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Ffion Taverner
UK
Education
2014- 2017 Manchester School of Art, BA Fine Art
2013-2014 Coleg Sir Gar, Foundation Art & Design
Exhibitions / Projects
2020
Intern at Studio Claudy Jongstra
2019
Workshop with Orchis Floral Design, Sheffield
Workshops with The Plant Room - Garden Sessions, Leeds
Workshops at The School of Sustainability, Bukky Baldwin Shop, The Whitworth, Manchester
Lost Village Festival, Lincolnshire
Window display for Village Leeds, Leeds
Workshop at The Plant Room, Leeds
2018
In the altogether Botanical Life Drawing class - Goodstock, Manchester (Curation)
Meadows in the Mountains Festival, Bulgaria
FRESH - Rural Arts, Thirsk
2017
Bish, Bash, Bosh, We The North - The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Manchester School of Art Degree Show
Feign cubed - Online Virtual Gallery
Its just pink - House show, Manchester
Colace - Curated by Laura Mansfield. G02, Manchester
Opposed To.. - The Portland Barbers, Manchester
Look Read Go - Curated by Sam Belinfante. Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
Residencies
Instructional Artist Residency in Natural Pigments, Arquetopia, Cusco, Peru 2019
Artists Lock In 2017 Residency, ArtHouse Jersey 2017
Ballyvaughn Field Trip, Ireland 2017
Cyprus College of Art Summer School 2014
Features
https://www.theearthissue.com/artists/a-sculpted-land
https://ellamaidownes.wixsite.com/textiledesign/communcating-colour
The Skinny - http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/manchester-school-of-art-degree-show-2017 / June 2017
Image: Penny Booth
Ffion Taverner is an artist who specialises in Natural Dyes which are often sourced from her surroundings, between rural Wales and the North of England.
She has recently completed an instructional artist residency specialising in Natural Dyes with Arquetopia in Peru 2019 which delved into the tradition of colour within Peruvian culture.
Working within such a slow medium creates an open-ended relationship to each ingredient sourced. She reads nature through colour, allowing her curiosity to forage and collect material; cooking up experimentation. Collaborating with natural ingredients and organic fabrics, Taverner creates a connection with the material that is rooted and playful; allowing her to discover what our surroundings can create.