Patricia Townsend |
Artists C.V.
EDUCATION
Sept 2008 – June 2009: Research Development Programme (Slade School of Fine Art)
Jan 2002 – Dec 03: M.A. Photography (University of the Arts, London). Distinction.
Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Westminster Pastoral Foundation)
Honours Degree in Physics (Somerville College, Oxford)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Nov 2007- Feb 2008: The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness. The Circles they Desire.
2006: Borland Gallery, Salford. The Circles they Desire.
2001: Paolozzi Gallery, London. Heavenly Bodies.
2000: TRACE, Weymouth. Transforming Myth.
Dec. 99 - Jan. 2000: Gallery 1885. Transforming Myth.
1990: Islington Arts Factory. Inner Worlds.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008: Fold Gallery, Kirkby Stephen. The Gathering and The Spectators in In the Window.
2006: Lounge, London. Dance in Talkshow.
2005: Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness. Full Circle in North-West Open Exhibition.
2004: Hirschl Contemporary Art, London. The Spectators in The Trace Edition.
2004: raumpool e.V., Frankfurt. The Way in Elegant Underground.
2003: Lounge, London. Full Circle in Attentive.
2002: Huddersfield Art Gallery. Ecclesia Mater and Spotless in Obsessions II.
2000: Herefordshire Photography Festival - Globe Gallery, Hay-on-Wye. Ecclesia Mater in Obsessions.
2000: Beacon Gallery, Whitehaven; Dock Museum, Barrow in Furness (2001) Cumbria Contemporary Print and Photography.
1999: Standpoint Gallery. Ecclesia Mater in Obsessions.
1994 - 95: Touring exhibition. Viewfindings - Women Photographers, Landscape and Environment. Newlyn Orion Gallery; Watershed Gallery, Bristol; National Museum of Photography, Bradford; Zone Gallery, Newcastle.
SCREENINGS OF VIDEO WORKS
2006: The BBC Big Screen, Leeds Film Festival. Dance in Intermix.
2006: Lounge, London. Dance in Time Flesh and Nerve.
2006: The BBC Big Screen, Exchange Square, Manchester. Full Circle in The Bigger Picture.
2004: Leeds International Film Festival. Present Absence in Intermix 04. Toured to The Lamp, Hull.
2004: Fotofest 2004, Houston, Texas. Full Circle in Waterworks. Toured to Minna Gallery, San Francisco; The Garage, Winston-Salem; Clinton Street Theatre, Portland; 21 Grand, Oakand; Miami Beach cinematheque; Voyage at Bada Lounge, Seattle; Neuer Standort, Vienna.
PUBLICATIONS
2005: Transitional Spaces: surface, fantasy and illusion in Surface, University of Plymouth Press.
1999: Work discussed in Nexus: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Women's Photography; Volume 6 Palpable Signs by Barry Taylor, Scarlet Press.
1994: Work featured in Viewfindings - Women Photographers, Landscape and Environment, Availablelight.
AWARDS
2007: Arts Council individual artist’s award to develop Witches’ Dance and exhibition at the Dock Museum.
2006: Arts Council individual artist’s award to develop The Circles they Desire.
2002: Group granted National Lottery’s Awards for All award for Obsessions II exhibition and study day at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
1998: Group granted A4E Express award for Obsessions exhibition and study day at Standpoint Gallery.
1996: London Arts Board individual artist's award for Transforming Myth.