Artists in residence
Chenderit School’s former Head of Art, John Childs managed the Heseltine Gallery exhibitions and artists in residence. Each of these artists contributed to the teaching of art and finished their year with a solo exhibition. Our artist in residence programme started in 2003 and finished in 2013-14, when John Childs retired and became the very last one.
Former Curator, John Childs
2013-14
John Childs
John Childs started at Chenderit with the purpose of creating an outstanding department, based on the belief that an arts education was an essential element of every child's education and that every child could achieve a GCSE pass. His own training was as a painter, a ceramicist and textile printmaker. Following 37 years at the school, his career has seen him become GCSE assistant chief examiner and president of The National Society for Education in Art and Design.
2012-13
Beatrice Hoffman
Oxford based sculptor and tutor, Beatrice Hoffman creates stylised sculptures of heads, figures and abstract forms in bronze or bronze resin. Of her work, she has said: “I hope to enable engagement and contemplation: for the viewer to find reflected in my sculptures a feeling, experience or preoccupation, and through this empathy, solace, and understanding derive some healing."
Beatrice Hoffman, Self Portrait with Mother and Child 2, Bronze (70 x 47 x 40 cm)
From the ‘Return to Form’ exhibition at the Heseltine Gallery
2011-12
Anne-Marie Cadman
Anne-Marie is a textile artist producing work on paper and fabric. She has exhibited widely throughout her career, both in the UK and overseas. Her techniques include hand painting, stencil and screen printing, collage and experimental mark-making. You may also have seen her work in books and publications such as International Textiles and Country Living magazine.
2010-11
Helen Nottage
Prizewinning artist, Helen Nottage is one of the UK's most unique ceramicists. Her highly recognisable work usually plays with the notion of fragility and decay, of both the human body and spirit. She's also fascinated with the stories and myths we tell as mankind, folklore and rituals. Helen lives and works in Leicestershire.
Helen Nottage, detail from her Torso series
Alexis Soul-Gray, pencil drawing (title unknown)
2009-10
Alexis Soul-Gray
London based artist, Alexis Soul-Gray graduated in 2003 with a degree in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art before studying at post graduate level on The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) and at the University of London. More recently, she has been a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and the University of East London.
2008-9
Ingrid Pollard
Ingrid Pollard is a photographer, media artist and researcher based in London. Since graduating from the London College of Printing and Derby University, she has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens based media. You will find her work in numerous collections including the UK Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dawn Ainley, title unknown
2007-8
Dawn Ainley
Dawn Ainley lives and works in Kent. She studied Fine Art with French at Canterbury Christ Church University, before going on to do a PGCE in Art and Design at the University of Brighton and a masters in Teaching and Learning back at Canterbury. Her solo exhibition at the Heseltine Galley was entitled Mental Experience. More recent works have focused on animals, and specifically dogs, and memories which involve exotic locations.
2006-7
Anne-Marie Cadman
Anne-Marie is a textile artist producing work on paper and fabric. She has exhibited widely throughout her career, both in the UK and overseas. Her techniques include hand painting, stencil and screen printing, collage and experimental mark-making. You may also have seen her work in books and publications such as International Textiles and Country Living magazine.
Anne-Marie Cadman, work on fabric (title unknown)
Clive Carpenter, Heat Maps 1 (from his ‘Beautiful Decay’ series)
2005-6
Clive Carpenter
Clive Carpenter’s photographic career started in 1986 with commercial commissions, but it was the advent of digital photography that really allowed him to focus on fine art images. Favouring Nikon film and digital cameras, his work is included in corporate and private collections in the UK, Europe, South Africa and the USA. He’s also a member of the Royal Photographic Society.
“My work covers a broad range of subjects, from still life and architectural to impressionist landscape ... rich with colours and textures that defy our expectations.”
Sarah Bosworth, title unknown
2004-5
Sarah Bosworth
Leicestershire based artist, Sarah Bosworth enjoys a successful career as a watercolour artist, selling her work to the NHS Trust and many private collectors.
2003-4
Francis O’Neill
Since completing his residency at the Heseltine Gallery (and at St Mary’s School in Wantage the year after), Francis O’Neill has gone on to become an award-winning portrait artist, specialising in figures and landscapes in oils, pencil, charcoal and pastels. Based in Oxford, he teaches drawing and painting at his studio. He has also taught figure-drawing at Ruskin, Trinity and Magdalen Colleges, and currently teaches at St John’s, and Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He has a particular interest in the practices of Old Master artists and has demonstrated that it is possible for artists to make self-portrait projections they could use to create their art works - something previous thought impossible.
Francis O’Neill, title unknown