Carole Kirk

Degrees of Vision Bankfield is OPEN

Carole — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:48:39 +0000

'Nets' and 'Balcony' at Bankfield Museum, 2010

Yesterday was the opening of our group show ‘Degrees of Vision’ at Bankfield Museum, Halifax. The hanging team did a grand job, and the show looks extremely professional. There are some clever juxtapositions of pieces, and the connections between artwork and architecture have been cleverly thought-out. The show runs until 31st October, so there is plenty time to plan a visit if you are in the area.

Degrees of Vision at Bankfield Museum

Carole — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:57:29 +0000

Next stop – Bankfield

Carole — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:06:52 +0000

I brought my work home from Rochdale yesterday. The art trail attracted a lot of visitors who wouldn’t normally look at art, and there were some great comments in the book. People seemed to appreciate having something different to look at in the shopping centre rather than the same old shops. There were over 600 visitors during the two days, and many comments about doing the same again next year. I enjoyed the opportunity to have my work viewed by a new audience, and hope they enjoyed my work.

Beehive Art Trail, Rochdale Feel Good Festival 2010

I am now preparing for the next exhibition of my BA group at Bankfield Museum in Halifax, which will be opening on 4th September. I’ve made a painting especially for this exhibition, and I am even beginning to have faith that it might dry! The folks at Winsor and Newton technical department have been very helpful when I had a query about drying time. I just realise how much there still is to learn about the technical properties of the materials we use.

Beehive Art Trail

Carole — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:36:27 +0000

Beehive Art Trail, Rochdale Feel Good Festival 2010

Using empty shops and offices in Rochdale, the Beehive Art Trail showcases the work of 25 local artists as well as providing opportunities to make art. It’s part of the Rochdale Feel Good Festival on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th August 2010.

Beehive Art Trail, Rochdale Feel Good Festival

Carole — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:16:05 +0000

Another chance to see the small paintings from my BA show. I have been invited to exhibit them in Rochdale as part of the 2010 Feel Good Festival on 13th and 14th August. More information later.

Red Hat, 5" x 7", oil on card

Celebrating the backshop work

Carole — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:01:20 +0000

Until now, I have resisted entering any competitions – let alone those where you have to lug your work in, only to have to lug it home again when they don’t select it. However, I have finally decided that it is important to at least try. If I don’t work at ways of getting my work out there, no-one will ever see it. So yesterday, I took this painting for a ride on the train to Leeds, and we walked together in the rain up to Leeds Art Gallery to enter it into their Open Competition. It may not be selected, but I am recording it here because I think the ‘backshop’ work we do to get our work out there (whether it is writing, art, music or whatever) should be celebrated. So let’s hear it for doing those irritating jobs and taking a few risks.

'Bathtime', Oil on canvas, 2ft x 2ft 6"

Play me I’m yours

Carole — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:21:21 +0000

Thompson Park Burnley

Brilliant day today walking the Wayside Arts Trail around Burnley, taking in two of the pianos as part of the ‘Play me I’m yours’ project in Burnley and Blackburn – www.bbstreetpianos.com. One of the pianos is sited by the amazing Singing Ringing Tree which makes haunting music as the wind blows through it. There was also a bird’s nest wedged at the top of the tree (well, that’s where birds do nest after all).

After our walk, we travelled to a third piano at Thomson Park. This was a bit of a pilgrimage, as until about three weeks ago this piano was in our living room. For a few years, it had been relegated to a kind of badly-designed piece of storage furniture. So when I heard about this project, I decided to give it a new (albeit temporary) home.

Another Open Studios over …

Carole — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:32:17 +0000

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been at Northlight now for a year and a half. Open Studios this weekend was busy, although we had to compete with Wimbledon and the World Cup! I made some new Limited Edition prints, which were very successful. Now the weekend is over, I can concentrate on painting again. Although today, I’m going to the Holmfirth Artweek. Maybe tomorrow …

Towards the back of my studio

BA show in my studio

New work and new limited edition prints

Hebden Bridge Open Studios

Carole — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:19:31 +0000

Hebden Bridge Open Studios 2010

The Open Studios weekend is coming up fast! It’s on 2nd, 3rd and 4th July, open from 11am to 5pm each day. I’ll be taking part at Northlight Art Studios and am busy getting back into painting after the excitement (and hard work!) of organising our degree show and subsequent Dean Clough exhibition. It’s been good to be back in the studio, getting covered in paint and catching up with the other artists.

Degrees of Vision: Link is now OPEN!

Carole — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:32:52 +0000

Degrees of Vision: Link at Dean Clough

We went to the opening of my BA group follow-on show at Dean Clough last Saturday. The gallery have described our show as “a genuinely impressive selection of graduation work …”

My work at Dean Clough June 2010