Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications
1973 State Registered Nurse
1975 State Certified Midwife
1999 BA hons 2:1 Fine Art Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury Kent
Exhibitions and Events
2008 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. Mall Galleries London.
2007 Canterbury Festival Art Fair. UCCA. Canterbury
2007 The Churches Conservation Trust - Group exhibition at Foordwich Church. Kent
2007 Artists and IIlustrators magazine self-portrait finalist
"Independence" painting in November Issue
2007 "Tour de France" exhibition Ashford Library Gallery. Ashford Visual Artists
2007 "Letting Go, Moving On" http://www.hercircleezine.com/archives/winter07vickybrand.html
2006 Celeste Art Prize London shortlisted.
2006 Billboard Project for Creative Foundation. Folkestone Kent
2006 "Journey" Horsebridge Centre Whitstable - Group Show with Ashord Visual Artists
2005 "Autonomy" " "
2005 "Masters" exhibition Grand Hotel. Folkestone
2004-5 "Vanitas" series of Paintings Castle Arts Gallery. Canterbury Kent
2004 "Bodies" group show Fuse Gallery. Sandwich Kent
2004 "Alice in Europe" exhibition in Dammne Belgium with Ashford Visual Artists.
2004 South East Open Studios
2004 "Alice" exhibition Ramsgate Library Gallery. Ashford Visual Artists
2004 "Food Glorious Food" group exhibition 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe
2003-4 "Art Age and Gender" tour to Usher Gallery Lincoln, New Greenham Gallery
and Corn Exchange at Newbury. - Foundation of Women's Art.
2003 "Contrasts" exhibition - Georges Gallery Folkestone.
Les Femmes Anglaises group show.
2003 "Digi-Monde" exhibition Orleans House Gallery. Richmond
2002 "Harvey Bodies" exhibition The Metropole Gallery. Folkestone
2002 My painting "Bloodties" was the signature piece in the "Art, Age and Gender"
Exhibition at Orleans House, Richmond with the Foundation of Women's Art
2002-3 "Bodies" exhibition and Tour with Les Femmes Anglaises.
Ramsgate, Sheerness, Ashford and Folkestone Library Galleries
2001 "Manipulation and Change" solo exhibition. Neville Gallery Canterbury
2001 "Emotion" exhibition @37 gallery Sandwich Kent.
2000 "Mutuality" exhibition Georges House Gallery. Folkestone
2000 "Coastal currents" exhibition Folkestone
2000 "Naked" exhibition @37 Sandwich
2000 "Forbidden Fruit" group exhibition Georges House Gallery Folkestone.
with "Les Femmes Anglaises"
2000 "Bloodties" solo exhibition Georges House Gallery.
1999 "Impressions" Degree Show - Kent Institute of Art and Design. Canterbury. Kent
In 2001 I took very early retirement from nursing to work as a full-time artist. My career as a Police Cadet, machine operator, Surgical nurse, Midwife and Marie Curie affiliated Community Night Nurse, provide an interesting source of life experience, which both informs and enriches my work.