| Education
| 1965 -1968 |
Loughborough
College of Education - Teaching Certificate |
| 1980 - 1981 |
Portsmouth College of
Art - Foundation Course |
| 1981 - 1984 |
Portsmouth
Polytechnic - Fine Art B.A. Hons. |
| 1986 - 1989 |
Wimbledon
School of Art - Printmaking M.A. |
Exhibitions
Catalyst
exhibition "14 Stations of the Cross" St.
Agatha's Church - Portsmouth
Group
shows, (selected) since 1990:- 
"Constructed
and Natural Space" Havant Arts Center
| 1990 |
"Constructed and Natural Space",
Havant Arts Centre (See Below) |
| 1992 |
"Ampersand III", The Heritage
Centre, Spitalfields Centre, London |
| 1995 |
"Borderlands
Exhibition", Meudon, France |
| 1995 |
"Catalyst
Exhibition", St. Agatha's Church, Portsmouth (see above) |
| 1996 |
"Ampersand V", Dublin Arts Centre,
Ireland |
| 1997 |
"Association
des Artistes-Plasticiens", (invited artist) C.R.D.S. Saint-Louis. |
| 1997 |
"Maam Kumba Bak",The
West End Centre, Aldershot (See international
residencies work abroad) |
| 1998 |
"Maam
Kumba Bak", Centre Culturel Francais, Saint-Louis, Senegal. |
| 1998 |
"Inner
Space" Brigid Chapel, Glastonbury |
| 1998 |
"Eight Plus One",The West End
Centre. |
| 1999 |
"For
the Living" University of Chichester |
| 1999 |
"For the Visually Impaired" Chichester
Festival |
| 2000 |
"Territoire
8" Centre Culturel Francais, Saint-Louis, Senegal |
| 2001 |
"Talibe
de Maam Kumba Bak" Centre Culturel Francais, Senegal |
| 2001 |
"Make-up", Catalyst Portsmouth Art Centre and the Mountbatten Gallery |
| 2001 |
"Earth" Borderlands
Exhibition, TheWest End Centre - Aldershot, The Maltings -
Farnham |
| 2001 |
"Tracing
Time", Fishbourne
Roman Palace |
| 2002 |
"Curves that Count", Catalyst - Portsmouth Art Centre |
| 2002 |
"Territoire
9" Maison de la Culture - Douta Seck- Dakar - Senegal |
| 2002 |
"Director's
Choice" Havant Arts Centre(See
Gallery) |
| 2003 |
"Reflections", Catalyst, Havant Arts Centre - Portsmouth Library |
| 2003 |
"Territoire", Centre Culturel Francais - Dakar |
| 2004 |
"Messenger", Catalyst
exhibition, Havant Arts Active |
| 2004 |
"Dakart", Dakar,
Senegal, Biennale |
| 2004 |
"4x4"
Portsmouth 3rd Floor Arts Centre |
| 2005 |
“PAinT”, Petersfield Artists in Town | |
| 2005 |
“Artscape”, The Gallery, One Tree Bookshop - Petersfield |
| 2007 |
"Group Show",
Bedales Gallery |
| 2007 |
"Group Show", Churchers College |
| 2007 |
"Group Show", Plestor House,Liss |
| 2007 |
"PAinT", Petersfield Arts
Trail | | 2008 |
"Fantastic Plastic?", Catalyst, The Pallant Gallery, Havant |
| 2008 |
"Auf
Europaeishe Art", Gallerie Demorovski, Kunst Meile, Warendorf |
| 2009 |
"Climate", Catalyst, Havant Arts Centre |
One Person Shows
| 1992 |
"Turning Points", Havant
Arts Centre | | 1995 |
"Removing the Veil", West End Centre,
Aldershot (see below} |
| 1996 |
"Removing the Veil", South
Hill Park, Bracknell |
| 1996 |
"The Sacred Hearth",
C.R.D.S. Museum Saint Louis, Senegal (See
Gallery) |
| 2000 |
" Sacred
Water", Installation, Performance,Petersfield Heated Outdoor Pool (See Gallery)
|
| 2000 |
"Sacred Water", Exhibition, Petersfield Heated Outdoor Pool
|
| 2000 |
"Work in
Progress", The Taro Leisure Centre, Petersfield |
| 2000 |
"Changing Times",
Installation, Taro Leisure Centre |
| 2001 |
"15 Days in Aldershot", One
day show at the West End Centre - Aldershot (See Gallery) |
| 2002 |
"Air and Water", Petersfield
Outdoor Pool |
| 2004 |
"Tikkun", Petersfield 7 days |
"Removing
the Veil" Solo Residencies
| 1995 |
"Removing the Veil", The West End
Centre, 2 months |
| 1996 |
"The Sacred Hearth", Havant Arts
Centre, 1 month |
| 1997 |
"Craft to Art", The West End
Centre, Aldershot, 1 month |
| 2000 |
"Year of the Artist", Taro Leisure
Centre, 1 month |
| 2001 |
"15 days in Aldershot",
The West End Centre, 15 days
|
| 2002 |
"Air and Water", Petersfield
Outdoor Pool, 7 days |
| 2004 |
"Tikkun" as part of PAinT
Petersfield Arts Trail |
Taro Leisure Center Residency
Group
Residencies - U.K.
"The
Remains"
| 2000 |
"13 Artists in Residence", Fishbourne Roman
Palace,1 month |
| 2004 |
"4x4
", Woodbury Avenue, UK ( Four artists worked for four days making artwork from a
deconstructed 4x4, Catherine Smenia, Nicole Vignote from France, Jane
Kilford and Diane Thiessen from U.K.) |
 The Red Shed, Woodbury
Avenue
| 2006 - 2007 |
"Breathing
Space", with Lindy Brook Tweed |
| 2006 - 2007 |
"Painting
from the Source" |
| 2007 |
“Something
like dialogue”, with Angela Rogers |
For International
Residencies see Work Abroad
Awards
| 1989 |
Marler
Screenprinting Prize |
| 1989 |
The
Andrew Purchase Lithography Prize |
| 2000 |
Year of
the Artist Award - Arts Council |
| 1992 - 2004 |
My work
has been funded by:- The British Council, The Arts Council, Hampshire
County Council, Southern Arts, Havant Borough Council, Rushmoor Borough
Council, C.R.D.S. - Senegal, P.S.I C. - Senegal, European Union. |
Collections
 | Work
in Private collections | | Museum Saint-Louis - Senegal |
| French Cultural Centre -
Saint-Louis -Senegal |
| The Taro Leisure Centre -
Petersfield U.K. |
Commissions
| Cover Design, Wimbledon School of Art, catalogue for Postgraduate Printmaking Show. |
| Editioned Screenprint for "Constructivist Forum" |
|
Editioned
Screenprint for Ampersand |
|
Book cover design for "Measuring
the Real World" by Heiner Thiessen |
| Folder Design for Borderlands Artists Registe |
Screenprint for Constructivist
Forum
Reviews
| The Independent. 1991 |
| Local papers:- Petersfield Post,
Petersfield Herald, The Star - Aldershot. 1995 -2001 |
| Meridian T.V. (U.K.) 1995 |
| L'Aurore, Le Soleil, 1996 |
| Radio Teranga and Radio Nord (
Senegal).1996 |
| Warendorfer Nachrichten, Germany, 2009 |
Publications
| Articles for Sampler I, Ampersand and the Borderlands Broadsheet |
Interviews
| Radio Sud F. M. - Senegal. 1996 |
| Senegalese Television 2001> |
| Radio Nostalgie -Senegal 2002 |
| Le Soleil 2002 |
Teaching
| 1969 -
70 |
Primary School Teaching - Letchworth |
| 1970 - 71 |
English Language Teaching - Stratagakis -Chalkis, Greece |
| 1971 |
Primary School Teaching - Sunbury |
| 1972 |
English Language Teaching - Hamburg - Inlingua-Germany |
| 1972 - 73 |
Painting
School -Osdorferborn - Hamburg (self-initiated) |
| 1972 - 73 |
Kindergarten - Osdorferborn - Hamburg |
| 1972 -
73 | Kindermalschule - Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| 1973 - 74 |
Art and English Teacher- Julius Leber Schule - Hamburg |
| 1985 - 90 |
Art Teacher - The Petersfield School |
| 1990 - 2000 |
Art Teacher - Fareham Tertiary College |
| 1984 - 94 |
Occasional Visiting lecturer at :- Worthing and Bognor Colleges of Art, The
Institute Southampton University |
Workshops
Workshop
-Gosport
| I have run workshops for 6 schools in Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Gosport and Oxford about Senegal. |
| 2 workshops for Catalyst:- (Women,
Art and Science):-one for Portsmouth Girls School and one for adult, women. |
| I
ran a workshop in 2002 in Dakar for women artists on Mandalas, I
introduced these artists to the work of Catalyst and invited them to
participate
in the Catalyst exhibition, U.K. next year. |
Talks
| 2004 |
Catherine
Smenia and Diane Thiessen talk about their work in West Africa. |
| 2005 |
“An
Artist in Senegal” for the u3a. |
| 2006 |
Debate at
Dunhurst “A screwed up piece of paper belongs in the wastepaper basket
not in an art gallery” |
Voluntary Committee Work
| 1984 -1985 |
Artists Annex - Chairperson |
| 1986 -1990 |
Havant Arts Centre - Board of Directors |
| 1987 - 2002 |
Havant Arts Centre - Arts Panel member |
| 1995 - 2001 |
West End Centre Management Committee |
| 1999 |
ATD - Funding consultant |
| 2003 |
Petersfield Artists in Town, "PAinT" - Fund Raiser |
| 2004 - 2007 |
Chairperson PAinT - Petersfield Arts Trail |
| 2004 - 2007 |
Co-Founder, Project Co- coordinator and Fundraiser – Artscape |
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Diane
Thiessen