Artists Open Studios Sheffield & South Yorkshire 2013

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We are a not-for-profit organization, promoting art and artists in and around Sheffield throughout the year.

Open Up Sheffield offers artists opportunities to showcase their work, engage a curious public, and network with other artists, all within a supportive digital and live environment. We aim to serve visual artists, participants and audiences by serving and developing their longer-term needs, creating long-term value to our work.

Benefits for artists include:

• Inclusion in extensive printed publicity material and our new, search engine-friendly website. This material is accessible to media, curators and art buyers all year long.
• Engagement of artists throughout the year, and thorough marketing of artists and their work on a year-round basis.
• Receipt of regular e-newsletters outlining the latest grassroots, local and regional developments for visual artists in Sheffield and beyond.
• Access to printable resources to develop your practice, including bespoke material to learn marketing and demonstration techniques, written by visual artists for visual artists.
• Inclusion in our new Facebook group to feature your artwork, other exhibits and events, and network with other visual artists in the area.

In addition:

• Participation in Open Up Sheffield can lead to invitations to exhibit, teach, sell work and other opportunities.
• Gallery owners, curators, interior designers and funders receive complementary copies of the brochure, promoting your work to those who can help further.

The Board of Directors

Nuala Price - Chair: Fine Art Media Practitioner

Nuala has a BA in Fine Arts and has been involved in the Sheffield art scene (including Garden Rooms, Eve Art, and Portland Works studios) for the past 12 years. She also has 25 years’ experience working in an architectural practice throughout Europe, including with The British School at Rome. She has been published in many academic publications.

Sue Lancaster - Vice Chair: Textile Artist

Sue has a BA Hons in Embroidery, a Post Graduate Certificate in Art Education, is Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a member of Sheffield’s Art Through Textiles group. She runs a successful textiles studio as a space for her to be creative as well as a place for others to learn a variety of textile processes.

Karen Graham - Company Secretary: Weaver/Textile Artist

Karen has been weaving for more than 30 years and has been a member of the Hallamshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers for most of that time. She also helped to establish a Sheffield artists’ co-operative which ran its own independent gallery for several years.

Pam Jordan - Treasurer

Pam has over 30 years’ professional experience in finance and financial management in the public sector, and has been a supporter of visual arts in Sheffield for many years. She is also studying part time for City and Guilds Stitched Textiles at Stitched Up and Fleeced Studio.

Steering Group

Philippa French: Painter

Philippa is a practising multi-media artist, trained in Textiles and Art History. She has run her own gallery, and has experience of developing visual arts in the retail and community sectors through organising exhibitions and workshops at a college for special needs students.

Brian Holland: Potter and Sculptor

Brian has 25 years’ senior arts management experience, including as Chair of the Northern Potters Association, and Sheffield Community Arts Trust, and holds an M.A. in Art & Design from Sheffield Hallam University. Brian has participated in exhibitions across Europe and is a senior figure in Sheffield’s visual arts education sector.

Annette Petch: Jeweller

Annette has a BA Hons in Three Dimensional Design, and has been designing and making jewellery for many years. She exhibits widely, and has work in many private collections. Annette is also an experienced educator, and likes to share her skills with others in her studio.

Phil Lockwood: Painter

Phil is a practising artist and a qualified furniture designer. He is active (and has been, for the last 20 years) in organising the Great Sheffield Art Show, is on the committee of the Heeley Art Club and has previously helped to run the Art in the Gardens event.

Bryan Munsey: Creative Wood Turner

Bryan is an accomplished creative wood turner of over 30 years, and a member of Sheffield Woodturners’ Club. As a keen environmentalist, Bryan works only with reclaimed South Yorkshire timber in his own converted studio space.

Rachel Poole: Glass and Willow Artist

Rachel has a B.Ed (Hons), and demonstrates/teaches for various museums, primary and secondary schools, facilitating large community/church project works throughout South Yorkshire. She has commissioned pieces in the Hallamshire Hospital, Standedge Visitors Centre and All Saints Church Silkstone, and has also worked for Channel 4’s Build a New Life in the Country.