Gayle Tustin
Visual
Artist Bio
Wilmington artist Gayle Tustin has exhibited locally and internationally the past 19 years. She was the first student to graduate with honors in Studio Art from UNCW and has also studied art and ceramics at Penn State University and Alfred University, NY.
She has received numerous awards for her work including the YWCA Woman of Achievement in the Arts, an Emerging Artist Grant, and international invitations to the St. Joakim Osogovski Painters Colony and the Resen Ceramics Colony, both in Macedonia. She also attended the International Artists Colony Schloss Almoshof in Nurnberg, Germany and Paint-A-Future in Brazil. Gayle is a co-founder and co-director of No Boundaries Inc., a non-profit organization inviting local and international artists to participate in an artist colony every two years on Bald Head Island, NC.
Her work has been featured in Ceramics Technical (Australia) and Ceramics Monthly magazines as well as Making Ceramic Sculpture and The Ceramic Glaze Handbook, Lark Press.
Public art projects include the bold and colorful "Celebration of Life" murals at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter in Wilmington; "Bountiful Life I-VI" at the Hospice House in Whiteville; and three representational ceramic wall relief murals for the Forsyth Medical Center, Novant Health, Winston-Salem. She has also worked with St. Marys School and Montessori to create monumental tile murals with the children.
Gayle has worked in clay for over 20 years. She also works in mixed media, oil paints, and India ink. Her work has been exhibited and is included in collections throughout NC and the USA, as well as Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia.
UNCW Randall Library has established an archive of her working papers and manuscripts documenting her career.
Her work can be viewed at her 1500 square foot studio in Wilmington.
Artist Statement:
"I find myself being an engineer of artistic ideas frequently fueled from travels in foreign places as well as my own backyard. The foundation for my work is continuously generated from personal memories, abstract gestures in my travel sketch books, collected music, journals, photography, and daily life experiences."
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Gallery Representation:
BOTTEGA Art and Wine, Wilmington, NC (910)763-3737
CITY ART WORKS, Greenville, NC (252)353-7000, www.city-art-gallery.com
ART GALLERY LTD, New Bern, NC (252)670-4000
THE OTHER HALF, Winston-Salem, NC (336)407-5494
Contact Info
Gayle Tustin
3842 Edgewood Road
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
910-392-4408
gayle_tustin@yahoo.com
Member Since
2009
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