AS A MOSAICIST I:

• Undertake public, private and commercial mosaic commissions
• Facilitate mosaic projects in schools and the community across Yorkshire & UK
• Create mosaics for exhibition and sale

EXPERIENCE

• Provided mosaic workshops since 2007 in a wide variety of schools and community settings
• Engaged diverse client groups including special needs, disadvantaged children, cancer and mental health patients, prisoners, BAME
• Created and written projects, successfully applied for funding (eg Arts Council) and run projects to completion with the third sector

QUALIFICATIONS, PROFESSIONAL BODIES & CERTIFICATES

• Professional member of British Association for Modern Mosaics (BAMM)
• Teaching qualification (PTTLS)
• Community artworker qualification (C&G NVQ3 Community Artworker)
• Degree (BA Joint Hons)
• Certificate in Safeguarding Children
• Mental Health First Aid Certificate

ADDITIONALLY

• a clear Enhanced DBS certificate
• public liability insurance
• testimonials
• transport & full driver’s licence

SCHOOLS I HAVE WORKED WITH

CHARITIES, HOSPITALS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES I HAVE WORKED WITH

INSPIRATIONS

Travelling to Ravenna in Italy had a life-changing impact on me. Looking up at the vast, glittering gold Byzantine mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale I knew I had to discover the art and techniques of these anonymous great mosaicists; applying these ancient methods, to create more intimate mosaics reflecting my love of British birds, animals and trees that surround my Ryedale studio, in the historic village of Sheriff Hutton.

Long walks, observing the seasons changes and shifts in nature are captured in notebooks and sketches as ‘cartoons’, simple quick pencil line drawings; followed by playing around with composition sometimes honing in on detail at others mixing elements from different scenes or imagination.

Then the joy of sifting through the huge choice of materials available including my favourites French porcelain, which has an impervious matt surface, very similar to the natural stone colours of Roman mosaics, with the additional highlight of vibrant vitreous, stained and smalti glass, and mirrors providing a contemporary twist.

I prefer to surround myself with all the materials in colours I might include in a piece before making a final selection which evolves as I work.

Each mosaic is produced with hundreds, often thousands, of hand-cut tesserae. I take particular pleasure in the physical creation and arrangement of tesserae that flow harmoniously throughout the work, providing ‘andamento’ - movement.

While I enjoy working alone, I also undertake public and private commissions, and community projects. This has included commissions I could never have imagined including a four foot high mosaic toad as part of a public trail across Hull in celebration of the poet laureate Philip Larkin; and roman mosaic reconstruction with English Heritage and North York Moors National Park.

Clients have included the NHS, Mind, Macmillan Cancer Support, British Heart Foundation, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Action for Children, York University and many councils, hospitals, churches and schools.

I am a Professional Member of the British Association for Modern Mosaic.

I hope you enjoy my mosaics as much I did creating them.







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Sue Kershaw
Mosaic Artist (York, North Yorkshire, UK)
www.mosaicart.org.uk
07929 884759

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