Claire Griffiths

It was a while ago when I graduated from my Fine Art Degree, 2001 to be exact. Times were different then. The millennium had been and gone and we all survived, although there had been talk of Armageddon and people were definitely storing tins of food and thinking about digging panic rooms. This was a time before social media, to be fair the best thing about the internet then was the search engine, Ask Jeeves. We had no idea about digital magazine, AltBlackpool was just a glint in our editors eye. Fast forward to 2016, every year the online arts magazine The…

I met Jenny on an atypically warm Blackpool day to discuss her interest in some of Blackpool's modernist interiors and architecture and how it informs her creative process. Scottish-born, Manchester-based artist Jenny Steele develops work that references 20th century architecture and interiors, whilst also exploring post-colonial, post-industrial and modernist sites. Since early 2015, she has been working on Looking Back | Moving Forward; a research and development project exploring 1930s modernist seafront architecture in the North West of England and Scotland. The resulting body of work, for which she received an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts, is currently being exhibited in her solo show An…

Blott Artist Studio presents local artist Tina Warren's first solo exhibition. A Still Small Voice is a multidisciplinary show grounded in the tradition of figurative narrative painting, dealing with difficult and challenging subject matter in its literal and metaphorical interpretation. Tina, winner of the ‘Great Art’ prize at the Neo Art Prize 2015, graduated from Blackpool & The Fylde College University Centre with BA in Fine Art & Professional Practice in 2013, later going on to gain her MA in Art by Research at Lancaster University. Tina's work is evocative and menacing at the same time. Her illustrative techniques are impressive…