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A Bit About Me

From being a small child, I've always had a fascination with stories and pictures. Children's books, friend's lives, stories around my Singaporean family's dinner table, cassette tapes of folk tales on long car journeys up to the Scottish wilds - where my Dad hails from. They all seeped into me, and I've been painting them ever since.

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All these things are a massive influence in the work I make, and the idea of community, nature, and storytelling are huge influences in my work.

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I'm also a mother and community artist in Leeds, Yorkshire, and feel really grateful for everything those roles have taught me.​

I accept commissions for artwork, murals and workshops

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or email CassyOliphant@hotmail.co.uk

Education & Qualifications

I deliver core worker training at Pyramid of Arts and have up-to-date training in First Aid, Epilepsy Awareness, Makaton. I hold a full DBS and a clean driving license.

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2022 Introduction to Permaculture for Artists and Creatives
 

2017 Intensive Interaction Introduction Course 
 

2016 Non Violent Communication training
 

2011 Permaculture Design Course

2010  Pyramid of Arts – In House Training

          C3 Creative Communities Course – (Artworks

          Creative Communities, Bradford)

2007 Crawford College of Art and Design – Cork Art 

          Therapy Summer School

2004-2007 2:1 English Literature with art modules,

                   Leeds University

2002-2003 Central Saint Martins College of Art and

                     Design - Foundation Certificate

Artist Residencies

2020

  • Studio Garonne (France)
    Parent Artist Residency postponed due to Covid. 

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2018

  • Hollybush TCV (Leeds, UK)
    Developing the theme of folktale and nature-based painting and illustration at a weekly residency in an environmental conservation centre.​

Exhibitions

2025

  • Fronteer Gallery, (Sheffield, UK)

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2019

  • Fernie Brae, (Portland Oregon, USA)

  • Kirkstall Art Trail (Leeds, UK)

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2018

  • Creative Mothers Project, Aire Place Studios (Leeds, UK)
    Curated and exhibited

  • Love Arts Festival, Leeds City Museum (Leeds, UK)

  • Pyramid Sculpture, Armley Mills Industrial Museum (Leeds, UK)
    Ceramic tile sculpture project with Pyramid of Arts

  • Humankind, Rites of Passage
    Curated and exhibited

  • York River Art Market (York, UK)

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2017

  • Elemental Arts Event, All Hallows Church (Leeds, UK)
    Sustainable arts, music and food event)

  • Stories from Wild Women, Aire Place Studios (Leeds, UK)
    Curated and Exhibited 

  • Kirkstall Art Trail (Leeds, UK)

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2016

  • Artonomy (Leeds, UK)
    Exhibition of personal work

  • York River Art Market (York, UK)

  • Shoddy Exhibition, Live Art Bistro (Leeds, UK)
    with Pyramid of Arts High Rise Group

Murals

2020

  • Hyde Park Source (Leeds, UK)
    Dandelion Mural

  • Bramley Community Centre (Leeds, UK)
    Wild Flower Mural

  • OWLS - Older Wiser Leeds Seniors, (Leeds, UK)
    Window Front

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2019

  • ​SOMA Yoga Space, (Leeds, UK)
    Mandala Mural

 

2018

  • Little Free Libraries throughout Yorkshire

Community
Arts

2010-Present

Pyramid (Leeds, UK)

Artist Facilitator, Core Worker, Training Delivery

  • Working with people with learning disabilities across a range of art techniques.

  • Working creatively with groups including ‘Legends’ - a group of people with learning disabilities who are 65+.

  • Putting work into high profile spaces including sculpture at Armley Mills.

  • Co-ordinating volunteers.

  • Managing budgets and funding.

  • Delivering Core Worker Training.

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2024-2025

If Walls Could Talk - Harewood House & University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

Supporting Artist

  • Exploring art and augmented reality in partnership with Harewood House.

  • Under the lead of Dr Louise Atkinson, working to co-create contemporary responses to the historic Chinese wallpaper with Chinese-speaking and wider Asian diaspora communities in Leeds. 

  • Exploring collage, digital photography, 3D scanning and augmented reality in collaborative creative workshops.

  • Using art to express and celebrate the evolving identities within our community.

  • Funded by Arts Council England, Leeds Cultural Investment Programme and the Wallpaper History Society.

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2023

Leeds 2023 (Leeds, UK)

Artist Practitioner for 'My World My City My Neighbourhood' 

  • Creating a community project exploring ‘Letting Culture Loose’ in Hyde Park and Headingley ward.

  • Working with Muslim women in the local area, home schooling groups and local Burley residents.

  • Explore culture using textiles as a method of sharing this knowledge.

 

2022

HOPS - Hawksworth Older People's Support Services (Leeds, UK)

Intergenerational Project Co-ordinator 

  • Applied for funding from Area Committee Wellbeing Fund and successfully financed the project for HOPS.

  • Matching and facilitating creative sessions bringing older members of the community together with the younger kids.

  • Creating a film to document this and having a final party celebration.

 

2010-Present​

As a freelance artist, I have worked on projects throughout Yorkshire. The demographic spans all ages, from young children to older peoples groups. I have experience working with people from many backgrounds including refugees, vulnerable people, young adults and children.

Past project include:

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Leeds, UK

 

Bradford, UK

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