Prints
SANDY SYKES
Sandy Sykes was born in Yorkshire and is a painter, printmaker and maker of artist’s books. She studied BA (Hons) Painting at Leeds Metropolitan University and MA and Fellowship in Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art and Design. Lecturing in many British universities over the years, she now works in London and in her studio in Essex, which is an old wooden barn surrounded by fields and estuary. Her awareness of the natural world is a major catalyst to her thinking and her well being.
Since 1970 Sykes has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows, some of which have toured in Britain, Europe, USA and Russia. Represented in International Art Fairs in New York, Chicago and London, her work is held in numerous Public Collections including Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2008 |
Nominated for the Sovereign European Art Prize 2008
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2008 |
Selected for a Solo Show in the Project Space P7 at The London Art Fair 2008
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2008 |
Solo Exhibition titled ‘Manuscript’at The Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough Wiltshire.
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2006 |
Residency at ‘Firstsite’ Contemporary Art, Colchester, Sykes produced ‘Dwelling’. These drawings of temporary shelter, balloons and kites, were exhibited at The Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough Wiltshire.Winner of The Bank of Canada Award for ‘La Biennale International D’estampe Contemporaine de Trois Riviers’ Quebec Canada in 2005 she was also a prizewinner in ‘Bird 2005 International Art Award’ Beijing China and a medal winner in ‘The 2nd Seoul International Bookarts Fair ‘05’ Seoul Korea and a shortlisted prizewinner for SKETCH 2005.
She won the Annual Lorne Award Scholarship in 2003/4. She also received a major Artist’s Award from Arts Council England East in 2003/4. This allowed her to spend sustained time investigating wood in its many uses and meanings and to visit Egypt, New York and Florence and Siena to study early wooden artefacts.
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2002 |
Commissions East gave funding for the development of a sequel to her artists book ‘Paradise is Always Where You’ve Been’. Loosely based on Dantes ‘Divine Comedy’ it concentrates ideas around our human yearning for a better world. It was shown in a solo exhibition ‘Hopping the Pond: The Hedgehog Series’ held at Manhattan Graphic Center New York 2002. She was awarded a 6 week Scholarship and Residency to work on the Nagasawa Art Project in Japan in 2001. 12 artists from 12 different countries were selected to work with Japanese artists on traditional woodcarving and printing techniques.
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2000 |
A Research Residency in New York in 2000 allowed her to work on a three month Manhattan Graphic Center Scholarship, Sykes also spent time researching in The Ellis Island Immigration Museum and was given permission to use the immigration transcripts in her subsequent work. |
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