Jill Randall

Jill Randall in her studio, Prospect Studios, Waterfoot

Save the date for your diary! Prospect Studios will be opening up its doors again for the annual Rossendale Open Studio Event on Sat Sept 28th and Sun Sept 29th 2013. As well as a chance to view and buy the latest sculpture and prints by Jill Randall, you can also view and purchase the work of  printmaker Alan Birch and painter Liam Spencer, who work in Prospect Studios.Don’t miss!!!

Jill Randall was again invited to take part in ‘The Smallest Sculpture Park in the World”, organised by artist Bob Nancollis, for the Chorlton Arts Festival on 18th-26th May 2013  at 4, Corkland Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manhchester.

Jill exhibited a series of small sculptures made in clay, copper and graphite from the series, “Sketches for The Great Abyss”, made during her Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey.

From the series “Sketches for the Great Abyss”

Following her Tate Britain Residency, and a project at Flat Time House, London, Jill Randall had a Paper accepted for the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE)  Conference, “Challenging Fine Art Pedagogies”, in London on  March 15th 2013.
The Paper was titled-“Context is Half the Work-The Live Brief in Fine Art Education”. “Context is Half the Work” was the maxim of the APG (Artists Placement Group), which Jill was studying in the Tate Archive. Jill used 2 Case Studies at 2 different sites of student projects at the University of Salford- Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, and Flat Time House, London, to investigate the use of the Live Brief within teaching, and how staff research projects can introduce new ways of delivering Fine Art education, with benefits for the student and the institution. Jill Randall has a history of implementing her research practically within the University and re-introducing it into a teaching context.

“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.

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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.