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Ruth Calland

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Born: Scunthorpe
Lives: London

Education
1985 BA (Hons) first class in Fine Art, Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
1987 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art
2004 MSc in the Psychodynamics of Human Development, British Association of
Psychotherapists and Birkbeck College
2011- Trainee Jungian Analyst at the British Association of Psychotherapists



Solo Exhibitions
2012 Hermaphrodite Wedding, B & B Project Space, Folkestone
2011 Corrupted Vessels, The Yard, London
2006 Professor Timecreep�s Academy of Re-Wiring, performance and installation at
Vestry House Museum, London
2005 Esme, Transmuter of Dreams (performance drawings) The Foundry, London
1997 Mothers Suite, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
1996 Mothers Suite, Atlantis, London


Group Exhibitions

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2013 Roll Over Play Dead, Stour Space, Hackney Wicked, London
2013 E17 Art Trail Summer Show, Penny Fielding, London
2013 British Psychotherapy Foundation Annual Show, London
2013 Coventry University Drawing Prize
2012 English Heretic, Masonic Lodge, Bath
2012 E17 Art Trail, London (film screening)
2012 Good Times Roll, High Roller Society, London
2012 400 Women, Sugar City, Amsterdam
2012 Coventry University Drawing Prize, Lewis Gallery, Rugby School
2011 400 Women, Edingburgh Art Festival
2011 Carnival of Souls, B&B; Project Space, Folkestone
2011 Carnival of Souls, Penny Fielding Beautiful Interiors, London
2011 Republic, The Red Room, London
2011 The Moment of Privacy Has Passed, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2010 Caf� Gallery Open, Southwark Park, London
2010 Artworks Open, selected by Graham Crowley and Tim Hyman, Barbican Arts Trust, London
2010 'Press, Release' The High Roller Society, London
2010 400 Women, curated by Tamsyn Challenger, Shoreditch Town Hall (forthcoming)
2010 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2009 Idle Gossip, curated by Stephanie Moran, Flat Gallery, London
2009 WITH OR WITHOUT GOD; Ecstatic Wonderment and Physical Experience in Painting - and beyond, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop and Private Ladies and Gentlemen's Club for Art, Leisure and the Disruptive Betterment of Culture, London
2009 Artworks Open, Artworks Project Space, London
2009 Drawings With Dolphins, Crimes Town, London
2009 Hackney Wicked, Britannia Works, London
2008 The Marmite Prize for Painting, Studio 1.1, London
2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2008 Yes Yes Y�All (installation), Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
2007 The Great Exhibition Room, Arlington Gallery, London
2006 The Marmite Prize, The Residence, London
2006 Through the Looking Glass, Three Colts, London
2006 Professor Timecreep�s Academy of Re-Wiring, installation at Vestry House Museum London
2005 Flash In The Pan, House Gallery London
�Soul Mining�, with Sharon Gal & Esther Planas, Transition, London
2005 The Disturbing Eye, Trade, London
2004 We Can Work It Out, Three Colts Gallery, London
2004 Tin Angel, Coventry
2004 The Disturbing Eye, Pink Stallion Gallery, Manchester
2003 Chateau de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit, France
2003 Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2003 �Secret�, Royal College of Art, London
2003 Flowers East, London
2002 �Drawings for All�, Gainsborough�s House, Sudbury.
2001 Changing Room Gallery, London
2001 �Shifting Ground�, Spitz Gallery, London
1999 �Love, Religion, Explosives�, St. Margarets Church, Norwich
1998 �Body Politic�, Derby Museum & Art Gallery
1998 �Vital Art�, Atlantis Gallery, London
1998 Coningsby Gallery, London
1998 �Undercurrents�, Woodlands Gallery, London
1997 Guest Artist, group show, Bedford Gallery
1996 �Unquiet Voices�, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
1996 �Body Politic�, Wolverhampton Museum & Art Gallery
�1996 Taboo; Sense and Sensibility�, New End Gallery, London
1996 �Provocative Prints�, New End Gallery, London
1992 Lamont Gallery, London
1989 Paton Gallery, London
1987 Three Figurative Painters, Paton Gallery, London
1986 New Contemporaries, ICA, London & Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
�Expo �86�, National Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent



Bibliography
SELECTED MEDIA and PUBLICATIONS (recent)

'Vernacular Folk' catalogue, 2012, B & B Project Space, Folkestone
�An Experiment to Test Belief in Art�, Stephanie Moran 2009, L-13 gallery website http://www.l-13.org/acatalog/STEPHANIE_MORAN.html
Drawing With Dolphins, catalogue, Crimes Town 2009
Russell Herron�s 500 artists (2009): www.russellherron.com
The Public Catalogue Foundation, Warwickshire volume, 2008
The Marmite Prize catalogue 2008
Walthamstow Guardian, Thurs June 19 2008, �Telepathic Love: Countess plans some euphoric art�.
Arty, issue 24: �Entertainment�, June 2008, commissioned drawing, p.22
Kentish Express, Thurs Aug 30th 2007, �The Glories of the Seaside�
Yes Yes Y�all catalogue, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery 2007
Russell Herron�s blog, �Timecreep in Walthamstow�, 20th May 06
Interviewed on The Clear Spot, Radio Resonance fm, 16.5.06
Late Breakfast Show, guest and live performance, Radio Resonance fm, 1.7.05
Arty, issue 18, May 2005, Critical Friend insert, p.15, Calland, R,.�James Jessop at Rockwell�
Arty, issue 18, May 2005, Critical Friend insert, p. 12, author Billy Rocker, review of �Soul Mining�
Discover Hackney March & April 2005, �Visual Arts: Soul Mining�
Green Lanes Express 3 March 2005, p. 6 �Soul Mining�
Dazed and Confused vol 2 issue 23, March 2005, p.201,Nick Hackworth,
Previews: �Soul Mining: Ruth Calland, Sharon Gal, Esther Planas�
Arty, issue 17: �Eastend�, Nov 2004, Ruth Calland �Tree Stories�
Arty, issue 14: �Girls�, Feb 2004 p.30-31 Cathy Lomax, �Ruth Calland� (interview)
Arty, issue 14: �Girls�, Feb 2004 p.32-35 �Ruth Calland� Series of 4 commissioned
drawings


Grants/Awards
2010 Prizewinner, Southwark Cafe Gallery Open, London
2007 Henry Moore Foundation (for Yes Yes Y�All)
2007 Arts Council Grant (for Dame Batlove)
2006 Waltham Forest Arts Council Grant
1998 Art 4 All Grant
1988 GLOSCAT Staff Research Grant
1987 Boise Travelling Scholarship
1987 Reserve, Rome Scholarship
1987 Fellowship in Painting, Glos. College of Art & Technology, Cheltenham


Projects
LIVE ART

2011 Carnival of Souls, B & B Project Space, Folkestone
2011 Carnival of Souls, Penny Fielding Beautiful Interiors, London
2009 'Just A Little Dance To Help Me See Into Your Soul', L-13 Light Industrial Workshop and Private Ladies and Gentlemen's Club for Art, Leisure and the Disruptive Betterment of Culture, London
2008 Countess Euphoria�s Telepathic Dating Agency, at The E17 Arts Trail, London
2007 �The Smoking Suffragettes�, Rational Rec (with Lucy Panesar)
�Dame Batlove�s Blind Fortune Telling, with Psychic Sauce�, part of
�O Dreamland�, Greatstone, curated by the Transition Gallery
Yes Yes Y�All, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; curated by
Adelaide Bannerman
2006 �Professor Timecreep Demonstrates The Love of a Television for its
Memories�, Three Colts, London
2005 �Countess Euphoria�s Telepathic Tete-a-tetes�, Lloyds Park Theatre,
London (as part of �News From Nowhere: Visions of Utopia�)
�Hepsibah�s Spirit Parlour�, Vestry House Museum, London
�Radmilla Click, Time-Travelling Secret Agent�, The Foundry,
London
Live performance of �Radmilla Click� on Radio Resonanace fm
�Esme, Transmuter of Dreams�, The Artists Fleamarket, Temporary
Contemporary, London
�The Social Drawing Machine�, Transition, London






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