I recently worked on a drawing exchange with the organisation Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. I used children's drawings as inspiration to create a drawn response. The images were in turn used to inspire a workshop. The following images show my response and the link below documents the project through a blog. :

https://www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/projects/footprints/wild-exchanges#drawing-and-doodling

                        A3 Silksceen prints and postcards are now in the Towner Gallery shop

Opening night of the east Sussex Open 2014 at the Towner

I am very happy to be one of the artists selected for the East Sussex Open 2014 at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. My animation 'Flats' was selected, which is a paper cut, stop-motion piece, filmed on a light box. I am also showing a handmade, folded bookwork alongside the animation. The exhibition runs from:

              4 July - 14 September [free]

                http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/5313/

UPCOMING EXHIBITION IN MAY

TALKING UNDERWATER                                                    Artist: Gallit Shaltiel

Talking Underwater is a body of work originated from a project designed as part of Gallit’s Illustration MA, which aimed to explore complex feelings and commonalities of depression. Since then the work has continued to be influenced by psychology and taken on a life of it’s own with further symbols and motifs emerging to represent different states of mind.

Through dark humour, images delve into the realms of the subconscious exploring memories, dreams and fears. Taking the Carnivalesque notion of ‘upturning social order’, the work forms a mischievous world where uncanny anatomy and objects fragment and merge in to one another. Emotional struggles are suggested but space for thought is often left open through pairing down of information. Chance and imaginative space are integral to the work.

Short Biography

Gallit spent her childhood around auction halls and antique markets, living in houses with constantly changing objects, furnishings and locations. This, she believes influenced the surreal element of her work 

Gallit is a visual artist/ Illustrator and educator who is based in Brighton. She has travelled, lived and studied in many countries gathering inspiration from museums, cultural festivals and environments. 

Having completed an MA sequential Illustration and Design course at the University of Brighton, a couple of years ago, she achieved a Distinction for her body of work ‘Talking Underwater with a mouthful of Cement’ and debut animation ‘Flat’s’. 

Post MA she has exhibited in Brighton /London Group and Solo exhibitions. Her animation has been shown at Cornwall film festival, London Open Arts Café and has been selected for the Towner Open this summer.

Work time is split between working in Red Rooster Studios, teaching photography and art at a 6^th form college, being a visiting tutor at Brighton University and running community workshops.

I've recently been working on an interesting and inspiring project Called 'Finding your Compass'.
Creators http://www.fionageilinger.co.uk  and  Rosaria Gracia Dance_Project 

The project 'explores a creative road to express different approaches to recovery from depression through sharing, movement and drawing .' 
This is explored by using a generous and powerful group of volunteers.

  LINKS -To some of the striking responses to the drawing and print workshop that I led last Sunday
can be found on the Facebook page for the project below:


https://www.facebook.com/photo.phpfbid=214664312067116&set=pcb.214664775400403&type=1&theater


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=214661368734077&set=pcb.214662065400674&type=1&theater


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=214660132067534&set=a.198995906967290.1073741828.198820583651489&type=1&theater

In preparation for the drawing and printing workshop, I experimented with some new ways of working, combining silhouette figures and Monoprinting:

Images that I created for an illustration competition on the Joseph Conrad book; Heart of Darkness

In December I jointly exhibited with lots of talented Brighton illustrators and artists at

Kollektiv Gallery pop up exhibition in kemptown.

A3 Colour print

My postcards and Internal Organ [inspired broaches] displayed with others work