Janet Griffiths

I was born and brought up in London UK. As a child I was always painting and drawing, making things and also performing. When I was seven years old I was a runner up in a big national children's painting competition and also won a Blue Peter badge for a painting. I moved from the city to West Yorkshire when I was ten years old with my family. I went to High School in Otley where I didn't get on with my art teacher who told Although my first love was always art I ended up going to Drama School in Manchester where I lived for forty years. In between acting jobs I painted and drew and then in my late twenties enrolled in a foundation art and design course. Two children later I was accepted on the Fine Art:painting degree at Manchester Metropolitan University and lived my dream: three years painting and obtained a 2:1 (not bad as I was a single parent at the time bringing up two boys). After three years painting in a studio and some exhibitions I was accepted on the MA in Fine Art at MMU where my work became performance-based (video and photography) and afterwards I became quite successful and was one of the leading figures in the Manchester art scene for some time.

Three years ago I felt a great desire to paint again and 'get my ha...

BA (hons) Fine Art painting: Manchester Metropolitan University 1993-1996
MA Fine Art: Manchester Metropolitan University 1999-2001

Selected Exhibitions:

2016 Hebden Bridge Open studios

2016 Obras Foundation, Portugal

2015 Artsmill, Hebden Bridge Winter Exhibition

2015 Water Street Gallery, Todmorden Winter Open Exhibition

2015 Hebden Bridge open studios

2014 The Egg, The Womb, The Head and The Moon. www.eggwombheadmoon.com

2013 Arthouse: Didsbury Arts Festival (curator)

2011 Suite open studios, Salford

2010 Unrealised potential piece – Cornerhouse, Manchester, part of a group show curated by Mike Chavez Dawson

2010 Stowage: exhibition in the small independent shops in Exeter’s West Quarter and Macclesfield Arts Festival (to be toured to Amsterdam 2011)

2010 rearranging formulae:unwrapping books, The Durds, 03 Gallery, Oxford,‘Nexus’ at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter and the Oxford University Press gallery, Oxford

2009 Outside In: Northern Lawn Tennis Club, Didsbury Arts Festival (curator)

2009 The Launderette Show – The Durds (curator)

2009 The Kiss of a Lifetime, (ltd edition print exhibition): Rogue Studios Artists Space/Vane, Newcastle, Bearspace, Deptford

2008 SWAP/VAIHTO: International Artists Exchange between Suite Studio group and Namastic Arts Collective from Finland with shows...