Kristian Purcell

Freelancer - Fine Art

117a Castle Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3QX

T: 01234296748 M: 07977915349 W: http://www.kristianpurcell.co.uk

Professional Experience

Exhibitions March-May'10- Real Renaissance Cafe,Bedford; July '09: Solo show 117a Castle Road; Dec 08- Jan09Kristian Purcell and Valerie Weir; August '08: Kristian Purcell – IN SITU PAINTINGS AND OTHER WORKS, The House, Wycliffe Road, Cambridge. July '08: Krisitan Purcell 11 Wellington Street, Bedford. May-July 07: Giant Machine Studio Collective (22 works), Bromham Mill Art Gallery, Bedford. Commissions: Artist-in-Residence IN SITU: theatre company, Cambridge ‘Theatre and Landscape project’, September 2007. Private commissioned portraits since 2001. Currently an Art tutor with spark adult learning since 2007, specialising in Life Drawing and Art History/Curatorial: Curatorial asst. at Cecil Higgins Art gallery since 2004. Arts management: Founder of the not-for-profit company Giant Machine Ltd that ran Giant Machine Art Studios, Castle Road, Bedford, form 2005-2008, along with Gemma Hutton and Olindo Piombino.

Service Description

Fine art painting in oil, gouache, watercolour, and drawing in pencil, pen+ink, and charcoal. My work often uses portraiture and the human form as well as abstraction to explore the expressive and communicative possibilities of paint and surface, working from memory, life, or in inspired by photographical, literary or musical sources.