Cherry Tenneson

Cherry Tenneson is a fine artist who work with vinyl. She has worked both commercially and creativily with the material.

Commercial - Cherry was a sign maker for 5 year, she worked for a company who made a wide ange of signs for a number of clients, including the Jobcentre Plus and the NHS.

Vinyl can go onto a range of products including : Foamex, PVC, Paper, Card, Metal, Alluminium, Polycarbonate etc.

Printing onto vinyl, through printer, build up colours as you go. 1 colour at a time. You can also screen print onto vinyl, then cut up the image, there are specific inks for vinyl. You can paint onto vinyl or draw using oil based tools. 

To apply the vinyl you could use a lint free cloth (to ensure that there is no fuzzy hairs left on the vinyl) and you must ensure that the surface is clean before applying the vinyl. The method you use to apply is: lay the vinyl on, roller down flat, squeegee hard down to fix. Heat stretches vinyl, so you need to be aware of this when your laying, as once it is down, you cannot alter it. A vinyl 'tool kit' would include a IOA blade scalpal, two squeegee's (one for wet, one for dry) and a roller.

Creative - Cherry work in collabortaion with another artist called Nichola Dale, who's background is in graphic design. Together they work under the name Tenneson and Dale (www.accessweb.org to see further images of their work). 

Their work is based around order, authority, standardization, geometric abstraction and formalism.

Some of the artists that Cherry cited as inspirational are: 

- Elswoth Kelly - who's work is minimalist, using primary colours, stripping images down to the basics.

- Donald Judd - his sculptures, and the materials that he uses.

- Carl Andre - transforms bricks into artworks.

- Frank Stella - his stripe painting, dictated by wooden patterns in the frame.

Tenneson and Dale had an exhibtion at the Cornerhouse Gallery in 2006 called 'Order Order', followed by an exhibition at Stockport Art Gallery in 207 called 'Red Tape'. They also exhibited in the Liverpool Bienial a piece called 'Green Paper'.

There are a range of artists who are using vinyl within their work, Julian Opie, used vinyl on a huge scale when he did a display for Selfridges window in Manchester. Jim Lamby's piece in the Liverpool Tate 'Colour' exhibition, where he placed 25mm strips of vinyl onto the floor to cover the space. Ian Munroe uses vinyl to create paintily effects, he looks at diagrams and architectural space and Andrew Bracey, a Manchester based artist who had an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in 2002.