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Janine Creaye

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Installing the carved sign at Kingston and Iford Primary

NEWS:

New work at Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row - framed drawings of horses, polo and point to point

15th and 16th June Janine will be participating in Horsham Artists in Action at Sedgwick Park near Horsham, where she and 30 other local artists will display works for sale and demonstrate their skills, as a taster for the open studios in the following weekend.

 Open Studios will be, 22nd and 23rd June.  Janine will be inviting people to visit her studio and see works displayed in the garden 

Carving Courses offered to adults at the Cowfold Studio.  Phone 07966 439858 for details

Carving for the front of Kingston and Iford Primary School near Lewes NOW INSTALLED

Country Park Centre sign NOW INSTALLED.  7 trail markers waiting to be installed at Buchan Country Park, West Sussex.  

 

Work is on show at:

  • Pelham House Hotel wood and stone carvings on display/for sale, St Andrews Lane, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1UW.  www.pelhamhouse.com

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  • Ashdown Gallery small wood and stone carvings for sale at 8 Newlands Place, Hartfield Road, Forest Row.  www.ashdowngallery.co.uk.  Tel: 01342 823761

  • Sussex Prairies Garden  Fanfare Gateway, Night and Day heads and Naga seat are displayed at Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield, West Sussex  BN5 9AT.  Tel:01273 495902  Web: www.sussexprairies.co.uk.   

  • Graingers Gallery drawings and sculpture for sale at gallery in Bury Gate, Bury, Near Arundel, West Sussex  RH20 1NL.  Tel: 01798 831372  

  • Polo and horse racing drawings and prints at Pheasant Framing, Sharpthorne, West Sussex.  Tel:01342 810177 

  • Small stone carvings at Cowfold Gallery and Print Workshop, Henfield Road, Cowfold, West Sussex.  www.mcvitieweston.co.uk  Tel:01403 864237

 

Recent Commissions

  • Carved image sign for entrance to rural school of Kingston and Iford near Lewes 

  • Buchan country Park trail markers and Centre sign

  • private commission for small carved wood shell form for interior display

  • Interpretive habitat carvings at Woods Mill near Henfield, sussex for Sussex Wildlife Trust

  • Child and Adult Portals for Warneford Hospital, Oxford.  Installed October 2008

  • Floral lintel purchased and installed in Horsham by Horsham District Council, December 2008

  • Peter's chair installed at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Arundel 16th July 2008 click here

  • Vine Tower cement sculpture for Priory School, Dorking as part of residency working with pupils

  • Park Gateway installed in Horsham Park

  • Trettin seat for Buchan Country Park

  • Lime carved panels for Old Manor Hospital Salisbury

 

Selected Recent Exhibitions

  • Partners in Art run a POP UP SHOP In Swan Walk, Horsham town centre Janine is one of 5 artists who showed new work for the brief period of 6th - 10th March.  The artists worked in the shop thoughout and talked to visitors about what they do.

  • 2012 Bentley Weald WoodFair 

  • 2012 Summer Exhibition at Ashdown Gallery (see above)

  • 2012 & 2011 Brighton Open House stone sculptures in the garden during Brighton Festival May.  45 Preston Drove BRIGHTON.  BN1 6LA.  

  • 2011 Large stone and wood carving at Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey Hampshire 

  • 2005 - 2012 Open studios in Horsham District two weekends in June each year

  • 2010 - Fanfare Gateway at Wilderness Woods, Hadlow Down, East Sussex

  • 2007 Fanfare Gateway was displayed in the RBS Spectrum show at Abbey House Gardens, Wiltshire

  • 2006 - 10 Portico Gallery, Riverhead, nr Sevenoaks, Kent.  Symbolic stone and wood head for sale. Currently 

  • 2004/5 Sculpture in the Garden, Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester University.   Sleeping Gothic Buddha (See Gothic Buddha page) was sited in the garden and included in the exhibition catalogue 

  • 2004 March, Beyond Belief, St Mary's Church, Guildford, Surrey. 4 Man exhibition of film and large cement heads on the theme of identity

  • 2003 Park Life at Egerton Park, Bexhill on sea.  see public sculpture page

  • 2002 - 2003 East West Project, at Howden Centre, West Lothian, Worthing Museum, Theatre Chipping Norton, Trinity Theatre going to Horsham's Capitol theatre gallery in October.  Drawings and cement maquettes made as a response to an interest in contemporary dance in England and dance and theatre in South India

  • 2003 Surrey and South East Open Studios.  Large amount of stone and wood carvings sited and shown in the artists garden and studio.  Included in catalogues produced for each event.  This will happen annually  

  • 2002 Junction 1:Flowers, at Lewis Elton Gallery and Dance department foyer for Borderlands Artists.  Work with South Indian dancer - produced light sculpture and drawings to go with dance demonstration.  Supported by Arts Council grant.  

  • 2001 Summer show, Garden Gallery, Broughton Hants

  • 2000 East West Heads, at the Chitraniketan Art Gallery in Trivandrum, Kerala, South India

  • 1999 Down to the Sea, stone forms of fish, shells etc displayed as part of the Summer exhibition at Alpha House Gallery in Sherborne, Dorset

  • 1999 Artists of Fame and Promise, carved heads displayed at Beaux Arts gallery in Bath

Career development

  • MA in Public Art from Chelsea School of Art and Design

  • BA (hons) Fine Art, Sculpture from the University of Northumbria

  • Exhibited in commercial galleries including Beaux Arts in Bath, Cadogan in Knightsbridge and Mc Hardy Sculpture Co near Tower Bridge, London.

  • Have permanent public art in Guildford town centre, 2 parks in West Sussex, Old Manor Hospital in Salisbury and Warneford Hospital, Oxford

  • Have been resident artist in South India twice 

  • Professional member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS)

  • Have completed many projects in schools including 10 week cross curricular project of dance, film, drawing and wire sculpture at Steyning Grammar School in West Sussex

  • Have collaborated with dancers for 2 projects.  One with contemporary dancer, Kate Lawrence producing film, drawing and light sculpture for a performance at St Catherine's Chapel, Artington, Guildford in April 2000 see web site, another with Indian dancer Anusha Ayaru for a light sculpture installation at Surrey University in 2002 (see above)

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