| DAGMARA RUDKIN Flat 1, 43 Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton BN2 1QF · contact: 07972703518/ 01273 606206 email: dagmararudkin@hotmail.com website: www.dagmararudkin.com | |
| EDUCATION 2013 – 2015 MA in Sequential Design and Illustration, University of Brighton, Distinction Title of thesis: The Everyday and the Sacred: Investigating the narrative potential of materials and objects in retelling folktales and mythical stories 1998 – 1999 PGCE in Art and Design, University of Brighton 1995-1998 B.A. (Joint Hons) in Glass and Painting, University of Wolverhampton, 1994-1995 BTEC in Art and Design, University of Bradford. Academic Scholarship, Distinction. 1985 -1990 International Baccalaureate including Fine Art, Applied Arts, History of Art, Polish Language and Literature. School of Applied Arts, Wroclaw, Poland | |
| SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS September 2022, Goodbye Breasts, Attenborough Centre, University of Sussex, costume design and making for a film and performance by Joanna Callaghan March 2022, Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? Chichester University, Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, joined artist’s talk and art exhibition with Vanessa Marr June 2021,Newhaven Open, Newhaven February 2021, Artist Residency, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton May 2020, Saturate, Online group exhibition, June 2019, Dagmara Rudkin: Summer, Fall and Spring again, solo exhibition, Window Gallery, Phoenix Brighton Dec 2018 Snow Q Project, The Regency Town House, Brighton, design for an immersive performance in collaboration with poet Maria Jastrzebska, composer Peter Copley and filmmaker Wendy Pye Nov 2017-Jan 2018, Storyland, Six months group residency and exhibition with artists’ group Fabula Collective, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove Dec 2016-Apr 2017 Many Ways to Tell a Story, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove Apr 2016 Stories about Stories, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Sep 2015 MA in Sequential Design & Illustration and MA by Independent Project, Brighton University Gallery, Brighton June 1998 Burton Agnes Hall, Artist in Residence |
| TEACHING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Sep 2022-ongoing Freelance Artist Educator, Hastings Contemporary I design and deliver art workshops for families, KS3/4 pupils and run adult art classes based on current exhibitions. Jan 2001-August 2022 Tutor of Art, Module Leader for Materials, Techniques and Processes, Bellerbys College, Brighton. FND, A Level, GCSE and Art Enrichment Program. Designing and delivering Art programs preparing overseas students for art education at British universities. I worked predominantly with students from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East delivering general A&D as well as specialistic skills including model making for architecture and interior design, fashion illustration, textiles, printmaking, casting, wire sculpture, life drawing and Contextual Studies. May 2022 Visiting Lecturer, MA in Sequential Design and Illustration and Independent Project Brighton University Jan 2021-June 2021 Visiting Lecturer, BA and MA programme at English Language and Literature Faculty at WSB University in Poland. I designed and delivered a 12- week online course on Visual Literacy to Polish and Ukrainian students. This included analysing and responding to contemporary works of art through creative writing and art activities. Conducted in English and Polish. August 2018 and December 2018 Workshop Leader and Exhibition Curator. The Young Carers Group Mixed media, printmaking and textile workshop with 7-16 year olds in response to ‘The Snow Queen’ story by Hans Christian Andersen. Outcomes of this workshop were exhibited during an immersive site-specific event at the Regency Town House, Brighton. June 2018 Workshop Leader, Enrichment Programme, Dorothy Stringer School Textile, sculpture and puppet making in response to drawings by William Hogarth and contemporary caricature. 2017- 2018 Artist in residence and Workshop Leader. Six months group residency with Fabula Collective and The Storyland exhibition, Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Together with other artists and illustrators, I created an art trail, a set of art events and art activities for families visiting Hove Museum and Art Gallery and an art exhibition of work created by the visitors. Most of activities were designed for 4- to 10-year-old. 2004-2006 Workshop Leader, Paddock Studios, Lewes Soft Heads. Set of 1-day sessions for Art teachers and PGCSE students. 1998 –2003 Workshop Leader. Polish Community Group, Brighton. I designed and delivered art workshops for Polish families around Polish rituals including traditional paper cut outs and costume making for Easter and Winter festivals. | |
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
September 2022, Goodbye Breasts, Attenborough Centre, University of Sussex, costume design and making for a film and performance by Joanna Callaghan
March 2022, Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? Chichester University,
Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, joined artist’s talk and art exhibition with Vanessa Marr
June 2021,Newhaven Open, Newhaven
February 2021, Artist Residency, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
May 2020, Saturate, Online group exhibition,
June 2019, Dagmara Rudkin: Summer, Fall and Spring again, solo exhibition, Window Gallery, Phoenix Brighton
Dec 2018 Snow Q Project, The Regency Town House, Brighton, design for an immersive performance in collaboration with poet Maria Jastrzebska, composer Peter Copley and filmmaker Wendy Pye
Nov 2017-Jan 2018, Storyland, Six months group residency and exhibition with artists’ group Fabula Collective, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove
Dec 2016-Apr 2017 Many Ways to Tell a Story, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove
Apr 2016 Stories about Stories, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Sep 2015 MA in Sequential Design & Illustration and MA by Independent Project, Brighton University Gallery, Brighton
June 1998 Burton Agnes Hall, Artist in Residence
TEACHING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Sep 2022-ongoing
Freelance Artist Educator, Hastings Contemporary
I design and deliver art workshops for families, KS3/4 pupils and run adult art classes based on current exhibitions.
Jan 2001-August 2022
Tutor of Art, Module Leader for Materials, Techniques and Processes, Bellerbys College, Brighton. FND, A Level, GCSE and Art Enrichment Program. Designing and delivering Art programs preparing overseas students for art education at British universities. I worked predominantly with students from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East delivering general A&D as well as specialistic skills including model making for architecture and interior design, fashion illustration, textiles, printmaking, casting, wire sculpture, life drawing and Contextual Studies.
May 2022
Visiting Lecturer, MA in Sequential Design and Illustration and Independent Project Brighton University
Jan 2021-June 2021
Visiting Lecturer, BA and MA programme at English Language and Literature Faculty at WSB University in Poland. I designed and delivered a 12- week online course on Visual Literacy to Polish and Ukrainian students. This included analysing and responding to contemporary works of art through creative writing and art activities. Conducted in English and Polish.
August 2018 and December 2018
Workshop Leader and Exhibition Curator. The Young Carers Group
Mixed media, printmaking and textile workshop with 7-16 year olds in response to ‘The Snow Queen’ story by Hans Christian Andersen. Outcomes of this workshop were exhibited during an immersive site-specific event at the Regency Town House, Brighton.
June 2018
Workshop Leader, Enrichment Programme, Dorothy Stringer School
Textile, sculpture and puppet making in response to drawings by William Hogarth and contemporary caricature.
2017- 2018
Artist in residence and Workshop Leader.
Six months group residency with Fabula Collective and The Storyland exhibition, Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Together with other artists and illustrators, I created an art trail, a set of art events and art activities for families visiting Hove Museum and Art Gallery and an art exhibition of work created by the visitors. Most of activities were designed for 4- to 10-year-old.
2004-2006
Workshop Leader, Paddock Studios, Lewes
Soft Heads. Set of 1-day sessions for Art teachers and PGCSE students.
1998 –2003
Workshop Leader. Polish Community Group, Brighton. I designed and delivered art workshops for Polish families around Polish rituals including traditional paper cut outs and costume making for Easter and Winter festivals.
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