Elizabeth Turrell

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:
Lowestoft School of Art, Suffolk
Central School of Art and Design, London

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1999-2003 - AHRB Three year Fellowship in the Creative & Performing Arts Fellowship based at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol.

1996 - to date Co-director: STUDIO FUSION. Centre for Vitreous Enamel OXO TOWER WHARF, South Bank, London.

1993-97 - British Society of Enamellers: Chairperson. 1988- Member Selection Committee. 1987-98 Executive.

1993-99 - Trustee: Enamelist Society, USA. International Committee. Enamelist Society USA

2001 - Surface Design Group

1991 - The Large Scale Enamelling Foundation Advisory Board. Kent State University, Ohio, USA.

1999 - Member of the Working Group: The Future of Craft Education and the Crafts. USA

TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST:
1974-2000 - School of Art and Design, Bristol Polytechnic, then became Filton College 1990.
Associate Lecturer 0.6: Enamelling, Foundation 3D and Surface Design.

1987-2000 - Bristol Polytechnic until 1992 then became University of the West of England.
Visiting Tutor: Foundation / BA (Hons) Ceramics / MA Print.

1988 - Visiting Tutor Enamelling Programme San Diego State University Spring Semester.

1990 - Towson State University Maryland USA Spring Semester

1998 - Visiting Artist: Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India Lectures: National Museum of Modern Art. New Delhi / Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay. Sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

2001 - Visiting Artist for The Enamelist Society India . Workshop at the Crafts Museum Delhi, India.
Workshop for Public Artists, Bellevue Community College, Seatte WA USA

CURATOR/COORDINATOR:
1992 - The Bristol Connection, Smiths Gallery London 1992

1992 - With Dr F Smith Kent State University. OH, USA. British Society of Enamellers at Eells Gallery

1995 - Coordinator(Art) with Dr Matthew Holley (Science) Dept of Physiology, Bristol University.
Look Hear Exhibition Gallery Two 10 Wellcome Trust. Travelled until 1999. Now at Filton College.

1996-97 - Fusion: Enamel as a Creative Medium, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

1999 - Print in Enamel Part 1 & 2 Studio Fusion, Oxo Tower Wharf South Bank London and IMPACT: International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference UWE 1999

2001 - Contemporary Print in Enamel School of Art Gallery, Kent State University March 2001, then travelling:
East Carolina University and Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio

1999 - Alastair Gill Gallery British Society of Enamellers

2000 - International Enamel Symposium 2000 UWE Bristol Symposium and Workshop coordinator

2000/1 - Colour & Light Indian Enamel Exhibition 2001. Crafts Museum, New Delhi.
Exhibition coordinator with Harlan W Butt, University of North Texas USA. Contributor to catalogue.

COMMISSIONS:
2002 - CATALIS Public Art Project. Emerson Green Library Control Desk. South Gloucestershire Council
Contributor to Tree of Life Exhibition. To be exhibited in primary health care centres in Summer 2002 Coordinator Dr Geoffrey Farrer-Brown

1999-2001 - Coordinator / Artist for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children: Commission for Significant and Major
Donors Recognition plaques in enamel for The Grand Appeal.

1999 - -National Library of Women - The New Fawcett Library. Guildhall University. London.
Produced 2 Commemorative pieces for the new building

1999-2002 - Book for A&C Black on Contemporary Enamelling

COLLECTIONS:
1992 - Goldsmith and Enamel Museum. Vilnius Lithuania.
2001 - National Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh.

AWARDS:
1987 - Porcelain jewellery selected by Design Council, London 1987
1988 - 8th Biennale International L'Art de L'Email Limoges, France. Prize for Metal and Enamel
1987 - International Exhibition of Enamelling Royal Ueno Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Chairman's Prize for Excellence
1996 - 9th Int Exh of Enamelling Art of Japan. Award
1998 - sponsored by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations/ Sanskriti Kendra. / Delhi Craft Council to teach
a workshop at Sanskriti, Delhi.
1999 - Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers

MEDIA:
1988 - Programme 12 of Makers HTV
1995 - Feature Look Hear Exhibition, Woman's Hour BBC

EXHIBITIONS:
2002 - Northern Californian Enamel Guild Juried Show. The Richmond Art Centre CA USA

Invited: 36th Int Enamelling Art Ex: Japan Enamelling Artist Ass. Royal Ueno Museum. Tokyo Catalogue

Metal Under Glass: A Collection of Contemporary Metal and Enamel Work. (Invitational) Catalogue
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield Missouri, USA
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2001 Color and Reflection: Enamelist Society Juried Ex. Arrowmont Sch of Arts and Crafts, TN USA Catalogue

International Quartet: Robert Ebendorf and Deborah Lozier USA Jane Short and Elizabeth Turrell UK
Studio Fusion Oxo Tower Wharf London.

Influential Faculty at Arrowmont. The Trout Gallery, Dickenson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

Feat of Clay. UWE Exhibition at the V&A Museum London

Bilston Enamel Collection & Contemporary Enamel Artists. Bilston Craft Gallery and Museum.

Contemporary Print in Enamel (Curator and catalogue editor)
School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio USA

Print on Ceramic-Artists' Mugs 'Get Mugged'
Manhattan Graphic Centre. New York USA. Studio Fusion Oxo Tower Wharf, London
AKI Academy of Visual Arts and Design Enschede, Netherlands

The Centre for Fine Print Research at CADE Glasgow School of Art
Digital Print, Traditional Print: A Survey of Photomechanical Print

The First International Miniature Print Show 2000 - 2001
Exhibition at 30 venues in March 2001 and at the Southern Graphic Council Conference, Austin, USA

Colour and Light. International Enamel Exhibition (Invitational) (catalogue)
Craft Museum New Delhi India and National Gallery of Modern Art Bombay (Mumbia) India

'Fired with Colour' An exhibition of Contemporary and 20th Century Enamelling.
National Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh.

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