{"id":2604,"date":"2020-03-16T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:22:42","slug":"alumni-noticeboard-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/03\/16\/alumni-noticeboard-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni noticeboard: March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elizabeth Akehurst is thrilled to be returning to Keynes once more, as she last exhibited back in Keynes in 2004 and will be showcasing her impressive paintings spanning over the past 16 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/43166\/pleasure-in-painting\">Find out more<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Elizabeth Akehurst, nee Blow (Eliot, 1969-1972):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/03\/akehurst-250x167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2610 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/03\/akehurst-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"Painting by Elizabeth Akehurst\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>I came to this University in 1969 to study mathematics and it was here I met my husband Andrew Akehurst (Eliot 1969-1972) who was studying English.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later I left with a first class degree and went on to postgraduate studies at Cambridge, part of the first cohort of women admitted to King\u2019s College Cambridge. After I completed an MSc at Newcastle we came back to Kent in 1976 and I went into teaching.<\/p>\n<p>However a strong interest in painters and paintings has always formed an integral part of my life and having children and giving up full time work provided space.<\/p>\n<p>I began to paint in the 1980\u2019s and by the 1990\u2019s I was exhibiting widely and able to drop many other commitments and declare myself a professional artist.<\/p>\n<p>I have been with David and Dawn Lilford in Canterbury (www.lilfordgallery.com) since 2000 and they have represented my work at Art Fairs in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. I have exhibited at other galleries across England and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>My paintings are in the collections of the University of Kent, Canterbury and Medway Council and in private collections both in England and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>I was presented with a Kalaimaiyam International Art Award in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I had a solo show here in Keynes in 2004 so it is real pleasure to have another. This has given me the chance to show work from the last sixteen years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group exhibitions<\/strong><br \/>\nLilford Gallery, Canterbury 2001-2020<br \/>\nRoyal Engineers Museum Gillingham 2019<br \/>\nHalpern Gallery Chatham 2018<br \/>\nArt Fairs: 2005 to 2016: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Canterbury<br \/>\nSca Gallery Shrewsbury 2009-2011<br \/>\n20\/21 International Art Fairs 2007-2010<br \/>\nIona House Gallery, Woodstock 2008<br \/>\nNew Grafton Gallery, London 2006<br \/>\nArt on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art 2005 -2006<br \/>\nMorningside Gallery, Edinburgh 2005<br \/>\nRye Gallery, Sussex 2004 (featured artist, group exhibition)<br \/>\nHeadcorn Gallery 2004<br \/>\nBlickling Hall, Norfolk 2003<br \/>\nTerence Macklin Gallery, Whitstable and Cambridge 2003<br \/>\nPortico Gallery, Riverhead, Sevenoaks 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solo exhibitions<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Hall, Cambridge 2006<br \/>\nRochester Art Gallery2005<br \/>\nAtrium Gallery, University of Kent 2004<br \/>\nLilford Gallery, Canterbury 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Akehurst is thrilled to be returning to Keynes once more, as she last exhibited back in Keynes in 2004 and will be showcasing her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/03\/16\/alumni-noticeboard-march-2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}