Studies/Academic Achievements
1997 NEAB Access Course Certifacte, Basingstoke College of Technology
1998 Certificate of Higher Education, Winchester Shool of Art
1999 Diploma of Higher Education, Winchester School of Art
2000 BA (Hons) Degree Visual Art Winchester School of Art 2001
Prizes
Joint winner sof the Beachcroft Wansbrough Award 2000, presented to fine arts students at Winchester School of Art, who have contributed to an exhibition of work at Beachcroft
Wnasborough Solicitiors offices in Winchester
Winner of the inaugural Jocie Williams Memorial Prize, BCOT, June 1997
Employment
1979-87 PA to the Artistic Director, Redgrave Theatre, Brightwells, Farnham, Surrey
1987 to-date Homemaker and Parent Assistance in various classes at Children^s Infant and Primary Schools
Profile
Lynda Leighton is a commited & enthusiastic Vicual Artist. Her work focuses on themes of human presence and absence. She explores, through the use of found objects and photography, thoughts concerning life and death, mortality and immortality. Through her work, she aims to encapsulate a sense of history, time and place. Her work questions the way we vie life, events and the truth of what we see.
Publication
2001 Degree Thesis – „Notions of Death and the Power of the Photographic Portrait
Exhibitions
1999 Drawing on..., Angelus Gallery, Winchester
2000 Visual Art Diploma Exhibition, Winchester School of Art
2000 Post Diploma Exhibition, West Side Building, Winchester School of Art
2002 Exhibition of work at Beachcroft Wansbroughs Solicitors Offices, Winchester
2001 Degree Show, Winchester School of Art
Greenham Common as part of Inscape Art a newly formed group of artists of which Lynda Leighton is a founding member
