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Thanks for stopping by my site. I am based in Suffolk in the Uk. If you are interested in buying works, commissioning a piece or would like to visit the studio please do get in touch! info@periennechristian.co.uk
ARTIST STATEMENT My work looks at landscapes and their stories and the role of the feminine. I am curious about the ways in which feminine power and knowing has been obliterated and cast aside. I am unearthing connections to the old ways, including stories about medicine women; those who understood and knew about medicinal plants and their properties and the sacred portals of birth and death. So many of these women were killed in the witch hunts and their knowledge went with them. But this knowledge and knowing is returning. I have just begun a new project called Herstory: Full Circle, inspired by the writing of Jane Hardwicke Collings, “Herstory: a womanifsto’ which delves into this theme further. Scale and perspectives are not literal in my work. The space I am creating reflects that described by Blaise Pascal; ‘an infinite space whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere.’ There are no obvious narratives here; rather something circular that has no beginning and no ending. Despite multiple viewpoints, the works carry stories, which the viewer can interpret for themselves. As in 15th century Chinese Shan Shui painting, the image is not an open window for the viewer’s eyes, but an object for the viewer’s mind, a vehicle for philosophy. SHORT BIO I was awarded a scholarship to study at the at the Royal Drawing School in London in 2006, where I now teach drawing and printmaking; courses that emphasise the cross over from observation into imagination. I work as a freelance art tutor and have taught at many art institutions including the V&A, the Tate and the Art Academy in London. I have exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Art, Buckingham Palace and Christie’s in New York. My work is held in many public and private collections. From 2009-2011 I sat for a painting for the artist Lucian Freud, the last he completed before he died, in 2011. |
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My Hobbies Include...
Fermenting: Anything. I make my own yoghurt, fermented vegetables and sparkling drinks.
Walking: I love nothing better than to walk along the wild and isolated Suffolk coastline, with my lurcher dog Stanley, dreaming and collecting interesting items to draw.
Dreaming: I spend a good deal of my time day dreaming. It's how inspiration strikes, honest!
Some words about my work by the artist and critic William Feaver
You have to start somewhere and for Perienne Christian the start is part place part feeling. Her works may begin with a setting ‐Kensington Gardens or, nearer home, Horniman Gardens‐ but they sprout and ramify, seeding into imagined lands and situations.
I could suggest that, as she happens to be living in Brockley, just a few streets away from Howson Road where he was reared in the 1900’s, Perienne has attuned herself somehow to the mystical HB pencilled vision of the poet‐painter David Jones. She hasn’t, because that’s not her style. She’s too observant, besides which she was barely aware of his work until well after she moved into the neighbourhood. There is however an affinity. Like Jones (and like the fairyland‐frieze‐painter Henry Darger who died in 1973 a year before Jones and in greater obscurity) she has a passion for the ins and outs of storytelling. Brought up with books and no TV and having therefore read her way through myth and fiction, now in her pieces, she concocts scenes, complete in themselves, that demand the attention, the perusal, that all good poetry requires.
These drawings are not illustrative. They are ruminative. The eye lights on crow or traveller, a bend in the road leading to higher ground, here and there a stretch of colour or sudden dark patch. Some people are leading figures, others are incidental, yet they are all equally animate, vividly embedded where needs must in each providential scheme of things. There’s a lovely exploratory quality here, a sense of the fabric of life.
William Feaver is a painter, writer and former art critic for the Observer.
I could suggest that, as she happens to be living in Brockley, just a few streets away from Howson Road where he was reared in the 1900’s, Perienne has attuned herself somehow to the mystical HB pencilled vision of the poet‐painter David Jones. She hasn’t, because that’s not her style. She’s too observant, besides which she was barely aware of his work until well after she moved into the neighbourhood. There is however an affinity. Like Jones (and like the fairyland‐frieze‐painter Henry Darger who died in 1973 a year before Jones and in greater obscurity) she has a passion for the ins and outs of storytelling. Brought up with books and no TV and having therefore read her way through myth and fiction, now in her pieces, she concocts scenes, complete in themselves, that demand the attention, the perusal, that all good poetry requires.
These drawings are not illustrative. They are ruminative. The eye lights on crow or traveller, a bend in the road leading to higher ground, here and there a stretch of colour or sudden dark patch. Some people are leading figures, others are incidental, yet they are all equally animate, vividly embedded where needs must in each providential scheme of things. There’s a lovely exploratory quality here, a sense of the fabric of life.
William Feaver is a painter, writer and former art critic for the Observer.
CV
Education
2014-15 PGCE- post graduate certificate of education - Canterbury Christ Church University
2006‐2007 The Royal Drawing School, London, Masters Diploma - Scholarship place.
2005 Leipzig Academy of Art, Germany, Exchange program
2003‐2006 Bath Spa Universty. Fine Art and Creative writing, 1st class hons.
Awards and Residencies
2019 shortlisted for the Sunday Times Watercolour Prize.
2018 Artist in Residence: Dumfries House Scotland
2017 Artist in Residence: The Lookout Gallery: Aldeburgh
2014 Artist in residence, Pignano Italy on the Moritz- Heyman residency programme.
2010 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize
2009‐2010 Artist in Residence, Chats Palace Arts Centre, London, Hackney
2008 Artist in residence, Kensington Palace
2007 The Chairman’s first prize, The Royal Drawing School (Panel: Ivor Braka, Andrew Stahl, Andrea Rose, Charles Booth‐Clibborn)
2006 Scholarship for year of study, The Royal Drawing School.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Notes from the Edge: As part of the Alde Valley Spring Festival
2018 Between Lines: As part of the Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk
2017 Everyday Weeds - The Lookout - Caroline Wiseman, Aldeburgh.
2012 Running With Wolves, Labomirov‐Easton Gallery, London.
2010 Scene/Heard Journey to the back of the Yard, cueB Gallery, London.
2007 Outside Inside, Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk
2020 Art For Light: art auction for National Black Justice Coalition & International Rescue Yemen
2020 Charleston Inspires: Art auction to raise money for the Charleston Trust
2019 Sunday Times Watercolour exhibition
2019 The Tree of Lives, a 15’ collaborative mural with Timothy Hyman RA & Luci Eyers, Barbican Arts Trust Studios.
2019 Purslane Peas & Bladderwrack at Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh at Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival.
2019 Contemporary landscape painting, Buckingham Palace, the Royal Drawing School.
2019 Uneasy: a two-woman show with Amelia Power as part of Deptford X Festival, London
2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2019 Urban Landscapes, Gallery East, Suffolk
2019 Restlessness, Gallery East Suffolk
2018 Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk
2016 Exhibition of drawings, Christie's New York.
2015 20/21 British Art Fair, John Iddon Fine Art gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2015 Signal Failure: The Argon of Romance and Triumph, Maverick projects, Safe Houses 1&2, London
2013 20/21 international art fair, John Iddon Fine Art gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2013 A place of departure, 44AD gallery, Bath
2013 CueB Gallery group show, London
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, invited by Tess Jaray, Royal Academy, London
2012 Kaleid Editions Artist book fair, Borough, London
2012 CueB group show, London
2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2011 Bite, Contemporary Printmaking, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Chat’s Palace Art Auction, V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
2011 Words have Power, London, Crampton Street
2011 Summer Exhibition, CueB Gallery, London
2010 Auction East, Five hundred Dollars Gallery, London, Vyner st
2010 The Winter’s Waysgoose, Copped Hall, Epping
2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood space, London and various other venues across the country.
2010 Permanent Group Show, Dean St Townhouse, Soho House.
2009 V,Thomas Williams fine art, London, Bond St.
2009 Kunskog, 5 Hundred Dollars Gallery. London, Vyner St.
2009 Wickcentrics, Hackney Wicked festival, Hackney Wick
2009 We are such things as dreams are made on, Mission Space, London, Hackney Wick.
2009 April is the Cruellest Month, RK Burt Gallery, London, Southwark.
2008 Loop 08, The Menier Gallery, London, Southwark.
2008, RoMaMa, Museum of Modern art, Nairobi, Kenya
2008 Paper Scissors Stone, The London Print Studio, Harrow Road.
2007 High Tea, T‐Building, London Shoreditch.
2007 The Drawing Year, The Prince’s Drawing School.
2007 Art@RUH, Royal United Hospital, Bath
2006 New Friends, John Betjeman Centenary Celebration, Bristol.
2006 Bath Spa Arts show, Bath
2005 Funf und Vierzig, Leipzig, Germany
Professional Experience
Current - Printmaking tutor, The Royal Drawing School
Current - Life Drawing tutor, The Royal Drawing School
Current - Workshop leader and personal tutor. The Art Foundation course - the Royal Drawing School
Current - Freelance art and creativity workshop leader - clients include Walker Books, the Art Academy & the V &A
2008‐2011 Model, Lucian Freud
2007‐2008 Painting Technician, Jonathan Yeo Studio, London
Collections
HRH The Prince of Wales, Leipzig Academy, Leipzig Buch Halle, Soho House,
various private collections nationally and internationally
Publications
Thames and Hudson: Ways of Drawing, Wire Magazine, Poetry in Aldeburgh: The Poetry School, MPT magazine.