Tile Kiln Studios is Mychael Barratt, Tom Crew, Danielle Eubank, Colin Moore, and Jazmin Velasco-Moore who lived and worked in Tile Kiln Lane, Highgate, and Crouch End, London. The group was named after the lane, and modernist houses designed by architect Peter Beaven Borough. The artists held an annual Open House 2001-2012 at number 6 Tile Kiln Lane.
Artists
Mychael Barratt
Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada, however, considers himself to be a Londoner since arriving for what was supposed to be a two-week stay thirty years ago. He is a narrative artist whose career making original prints covers virtually every possible technique. During his term as President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers he curated many international exhibitions and was responsible for launching two annual open submission print exhibitions held at Bankside Gallery - the National Original Print Exhibition and The Masters.
He was an artist in residence for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre throughout Mark Rylance’s reign as Artistic Director as well as being a commissioned artist for Liberty of London. In 2011, just prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was commissioned by T. V. Edwards to paint a 10 x 8 metre mural on an external wall of their headquarters on the Mile End Road. He has written three books: Intaglio Printmaking, published by A & C Black; The Master’s Muse: Artists’ Cats and Dogs, as well as London Map of Days, both of which were published by Unicorn Publishing. His work is held in many important collections including: The Royal Collection; the British Museum; the British Library (permanent collection of maps); Ashmolean Museum; V & A Museum; Canada House (UK Canadian Embassy); the National Art Museum of China, Beijing; and the Jiangsu Museum of Contemporary Art, Jiangsu, China.
Tom Crew
Tom Crew was born in Sliema, Malta in 1964, then relocated and grew up in Brighton during the 70’s amid punk, disco, mod, skateboarding culture. He studied Graphic design in Brighton and Lancashire, and continues to work in this field as a Creative Director at a London based design studio.
His work is primarily in ceramics, but also multi media, watercolour, collage – he explores peoples relationships with objects, their history and surroundings, and the marks we leave. He is a member of the Crafts Council and teaches at Turning Earth in London.
Danielle Eubank explores the relationship between abstraction and realism through painting water. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Eubank conceived One Artist Five Oceans, a 20-year project where she sailed and painted the waters of every ocean on Earth to raise climate awareness.
Eubank is the Expedition Artist for the Phoenicia Ship Expedition, a replica 600BCE ship that circumnavigated Africa. As Expedition Artist in the UNESCO approved Borobudur Ship Expedition she traveled with the replica 8th century Indonesian boat from Indonesia to Ghana. Eubank has sailed to Antarctica and aboard a barquentine tall ship to the northernmost settlement on Earth.
Eubank was a Creative Climate Award nominee and the awardee of the WCA/United Nations Program Honor Roll Award. A film documentary about her work premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Danielle Eubank holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Arts from UCLA.