Lost or discarded objects fascinate me. Their poignancy mirrors our human vulnerability. After all, material objects reflect our meanings and uses.
A broken earring or burnt chair leg left on the street connects me with unknown histories and themes of loss, longing and hope, and the work that evolves from these ‘finds’ becomes in part an act of transformative repair.
Curiosity, play and experimentation drive my interdisciplinary practice, which encompasses sculpture, collected objects, photography and painting, often brought together in site-responsive installations that invite inquisitiveness.
I enjoy making work that has the capacity to integrate polarities and paradoxes from audiences and to embrace a multitude of interpretations – an aspect that has developed from my experience as an artist educator with extensive involvement in participatory and collaborative work.
Currently, I am developing the installation, ‘a fuller acquaintance with the archipelago’, which invites the viewer to navigate a co-created Lilliputian world of over forty island like sculptures, created as a response to the times we are living through.
(See ‘installations’ for images and information)
selected solo exhibitions
2022 From the Archipelago Small House Gallery
2020 a fuller acquaintance with the archipelago Observer Building, Hastings
with Coastal Currents 2020
2019 as small as the world and as large as alone. Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea
2013 Losing Gravity, Curwen Gallery, London
2009 underneath and in-between, Curwen Gallery, London
2007 here & there, Curwen Gallery, London
awards
2021 Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize shortlisted for award
2020 a-n Bursary: Time Space Money
2019 a-n Artist Bursary to research contemporary jewellery in the Netherlands
2018 Artquest’s PEER FORUM award with CUBBIT along with co-members of @peersocial
2017 winner of UAL competition with image illustrating CURIOSITY
2017 London Creative Network, SPACE, London 2011 National Lottery through Arts Council England for Telling Stories: Margate
2010 National Lottery through Arts Council England for The Hastings Rarities Affair
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
2002 Regional Arts Lottery Programme through London Arts for Happening Histories
project and CD ROM, Grosvenor Estate, Southeast London
1995 Sir John Cass and Paul Hamlyn Foundations and Newcommen Collet Trust for
Tales from the Riverbank
two person exhibitions / projects
2019
between skylight and dust hARTslane a site responsive installation with Sharon Haward
group exhibitions / projects
2022
Once Upon An Instant ‘Curator, Ben Woodeson brings together an outstanding selection of international artists to create a diverse exhibition of art works that involve iron.’ Halle B1 HTW Campus Wilhelminenhof, Berlin, Germany
Bohemia Creative Quarter exhibition of works by artists local to Moth Shop Bohemia, St Leonards on Sea
“Youlysees” A Centenary Bloomsday Exhibition, Celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses 100 years published in 2022. Curated by Lucy Brennan Shiel at ESPS St Leonards on Sea
MEMO Rye Art Gallery in association with Drawing Life Rye, East Sussex
Art and Memory: How it makes us, how it shapes us, what it leaves behind.
Relay Respond Relay with SoCo Artists an interactive collaboration ESPS St Leonards on Sea
2021
Climate Action Visual Culture selected ‘a fulller aquaintance with the archipelago’ for this PGR led international initiative bringing together the work of 43 artists from all over the world, exploring the inter-relationship of climate action and visual culture, with the aim of fostering opportunities for networking and collaboration. Visit the digital Artsteps Gallery and the digitally curated Cultural Ecologies CAVC Publication
Supported by the University of Huddersfield Graduate School.
Vagina Island in the Hyper Limbo virtual group exhibition curated by Come Quick Disaster at Yeah Totally Gallery
2020
southwarkparkgalleries.org 36annual open exhibition
We Baked Our Own Bread @photohastings , Zuzushii Gallery, Hastings
reflections on the archipelago for Dwell Time Press Special COVID-19 Edition
@housebound virtual exhibition with Chapel Arts Studios
guest artist with ComeQuickDisaster platform for art, Chisenhale Studios, London
Raven Row residency with co-members of Peer Social (postponed, due to covid-1
2019
Editions Show, Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea
Looking at Okno Tass Baker-Mamonova Gallery, Kino Teatre, St Leonards on Sea
RSA Summer Show Rye Society of Artists, East Sussex (shortlisted for prize)
2018
Editions Show, Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea
Genesis Light Magic, with co-members of Peer Social at St John’s Church, Bethnal Green;
part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays
Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival 8 artists respond to a unique space, Queens Pk London W9
Collect initiator and lead artist of this SoCo Artists project and exhibition of artists responses to artifacts in the collections of Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
AP49 IMPRESSION, International Contemporary Exchange Exhibition, International Printmaking Arts Research Centre, Macao, China
2017
Rye Winter Salon, Rye Creative Centre. curated by Paula MacArthur. Shortlisted for prize
+33 Annual Open, CGP London
CURIOUS 27, Rosebury’s Auction House, West Norwood, London – curated by Jane Millar
Masks: an experimental installation with SoCo Artists for Coastal Currents Arts Festival
Little Masters (Intended for Neuremberg), Intersession Gallery, Northampton; curated by Pauline Wood
London Creative Network (LCN) Showcase, SPACE, Hackney, London
Hot Off The Press, Curwen Gallery, London
2016-17
Small Print International touring exhibition: Leicester Print Workshop; Attenborough Arts, Leicester; The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne in partnership with Northern Print; Gallerytop, Derbyshire; West Yorkshire Print Workshop; London Print Studio, London; Alfred East Gallery, Kettering
2016
ARTSevilla Art Fair
Sea Crossing: an experimental installation artist and curator working with SoCo Artists, referencing ‘For those in Peril on the Sea’ (2011) by Hew Locke, at Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonard’s on Sea for the Root 1066 Cultural Festival, Hastings
The Hastings Rarities Tattoo Album’, shown as part of ‘The Story of Hastings in 66 Objects’, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Skyline exhibition with Kath Mullaniff, Eugene Palmer and Charlotte Snook, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonard’s on Sea
MA Show, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
FOCUS, hARTslane Experimental Art Space, Peckham, London
Ink&Bind 1 and 2, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
2015
MA Interim, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
Pop Up Fuck Off light projection for closure of Broadway Studios, Tooting High Street, London
2014
11 Minutes of Print, Sassoon Gallery, Peckham
Glasshouse in the Garage, Coastal Currents Festival, Hastings
The Walking Encyclopedia, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent The Walking Encyclopedia blogspot
2013
Beach Shorts & Radio Days, film and sound works,Rarities Productions, Coastal Currents Arts Festival
gush: an experimental residency with light, refraction at underground, Hastings
Domestic Disturbance for International Womens Day, Creative School Centre, Rye
2012
Rarities Productions Presents…. for Coastal Currents Arts Festival, East Sussex
Under the Tower of the Winds, site specific installation for ‘Surface ll’, Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
25/30 Celebratory Exhibition, Curwen & New Academy, London
Aurum of London: guest artist, Craft Central, London
2011
Rarities 2011 collaboration with Alban Lowe, Hastings Pier
Surface I, Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
Telling Stories: Margate, Marine Studios, Margate
2010
The Hastings Rarities Affair, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery (funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England)
2001
Happening Histories: A Multimedia Project and CD ROM by Tenants and Residents of the Grosvenor Estate, Londo SE5. Funded by Regional Arts Lottery Programme through London Arts. Collaboration with digital artist, Elvina Flower.
1995
Tales from the Riverbank funded participatory project and installation at the CGP Gallery, London, with residents in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe and the Bermondsey Artists Group (funded by Sir John Cass and Paul Hamlyn Foundations and Newcommen Collet Trust)
publicity
2018 Collect by Sophie Shaw, Hastings Independent Press
2016 Artlyst: Camberwell Degree Shows Florence Goodhand-Tait, ‘Reports From The Inside’
2013 Losing Gravity, Wall Street Journal http://www.wsimagazine.com/uk/diaries/agenda/arts/sineid-codd-losing-gravity_20131014084036.html
2010 The Lost Ledger The Hastings Rarities Affair, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
2009 work featured on a BBC slide show: Art’s Recuperative Power http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8014719.stm
1995 interview about the project and installation, Tales from the Riverbank, CGP Gallery, London, Costing the Earth, BBC Radio 4
1993 All Ladies Number One Brush Team interview by Ian Dury for Arts Review LWT TV
1992 All Ladies Number One Brush Team interview, Womens Hour, BBC Radio 4
arts in health commissions
2011 Colourflow: commission, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital NHS Trust
2009 from my grandmothers piano, Conquest Hospital, Hastings
2008 Colourgym commission, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital NHS Trust
2008 Outside-In, Miranda Barry Centre, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
2005 Sun and Moons, Great Western Hospital Swindon
2004 Framing a View, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust
2001 works purchased for the Paintings in Hospitals Collection, London
collections
National Maritime Museum; Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Homerton Hospital, London; Royal London Hospital; Paintings in Hospitals; Great Western Hospital, Swindon; Miranda Barry Centre, London; Brit; Morris Homes; Landmark PLC; private collectors UK, Vermont USA, France
artist educator
currently working with the Design Museum, De La Warr Pavilion and Drawing Life;
previous feelance projects with Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Tate Modern, British Library, Chisenhale Gallery, British Museum, Geffrye Museum, National Maritime Museum, South London Gallery
education
MFA Visual Arts Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, 2014-16
Art Teachers Certificate (PGCE) Goldsmiths, UAL
Post – grad Printmaking, Central School of Art & Design
BA Hons Fine Art, Winchester School of Art