Place and date of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico, 1965 Nationality: British
Qualifications:
1985/88 BA Honours Fine Art, Birmingham Polytechnic, UK
Professional Societies and bodies:
Co-founder Wireworks Project, Member of Royal Society of Sculptors, Founder Member of Fine Rats International, Steering Group Member FORMAT06 Derby.
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 ‘Breaking Point’ Kreis Gallery Nuremberg, Germany
2013 MOOTANTS – photographic exhibition at Bulls Head Public House, Derbyshire UK
2012 Webbing for Creative House – Bad Berneck, Germany
2011 ‘con-flict a state of disharmony’, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby, UK
2009 TENSION – Gooden Gallery, Vyner Street, London, UK
2008 Penny Black – Digital Art Gallery Internet Exhibition, http://digitalartsgallery.co.uk/
2007 A One Night Stand with…Ivan Smith presents Penny Black at Gooden Gallery, London, UK
2007 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly – at Ashish Balram Nagpal GALLERIES, Mumbai, India
2006 underpin – Rest Gardens, Nottingham commissioned by Future Factory Nottingham, UK
2003 Window Shopping – El Huis Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgium
2002 I HOME @ Q ARTS – Q Arts Gallery, Derby, UK
2002 Snap Shot – University Gallery, University of Derby, Derby, UK
2002 toe the line… – Installation, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Circular – video installation, HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, NR Aylesbury, UK
2000 Now – The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, UK
1999 Breathing Space – Artspace, Sydney, Australia
1995/96 Revolution – scaffold Installation, Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
1994 Intrusions – Object based Video Installation, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 PLACE – Launch Exhibition at The Wireworks Project, Wireworks, Ambergate, Derbyshire, UK
2020 Beyond Killa – International Site specific Artist Residency Exhibition, Pardi, Gujarat, India
2017 MIGRATION – International Residency & exhibition curated by Ivan Smith The Art House Wakefield UK
2016 PingPong Symposium – organized by Mareike Drobny & Florian Tuercke, Kreis Gallery, Nuremburg, Germany
2015 A Tourist Everywhere – Sandarh International Residency, Jaipur Art Summit, Jaipur, India
2015 Desire Lines – 5 day public intervention for Invisible Boundaries, Artcore, Derby, UK
2015 HOME & AWAY – Int. Artist Residency 2015 exhibition Fell House curated by Ivan Smith, Wakefield,UK
2015 LOST & FOUND – 41 Seconds Exhibition by I.A.C. at Smedleys Clothing Factory, Derbyshire, UK
2013 SPATTER – Synthesis Exhibition Commissioned by Forefront for Manchester Science Festival, UK
2013 Chocolate Factory – Smith & Hersey commissioned by Quad & DCC, Derby, UK
2012 Culture Cloud – Showing ‘Fanny’ at NAE Notthingham, UK
2011 Deelstaat= Organised by Extrapool & Sandarbh in Nijmegen, Netherlands
2011 ‘Wirksworth Festival’ – ‘Webbing’ commission, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK
2011 ‘Charter of the Forest’ – ‘Able/Disable’ The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
2010 Mixed Christmas – at BendInTheRiver, Gainsborough Linclonshire, UK
2010 ‘Body in Pieces’ – Curated by Irene Rogan for Sideshow Nottingham, UK
2010 DesPardes The challenge of the Glocal – Anglo-Indian exhibition in Derby, Nottingham & Baroda, India
2010 We are 10! – Abu Ghraib 2, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2009 Sandarbh UK – International Artist Residency Belper, Derbyshire UK
2008 Sandarbh US, Colquitt Art Center, Moultrie, South Georgia, US
2006 Sandarbh International exhibition Jawahar Kala Kendra, Partapur, Rajasthan, India
2005 ‘The World is a Safer Place’ – ‘Breathing Space’ Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2005 ‘Documentary Memory Place’ Format05 – ‘On Reflection’ Photographic projections, Derby UK
2004 ‘Embodying the Scenery of Ecology’ 2004 Juming Museum International Art Camp, Taiwan
2003 Kic Nord-Art 2003 Büdelsdorf, Germany
2003 INTERart 2003 International Creation House Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2002 Abiko Open Air Exhibition 2002, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Ten year retrospective of Art Camp Tihany organised by Túlsó P’art, Miskolc, Hungary
2002 Living Proof – One night exhibition at Bewick Court Towerblock, Newcastle, UK
2002 Art Camp Tihany 2002, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Born at the right time – Provinciaal Museum Begijnhofkerk, Sint Truiden, Belgium
1998 All or Nothing – Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
1998 Now it’s Dark – BoBo’s Gallery, London, UK
1998 Bull – Fine Rats International, Video Exhibition, Premiere at the Musee de Marseille, France
1997 Life/Live – Centro de Exposiçodes / Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Life/Live – Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1995 Down the Drain – Fine Rats International, City Centre wasteland, Birmingham, UK
1994 Unearth – Fine Rats International, Redundant Coalmine, Coalville, UK
1993 Under Spaghetti Junction – Fine Rats International, Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham, UK
1993/94 Second Sight – Touring Show, England and Ireland
1992 Out of Order – Fine Rats International, Empty Towerblock, Smethwick, UK
1991 Secret Life of Objects – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Film and Video Festivals/Premieres:
2016 I Love Derby and Derby loves me – FestivalX24 Gainsborough, UK
2013 I Love Derby and Derby Loves me – Chocolate Factory, commissioned by Quad & DCC, Derby, UK
2005 C U – Screened at VIDEOPOLIS 2005, Curated by Antonio Riello, Padova, Italy
2005 ‘The World is a Safer Place’ Five day outdoor video projection programme, Newcastle, UK – including ‘Planning for a Better Future’ – a video in collaboration with Francis Gomila.
2003 Circular – touring video programme relating to Prison life curated by Quico Rivas, Spain
2001 Porn Star – screened at 17th International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2000 Porn Star & Handle – screened at Peepshow Exhibition Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
2000 Porn Star & Cojones – screened at Birmingham Artfest, Birmingham, UK
1999 Bull – premiere including ‘Cojones’, Fine Rats Int. & Carta Blanca at Musee de Marseille, Marseille, France
Residencies:
2020 Beyond Killa – International Site specific Artist Residency, Pardi, Gujarat, India
2017 Curator & organiser for MIGRATION Int. Artist Residency 2017. The Arthouse Wakefield, UK
2015 A Tourist Everywhere – Sandarh International Residency, Jaipur Art Summit, Jaipur, India
2015 Desire Lines – 5 day public intervention for Invisible Boundaries, Artcore, Derby, UK
2015 Curator & organiser for HOME & AWAY Int. Artist Residency 2015, Fell House, Wakefield, UK
2013 Chocolate Factory Residency – Smith & Hersey, commissioned by Quad & DCC, Derby, UK
2012 Creative House – Artist Residency Bad Berneck, Germany
2011 Deelstaat= Organised by Extrapool & Sandarbh in Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010 Forest Residency – Mumbai, India
2009 Curator & organiser for Sandarbh UK – International Artist Residency Belper, Derbyshire UK
2008 Sandarbh US International residency, Moultrie South Georgia US
2006 underpin – photography residency Nottingham commissioned by Future Factory Nottingham UK
2006 Sandarbh International residency Jawahar Kala Kendra, Partapur, Rajasthan, India
2004 ‘Embodying the Scenery of Ecology’ 2004 Juming Museum International Art Camp, Taiwan
2003 El Huis Residency Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgium
2003 INTERart 2003 International Creation House Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2002 Abiko Open Air Exhibition 2002, Tokyo, Japan
2001 The Ninth International Art Camp organised by Túlsó P’art, Tihany, Hungary
2000 Sculpture residence HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, NR Aylesbury, UK
2000 First Artist-in-Residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
1999 Breathing space, Artspace, Sydney Australia
1998 Triangle France, Marseille, France
1991 Kemps Industrial Scrapyard, Birmingham, UK
Prizes and Awards:
2017 Arts Council England Grant – ‘Migration‘ Int. one month residency Wakefield, UK
2015 Arts Council England Grant – ‘HOME & AWAY‘ Int. one month residency Wakefield UK
2013 Derby City Council – Chocolate Factory Residency, Smith & Hersey, Derby, UK
2008 Arts council England Grant – Sandarbh UK Int. Artist Residency, Belper, Derbyshire, UK
2006 Arts Council England Grant – underpin
2002 Arts Council England Grant – I HOME @ Q ARTS
2002 Awarded British Council Visual Arts Grant – toe the line… Installation, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001/3 Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture, University of Derby, Derby
2000 Awarded Artsadmin bursary, London
1998 Awarded British Council Visual Arts Grant Breathing Space For Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Catalogues and other Published Work:
2021 The Wireworks Project Launch Exhibition ‘Place’ in Zine #06
2015 Jaipur Art Summit 15, Confluence of Contemporary Art
2015 The State of Art – Installation & Site Specific #2 Featured Artist
2011 ‘con-flict a state of disharmony’, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby, UK
2007 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly – at Ashish Balram Nagpal GALLERIES Mumbai, India
2005 The World is a Safer Place’ The Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2004 ‘Embodying the Scenery of Ecology’ 2004 Juming Museum International Art Camp, Taiwan
2002 I HOME @ Q ARTS ‘Someone somewhere is watching you’ Q Gallery, Derby, England
2002 Abiko Open Air Exhibition 2002, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Ten year retrospective of Art Camp Tihany organised by Túlsó P’art, Miskolc, Hungary
2002 Living Proof, One night exhibition at Bewick Court Towerblock, Newcastle, UK
2002 Art Camp Tihany 2001, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Born at the right time – Provinciaal Museum Begijnhofkerk, Sint Truiden, Belgium
1999 Breathing Space, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
1998 Bull – Fine Rats International, The Musee de Marseille, France.
1997 Life/Live – Centro de Exposiçodes / Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Life/Live – Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1995 Down the Drain – Fine Rats International, Birmingham
1995/96 Revolution – Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery, Huddersfield
1994 Intrusions – Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
1993/94 Second Sight – Northern Centre for Con. Art, Sunderland /The Orchard Gallery, Derry
1993 Under Spaghetti Junction – Fine Rats International, Birmingham
1991 The Secret Life of Objects – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Collections:
2003 Straight Lines – Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Circular – Video Installation at HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, NR Aylesbury, UK
Critical Reviews and Press Coverage:
David Manley review of the Launch of The Wireworks Project online 2021
The Guardian Guide – feature by Rob Clarke May 7th 2011
From Dusk till Dawn magazine – Feature interview with Thomas Phillips Summer 2011
Obsessionistas – collectors & their collections website, co_flict exhibition 2011
‘In Touch Magazine’ – Con_flict Exhibition 2011
Networking Practise – EMVAN consultation event Quad, Derby 2010
‘underpin’ AXIS website Selected for Public Realm Section for new commissioned work Dec 2006
‘underpin’ What’s on previews a-n Magazine by S Mark Gubb Sept 2006
‘Art wrecked by vandals” Evening Post Nottingham by Kate Skelton Sept 2006
‘Matter of Time’ Listings Evening Post Nottingham by Mark Patterson Sept 2006
Dr. Slavko Kacunko ‘Closed Circuit Video Installations’ ZKM 2003
Katrine Narkiewicz ‘The creative force behind I HOME’ http://www.vibewire.net Feb 2003
Louise Clement ‘Someone somewhere is watching you’ I HOME @ Q ARTS Website Nov 2002
Artwork, AN Publications, July 2000
Su Jones, Roles and Reasons, AN Publications, April 1997
Su Jones, Measuring the Experience, AN Publications, January 1997
Amanda Crabtree in conversation with Su Jones, Art & Design edition on Public Art, 1996
Su Jones, Revolution, Artist Newsletter, February 1996
David Hammond, Revolution, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, December 8th 1995
Su Jones, Down the Drain, Artist Newsletter, September 1995
Terry Grimley, Down the Drain, The Birmingham Post, August 5th 1995
Brian Hatton, Under Spaghetti Junction, Arts Monthly, October 1993
Terry Grimley, Art for Rats` Sake, The Birmingham Post, August 21st 1993
Hugh Stoddart, Out of Order, Artist Newsletter, August 1992
Jeffery Collins, Post Industrial Performance Art, Performance Magazine, Spring 1992
Robert Clarke, The Guardian, December 1991
Conferences, Workshops, Talks & Presentations:
2017 Curator for MIGRATION Curatorial talks at The Arthouse, Wakefield, UK
2016 PingPong Symposium, organized by Mareike Drobny & Florian Tuercke, Kreis Gallery, Nuremburg, Germany
2015 Curator for HOME & AWAY Curatorial talks at Arthouse, Wakefield, UK
2012 Arts Derbyshire annual conference panel discussion member, Level Centre, Derbyshire, UK
2011 Re-place symposium presentation, Cromford Mill Derbyshire, UK
2011 Emvan – Artists working Internationally presentation, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2010 Emvan – Consultation event Quad Derby UK
2010 Sandarbh UK Presentation – Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany
2009 Sandarbh UK Int. Artist Residency Presentation Quad, Derby, UK
2004 A Space for Art Presentation for Angel Row and Bonington Galleries, Nottingham UK
2004 ‘Embodying the Scenery of Ecology’ 2004 Juming Museum International Art Camp, Taiwan
2004 Consultant for Quad Architects interviews Derby, East Midlands UK
2001 Lead Artist, artist-training course run by Commissions East, Lincoln, Lincs UK
1999 Public Remarks Animateur for Artist workshops for c/PLEX West Bromwich, UK
1998 Workshop with Alsöp & Stormer for c/PLEX West Bromwich, UK
1995 Chimera Symposium, Fine Rats International, Sydney, Australia
1994 Littoral Symposium, Fine Rats International, Manchester
Selected Teaching Experience:
2017 Mentor at Artcore for Art Attachment residencies, Derby, UK
2007 Visiting Lecturer Newcastle University, UK
2001/3 Henry Moore Fellowship, University of Derby, Derby, UK
1999 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Sydney College of Art, Sydney. Australia
1996 Visiting Lecturer, Norwood School of Art, Adelaide. Australia
1995 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Sydney College of Art, Sydney. Australia
1994 Visiting Lecturer, MA Public Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
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