A Bit About Me
I've worked as a community artist for nearly 20 years, and have been refocusing and redeveloping more of my own art practice in the last 7 years.
Primarily a painter, I also work with textiles, exploring themes of Chinese and European folklore to understand my mixed heritage, with an interest in how stories mutate as they migrate, and what this has meant for her family as they've settled in different places around the world.
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I accept commissions for artwork, murals and workshops
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or email CassyOliphant@hotmail.co.uk
Education & Qualifications
​2022 Introduction to Permaculture for Artists and Creatives
2017 Intensive Interaction Introduction Course
2016 Non Violent Communication training
2011 Permaculture Design Course
2010 Pyramid of Arts – In House Training
C3 Creative Communities Course – (Artworks
Creative Communities, Bradford)
2007 Crawford College of Art and Design – Cork Art
Therapy Summer School
2004-2007 2:1 English Literature with art modules,
Leeds University
2002-2003 Central Saint Martins College of Art and
Design - Foundation Certificate
Artist Grants
2025-2026
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Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP​) - Arts Council England
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2020
Artist Residencies
2020
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Studio Garonne (France)
Parent Artist Residency postponed due to Covid.
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2018
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Hollybush TCV (Leeds, UK)
Developing the theme of folktale and nature-based painting and illustration at a weekly residency in an environmental conservation centre.​
Exhibitions
2025
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Artists of Heart, (Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre, Leeds, UK)
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Fronteer Gallery, (Sheffield, UK)
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2019
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Fernie Brae, (Portland Oregon, USA)
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Kirkstall Art Trail (Leeds, UK)
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2018
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Creative Mothers Project, Aire Place Studios (Leeds, UK)
Curated and exhibited -
Love Arts Festival, Leeds City Museum (Leeds, UK)
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Pyramid Sculpture, Armley Mills Industrial Museum (Leeds, UK)
Ceramic tile sculpture project with Pyramid of Arts -
Humankind, Rites of Passage
Curated and exhibited -
York River Art Market (York, UK)
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2017
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Elemental Arts Event, All Hallows Church (Leeds, UK)
Sustainable arts, music and food event) -
Stories from Wild Women, Aire Place Studios (Leeds, UK)
Curated and Exhibited -
Kirkstall Art Trail (Leeds, UK)
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2016
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Artonomy (Leeds, UK)
Exhibition of personal work -
York River Art Market (York, UK)
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Shoddy Exhibition, Live Art Bistro (Leeds, UK)
with Pyramid of Arts High Rise Group
Murals
2020
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Hyde Park Source (Leeds, UK)
Dandelion Mural -
Bramley Community Centre (Leeds, UK)
Wild Flower Mural -
OWLS - Older Wiser Leeds Seniors, (Leeds, UK)
Window Front
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2019
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​SOMA Yoga Space, (Leeds, UK)
Mandala Mural
2018
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Little Free Libraries throughout Yorkshire