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Curatorial CV

Curated Projects

Mar 2014 Bring Your Own Beamer Cardiff II

In collaboration with Art in the Warehouse & Milgi, 7^th/8^th of March B I T + Milgi are hosting a Video Art Weekender dedicated to moving image on a local, national & international stage, providing exclusive screenings of work from all over the world while celebrating the local work being made around the corner. Artists: Absent but not Forgotten, Harrison Banfield + Jack Rees, Esther Burns, Eddy Dreadnought, Deborah Duffield, Bob Gelsthorpe, Ruth Hitchens, Ifan Lewis Lewis, Coke Oak, Emma Rooney, Lucy Rowley
+ Beaming from New Zealand: Paul Bradley & Stephanie Christie, Joe Citizen, Luke McConnell, Paul Nelson, Leafa Wilson.

Jul 2013 Monochrome, NosDa, Cardiff (Co-Curated with Kim Fielding)

Life in its rushing form is fraught with a bombastic array of frivolous pigment; Monochrome, as the name implies reduces all and sundry to the starker end of the palette. The exhibition embraces the calming neutrality of tope, a reduced spectrum, but enhanced vivacity. Artists: Rhian Berryman, Bill Chambers, Rory Duckhouse, Geraint Evans, Rebecca Wyn Kelly, Jaron Lionel, Pon Pountney, Josh Spindler, Sera Wyn Walker, Liz Waterhouse, James Watkins, Ian Watson

Jun 2013 B I T Presents: No. 4, West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff

Combining Visual Art, Music, Theatre and Fashion, No. 4 is a creative event promoting work from individuals all over the UK, as a form of solidarity in lieu of recent cut-backs. Artists: Rhian Berryman, Serena Boheimer, John Brennan, Rhodri Brooks, Jenny Cashmore, Shabazz Chapman, Phillip Cheater, Miye Cho, Ellen Claesson, Y Cwmni, Barrie J Davies, Geraint Evans, Kim Fielding, Bob Gelsthorpe, Arthur Goodfellow, James Green, Livi Gregory, Hollie Jade Hopkins, Dan Jones, Martyn Jones, Matt Kirby, Ifan Lewis, Simon Miller, Aidan Myers, Hannah Najjar, Jon Pountney, Sara Rees, Sophie Southgate, Charlie Spearing, Rhys Thomas, Kristian Vaughan-Adkins, Sera Wyn Walker, Rhiannon Williams, Tom Winfield, Mel Wotton.

May 2013 Old Victoria Buildings Revival, Officers Club, Fringe Arts Festival 2013, Bath.

To celebrate the past thirteen years of South Wales Gallery, tactileBOSCH; artists, instigators, collaborators and interrogators will be exhibiting work from their past, present and future for Old Victoria Buildings Revival. An exhibition offering Bath a taste of something tactile, to invigorate and instigate, demonstrate and coagulate, giving new life to the memory of the building through this non-geographically specific revival. Devised as an act of grief, of thanks and for renewal. Artists: Sam Aldridge, Jan Bennett, Phil Babot, Andrew Cooper, Geraint Evans, Kim Fielding, Beth Greenhalgh, Neil Jeffries, MelvilleMitchell, Iwan ap Huw Morgan, Richard Huw Morgan, Tiff Oben + Helene Roberts, Graham Phillips, Jason Pinder, Sara Rees + Liz Waterhouse, James Richards, Soozy Roberts

April 2013 Bring Your Own Beamer Cardiff, B I T Studios, Cardiff

Wales’ first Bring Your Own Beamer one night exhibition, concept originated Rafael Rozendaal, now a world recognized specialist night for video and net art. Artists: Rosie Benn, Eye4anEye Visuals, Kim Fielding, Bob Gelsthorpe, Naomi Heath, Hollie Jade Hopkins, Charlie Hurcombe, Rebecca Wyn Kelly, Aleksander Kuczynski, Rowan Lear, Ifan Lewis Lewis, Warren Scott Marsh, Lydia Meehan, Jon Pountney, Sara Rees, Sera Wyn Walker, Tom Winfield, Mel Wotton.

Mar 2013 Post: Experiments, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff

Cardiff based multi-media artist Shaun James’ first solo exhibition, with works from his recent practice. James’ work heavily investigates the concept of play; working through many processes that challenge and confirm his non-subjective sense of play. Even when displayed, his work rejects the static in favour of an ontological approach to objects in their permanent states of flux. It is this playful approach that provides freedom in his sensibility towards the creative process.

Jan 2013 B I T Presents: The Opening, B I T Studios, Cardiff

The inaugural exhibition of Cardiff’s newest artspace & studios, the opening night also hosted a mini- market, musicians and bar. Artwork hosted in the then bare studio space, in video, sculpture, drawing, painting and an archived collection of the B I T Presents: TUNNEL VISION drawings. Artists: Bob Gelsthorpe, Ifan Lewis Lewis & Tom Winfield

Nov 2012 Marking Diction, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff

A selection of contemporary painting, hoping to map out the visual languages in the city at the time. The selected artists were chosen on merit, but also their relationship to the city: born outside of it, but now residing inside it. An insight into the idea of psychogeographical collective visual language, and how they mark their diction. Artists: Max Bayntun, Freya Dooley, Bob Gelsthorpe, Emily Ann Lowe, Alex Millar, Liam O’Connor, Jan Williams & Tom Winfield

Oct 2012 Wear Sunscreen: Fine Art Graduates 2012, Roath Park Bowling Pavillion & St. Edwards church, as part of Made in Roath Festival, Cardiff (Co-Curated w/ Sera Wyn Walker)

This double venue exhibition featured the work of the graduating class of Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art & Design 2012, and involved leasing with 30 different artists, liaison officers and venue managers. These exhibitions also required volunteer co-ordination for a Rota of invigilators.

Oct 2012 Croeso I’r Rhath/Welcome To Roath, as part of Made in Roath Festival, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff

Five artists responded to the psychogeography of Roath, in literal, liminal, digital and historical manners. Immersive installation, sculpture, internet-based work and video were a few of the mediums used. The opening night was not only for the exhibition, but for the Made in Roath Arts Festival 2012 also. Artists: Laura Cooper, Carwyn Evans, Mark Houghton, Tiff Oben+Helene Roberts & Becky Williams

Aug 2012 The Spirit of Place: Brian Gardiner, The Gate Art & Community Centre, Cardiff

Solo exhibition of RCA trained Brian Gardiner, displaying work from recent years of the surrounding areas. The work was curated to reverberate with the architecture of the space to create at atmosphere of place.

Aug 2012 B I T Presents: TUNNEL VISION, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff

A project, in which children went into a ‘kids only’ gallery curated to their tastes and height, screened off from the main gallery space, and then upon leaving were asked to draw in response to what they saw. The drawings they created then, as the project progressed, formed the visual for the ‘adults’ side of the gallery. Artists: Various

Mar 2012 B I T Presents: CURB, Milgi, Cardiff

The first exhibition of B I T Art Collective. Featuring current work and presented itself as the founding stone of the collective’s aims, objectives and creative mission statement. Artists: Ifan Lewis Lewis, Tom Winfield

Oct 2011 Onwards! Progress!, Milgi, Cardiff (Co-Curated w/ Natalie Matthews)

Pop up exhibition hosting work from 8 individuals from the painting department of 2012 Fine Art CSAD students. Put on as an independent exhibition to see current work outside of the studio context. Artists: Paul Carpenter, Matthew Dear, Hannah Ellis, Bob Gelsthorpe, Jack Gaffney, Natalie Matthews, Laura White & Mel Wotton.

Awards

Jan 2014 OSR Projects: Richard Grayson Writing Bursary

Jul 2013 Cardiff City Council, Sport & Culture Bursary Recipient

Mar 2013 a-n: Critical Writing Bursary, funded by BALTIC, Gateshead.

May 2012 a-n Degrees Unedited Blogger Award: Runner Up

Jan 2012 a-n: Student Ambassador for CSAD

Jun 2011 Helen Gregory Memorial Trust Fund: Travel Scholarship

Courses

2013

Curating Performance: Audiences, Dramaturgy & the stage in contemporary visual culture.

Arnolfini, Bristol. Tutors: Anja Dorn, Florian Malzacher, Bridget Crone, Frank Bock

Short Course: Introduction to Curating Contemporary Art Exhibitions