Thursday 2 June 2011

The Great Unwrapping- Delivering our works to Sewerby Hall ready for hanging. Also...we're in The Yorkshire Post tomorrow(Fri 3rd)! Buy it!



We ( Rhea Sherriff-Hammond and Leanne Broadbent) delivered our works to the Gallery for hanging at Sewerby Hall today.



The works look amazing together...far better than we had ever dreamed they might! The real returns for our efforts will come after the hanging, but seeing them being unveiled today through mountains of bubble wrap, was pretty exhilirating! We are both very happy with our pieces. Working together has been a great expereince for us.

Happy Ever After...

Oh, before I forget, we're in the Yorkshire Post tomorrow!

Exhibition opens 11th June, 2pm runs until 31st July, Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Bridlington.

Thursday 5 May 2011

'Malice In Wonderland' and Bridlington Poetry Festival all in one day...

Audiences of the 'Malice In Wonderland' exhibition (opening 11th June) will be able to enjoy beautiful words as well as pictures! Bridlington Poetry Festival is also being held at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Bridlington from 10-12 June. All tickets to the poetry festival include free entry to Sewerby Hall and Gardens.

Enjoy the talents of amazing writers, poets and performers, take in the lyrical art works of 'Malice In Wonderland' In the West Wing, and discover the beauty and history of Sewerby Hall and Gardens. Why not make a day of it? Find out more about the poetry festival here:
http://www.bridlington-poetry-festival.com/index.html

Forthcoming Exhibition...


Rhea Sherriff-Hammond, 'Untitled III', mixed media on canvas, 2010.

Leanne Broadbent, 'Alice', mixed media on canvas, 2010.























Malice In Wonderland

An Exhibition of Contemporary Art
11th June – 31st July 2011
Sewerby Hall & Gardens | West Wing | Church Lane | Sewerby | Bridlington | YO15 1EA
01262 673769 | sewerby.hall@eastriding.gov.uk | www.sewerby-hall.co.uk

Fall through the rabbit hole and into an exhibition of mixed media artworks exploring fairy tales, myths and nonsensical fables from two of Yorkshire’s freshest contemporary female artists.
Malice in Wonderland (Sewerby Hall & Gardens, 11th June – 31st July www.sewerby-hall.co.uk) brings together a collection of new artworks from daring and evocative young artists Rhea Sherriff-Hammond and Leanne Broadbent. Taking influence from the works of Lewis Carroll, the Grimm Fairy Tales, and children’s folklore, Rhea and Leanne send the viewer through the looking glass and into a surreal world where scenes of Yorkshire tradition are skewed with wonderland imaginings, juxtaposing fabrics, threads and textiles with realist oils, acrylics, household paints and etchings, to create a mixed media exhibition that is engaging, entertaining and lyrically expressionistic.
Rhea and Leanne first met at Hull University studying Fine Art (BA Hons). They discovered a united vision and ethos, and actively work to engage with their surroundings, championing the contemporary arts scene in the North. Both artists share a creative harmony, relating to the geography and suggestive imagery of the region, reflecting the economic accord with industry and tourism, and translate this into the work they create, generating a happy medium between commercially viable artworks that retain artistic integrity.
Both artists are thrilled to exhibit this collection publicly for the first time at Sewerby Hall, its architecture and grounds in keeping with the subject matter and style of the works it will house.
Rhea Sherriff-Hammond
Rhea Sherriff-Hammond is a fine artist working primarily on canvas in oils and mixed media from her farmhouse studio on the North Yorkshire Moors. She takes influence in the concepts of Rene Magritte, Barbara Kruger, the painterly skill of Dali and The Pre- Raphaelites, the compositional qualities of Ronald. B. Kitaj, and most evidently from Sigmar Polke's brave, defiant, lack of expositional restraint in the use of mixed media.
Consistently under commission, and in demand as a Workshop Leader for adults and children, she explores the use of textiles, mixed media, and traditional painting techniques in a 2D format. Rhea describes her process as a means to produce exciting, opulent, sensitive and sensual paintings that aim to take the audience on a silent roller coaster ride of thematic tension, touching on historical, allegorical, fantastical narratives, pitched against the mundane and homogenous.

Rhea Sherriff-Hammond, 'Waste', mixed media on canvas, 2011.
Here, she describes her response to Malice in Wonderland:
“My work is about conflict, contrasts and subversion. Living rurally, I often experience inner conflicts between feelings of peace, revelling at the majesty of nature and conversely, feeling overwhelmed and isolated by the vast expanse of nothingness encompassing me. In this series of paintings I wanted to explore these and other conflicts of opposites – town and country, masculine and feminine energies, innocent themes subverted by dark, sinister undertones.” 
Find further information, images, website, blog, tweets etc at:

rheash@hotmail.co.uk

Leanne Broadbent
Leanne’s work is an amalgamation of medias and styles fusing together to create high quality contemporary art works with a quirky, playful twist. She creates work with a narrative, thematic tension, whilst introducing conflicting aesthetics with hand-drawn artwork and found materials. Leanne is influenced by Sigmar Poke’s early works and the Pop Art movement. She applies mid-20th Century inspired fabrics and incorporates other, contemporary, found objects, combining and juxtaposing these with innovative stencilling methods, traditional and stylized drawing.

Leanne Broadbent, 'Gretel', mixed media on canvas, 2011.

“The work frequently contains notions that play upon feelings of escapism I experienced as a child during reading and play, and again through my experiences as a primary school teacher, allowing me to reflect upon the world through the eyes of a child tinted with a slight sinister edge, influenced by literature. The underlying themes within the work create contradictory images between the realm of reality and the imagination, conveying the transitory nature of childhood by capturing those thoughts and moments which are so precious, yet fleeting all drawn from an adult’s perspective.”
Find further information, website, images etc at:

Thursday 21 April 2011

Sneaky Peek- New Paintings for 'Malice In Wonderland' Exhibition, Sewerby Hall & Gardens, Bridlington, 11th June- 31st July...

We've been busy... on our marks and getting set for the pre-view for the exhibition @2pm, 11th June. Leanne will shortly be filming a a little piece for an itv show (more on that later), and of course has been occupied creating more artworks. Here's a recent finished piece of hers:
Leanne Broadbent, 'Snow In June', mixed media on canvas



I have also been locked away in the studio finishing a number of paintings. The ideas are flowing in thick and fast as you can see from my blog , hopefully all of my ideas will be allowed to come to fruition- that pesky white rabbit and his pocket watch...here's a peek at a finished one.
Rhea Sherriff-Hammond, 'Captive', mixed media on canvas.

And finally, Happy Easter one and all! The 'Malice In Wonderland' white rabbit says the easter bunny is on his way...