CURRICULUM VITAE
ROSEMARY VANNS
1960 Born Newark, Nottinghamshire.
1978-1981 State Registered Nurse training, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.
1981-1983 Staff Nurse, Lodge Moor Hospital, Sheffield and BUPA Shropshire.
1983 Midwifery training, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, Essex. (not completed)
1983-1984 CNAA Art Foundation Course, Harlow Technical College, Harlow, Essex.
1984-1987 B.A. (Hons.) Degree 2:1 Printed Textile Design & Fashion, Winchester, School of Art, Hampshire.
1988 Royal College of Art, London M.A. Fine Art Printmaking (unable to attend due to birth of daughter)
1989 Royal College of Art, London, M.A. Fine Art Printmaking (unable to attend due to birth of son)
1990 Moved to Montgomery, Powys. Mid Wales and temporarily United Arab Emirates.
1991 Gallery assistant and picture framer, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire.
1992 Moved back to Nottinghamshire. Temporary shop and café work.
1993 Moved to the Peak District, Derbyshire.
1993-2003 Freelance textile designer for international wallpaper, furnishings and bedding market.
2003 Return to Nursing Practice, Sheffield.
2003-2007 Staff Nurse Sheffield.
2009 to present. Full time artist.
2020 Moved to Suffolk.
AWARDS
1992 First Prize winner, Daler Rowney National Open Competition, ‘Images of Nottinghamshire’.
2002 Derbyshire Open Art Competition (selected).
2003 Derbyshire Open Art Competition (selected).
2007 Winner of The Friends of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Trophy, Derbyshire Open Art Competition.
2013 Winner of Printmaker’s Printmaker, Printfest, Ulverston, Cumbria.
2014 National Open Art Competition – shortlisted
2018 RE Printmakers National Open Print Exhibition – selected and awarded Galleries Magazine Award
GALLERIES/EXHIBITIONS/ART FAIRS 1990 - PRESENT
The Longhouse Gallery, Bishops Castle, Shropshire.
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys.
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire.
Bellwood & Wright Fine Art, Lancaster.
The Derwent Gallery, Grindleford, Derbyshire.
Firbob & Peacock, Knutsford, Cheshire.
Fifiefofum, Corbridge, Northumberland.
The Great Atlantic Gallery, St. Just and Falmouth, Cornwall.
The Glass House Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall.
Badcock’s Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall.
Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport, Dorset.
Ken Spellman, York.
Gallery Ten, Edinburgh.
Gallery Top, Rowsley, Matlock, Derbyshire.
Artichoke Gallery, Ticehurst, East Sussex.
Frivoli, Chiswick.
Gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex.
Gorstella Gallery, Cheshire.
Watermark Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow, Shropshire.
White Space Gallery, Totnes, Devon.
Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Devon.
Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex - invited artist Annual Sale of Works
Northern Makes, Bollington, Cheshire.
Lynne Strover Gallery, Fen Ditton, Cambridge.
Will and Yates, Deal, Kent.
The Table Gallery, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire.
Art for Cure, Glemham Hall, Suffolk.
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead and Battersea.
Art:Oasis, Frinton on Sea Essex, solo show
The Pastel Society 124th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London - selected ‘23
Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal, Kent Winter Open Exhibition selected ‘21 and ‘22