About

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.

Portrait of the artist in air, 2018. Shirley Renwick. Digital image with processing code. Still from 0.23min video and simulation.

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

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