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Jenny Purrett

Newcastle
I am artist and facilitator in equal measures. In 2021, I founded DRAW studio in order to create a space where people can come together to explore, to experiment and share in the experience of that fundamental urge we all have to make marks.
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My practice centres on drawing and making in response to the natural world. It is something I do  to connect myself to the world around me, rooting me to a place and moment in time. I see these my work (drawings, assemblages, constructions and installations) as collaborations, letting all of the elements involved (materials, weather, my surroundings, other people) work together, watching to see if, and where, the magic will happen.

 

 

Lived Experience

I settled in Northumberland in 2011 after a year-long residency with VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities), Highgreen , Northumberland.

BA Fine Art, Birmingham Polytechnic (1994), PGCE art education, Moray House Institute, Edinburgh (1998), MFA, Bath Spa University (2009)

 

SeaglassRockPorcelain

Assembled

Powder Drawing

The line lived/ The line relived

Skin

Shot Paper

Woolgathering (I)

Year Long Line

Felt Sheets (installation view)

Mono prints

Line as Experience (II)

Swarm

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