Image: helping install Hysteresis by Morgan Quaintance at KARST, Plymouth, 2019
PRACTICE
Moving between different mediums and processes, my multi-disciplinary practice rests in the belief that everything is connected. Places of ritual significance, myth and folklore are recurring areas of interest, alongside the dynamic and generative relationships that exist between our bodies and the places we move through. I tend to use walking to lift the lid on the everyday, uncovering new ideas and materials to work with.
When I’m out on the moor near my home, I think I hear echoes of conversations spanning thousands of years...
My work references human agency, transformation, and tensions between opposing forces, to which I often weave links to the political and the speculative, imagined pasts and possible futures.
I am also a collector of lost and discarded ephemera, curious relics of human endeavour and frequently overlooked natural wonders. I enjoy investigating the physical and conceptual properties of these accumulations, and exploring their potential either to inform or become artefacts.
BIO
I grew up in London and relocated to North Cornwall in 2001. With a BA (Hons) in English & Philosophy and a PGCE, I followed a career in the FE sector.
In 2016, I returned to learning and gained a First Class degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, and an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from Arts University Plymouth.
Currently, I am a Co-Director of CAMP CiC, a member-led support and professional development network for artists and arts workers across Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. I am one third of artist trio Room to Manoeuvre; a member of Sapphire Blue Collective, and I also work freelance in arts based research, education, event production, DIY curation, art writing and writing for performance. I have exhibited in galleries and other contexts in London and the South West (UK).
EXHIBITIONS
Oct 24 More Headroom - Sapphire Blue Collective - Leadworks, Plymouth
Jul 24 Headroom - Sapphire Blue Collective - G12 Contemporary Art Space, Krowji, Redruth
Jul 24 Printers Paradise - CAMP Print KIN - Hatherleigh Festival, Devon
Jun 24 BRINE - Sapphire Blue Collective - Garrison Gallery at Maker Heights, Rame Peninsular
Oct 23 Plymouth Arts Vending Machine - Drake Circus, Plymouth
Sep 23 SYNERGY - Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
July 23 Radiance, Rubrics & Rituals: So We Are Held - Sapphire Blue Collective - Maketank, Exeter
Feb 23 Room to Manoeuvre: The Car Parks Project III - Fish Factory Arts, Penryn
Jan 23 Tipping Point - Studio KIND, Braunton
Nov 22 Room to Manoeuvre: The Car Parks Project REPRISE - for CIVIC STATES at Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth
Nov 22 Migrations CAMP Writers’ KIN audio-drama - How Long? - Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth
Nov 22 SPROUT - Sapphire Blue Collective’s response to the themes of the BAS9 - GROW, Plymouth
Oct 22 Room to Manoeuvre: The Car Parks Project - a BAS9 Fringe event at Leadworks, Plymouth
Oct 22 Mix Tape - Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
Sep 22 One Minute! Film Festival - hosted by Maketank at Positive Light Projects, Exeter
Sep 22 Matters Arising - MA graduates group show - Arts University Plymouth
Mar 22 KINsequences: a sculpture that wants to get made. A collaborative illustrated text performed as spoken word - CAMP on Tour at Back Lane East, Redruth, Cornwall - also broadcast by Soundart Radio and the RADIA European Network
Dec 21 Last Chance Saloon REPRISE - Slash Arts, London
Sep 21 Last Chance Saloon - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Sep 21 CRUCiBLE - Leadworks, Plymouth
May 21 A Spring Like No Other - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Sep 20 In Extremis - Go Large Makers’ Collective - Ocean Studios, Plymouth Art Weekender
Aug 20 IGNITE Plymouth Futures - digital showcase for arts graduates across Plymouth
Aug 20 No Show 2020 - digital showcase for PDP graduates of Plymouth College of Art
Aug 20 A Space for Dreaming - group show - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Mar 20 Endelienta Open - group show - St Endellion, Port Isaac
Oct 19 Eleventh International Print Exchange - Banks Mill Studios, Derby
Jul 19 Music and Memory: A story in stitch - Public Library, Wadebridge
Jun 19 Music and Memory: A story in stitch - Betjeman Centre, Wadebridge
May 19 Rediscovering Fowey Moor - group show - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
May 19 Altered Territory, a collaboration with artist Teresa Stabb - PS1, Plymouth College of Art
May 19 Selected Works by Emerging Artists - Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
Mar 19 Conversation Before Change, PCA Print Club - Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London
Jan 19 Selected Works - The Big Cartel Online Gallery - Plymouth College of Art
Aug 18 On Terracotta - group show - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Jul 18 Selected works - Grace’s Studio & Gallery, Padstow
Jun18 TiLT - a joint show with painter Georgina Lewis - Endelienta, St Endellion
May 18 Spectrum - group show - Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
July 17 Selected Works - Wave 7 Gallery, Port Isaac
June 17 Co-operatio - group show - Radiant Gallery, Plymouth
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Sep 24 Up for Air - Room to Manoeuvre - two week residency / exhibition at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Jan 23 Installation ‘Forth an Syns’ selected for group show Tipping Point at Studio KIND, Braunton
Jan 22 Selected to participate in Exchange 2 - a networking project bringing together artists from across the UK
Sep 21 Online Artist in Residence - Terre Verte Gallery
Mar 21 Assistant to artist Huma Mulji for the South West Showcase - MIRROR Gallery, Plymouth
Sep 20 Signpost 10 New Graduate Award
Feb 20 Counsel: Take Care (screen print) given a ‘special mention’ in the Endelienta Open
Jan 19 Lines into Light (screen print) awarded ‘runner up’ in the Endelienta Open
Jun 17 Bare Bone (collagraph) selected to hang in the Debating Chamber, Plymouth Magistrates’ Court
Jan 17 Selected to represent Plymouth College of Art at Making Learning, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
OTHER
Oct 22 Conceived, produced and curated Mix Tape for Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
Jul 22 ‘Christina Kutter In Conversation with Huma Mulji’ article published by MIRROR and featured in Platform Magazine, New Delhi
Sep 21 Conceived, produced and curated CRUCiBLE for Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
Aug 20 Designer, producer and co-curator - No Show 2020 - interactive digital showcase and hard copy catalogue
Jul 19 to Mar 20 Projects and Operations Assistant (p/t)- KARST, Plymouth
May 19 Co-curator, Altered Territory - PS1 at Plymouth College of Art
Feb 19 to July 20 Arts Administration six months internship - KARST, Plymouth
Aug 18 Co-curator, On Terracotta - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Jul 18 Co-curator, A Bigger Picture: Richard Sharland solo show, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
Jun 18 Co-curator and exhibitor, TiLT - Endelienta, St Endellion
Feb 18 Plymouth College of Art - Student Conference Coordinator
MEMBERSHIPS
CAMP [member-led contemporary artist network]
Room to Manoeuvre Arts Collective
a-n Artists’ Information Company
Sapphire Blue Collective
VASW
WAN [Walking Artists Network]
Go Large Makers’ Collective (2019 to 2020)
Cornwall Artists Index [CAI]