A panel of 8 judges selected the following artworks for our first Summer Exhibition. Each judge also selected an artist to receive a bursary of £500. A 9th bursary was also awarded to a textile piece by William Gaunt, Director of Sunny Bank Mills.
Claire Ong – State of a Nation (New Light Bursary)
Chrissie Freeth – The Moon Told Me to Tell You to Fuck Off (Sunny Bank Mills Bursary)
Olga Prinku – Under the Watchful Eye (Sunny Bank Mills Bursary)
Scott Davison – Revolvo (Bursary Winner)
Deborah Grice – Tomorrow’s Hope
Dan Cimmermann – Parkside Dive Bar
Jéréme Crow – Can’t Talk, I’m Too Important
Gerry Davies – Flood Story: Insect Deluge
Ellie Gair & Tom Ownsworth – Thicket
Ian Hinley – Hyena with White Roses
Kirsty Maclennon – Oli Shaving
Madeline Pick – Freud’s Flowers
Angela Sandwith – Ebb and Flow
Chris Thomas – The Strawberry Bed
Judy Clarkson – Inside Out (Bursary Winner)
Patrick Waldron – Woman in fur hat
Ealish Wilson – Fractal
Judy Clarkson – Boundary
Eleanor Dunn – The Introspection Paradox
Loukas Georgiou – The Dreamer
Robert Gittins – Do Puppets Believe
Vincent Lavell – Three Man in a Field (Searching)
Gillian Mather – Football Icons – Jackie Milburn
A. S. Morrigan – Black Sheep
Nicola Rowley – Friday Night
Steven Phillip Smith – Beloved Biscuits
Carol Tarn – Felicity’s Frock
Robert J Wyatt – Things, Found
Ian Brooks – Port Lockroy (Bursary Winner)
Ceri Allen – Cafe Interior Study
Melanie Bellis – Gasometer, Vauxhall
Neil Bousfield – Wave Upon the Sea Wall
Louisa Boyd – Connecting Foundations
Sarah Casey – Weather Eye II
Alicia Dubnyckyj – Manhattan X
Alan Flood – At the bar. The George
Brian Hindmarch – Farfield Mill, The Wall
Emma Jackson – Suburban Sundays
Lindsey Moran – Imperial Whispers
Alan Stones – Hotel du Monde
Olivia Turner – 3DS
Lois Wallace – Blackened gold III
Andrew Watson – Gioconda (Mona Lisa)
David Vincent Wheeler – Exploration Xl
John Whitehill – Hotspur Press
Lucy Waters – Polarity (Bursary Winner)
Kirsty Whyatt – Night Swim
Laurence Wood – Watching Waiting
Lynne Bingham – Three Quince
Hanfei Dyson – RunBox Landscape
Chrissie Freeth – The Waterbearers
Peter Hanmer – Keep Your Distance
Mike Lambert – Sunset
Alison Marrs – Over the Solway from Arkleby
Lu Mason – Stitching
Lindsey Moran – Ascension
Tony Noble – Twenty-First Century Inner City Starter Home.
Pamela Ormston – Wild Swimmer
Chris Otley – To Bagley Wood
Aneeta Seshan – Briton – Strong and Durable Button
Carolyn Thompson – Hysteria: Jane
Helen Pailing – Brooch 1: Good Luck Serpents (Bursary Winner)
Steve Tomlinson – Mute Music
Marcus Tudge – tek citi
Anna Turner – Patio
Sean Williams – Contemplative Space Ritual
Karen Wilson – Brooch
Robert Cook – The Second Imperative
Vic Harris – Self 2025
Jenny Haynes – Hexibore Quilt
Jane Lewis – Harpies
Joe Morris – If I Don’t See You Through the Week…
Chris Otley – Bamburgh, Northumberland
Laura Quinn Harris – Jon
Brian Shields – Endless Chorus (From an Ending to New Beginnings) John Clare, poet
Paul Stone – English Plums In Glass Bowl
Alan Stones – Historians
Steven Wood – Aster
Susan Liggett – Twilight (Bursary Winner)
Claire Ong – State of a Nation
Gavin Watson – A God of Small Things
Ben Ark – Less and more familiar
Sharron Astbury-Petit – Lucie-Rose
Richard Baker – Margate Chairs
Hannah Barker – If I Had a Ribbon Bow to Tie My Hair
Louise Bass – Passing By
Anastasia Borodina – GILLES
Samantha Cary – A Butterfly’s Dream
Amy Cowell – Treats
Rosie Galloway-Smith – Heirlooms Part 1
Layla Jabbari – Sometimes I imagine I am somewhere exotic with a a cocktail and some nibbles
Norman Long – Walk of Life
Lindy Norton – Cornered
Simon R. Painter – Clitheroe Cement Works
Chris Thomas – Siesta
Helaina Sharpley – Solitary Summer (Bursary Winner)
Dave Brown – Redundant
Danny Clahane – Running Man
Andi Dakin – Blade View 4
Steven Davis – Guitar Bar – Lake Como
Brian Fell – Overlock
Victoria Ferrand Scott – Reaching
Mark Gibbs – Hero – Medic, Australian Light Horse, Middle East 1918
Mark Gibbs – The Burden of History, Lancer British Indian Army, 1918
Kim Harley-Griffiths – Rhiannon amongst the Flowers
Kim Harley-Griffiths – The Deed
Kay Latto – People of the Earth I
Kay Latto – People of the Earth II
TMW Lyons – The Sun and Moon
Hannah Mallott-Manning – Briar Rose
Carolyn Marr – Powertools
Fidelma Massey – Lady of Doorways
Ali Pickard – The WordGleaner
Olga Prinku – Under the Watchful Eye
Shirley Sheppard – The Birdwatcher
Brian Shields – Icarian Dreamings
Brian Shields – Icarian Dreamings (2)
Martin Procter – VeloBeest
Sarah Louise Hawkins – Shapeshifter (Bursary Winner)
Clare Allan – Joke Shop Window
Ceri Allen – Seated
Emma Bennett – Railway Station Entrance
Sarah Boon – Bark of an ancient tree
Sally Driver – Genie and Black Cat
Jane Fairhurst – Good Morning Penguin
Chrissie Freeth – The moon told me to tell you to fuck off
Imogen Hawgood – Lazy Days
Sarah Louise Hawkins – Icon
Peter James Houghton – Stephensons
Rufus Newell – Flowerpot
Rufus Newell – Red Head
Cameron Ortez – Migrated Childhood
Molly Owen – A Greener View
Sally Strawson – Pink Tulips and Snakeshead
Carol Tarn – Ella and Arthur
