Danielle Chappell

Graduating with a FIRST Class BA Hons Embroidery Degree at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2006, she enjoyed exploring Interdisciplinary combinations with textile installations combining lighting & photography, projections and site specific pieces. Danielle has undertaken public art commissions for Manchester City Council, Arts for Health, 2x site specific commissions for Blackpool Council for the 'Festival of Lights' Illumination Department and loaned a body of work to Allerdale Council for the Winter Lightworks Festival. She also was a finalist in the Nationwide Mercury Music and Art Prize Awards in 2006. Danielle has exhibited in small art shows in London and Blackpool with her framed embroidered illustrations and photography of installations over the years. 'Seaside Exposure' was used as a postcard image to promote the Festival of Light Festival and was printed and distributed across the UK. Danielle worked as an in-house designer/artist maker at the Manchester Arts and Craft Centre for 3 years for 'Sarah and Simon' company. She has designed a range of chairs and interior canvases for Feblands Ltd and has ran various art workshops with recycled media and drawing and painting methods at Alfresco Festival in Blackpool, to 'Upbeat Recycling', Fostering/Adoption art and music festival in Blackpool, and 1:2:1 sewing workshops. Danielle returned back to studying to complete a Post-Compulsory PGCE at UCLAN University as an arts and textiles teacher, delivering tutor lead sessions on the Arts Foundation Course for a year within the fine art and textiles fashion department completing. In 2012 Danielle created 'Yappers Chappers Designs' a nickel free jewellery and accessory business selling at various galleries, shops and art fairs, and it is still going strong which finances her new art studio in Barrow-in-Furness. Danielle worked for almost two years as a teacher at Lancashire College until she gave birth to her first child (Lancashire Adult Learning) delivering art sessions; 'Developing Confidence through art and craft' to various groups around Lancashire with variety of learning difficulties, mental health patients, offenders and recovering drug and alcohol clients. These art workshops were delivered at Calderstones Mental Health Hospital (secure unit to category B and C offenders), Community Centres and Recovering addict Centres. When her little boy was 1years old her and her husband relocated to South Cumbria where she has now another addition to her family a little girl. She runs her Yappers Chappers Designs business with and around her children and still, separately is a practicing artist focussing on the basics of drawing, painting and stitch. Danielle's new work is exploring issues that have been a barrier in her daily everyday life not only as a mother of two children (under 4 years old), but as an artist with dyslexia and ADHD, by researching approaches to learn the right equation as a practicing artist, and the plan to empower herself and others through rediscovery in her work and through creative art workshops again for the later part of 2019. South Cumbria