GreatArt Residency : Terry Day & Robyn Steward. 14th to 16th September.

Artists Terry Day and Robyn Steward will  be creating work in store at GreatArt, 41-49 Kingsland Road, London E2  8AG, on Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September, as part of the Hundred Years Gallery / GreatArt Residencies partnership.

Robyn Steward is a self taught painter using acrylics on canvas and paints with her fingers and hands.
She has a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome which is a type of Autism. Over the past decade she has built up a international reputation as a trainer and has recently published her first book, about women on the autistic spectrum.

Terry Day is a musician, lyricist, song writer, visual artist and poet. He is a ‘first generation’ pioneer of improvised music from the 1960s.
A self-taught musician in a family of musicians, he began improvising on the drums with his brother in 1955. In the early 1960s he formed the Hardy Holman Day trio focusing on free improvisation. Later he became part of Kilburn & the Highroads, a band led by Ian Dury.
Sharing their interest in visual art and painting, Terry and Ian both studied at Walthamstow School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art, London. As an art student in the 1960s he was a pioneer of improvisation, free jazz & experimental music.

 

 

      

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