Mary Byrne

 

Email: marybyrne@tiscali.co.uk

 

Websites: ArtSpace Loughborough http://www.artspace-lboro.co.uk/

The Association of Leics Artists http://theassociationofleicestershireartists.weebly.com/

Made in Leicestershire http://www.madeinleicestershire.org.uk/

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

 

Mary is a writer as well as an artist. She paints and draws and composes digital collages with narrative themes, often with surreal overtones. She is also fascinated by old photos of people. Work in 2018 was inspired by photos of women workers at the Zenobia perfume factory, Loughborough, in the 1920s. Recent work is inspired by her love of dolls’ houses. She finds their echo of reality intriguing but slightly surreal. Although they started out as a means for the rich to show off what they owned in a miniature version, they have become a way for both adults and children to seem to have control over their world, albeit a tiny one.

Mary exhibits widely on her own and with ArtSpace Loughborough and the Association of Leicestershire Artists. She is a member of Leicester Writers’ Club and has had stories and poems published in literary magazines.

EDUCATION

 

BA Honours Fine Art (Painting) (2.1), Loughborough College of Art and Design

BA Honours English, London University

PGCE, Leeds University

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

‘Imagined Worlds’, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough

Feb-Apr 2014

‘Hidden’, Nottingham Society of Artists’ Gallery, Friar Lane, Nottingham

Aug 2012

‘Inner Lives’, Melton Mowbray Library Art Gallery

Sep 2011

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

 

‘Inside/Outside’, ArtSpace, Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall

Jan-Feb 2019

‘Layers and Edges’, ArtSpace, Charnwood Museum

Apr-June 2018

‘Coming Together’, LE11 1N Group, Loughborough Old Rectory Museum

Apr-May 2018

‘Seeing the Light’, ArtSpace, Deda Performance Centre, Derby

Jan-Feb 2018

Leicester Open 28, Old Library Gallery, Leicester

 Sep 2017

‘Light and Dark’, Old Library Gallery, Leicester

Feb-Mar 2017

‘The Eye Opens’, Old Library Gallery, Leicester

Dec 2016

The Association of Leicestershire Artists, Atkins Gallery, Hinckley

Nov-Dec 2016

‘Reflection’, ArtSpace, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough

May-Aug 2016

‘Renewal’, ArtSpace, Atkins Gallery, Hinckley

Mar 2016

Leicester Open 27, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery

Mar-May 2016

‘Beyond Words’, ArtSpace, Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall

May-June 2015

‘Looking Back’, ArtSpace, Curve Theatre, Leicester

July-Sep 2014

‘Under the Surface’, Assoc of Leics Artists, Leicester Museum/Art Gallery

Oct-Dec 2013

 

REVIEWS

 

Review of ‘Imagined Worlds’, Loughborough Echo, 16 Feb 2014

Review of ‘Inner Lives’, Leicester Mercury, 2011