Some past work

 
• Self-portraiture: mother and child images
• A Shared Experience - the maternity unit
• Inside Out - Risley prison workshops
• Theatre projects - City of Drama and the National Theatre
• Shire Hill - the geriatric unit
• The intimate and the domestic 

In 1984 Ghislaine Howard chronicled her first pregnancy and the birth of her son, Maxim, in a series of paintings and drawings. She described the development of this series of self-portraits in two articles for the artist magazine in 1986.

To read the articles and see some of the images, click on the links below:

Self-portraiture: mother and child images 1
Self-portraiture: mother and child images 2

In 1992-3 Ghislaine Howard was commissioned by Manchester City Art Galleries to spend four months as artist-in-residence at St Mary's Hospital maternity unit in Manchester.
The resulting exhibition, A Shared Experience,was shown at Manchester City Art Gallery in 1993 and at the Wellcome Foundation in London in 1994.

You can also read extracts from Ghislaine Howard's journal of the residency there.

Reviews of the exhibition by Robert Clark in the Guardian and Joan Crossley in Women's Art are reproduced in the critical response page.

At the end of 1993 Ghislaine Howard spent two weeks conducting art workshops with a group of 12 male inmates at Risley Training Prison. She then spent several weeks producing her own studies of different aspects of life within the prison. The exciting and challenging work that resulted from this unique collaboration was shown as an exhibition, entitled Inside Out,at Warrington Art Gallery.

In 1994 Manchester was the Arts Council's City of Drama. Ghislaine Howard chronicled the work of some of the city's theatre companies for an exhibition at the British Council. Her account of the project is here.

A small group of paintings based on a residency at Shire Hill geriatric unit in Glossop.

This group of works celebrates and records aspects of the more intimate moments of human life.