Flamingoes
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This series of drawings were made for the Violet Flamingo Dress designer label.
Paving the Way to Peace
A project in collaboration with a Hip Hop troupe associated with MAV (Mothers Against Violence)
A Guns to Goods project.
Portrait Sculpture
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Dr Erinma Bell MBE DL, Peace Campaigner and Founder of CARISMA.
A Guns to Goods project.
Misshapes 2014
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This series of drawings was created in response to a short stay in the Sibylline Mountains in Italy.
Sibilla
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This series of drawings was created in response to a short stay in the Sibylline Mountains in Italy.
Predatory Drawings
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A set of drawings inspired by tradional folkloric tales.
Furies
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The Furies are 3 sisters of classical mythology.
Hatchings
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This Easter-themed exhibition was part of the Dialogues programme - a series of annual exhibitions commissioned by the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Active (walk) Way
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Active (walk) Way was commissioned for the Burnely Hiddenplace project: a festival of contemporary artists’ commissions for hidden, disused or overlooked spaces around Burnley Town Centre northwest Englannd.
Pathway
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Casa Matei Corvin
This installation was made in the birthplace of the famous Hungarian King in the Romanian Town of Cluj Napoca.
Ingresso
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Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Italy. This site specific piece was made in reponse to the patterns and textures of the cobbled streets in the medieval walled town.
Ping Pong
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Gallerie 13 bis, Clermont Ferrand, France. Ping Pong is an association of artists dedicated to the organisation of international artist exchange projects. This exhibition was the second leg of an exchange between French artists from in Clermont Ferrand and artists based in Salford, England.
Clasp
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A permanent sculpture commissioned for the inauguration of the Mary Seacole Building, Salford University Campus, England. The origin for the sculpture was made in response to the nature of the Mary Seacole Building - a place of learning for nurses and other medics.
Crabwalk
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Chapman Gallery, Salford
This installation was the first in the ’walkway’ series. It was performed in situ in the gallery over a period of two weeks.
Digitalis
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Group show ‘twoeightone’ Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester
The forms for this installation were derived from flower heads of poisonous plants.
Piano for a Blind Rat
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Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany
This exhibition of installations and drawings was the culmination of a 3 month residency at the artists’ collective Artists Unlimited - part of their annual international guest artist programme.
Proscenium
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Rochdale Art Gallery,
Installation, Sculpture and Drawings
'The work by Karen Lyons has a vitality that results from the sense of opposites fighting. The title of the exhibition, Proscenium hints that here may be an element of theatre involved in the exhibition'.
Heritage Two
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Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster.
Installation.
The three focal motifs in this installation posit questions of gender identity by overlaying symbols of the feminine and decorative against a bold and aggressive aesthetic style of image making.
Boise Scholarship Presentation
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Slade School of Art, London.
This work was the qualifying presentation for the Boise Scholarship Award for travel. The Scholarship is awarded annually to a recent postgraduate student and provided funds for an extended study trip to China.
Take 6
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Chisenhale Gallery, London.
This work was part of a group show by the 6 recently qualifying postgraduates from the Masters of Fine Art degree, University of Reading.
Postgraduate work
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A series of works produced whilst on the MFA at The University of Reading.
Undergraduate Show
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Final degree show for the BA Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.