CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Maxine Chester

Address: 9, Station Road, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8EB

Telephone: 07950 818402 http//www.maxine-chester.sqaurespace.com

Profile A practicing visual artist working in sculpture using a range of traditional and experimental materials and processes to surface notions relating to feminine subjectivity, specifically ageing, the maternal, desire and intimacy.

Selected Experience

Aug 2016- Learning Development Tutor (Part-time

Present University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent.

I teach in a creative art and design role at HE level of education.

Selected Exhibitions & Events

Nov 2021 ‘Artist/Mothers: Maternal Labour & Creative Practice’ SECAC – South Eastern College Arts Conference 2021, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

Apr 2021 ‘The Missing Mother’ Conference, Bolton University, Bolton.

I delivered a paper entitled ‘The Geriatric Mother’ which discussed the subject of age and occluded maternal within cultural and socio- political structures.

Apr 2021 ‘Maternal Trace’, Brewery Tap, Folkstone, Kent.

Feb 2021 ‘Pic n Mix’, The Margate School, Margate, Kent.

Feb 2021 ‘Tense: Past, Present and Future’, Gallery 35 – 37, Folkstone, Kent.

Oct 2020 ‘Out of Isolation’, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent.

Feb 2020 ‘Test Bed’, MA mid-term show, Brewery Tap, Folkstone, Kent.

Sept 2019 ‘Purify’, Old Water Purifying Works, Faversham, Kent.

Feb 2019 ‘Multistorey’, Unit 5 Gallery - The Yard, London, E2.

Education

Sept 2019- MA Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent.

Sept 2021

May 2017 Higher Education Academy Fellow, Advanced HE

University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent.

Sept 2015- Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Arts Education

May 17 University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent.

Oct 1993- BA (hons) Fine Art

Jun 96 Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, West Yorkshire.