Media Coverage and Sponsorship

Manders Paints, Paintings 1983-93, Aberdeen Art’s Centre

ICI Dulux Paints, Spirit of Sexuality, Contact Gallery Norwich

Aberdeen Radio broadcasts a telephone interview with the artist, about her work on exhibition at the Aberdeen Arts Centre. She is asked to explain the thinking and meaning behind the paintings which have an erotic content. This was in response to an article in an Aberdeen Journal with a photograph of the artist. It explained how local opinion was divided, and that the show was controversial because the theme of the show was the ‘Spirit of Sexuality’.
Hazel explained that the paintings were not about sexuality, but ‘of sexuality’.

Women and Art. Inner and Outer Concerns
St Gregory’s Art Centre, Norwich
Women artists and their work videoed and featured in the regional programme
‘Wide Angle’. Shown on Anglia TV

No 58 Restaurant Show, Norwich
The artist Hazel Pye and her work videoed and featured for the first ‘Wide Angle’ arts
The programme, shown on Anglia TV in November.

Screen Test, Contact Gallery, Norwich.
The artist Hazel Pye and her work videoed as the subject of a screen test for potential
presenter’s of Mentorn Films new art series ‘Wide Angle’.

‘Spirit of Sexuality. A Painters Vision’. Contact Gallery, Norwich
The artist Hazel Pye interviewed and videoed and included in the pilot for ‘Wide Angle’,
a new series of regional arts programmes commissioned by Anglia TV, produced by Mentorn Films, directed by Tom Gutteridge. Later shown at Anglia TV studios, featuring Stephen Fry as the show’s presenter.

Video: ‘Hazel Pye Spirit of Sexuality
A video of the artist and her work, which also promoted her sponsors ICI Dulux Paints.
It was filmed at her studio and home in Somerleyton, Suffolk. The film was produced, directed and filmed by the late Mike Toll.
He created a series of videos about artist’s and their work which were shown at their one-person exhibitions at the Contact Gallery in Norwich. The music to Hazel’s video was composed and played by Michael Bates.