Alex Blakey

Exhibitions:

• 2012 The Emporium, Slaithwaite

• 2013 MMU Degree show, Manchester

• 2013 New Designers, London

• 2013 The Corn Exchange, Manchester

• 2014 Open art exhibition Macclesfield

• 2014 View, The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield

• 2014 FAB, Bath

• 2014 The Old Grammar School Gallery

• 2015 Open Art, Macclesfield

• 2015 Contemporary Glass Society, Festival of glass, Wolverhampton

• 2016 RHS Tatton Flower 

• 2016 Holmfirth Art Week - Exhibition

• 2016 Saltaire arts trail - open gardens

• 2017 C-Arts Festival - Cumbria 

• 2018 Millennium Gallery 

• 2019 Holmfirth Art Week 

• 2022 Sheffield Millenium Gallery 

• 2023 Redcar contemporary 

• 2023 Sheffield Millenium Gallery 

• 2023 The Corn Exchange, Manchester 

• 2024 Art at the House

• 2025 Colne Valley Museum – solo show

• ​2025 Wakefield Art Walk 

• 2025 The media centre- solo show

Commissions and public art:

• 2014 Cheshire East Council - Commemorative flame for Tatton Park

• 2014 Anna Cooper - Personalised interior artwork

• 2014 Carole Fieldhouse – residential landscape windows.

• 2014 Cheshire East Council – Interpretation Board

• 2015 Transported - Boston Crematorium heritage water sculpture 

• 2016 Hoot Creative arts – Mental health artwork commission 

• 2016 Private home – Garden design and sculptures

• 2017 Private client – Kitchen sculpture

• 2018 People Express – Salt Brook public art commission 

• 2018 Bradford – Water festival temporary sculpture 

• 2019 Cheshire East Council – Commemorative wall lighting 

• 2020/21 Ignite Imaginations – Shiregreen Reimagine -Our Street

• 2020 - 2023 – School Alumni Awards

• 2021 Kirkham – Kirkham Treasures 

• 2022 River Reflections – Gargrave – Atlantic Salmon sculpture for The Aire Rivers Trust

• 2023 All of Us – wall art for the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust to celebrate diversity. 

• 2024 – private client - garden commission 

• 2025 - Bradford Industrial Museum - accessible loom - interactive installation 

Galleries:
•    Artery Gallery, St Andrews

Awards:
•    Winner of the FoBB Sculpture Design 

Teaching Experience:
•    2014 Age UK arts workshops Huddersfield 
•    2015 – community consultation event and paper art workshops with high schools in Boston for Transported. 
•    2015- 25 Senior Visiting Artist with scouts and guides groups annually 
•    2016 Collaborative visual arts  community project and commission with Rosewood Palliative care Home and Hoot 
•    2016 home school group glass workshop
•    2016-2025 care home workshops throughout Huddersfield including Greenacres and Meadow court 
•    2016 Community arts project with - Sharing Memories (Honley) collaborating with an SEN school and local mental health care home
•    2016 High Peak Community Arts (Buxton and Glossop) – arts for mental health programme
•    2016 Get Creative Festival (Lincolnshire council)- family art workshops
•    2017 Arts tutor running family classes in slaithwaite
•    2017 – present 1:1 fused glass tuition
•    2018 1:1 interview poetry workshops for People express
•    2018 – young peoples glass workshops
•    2018 – adults mental health workshops with Hoot, Huddersfield
•    2018 – public printmaking workshops in Sheffield
•    2018 – Bradford Library children’s glass workshop
•    2018 – Youth Thrive mental health art workshops, Rochdale
•    2019 – present  adults mental health workshops in Rochdale including print, ink, clay, mixed media. Wood, sculpture, pastels and much more. 
•    2019 – Balance Ambassadors programme - youth creative consultation in schools exploring health and wellbeing
•    2020 – outdoor life skills and wood art classes with supported living services Rochdale. 
•    2020 – activity pack creation for families in Sheffield and Manchester
•    2020 – Recorded video arts workshops for YouTube
•    2020-2021 – TEFL for I tutor group China
•    2020/21- postcard project for adults with long term mental health  problems
•    2021 community installation project, Shiregreen
•    2021 – present – Refugee and asylum seeker drop in coffee morning art workshops in Deeplish
•    2022 – Balance ambassadors – co creation of a new wellbeing game with young people in Sheffield 
•    2022-2024 HAF workshops offering arts workshops to children as part of the healthy holidays programme
•    2023 – covid memorial project for vulnerable adults 
•    2023 – welcome to Rochdale collaborative arts sessions
•    2024 – 10,000 ideas project- a creative invention post it note installation project collecting ideas from children throughout Rochdale’s primary schools 
•    2024 Deeplish community centre garden planters workshops with adults and children 
•    2024 – Darnhill youth centre- community garden with young people with additional needs. 
•    2024 Darnhill youth club – artist residency with Darnhill youth club
•    Newsome Academy Huddersfield 2024 – Y10 glass arts workshop 
•    2024 Moments of Joy (Sheffield) – care home cross discipline collaborative arts project 
•    Ongoing– regular freelance teaching work for Ignite Imaginations, Cartwheel arts and ArtWorks SY

Professional Membership
•    Contemporary Glass Society
•    Artist Newsletter

Press
•    Huddersfield Examiner
•    Macclesfield Express
•    Knutsford Guardian
•    Design Juices
•    Blackpool Gazette 
•    The Star
•    Daily Advent
•    Telegraph and Argus
•    Derby Telegraph
•    Craven Herald
•    Yorkshire Post