Exhibitions & Events
I have shown work all over the UK and have had numerous solo exhibitions, especially in the East Midlands where I lived till recently.
Recent online events which featured my work:
June 2008: Artist of the month for the global project One Million Points of Light:
http://www.onemillionpointsoflight.com/feature.php
Interview June 2008 with the online arts journal FirstAngel:
http://1stangel.co.uk/art/interview-artist/jill-tattersall
Recent exhibitions:
August-September 2008: Coming Around Again : mixed exhibition at Harding House Gallery, Steep Hill, Lincoln
August 2008: Artist of the month: fourteen pieces were on show at the beach restaurant Due South in Brighton
6 December- 31 January 2008: From the Vales to the Fens . I organised and curated this Lincolnshire Art on the Map 15-person exhibition of work including ceramics, felt, paintings, glass, mixed media. at Grantham Museum.
April 18-19, 25-26 2009: Lincolnshire Art on the Map: Open Studios, Vales cluster
June 2009: Seeds of Change: exhibition with John Lincoln and Steve Leaning at the new Carre Gallery, Sleaford
June 2009: Showed work with other Lincolnshire artists in the Art on the Map exhibition at Stamford Arts Centre
August 2009: Moved to Hove, East Sussex and took an enforced break from art activities!
December 2009: informal Open House/ Open Studio.
May 2010: I organised and hosted a nine-person Open House, part of Brighton and Hove Artists’ Open Houses, as part of the Hove Arts trail (of which I am now a representative to the central AOH organisation). These events form an important part of the Brighton Festival. Our house, The Wolf at the Door, attracted roughly 1500 visitors over a month. On show, apart from my own work, were sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, photography, painting, garden furniture and audiobooks.
August-September 2010: Exhibition, with Brenda May, at Pelham House Gallery, Lewes, Sussex. This was part of the Lewes Open House event, Artwave. The show was based around the themes of global warming and recycling to reflect Lewes’s transition town status.
I will shortly be starting to plan next May’s Artists’ Open House as well as looking for new opportunities to show work in the South:
Looking backwards a bit (2008 and earlier):
2008: Mainly outdoor garden sculpture was on show at several Art on the Map summer events: Spout Yard, Fotherby; Hackthorn Hall gardens, ForgeArts Gallery, Hackthorn
June 2008: Garden pieces, using mainly recycled materials, on show in the gardens of Hall Farm, Harpswell. This was in place of the much-loved Sculpture weekends
Chance or Design? (solo exhibition) at the Spotlight Gallery, Newark, Notts, 23 April- 24 May 2008
Brighton and Hove Open Houses (Brighton Festival), ‘The Art of Transformation’, 3-25 May 2008
End of year show, Ropewalk Gallery (see below), till 5 January 2008
Open Studio (Lincolnshire Art on the Map), 1-2 December 2007
ARTicles of Association, ForgeArts, Hackthorn, Lincs, 2 November-9 December 2007 (with John Lincoln and Stuart Goodacre)
SeeIt! Open Exhibition, The Hub, Sleaford, Lincs, August-September 2007
Humber to the Wash Open Art Competition, The Ropewalk Museum and Gallery, Barton-on-Humber, June 9-August 19 2007
The first Garden Sculpture weekend, Aubourn Hall, near Lincoln,June 16-17 :10 acres of varied garden in which work from numerous sculptors and artists was displayed.
Tree of Life, The Ropewalk Museum and Gallery, Barton-on-Humber, April 21 – June 3 2007 (solo). There was a one-day workshop on collage on Sunday 22 April.
Snowdrops and Spring Exhibition, Pierrepont Gallery, January-April 2007
Open Art Competition, Willoughby Memorial Gallery, Corby Glen, Lincs, November 2006 (1st prize, professional class).
The DNA of Pattern, Willoughby Memorial Trust Gallery, Corby Glen (solo), October – November 2006
Hall Farm Sculpture Week, Harpswell, Lincs, June 2004, 2005, 2006
Art on the Map (Lincolnshire Open Studios) May/June annually
Images of Spring, Pierrepont Gallery, January –March 2006
Envirofest, Rufford Abbey, August 2006
Recycle It , Culross Pottery and Gallery, March 2006
Open Exhibition, Pierrepont Gallery, Thoresby, Notts, September 2005 (East Midlands Contemporary Art Society prize)
Tsunami Art Auction, Leicester, March 2005
Patterns of Life, Nuneaton, November 2004-January 2005 (solo)
Other activities…
I conduct workshops for children and adults. I like these to be creative, exploratory, inventive and fun.
Apart from single sessions on everything from aboriginal art to rangoli patterns, funky frames to African mud prints, recent highlights include a 6-week handmade personal/memory book project with two primary schools, and a young people’s project resulting in a large art work for the teenage section of Grantham library (see the picture). I recently worked with infants on Seeing Dragons in the Clouds, producing a display to accompany the current travelling exhibition at the Hub, Sleaford. Also at the Hub in February was an all-day family workshop on African mud cloths. In April (half term) I ran two family sessions there on creating imaginative frames and mounts.
I’ve also been recently involved in adult collage workshops for the Ropewalk Gallery, Rufford Art Society and elsewhere. Please contact me if you are interested in workshops on papermaking, collage, colour, introductory felt-making and almost anything experimental!
