CV

Jennie Hale
East Colliford Farmhouse and pottery, St Neot, Cornwall, PL146 PX
 
Tel:01579 320534
Email: jennie@jenniehale.co.uk
Website: www.jenniehale.co.uk : www.workshopunderthesky.co.uk
Qualifications and training:
 
BA. hons. ceramics. Loughborough College of Art and Design
Foundation South Devon College of Art.
Workshop experience: Assistant to Marianne de Trey C.B.E.
Elected member of Devon Guild of Craftsmen Lapsed
2002 Founded Workshop under the sky.
2003 elected academician SWAC. South West academy of fine
and applied Art
Member of Cornwall ceramics and glass group
 
Work History
 
2017 Art In Clay Hatfield Exhibitor and demonstrator/speaker
2017 Earth & Fire Welbeck International Ceramics
2016 Guest artist Yahats and Portland Oregon
2015 Guest artist St Ives society of arts
2014Guest Maker devon Guild of Craftsmen.
2014 awarded funding for workshop under the sky to run five arts events .
2014 Guest speaker Art in clay
2013 Guest speaker, faculty of interdisaplinery studies five colleges conference Amherst Massachusetts
2012&2013 BBC1 Country file at two rivers paper mill watercolour demo
2012 The Birds and the Bees Craft and Design gallery Leeds
2011 Oxford ceramics show
2011 Firing up , crafts council funded project to put makers in
schools
2011 MarchSolo show ceramics and watercolours Kelly College
2010 March group show The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle on Tyne.
March 2010 group show Park life. Leeds craft and design gallery
June Earth and fire 2010 Rufford Nott’s
July- August 2010 Guest Artist for ,
“Wandering with words and watercolour” Portland Oregon.
2009June the contemporary craft fair Bovey Tracey
2009 Earth and Fire June International ceramics fair at Rufford
Nott’s
2009 September Solo show ceramics and watercolours the centre
for creativity. Princetown.
2009 November Group show Leeds craft and design gallery
2008 Curated 40 years of Dartmoor rescue Tavistock Museum.
A history of the Tavistock section of Dartmoor Rescue team.
 
2008 Two day project for Tamar valley mining and heritage trust
Morwellham nature reserve
 
2008 Crafts at Bovey Tracey contemporary crafts fair.
2007 November Ceramics at the Craft and Design Gallery Leeds
City Art gallery Leeds
2007 Big draw Fair ground Heritage museum Lifton
2007 Big draw Tailstock
2007 September one woman show driftwood gallery Truro
2007 July Publication By A&C Black, of the nature diary of an Artist
by Jennie Hale
2006 August Compiled and had print run Diary of A forest full of
bugs using all the observational drawings made by participants.
2006 Limited edition Prints from Nature diaries.
2002-present Founded Workshop under the sky.
www.workshopunderthesky.co.uk
A nomadic art and science based project with its own Yurt. Where
artists and scientists to work together to increase awareness of
the natural world through observation and creativity.
Working freelance for: Forestry commission, Centre for
Contemporary Arts in the Natural World, South West Lakes Trust.
West devon borough council. World wildlife fund for nature
2004-present. Started the Tavistock Big Draw (campaign for
drawing
Writing and illustrating Nature diaries 1994-present
Art advisor for South devon college of art 1988-1995
Art advisor for Plymouth college of art 1986-1990
1983-present longham Pottery
producing Saltglazed ceramics 1983-1988
Raku fired ceramics1983-present
1979-1983 Shinners Bridge Pottery
Working with Marianne de Trey C.B.E.
 
Exhibitions:
2011 Wildlife Watercolours Burton art gallery Bideford
2011 Ceramics show case Llangollen Museum,
2010 Solo show Ceramics &watercolours Kelly college
2009 Solo show Ceramics & watercolours
Duchy centre for creativity
2008 ceramics & watercolours Longham Pottery
2008 Royal entomological society conference and exhibition
“Art and insects”. Peninsula Arts Plymouth. Watercolours.
2008 Solo Show ceramics & watercolours the Dartmoor inn Lyford
2007 selected Makers Leeds crafts and design gallery.
2007 ceramics & watercolours longham Pottery
 
2006 Ceramics Cornwall ceramics & glass. Such Gallery
2005 Ceramics, Cornwall ceramics& Glass annual show
2004 Ceramics & drawings Longham Pottery
2003 Ceramics & drawings, longham Pottery
2003 -2009 Southwest Academy of fine and applied arts
2003 Pittenweem arts festival
2003 one woman show Craft and Design Gallery, Leeds City art
gallery, The Head row Leeds.
2002 ceramics and drawings Longham Pottery
2002 Ceramics The Open–Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 one woman shows of Ceramics and Drawings The Cider
2001 Solo shows The Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden.
Press Darting ton
From 1983-2000: 22 group exhibitions
: 12 one-woman shows
 
Work in Collections.
The Bill Ismay Collection
The Guennol Collection New York.
Nottingham Museum
Exeter Museum
Devon Education Collection
Strathclyde Education Collection.
And in private collections throughout the world
 
Publication Features.
20011 hand built ceramics lark books
2010 Bugs Britannica , By Peter Marren Chatto and Windus
2007 the Nature Diary of an Artist: Jennie Hale: A&C Black
2005 Raku Tim Andrews: A&C Black
2004 Drawing birds John Busby: Christopher Helm.
2001Saltglazed ceramics, Rosemary Cochrane The Cornwood
Press.
2000 The potters guide to ceramic surfaces Jo Connell.Apple
1994 Raku .Tim Andrews A&C Black
1994 BBC wildlife magazine Nature diarist of the year. (specially
commended)
1993 Sixty years of pottery at Dartington.
1990 animal forms and figures Rosemary Wren. Batsford
1986 &1983 International Saltglaze.
 
Awards :
Jennie has won numerous awards for her ceramics, watercolours and her innovative project, Workshop under the sky