Jill Randall

“Dark Matter” Installation at Flat Time House.. Jill Randall

“The Open Brief” Project, Flat Time House, London.

Following her Research Residency at Tate Britain, Jill Randall negotiated a project,“The Open Brief”, at Flat Time House, London, the former home and studio of acclaimed artist John Latham, and home to the John Latham Archive, collaborating with undergraduate students from B.A. Visual Arts Course at the University of Salford, to re-stage APG ideas from the Tate Residency. The Project took place March 5th-7th London, and resulted in new work, installed in Flat Time House.

Jill Randall.”Tethered House Series”.Etching & Collograph

St Clements Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy., Manchester, Sat Nov 24th 11-4.

Come and buy original prints direct from Jill and 12 different artists at Printmakers Inc. stall for 1 day only at bargain prices. All the printmakers attend workshops at the Alan Birch Printmaking Studio in Rossendale.

Follow Jill’s blog documenting the findings and progress of the Tate project : https://jillrandall.co.uk/tate-project/

Jill Randall has been awarded a Sabbatical from University of Salford from Sept 24th ’12-Feb 3rd ’13 to undertake a Research Residency based at the Tate Britain, London, studying the Archive of the APG – ‘Artist Placement Group’, recently acquired by the Tate, and to use this resource to create new artworks , exhibitions , a publication, conference papers, and future student projects and placements .

APG sought to place Artists in industry, business and government institutions for the first time, to both create artworks in response to the

Jill Randall in workshop, Magnesium Elektron

situation and also to inform planning and decision-making through creative thinking. It also examined the role and value of Artists within society and how that value could be quantified. It Included young artists who went onto define contemporary art practice in the last decades of the 20th Century, including Barry Flanagan, John Latham , Fluxus Group, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Keith Arnatt, Ian Breakwell, and Stuart Brisley, and it pioneered the concept of art in the social context .

The maxim of the APG was “Context is half the work”, one of the driving forces in the last 50 years in fine art practice, and is the legacy of Jill’s own Fine Art practice, especially the Artists Residencies she has undertaken in a copper mine and magnesium factory.This is a new and very significant archive internationally within the history and legacy of socially-engaged Arts practice and Artists Placements in Industry, which has not yet received much exposure . Jill  hopes to use the experience to contextualise and develop her own work.

My Studio, Prospect Studio, 137 Burnley Road East, Waterfoot, will be opening to show my recent sculpture , prints and drawings, and the work of artists Liam Spencer and Alan Birch as part of “Reveal 2012”-Rossendale Open Studios Weekend.

Lots of work is for sale, with new work from all 3 artists.

In addition to our studio, you can also visit Globe Arts Studio, Stacksteads, Valley Artists Studios ,Waterfoot, See Gallery ,Crawshawbooth, The Boo, Waterfoot, and the studios of 3 independent artists throughout the Rossendale Valley.

For more information visit.

Reveal is weekend of artists opening their…

Jill has been selected to show work in the 1st Pendle International Print Fest, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witches trial, at HigherFord Mill, Barrowford, near Nelson, Lancs.

It takes place 10am-4pm on Sat 1st and Sun 2nd Sept.

All work will be for sale. Prints include etchings from steel plates bitten in the acidic pools at Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, where Jill has been Artist-In-Residence, and  experimental new work combining etching, collogaphs and chin colle.

Follow the link for more information and a map

http://www.pendleprintfest.org/

Saturday August 4th saw the opening of Jill Randall’s exhibition, “Golden Venture”  .- An Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine” at the brand new, award-winning Copper Kingdom Centre, Amlwch Port, Amlwch, Anglesey.
The Show runs from 4th August – 9th September 2012. 11am-5pm, closed Mondays.

This exhibition began in 2011 at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, and is currently touring to Amlwch as the inaugural exhibition at the new centre which won a Heritage Lottery Award.
“Golden Venture” documents Jill Randall’s 3-year Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Amlwch, Anglesey, once the world’s leading centre of copper production, and includes drawings created in the inhospitable abandoned underground workings, prints etched in sulphurous pools, and sculptures inspired by the unusual geology of the site.

Jill’s major solo exhibition, “Golden Venture”, currently showing at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, closes on September 18th 2011.- Last chance to see this exciting and innovative exhibition which is the culmination of Randall’s 3 year Artist’s Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey.

….”Randall’s residency at Parys Mountain re-examines this important site and her response is revelatory.  Here is a site that allows us to see the planet as a living organism, one that has been plundered in order to reap its mineral harvest and her work forces us to muse on the unhelpful distinction between the organic and the inorganic; it is not only flora and fauna that live and breathe. It is also typical of her approach that though copper may have been the rich seam that helped give meaning and definition to this place she now finds beauty in the toxicity, residue and slurry, the earth that was left behind.  However the success of the project lies in the way she negotiates this terrain and is able, also, to present a paean to our industrial past, to the workers and labourers who toiled and helped build Amlwch and Swansea, and how this rich seam of copper forged communities of people tied to the earth and alive to its riches.”

(From the catalogue essay by Brendan Fletcher, Artist, Writer and Lecturer on the BA Visual Arts Course at University of Salford.)

‘REVEAL’ 2011 ARTS EVENT IN ROSSENDALE VALLEY.

JIll Randall will be showing new work in PROSPECT STUDIOS OPEN STUDIO ,
137-141, Burnley Road East, Waterfoot, Lancs OL14 8JB,
Saturday and Sunday 10th and 11th September 2011, 10.30 am  – 5.00 pm.

Once again the studios of Rossendale Valley will throw their doors open to visitors as part of Lancashire Food and Drink weekend. Whilst Prospect Studios will offer nibbles and refreshments, the main course will be the tasty sculptures and prints of Jill Randall,  the mouth watering painterly delicacies of  Liam Spencer and the printed  spicy offerings of Alan Birch !!!!! Drop in to view the work, snap up a bargain , chat to the artists and maybe enrol on a main course of etchings. The work of over 40 artists can be seen in the Valley .

Studios also taking part:-

PROSPECT STUDIOS
VALLEY ARTS
RED ROSE STUDIO
GLOBE STUDIOS
HORSE &BAMBOO THEATRE
DAVE PEARSON FOUNDATION.

Contact Jill Randall via this website or on 07757 273651.

Jill Randall’s major solo exhibition opens on June 30th 2011 at Invitation to Exhibition Opening 6pm at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, The National Industrial Museum of Wales.

Jill Randall  “Golden Venture”  .
– An Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine.

Dates:  2nd July – 18th Sept 2011.

The exhibition is the culmination of Jill Randall’s 3-year Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Amlwch, Anglesey, once the world’s leading centre of copper production. The heart of the exhibition is a series of huge, brightly-coloured drawings created in the abandoned underground mine workings. Physically and practically very difficult to site and retrieve, they have been carried down rickety ladders in pitch blackness. The exhibition also includes prints from etching plates bitten in sulphurous pools and and sculpture inspired by mining and geological processes.
Parys Mountain is an extraordinary place, an extreme environment, with its own “terrible beauty” of amazing colours, and a toxic landscape where corrosion and time are accelerated. Beneath the skin of the landscape lie hidden voids, the vast underground network of abandoned mine shafts where peculiar life forms grow in the complete absence of light.
“Golden Venture” celebrates the enormously important and often overlooked historic and industrial links between Amlwch and Swansea , which helped build “Copperopolis”, and the “World of Welsh Copper”.