Thursday 10 Oct 2019
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Sir Alan Parker CBE
Friday 31 Jul 2020
Sir Alan Parker We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the great Sir Alan Parker, the legendary director of so many great films which caught the public imagination from Midnight Express in the 70’s to Evita and Angela’s Ashes and so much more. Alan’s reputation as a filmmaker is international but somehow […]
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Hugh Krall
Friday 29 May 2020
Hugh Krall (b.1924), an architect and artist who has died at the age of 96, attended my Friday Printmaking class at Heatherleys for 18 years (from 1992 -2010). A resident of Chelsea, he had built his own house near Cheyne Walk, having previously lived on a houseboat. The River Thames was the main source of […]
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Heatherleys at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2020
Monday 18 May 2020
It’s been another bumper year for Heatherleys at the annual Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition. Tim Benson, David Caldwell, Sally Ede-Golightly, Miriam Escofet, James Hague, Hero Johnson, Suzon Lagarde, Sarah Jane Moon, Carl Randall, Melissa Scott-Miller, Daniel Shadbolt, Nicola Smith, Bernadett Timko, Daphne Todd OBE, John Walton and Toby Wiggins all have work on […]
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Heatherley Lockdown Gallery
Monday 18 May 2020
Visit the Heatherley Lockdown Gallery to catch up on what everyone is creating from home during this time away from the school. If you would like to have your own work featured please email high resolution images plus your details to tad.untilnow@gmail.com who will add them to the gallery.
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The RE Originals Heatherleys Prize 2020
Monday 04 May 2020
The winner of this year’s Heatherleys Prize at the RE Originals Prints exhibition is Martin Ridgewell for his monotype ‘Siege III’. The show is online with the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers until the 30th of May.
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Heatherleys in the BP Portrait Award 2020
Monday 04 May 2020
Congratulations to Heatherleys tutors Tim Benson and Sarah Jane Moon, who have both had work selected for this year’s BP Portrait Award. Selected from 1,981 entries by artists from 69 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2020 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. The Portrait Award is an annual event aimed […]
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Jonathan Farningham in ‘Isolation’
Tuesday 21 Apr 2020
Exhibition – “Isolation” Blanco Gallery Start date: 18-04-2020 Blanco Gallery is showcasing “Isolation” an online exhibition of work by UK based artists, exploring the situation in which we all find ourselves due to Coronavirus. The exhibition discusses how people adapt to their new context and how art continues to thrive despite the circumstances. At some […]
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Sarah Jane Moon in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2020
Tuesday 21 Apr 2020
Work Heatherley alumna and tutor, Sarah Jane Moon, has been selected from almost 2,500 entries to appear in an exhibition of some of Britain’s best portraiture. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition is usually held in central London each year but this year’s show is taking place online, a first for the Society. […]
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Alla Samarina – ‘Elements of Life’
Thursday 12 Mar 2020
Heatherleys student, Alla Samarina, is holding her first solo show ‘Elements of Life’, opening this evening. PV 12th March, show continues until 29th March The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR ABOUT THE ARTIST Alla Samarina grew up in Saint Petersburg (Russia). She was involved in the underground art scene of the late […]
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Rachel Goodison – ‘What She Didn’t Say’
Thursday 12 Mar 2020
Former Portrait Diploma student,Rachel Goodison, is in a group show ‘What She Didn’t Say’ at Thames Side Studios Gallery, an enormous exhibition space by the Thames Barrier. She will be showing her 8 foot high soft sculptural installation, alongside work by artists Clare Dudeney, Justine Formentelli and Maddie Yuille. Artists talks at the […]
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Natalia Glinoer in the Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition
Friday 21 Feb 2020
Portrait Diploma student, Natalia Glinoer, has two pieces of work in the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition this week. The show is on at the Mall Galleries until the 29th of February.
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Heatherleys at Escola Trac Barcelona
Tuesday 28 Jan 2020
SHARED SPACES The Traç engraving and lithograph workshops have invited the artists from The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London to present their work alongside prints produced in Traç for the exhibition Shared Spaces. The thirty pieces on show have all been created using the “language of print making”: lithography, calcography, woodcut, monotype…The […]
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Rebecca Asghar in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year
Tuesday 28 Jan 2020
Make sure you tune in to tonight’s (January 28th) episode of Sky Portrait Artist of the Year to catch our former Portrait Diploma student Rebecca Asghar’s appearance. She says – ‘I was very pleased to be chosen to be a participant on the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2020. It was a wonderful experience meeting […]
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Farewell Phil, Hello Helena
Tuesday 17 Dec 2019
Currently following in Phil’s print room footsteps is Helena Moock, daughter of our Director of Printmaking Hilary Daltry. Helena will be on hand as print technician for both our Thursday and Friday printmaking classes. She says ‘Learning from the best, Phil Gibbs, has been a great experience and over several weeks I got to work […]
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Farewell Philip Gibbs!
Tuesday 10 Dec 2019
Nobody is quite sure when it was that Philip first arrived at Heatherleys. As far as I can remember he has always been a part of the very fabric of the school, working hard in the print room or perhaps taking a well earned break in the staff kitchen. And I think we thought he […]
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Andrew Eadington in the FBA Futures 2020
Tuesday 10 Dec 2019
Congratulations to our former Portrait Diploma student, Andrew Eadington, who has been selected for the FBA Futures 2020 exhibition. FBA Futures 2020 Contemporary figurative painting, sculpture and drawing by new graduates 6 – 18 January 2020, Mall Galleries Mall Galleries is delighted to present the eighth edition of FBA Futures, the UK’s largest annual survey […]
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Dr Alison Smith – Curator’s Tour of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition
Tuesday 10 Dec 2019
We were very privileged to receive a tour of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery’s Chief Curator, Dr Alison Smith. Heatherleys has many historical links with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, not least in Joanna Boyce Wells who was a student here and who is quoted as saying ‘I have a talent and the […]
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Jonathan Farningham at the Scottish Portrait Awards
Tuesday 10 Dec 2019
Congratulations to our former Portrait Diploma student, Jonathan Farningham, who has a self portrait in this year’s Scottish Portrait Awards. The exhibition will tour around Scotland for seven months. Jonathan says ‘I have always found self-portraiture fascinating, for it represents the artist without embellishment, caught in the moment of making, tools in hand.’ He was […]
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Heatherleys at the Rainbow Honours 2019
Wednesday 04 Dec 2019
Heatherleys was proud to be represented at the inaugural Rainbow Honours at Madame Tussaud’s last week. ‘Four of us from Heatherleys attended the Rainbow Honours Award Ceremony on the 4th of December on behalf of the school. We were short-listed for an award in the Small Brand category for supporting and championing members of the […]
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The Heatherley Bankside Staff Show 2020
Wednesday 26 Feb 2020
The Heatherley Bankside Staff Show 2020 25th February – 27th February 2020. 11am – 6pm daily Private View: Wednesday 26th February 6pm – 8pm Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton St SE1 9JH
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Nicholas Baldion wins the Mr Heatherley Prize
Tuesday 10 Dec 2019
Congratulations to Nicholas Baldion who has won the Mr Heatherley Composition Prize 2019. He says: ‘I’m very proud to have won the Mr Heatherley prize for figure composition with this painting. “The Arrest of the Tolpuddle Martyrs”. Espicially considering the highstandands of my fellow artists. I’ve always enjoyed how the old masters would take a […]
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Christina Niederberger – Common Threads
Tuesday 12 Nov 2019
Christina Niederberger – Commons Threads KABINETT VISARTE ZÜRICH Private View: 16. December 5pm – 9pm Exhibition runs: 17th December to 3rd of January
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Sophie Balhetchet and Helen Adie – Works on Paper
Monday 11 Nov 2019
Sophie Balhetchet and Helen Adie – Works on Paper Heatherleys 4th November – 22nd November 1pm – 4pm daily by appointment only ‘You find yourself standing in a strange and ancient desert. You’re on a remote shore staring out over a vast ocean. You notice a curious fragment in the sand – of bone or […]
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Heatherleys at The Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2019
Monday 11 Nov 2019
A large number of Heatherley students, alumni and tutors have work in this year’s Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries, including Tim Benson, Adebanji Alade, Alice Boggis Rolfe, Rydal Handbury, Suzon Lagarde, Michael Jules Lang, Luis Morris, Lisa Puhlhofer and Bernadett Timko. The Royal Institute of Oil PaintersThe Mall Galleries27th November […]
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Minna Stevens – ‘Colour & Light’
Monday 28 Oct 2019
Minna Stevens Colour and Light: Landscapes, Portraits, Still Lives ‘Painting familiar and much-loved subjects but scrutinising them for colour and light is a curious challenge. It is harder to see the things closest to us. I have to fight my knowledge of them. In my painting boundaries that define discrete objects soften or dissolve and equal […]
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Heatherleys is Shortlisted for a Rainbow Honours Award
Wednesday 04 Dec 2019
Heatherleys is proud to be shortlisted for a Rainbow Honours Award. ‘The Rainbow Honours, a celebration of those who have stood out in their support for the LGBTQ+ community will take place on 4th December at Madame Tussauds in London. Honours will go to the people and organisations who show commitment to equality all year round […]
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Paulina Pluta – Exhibition of Recent Work
Wednesday 16 Oct 2019
Paulina Pluta – Exhibition of Recent Work Please join us for a glass of wine at the Private View of Paulina Pluta’s latest exhibition. Paulina will be showing a collection of recent work including drawings, paintings and etchings. Private View Wednesday 16th October between 6pm-8pm
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Jonathan Farningham – In the Studio
Monday 30 Sep 2019
Jonathan Farningham in the Studio Since graduating from the Portrait Diploma Jonathan Farningham has been taking part in ‘In the Studio’. He tells us: ‘“In the Studio” is an initiative led by Mall Galleries to equip emerging talent with the opportunities and tools to take the next step on their artistic pathways. I have had […]
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Sarah Jane Moon – Queer Portraits
Saturday 02 Nov 2019
Celebrating Queer Life Through Portraiture Queer Portraits is a groundbreaking exhibition of artist Sarah Jane Moon’s large scale portraits of people who identify as LGBTQI+ or queer. Opening on November 2nd, this show represents the main drive of Moon’s artistic practice since 2014 and will be the first time these paintings have been shown en […]
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Bernadette Timko at the Royal Society of British Artists 2019
Tuesday 09 Jul 2019
Congratulations to former Portrait Diploma and Sculpture Diploma student, Bernadette Timko, who has been awarded the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award at this year’s Society of British Artists exhibition. The show is on at the Mall Galleries until the 14th July 2019.
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Flora Yukhnovich – Victoria Miro
Friday 07 Jun 2019
7th June - 27th July
Former Portrait Diploma student, Flora Yukhnovich, is currently exhibiting at the Victoria Miro Gallery. ‘Victoria Miro in association with The Great Women Artists presents a summer exhibition featuring three young artists who rethink traditional genres to touch upon themes of migration, the workplace, and the gendered language of painting. Founded by Katy Hessel in 2015 @thegreatwomenartists is an […]
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Heatherleys at the R.A. Summer Show
Friday 05 Jul 2019
Melissa Scott-Miller and Hilary Daltry both have work in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. They were students together at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1977-81 and both now teach at Heatherleys. The photos show Melissa with ‘Islington Back Garden with Self’ and Hilary with ‘ Six Peaches’, a woodcut print, […]
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Antony Williams – Recent Paintings from the Studio
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Antony Williams is holding a solo show at Messums next month. ‘Recent Painting from the studio’ Wednesday 3 July – Friday 2 August 2019 Messums London 28 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG
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Heatherleys at the Ruth Borchard Competition 2019
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Heatherleys has been well represented at this year’s Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition with staff, students and alumni alike all being selected for exhibition. Those with work on display included Rebecca Asghar, Alice Boggis-Rolfe, Laura Smith, Melissa Scott Miller, Nicolas Granger-Taylor, Ruth Smith and Elizabeth Shields.
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Rebecca Asghar in the Ruth Borchard Exhibition 2019
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Congratulations to Portrait Diploma student, Rebecca Asghar, who has had her self portrait selected for the Ruth Borchard Competition 2019. She says ‘I am very happy to have been selected for the Biennial Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition, a curated four month exhibition. This painting previously won the Mr Heatherley prize in November 2018, so […]
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Sarah Jane Moon in the BP Portrait Award 2019
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Heatherleys tutor, Sarah Jane Moon, has been selected for this year’s BP Portrait Award with her painting ‘Dr Ronx’. Sarah Jane says ‘My initial sitting with Dr Ronx took place in my Brixton studio and involved a number of different outfits. Ronx is known for their very particular contemporary style – they have a penchant […]
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Sophie Brudenell-Bruce – ‘Mummy’s Chocolate Cake’ (recipes and memories)
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Sophie Brudenell Bruce will be holding an exhibition and book launch, ‘Mummy’s Chocolate Cake’ (recipes and memories). She says: ‘The project started 14 years ago when I decided to write down a few favourite recipes for family and friends.This coincided with my initiation into printmaking; etching, Lino printing, lithography and collagraphs. After a short intensive […]
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Heatherleys at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2019
Wednesday 08 May 2019
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019 has opened at the Mall Galleries today. As ever there is a wealth of work on display from Heatherley staff, students and alumni. Particular congratulations go to James Hague who was awarded the RP Prize for his painting ‘Tom’. Mall Galleries 9th May to 24th […]
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Jane Clatworthy on Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
Thursday 28 Mar 2019
Former Portrait Diploma student, Jane Clatworthy, recently made an appearance on Episode 4 of this year’s Sky Portrait Artist of the Year competition. She says of the experience ‘I wasn’t actually going to enter for the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year, but a member of the production team encouraged me to try and a […]
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David Weekes – Solo Show
Tuesday 18 Jun 2019
Former Heatherley Portrait Diploma student, David Weekes, will be holding a solo exhibition at the Piers Feetham gallery in Fulham where he will be showing a wide selection of recent work. Private View: Tuesday 18th June from 6.30pm to 8.30pm Exhibition continues until Saturday 22nd June Piers Feetham Gallery, 475 Fulham Road, London SW6 1HL […]
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Heatherleys at the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2019
Tuesday 12 Mar 2019
Melissa Scott-Miller and Hero Johnson both have work in the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize exhibition this year. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation to encourage the very best creative representational painting and to promote the skill of draughtsmanship. With prize money of £35,000 – including a […]
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Yvonne Langley selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Monday 18 Feb 2019
Portrait Diploma student, Yvonne Langley, has been chosen by John Walton to be his invited artist at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition this year. Yvonne says ‘ I am thrilled to have had my portrait of Jean chosen by Heatherley’s Professor Emeritus John Walton, on behalf of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. […]
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Maureen Nathan joins the Royal West of England Academy
Wednesday 30 Jan 2019
Former Portrait Diploma student, Maureen Nathan, has been accepted as an Artist Network member of the Royal West of England Academy. This membership affords more involvement with the RWA and participation in a network of a peer group of artists. She looks forward to working on education programmes and the preparation and set up of […]
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The Open Studio Exhibition
Wednesday 05 Dec 2018
Hilary Daltry’s Open Studio Exhibition opened on Wednesday December 5th and was well received by students and tutors alike. It will be on display around the school until January 11th 2019. Congratulations go to Julia Page who was this years winner of the Open Studio Helen Wilson Prize.
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Jayson Singh at the Wallace Collection
Friday 09 Nov 2018
As part of this year’s Diwali celebrations, Jayson was commissioned to create a live Rangoli-based centrepiece for the Wallace Collection Museum’s Friday Lates public art event. Having discovered this decorative art form first hand whilst travelling around India, Jayson has reinvented this practice to encourage public artistic creativity. So armed with an array of […]
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Heatherley Prize Winners at the Royal Society of Oil Painters
Wednesday 28 Nov 2018
Two Heatherley Portrait Diploma alumni are amongst the prize winners at this year’s Royal Society of Oil Painters annual exhibition. Stuart Howitt has received the Winsor & Newton Non-Member Award for his painting ‘ Simian Simulacrum’ and Bernadette Timko has won both the Phyllis Roberts Prize for ‘The Last Day’ and Second Prize in the […]
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Rebecca Asghar wins the Mr Heatherley Composition Prize
Tuesday 27 Nov 2018
Congratulations to Rebecca Asghar who has won this year’s Mr Heatherly Composition Prize. The award is made annually by our former Principal, John Walton RP, for the best three-figure portrait painting. The competition is based upon the Slade composition prize which John won himself in his youth. Rebecca says ‘My painting, a three figure self […]
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Take Four at the Menier Gallery
Tuesday 04 Dec 2018
An exhibition of work by: Jessica Gale, Lucy Heath, Emma Johnston and Sarah Rivett-Carnac 4-8 December 2018 Private View: 4 Dec 6.30pm – 8.30pm Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark St, SE1 1RU Four contemporary artists exhibiting together for the first time at the Menier Gallery. They met at The Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London and […]
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The Lots Road Group – Connected
Friday 30 Nov 2018
CONNECTED: THE CHANGING FACE OF BRITAIN PRIVATE VIEW: 30th November 6.30pm-8.30pm Exhibition continues: Monday, 26 November-Thursday 10 January 2019 Waterstones Lower Floor Gallery, 82 Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6EQ The Lots Road Group’s latest exhibition presents a microcosm of contemporary British society through the artists’ own connection to family and friends. Seventeen […]
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Hero Johnson awarded The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Friday 16 Nov 2018
Congratulations to Hero Johnson who has been awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant is one of the most prestigious grants available to emerging figurative artists, as well as one of the most substantial. It is one of the longest standing, with an illustrious history of recipients spanning more than half […]
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Tony Mott – Works on Paper
Tuesday 20 Nov 2018
Tony Mott’s solo Show ‘Works on Paper’ will be on display at The Art Movement, 61 Queenstown Road, London, SW8 3RG from the 21st November to the 4th of December. Private View: Tuesday 20th November 6pm- 8pm Mott says ‘The images explore the substructure and aspects of identity regarding the human head. Whilst paper remains […]
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Sarah Jane Moon – Threesome in Liverpool
Saturday 03 Nov 2018
THREESOME PV: Saturday 3rd November 6-9pm Presented by DuoVision as part of Homotopia Festival 2018. Threesome is an exhibition of personal responses to the female gaze by three renowned contemporary lesbian painters. Sadie Lee, Roxana Halls and Sarah Jane Moon have painted themselves, each other and the cult cabaret performer Ursula Martinez in an exhibition […]
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Jonathan Farningham at the Scottish Portrait Awards
Tuesday 16 Oct 2018
Huge congratulations go to former Portrait Diploma student, Jonathan Farningham, whose self-portrait has been selected for the Scottish Portrait Awards. He says: ‘I applied to the Scottish Portrait Awards without really expecting anything to come from it, and when I received a call from the organisers saying that my portrait was accepted – I couldn’t […]
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Heatherleys at the Society of Women Artists
Friday 28 Sep 2018
25 Sep - 30 Sep
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Sharon Low, Celia Normand and Natalie Glinoer all have work on display at the 157th Society of Women Artists annual exhibition. The show was opened by the HRH Princess Michael of Kent on the 25th of September and continues at the Mall Galleries until the 30th of September. Demonstrations and workshops taking place during the […]
Heatherleys Miriam Escofet wins the BP Portrait Award
A huge congratulations from everyone at Heatherleys to Miriam Escofet for her win at the BP Portrait Award this week! Miriam says ‘I’m completely delighted and overwhelmed to win 1st Prize. My students are obviously delighted as they see the techniques that I’m teaching them being put into practice and validated’. Miriam’s painting will be […]
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Miriam Escofet – Figurativas 2017
22 September - 26 November 2017
A huge congratulations to Miriam Escofet who has had a painting of her mother accepted for the prestigious Figuratives 2017 exhibition. ’An Angel At My Table’ will be on display at MEAM from the 22nd of September to the 26th of November. MEAM (Museu Europeu d’Art Modern) Barcelona Spain Share this event!
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’Human’ – Gigi Salomon and Uta Brouet Exhibition
7 Oct - 18 Dec 2017
Uta Brouet and Gigi Salomon are showing their recent work at ‘HUMAN’ – an exhibition of sculpture, paintings and photography by 9 London-based female artists. Open Day 7th October 11am – 3pm. To come and see the exhibition on this Open Day, you will have to register with the German Embassy. Register here Gigi says: […]
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’Panoptic’ at the Menier Gallery
28 November - 2 December 2017
PANOPTIC: An Art Exhibition by Four Women Artists Shannon Donnan, Jessica Gale, Carrie Jean Goldsmith and Lucy Heath. Four artists, four styles, four sets of eyes, four different views. For this exhibition Shannon, Jessica, Carrie Jean and Lucy, all Heatherley’s alumni, bring together their collective works to illustrate the varied and different ways in which […]
In Memory of Linda Nugent
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Linda Nugent. She died at home in France on the 3rd February having battled with cancer for the past 18 months. She was a well loved member of staff and a greatly intelligent influence on students over the many years of her involvement with […]