Exhibitions and other stunts
Born 1984, London 2018 – 2019 RHS PLANTS AND PROPAGATION THEORY II, Capel Manor 2012 – 2014 MA CURATION AND ARTS EDUCATION, Zurich Hochschule der Kuenste, Zurich 2005 – 2008 BA FINE ART PAINTING, University of Brighton
LATEST FLORAL COMMISSIONS upcoming
February 2020: Shortlisted for “Floral Art” Category at Chelsea Flower Show with new sustainable flowers company Metafleur. February 2020: Natural History themed evening featuring six hanging hoops of airplants and British foliage, accompanied by approx 250 re-cyclable concrete ring based supports decked in micro-plants and succulents at BBC Showcase, M&S Arena, Liverpool. September 2019: “Avant Gardeners Collective” Creation of floral accessories including adhering grass to dancers for Livia Rita, performance / conceptual artist at Brunel Museum. June 2019: “World Oceans Day” creation of a foraged maritime installation using offcuts from the Royal Parks at the National Maritime Museum. 8th June 2020: World Oceans Day: Antarctica, Engine room of the World online video exploring chi kung and flower arranging and systems of balance between hot and cold circumpolar currents. Designed to suggest how our own realigning can hopefully be reflected in larger systems throughout the world which we must respond to collectively in order to re-address the harmony. February 2019: “One Planet: Seven Worlds” Launch for BBC Showcase, featuring seven continent themed hanging installations and matching table-centrepieces at M&S Arena, Liverpool. December 2018: “Zinc Violet” Performance for Sarah Boulton’s exhibition at Mason’s Yard, London. September 2018: Reed installation for Haseeb Ahmed’s exhibition Wind Egg at MHKA, Antwerp. October 2018: Queer Fashion Week realization of floral accessories for Livia Rita’s collection at Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green. Spring 2018: Runner – Up with Moon Viewing Platform design forPatmore Estate, as part of Chelsea Fringe. Spring 2018: Magasine HVTN V.4.1, edited by Iris Colomb and Andrew Wells, teaming artists and poets who respond to each other works; I was paired with Camilla Nelson. February and June 2017: ‘Blue Planet II’ made themed floral centerpieces for preview and underwater floral display for launch, NEC Liverpool and Imax. November 2016: ‘Fair Coniston’ floral workshop with local community,Grizedale Arts, Lake District.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / ARTS EDUCATION & PERFORMANCE November 2020 – January 2021: “Flipside Gardens” – JGM Gallery as part of Merry – Go – Round Group Winter Exhibition. Exhibited small floral tapestries designed to draw our attention to changing of seasons in works that can be exhibited any way up and together comprise the gardening year. October 2020: ‘The Cars that Ate Paris’ Collective Memory Collective – A group of collaborators coming together to remember and re-enact cult classic movies. For online “Personal Space” program at Surface Gallery, Nottingham. September 2020: “Fieldworks” – Glasscloud Gallery joint exhibition with Hannah Luxton in the windows of Camden Peoples’ Theatre. Displayed floral tapestries relate to permaculture Farmer Masanobu Fukuoka’s relationship to nature. May 2020 onwards – Started Permaculture Bookclub with Amy McDonnell (Tate Communities curator) inviting artists and friends to learn more about Permaculture with us. Meeting every six weeks to discuss a permaculture book and build our own seasonally organized booklist. May 2020: “Gatherers” a digital and physical Exhibition at OmVed Gardens in collaboration with Thrown Ceramics Gallery, looking at sustainable use of materials working creating foraged arrangements within the exhibition. (www.gatherers.co) Online workshops include:
March 2020: ‘Dada Dortmund’ Dortmund Künsthaus – Performance related to Berlin Dada Messe in 1920 and early organic farming soil scientist Raoul Heinrich France. August 2019: ‘The Embodiment Cloakroom’ as part of Bylines Festival, combining arts and osteopathy for embodied light hearted relief. Summer 2017: ‘Floral Heraldry’ an exhibition in a cabinet and series of floral / heraldic costume making workshops relating to the changing seasons PEER GALLERY, London. September 2017: ‘Real Hollow Way’an alternative graduation ceremony organized by creative writing graduate Mischa Foster Poole, performing alongside Dr. James Lattin and The Museum of Imaginative Knowledge atJohn the Unicorn, Peckham. May 2017: ‘Jamie Brannan Archive’ an exhibition along with Christian Cordless and Pruya Sundram restaging collection of female entrepreneur Jamie Brannan. Tannery Arts Project Space, London curated byTheresa Kneppers. April 2016: ‘It’s ART BABY – Sitcom work in progress’ an exhibition with Arzu Saglam of props and screening of the pilot we created during our six week residency in Helsinki. Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki. 9thMay 2016: Dada Dead Panel UK-Z There-There School of English dada with Jackie Haynes and James Mansfield centenary celebrations at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich. 22ndNovember 2015: “Arts Education post New-Labour a NEW FORM OF BRITISH DADA?exploring anti-art parallels between arts education & dada as part of anti-university now weekender (www.antiuniversity.org) August 2014: ‘Go Figure’ Group show of new figurative works curated by Roxie Warder at Cob Gallery, Camden London. 2013 and 2014: Tours of Alex Katz and Auguste Herbin using visual aids rather than speech at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. 11thNovember 2012: “Official Handover Ceremony” Post Olympics donation of childhood toothbrush collection (all used) to Arts Collective U5 at Chaos Stage, Loch Squat. 6thMay 2012: “Mohrenkopf/Lessinkopf” Free-range GAMESHOW, Perla Mode (as part of Fool for April) A critique of value within the art world with artists, curators and the ‘common arty’ as panelists. 11thNovember 2011: Wedding “La Fontaine” at the Cabaret Voltaire Wedding of Dionysus and Apollo, a girl who is straight and a man who is gay: a ceremony of true love and celibacy. 29th April (ROYAL WEDDING DATE) 2011: “The ROYAL ACT” at The Cabaret Voltaire It is the Friday night (new bank holiday in U.K,) the unemployed stop working, Prince William marries a commoner, the Queen is “delighted,” the bride wears the ring of the Prince’s dead mother. DADA Siegt! Conception of The “THERE-THERE School of English DADA.” June 2010 – present: ‘Birdom’ Series of pipe-cleaner birds, temporary collection of the RSPB, displayed in the Yan, Grizedale Sculpture Park.
COMPETITIONS, AWARDS and RESIDENCIES July 2019: Two week residency with Amy Ash at Museum of Flat Earth, exploring botanical and cultural hybridization to connect political displacement communities and natureFogo Island, new Foundland. May 2019: Two week residency at Blauwhaus, organized by Wim Wauman inWaasmunster, Belgium. August 2018: Two week residency at Dada Paradiso, organized by St.Pauli inAmeno, Italy. March 2016: Six Week Residency with Arzu Saglam working at Kallio Kunsthalle staying at Elaintarhan Huvila, Helsinki. January 2015: Three Week Residency at Mildura Art Vault, Mildura, Australia June 2014: Nominated for theZF Kunststiftung 2015, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany August 2011: Residency at Buitenwerkplaats, outskirts of Amsterdam March and April 2011: Wort und Wirkung Stipendium, Zürich September 2010: Saatchi Gallery SHOWDOWN Round Winner and Runner- Up Finalist, Painting “Were I to Ice Skate” displayed on the “Showdown Wall.” June 2009: Creekside Open Competition, APT Gallery, Deptford. Painting “Boy who cried wolf in Australia” selected by Mark Wallinger 21st June 2009: Shortness At the Tate Modern Stop Animation ‘Table Dance’ was screened |
ALICE McCABE