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Sheila de Rosa @ Studio 15 (Tring)

Contact Sheila de Rosa

Studio 15
Unit 15AE
Akeman Business Park
81/82 Akeman Street
Tring
Herts
HP23 6AF

Phone: 01296 661678
07821 177685
email: sheiladerosa@btinternet.com

Web pages: www.sheiladerosa.co.uk

STUDIO 15 is an independent artist's studio producing print, photographic and glass artworks. Alongside the artist's own practice, the studio offers a variety of bespoke art workshops either at the studio or in schools, higher and further educational establishments and Day Centres; these include:

* Solar-plate etching - a relatively new printing process that enables images to be established onto metal plates by exposure to light, using sunlight or ultra violet light box. This is a totally SAFE process which uses no acid etching or toxic chemicals. Resident artist Sheila de Rosa had just completed a four-day residency at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and has returned to Longdean School, Hemel Hempstead working with year 12&13 students producing works, which were selected for exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery in 2005.

* Others printing course - collographs, dry-point etching, monoprints, relief printmaking using stamps, lino and wood at the University of Hertfordshire, Amersham and Wycombe College. Creating with glass workshop - fusing and slumping soda glass at the Wysing Weekend Workshops, February 2005.

* A Community Photographic Project - working with Astley Cooper School and the community of Grovehill was exhibited on the 8th-12th November 2005. This was sponsored by Kodak Ltd., and Hertfordshire County Council Green Hearts Art and Environment Award.

* Private and Public Commissions - Sheila is happy to discuss large or small scale commissions designed around the customers needs.

Awards:
Best overall Performance at Degree Assessment - 1998.

Commissions:
Sandpaper Suit - for Hamish Pringle, 2008;
Ake Man, The Akeman, Akeman Street, Tring, 2008;
John Hall 2005;
'Freedom/Bound' for the 2004 Greenbelt Festival at Cheltenham Races.
Artinheaven for 2003 Brighton Festival Fringe.
Howes Percival, Solicitors, Milton Keynes, 1999.

Exhibitions:
* 13th - 24th September 2006 - Artists at The Paper Trail, Apsley, Herts;
* 10th Nov-Dec 2005 - St Marys Stations at Stoke Newington, London;
* 8th-12th Nov 2005 - 'A Day in the Life of Grovehill' at the Paper Trail, Apsley;
* November 2004 - Brighton Art Fair;
* May 4th-8th 2004 - AA2A, an exhibition of work featuring four artists who participated in the Artist's Access to Art Colleges Scheme at the University of Hertfordshire;
* July 2003 - 'A Slice of Life', group exhibition at the OH! Art Centre, London, WC2;
* July 2003 - 'Living Room', Solo exhibition at the Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans;
* June 2003 - 'Bucks Art Forum', group show at the Obsidian Gallery, Stoke Mandeville;
* September 2002 - 'In Vitro', MA Degree Show at the University of Hertfordshire;
* February 2002 - 'Between Places', MA degree work in progress at the Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans.

Qualifications:
2004 - NVQ, Level 3 - Arts Development and Teaching;
2002 - MA (Fine & Applied Arts Practice);
1998 - BA (Art & Design) - 1st Class;
1994 - Bucks Higher Diploma in Art & Design.

Publications:
The Journal of Visual Arts Practice - Volume 3. Issue 2 Sept 2004 'Mother Dear Mother'.
Printmaking Today 0 Vol 11 No 3 - Autumn 2002.
'Put Your Image on ImagOn - Photo-etching made easier'.

Art forms used:
Traditional etching, photo-etching & forms of printmaking, Photography, glass.