CORINNA BUTTON
Elected ARE (Royal Society of Painters & printmakers)
Corinna Button started out in Sheffield, studied (BA Hons) fine art at Leeds and then Post Graduate Advanced Printmaking at Croydon school of art. She has exhibited in both solo & mixed shows not only across Europe ; Hungary, Denmark, Germany & Luxembourg but also in New Zealand ,Korea & USA. She exhibits and sells her work regularly in galleries throughout the UK.
Corinna works in mediums including; Mix media; painting, etching, woodcuts and, collagraphs.
Her work can be found in many private collections internationally.
Work in public collections include the BBC, The university of Aberystwyth and the Ashmolean museum in Oxford.
Corinna now lives and works in Chicago.
Solo Exhibitions (From 2005) ;
2012; Bath Contemporary. Painting & Prints. Bath, UK
2012; ‘About Face’ Zhou B Art Center Gallery, Chicago USA
2011; Gallery13 , Flights of Fancy’ Minneapolis USA ‘
2011 ‘Basement Gallery’ Featured Printmaker, Boise, Idaho.
2010; Riverside Gallery, Barnes, London, UK
2010; Cupola Gallery,; ‘Feast’ Sheffield UK.
2009; Brumfield Contemporary Art Hastings, UK
2009; ‘Impact’ UWE ’Painting on a plate, Printing onto canvas’ Bristol, UK
2008; Rose Theatre, Kingston-u-Thames . UK
2008 ; Wildwood Gallery ‘On The Pull II’, Bury St Edmunds ,Suffolk. UK
2007; ‘Gathering Storm’ Gallery Kaleidoscope, London. UK
2007; Cupola Gallery ‘On The Pull’ Sheffield, UK
2005; Kew Gallery; ‘Good Vibrations’ London. UK
Selected Group Exhibitions USA 2010- 2012;
Face Mask. 33 Contemporary Art , Chicago.
Union Street Gallery,’ Being Human’, Chicago:
Beauty School Dropouts’ Gallery13, Minneapolis.
‘National Portrait Exhibition’ 33 Contemporary Art , Chicago.
‘Calling Home’ and ‘Loss of space’ Milwaukee Arts Festival Chicago.
‘Mothers’ Woman Made Gallery, Chicago.
‘Centerline 10’ Curated by Oscar Friedl @ Zhou B Art Center, Chicago.,
International printmaking ‘ Old Planet, New Planet’, Gallery13, Minneapolis
Selected Group Exhibitions UK ;
Burton Gallery & Museum in Bideford.
The Royal Academy Original Print Fair exhibition, London.
International print exhibition @ Open Space Galleries- St Penryn, Cornwall.
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
‘A Century of Sheffield Art @’,Millenium Galleries, Sheffield.
Calder Gallery- Hebden Bridge.
Royal Academy Summer Show; London.
The Discerning eye/ The National print /Originals exhibitions in the Mall Galleries-London;
Bankside Gallery RE Exhibitions
Stanley Picker Gallery- Kingston-U-Thames:
Hicks Gallery- London
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham,:
UWE Impact International Printmaking, Bristol,
Awards [and/or Publications]
2011 – Work featured in “Extraordinary Sketchbooks” published 2011 (A&C Black re Artists’ drawing & their sketchbooks)
2010 – Short-listed for Printmaking prize @ the A4 International open Print exhibition’ Cornwall
2009 – Hector Purchase Prize
2007 - University of Aberystwyth prize
2009 - Printmaker’s Secrets book.
2009 – Hilite corporate Magazine, Germany
2006 – Artists and Illustrators Magazine
‘The roots of Corinna’s work may be in German Expressionism – The darkness, the colours, the bold, solid forms, the sense of something just out of reach …this is exciting, tantalizing work’
Sue Roe, Author of ‘The Private Lives of the Impressionists’ and ‘ Gwen John- A Life’ 2008
‘It is not often I visit an exhibition which changes the way I look at the world’
Helen Parrott (Arts Council Of England) 2008 ‘On The Pull’ solo exhibition)
‘Corinna explores the social interactions and relationships of both individuals and groups of people, often women and in threes, with gentle humour and a grain of grit. The effect is to leave you smiling with the residue of some kind of shared experience’
Bath Contemporary 2012
Combined with mastery of execution, Corinna Button conquers our imagination by placing a perennial mirror into our collective human experience.’
Sergio Gomez Curator; ‘About Face’ 2012
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