Drawing is a constant practice for accumulating, investigating and working through the process of development into final works, which incorporate other medias, collage, paint, and print. The connection between drawing and painting is cyclical not linear, constantly rerouting developments through a tangible engagement in image making, with repetition leading to transformation.
Viv Allbright grew up in Newlyn, Cornwall, studying at Falmouth School of Art, Manchester College of Art & Design, completing Post Graduate studies at the University of Central England, Birmingham.
She has held artist's residencies in the UK, Germany & Japan and her work in held in both public and private collections globally.
Viv currently works from her studio in her home in Lamorna.
Education
1967 Falmouth College of Art Foundation
1970 Manchester Polytechinic BA Hons (Fine Art) Printed Textiles
1971 University of Central England Birmingham HDD Post Graduate Degree in Design
Solo & Selected Exhibitions
2020-22 NSA showing at Tremenheere Gallery,
2022 St Claire Medical Centre Penzance
2020 'Edge of Dark' NSA 'Critic's Choice' Jesse leroy smith Tremenheere Gallery
2019 'Imagine Falmouth Open' Falmouth Art Gallery
2019 Ex Libris Exhibition NSA Tremenheere Art Gallery UK
2018 Autumn NSA Show Tremenheere Art Gallery UK
2018 Drawing Explored Tremenheere Art Gallery UK
2017 'Critic's Choice' Nicholas Usherwood at Tremenheere Art Gallery UK
2017 Proctor Gallery Camborne College Artist in Residence UK
2017 NSA 'Borders' Exhibition at Tremenheere Art Gallery UK
2015 NSA '293' Exhibition @ Penwith Gallery St Ives UK
2014 'Critics Choice' NSA Laura Gasgoine at PZ Gallery UK
2014 'Flux' NSA Heseltine Gallery Truro UK
2013 'Drawing the Line' Millennium Gallery St Ives UK
2013 161st Open Exhibition RWA UK
2013 SWAc of Fine Arts Open. Exeter UK
2013 'Drawn' Open Exhibition RWA UK
2012 Solo Show Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery UK
2012 NSA Group Show Helen Feiller Gallery Newlyn UK
2011 Best of Open Studios Chapel Gallery Gulval UK
2011/12/13/14/15 Associate member Penwith St Ives UK
2010 2 Person Owariasahi City Art Gallery Aichi Japan
2009 Solo Show Kosuka Gallery Nagoya Japan
2009 Lamorna Arts Festival Cornwall UK
2009 Foreign Artists Exhibition Nagoya Japan
2002 Associated Member’s Exhibition Porthmeor Printers, St.ives. UK
2000 2 Person Exhibition, Daiwa Foundation Gallery London
1999 3 Person Exhibition Bankaku Gallery Nagoya Japan
1997 2 Person Exhibition Izuto Gallery Nagoya Japan
1978 /9 Manchester Academy Exhibitions UK
1974/1977 Peterloo Galleries Manchester UK
Performance
2004 SACUK ( Society Against Cutting Up Kimono)
Performed at Nagoya University of Arts
Publications
1970/80's Elgin Court Publishing
Childrens Picturebooks:
1976 Oxford University Press Freelance Children's Books
1979 Shuesha Publishing Company Tokyo "Nonno" Magazine
1980 Shindensha Publishers Tokyo
1980 Kaiseisha Childrens Books Publishing Company Tokyo "Jitensha ni notta tentomushi"
1982 Faber & Faber "Ladybird on a bicycle" London
1985 Faber & Faber "10 Go Hopping" London
Awards
Faber & Faber "Ladybird on a bicycle" voted in the top 10 Childrens Books 1982
Cornwall County Council Travel Award/Funding for Exhibition at Bankaku Gallery Nagoya Japan 1999
Societies
Elected member of the NSA (Newlyn Society of Artists) 2011
Residencies
Artist in residence at Camborne College January - March 2017
International Drawing Residency "Zeichenworkshop" Hanover Germany July/August 2012