Jill Randall

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”.

16th Feb 2011 saw the installation of an iconic piece of public art in the town centre of Amlwch, Anglesey.

Loosely based on the schooner, “Eilian”, one of the last ships to be built in the shipyard at Amlwch, the sculpture measures 4 metres x 2 metres, and was fabricated in steel by Luke Lister, Blacksmiths and Fabrication Engineers. The sculpture interprets and celebrates the rich and important industrial heritage of Amlwch, and is one of a series of public art commissions undertaken by Jill Randall for the “Copper Kingdom” Project.

Jill has been invited to participate in the Spring Exhibition at Millyard Gallery, Uppermill, Saddleworth, showing sculpture, assemblages and prints. This is a rare opportunity to purchase an affordable piece of Jill’s work to have in your home.

Other artists exhibiting include Mark Whyatt, Geoffrey Key, Peter Blake, Bruce McClean and Barbara Rae.

Jill has recently returned from a research study trip to Mexico City and Oaxaca to witness the “Day of The Dead” festivities.