About
Heather Boxall
Heather was born in Gravesend, Kent and grew up along the southeast Kent coast. She now lives and works in West Yorkshire. She gained a degree in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art in 1981 and later completed an MA in Printmaking at Bradford School of Art. She is a painter and printmaker. Her practice is concerned with the ‘stuff of colour’.
Colour determines almost everything we do. It operates on many different levels: visually, emotionally, cognitively. According to neuroscientist, Anya Hurlbert, colours are linked to our ability to conceptualise, categorise and label. But we don’t all see colour the same way. Colour is slippery, mutable. It is our own personal possession, made in our own individual minds. Anya Hurlbert On Seeing Colour, The Life Scientific BBC Radio 4 Interview with Jim Al-Khalili, Feb 2020
Contact:
heatherboxall@btinternet.com
Instagram: @heatherboxall
Biography:
1960: Born – Kent, UK
1978 Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Medway College of Design
1981 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Winchester
1993 PGCE Secondary Art & Design, Bretton Hall College, (University of Leeds)
2003 MA in Printmaking, Bradford College of Art, Bradford
Solo Exhibitions
2025 (Start date June 6th) Featured artist exhibition at Ironbridge Fine Arts, Shropshire
2023 ‘Playground of Colour’ , Northlight Gallery, Hebden Bridge
2022 ‘Colour Chart’ Artizan Gallery, Torquay
2018-19 ‘Stripe Paintings’ York Hospitals Gallery, York
2018 ‘Colour Standards’ Solo show with words for colour by poet Judith Wilson
2018 ‘Colours Edge II’ Bowery Gallery, Leeds
2017 ‘Colours Edge’ Space Gallery, Folkestone, Kent. Part of Fringe Folkestone Triennial
2016 ‘Least Legible’ David Wright Gallery, Artsmill, Hebden Bridge
Group Exhibitions
2025 ‘Blue.’ Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2024-25 ‘Winter Open’ Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal
2024 ‘Printmaking Competition 2024’ Ironbridge Fine Arts, Shropshire
2024 ‘Beginnings’ Print show, Northlight Gallery, Hebden Bridge
2023 ‘Hebden Bridge Open Studios’ West Yorkshire
2022-23 ‘Winter Open’ Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal
2022 ‘Collaborations’ Linden Hall Studio & Goodnestone Park Gallery, Kent
2022 ‘Colour’ Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2021-22 ‘Winter Open’ Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal
2021 ‘The ING Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London
2020 ‘Hebden Bridge Open Studios’ West Yorkshire
2019 ‘Linden Arts’ Open Studio, Hebden Bridge
2017 ‘Colour Code’ Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2017 ‘Telling in Full’ Lancaster Words Festival, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster 2017 ‘To please a few’ Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2016 ‘Winter Open’ David Wright Gallery, Artsmill, Hebden Bridge
2016 ‘153rd Open Annual Exhibition’ The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow
2014 ‘MA 21st Anniversary Exhibition’ Dene Clough Galleries, Halifax
2013 ‘Ludlow Open’ Ludlow, Shropshire
2013 ‘Paint Club’ Beaconsfield, London
2013 ‘War’ Yorkshire Craft Centre Gallery, Bradford
2013 ‘Colour as Material’ Fafa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Curator / Collaboration
2021 ‘Curious Colour’ A collaboration between Heather Boxall and 10 artists invited to respond to a colour from the British Colour Council Dictionary of Colour Standards. Exhibited at Linden Mill Gallery, Hebden Bridge
2018 ‘Words for Colours’ A collection of poems by Judith Willson with paintings by Heather Boxall. A publication of postcards and ‘Colour Standards’ Giclee poster celebrates the collaboration. Please see www.heatherboxall.co.uk/words-for-colours-2018/
2015 ‘In Light of the Monochrome’ Group exhibition curated by Heather Boxall, The Dye House Gallery, Bradford. Contributing artists’ included David Batchelor, Jane Harris, John Hilliard, Pip Dickens, Estelle Thompson. Download catalogue here:
https://www.heatherboxall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Light-of-the-Monochrome-catalogue.pdf