Sometimes it’s not enough to draw, paint and sculpt, sometimes I have to physically embody an experience to process deeply held trauma or conflict that begs for expression to be processed and understood. Sorting through my studio… this is a mixed media piece of a ritual I made some years ago, (2006?) connecting with my …
There is no shame in ‘not knowing how to do something ‘. Here is one of my first clay pieces. What it lacks in technique it makes up for in charm, reminding me of a Trojan horse and my brittle eager self. Treasure your phases of ‘not knowing’ they are gone soon enough, as …
It’s not enough to draw lines or mould forms. My internal world demands a more embodied expressive experience. This is work that can only be made after a life, it requires courage and exposure. The vulnerability brings an awakening, an aliveness. Performing rituals in ‘the wilderness’ of open spaces brings live exposure, a feeling state …
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Quite simply these pieces are about loss. My friend Mei made the small ceramic rattle for my daughter Bea when she was born in 2010. I finished it by painting the face on it. Mei died on Bea’s first birthday in 2011. I didn’t want to admit the rattle symbolised both birth and death. It …
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that people seem to have a very strong and immediate connection to the porcelain plates I make. They are like Mandalas in away. Carl Jung believed that through drawing and painting Mandalas, which were for him, geometric configurations within a circle, the unconscious could be accessed and it’s messages …
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28th September to 5th October 2019 £650 Join us for an enlivening, stretching, relaxing week on the beautiful Greek island of Lesvos in the Northern Aegean at our creative life force retreat. A week focused on firing your personal and creative potential using the environment as a place to tread new ground, grow in …
If only I could have been 53 years ago I wouldn’t have worried so much. The threshold of thinking, ‘everything is out there and there is everything to play for’ has passed. I know now: what I needed to know I’ve always known. what I needed to find I’ve already found and I already ‘have’ …
In 1992 I wrote this for an exhibition catalogue, ‘With My own Face on’. ‘This is not a lie. Sometimes the truth between how I feel goes in and out of focus. The boundaries between one reality and another blur. This work is my version which has been subject to denial. It is sketchy. Often …
I have started to lead a creative project for women living with dementia and for women who are carers. I notice that there is a consistent premise to my approach that runs across the board with every group I work with. I simply believe in the seams of creative potential which lay within us, which …
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Scientists have studied the hands in early cave paintings in France and Spain, they discovered from the finger size and proportions that 3/4 were by women. It seems such an early and primitive urge to paint on the wall. While in Greece I had the work of Ana Mendieta in mind. I thought of many …
Take yourself seriously Listen carefully Believe Reach for the good stuff Be courageous Tolerate stupidity Be nice when you can Love yourself unreservedly Love others even more Forgive the bastards Take action Think about the planet Remember all the little things are sentient Write poetry Send poetry Make touch a priority That thing you want …
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I would like to write, ‘I used to suffer from depression’ and tell you that I have the cure for it, but I’ve learnt over the last thirty years that ‘depression’ is never cured as such, only managed. I can speak for my experience of the range of depressive symptoms I know about. I know …
Porcelain plate and Forget me not stag at the Assembly Group satellite exhibition of the Whitstable Biennale Saturday 2nd – Sunday 10th June 2018, 11am – 5pm For more information click – The year the dream died
Selected for the Bath Open Art Prize 2018, part of Fringe Arts Bath (FAB) Saturday 26th May – Sunday 10th June 2018 Opening Night – Friday, May 25, 2018 from 6 to 9pm For more information click – Bath Open Art Prize 2018
Edition 4 Exhibition of contemporary printmaking Thursday 17th – Sunday 20th May 2018 Private View – Wednesday 16th May 2018 from 6 to 8pm 44AD artspace, 4 Abbey St, Bath, BA1 1NN For more information click – Edition 4
Tuesday, March 6th – Sunday March 11th 2018 Private view – March 6th from 5 to 9pm The Irreverent Series takes portraits by famous Masters and superimposes women into those positions. The imagery has been cut and pasted from books rendering women as equal models and role models. Artisans and Adventurers, 34 King St, Margate CT9 1DA For more information click …
Horsebridge Open 2018: Art is Something Much More Dangerous Exhibition: 13th – 28th January Including the works Woman Distressing and Medicine Cabinet 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable, Kent. CT5 1AF
Paintings, Collages and Ceramics at the Fishslab Gallery, Whitstable. Exhibition: 15th – 21st November 2017 Private View: Friday 17th November 2017, 6pm – 9pm. Fishslab Gallery, 11 Oxford Street, Whitstable, CT5 1DB
The Rochester Bridge Trust Top Art Prize of £1,000 will go towards making more adventurous ceramics . Thank you to the judges, Nucleus Arts, Clayspace Studios and Bridging Medway. Tracie Peisley with Nathalie Banaigs and Genevieve Tullberg
Assembly Artists Group Digital Collages 27th Sept – 3rd Oct 2017 Somerset Maugham Gallery The Horsebridge Art Centre
Carol Foster Ceramics Studio Peisley ceramics and collages 14th – 15th, 21st – 22nd, 28th – 29th October 2017 10am – 5pm 1 Belmont Yard, Belmont Road, Whitstable, CT5 1QJ
PUBLICA PRIVATIS and Sing a Song of Sixpence have been selected for the ‘Bridging Medway’ Exhibition at Nucleas Arts. Thursday 28th September (6pm) – Wednesday 4th October (2pm) Winners announced 28th September 6 – 8pm
Included in the exhibition are prints of watercolour and ink paintings that were made in June 2017 in Vatoussa, Lesvos, Greece. They are part of a series of paintings inspired by fantasy and the poetry of Lemn Sissay …particularly , ‘invisible kisses’ – a passionate account of longing (see below). Also in mind while making these …
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Winged Embrace Print Signed limited edition giclée print on Hahnemühle 308gsm paper Available to buy at International Eressos Women’s Festival Art Exhibition, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece, 9th – 23rd September. 28.7cm x 23.5cm Special price for festival – €30 High quality canvas print 51cm x 41cm Special price for festival – €120 If you can’t make the festival and would …
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Blind Kissing Print Signed limited edition giclée print on Hahnemühle 308gsm paper Available to buy at International Eressos Women’s Festival Art Exhibition, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece, 9th – 23rd September. 28.7cm x 23.5cm Special price for festival – €30 High quality canvas print 51cm x 41cm Special price for festival – €120 If you can’t make the festival and would …
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Loves Reach Print Signed limited edition giclée print on Hahnemühle 308gsm paper Available to buy at International Eressos Women’s Festival Art Exhibition, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece, 9th – 23rd September. 28.7cm x 23.5cm Special price for festival – €30 High quality canvas print 51cm x 41cm Special price for festival – €120 If you can’t make the festival and …
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Blind Kissing cushion One off cushion €60 Available to buy at International Eressos Women’s Festival Art Exhibition, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece, 9th – 23rd September. Find out more about the festival at – www.womensfestival.eu/
Blue Abstract Girl cushion One off cushion €60 Available to buy at International Eressos Women’s Festival Art Exhibition, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece, 9th – 23rd September. Find out more about the festival at – www.womensfestival.eu/
I’m excited to announce that I’m one of three finalists in the Designer category. The winner to be announced on the 19th May. Last year I handed out the awards and this year I am making them! My design won the commission! kent-creative-awards-2017
Launching my film ‘Into the Blue’ made with Annie Catford, at Beach Creative on the 10th March 6.30, in Voices, an exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day 2017. Also showing some of my more radical art works. 7-19th March.
Tracie’s painting has been selected to be part of the ‘Awakenings’ exhibition at Conquest House , Canterbury and will be on display throughout March 2017
As Tracie’s work has been so inspired by the artefacts seen at the Archeological Museum in Athens, it seemed appropriate to wear her ‘Arcimboldo’ coat to The British Museum on Sunday.
Recently Tracie visited Collect 2017 at the Saatchi Gallery in London to see the absolute best in applied arts on display. This picture was taken by Elisa Helland-Hansen from Norway.
Michelle and Harmony commissioned dresses to wear to a friend’s wedding. Slightly upstaged by Grayson Perry.
45 Artists including the opera singer Laure Meloy exhibiting over 100 pieces of Art in two galleries at the Horsebridge Art Centre in Whitstable. This piece ‘Emerging through skin’ by Pam Caney, photographed by exhibiting photographer, Nikki Price. The show was a resounding success with record number of visitors reflected in our comments book. Some examples of the …
I am intending to be dramatically and colourfully under dressed and would encourage anyone with the desire to go OTT in celebration of SKIN and women creatives to dress ebulliently! We have a reputation of eccentric and flamboyant private views to maintain! Private view is Sunday 28th 2-4pm, opened by Laure Meloy…internationally recognised opera singer..unpresidented …
