Patricia Mullin - Folk Art
Seeking The Lands Of His Forefathers
The Owl And The Moon |
Maui Hooks The Great Fish Aotearoa
Smiling At The Moon |
Artist's Statement
‘I have long been fascinated by Folk and Early Art, in all its forms and geographical/historical locations. This is contrasted by my interest in domestic crockery and still life, where the title often alludes to narratives beyond the frame.’
Patricia Mullin was born and raised in East Anglia, where meads, streams, woods, and thickets became playgrounds and gangs of children roamed free; drawing and reading were her rainy-day pursuits.Patricia attended Colchester School of Art for a two-year foundation course. She was taught drawing by Phillip Ardizzone (son of Edward), Richard Bawden, printmaker (son of Edward), and the historian Richard Godfrey: a foundation from which Patricia continues to benefit today.
At Central Saint Martins, she gained a BA in applied textiles, from where she went on to design for Liberty & Co for the Tana Lawn/Veruna Wool ranges, later freelancing and selling to textile houses in the UK and internationally. She completed an art specialist PGCE at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where her final exhibition (1982) ‘Women on the Line’ challenged male perspectives and expressed women’s outrage at a trial judges summing up after the savagely vicious rape and maiming of a Glaswegian prostitute. The work was in print and slip-dipped women’s items, hanging by pegs from a washing line.
Graduating from her MA in Writing the Visual from NUA, devised by George Szirtes (internationally renowned poet and winner of the T.S. Elliot prize) exploring the relationship between creative and critical writing and visual culture. Patricia presented 30K words from her novel, ‘Casting Shadows’ and created an ersatz gallery, with an exhibition of wax images made by Patricia, but belonging to the central character, artist, Sally Kettlestone, who was brought to life by an actor. ‘Casting Shadows’ concerns mistaking memory for the truth.
Patricia is a published author; her short stories have won places in national competition anthologies, literary magazines, and ezines, and she is a full member of The Society of Authors.
She has taught in settings including Norwich Cathedral, where she ran the first creative writing course in an English Cathedral, and an open art studio. She has also taught at HMP Prison Norwich, Murray Edwards College Cambridge (which holds the second largest collection of women’s art in the world - the largest being in Chicago. USA), and The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, where she specialised in creative writing inspired by the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection and special exhibitions. Patricia focuses on creative writing and art workshops linked to historic and contemporary collections, museums, gardens, and iconic buildings.
Patricia's illustrations have been commissioned for Women's Journal, Taste Magazine, A' La Carte, Elle, City Limits, Time Out, Quadrant Design Associates, Vauxhall Motors, Landell Mills Commodities, et al.
Exhibitions/galleries include The Artists Day Book, Smiths Gallery Covent Garden - later an Arts Council national tour. Women's Eye at Lauderdale House London; Snape Maltings Gallery/Suffolk; Blickling Hall Gallery, Norfolk; The Brandler Gallery, Essex; The Eastern Rooms, Rye; Opposite Ends - exhibitor and curator – Norwich inaugural Open Studios; subsequently Opposite Ends and Friends and The Hostry exhibition space, Norwich Cathedral. A Norwich Cathedral Exhibitions Committee member, Patricia was actively involved in developing the new Hostry exhibition and learning space. Recently, ‘Julia Laughed as Petals Fell’ was selected for the Sir John Hurt Prize 2024 – The Holt Festival. She was invited to exhibit at the Walsingham Gallery in Great Walsingham, North Norfolk. She has two collections currently ‘Tales from the Table’ where the titles hint at conversations beyond the frame, and ‘Folk Art’ which connects iconic images of wildlife related to the East Anglian land and seascape, with its storytelling history embedded within the culture through tales, myths and legends.
Patricia Mullin was born and raised in East Anglia, where meads, streams, woods, and thickets became playgrounds and gangs of children roamed free; drawing and reading were her rainy-day pursuits.Patricia attended Colchester School of Art for a two-year foundation course. She was taught drawing by Phillip Ardizzone (son of Edward), Richard Bawden, printmaker (son of Edward), and the historian Richard Godfrey: a foundation from which Patricia continues to benefit today.
At Central Saint Martins, she gained a BA in applied textiles, from where she went on to design for Liberty & Co for the Tana Lawn/Veruna Wool ranges, later freelancing and selling to textile houses in the UK and internationally. She completed an art specialist PGCE at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where her final exhibition (1982) ‘Women on the Line’ challenged male perspectives and expressed women’s outrage at a trial judges summing up after the savagely vicious rape and maiming of a Glaswegian prostitute. The work was in print and slip-dipped women’s items, hanging by pegs from a washing line.
Graduating from her MA in Writing the Visual from NUA, devised by George Szirtes (internationally renowned poet and winner of the T.S. Elliot prize) exploring the relationship between creative and critical writing and visual culture. Patricia presented 30K words from her novel, ‘Casting Shadows’ and created an ersatz gallery, with an exhibition of wax images made by Patricia, but belonging to the central character, artist, Sally Kettlestone, who was brought to life by an actor. ‘Casting Shadows’ concerns mistaking memory for the truth.
Patricia is a published author; her short stories have won places in national competition anthologies, literary magazines, and ezines, and she is a full member of The Society of Authors.
She has taught in settings including Norwich Cathedral, where she ran the first creative writing course in an English Cathedral, and an open art studio. She has also taught at HMP Prison Norwich, Murray Edwards College Cambridge (which holds the second largest collection of women’s art in the world - the largest being in Chicago. USA), and The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, where she specialised in creative writing inspired by the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection and special exhibitions. Patricia focuses on creative writing and art workshops linked to historic and contemporary collections, museums, gardens, and iconic buildings.
Patricia's illustrations have been commissioned for Women's Journal, Taste Magazine, A' La Carte, Elle, City Limits, Time Out, Quadrant Design Associates, Vauxhall Motors, Landell Mills Commodities, et al.
Exhibitions/galleries include The Artists Day Book, Smiths Gallery Covent Garden - later an Arts Council national tour. Women's Eye at Lauderdale House London; Snape Maltings Gallery/Suffolk; Blickling Hall Gallery, Norfolk; The Brandler Gallery, Essex; The Eastern Rooms, Rye; Opposite Ends - exhibitor and curator – Norwich inaugural Open Studios; subsequently Opposite Ends and Friends and The Hostry exhibition space, Norwich Cathedral. A Norwich Cathedral Exhibitions Committee member, Patricia was actively involved in developing the new Hostry exhibition and learning space. Recently, ‘Julia Laughed as Petals Fell’ was selected for the Sir John Hurt Prize 2024 – The Holt Festival. She was invited to exhibit at the Walsingham Gallery in Great Walsingham, North Norfolk. She has two collections currently ‘Tales from the Table’ where the titles hint at conversations beyond the frame, and ‘Folk Art’ which connects iconic images of wildlife related to the East Anglian land and seascape, with its storytelling history embedded within the culture through tales, myths and legends.