Didi Baldwin. Artists: Video work, Film work, Printwork and Drawings. London UK

"Looking but not looking as if glimpsing out of the corner of my eye, with the attention of seeing for the first time, I desire for a strong sense of the overall sensibilities of something. Being intrigued by a banal event or a common occurrence.

I am drawn to find ways of translating my environment, which I have called a landscape, through observing from a step back from a 'normal' sense of time and place. I look across, on to or from, the 'landscape' that has caught my attention.

Through reinterpreting the image and working it through a chosen process, such as film, photography, drawing or etching, I aim to instil an ambiguity in the work. I desire to create multiple readings, to provoke a sense of the infinite and the minuscule. Further more, I wish to suggest a universal feeling of isolation of the individual, abutted against an all encompassing sense of communion of what it is to be human, which by its very nature is intangible".

Qualifications

  • 2000 - 2002 MA Royal College of Art, Fine Art Printmaking with Thesis Distinction
  • 1998 - 1998 Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate City and Guilds 7307 Stage 1, City Lit London
  • 1988 - 1989 Postgraduate Diploma Printed Textiles, Glasgow School of Art
  • 1984 - 1987 BA Hons Printed Textiles (Fine Art), West Surrey College of Art & Design

Teaching Experience

  • 2003 Drawing course, Tower Hamlets Summer University, London
  • 2002 to date Visiting Tutor BA Illustration, Kent Institute
  • 2002 to date Visiting Tutor BA Fine Art, Oxfordshire School of Art
  • 1999 to date Visiting Tutor BA Fine Art, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
  • 1998 - 1999 Foundation Tutor, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
  • 1991 - 2000 Subject and Personal Tutor, Foundation, Oxfordshire School of Art
  • 1995 - 1996 Course Leader, 'Women Into Design', Oxfordshire School of Art
  • 1996 Visiting Tutor, General Art and Design,Tower Hamlets College, London

Other Work Experience

  • 2001 to date HILT (Hackney Independant Living Team), working with people with special needs
  • 1992 - 2003 Workshop leader for Childrens Workshops, Bethnal, Green Museum Childhood
  • 1998 - 2001 Selection board for Chiltern Sculpture Trust
  • 1994 - 1995 Administrator for Borough Recreational Arts Group (BRAG), HIV and Aids awareness community arts project for young deaf people

Awards

  • 2003 National Print Exhibition, London Print Studio Award
  • 2002 Augustus Martin Award, Royal College of Art
  • 2001 Michael Hill Sponsorship Award, Royal College of Art
  • 2001 Royal College of Art Travel Award

Professional Referees

Professor Chris Orr:
Course Director
Fine Art Printmaking
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London. SW7 2EU
Tel: 0207·590·4444

Nick Bodimeade:
Course Director
BA Fine Art
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
15, Octagon Court
Octagon Parade, High Wycombe
Bucks HP11 2JZ
Tel: 01494·465·031

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