About the Artist

Study:

Janine Creaye

Exhibitions:


- University of Northumbria, BA (Hons) 
Degree in Fine Art Sculpture

- Chelsea School of Art
MA in Public Art

- NVQ level III teaching

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by A. Woodcock

 

 - Sculpture in the Garden, at Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester.  July 2004

- Surrey and South East Open studios 
June 200 2, 2003, 2004

- Beyond Belief, Blink group launch exhibition of film, sculpture and words at St Mary's church, Guildford
March 2004

- Park life, Egerton Park, Bexhill, East Sussex 2003

- Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset, July 2002

Bartley Drey Gallery, Chelsea, London. February 2001

- Garden Gallery, Broughton Hants.  Summer 2000 & 2001

-Hamlins Solicitors, Regent Street London June 2000 with Dostoyevsky Foundation

- Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts, Bath 1999

- Cadogan Contemporary, Knightsbridge 1995

- Mc Hardy Sculpture Co, Tower Bridge, London 1995

- Docklands Gallery, Chelsea Harbour, London 1996

- Norwich Sculpture Park 1994

Membership

Professional member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Currently a member of the artists' group 2by 4 Artists based around the Crawley/Horsham area in Sussex.

Teaching/Workshops



Currently co-ordinating The Big Draw activities for 2 by4 artists in Horsham town centre October 2004 which have received Awards for All, West Sussex and Big Draw funding.

Recent community workshops: Creative space project of sculpture, film, drawing and dance with Steyning Grammar School, West Sussex.


2 week drawing project for Sherriff Rosebriars Trust, 7 schools in Surrey

 Reminiscence project for Horsham District Council, 2 by 4 artist, working with residents of Wayside Old peoples home; 

Lost and Found project working with South Indian dance class drawing onto fabric, for Crawley Community Arts
Teaching life drawing and sculpture at Forest School Horsham (Adults) 
and other art subjects in Thomas Bennett Community College, Crawley Sussex for the last 9 years, 30 weeks a year.  



Commissions

Thoughts
(see sculptureform website)

Sculptural Fence for Buchan Country Park, Horsham District, West Sussex

4 large carved panels for Old Manor Hospital, Salisbury

Out of the Block/Head, Stone carving for Quakers Acre in Guildford town centre

Creature Carving and Fragments for Buchan Country Park, Horsham Road, Horsham District, West Sussex

The Vessel, centre piece for Walled Garden at Tilgate, Crawley, Sussex.

Trail of symbolic faces at Tilgate Park, Crawley

North Downs Way carved sign
Farnham, Surrey

Portrait drawings of fellows for the Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End, London

Private commissions of portraits (2 and 3d) and pieces for specific garden sites

My work is figurative but distorted and symbolic

It responds to the material it is made from in form, pattern and texture.

The marks tools make are important - I love the way stone breaks and aim to work with that, not against it.

I intend the work to operate at different levels- to appeal as an  image but to have undercurrents of something that delves into a deeper more instinctive world.

I sometimes use mythology or humour to play a part in attracting peoples' attention.

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Updated 08 September 2004
J. Creaye