Future Exhibitions:
April 15th to 18th: Craft in Focus at RHS Garden, Wisley in Surrey (selected)
April 24th-9th May: The Sculpture Show-Trull House, Nr Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8SQ (selected group of twenty sculptors)
May 46-16th: Craft and Design Experience at The Henley Show Grounds/Greenlands within the Hamblden Estate in Henley on Thames(selected)
September 11th-26th : the Sculpture Show: Marle Place, Brenchley, Nr Tonbridge, Kent TN12 7HS
(selected)
The Curriculum Vitae of Debbie Bent. B.A(Hons)
www.debbiebent.com, www.hermitartists.com
dbent2@hotmail.com
Exhibitions
· January 2010 to April 2010: Waterside open 2010, Sale, nr Manchester
· September 2009: Open Studios at Artshed, Westmill Farm, Ware
· May 2009 to October 2009: Sir Harold Hillier Gardens with Underground Art, selected.
· September 5th/6th 2009: Willian Nurseries with Herts Visual Arts Forum
· May 15th -17th 2009: Craft and Design Experience sculpture exhibition, Henley on Thames
Selected
· April 2009: Selected to exhibit at the Maynard Gallery in Welwyn Garden City.
Selected
· March 2009: Exhibition of sculpture at the LAC in Letchworth with Herts Visual Arts Forum
· October 2008: Candid Arts to exhibit at the Islington Art and Design Fair
Selected
· September 2008: Open Studios with Herts Visual Arts Forum
· 2nd -6th July 2008: New Designers Exhibition, Business Design Centre in Islington
· June 2008: Final Degree Show at University of Hertfordshire.
Galleries where my work is permanently exhibited:
· Artshed, Westmill Farm, Ware
· Smiles dental studio in Harpenden
· Maynard Gallery, Welwyn Garden City
· Courtyard Arts, Hertford
Teaching Experience:
Arts Award Advisor
· Ongoing: Community Artist for Leisure Connection, working on local community projects.
· Ongoing: Tutor at Courtyard Arts in Hertford, Ceramics (adults ), children’s classes in sculpture, special needs classes (dyspraxia).
· Ongoing: Tutor in Ceramics, beginners and intermediate adults for Artshed in Ware.
· Ongoing: Home schooled groups, aged (mixed ages from five to eighteen) in their own homes.
· Ongoing: working with teenagers that are homeschooled and some of their parents teaching ceramic history and skills at Artshed in Ware.
· Ongoing: Children’s art teacher at the Maltings Art Club in St Albans, designing and running an art programme for three classes with pupils aged from five to fourteen and one toddler group.
· October: Community project, making and flying kites for Leisure connection in conjunction with the Butterwick Centre for adults with learning difficulties.
· July 2009: Community project called Larks in the parks, an all day workshop in London Colney park , designing a robots garden using recycled materials.
· November 2008: Workshop with First Place Nursery in Radlett.
· September 2007 to September 2008: Artskool, teaching art, after school, to primary aged children. These are children that love art so motivation is not usually a problem but making the lesson fun enough so that they want to return each term has to be balanced with keeping control.
· August 2008: A three day community project, running a ‘drop in’ event for all age groups, set up by Royston schools for part of the summer holiday; devised and run by myself with photography, ceramics and paper.
· July 2008: An assistant for Artscool which is run by the University of Hertfordshire as a weeklong art experience for young people. I worked all week with Toby who was in a wheelchair with limited use of his arms. I was the limbs he needed to exercise a very creative and imaginative brain.
· July 2007 and July 2008: Two five week voluntary posts for Grove House Hospice in St Albans, providing workshops for hospice patients using ceramics. Although this work is with adults, those attending the workshops are very vulnerable and need lots of encouragement and support. My colleague and I received high praise for our work and found the whole experience very rewarding. We have been asked back for 2009.
June 2008: A recycling project for a school in Bengeo with myself and another member of Artshed, working with 56 children to use their recycled materials to create a 13ft Totem Pole. This was messy but really