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BIO:
Artist and lecturer Harry Meadows leads Critical Zone Observatory. This research framework explores sculptural possibilities for environmental sensing practices and creates partnerships for games designers, musicians and scientists. This practice-based research imagines the relations between humans and living systems under the conditions of the climate crisis. Recent exhibitions include Art for Climate Action at Gods House Tower, Southampton (2023), Cloud Sediments at Ambika P3, London (2022), Look Up and Look Beyond at the Regent St. Cinema (2022). Climate Action & Visual Culture at University of Huddersfield (2021), Extra Sensory Weather Station at D-Unit, Bristol (2021) Climate Data Karaoke at Kiosk 7, Copenhagen (2020), and Digital Ecologies, Bath Spa University (2019).
Since receiving an AHRC award and completing an MFA at Goldsmiths College, Meadows has exhibited with institutions such as Southbank Centre, Oriel Mostyn and Aberystwyth Arts Centre as well as commissions for Hayward Touring, Supernormal Festival and The Granary, Central St. Martins. He has been artist in residence at London Metropolitan University and Brazier’s Park. Since 2014, Meadows has worked at Arts University Bournemouth as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art. He is currently a doctoral researcher with the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. Research groups include The Deep Field Project and Drawing: Transformative Matter, Material Trace.
CV: Harry meadows
Teaching
2014 to present Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Arts University Bournemouth
2012 - 2018 Visiting Lecturer on Curation, Criticism and Communication, CSM
2010 - 2011 Lecturer in Art and Design, Kingston College
Academic
2021 Doctoral Researcher at CREAM, University of Westminster.
2016 Fellow of the High Education Academy
2011 University of the Arts London - PGCert Higher Education
2008 Goldsmith’s College - University of London - MFA Art Practice
2003 Wimbledon School of Art - B.A. (Hons) Fine Art
Awards and Residencies
2022 Geoffrey Petts Memorial scholarship
2019 ‘a space’ arts Talent Development bursary
2018 The Observatory, Artist in Residence, ArtSway, Hampshire
2015 Mothership Residency, Dorset
2013 Spike Island: Studio 36 artist in residence
2011 - 12 London Metropolitan University AA2A artist in residence scheme
2010 Brazier’s International Artists Workshop
2008 Goldsmith’s College Warden’s Purchase Prize
2006 AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award
Selected Exhibitions and Publications
2024 Personal Ecologies: The Community Gardener - God’s House Tower, Southampton. Exhibition and symposium.
2024 Uncertain Objects - Cheap Street, Frome, Somerset. Curated by Susie Clark.
2023 Art for Climate Action - God’s House Tower, Southampton. Part of the community projects programme with ‘a-space’ arts.
2022 Look Up and Look Beyond - Regent Street Cinema. Curated by Dr. Julie Marsh as part of the Graduate School Festival 2022 from University of Westminster.
2022 Cloud Sediments - Ambika P3, London. Curated by Hyphen Collective as part of the launch of Edition 3 of Ecological Futurisms.
2021 Extra Sensory Weather Station - D-Unit, Bristol. (Solo exhibition)
2021 Climate Action & Visual Culture - University of Huddersfield, curated by The Climate Action and Visual Culture Team, Laura Mateescu & Tabassum Ahmed. Click here for catalogue.
2021 Fiction Machines Part III, paper presented at online event: Allegory and Agonism in Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene and Museo Aero Solar.
2020 MEADOWS, H. (2020) ‘Twisting Metal with Earth’, International Journal of Creative Media Research, Issue 5 (October 2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.202020
2020 Parasite - South Baddesley School, commissioned for Art and The Rural Imagination convened by Dr. Colin Perry
2020 Mechanical Human Matter - Arts University Bournemouth
2020 Climate Data Karaoke - Kiosk 7, Copenhagen (Solo exhibition)
2019 Digital Ecologies: Fiction Machines - Bath Spa University
2019 I am the Space that I am - British Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture
2018 I am the Space that I am - AUB Gallery, Dorset
2017 Archipiélago - ARTHOUSENTH - Mexico City
2016 Sticky Enough - Chalton Gallery (collaboration with Keef Winter) - London
2016 Structures and Organic Growth - Simmons and Simmons, Düsseldorf
2015 Art Social '15 - House of St. Barnabas - London
2015 Homerton Park Nightmare - Lodeveans Collection - London
2015 Niff Launch - Tenderbooks - London
2015 So Low - Caustic Coastal @ Rogue Projects - Manchester
2015 Totemic; Polemic. Olive - Caustic Coastal @ Rogue Projects - Manchester
2015 Studio 36 Launch - Tenderbooks - London
2015 Pre-Pop to Post Human: Collage in the Digital Age - Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool), Beverley Art Gallery (Beverley), Crescent Arts (Scarborough)
2014 Asymmetric Dance Class - Vitrine Gallery - London
2014 Supernormal Festival - Brazier's Park
2014 Pre-Pop to Post Human: Collage in the Digital Age - Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Galway International Arts Festival
2014 Whitstable Biennale - Sum Places (in collaboration with Force Majeure)
2014 Pacific State - Camberwell College of Art - London
2014 Post-Net:Bad Romance - Bearspace - London
2013 Robo con fractura - LOCAL Arte Contemporaneo – Santiago, Chile
2013 Before and After - [space] - London
2013 White Van Man - The South African Print Gallery - Woodstock, S.Africa
2013 Photo and Print Salon - Charlie Dutton Gallery - London
2013 The Pink Layer - Event at Richard Wentworth’s Black Maria – London
2012 The Ladbroke Grove Collective – Deveraux Collection –London
2012 Product Placement – Angus-Hughes Gallery – London
2012 Coracle Regatta – [space] - London
2012 Sans Frontieres – Pellafort Press - London
2012 Hoopla – Sugarhouse Studios - London
2012 Slow Bike Race - Pump House Gallery - London
2011 Coracle Regatta - The River Lea Navigation - London
2011 Visionary Trading - Guest Projects - London
2011 Mostyn Open 2011 - Oriel Mostyn Gallery - Wales
2011 Tower Hamlets Spring Open - Mile End Art Pavilion - London
2011 The Box - Aberystwyth Arts Centre - Wales
2009 Landscape Mixtape - The Royal Festival Hall – London
2009 Loudspeaker Music - Collect Gallery (Liverpool Biennial)
2008 Wallis Dies and Goes to Paradise - Paradise Row, London. Curated by Vanessa Carlos and Ross McNicol.
2008 The Jargon of Landscape - The Wallis Gallery, London. Curated by Harry Meadows.