Maggie Banks contemporary artist

Biography

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Maggie Banks - Personal Statement

The greatest inspiration behind my work and much of my primary source material is landscape but I also work from a variety of other sources - memories, dreams, and emotional situations of all kinds. I attempt to portray my personal feelings about subjects.

I am interested in creating complex, sometimes simple, paintings based on an interaction between the man-made and the natural world. I like to develop sequences of work where paintings begin to explore relationships between the subject matter and the imaginary space within the painting.

Some recent work explores ideas about love and war, and the effects of one on the other.

I have contributed to many exhibitions in England and France where I was a member of the Monaco Ecole des Arts Plastique. As artist in residence over the last 3 years, I have spent a lot of time painting on site in Cape Cornwall, later developing work and ideas further in my studio.

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CV
Ecole municipale d'art plastiques in Monaco Ville
Member of UNESCO Arts Plastique
Exhibited in several joint exhibitions in Monte Carlo
A Level Art, and Access Art and Design Amersham and Wycombe College
Art Design preparatory course University of Hertfordshire
Studying part-time for BA (Hons) in Fine Art
Intensive weeks in Yorkshire and Cornwall
BA Hons. Fine Art
Collaboration with Andy Goldsworthy on Stones and snowballs for the Time Exhibition, Barbican Art Gallery, September 2000
Set up Artists in residence project for the summer school with Missenden Abbey
Artist in residence for 3 weeks at Missenden Abbey
Artist in residence at Missenden Abbey
Artist in Residence at St Just Cornwall
Joint exhibition Obsidian Gallery
1 - 14 July Solo show at Visual Arts Centre Watford
From 1999 - 2003 Exhibited in 25 joint exhibitions

16 - 18 September joint Open Studios Visual Arts Centre, Watford
December - January 2005 - 6 solo show Pump House Watford

16-21 October, Joint show Bucks art society, Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes
16-26 November, Joint show Bucks 21 group @ Icetwice Gallery, Olney, Milton Keynes

Professional activities: From 2003 Teaching and workshops for local art groups

Professional memberships: B.A.S. and Bucks 21

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