You should already be aware of the following details, so please excuse this urgent reminder. Will you please check the following three questions, and the follow-up details below, as we are about to start designing the next AOTM Brochure for 2009 – 2010?

 

1              Have you sent your cheque for £65 for the next AOTM year (01 May 2009 to 31 May 2010) - due 30 April 2009?

2              Have you checked the details on your own page on the new AOTM web site (to be used in the new Brochure)?

3              Have you uploaded a ‘High Resolution’ image on your own AOTM web page (to be used in the new Brochure)? 

 

Cheques: Cheques should be made out to ‘Art on the Map’ and sent to the Membership Secretary, Peter Montgomery, Beech Cottage, 4 Church Street, Scothern, Lincoln LN2 2UA. That is all that existing members now need to do to renew their AOTM membership for the next year!

 

AOTM Web Site: The new web site is at www.artonthemap.org.uk and each member has their own artist's page where they can add, or change, up to five of their own images, as well as updating/changing their text. Please check your details carefully now, as the details for the new AOTM Brochure will be extracted from your own page.

 

High Resolution Image: Each member should have one high resolution image on their page, as that image will be used in the new AOTM Brochure. The image should be a ‘jpg’ and be around 2mb size.

 

Urgent actions: All of the above actions need to be completed by the end of April, as we will start designing the new AOTM Brochure in May, ready for printing and distribution in time for the summer/autumn Open Studios - (the first Open Studios will be at the end of July 2009). If you are unable to change your own AOTM web page details, then please email the information to Peter Montgomery (peter.montgomery@tesco.net - or telephone 01673 861556) and he will help you.

 

 

 

Experimenting with a variety of mediums including woods, metal, paper, light and photography, his work has developed to what he has gained renown for in his now chosen field - glass.

 

On closer inspection of this journey, the viewer will see that though fifteen years has passed, many of the underlying themes can still be seen in his most contemporary pieces of work.

 

Kevin says - “It has been an exciting project for me, constructing this exhibition. This is my first solo exhibition and what could be better than to hold it in your home town. Seeing all my work assembled in one place will be so satisfying, finding forgotten sketches and experimental pieces from my early days that are still relevant. I hope that people coming to the exhibition take away a true idea and understanding of my concepts.”

 

This natural progression has taken him from humble beginnings to an artist receiving much acclaim and presented him the opportunity to produce work for many prestigious organizations, not least being commissioned to produce and present work to HM the Queen in 2002 for her Golden Jubilee. In 2003 and 2004 Carlton Television commissioned Kevin for the ‘Midlander of the Year awards’, among the recipients were Martin Johnson, Ozzy Osbourne, the Bishop of Birmingham and Fiona Thornewill the polar explorer. Also, more recently, the ‘Birmingham Young Emerging Business Awards’ and also the ‘University of Nottingham Nursing Awards’, and over the new year Kevin exhibited in the East Midlands European Arts Headquarters in Brussels.

 

Kevin shows his work in fifteen galleries throughout England and Wales. Here in Lincoln he is a member of Harding House Gallery, a co-operative gallery on Steep Hill, where he works one day a week. This gallery seems to be bucking the trend in these difficult times and is thriving, due to an excellent array of art and craft.

 

His smaller pieces of work are on permanent display at the multi award winning Dog and Bone public house on John Street Lincoln where he holds regular exhibitions, along with a growing number of local artists, keen to develop this venue as the heart of community arts, as Lincoln is sadly lacking space for developing artists to showcase their talents.

Many artists have specialist studios to work in with much space and light, for Kevin the old wash-house at the back of his small terraced home is enough to produce his large and small creative works of art, fondly known by him and his family as the ‘Shed’.

 

The Sam Scorer Gallery, Drury Lane, Lincoln, hosts Kevin’s first solo exhibition, which starts on Sunday 3^rd May until Saturday 16^th May 2009 opening daily from 11am to 5pm. 

For further information contact Kevin on 01522 821567 or -

email him on kevin.wallhead@ntlworld.com   His web site is: www.kevinwallhead.co.uk

 

 

If you have any items of news or feature articles that would be of interest to other members of Art on the Map send them to: john.lincoln@art-insight.co.uk They will be included in the May issue of AOTM’s NEWSLETTER.