HOW DO YOU BECOME A... Painter This
month
we
talked
to
the
wonderful
Middlesbrough-based painter, drawer and sitespecific wall painter Emma Bennett. Born in 1972, Guisborough North Yorkshire, Emma Bennett graduated from Mima School of Art and Design in 2019 with an MA (Distinction) in Fine Art. She
regularly
exhibits
her
work
locally
and
nationally. Her work was acquired for the MIMA Middlesbrough Collection in 2020 and she has recently produced two works for a Public Art Project in Middlesbrough. By using colour and pattern in conjunction with her personal connections and memories to Modernist and Post-War Architecture, she examines our localised social histories. Many of her paintings reference a nostalgic attachment to places and structures that are often overlooked, neglected or under threat of demolition. Her work declares the architectural beauty and social importance of these places and buildings.
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When I was growing up my family was quite creative, my parents encouraged me and my
we will be doing interviews with working-class
siblings to draw, my Nana was a founder member
creatives and how they got into the arts. These
of the Leven Arts Society, and I was used to seeing
interviews will give other creatives an insight into
paintings around. When she died her art books and
the art world, the positives and negatives. This gives
materials were given to us to use. When I left
you a chance to ask curators, directors, artists,
school, I went to Art College. After studying Art and
musicians and anyonee else who wants to talk
Design, I went on to study Fashion and Footwear
about how they got into working in the arts and
Design
why they do it. These interviews will give bother
manufacturing factory.
and
then
worked
in
a
creatives an insight into the art world, the positives and negatives.
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footwear