Staff & Student Highlight: Society of Women Artists 162nd Annual Open Exhibition 2023
The Society of Women Artists presents its 62nd Annual Open Exhibition 2023. Each year a number of Heatherleys staff and students submit their work. This years’ show includes works by Heatherleys tutors Sharon Low and Sarah Jane Moon, student Celia Normand and many more.
Dates
Exhibition Open to the Public
Tuesday 6 June
2pm until 5pm
7 – 10 June 2023
10am to 5pm daily
7 June 10am to 5pm invites required*
Exhibition Closes
Saturday 10 June, closing time 5pm
Fees and Invitations
£3 entry fee
*Email societyofwomenartists@gmail.com for invites.
Location
North, East & West Gallery
Mall Galleries
The Mall, St. James’s
London SW1Y 5AS
The nearest Tube Stations are Green Park and Charring Cross station.
Private View
You are cordially invited by Helen Sinclair, President Council and Members of the Society of Women Artists to the private view of the 162nd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists.
Wednesday 7 June 2023
10am – 5pm
Location
North, East & West Gallery
Mall Galleries
The Mall, St. James’s
London SW1Y 5AS
HRH Princess Michael of Kent, Patron of the Society, will open the Exhibition and present the awards at 11am.
The above two prints by Celia Normand were both selected for this years’ Society of Women Artists annual exhibition.
Heatherleys Exhibitors
Sarah Jane Moon – Website / Instagram
Sarah Jane Moon is a London based portrait and figurative painter who explores identity, gender, and connection to place. Her large-scale, gestural paintings are suffused with a love of color, surface, and oil paint.
Sarah studied at Heatherleys on the Portrait Diploma. She has exhibited her work at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club, and New Zealand Portrait Gallery, among others. She has received numerous awards, including the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture, and is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper*, and Studio International.
Sharon Low – Website / Instagram
Sharon Low | Liu Guo Fei SWA is a British-Australian artist of Peranakan Chinese heritage. She is a fine artist printmaker, painter, and maker of artist books. Her work has been exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts, Mall Galleries and the Bankside Gallery.
Low is currently a graduate student at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Her extensive studies include an MA in Visual Arts: Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London (UAL), the Heatherleys’ Diploma in Portraiture and Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
Low’s work often explores themes of family and friends, “contemplating the idea that, as we age, life is written on our faces, our hands, and the way we hold ourselves, telling the stories of all the tragedies, happiness, laughter and tears“.
Celia Normand – Instagram
Celia Normand graduated with a BA honours in 1976 as a textile designer, at Winchester school of art. She then went to work as a designer, but in 1998 came to Heatherleys to study watercolour with then tutor, now Heatherleys’ Principal, Veronica Ricks. She also studied drawing with Tony Rothan and printmaking with Hilary Daltry. She’s hardly missed a term missed ever since!
She completed Heatherleys Diploma in Painting and Printmaking in 2012, and the Post Diploma in 2013. Since then she has been printmaking at Heatherley regularly on Thursdays. She has exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society, the Dulwich art Gallery, the Chelsea Arts Society, and The Society of Women Artists.
Find them at Heatherleys
Sharon Low teaches book making on the Sculpture Diploma and the occasional printmaking short course. Check out our printmaking courses here.
Celia Normand is a student on our Thursday daytime Printmaking Course with Maggie Jennings and Ron Best.