Local artists Janine Graham and Emma Faull next up for the Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November, 10am to 5pm both days
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at the historic Greve de Lecq Barracks studios
Image: Emma Faull artwork detail
We are looking forward to the latest in our Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series this time with local artists Janine Graham and Emma Faull. The Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series is a programme of intimate weekend exhibitions featured across the year at ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at the historic Greve de Lecq Barracks studios. ‘Flock Together’ will take place on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November 2025, running from 10am to 5pm on both days. The artists will also have a table for demonstrations as well as the opportunity for visitors to create their own artworks.
Janine Graham has been creating art in Jersey for forty years and has recently been working on music composition and writing. Through the summer of 2024 she was Artist in Residence for Jersey Botanical Gardens, explaining the people, history and beauty of the gardens through storytelling and visual art. She is in the process of writing a book and in this exhibition she will be immersing visitors in the story of buttons including paintings, sketches, poetry and sculptural pieces. This is a radical departure for the artist as she has not shown any sculptures or writing publicly before.
Janine Graham said “The starting point for my works reside in a piece I did some time ago, of a sculpture of 2,400 buttons, each one representing a 100 persons who died in the 2004 Indian Earthquake and Tsunami. Since then I never consider a button as simply a fastener, but each one representing a person, their life, what they could say if they could speak? And I collect buttons by visiting museums and charity shops all over the world. I rarely add new buttons unless they have historical context, or are connected to one of my stories. The collection on display is a small selection of my musings: drawings, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, stories and poetry”.
Emma Faull started her career as Archaeological draughtsman in Greece and her work concentrates on bird paintings using watercolour, silver point, ink wash, gouache and powdered graphite. Her work depicts birds that live or pass through Jersey - Shearwater, Puffin, Owls, Swallows, Ravens, wintering Geese and Fieldfare and more inspired by the Island, its history and folklore. She has been on recent prehistoric digs in Jersey and aims to tie in the importance of birds to inhabitants of Jersey going back from the Bronze age, their symbolism and the habitats that supported them.
Emma Faull said “The natural world is my inspiration, especially birds and the folklore and myth associated with them and the environments that they inhabit. Watercolour is a fabulous medium for painting birds and I love experimenting with different techniques; gouache, granulating pigments, silverpoint, hand coloured etchings, ink washes and gesso boards. The opportunity given by ArtHouse Jersey allows me to show my recent studies and demonstrate together with Janine a few of the techniques we use”.
The Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series is a programme of intimate weekend exhibitions featured across the year. It invites the community to enjoy the work of local artists in ArtHouse Jersey’s unique exhibition space for a short ‘pop up’ time period and provides artists with a professional space to showcase their work.
