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Biography Virginia Bodman’s painting-centred practice includes prints, 3d object making and drawing, she is fascinated by the histories and processes of painting and often uses colour and the materiality of paint as critical tools, making aesthetically provocative work to stimulate debate about painting and social issues. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Painting) from Birmingham Polytechnic and with an MA in Painting from the R.C.A. She has held a number of prestigious scholarships, fellowships and artists residencies including a Fellowship in Painting at Exeter College of Art, 1977-8; the Abbey Major Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome, 1981-3; the first artist's residency at Durham Cathedral, 1993-4; Leverhulme Fellowship in Painting, 1996-7; Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, 1999-2000 and Rootstein Hopkins Fellowship 2001-2. She has held numerous one-person exhibitions in the UK some of which have toured and has exhibited in many group shows in the UK and internationally, the most recent one-person exhibitions were held at BayArt, Cardiff, 2009, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, 2014 and The Customs House Gallery, South Shields, 2017. Her work has also been the subject of a number of MPhil and PhD theses and her most recent publications Between: Drawing from the Landscape, (2000) and Home Ground, (2007) are frequently used by researchers. Her work can be seen at www.virginiabodman.com