On Friday 29 October 2021 our Girl Friday Breakfast Club guest speaker will be the artist Sandra Porter RWA - please join us online on at 8.30am (GMT) - please register for this free event here.

Sandra Porter RWA studied at Somerset College of Art before taking a degree in Fine Art at Stourbridge College of Art. She achieved an MA in Fine Art Painting from Chelsea School of Art in 1981 and studied Printmaking with Dorothea Wight at Morley College in the 1990s. She combined her practise as an artist with teaching from Secondary to University level for 30 years. Sandra has worked as a full-time artist since 2012. She has been Artist in Residence at the Centre de Gravure, Ceret, France (2014); undertook a residency at Drawing Projects UK, as part of her Arts Council Lottery funded project (2017); and at NGArt Creative Residency, Eygalieres, France (2019).

Sandra has exhibited widely in the UK, New York City, Belgrade, France and, in 2017, she had a solo show of Printmaking at The University of Pelotas, Centre de Arte in Brazil. She has recently been in receipt of awards from The Iona Foundation in Amsterdam and Arts Council Lottery Award for the Arts for her solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints at Stroud Museum in the Park in 2018. Her drawings have been included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018, and The Derwent Art Prize 2016 and 2020. Sandra exhibited new prints and drawings at Black Swan Arts in Somerset in 2019. Private & Public Collections include ING. UK, Arther Anderson, Lamington Group, Angela Flowers, The Government Art Collection, Hammersmith Council, RWA Bristol, University of Pelotas, Brazil, University of Bath & the Tate & V & A Libraries. 

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker, eat breakfast and drink great coffee or tea together at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month. We held our first online Girl Friday in October 2020 after realising we had longer to go before we could gather again for breakfast due to lockdown. We aim to retain the informal format, and events are not recorded, so do book to join in - and bring your own breakfast - or lunch or supper depending on where you are in the world!

All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club.

Please note: the Zoom link is available to registered participants via the 'access the event' link in your ticket. A reminder with the Zoom link is also automatically sent by email 50 minutes before the event starts. Please check your email inboxes.

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