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Curriculum Vitae

Email: samanthajonesartist@gmail.com

 

 

Education/Qualifications

 

2015- 2019

Staffordshire University – BA (Hons) Fine Art, Secound Class, 1st Devision – Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

 

2014/2015

Newcastle Under Lyme College (NULC) – National Diploma in Art and Design – Merit Grade

Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire

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2000/2001

South Cheshire College – BTEC First Diploma in Performing Arts – Merit Grade

Crewe, Cheshire

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Awards

INSIDEOUT HEROES. 2019

Indoor Installation

1st Place Fine Art Category, GradEx19 Event

Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent.

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Exhibitions

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CAN'T BE ART, 2019, University Graduation exhibition

Cadman building, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

 

INTERFUSE, 2017, end of year level 5 exhibition

ACAVA STUDIOS, Spode Works Stoke, Staffordshire.

‘Relationships’ sculptural Painting, Soil, Acrylic Paint, Plywood panel board.

 

THISISTHIS, 2016, end of year level 4 exhibition

Cadman building, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

 

PERIPHERY, 2016

Cadman Building, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

This exhibition was curated by myself and 3 other students. The aim of this exhibition was to explore the viewers constant need to see things in the “Black & White”. The works within the show were to force us to step from the ordinary, allowing the viewer to develop their own responses to the unexpected.

 

End of Year Show- Confinement, 2015

Newcastle Under Lyme College  (NULC), Knutton Lane, Knutton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire

This exhibition was to showcase students artworks from their final major projects (FMP), each project was conceived planned and executed by the students themselves. My FMP was centered around the concept of Confinement.

 

 

Private commissions

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Chloe Belcher, Grogu pastel illustration, March 2021

Jane Williams, Insideout Heroes poster portrait, September 2019

Lyndsey, Holiday Home, acrylic painting, August 2014

Dominic Frost, Lone Tiger, acrylic painting, January 2014

Daniel Hambleton, Animal Portrait, acrylic Painting, October 2013

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Skills

 

IT Skills including Office word and PowerPoint

Presentational skills

Painting- Acrylic- Watercolour- Alcohol inks

Epoxy Resin Crafts

Freehand Sculpture

Graphite/Pastel Portraiture

Still Life Drawing

Digital Illustrations

Video Editing

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Employment/Voluntary work

 

February 2017

Community workshop with Letting in the Light as part of their Wonder Women group project.

Sculptural painting using natural and artificial materials.

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January 2019

Community Workshop with Letting in The Light's Wonder Women as part of studio practice. 

Freehand figurative clay sculptures

 

August 2019

Creative workshop with The Carers Hub, Time For Me group.

Participants learned how to create images using oil pastels and graphite pencils. 

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February 2020

Creative workshop with The Carers Hub, Time For Me group.

Participants learned how to create industrial like sculptures using polystyrene and mod roc.

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June 2020

Festival Echoes Commission, (Stoke Lockdown Stories)

This was a month long commission where I was asked to create experimental work in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown. Artworks created include digital illustrations, photography and short video documentaries.

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September 2022- December 2022

SPLAT Staffordshire - Arts Project Worker

Splat is a local organisation which runs children's activity sessions across the Stoke 0n Trent area, where children are able to come together and socialise in a safe environment which trying different activities . During my time there my role was to  develop, prepare and run different creative arts and craft workshops for the children each week.

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Art Classes

From November 2019 I have held weekly art classes teaching mark making skills with a range of media within drawing and painting. Which student are then taught to bring together to create their own images.

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Referee

 

Micheal Branthwaite

School of Art & Design (Crafts)

Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies

Staffordshire University

Cadman Building

College Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 2DE

Email: M.Branthwaite@staffs.ac.uk

Telephone: 01782 294373

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Anne Kinnaird

Letting in The Light

64-72 Hartshill Road

Stoke on Trent

ST4 7RB

Email: anne@lettinginthelight.org.uk

Telephone: 01782 714776

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