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Adele Dark
About
Both Artist and Educator, Adele was recently commissioned by ICSA Jersey to design three new awards and shortlisted for the Millennium Town Park Sculpture Award 2011. Adele works in both two and three dimensions and runs art workshops in Jersey.
My work explores rhythm and movement found in natural form. I am influenced by and find inspiration in Japanese 17th Century block prints, Eastern calligraphy and the old masters such as Poussin along with American Abstract Expressionism. Other sources of inspiration are Howard Hodgkin and Barbara Rae for their command of colour and Braque for his simplicity.
‘The one thing necessary for a work of art is that it should bring with it the fertilising seed to come to flower in the beholder’s mind’.
L Binyon, on Kano School
EXHIBITIONS/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS
2013 Open Studios - Jersey C.I.
2012 Open Studios – Jersey C.I.
2012 ICSA Commission – Jersey Awards
2011 Millenium Town Park – Shortlisted to six Artists
2010 Prize Winner - Maya Hammarsal – Occupation Illustrations
2009 Rockpools – ‘Moments in Time’, Jersey Arts Centre
2001 to-date Art Workshops – Jersey Arts Centre/Jersey Heritage Sites
2000 Perceptions 3, Jersey
1999 J J Fox, Jersey Arts Centre
1998 Adele Dark & Charlotte Cortazzi, Pembroke
1997 Open Studios , S Pembrokeshire – Organised
1996 Poole Printmakers, Dorchester Museum
1996 Poole Printmakers, Salisbury Arts Centre
1995 BT Open Printmakers Exhibitions, Poole
1995 Poole Printmakers, Beadales Gallery
1995-6 Art Workshops – Poole Museum Service