Jennyanne is a visual artist working in participation and on her own practice. Her work is auto ethnographic in nature and over the past 10 years she has facilitated learning through Art in some of the best creative institutions in the north such as The Hepworth Wakefield, The Artworks in Halifax, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Tetley Gallery and the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds.
She has coached and trained new artists working in education with a focus on responding instead of reacting to situations and how to be fully present with your audience. I has provided creativity based CPD courses for teachers, created new art curriculums and designed studio spaces for primary schools. She has also taken peoples visions and children’s drawings and turned them into murals for school, home and dance studio walls.
Jennyanne was not a ‘naturally talented’ artist – all of her skills were developed through hard work, dedication and practice – she is often heard telling children that “If I have been able to learn to draw – anyone can!”
Jennyanne became an artist because of her Grandfather – he was a photorealist painter and he died when she was 10 years old and left a huge hole in her heart. She wanted to emulate him and to carry on his dream of being an artist.
One of his paintings sits in pride of place in her living room and although their styles and subject matter are completely different its nice knowing how much he inspired her and her life today.
Jennyanne’s participation clients tell her that her expertise lies in providing them with her own stories of struggling to learn and that her empathetic nature encourages experimentation and play.
As with life – we tend to make our mistakes first – it is only by putting the line in the wrong place that we discover where the line should truly live.
This way of working often gives people the encouragement and confidence to push themselves out of their comfort zones and discover their own unique and hidden talents.
Education includes:
MA By Research 2010 – 2012 – MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design), Manchester Metropolitan University
PGCE (QTLS) Art and Design 2009 – 2010 – University of Huddersfield
BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice International (Class 1) 2004 – 2008 – University of Leeds with International placement at York University, Toronto, Canada
Publications includes:
Performing the I AM Story as a Tool for Empowerment: In Order to Make a Difference! In Towards Creative Action: Transformations and Collaborations in Practice, CARN Bulletin 17, Spring 2014
▪ This Is Another Place: An Autoethnographic Tale about Annie and The Artworks in Qualitative Inquiry 19:5, Sage Publishing June 2013
▪ The A/r/tographer: An Image and a Poem in Arts Based Research, Special Edition: A/r/tography 38:2 University of Illinois Press Winter 2012
Exhibitions includes:
MIXED MEDIA:
- Creating and crossing boundaries: Recycling and removing patterns of behaviour AT – Thresholds: The Adjacent Possible, The Tapestry, Liverpool’s Fabric District, 68-76 Kempston St, L3 8HL – February 2018 as part of the Not Just Collective, 2018
ILLUSTRATION:
▪ The Cefn Mawr Collection: A series of images commissioned by the Plas Kynaston Canal and Railway Group and displayed in the Holly Bush Inn, 2016
PERFORMANCE:
▪ The I AM story: An Autoethnograpic Account of an engagement with Art Education at CARN International Conference, Vienna, 2011
PARTICIPATORY ART
▪ Tell Me Something About Your First Love at various locations including University of Huddersfield, 2011 and a wedding as part of the Black Dogs Collective.
INSTALLATION
▪ Hotch Potch Hit Man Haggling Ego Trip at Leeds Light Night 2008
SCULPTURE
▪ An Intimate Distance (Detail) at Leeds Central Library, 2008
INTERACTIVE FILM
▪ Follow at The Carriageworks Theatre as part of Leeds Light Night 2007
