Ms Jill Randall

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Contact Details

Room 6.06, New Adelphi, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4BR

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Current positions

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Jill Randall. Short Biography.

Jill Randall is a sculptor and printmaker based at Prospect Studios, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, UK, and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.

She is a Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors and the European Sculpture Network.

Randall recently exhibited work in the Venice Biennale (2019) in the PAPER Pavilion, ’Personal Structures’, Palazzo Mora, and the sculpture survey show ‘No Particular Place to Go’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, alongside Henry Moore and Anthony Caro. (2019.)
In 2021, she participated in the International Artists Residency, OPEN SPACES 800, Bocholt, Germany, with artist Alan Birch.
Group exhibitions include Artists Space, New York, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, and Galerie de Leones, Porto, Portugal.

Solo exhibitions include ‘As Above, So Below’, Royal Cornwall Museum (2024/5), “Sheds of The Valley”, The Bug, Rochdale, (2021), “Aftermath’’, Geevor Tin Mine World Heritage Museum, Cornwall, (2016), “Jill Randall at The Merzbarn” (2014), “Place/Displace”, Touchstones Rochdale, (2013),"Golden Venture", The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, (2011),“Secrets and Lives”, the Yard Gallery, Nottingham, (2006), and ”Light Matter”, The Lowry, Salford ( 2003) .
Jill Randall was invited to participate in the international project and exhibition, “Open Spaces-Under Construction – Zukunft bauen”, at KuBAaI, Bocholt, Germany, in 2016, and was one of 2 sculptors selected to represent the UK in the European sculpture survey show, “European Sculpture - Difference & Diversity”, at the Parco Culturale Le Serre, Turin, Italy ,(2010), and spoke at the 1X International Sculpture Forum of the European Sculpture Network.

Jill Randall has an important parallel practice working on major public art projects in collaboration with other professionals, 3 of which have won national awards.
She has been the recipient of many individual awards, including a Travel Scholarship to Barcelona from the McColl Arts Foundation, 4 Arts Council Awards to Artists, Foundation for Sport &The Arts and the National Lottery, a Royal Society of Arts “Art for Architecture” Award, and an ‘Artists At Work’ Award from Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales. Randall won a Universities Santander Travel Award to travel to Australia and Mexico in 2017 to research an arts and industry project based around the Cornish metal mining diaspora.

Residencies include a Research Residency at Tate Britain (2012/13), Grizedale Forest (1999), a major commission for the Irwell Sculpture Trail (2001), along with international residencies in Germany, Barcelona, Western Australia , Portugal, and several artists residencies in industrial and heritage sites.

Jill Randall’s work is in public and private collections in the USA, Spain, France, Portugal, Australia, Luxembourg, Mexico, and the UK.

Randall is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher on the B.A. Fine Art Course at the University of Salford, and Co-Lead of the Practice As Research Centre of Excellence.

Jill Randall was a founder member and Chair of SIGMA (Sculptors in Greater Manchester Association), the first group sculpture studio for artists in Manchester ,UK.

She lives and works in Rossendale, Lancashire.

Contact details:

Email: jill@jillrandall.co.uk

Website: www.jillrandall.co.uk

Areas of Research

Art & Industrial Heritage
Environment and ecology of post-mining sites
Sculpture
Public Art

Jill Randall is a Senior Lecturer on the B.A .Fine Art Programme, and Co-Lead for the Practice As Research P(a)R Centre of Excellence in SAMCT. She has SRR status, was returned to REF 21, and is undertaking a School Impact Case Study for REF 29.

Randall’s practice-based research investigates alternative ways of interpreting industrial heritage to audiences. Her methodology explores the ways in which contemporary fine art can be a catalyst for regeneration and reappraisal of industrial legacy and heritage, provoking memory, and bringing new knowledge and understanding to world heritage mining sites.
Her career development goal is the development of international research expertise in area of contemporary art and industrial heritage,
seeking to explore and connect Transnational Mining World Heritage sites and communities through shared Cornish heritage and history.
This is realised through practice-based outputs in the form of art exhibitions, publications, and creative community engagement.
There has been limited research done on the cultural heritage and legacy of these sites in terms of people or place. These mining sites are often challenging places, engendering debate and contestation about their past, present and future. Randall's research aims to consider the ‘value’ of preserving and interpreting these historic metal-mining sites, whose heritage is being represented, and for whom.

Areas of Supervision

Art & Heritage
Art & Industrial Heritage
Sculpture
Public Art

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions Publications

Teaching

Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art.
Level 5 Coordinator.
Acting Programme Leader for B.A. Fine Art, Jan-April 2019.

Continue to coordinate and develop professional context element of programme for professional experience and employability.
Organised and coordinated external industry Live Projects for Level 5 at :

The MerzBarn ,Cumbria, 2018-23.

Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.

Hot Bed Press, Salford.

Flat Time House, London.

Ongoing Partnership with The Whitaker (Museum & Art Gallery) Rawtenstall ‘Out Of The Attic’ students residency 2019-25.

Organised and coordinated annual students study trips over 10 years to Venice Biennale Berlin, Lisbon and Florence.
Visit to PAPER Pavilion Palazzo Mora ,Venice Biennale 2019 with students to see Randall and Hancock’s exhibition.

New lecture materials for Contemporary Debates and Professional Context 1 & 2.

Module Leader for 4 modules.

Teaching on 11 modules across 3 levels.

Level 5 Coordinator

Level 5 Personal Tutor to 30 students


Recruitment visits to 10 institutions.
Invited to be Guest Speaker at HE Conference Event Nelson & Colne College. Nov 19.
Gave presentation for BA Photography.
UCAS Recruitment Fair Manchester 2019.
Participated in Recruitment Open Days 2019 -25 and conducted student interviews.
Undertook Training in BlackBoard Ultra/Collaborate/Teams.
Regular Chair for Exams Boards for Music and Dance .

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • Fine Art

    1982 - 1983

  • Fine Art (Sculpture)

    1978 - 1981

Recognitions

  • Elected Member of Royal Society of Sculptors

Publications

Publications

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