Shirley Renwick is a multi media artist working in London.
Artwork has been shown at the Royal Academy, London, Tate Modern (Tate Exchange and Tate Late), Mernier Gallery, Guys and St Thomas’s Old Operating Theatre Museum, Royal College of Music Museum, Cook and Latham, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London.
Schooled at the Royal College of Art, UAL Chelsea School of Art, UCL The Slade School of Art, Glasgow University, Oxford University.
British coastal artist based in London, creating sensitive objects which participate with air. Investigating ecological acoustics, sub atomic science, sound, digital and art from the posthuman, nonhuman, subhuman and human position.
Using multiple media including metal, glass, clay, paper and also sound, data, sensors and air to create live nonhuman sculptural interactions and installations.
Background in the media and music industry, and performance.
Foundation, Slade, UCL, London
BA Fine Art (First), Chelsea, University of the Arts London
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
Masters Research, Royal College of Art London
Exhibitions
Earthwise, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London, 2023
Inner Workings Exhibition, Cooke and Latham Gallery, London, 2023
Locuscope, (Barbara Hepworth temporary replacement) Battersea Park, London, 2022
Vibrations, online exhibition, London, 2022
The Shape of Sound, Across RCA, 2022
Great Exhibitionists, Royal College of Music Gallery, London 2022
We Won’t Stop, Set Woolwich, London, 2022
First Impression, Safehouse 1 & 2, London, 2021
Residency and exhibition at Low Carbon Design Institute 2021
The Space Between, Live online group exhibition, London, 2021
Rethinking the Physicality of Space, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, 2021
Air + Art, A Speculative Collaboration, Kings Road exhibit, London, 2020
Airspace, Schsh Gallery, San Diego, California, USA, 2020
London Air, Banqueting Hall, London, 2020
Invitation to Air, Chelsea reception area, London, 2019
I Know What You Did, Menier Gallery, London, 2019
Arts of the Future, Tate Modern (as part of Tate Lates and Tate Exchange with Digital Maker Collective) London, 2018
Take Care: Inside Out / Outside In, Dolphin House Gallery, 2018
250th anniversary exhibition, Royal Academy , London, 2018