Romney Marsh Visitor Centre

In Memoriam

After over a years work ten prints exploring relationship with place, loss and memorial are ready for editioning

Navigating Yorkshire

Printmakers Exploring Place

21 May – 13 July 2014


WYPW Exhibition at Art Station (Huddersfield Railway Station)

Navigating Yorkshire brings together new and recent artworks by seven printmakers investigating the relationships we form with place, in order to greet travellers through Huddersfield Railway station with an alternative and personally charged insight into the geography of Yorkshire.

What personal connections do we make with this geography  during the course of our everyday lives? How might these connections be represented by an artist so as to introduce visitors to a place?

How might an emotional relationship with a landscape take visual precedence over a spatial one?  How might a place be navigated according to affinity, as opposed to proximity?

As a part of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, West Yorkshire Print Workshop will be presenting a special exhibition, which investigates the questions above, in a venue thoroughly apt for welcoming Le Tour followers to the north of England. Mediating between the calm grandeur of a neo-classical facade and the constant bustle of six platforms, this venue is Art Station- an exhibition space newly born of the Huddersfield Railway concourse.

West Yorkshire Print Workshop, in partnership with Art Station, has invited their affiliated printmakers- both WYPW members and Printmakingonline members- to showcase new and recent work that will greet the travelling public with an alternative and personally charged insight into the geography of the county. By abandoning cartographic convention and mapping places according to personal journeys and lived experience, the exhibition promises to offer up new subjective means for navigating Yorkshire- to both expectant first-time visitors and to regular commuters of the concourse.

Participating artists are: Gavin Campbell Andrew Hambleton Emily Harvey Brian Hindmarch Amy Hirst Scarlette Homeshaw Michelle Keegan

West Yorkshire Print Workshop

Delivering new work for WYPW Navigating Yorkshire exhibition
 Context:  Le Grand Départ  In July 2014 the world’s greatest cycle race will be coming to Yorkshire, bringing with it millions of fans and much celebration. Rising to this prestigious occasion, the county hopes to welcome these fans, as well as Le Tour’s riders, teams and organisers, with a world-class cultural festival. Taking place in the 100 days leading up to Le Grand Départ, communities and artists will be drawn together in showcasing all that Yorkshire has to offer- something that we here at West Yorkshire Print Workshop are extremely excited to be contributing to.

Palimpsest

A selection from the series Palimpsest are currently showing at Tarpey Gallery
http://tarpeygallery.com/the-gallery/

Creative Nottingham

I've just written my first blog post for creative Nottingham

http://www.creativenottingham.com/2014/03/09/michelle-keegan-printmaker-in-transit/

Etching with ferric

 

 

Editioning new work

Studio work continues

Plates are getting there

Back in the Studio

Working on plates for New Romney

Home Sweet Home

My favourite beach hut on littlestone beach

The Place Between A Retrospective in 2014

Deliberating over new plates for my 2014 exhibition at the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, a kind of homecoming.
Experimenting with zinc, etched using a medium Edinburgh etch solution. I've used so much copper sulphate i've got to use something else.

Palimpsest

Three from Palimpsest now showing at Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington

 http://tarpeygallery.com/index.php/gallery/Artwork_view/michelle_keegan1/

One hour details of the exhibition at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

http://aplaceintime.info/one-hour/

One Hour at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

I will be exhibiting  at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

APT artists: Graham Keddie, Spencer Graham, Susan Bonvin & Andrew Eden, Gary Price-Hunt, Sebastian Blackie, Desmond Brett, Gail Dickerson, Christina ten Bosch, Tom Hackett, James Steventon, Ben Baal-Bowdler, Stephen Elvidge, Jack Eden, Susan Williams, Helen Frankland, Michelle Keegan

Guest artists: Jack Blount, Paulina Glimas, Jill Hedges, Kim Metcalfe, James Mildenhall, Bethany Murray, Sharon Read, Warren Shaw, Flavia Terzain, Helen Turton.

A project curated by Graham Keddie in partnership with Ros Stoddart.

http://aplaceintime.info/

More Inspiration

Littlestone Beach

Printing plates all day

Finally editioning plates i've been working on this summer

Printmakers on line

Pleased to be showing at the Cooper Gallery Barnsley in The Art Of Printmaking show 7th sept-2nd nov

International Print Exchange edition

 Greendoor's international print exchange.

inspiration

thinking about home on Romney Marsh for inspiration,i can never have enough lines and space!

new work

This summer's dilemmas are beginning

studio

I must tidy my studio space just like my students!!!!

Studio photo

I live in here when i'm not at Central College

This is Henry my neighbours cat that loves to help me with printmaking