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Hester Berry
Degree: MA Fine Art
University: Wimbledon College of Art
Graduation Year: 2009
When I paint I am looking for ways to represent my encounters with the beauty and power of the natural landscape. My intention is to find visual equivalents for the sensual, aural, and other, primarily non-visual experiential qualities encountered, choosing recycled and eco-friendly materials to do so.
A couple of years ago, environmental awareness was very much in vogue, with exhibitions such as the Barbican's Radical Nature and the Royal Academy's Earth – Art of a Changing World. Now the subject has fallen out of fashion, but I believe that it is of the utmost importance to keep it alive. I also feel that artists have an obligation to work responsibly and sustainably so that we can exploit the discipline as a vehicle for raising awareness and influencing a wider audience.
Figures: I am currently involved in staging a series of seminars based on drawing. The first is a discussion of the question "Is drawing relevant today?" I believe that it has always been and should remain the fundamental basis of art. I use drawing to retain discilpine in draftsmanship. Life drawing is the perfect means of keeping focussed and observant, yet at the end of this clinical process, I am often left with a sensitive portrait of the human body.
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Exhibitions
Solo
2011 Banbury’s, Tiverton, Devon
2011 The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2011 The Archway Gallery, Wellington School, Somerset
2011 Brighton Media Centre, East Sussex
2010 Hester Berry: Landscapes, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2010 Horizons, West Buckland School, Devon
2009 'It's All Up In The Air', Gallery 118, Notting Hill, London
Group
2011 H is for.... Harley Gallery Open, Worksop
2011 Young Artists Award
2011, the Biscuit Factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2011 Artsdepot Open, Artsdepot, North Finchley, London
2011 Hop Open Exhibition 2011, Hop Gallery, Lewes, Sussex
2010 Outlook - an exhibition to raise money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, Devon
2010 Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 88th Summer Exhibition Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2010 Festival of Nature, The Bristol Gallery, Bristol
2009 Deutsche Postbank Summer Exhibition, London
2009 MA Show, Wimbledon College of Art
2009 Artsdepot Open, Artsdepot, North Finchley, London
2009 'Intersections', MA Interim Show
2009, The Nunnery, London
2009 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2009 Deutsche Postbank Exhibition, London
2008 Elizabeth Finn Care and Macmillan Cancer Support Art Exhibition for Young Artists, Devon
2008 Celebration Exhibition, 150th Anniversary of West Buckland School, Devon
2008 Appledore Gallery, Appledore, Devon
2008 Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 86th Summer Exhibition Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2008 Degree show, Aberystwyth University
2008 Boundary Gallery, London
2008 Oriel Dafydd Hardy, Caernarfon
2008 Student Art Society
2007/08, UWA, Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
2007 Exhibition for Open Competition, Art Matters, Tenby, Pembrokeshire
2007 Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 85th Summer Exhibition Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2007 Student Art Society
2006/07, UWA, at Cambria Arts, Tregaron, Wales
2006 Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 84th Summer Exhibition Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
Awards
2011 The Biscuit Factory Foundation, People’s Choice – Young Artist of the Year 2011
2008 Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travelling Scholarship