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Janie Graham - Applied Artist / Craftsperson / Ceramics / Jewellery / Textiles (St Albans)

Contact Janie Graham

Phone: 01727 859463
email: janiegrahamarts@aol.com

Web pages: www.JanieGrahamArts.co.uk

Artist's statement:
Janie makes delicate and decorative ceramic boxes and dynamic mixed media jewellery. She thinks of the boxes as containers for trinkets or treasure. The jewellery, made from ceramic, resin or rubber may be contained in matching boxes.

Janie works from her studio at home.

Award:
Best Assessment – University of Hertfordshire 2004;
Society of Designer Craftsman - Member.

Exhibitions:
April-May 2008: 'Spring Collection', SDC Gallery, Rivington Street, London;
Jan-Mar: WOW Gallery, 78 South Street, Dorking;
Jan 2008: 'New Beginnings', SDC Gallery, Rivington Street, London;
Jan 9th-20th 2008: Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries, London;
Nov-Dec 2007: New Maynard Gallery, Campus West, WGC;
Sept 2007: Open Studios, Herts Visual Arts Forum;
July-Oct 2007: Boxfield Gallery, Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre;
Jan-April 2007: Artist's Show, DirectArt, High Town Road, Luton;
Jan-Feb 2007: VIEWPOINT 3, New Maynard Gallery, Campus West, WGC;
Jan-Feb 2007: Contemporary Art Quilts 2006, Morley Gallery, London.

Forthcoming Exhibitions:
11th Nov '08 - 3rd Jan '09 - 'Genesis '08', SDC Gallery, Rivington Street, London;
Nov 08-Jan 09: New Maynard Gallery, Welwyn Garden City;
10th - 18th Jan '09 - Designer Crafts at the Mall 2009, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London.

Qualifications:
2004 – Bachelor of Arts (Applied & Media Arts) Hons 1st (University of Hertfordshire;
1971 – Bachelor of Arts (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Publications:
‘Remembering and Mending: The Embellishment of Absence’ by Dr Judith Harding, Textile Perspectives Magazine – June 2005.

Art form used: Slip-cast earthenware, jewellery techniques, mould making and resin casting.