Jill Randall

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.

Jill has recently been selected to represent the UK in the European sculpture survey show, “European Sculpture-Difference and Diversity in Practice”, at Martini Arte Internazionale, Turin Italy. The show opens on September 16th, and runs until Nov 12th.

Jill will also be giving a Presentation on her work at the X1 Sculpture Network Conference in Turin on Septmber 17th.

Jill’s studio, Prospect Studios, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancs, will be throwing its doors open the weekend of June 12th and 13th, as part of “Reveal 2010”, Rossendale’s Open Studios event.

You can view and purchase sculpture, prints and drawings direct from the artist in her working studio environment and find out more about her recent projects and sculpture processes.

Prospect Studios is also the base for acclaimed printmaker Alan Birch and well-known painter Liam Spencer.

7 venues , all in close proximity, are participating, and include galleries and The Boo Theatre.

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Jill has been invited to exhibit work in the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World 3 as part of the Chorlton  Arts Festival.

The Sculpture Park is located at 4, Corkland Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 8UT, and is open 1-5pm, Saturday 22nd May, Sunday 23rd May, Wednesday 26th May and Saturday 29th May.

Jill Randall is one of 20 invited artists from the north west and south west of England currently exhibiting in “Stowage”, Exeter, a site-specific project from ‘Found Space’, utilising empty shop spaces in the centre of Exeter.

Each artist was provided with an old-fashioned glass sweet jar, and invited to create a new work for the exhibition. Jill’s work, “Log Cabin”, plays on the ‘ship in a bottle’ idiom with a shed in a jar, surrounded by a  lovingly recreated Rossendale landscape. For more info, visit http://www.foundspace.co.uk/stowage.html