Dates

• Existence: Born 1970

Biography

Jenifer Bramley was born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire in 1970.

Jeniffer studied a BA (Hons) Fine Art at The University of Derby and she is an emerging artist exploring 2D practices in a variety of media. She is particularly interested in creating drawings and paintings and has been exploring the field of popular entertainment – the fairground.

Education 2017 The University of Derby, BA (Hons) Fine Art – final year 2015 Vision West Notts College, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Foundation Studies Art and Design BTEC Diploma (18+)

Exhibitions 2017 Summer Open Exhibition, THiNK, Nottingham 2017 The Secret Postcard Show, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford 2017 Smoke and Mirrors, Riverlights, Derby 2017 Museum Interventions, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby 2016 Annual Postcard Exhibition 2016, QUAD, Derby 2015 Foundation Studies Art and Design BTEC Diploma, Vision West Notts College, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Collections The National Fairground and Circus Archive, The University of Sheffield

Art Public Participatory Event 2017 Just Drawing – A is for Apple, FIGMENT, Derby

I remember happy times visiting the fair most often with my Dad. Many a time I would come home with a goldfish in a plastic bag - a prize from the Hook-A-Duck stall. Those were the days, in the 1970s, where it was quite the norm for stalls to hand out live goldfish.

I also remember the plaster clowns with their mouths opening and closing to accept a ping-pong ball that I carefully directed down a skittle-like alley, small scale, of course.