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Education:
2017-2020 BA Fine art, Nottingham Trent
Group exhibitions:
2019 Created, St. Nicholas Church, Nottingham.
2019 Society, The Shed-a pop up art gallery, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham.
2019 Society, The Shed-a pop up art gallery, Bonington atrium.
2019 Society, The Shed-a pop up art gallery, Trinity Square, Nottingham.
2016 Conversations with the past, Luxmuralis, Chase Terrace.
Professional experience:
Invigilator:
Exhibition- Strike Site, 2018.
Backlit gallery, Nottingham.
NTU Fine art Auction committee, 2019.
Co-creator of ‘The Shed’, a pop-up art gallery.
Biography:
Cliona Perkins is an artist making work about that is informed by her experience of church community. She grew up in a small town called Burntwood in Staffordshire, living and attending school there until the age of eighteen, after which she left her hometown to begin university. Perkins now lives and studies in Nottingham and has spent the past three years on an undergraduate Fine art course at Nottingham Trent University.
Church and faith have always been an important part of her life and this now feeds into her art practice. She grew up attending a small Church of England church, and now attends a larger Church of England church in Nottingham city centre. In both churches she has always been surrounded by a church community therefore the work she makes is centred around church community and unity in worship. She also, at times, explores the relationship between contemporary art and the church. Perkins has exhibited in both church and contemporary art contexts. In 2019 she was part of a collective called ‘The Shed’, a pop-up gallery in the form of a shed containing work that responded to the word ‘Society’. In September 2019, Perkins was part of an exhibition at St. Nicholas Church, Nottingham. The exhibition was called ‘Created’ and showcased the works of artists from the church’s community.