nottinghamshire County Council
1989-90 Group Touring Exhibition, Nottinghamshire County Council
1989 Dec Open Exhibition, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham