Jill Randall

Jill is currently exhibiting work in ‘Feared and Farcical Futures’ , along with the Alan Birch Print Group at  Bury Art Museum& Sculpture Centre.

The exhibition runs until May 2nd 2017.

http://buryartmuseum.co.uk/

A selection of Jill’s recent large framed and unframed prints from projects at Parys Mountain Copper Mine and Geever Tin Mine Cornwall can be seen at The Millyard Gallery, The Square,

97, High Street, Uppermill, Saddleworth, OL3 6BD. Tel 01457 870410.

These new prints have been selling very well, to collectors from Europe, and UK-wide.

http://www.millyard-gallery.co.uk/

Jill has just heard that she has won a Santander Universities Travel Award to travel to Australia and Mexico next year to develop her research project investigating the Cornish mining diaspora. Jill intends to investigate both the aftermath geological landscapes, and the transplantation of Cornish culture in Bendigo and Moonta, ‘Little Cornwall”, Australia, and Pachuca and Real de Monte, Mexico.

Jill will be participating in the Horse and Bamboo Theatre (The Boo) Christmas Art Market this weekend Nov 26th and 27th 12-4, along with Alan Birch, and a stall representing Prospect Studio Printmakers.

You can browse and purchase new prints by Jill at great prices, including her new Geevor series created for the ‘Aftermath’ exhibition at Geevor Tin Mine Museum in Cornwall  this year.

Jill’s major new solo exhibition, ‘Aftermath’, at Geevor Tin Mine World Heritage Museum, finishes this Sunday, 23rd Oct. The exhibition, running since February 13th, has been visited by hundreds of people, and Jill has undertaken a number of activities to guage audience response and feedback on placing challenging contemporary art in an industrial heritage museum.

In July and October, Jill has worked at Geevor with fellow researcher and academic, Dr Gaynor Bagnall,  from the University of Salford, to undertake interviews and questionnaires with visitors, culminating in participatory art workshops with adult groups, exploring Jill’s ideas and themes and creating their own artworks in response. Jill and Gaynor are currently analysing the material collected with a view to writing up a journal article and undertaking further research.

Visitors were keen to engage with the artwork, and to acknowledge the role such work might have in offering an alternative and different perspective to visiting an industrial museum and industrial heritage more generally.

For example, qualitative comments included ‘was surprised how interesting it was’, ‘it is very unique, enlightening pieces’, ‘lovely to see different perspectives through art’, ‘not expected different,’ adds a different dimension to the subject, ‘it gives another angle to it’, and ‘art can give additional insight into industrial heritage by bringing a visual element’.

Quote from visitor to ‘Aftermath’ exhibition.

..”Your work really spoke to me. I have family connections with Geevor and Levant (I am a descendent of Richard White the Captain of Levant) but the often twee and realist representations of Levant and Geevor didn’t really connect with me.
Your representations are really powerful and thought provoking.
I loved them.”

Prospect Studio will again be opening its doors as part of the annual Rossendale ‘Reveal’ Open Studios Trail on Sat 1st and Sun 2nd Oct 2016, 11-4. You can view and purchase new work by Jill, including new prints produced for her current exhibition at Geevor Tin Mine World Heritage Museum.

Work by Jill recently purchased by Touchstones Rochdale for their permanent collection can be seen in the new survey show ‘Women Artists:1861-2015’,

Touchstones,The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ. The show runs until Spring 2017.

Jill will be showing new work at ‘The Smallest Sculpture Park In The World’, as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival 2016.

Organised by artist Bob Nancollis, you can see Jill’s work along with artist Alan Birch at 4, Corkland Rd, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 8UT. Tel 07973216169.

Opening times:- Sat 21st, Sun 22nd, Tues 24th, Thurs 26th, Sat 28th, Sun 29th May, 1-5pm.

Jill has recently been invited by curator Barbel Mollmann to participate in the international project, ‘Open Spaces-Under Construction -Zukunft bauen’ , at Kubaii, Bocholt, Germany April 22nd-May 1st.

Jill will be creating new work with 14 other international artists in Kubaii (Kultuquartie Aa und Industriestrasse Bocholter), a beautiful old textile spinning mill in the old industrial quartet of Bocholt, soon to be redeveloped.

‘In the Bocholt context, the series of works Randall proposes to exhibit questions ideas about permanence and transcience, about the passing of time and the tide of history.
They celebrate renewal and change, and make us aware of life’s impermanence, of the constant state of building, demolishing, flux and change. The works make strong links between the shared textile industry heritage of Rossendale and Bocholt , introducing elements from the Rossendale industrial landscape into Bocholt .
Randall will be making a series of new Bocholt sheds and architectural structures prior to the Open Spaces ‘Under Construction –Build The Future Residency, and creating some whilst there, responding directly and immediately to the place.
Some of the acclaimed series of works, ‘Sheds of Rochdale’ and ‘Sheds of Rossendale’ will be brought to Bocholt and reconfigured with the new Bocholt sheds in a dynamic sculpture installation.
In the ‘Age of the Refugee’, the works have poignant nuances, referring to the idea of shelter, refuge, referencing the improvised human shelters constructed from available materials in shanty towns all over the world. Part found-object, part sculpture construction, they also play with sculptural language and notions of the beautiful and ugly.

Jill Randall has been invited by PAPER Gallery, Manchester, to show prints on their stall along with students from the BA Visual Art Course at The University of Salford at the Hepworth Print Fair, The Hepworth, Wakefield, Sat 5th & Sun 6th March 10-5. All prints are for sale.

http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/print-fair/

http://www.paper-gallery.co.uk/335524/8645949/prints/jill-randall