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Title:
Festive Fool
Object name(s):
Prints
Collection:
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
Acquisition date:
2015
Acquisition method:
Gift
Dimension:
Width
Dimension value:
164
Dimension:
Height
Dimension value:
132
Material:
Lithograph
Object name:
Prints
Object number:
PR3899
Object production date:
2012
Date - earliest / single:
2012
Object production person:
Virginia Caroline Wade
Person's association:
artist
Person's biographical note:
Exhibits under Gini Wade. Illustrator and printmaker. Studied printmaking and graphic design at the Central School of Arts & Crafts (now Central St Martins), London. She worked as an illustrator and children’s book author for many years, with work published by Macmillan and Penguin Books. She was a post-graduate student at Aberystwyth University from 2007-2010 where she earned an MA with Distinction in Fine Art. She is also a DJ – dance, dreams and celebrations inform many of her images - and makes animations. She has taught printmaking in Hong Kong and Guatemala, and currently runs lithography workshops for the Sidney Nolan Trust, Herts, and for Aberystwyth Printmakers. In 2014 she was accepted onto the prestigious Plate Lithography Summer Course at the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque; a place renowned worldwide for excellence in lithography. Her prints are held in private collections worldwide, and publicly in the Wellcome Library Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Zuckerman Museum of Art, and the Aberystwyth University Collection, among others. Wade was a guest speaker and exhibitor at the Hong Kong Graphic Fiesta 2011, and an invited exhibitor at HKArt in 2012. She is a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers and regularly contributes articles to Printmaking Today. She is based in mid-Wales where she continues to make prints.
Person's birth date:
1944
Person's forenames:
Virginia Caroline
Person's surname:
Wade
Object production place:
UK, Wales
Owner:
Contemporary Art Society for Wales
Organisation's association:
Object source
Responsible department/section:
Prints
Text:
Number 4 from an edition of 20
Text reason:
Collections online text

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5acb4ab5-7bc6-354c-b0c4-a96a3c205ead

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5acb4ab5-7bc6-354c-b0c4-a96a3c205ead, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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