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 Abigail Reynolds lives and works in London and St Just, Cornwall
E: abigailr1 at googlemail.com

Exhibitions & Projects:

upcoming

2009      Unfold, Nettie Horn London June
              Pattern Recognition Leicester City Gallery June
           
 The Universal Now, Seventeen, London solo show, Jan - March (cat.) REVIEW

2008      In The Beginning, Plan 9, Bristol
             Jardin d’acclimation, Villa Arson, Nice (Oct - May 09)

             Embedded Gimpel Fils
             Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola
      
      ArtintheLifeWorld, Breaking Ground, Ballymun, Dublin

2007      From a Distance Wallspace New York (curated by Vincent Honore)
             The Islanders Nettie Horn London
             ShapeShift: landscape in motion Durlston castle, Dorset solo show, (cat.)
      
      NEVERODDOREVEN Serpentine Gallery
      
      Behemoth Danielle Arnaud London

2006      Day to Day Data Danielle Arnaud London (cat.)
      
      Conversing Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
      
      The Sneeze (*pub Article press)

2005      The Information London Gallery West
      
      Day to Day Data Angel Row Nottingham, Aspex Portsmouth (cat.)
      
      Offside Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin (cat.)
      
      State of Mind LSE London
             After the Fact Tullie House, Carlisle (cat.)
             (with Thomas Demand, Matt O’Dell, Emma Kay, Lucy Harrison, and Jamie Shovlin)

             The Dictionary Ranges OED Oxford, solo show,
             City Breaks Muu Helsinki and Whitechapel Project Space London,


2004       Mind The Gap La Friche de Bel Mai, Marseilles, France. (with Bernd Behr, Jessica Broas,
              Matt Franks, Clare Gasson, Alicia Paz, Mark Pearson, Gail Pickering, Lindsay Seers)
             Copy-art.net – web work at the ICA
             The Frozen Sea Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester solo show
      
      Mount Fear, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands, solo show
      
      Tempered Ground, Museum of Garden History, London
(cat.)
             The Oxford Show, Modern Art Oxford
             The British Council at the Bologna Art Fair, January
(with Paul Winstanley, Gary Stevens,
             Nils Norman, Cornford & Cross, Zineb Sedira, Ori Gersht, Nathan Coley, Carey Young)
 

2003       New Contemporaries, Manchester and London (cat.)
             Infomatic A-priori, London
             Prospects Drawing Prize Truman Space, London
             The Budget Bureau, K3, Zurich (cat.)
             Geography and the Politics of Mobility Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2002       Telling Tales Peri in Turku + MUU in Helsinki, Finland
             Fall Show Mercer Union, Toronto
             Blow up your TV York City Art Gallery
             Goldsmiths MA Show. Goldsmiths College, London (cat.)
             Drive for Show, Putt for Dough Standpoint Gallery, London
             Contemplation Room Overgaden, Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Copenhagen
             Artscatalyst research residency on the Makrolab, Scottish Highlands (cat.)
             PlaySpring Dreamoperator at Public Life, London

2001       Global Economy Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (cat.)
             Incorporate 4 Arts & Business, London
             "...and then we take berlin" City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (cat.)
             East of Eden Spacex gallery, Exeter
             In the Event of Emergency Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London

2000       Night Sites Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
             Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire (cat.)


Education:
2000-2002    Goldsmiths College, London MA Fine Art
1997-2000    Chelsea College of Art, London BA Fine Art
1990-1994    St Catherine's College, Oxford University BA Hons. English Literature

Residencies/Awards/Projects:
2008-9             Artist in Residence at UCL Museums and Collections (Sept - June)
2007             Jurassic Coast Artist/Scientist Residency, Natural History Museum + Durlston Park
2007            NEVERODDOREVEN exhibition and conference event Serpentine Gallery (March-April)
2006            Arts Council Grants for Individual Artists
2005            Research Residency, Serpentine Gallery London (Sept 2005 – April 2006)
2004            Braziers International Artists Workshop (also 2000)
2004            Arts Council Grants for Individual Artists
2003            Leverhulme Trust Residency at the Oxford English Dictionary (to April 2005)
2002            Artscatalyst research residency on the Makrolab (cat.)


Selected Publications:
(*exhibitions with catalogue publication noted above)

Reviews:
Art World                      UK/Int'l Edition - Issue 10 Apr / May 2009 New Work Extra The Universal Now
Art Review                    issue 31 April 2009 p115 Review The Universal Now
FT             May 6th Review with image Tatton Park Biennial
Eponanonymous           
December2, 2007 Review From a Distance http://nicholasknight.net/wordpress/
Time Out London            April 5-12 2006 p38 Review Day to Day Data
Contemporary             issue 66 Sept 2004 p62 Review Tempered Ground
Modern Painters
            Winter 2003 p.120-121 Review New Contemporaries
Metro
            September 27, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
The Times
            July 24, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
The Guardian
            Wednesday July 9, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
South London Press
            May 9 2003 News: Life Imitates Art
Mix magazine
            Vol 27 n.o.3 Winter 2001: Review "...and then we take berlin"

Talks/Articles/Publications:
‘Remagining a Room’ - event at 48 Gordon Square June 5th 2009
TIME – event at Flat Time House, former residence of John Latham, London 13th February 2009
Leonardo Volume 41, Issue 5 (October 2008) ‘Landscapes of Feeling, Arenas of Action: Information Visualisation as Art Practice’. inc. cover image
LWPF Building Cultures seminar Women, Public Art and City 20th February 2008
Front Row Radio 4 Thursday 30th March  2007 7.15pm discussion of Neveroddoreven

Curator of Permission to Fail – a series of events funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation hosted by The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University 2005-7
Sculpture Tutor BBC2 Celebrity Art School 12th – 23rd September 2005
Art Monthly, 291 Nov 05, p14 'On Being Naive'
Mapping The Mind; A New Phrenology, lecture with neuroscientist Chris Frith at LSE
ICA Copy-art.net panel discussion Sept 29th 2004
Art Review panel discussion July 2nd 2004
The English Garden Radio 4 programme 3 Friday 18th June 2004 11am
Landscapes of the imagination Art Review June 2004 issue LIV Leslie Forbes pp67-8;
           feature on Tempered Ground
includes Mounument to Darwin’s Garden image
Representation Royal Academy forum; with Zaha Hadid and Sir Roger Penrose March 2004
Warf, VAP 15, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie 2002
You're such a lovely audience article in the Artists Newsletter, September 2001
Serious Play article in the Artists Newsletter, November 2000