The Armchair Artists Collective
Members :
Sandra Rennie, Meg Hughes, Angel Kershaw, Suzanne Jackson, Gerard Bell-fife
The Armchair Artists’ Collective was created in 2020, after artist Sand Rennie started a Facebook group, to enable people to share their art work. The Armchair Painting Facebook Group currently has 34 members, who mostly live in the North of England.
5 of the artists from this Facebook group decided to create a collective, to work on projects and encourage and inspire each other to increase their output and place their work before the public.
In 2020 The Armchair Artists’ Collective (AAC) applied to Bradford Council for a grant from their Bradford 2025 fund, to enable them to make a short film. The Laughing Salmon of Bradford
The artists painted the backgrounds and characters, wrote the script, produced, directed, and played all the voiced parts to create a film that had it’s premiere at the Cubbie Broccoli Theatre in Bradford on 17th July 2021
Public Art
Painted Bollards in Windhill, Shipley
The Armchair Artists Collective were commissioned by Bradford Council to paint 3 bollards in Shipley 2022. They describe the experience.
‘ An idea that greatly engaged the public. ‘
Evaluation Report