Biography
Jill Randall is a sculptor and printmaker based at Prospect Studios, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, UK, and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.
She is a Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors and the European Sculpture Network.
Randall was a Senior Lecturer and Researcher on the B.A. Fine Art Course at the University of Salford, and Co-Lead of the Practice As Research Centre of Excellence. Randall’s qualifications include B.A. Fine Art Degree (Falmouth School of Art), and M.A Fine Art (Sculpture), Manchester Polytechnic.
Jill Randall was a founder member and Chair of SIGMA (Sculptors in Greater Manchester Association), the first group sculpture studio for artists in Manchester ,UK.
Randall recently exhibited work in the Venice Biennale (2019) in the PAPER Pavilion, ’Personal Structures’, Palazzo Mora, and the sculpture survey show ‘No Particular Place to Go’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, alongside Henry Moore and Anthony Caro. (2019.) In 2021, she participated in the International Artists Residency, OPEN SPACES 800, Bocholt, Germany, with artist Alan Birch.
Group exhibitions include Artists Space New York, Cornerhouse Manchester, Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool, Kunsthaus, Bocholt Germany, and Galerie de Leones, Porto, Portugal.
Residencies include a Research Residency at Tate Britain (2012/13), Grizedale Forest (1999), a major commission for the Irwell Sculpture Trail (2001), along with international residencies in Germany, Barcelona, Western Australia , Portugal, and several artists residencies in industrial and heritage sites.
Solo exhibitions include ‘As Above, So Below’, Royal Cornwall Museum and Wheal Martyn Museum, (2024/5), “Sheds of The Valley”, The Bug, Rochdale, (2021), “Aftermath’’, Geevor Tin Mine World Heritage Museum, Cornwall, (2016), “Jill Randall at The Merzbarn” (2014), “Place/Displace”, Touchstones Rochdale, (2013),”Golden Venture”, The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, (2011),“Secrets and Lives”, the Yard Gallery, Nottingham, (2006), and ”Light Matter”, The Lowry, Salford ( 2003) .
Jill Randall was invited to participate in the international project and exhibition, “Open Spaces-Under Construction – Zukunft bauen”, at KuBAaI, Bocholt, Germany, in 2016, and was one of 2 sculptors selected to represent the UK in the European sculpture survey show, “European Sculpture – Difference & Diversity”, Turin Italy ,(2010), and spoke at the 1X International Sculpture Forum of the European Sculpture Network.
Jill Randall has an important parallel practice working on major public art projects in collaboration with other professionals, 3 of which have won national awards.
She has been the recipient of many individual awards, including a Travel Scholarship to Barcelona from the McColl Arts Foundation, 4 Arts Council Awards to Artists, Foundation for Sport & The Arts and the National Lottery, a Royal Society of Arts “Art for Architecture” Award, and an ‘Artists At Work’ Award from Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales. Randall won a Universities Santander Travel Award to travel to Australia and Mexico in 2017 to research an arts and industry project based around the Cornish metal mining diaspora.
Jill Randall’s work is in public and private collections in the USA, Spain, France, Portugal, Australia, Luxembourg, Mexico, and the UK.
She lives and works in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, UK.