Pigeon Series 2017/18
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It’s All About Eve, 2016
It’s All About Eve I
24″ x 30″
It’s All About Eve II
19.5″ x 21.5″
A series of paintings with the fragility of childhood innocence as their theme. We are living in a very ‘Paedophile aware’ society, which has proved that as parents, we need to be ever vigilant.
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Dancers
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Albion Frolic
Continuing from an earlier series of works titled ‘The Maenads’, which were exhibited at the Grundy art gallery in 2004. Creating a narrative suggests psychological states and social codes, a representation of our time and sometimes of our inner selves. My subject draws from the confines of traditional (white) western narrative art, with its mythological, literary material for its scenarios of action. In this case it ‘nods’ to Arcadia (or Avalon, Eden, Albion) a ‘lost world’ of idyllic bliss. Although not, as so often, in the Memento Mori tradition, but just in simple pleasure and enjoyment. Set within a locally imagined landscape, a couple of young people enjoy themselves, wine flows.
Albion Frolic (first above)
47″ x 39″
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Punkadelics, 2011
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“I have been drawing and painting visitors to the Rebellion festival for the past three years. Rebellion is a fantastic event, I enjoy attempting to replicate the sights, colours, energy and excitement of the national and international die hard Punk supporters, the energy, excitement, fashions and colours of the event onto canvas. There is a real energy both in and around the Winter gardens complex, an exciting buzz of expectancy in the air due to so many people converging together in one small space, dressed to impress.” I first became aware of punk in 1976 / 77 as my ex-husband played bass for a well-known punk band of the time. I remember well the rebellious spirit, excitement, energy, youth and vibrancy of first wave punk, which I was lucky to experience first hand. Later I was introduced to the Rebellion festival through my son, who has played drums in various punk bands locally in the past 5 years and regularly attends the festival. For the last three years I’ve been drawing and painting visitors to the festival and have had a stall there to exhibit my work, selling postcards, paintings and drawings. I have really enjoyed trying to replicate the energy, excitement, fashions and colours of the event onto canvas.
As part of the Culture shops programme, from Friday 28th July until 25th August, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Corrine Streetly were on display in the town centre Bar Red’ windows. The exhibition coincided with the ultimate social event in the punk calendar, the Rebellion Festival. 15 years of Blackpool’s unique hosting of the Rebellion Festival which is held from the 4th – 7th August. The festival boasts four days with 4 stages. Corrine Streetly has been drawing and painting visitors to the Rebellion festival for the past three years. “Rebellion is a fantastic event, I enjoy attempting to replicate the sights, colours, energy and excitement of the national and international die hard Punk supporters. There is a real energy both in and around the Winter gardens complex, an exciting buzz of expectancy in the air due to so many people converging together in one small space, dressed to impress.” Corrine Streetly is an artist whose work is primarily rooted in the tradition of narrative. Blackpool Culture Shops 2011 This exhibition ran from Mon 5th – Sat 24th Sept 2011, with a private view on Sat 3rd September. Corrine’s work features in the Culture Shops Book and, her Punkadelics series is also featured in this.
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Rebellion Series 2008
The Rebellion festival has become an intrinsic part of Blackpool’s culture. Held every year, it runs for four consecutive days during the month of August. In this series of small drawings I’ve tried to capture the spirit of this year’s festival, where people of all ages and walks of life participate, dress up in Punk fashion like exotic birds of paradise. There is a buzzing, palpably exciting atmosphere in the town during the event, with all appearing to be out to have a good time, to see and be seen. Often it’s a good excuse for individuals to re-live their miss-spent youth as they ‘strut their stuff’ to the amusement and delight of many of the local residents.
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Skateboarders
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Space Invaders, 2002
These paintings were intended to provoke instinctual feelings of shared experience, particularly in women. The physical presence of a man in any isolated location is a signal in itself to women of all ages: it speaks of many possibilities. There is an implicit threat, most women would be immediately aware of their potential vulnerability in such a situation, despite the fact that the man could be harmless. Its an unfortunate fact of life that most women will at some stage in their lives be subjected to a similar experience.
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The Maenads
The theme of these paintings loosely relates to the Greek myth of Dionysus, god of wine, mysteries and the theatre and particularly to his female followers, the Maenads. Maenads, also known as Bacchae or Bacchantes, frequently appear together with the frenzied deity of wine in both myth and art. In Euripides’play The Bacchae, the power and destructive capacity of Dionysus is conveyed primarily through the women, who are drawn into his mysterious realm and who celebrate Dionysus by abandoning themselves to the wild liberating energy of nature. Bacchantes, when in the trance of the deity, leave behind home and family and haunt the forests and mountains, their roles as wives, mothers and sisters temporarily forgotten. The story of the Maenads/Bacchantes provokes questions about the disputed boundaries of female sexuality and liberty. This series is ongoing…
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Men Digging
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Class of ’97’
This series of works were completed during my artist residency at Queen Mary Girls School (as it then was, in 1996/97), now Arnold KEQM School. As a figurative painter, it seemed natural to focus on the girls themselves as a subject, particularly their sporting activities of hockey, tennis and long jump, but also their academic lessons of physics, chemistry and woodwork . Most of the girls who feature in the sporting images were I believe, between 12 and 14. As I went to Elmslie Girls school myself, the general surroundings and the sea of girls moving through the corridors at break and lunch time all seemed very familiar.
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Intrusion, 1995
These paintings were based on my own childhood memories and perceptions at a time of growing adolescent awareness, growing up as I did in a rural, insular and ‘male dominated’ environment. Voyeurism is implicated all round; the men represented are archetypes; clues to the way I saw these men and the place they occupied in my female consciousness in imprinted by their clothes, stance and gesture.
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Carnival Masquerade
These paintings and drawings were inspired by original black and white photographs from the 1923 ‘Blackpool Carnival’ brochure. They are my own interpretation of this historical event, an attempt to ‘breath new life’ into the images by use of colour, line and movement. I felt indeed an element of ‘resurrection’ in the painting process
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Corrine Streetly MA 
Hi Corrine, I have inherited 2 of your watercolours from my brother who has passed away. Would you be able to advise me regarding the value of these paintings.They are entitled Kong Unleashed and Kong Unleashed 11…Thankyou