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Education:

Southend College of Art & Design (1971-3) (Foundation).

Goldsmith’s College,  (1973-76). BA (2:1) Embroidery

Royal Academy Schools (1978-81),

Post-graduate diploma in drawing & painting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prizes:

Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award,

second prize 1980 for her self-portrait above :

Exhibitions:

RA Summer Show: 1975,76,77,82,85,86,89,90,97.

RWS Open Show: 1983,85,88,89, 04.

New English Art Club 1998, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03,04.

The RBA, Mall Galleries 2004, 08.

The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries 2008

National Portrait Gallery  Portrait Award 1980.

Sorrell Family Exhibitions: 1970,77,82,84,85,85,87.

“Recent Acquisitions", National Portrait Gallery 1982.

"Portrait 80’s” Arts Council Touring Exhibition 1985-6.

“Family Likeness”, Canterbury Festival 1990.

Singer & Friedlander  Water-colour Competition 1990.

Maas Gallery, London (one-woman show) 1994.

Lynn Strover Gallery, Cambridge 1995.Cheltenham Open Drawing 1996.

Advice Arcade Gallery, Norwich, 1997,98.99.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival Open Studios  1995 - 05.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philip Rieff Collection, 1996

John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold 1997.

Ben Nicolson Gallery, Holt 1997.

Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Arts Project 1998.

St Edmundsbury Cathedral Cloisters 1998

Corpusty Gallery Summer Show 1998.

Haus No 3 Gallery, Frickenhausen, Germany 2001

Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Suffolk 2000,1,2,3, 4,5,6.

Chimmey Mills Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, 2003-06

The New Grafton Gallery Xmas Shows 2003,04,05,06

Alan Sorrell Centenary Exhibition, Beecroft Gallery. 2004

Burlington Fine Art, RAS Show 04.

Landscape 200-Norwich Castle Museum Open Show 2005

“New Landscape” at Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork St., 2006

“Art at the Rockface” Castle Museum, Norwich, 2006

Art in Action, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire 2006, 2007

Nature in Art, Gloucestershire, 2006

20/21 International Art Fair 2007, Royal College of Art, (Waterhouse & Dodd Stand)

“From Nature into Abstraction”, Julia Sorrell at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, 2007

 

 

Work In the Collection of:

Chelmsford Museum & Art Gallery (Purchased by Annie Hugill Fund).

Reading Museum Schools Service (Embroidery panel)

National Portrait Gallery, portrait of Baron Ramsey of Canterbury.

Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend.

Professor Philip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Lecturer, University of Pennsylvannia.

Various other collections in the UK, Europe and the USA.

The Laporte Collection

Artist in residencies:

St Edmunds CP  School, Kings Lynn 1996, 98, 99.

Feltwell CP School, Norfolk 1996.

The Black Watch, Fred Olsen Cruise Line, 1996,97.

Reepham CP School, Norfolk 1997

Tacolneston CP Primary School, Norfolk 1997, 99.

Greshams School, Holt, Norfolk 1997.

Culford School, Bury St Edmunds 1997-99.

St Johns College School, Cambridge 1998.

Dame Bradbury School, Saffron Walden 1999.

The Minerva, Swan Hellenic Cruise Line, 2000.

Swiss Crystal, Swan Hellenic Cruise Line 2002

Town Close School, Norwich 2003

Minerva II, Swan Hellenic Cruise Line, 2004, 05

The Becket Group (Business Arts East) 2004

 

 

Teaching Experience:

Southend College of  Art & Technology: - ages 15-18 (1983-84).

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Children’s Summer Art School 1988.

Aberystwyth, private children’s art class (ages 2-11) 1988-90.

Rocklands CP School, art & craft (ages 4-11) 1993-95.

Norfolk County Council - Adult Education, (ages 16+) 1993-97.

Private Art Classes/tuition (ages 11+) 1993-95, 97- 2005 on-going.

West Suffolk College, Drawing & Painting (ages 18-19) 1995.

Lowestoft College, Drawing & Painting, (ages 18-19) 1995.

Norwich Castle Museum Club, (ages 8-11) 1997.

Culford School adult art class 1998-9

Oxborough Hall Summer School, 1998, 99.

Gregynog Summer School 2002 University of Wales, Aberystwth

 

To contact us:

Phone: 01953 498736

E-mail: wildplant@i12.com

Sand Formations (1983)

Watercolour, 22” x 29”

(taken from a desert rose)

Deep Dissection (1979)

Drawn in the Royal College of Surgeons,

Part of the Professor Phillip Rieff Collection

Exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1996

South African Growth (1983)

Pencil and Watercolour

Exhibited at the RA Summer Show  1986

 

Study of Dried Sunflowers (1997)

Traditional mixed media on paper, 4’x3’

Exhibited at the RA Summer Show 1997

Stibnite (1978)

Charcoal drawing, 22” x29”