MARGOT BRISTOW

Contact Details

Studio 3S9
Phoenix Arts Association
10-14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB
 
Margot.bristow@btopenworld.com

01273 326778
07919120147 [text only]

Paintings and Drawings  
£50---£2000

Photographs and prints 
£20----£1000

Artist's Statement

I have been a practicing artist and art therapist for the past 25 years.

My art practice spans several art forms, from drawing, painting, printmaking, fine art photography illustration and installation.

During my Art training I was influenced by Goya, Breugal, Picasso and the Abstract Expressionists. Art therapy training and a Jungian Analysis has given me a broader vision; enabling me to embrace the creative process and allow things to happen and evolve naturally. Mark Chagall, Louise Bourgeois, the Surrealists and Cartier Bresson have all been sources of inspiration.

My private work tends to tap into the creative unconscious and is often playful, symbolic and naive.

In contrast my public art work is concerned with current events, people and place and how this impacts on me as a Deaf Artist. I use an eclectic mix of art forms as statements against cruelty and injustice.

Qualifications

2006-2007 Part Time course in illustration. University of Brighton
2000-02 M A Fine Art Brighton University
1989-91 Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy, St Albans College of Art & Design

Exhibitions

2006 Long listed for an artist’s residency/exchange between the Phoenix
Gallery Brighton and Diaphane. Northern France.
2006 Hove Town Hall. Curator of art works by refugees in Brighton, as part
Refugee Week
2006 Phoenix gallery Brighton - artists open studios
2006 Brighton Photo Fringe. Curator of group show, Start Contemporary Gallery
Brighton
2005 Artists Open House, Norfolk Rd
2005 El Chirimoyo Gallery Jemena la Fontera Spain - group show
2004 El Chirimoyo Gallery Andalucia Spain - solo exhibition
2004 The Old Truman Brewery Brick Lane London - group show
2004 Farm Mews - open studio during the festival
2004 Ida Branson Memorial Award, Millfield School, Somerset
2003 OIL: South Gallery University of Brighton group show
2003 Closer: South Gallery, University of Brighton - final MA group show
2002 South Gallery, University of Brighton - group show
2001 Royal Opera House foyer, Covent Garden - group show
2000 West Thames College - group show
1993 Henley Management College - solo exhibition
1992 Windsor Art Centre - solo exhibition

Recent Work Experience

2007 Mentor for Deaf and Disabled Artists.
Shape. London.

2007 volunteer on the construction of, The Rice Pavilion,
Jubilee Library,Brighton

2007 Public speaker for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
Written and illustrated a childrens book.[Mr Piggle]
The Diary of a Hearing Dog. Awaiting publication.

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