Details

First Name	Chrissie
Last Name	Heughan
Username	chrissieheughan
Website	http://www.chrissieheughan.com
Region	Fife
Disciplines	Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture
Themes	Abstract, Botanical, Environment

Statement

Chrissie Heughan is one of the foremost creators of hand cast paper in the UK, merging traditional with contemporary techniques and has been working with paper for over 30 years, creating works with a variety of paper pulps. She exhibits locally and internationally and hosts workshops for hand cast paper and print making.

http://www.chrissieheughan.com

Experimental use of paper pulps and ideas as a substrate for print lead onto a more focused use of casting paper. Using paper as the foundation of my work, my exploration of paper and its various organic materials have lead to a combination of other media including sculptural communications, searching for ways of dialogue with print and collaborations.

The focus of my work is on the recording of my immediate environment and its information which draws in the tenous nature of mankind as opposed to the longetivity of that we leave behind.

Biography

Chrissie Heughan studied Art and Design, Fine Art (Portfolio) at Dumfries and Galloway College of Technology, and Fine Art B.A. (Hons) Drawing and Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art.

Invited graduate artist in 1995, Chrissie was an elected Professional Member of Society of Scottish Artists in 1996. She has served on many of their selection, hanging and arranging committees; studio holder at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (1997-2022), member of Fife Dunfermline Print Workshop. She has received several awards for her work and professional development from Creative Scotland (formerly Scottish Arts Council), City of Edinburgh Council, Worshipful Company of Founders for bronze casting and Japanese Cultural Affairs for study of Japanese paper making. Awards which helped Chrissie to research traditional block print and papermaking in India; a three month residency in Mino City Gifu, Japan and Vermont Studio Centre, USA, to spend time working with print and paper.

Chrissie was selected to be one of six international artists to participate in the Paper Village Art Project in Mino, Japan in 2001. There she worked and studied with master craftsmen. She returned in 2006 to be part of Street Museum, an international exhibition in Mino and Gifu City.

Chrissie has taught and organised many workshops in papermaking, printmaking and mixed media across a broad spectrum of the community, for adults and children and those with disabilities. These have been for organisations and institutions such as: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, the Fruitmarket Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Waverly Care Trust, Artlink Central, Edinvar Housing, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Gracefield Arts Centre and primary and secondary schools in Edinburgh and the Borders. South West Scotland Community Woodland Trust in Dumfries and Galloway, Green Angels Action Group, a project to help young adults return to the work place, based by the Falkirk wheel. Entered in Who’s Who in Art, 2014 ongoing.

In 2017, Chrissie was involved in two major projects, one which combined artists from Japan and Scotland in the exchange of paper and the other was the creation of specialised papers for artists working in South Western Australia.