THERESA PATEMAN
Since completing a Fine Art degree at Coventry Faculty of Art in 1983, Theresa has been
living in London, and working both as a printmaker and free-lance illustrator. She has had
work published in the NME, Melody Maker, and Legal Business magazines, and in an
Encyclopaedia of Printmaking Techniques. She has also worked on a series of illustration
projects for Westminster City Council. In 1986, she set up a silk-screen printing workshop,
with two other artists, and the help of a Prince's Trust Grant. From 1988, she became involved
in designing and constructing costumes for the Nottinghill Carnival, working from Kingsgate
workshops. Concentrating full-time on printmaking, these other interests have helped to feed
what she does today, using various techniques including Etching, Drypoint, Monoprint, Mezzotint,
and Collagraphy.
Collaborating with fellow Kingsgate artist, Nicola Lane, in 2002, she created an exhibition called
"A Slice Of Ireland", based on the memories of the Kilburn Irish Pensioners' Group. The exhibition
comprised of mixed media work: photo etchings, archive video footage, a table set with a large
tablecloth, around the edge poignant memories were written, two giant cakes, their surface icing
showing a map of Kilburn, and a map of Ireland. The cups and plates were montaged with transfer
photographs.
She has been teaching printmaking at the Hampstead School Of Art since 2002, and The Institute
Art Centre 2007, and curated exhibitions of the students' work in Burgh House, 2004 and 2009,
the University Women's Club, the Millfield Art Centre November in 2006, and the Tavistock Centre,
May 2007. She is a member of the Greenwich Printmakers, and South Bank Printmakers, regularly exhibiting
with them, and other galleries (see below).
Theresa is based in Kingsgate workshops, Kilburn.
Current exhibiting galleries
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Craft Centre & Art Gallery, Leeds
Coach House Gallery, Cumbria
Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
Easton Rooms, Rye, E. Sussex
Greenwich Printmakers Gallery, London
Kaleidoscope Gallery, London
New City Gallery, London Bridge
South Bank Printmakers, Gabriel's Wharf |
