Jeanette Orrell
Newtown
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I am interested in making things- working in a fine art way using craft skills and materials within my work. My work draws inspiration from the everyday and ordinary objects which have a bearing on me and my life. I have worked extensively on landscape drawings; drawing and redrawing the views from my windows and am interested in ideas relating to the home and domesticity. More recently, my work has been engaging with textiles and with the process of indigo dyeing which I learnt in Japan whilst on a Creative Wales grant in 2017.
Qualifications and training
1983 - BA Hons in Three Dimensional Design: Ceramics, Camberwell School of Arts, London
Solo exhibitions
2010 - Drawing the Domestic - Drahtobjekte und Zeichnungen von Jeanette Orrell, Deutschen Drahtmuseum , Altena, Germany
2008 - Delineated, Galeri, Caernarfon
2006 - Drawing the Domestic, Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales
2004 - Jeanette Orrell, Studio 8. Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales
Group exhibitions
2011 - Coedwig (Forest), Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen
2011 - Cyfres Cyfyngedig / Limited Edition, Amgueddfa ac Oriel Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor, Bangor
2011 - Wunderland, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff
2009 - Drawn Form: Drawings by Jeanette Orrell & Ceramics by David Binns, Denbigh Library Gallery, Denbigh
2008 - Making Stories, Flow Gallery, Notting Hill
2008 - RE:drawing, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2007 - Steffan Jones-Hughes and Jeanette Orrell, the Brindley, Runcorn, Halton
2005 - Y Tabernacl Open, MOMA Cymru, Machynlleth
2002 - Wales Drawing Biennial, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and touring, Mid Wales
Workshops
2009 - Drawing Workshop, Denbigh Library Gallery, Denbigh
1991 - Various workshops in venues around the UK, Oriel Mostyn, Ruthin Craft Centre, Schools, across UK