Chris a tye
BA (Hons), MA (Art Hist)(Open)
STUDIED
- Craven College, Skipton, 2012 – 2019 –
- Foundation Diploma in Fine Art – Distinction
- BA (Hons) Fine Art – 2:2
- Open University, 2020 – 2022
- Master of Arts in Art History
Exhibited
- Summer Open Exhibition, 2023, ‘The Open Gallery’, Halifax, 2023
- Harrogate Open Art Exhibition, 2019
- ‘Over by Christmas’, Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, December 2017 & 2018
- ‘Living Spaces’, Skipton, March 2016
- Craven College end of year show, 2013 – 2019
- Pateley Bridge Art Club summer show 2015, 2017
- Nidderdale Show art classes 2011 – 2017 (winner: Charlton Taylor Perpetual trophy for best in oil / watercolour classes, 2016)
Organisations
- Pateley Bridge Art Club – 2011 to present
- I produce the monthly newsletter for the club and initially created and set up the club website
- Member – a-n The Artists Information Company
- Member – Association of Art Historians
My art follows the tradition of highlighting the everyday, and more recently the influence of urban life in the rural landscape, such as signposts.
I appreciate the work of contemporary artists, and my MA dissertation studied the urban art of the Bankside area of Hull.
