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Highlights

Selected past and future engagements

Gimara Duncan-Rice's art engagements are divided into four catergories:

• Art book club
• Speaking
• Art writing & storytelling
• Demonstrations & workshops
• Exhibitions

Art book club

Gimara founded and runs an online art book club: https://m.facebook.com/groups/ArtBookClub/

Speaking

• Arts and Health Hub, Southbank Centre, London, UK:
• 23rd March 2022

Art writing & storytelling

• A portrait of a studio, in the time of Covid-19, funded by Social Art Library and Axis Web, Published online, UK:
• 2021
• Find more of my writing on Substack, under publication: Lunatic Asylum White
  • 2025

Residencies

• Autumn Residency 2022, In a Sculpture Gallery, London, UK:
• 5-9 September 2022 - A self-led drawing residency... more to come
• Summer Residency 2022, In a Cast Gallery, Cambridge, UK:
• 2-5 Aug 2022 - A self-led sketching residency surrounded by ancient gods, heroes, rulers & philosophers

 

Demonstrations and workshops

Gimara has designed and led 'drawing and painting /or printmaking' workshop programmes for:

• Capricornia printmakers, Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Rockampton, Australia, supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund and Rockhampton City Council:
• December 2024- Monotype-Monoprint for beginners

• Gladstone Community Group, Cedar Galleries, QLD, Australia:
• 2024- Screenprinting with a screenburner

• North Hertfordshire College, Hitchin Campus, Hertfordshire, UK:
  • April 2023 (8 weeks)
  • January 2023 (8 weeks)
• 22nd September 2022- 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 21st April 2022- 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 15th January 2022- 'Drawing and painting for improvers' (8 weeks)
• 30th September 2021- 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 15th April 2021- 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 21st January 2021- 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks) *cancelled due to COVD-19
• 23rd April 2020 - 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks) *cancelled due to COVD-19
• 8th October 2020 - 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 16th January 2020 - 'Drawing and painting for improvers' (8 weeks)
• 26th September 2019 - 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (8 weeks)
• 25th April 2019 - 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (10 weeks)
• 10th January 2019 - 'Drawing and painting for beginners' (10 weeks)
• Lowewood Museum, Broxbourne, UK,
  • 7th March 2020 Drawing and Painting with Watercolour Pencils at Lowewood Museum, Broxbourne (Managed by Epping Forest District Council)
    https://ex.broxbourne.gov.uk/leisure-lowewood-museum/event/art-workshops-adults
• 7th December 2019 Printmaking at Lowewood Museum, Broxbourne (managed by Epping Forest District Council)
  https://ex.broxbourne.gov.uk/leisure-lowewood-museum/event/art-workshops-adults
• Derbyshire County Council, Adult Community Education (ACE) (6 weeks)

Additionally, Gimara has run Open Access printmaking sessions for Digswell Arts Trust at the Forge, Digswell, UK.

Gimara runs art workshops throughDuncanRice Studios

Selected exhibitions

2024
Group Exhibition -Capricornia Printmakers, Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Queensland, Australia

2022
Group Exhibition - Digswell Arts, Print Studios, The Forge, Hertfordshire, UK

2012                
Solo Exhibition - Spotlight Gallery, Hertfordshire, UK

2012               
Group Exhibition - The Elephant in the Room at the Point, South Yorkshire, UK

2011
Solo Exhibition - Herts Visual Art Open Studio, UK

Consultations, art interventions, residencies and community projects etc.

Gimara undertakes consultations, art interventions, residencies and community projects. Just send an email to, gimara.artist@gmail.com, and let her know:

- What look are you trying to achieve?
- What medium is right for you?
- What budget do you have in mind?
- Where is the artwork going to hang/reside?
- How much space do you have?