Miranda Whall

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Solo exhibition, Carlow Art Collection, County Carlow College, Ireland

2022
‘Crossed Paths – Olive Tree 2’, performance, COP27, Sharm El – Sheikh, Egypt
‘Crossed Paths – Rudolph’, performance, ArtBomb Festival, Doncaster

2021
‘Crossed Paths – Scots Pine’, performance, COP26, Glasgow

2018
‘Crossed Paths – Wales’, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown

2015
‘Passage’, Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art, Bath

2014
Solo exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art, Bath

2013
‘Lost Kingdom of Lanna’, Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Monfai Cultural Centre, Chaing Mai, Thailand

2012
‘Continuous...’, Maumau Artists Residency Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
Artists in Residence Open Studio exhibition, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2010
‘Is it ok if?’, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

2009
‘Marine Dialogues’, The West Wales School of the Arts Gallery, Camarthenshire College, Camarthen

2006
‘Tirly-Whirly’, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow

2005
‘Where the monkey sleeps’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

1999
‘Here’, University of Central England, Birmingham

1998
‘Cut’, Central Point Gallery, London

1997
‘Orange’, (Nadimi/Whall), Skol Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
‘Appetite’, The Royal Society of British Sculptors, London

1996
‘After taste’, (Nadimi/Whall), De Fabreik, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
‘Be- Coming Tree’, 3rd Global Live Art Event, Aberystwyth

2019
‘Sheep/Defaid’, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
‘Under British Skies’. Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
‘Inter- Section’, Market Gallery, Huddersfield
Film screening, International Women’s Day, Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard

2017
‘Vicennial’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Deixis (Part 1)’, Mizoomi Gallery, London
‘ECOS #11’, film screening, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain

2016
‘Deixis (Part 1)’, Mizoomi Gallery, London
‘Passage’, film screening, Teatro San Domenico, Crema, Italy

2015
‘Artists without Borders’, Schloss Wolersdorf, Vienna, Austria, Gallery Karşı Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey Austrian Cultural Forum, Ankara, Turkey
Shifting Subjects: Contemporary Women Telling the Self through the Visual Arts’ Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
‘Ten’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2013
‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA

2012
‘All Your Women Things’, Paper gallery, Manchester
‘Warning! This is Contemporary Art’, Warning Art Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
‘The man don't give a fuck’, Motorcade Flash Parade, Bristol
‘DrawingMMX2/Surface Language’, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff University, Cardiff
‘Warning! This is Contemporary Art’, Warning Art Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
‘The man don’t give a fuck’, Motorcade Flash Parade, Bristol

2011
‘THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small’, CHARLIE SMITH london, London
‘3 Worlds in 1: London International’, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
‘THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small’, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA
‘The Animal Gaze’, Sheffield Institute of the Arts Gallery, Sheffield
‘Artemisia: Contemporary Women artists in Wales’, St David’s Hall, Cardiff
‘Ffilm 2’, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

2010
‘The Last Days of The Empire’, g39, Cardiff
‘400 Women’, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
‘Divine Passage’, White Night (film screening), Lighthouse, Brighton
‘Filmmarmalade presents Lil Joe’s, 9/11, Porn, Yanks and Murder…’ (film event), IMT Gallery, London
‘PAPYROPHILIA’, CHARLIE SMITH london, London
‘We Have the Mirrors, We have the Plans’, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (catalogue)

2009
‘The Future Can Wait’, Old Truman Brewery, London
‘Kunskog’, Five Hundred Dollars, London
‘Filmmarmalade’, new artists’ film and video, BFI Southbank, London
‘helicopter’, St Ann’s Quay, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Miranda Whall and Flora Whiteley: New Work’, Gimpel Fils, London
‘My Place’, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Camarthen
‘New London School’, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany

2008
‘Future50’, PSL (Project Space Leeds), Leeds
‘The Animal Gaze’ (symposium and exhibition), Unit 2 Gallery, Unit 6 (Central House, Whitechapel High Street) and Metropolitan Works, London, touring to the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World at Exeter, Plymouth
City Museum & Gallery, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth College of Art & Design and the Roland Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, 2009
‘Rotate’ (Mermaid and Monster), Contemporary Art Society, London
‘The Future Can Wait’, The Old Truman Brewery, London
‘The Golden Record – Sounds of Earth’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, touring to Lincoln Museum, Lincoln and g39, Cardiff (2009)
‘East Wing VIII: On Time’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

2007
‘Vane Shorts 1’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Unpicked and Dismantled’, National Museum of M K Ciurlionis, Kaunas, Lithuania
‘Loners’ Island’, g39, Cardiff
‘Salon 2007: New British painting and works on paper’, Art Work Productions, London
‘If I Open My Eyes I Might See Teeth’, Washington Garcia, Glasgow

2006
‘Too Much Freedom?’, Freewaves’ Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
‘The Square Root of Drawing’, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland VideoClub Screening, Brighton Fringe Basement, Brighton
‘Week 4’, Moot, Nottingham
‘RIGHT-ON WRITE-OFF’, The Great Unsigned/Chapman Fine ARTS, London
‘His life is full of miracles...’, Site Gallery, Sheffield
‘Settling in’, 338 Great Western Street, Manchester
‘You shall know our velocity’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

2005
‘Adam and Eve it’, London Printworks Trust (catalogue)
‘Cultural Landscapes’, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Weekending 11’, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia

2004
‘Weekending’, Globe Hub, North Shields & Globe City, Newcastle upon Tyne (co-curator & exhibiting artist)
‘Hulagirl’, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (catalogue)
‘Inside out’, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue)
‘Pizza Express Prospects Drawing Prize 2004’, Tea Building, London
Film screenings, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Film screenings, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Tiergarten’, 2060 Vision Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003’, Jerwood Space, London and tour

2003
‘Peterborough Digital Arts Prize’, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough
‘Fabric’, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

2002
‘Videoteque 11’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
‘Videoteque’, Ten Gallery, St Ives
‘Loop’, Bankfield Museum Gallery, Halifax
‘Showhouse’, PM Gallery, London

2000
‘Agglutinates of Pleasure’, 291 Gallery, London
‘Fact & Fiction’, VTO Gallery, London

Awards and Residencies

2023-24
Commissioned Artist for The Living Archives, The Anatomy of Looking Back, Convitto Palmieri, Lecce, Italy

2023
NERC funded project When Earth Speaks for a NERC X Disciplinary Hopping Research Project: Planetary Multispecies Politics in Action, Aberystwyth

2022
NERC funded project Soil Voices for Making the invisible visible: Instrumenting and interpreting an upland landscape for climate change resilience, Aberystwyth
Presentation, Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human, symposium and performances, Dartington Hall, Bath

2021
‘Super Short’ winner of the Adventure Uncovered Film Festival for Woolly Maggot by Fforest Films
Presentation, Visualising Landscape Futures: Art-Science Collaborations in an Era of Change, Climate Change Festival of Research Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth
Presentation, Elemental, environmental festival, Climate Action Berwick and Borders, Berwick
Presentation, ‘Tree Talk: Artists Speak For Trees’, Ecoart, online

2013
Artist in Residence, Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Monfai Cultural Centre, Chaing Mai, Thailand

2011
Joya: arte + ecología, residency, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Andalusía, Spain

2009
Research and Development Grant, Arts Council of Wales

2008
Research Grant, University of Aberystwyth

2006
SoundArt Lab residency, ISIS, Newcastle upon Tyne

2005
Berlin Residency, Arts Council England, North East

2004
Artists Exhibiting Abroad, (‘Tiergarten’) The British Council
Independent Research Grant, Arts Council England, North East
Independent Research Grant, Arts Council England, North East

2003-4
Artist in Residence, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

2003
London Arts Board Development Fund (Visual Arts)
LabCulture, PVA Media Lab, ISIS Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne
Commissioned project Grizedale Arts, Grizedale

1998-9
Artist in Residence, Weathley Bequest Fellow, University of Central England, Birmingham

1997-8
First Base Awards, ACAVA
Fellowship, Royal Society of British Sculptors

1997
Artists Exhibiting Abroad (‘Orange’), The British Council

1992
Artist in Residence, Margam Sculpture Park, Port Talbot

Bibliography

2023
’Artist Story: Miranda Whall’, interview, Vane

2020
‘What is Adventure?’, interview with editor Sam Firman and Miranda Whall, Adventure Uncovered, Edition 3, online, August

2010
‘Miranda Whall: Is it ok if?’, catalogue, essay Paul Becker, forward Eve Ropek, pub. Aberystwyth School of Art Press and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
‘One in the Other’, publication, G39, Cardiff
‘We Have the Mirrors, We have the Plans’, catalogue, pub. Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno

2009
‘helicopter’, review, The Northern Echo (Newcastle upon Tyne), 12 May
‘helicopter’, review, Tamsin Lewis, The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne), 11 May
‘Rethinking the Animal’, review of ‘The Animal Gaze’, Fiona Woods, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet (Dublin), March-April

2008
‘Unpicked and Dismantled’, catalogue, Kaunas Art.Biennale: Textile ’07, Kaunas, Lithuania
‘East Wing Collection 8’, catalogue, pub. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

2007
‘crISIS: Commissions and residencies at ISIS’, editor Adinda V’ant Klooster, pub. ISIS Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne

2006
‘Soft bruises’, collaborative publication with Alec Finlay, pub. Platform Projects, Newcastle upon Tyne

2005
‘Where the monkey sleeps’, Mike Golding, a-n Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne), 5 December
‘The joy of lace’, Liz Hoggard, Observer Magazine (London), 2 October
‘Approaching Berlin’, Miranda Whall, a-n Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne), August

2004
‘Weekending’, Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly (London), October
‘Stills Artists in Residence 2003’, ‘Inside Out’ essay by Iliyana Nedkova, pub. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Hulagirl’, essay by Janice Cheddie, Waygood Gallery catalogue, pub. Northumbria University Fine Art Press, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘HERE&NOW2’, pub. photoNORTH, Gateshead

2003
‘The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003’, catalogue, pub. Wimbledon School of Art, University of Gloucestershire, Jerwood Foundation
‘Loop’, Justine Brooks, a-n Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne), January

2002
‘Loop 2002’ publication, essay by Janice Jeffries, pub. Loop Publishing (Nelson)