1620 Vivienne Owen 08/07/2022 EDIT PUBLIC PROFILE Your Profile Picture Drop files here or Select files Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, Max. file size: 256 MB. 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Viv chooses her subjects from familiar dramas, aiming to portray a key moment of anticipation or reaction. The paintings contain visual clues that they come from a screen: glitches, flashes and interference patterns. Viv hopes viewers will find them puzzling and intriguing, and with a little consideration, relatable.What steps did you take to get where you are now?Built on six-year career in graphic design for print by returning to further education to develop and formalise skills in visual art. Foundation Level Art, Stockport College Cheshire, BA (Hons) Bradford College, MA at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2000. Working as a lecturer, obtained PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education 2006. Viv works in a wide variety of settings: colleges, schools, prisons, art studios, museums, galleries, outdoor festivals. Courses delivered include Creative Doctors degree course module at Leeds University, BTEC in Art, Introduction to Pencil Drawing. Community based workshops designed to meet the needs of diverse groups including mental health service users, people with visual impairment, older people, school children, family groups, peer to peer with artists and creative practitioners. Studio practice: After sharing studio spaces with artists groups in Bradford and Hebden Bridge, moved into Westgate Studios in 2011.Exhibits regularly with Artwalk Wakefield. Working methods include: painting freehand portraits in oils from digitally manipulated self-sourced photographs of mass media. Daily Drawings online project since January 2012. Regularly exhibits in London with FLUX, including at The Design District in 2021 and 2022. Notable local exhibitions include ‘Pause/Play’ at The Project Space, Westgate Studios for Index Festival Wakefield in 2019, and ‘A Splash of Colour’ at Bowery Visual Arts, Headingley with fellow studio holder Helen Field in 2022What type of creative opportunities are you looking for?Networking, creative workshops, collaborations, exhibition opportunities, illustration, digital opportunities, education opportunitiesAnswer as many of the following questions as you like to enhance your profile pageMy dream creative collaboration would be...What does Wakefield mean to you?My creative home! I'm very proud to be a part of Artwalk Wakefield, and to get radio presenter Stuart Maconie over to visit and write about it in his book 'Pie at Night' (by talking to him about it on BBC 6Music)My proudest momentCreating a painting of my music hero Martyn Ware (Human League/Heaven 17) which he now owns and has hanging in his studio!An unexpected thing about meTick any that apply to youCreative Services Architecture & Planning Creative Education Creative Producing Design Services Graphic Design Marketing & Advertising Other Product Design Set Design Technical Production Creative Content Animation Digital Content Creation Games Design Other Photography Publishing Radio & Podcasts TV & Film Creative Original Apparel & Fashion Arts & Crafts Creative Writing Fine Art Other Sculpture Creative Experiences Dance Libraries Museums and Heritage Music Other Performing Arts Theatre Creative Digital App Development AR & VR Computer Networking Other Software Development Web Design Showcase your workYour video showreel Copy and paste the URL of your Vimeo or YouTube videoUpload up to 5 showcase imagesShowcase image 1 Drop files here or Select files Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, Max. file size: 10 MB. 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