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- Qualifications:FHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Department:College of Arts, Technology and Environment
- Telephone:+441173281750
- Email:John3.Lawrence@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am an artist and sometime producer/curator. Taking a fluid approach to practice I work in an interdisciplinary way, often instigating collaborative projects in order to find new ways of working with others.
Area of expertise
I am interested in how sound, music, image and site-specific and site-responsive writing can activate live space, as well as how expanded forms of publishing can help such outcomes meet audiences in new ways.
Selected solo projects
O Complex Mass - with compser Stephen Crowe and experimental choir Musarc, Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park, London
The Solar Pessimist - Large scale light and sound installation for Spit & Sawdust, Cardiff, produced as a result of winning the Kim Fielding Award
Sickly Revelations* - Touring solo show with parallel publication Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Sunderland), Oriel Davies Gallery (Newtown, Wales), Project Number (London). Supported by Arts Council England
Dry Riser - One Thorseby Street, Nottingham
Original Carbon Copies - Fold Gallery, London. Reviewed by Morgan Quaintance in Frieze magazine issue 150
Awards / Residencies
Find Your World In Ours commissioned by Mark Titchner for Ikon Gallery and Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
Kim Fielding Award for experimental artistic practice
Open School East Associate Artist on the year-long programme, East London
Work / Leisure Residency Abingdon Studios, Blackpool
Oriel Davies Open Overall Winner Award
Residency in a Record Store Pangaea Sculpturs' Centre / Flashback Records, London
Merrell Books Prize for writing
INTERexchange Residency programme and artist exchange, Helsinki, Finland
Curatorial Projects
Oh - artist-led record label and publisher I run with fellow artist Mat Jenner
Oh: Link Zone - Live event, exhibition and double vinyl release with Benedict Drew, Paul Purgas, Jessy Jetpacks, Annabel Frearson, Kate Liston, Tom Richards, Luke McCreadie and Black Tower Projects
Omni - Album and print release by Berlin-based musician and artist Windows
Hg - Vinyl album release by Copenhagen-based artist/music collective Squares & Triangles
After/Hours/Drop/Box - collaborative touring platform at the intersection of music, video and live performance
AHDB#1 - George Barber, Michael Bell-Smith, David Blandy, Gery Georgieva, Paul B Davis, Mark Dean, Graham Dolphin, The Duvet Brothers, Guthrie Lonergan, Andrew Mania, Hannah Perry, Juha Van Ingen and Pil and Galia Kollectiv. Andor Gallery, London
AHDB#2 - Exhibition and parallel series of screenings, talks and live performance events. Modern Art Oxford and Spike Island, Bristol.
AHDB#3 - Oliver Sutherland / HENGE - Live collaboration Hackney Picturehouse Cinema with Artprojx
AHDB#4 - Steffen Levring / IYDES - Live collaboration The Advisory, London
AHDB#5 - Charismatic Megafauna - with Holly Pester and Emma Bennet Open School East, London
...OR MAYBE IT'S THE SAME FOR EVERYONE Print publication for Artists’ short fiction and experimental writing which changes its form with each issue
Issue I - Featuring Roy Voss, Nick Hunt, Adam Blakey
Issue II - Featuring Martin Westwood, Annabel Frearson, Patrick Coyle and Lizzy Kane. Designed by Pavilionary Press, printed by Hato Press and Launched at Café Oto, London
Issue III - Featuring Candice Jacobs, Ole Hagen and Toby Christian. Photography by Lucy Maria. Collaboration with Art Licks Magazine
ART (AFTER) - An innovative, peripatetic educational format encouraging conversation and the cross-polination of ideas
Art (After) the Internet - Devised series of discussion groups for the Royal Academy Schools teaching programme. With invited guest speakers Tom Trevatt, Matt Drage and Christopher Kulendran Thomas.
Art (After) Symposia - Curated exhibition and symposium featuring 12 students and artists including talks, presentations, screenings and performances as part of Art Licks Weekend
Art (After) Death - Devised and organised one-day symposium across Highgate Cemetery and Lauderdale House, London, featuring screenings, performances, talks and presentations amongst specific gravesites. One of three annual David Lean Foundation events for the Royal Academy Schools
Stopped Clocks in Places of Busyness - group show feat. Kate Owens, Tom Woolner, Sarah Poots, Patrick Coyle, Caline Aoun, Joey Bryniarska and Maija Luutanon at Fold Gallery, London
BETWEEN THE ACTS - Curated Central St Martins MA Fine Art And MA Photography symposium at Swedenborg Hall featuring talks, performances and presentations
THE NEO-CONCEPTUALISTS VIDEO NIGHT IN - Curated evening of video work inc. Christian Marclay, Candice Breitz and Pierre Bismuth, Spike Island, Bristol
Published writing
BLEET! - special issue 2025
TIME TO WAKE UP YET - Art writing journal
CULTURE COLONY QUARTERLY - Issue 12
SICKLY REVELATIONS* - parallel exhibition publication
HAPPY HYPOCRITE - #ACCUMULATOR_PLUS - Book Works
ART LICKS: ISSUE 7 - Contributed text to art journal
RATTLE JOURNAL: ISSUE 2 - Contributed text and image work to art and writing journal
Selected Group Projects
Viddy Horrorshow/Daytime Viewing (VHS/DTV) - TACO! London
We Are Publication - Pratt Institute, New York
Oh: Link Zone - with Benedict Drew, Paul Purgas, Annabel Frearson, Kate Liston, Tom
Richards, Luke McCreadie at Black Tower Projects, London
Hmn 13 - Curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak and Anne Tallentire
Video Days - Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
Radio Space - Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway
Work Work - Tintype Gallery, London
Radiophrenia - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Happy Hypocrite_#ACCUMULATOR_PLUS - Book Works / NTS Radio
Work / Leisure - Residency programme in association with Grundy Art Gallery
X 308: Space, Site and the Screen - Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery
Spectrum: Survey of Artist’s Moving Image - Breese Little, London
Super Woofer - Matt’s Gallery, London
Atomic Pictures #2 - Jeune Création, Paris
Pre Owned: Looks Good Man - Cell Project Space. Curated by Morgan Quaintance
Nothing Compares 2 U - SIC, Helsinki, with Hannah Perry, Jaakko Pallasvuo
For What it Is - Two person show with Roy Voss, Andor Gallery, London 2012
SCREENING - With Joe Watling and Matilda Strang, Standpoint Gallery, London
Grants / Funding
DYCP Award - Arts Council England
Artists’ International Development Fund - British Council / Arts Council England
Grants for the Arts Awards Arts Council England for After/Hours/Drop/Box (repeat), Sickly Revelations* (solo touring), Oh: Link Zone
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