Tracy Elizabeth Watt MA EMAIL : watt.art@fsmail.net Summary of Qualifications 2002 Master of Arts Degree in Painting, 2.1, University of Hull. 1998 City & Guilds 7307 parts I/II Adult & Further Education Teaching Certificate, Oldham College. 1998 RSA CLAIT 1989 NWRAC Foundation Art & Design, Distinction, Oldham College. 1989 A LEVEL Art. 1988 NWRAC General Art & Design, Distinction, Oldham College. 1988 NWRAC National Diploma Art & Design, Oldham College. Employment 1990 – ongoing. Visual Artist specialising in figurative representation (please refer to attached exhibition profile) Sept 08 – April 09 Artist in Residence at Liverpool Community College. 2002 – 06 Distance Learning Tutor. The Open College of Arts. Subject Areas: Drawing; Painting; and Art & Design. 1997 – 99 Part Time Lecturer GNVQ Art & Design and Life Studies. College. Oldham 1999 Tutor in watercolour painting at Age Concern Day Centre as part of Oldham College Community Outreach Programme. 1995 – 97 Youth and Community Artist. Working with Oldham Play Action Group and Green Monster Arts. Award 2005 1st Prize awarded at Chichester International Open Art Exhibition. Previews & Interviews 9th Nov 2005 Manchester Evening News 16th Nov 2005 West Sussex Observer Newspaper 2nd Nov 2005 Oldham Advertiser Newspaper 15th May 2005 Oldham Advertiser Newspaper, ‘More Strokes of Genius from Tracy’, by Anne Richardson 2nd Sept 2004 Manchester Metro Newspaper Feb/March 2004 Female Psyche’ The Stockport Diary Magazine, ‘Contemporary Slant on the 31st Aug 2004 BBC ONLINE Feature Interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2004/08/31/tracywattsoarinterviewvisualartsfeatureshtml Exhibitions 1998 Solo Exhibition, Grange Arts Centre, Oldham 2002 Astley Open, Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancs 2002 MA Painting Show, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus 2003 Astley Open 2004 ‘people Matters’, Black Sheep Gallery, Hawarden, North Wales 2004 ‘Subjugation to Rebellion’, Solo Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery 2004 Wrexham Open, Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales 2004 ‘The Melancholic Weaver of Whiles’, Solo Exhibition, The Portico Library & Art Gallery, Manchester City 2005 Solo Exhibition, The Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle 2005 Birmingham Ladyfest Festival 2005 West Lancashire Open, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk 2005 Chichester Open Art Exhibition, West Sussex. 1st Prize Awarded 2006 Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition. Finalist 2007 ‘Images of the Divine’, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 2008 The Womens Art Show 2008, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke 2008 ‘New Blood’, The International Gallery, Liverpool City 2010 The Womens Art Show 2010, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke 2010 North Wales Open, Mold, North Wales