Madi Acharya-Baskerville
WEBSITE: www.magdalenroadstudios.com
TRAINING: 1996-1999, MA Fine Art, Cardiff Institute, University of Wales, Cardiff
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Small Obsessions, St Clements, Oxford
2009 Jam: Cultural Congestions in Contemporary Asian Art, co-curator and exhibiting artist in this show, South Hill Park, Bracknell (funded by Arts Council England, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan)
2009 Magdalen Road Studios Open, Oxford
2008 'Memories from Home' at Citygate, St Clements, Oxford (sponsored by Carter Jonas and Rectory Homes)
2008 Within Walls, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, work exploring the Medieval Prison Tower of Crest (funded by Arts Council England)
2008 BID- a group show and Art Auction at Ovada Gallery, Oxford
2008 Oxford Open- a group show at Modern Art Oxford
2007 The Banner Piece, an installation at East Oxford Health Centre, developed as part of a Public Art mentoring commission (funded by Arts Council England)
2007 Umfeld<->Inwelt, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2007 ‘Stories, Memories and Concepts’ at La Tour de Crest, France following residency (funded by Arts Council England)
2007 In-tent-city , ‘Refuge Tent’ at Cowely Road Carnival, later at South Park,Oxford (funded by Arts Council England)
2007 ‘This is Me’ Installation at Oxfordshire Museum and also part of ‘Faces’, touring museum exhibition
2007 Oxford Artweeks, Group Show at Magdalen Road Studios
2007 Port Meadow Exhibition, The Town Hall, Oxford
2006 Magdalen Road Studios Open
2006 ‘The Button Map’, St Philip and St James school, Oxford, exhibited as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks and as part of the school’s permanent collection
2006 Creating Routes at Campsfield, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire- work of participants from workshops at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, Oxford (funded by Arts Council England)
2006 ‘Waiting Rooms Exhibition’ A Creating Routes project in collaboration with Oxfordshire Arts and Health Network and Artists in Exile, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, then touring to other Oxfordshire venues (funded by Arts Council England)
2006 ‘Re-worked’, Washington Gallery, Cardiff, group show of work made out of re-cycled materials
2006 ‘Quest: The Artist as Pilgrim’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, Group show exploring notions of journey, ritual and gesture associated with contemporary pilgrimage
(funded by Arts Council England)
2006 ‘Flight’, Stroud House Gallery, group show exploring aspects of flight
2005 ‘The Hero’, Installation, found wood, The Workshop, open studio as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks
2004 ‘The Hero’, Installation with found boat and sound Oxford Water Festival, Ifley Lock, Oxford
2004 ‘Lend me a hand’, Installation, permanent collection St Philips and St James School, Oxford
2003 ‘All our cultures’, Installation- ‘The Alphabet Curtain’ Group Show celebrating cultural diversity Oriel Myrdinn Gallery, Carmarthen, South West Wales. This work was also featured in the Welsh TV program,‘Y Sioe Gelf’
2001 Tibet Exhibition 2001,Group Exhibition, Basement Gallery, Nottingham
2000- 2001 Millennium Book Project Touring Exhibition around England
1999 ‘A Lost Culture’, Paintings and Installation M.A. Show, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
1997 Group Exhibition, Paintings and Installation, University of Wales Institute, Howard Gardens, Cardiff
1996 Group Exhibition, paintings and collages Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1995 ‘Rock Faces’, Solo Exhibition Lauderdale House Gallery, London
COMPETITIONS
Re-worked, Washington Gallery, Cardiff, January 2006
Short-listed for BT New Contemporaries 99, ‘The Shrine’, Paintings on chards of found wood, installation
‘Painting is Not Dead 11’, The Studio Gallery, London, June 1998
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2007-2008 Grants for Arts Award, (Arts Council England) for international residency and exhibition
2007 In-tent-city: Commissioned as lead artist by Fusion (Oxford’s community arts agency) to work with culturally diverse groups in Oxford to create installations involving a tent
2007 ‘This is Me’ Commissioned by Oxfordshire Museum to engage the public in a participatory arts project exploring issues around Identity. Contributions formed part of an installation and was shown at the museum in June 2007
2007 ‘The Treasure Tree’ Textile panel commissioned by charity Reading Quest, created from a participatory project looking at reading as refuge/ treasure
2007 Mentoring Commission: to work alongside ‘Making Marks’ a partnership of Public artists for the East Oxford Health Centre sculpture commission
RESIDENCIES
2009 Residency at Gosford Hill School working with young people aged 11-16 making outdoor site-specific work
2008 Residency at Eynsham Primary School commissioned by Kids@rt, (Oxfordshire Artweeks Educational Charity) working with children aged 4-11 making outdoor sculptures in a woodland using natural and found materials
2007 ‘Art-in-situ’ residency in Crest, The Drome, France, working in the medieval tower exploring the theme ‘Stories, Memories, Concepts’ (Funded by Arts Council England)
2007 Fusion, East Oxford's Community Arts Agency for 'In-tent-city'
2005 St Philip and James primary school, working with children aged 4-11 to make a wall piece – mosaic using found and collected buttons entitled ‘The Button Map’.
2004 St Philip and James primary school, Printing on found wood with children from an Early Years Unit, culminating in an installation
PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS
2008 'Stories and Memories' create your own graffiti, childrens workshop at Oxfordshire Museum
2007 ‘You are what you keep’ workshops at Oxfordshire Musuem GCSE students exploring how collecting relates to one’s identity
2007 People, Who are we? Participatory project exploring identity through different generations
2007 Workshops for In-tent-city in schools, womens’ groups and open groups in East Oxford
2006 Workshop for adults with mental health problems, painting and collage on reclaimed wood, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
2006 Workshop with adults with physical disabilities at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, NHS trust, Oxford
2005 Workshop with adult Asylum seekers at a detention centre exploring issues around migration and coast-lines using paint on found driftwood
2000-2003 Director for Artscare ( a voluntary organisation based in South West Wales which provides quality arts opportunities for disadvantaged people). I was specifically involved in setting up residencies for visual artists in Child and Adolescent Mental Health clinics in this region.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
As part of my career development I was awarded a mentoring commission through Impact Art, a consultancy for Art in the Public Realm. I worked with a partnership of artists who were commissioned by Oxford Infracare Lift to design 2 sculptures for a newly built East Oxford Health Centre. I was involved in consulting and engaging with the local community through workshops. I developed a proposal for an installation to create a link between the community workshops and the more permanent artwork. The Banner Piece was completed and installed in November 2007 to mark the official opening of East Oxford Health Centre.
PRESENTATIONS
2008 ARC Seminar 'International Residencies', Ovada Gallery, Oxford
2008 'Within Walls' seminar on International Residencies, Oxfordshire Museum
2007 ‘You are what you keep’, Artist Talk at Oxfordshire Museum
2007 Artist talk at Magdalen Road Studios
2006 'Pathway to recovery’- presentation to interview panel at
Milton Keynes General hospital, following short-listing for public art commission
2002 ‘Tracing the International’ a seminar at the Arts of Cross-culture workshop, British Psychological Society, London
PUBLICATIONS
Within Walls: Three Oxford Artists Explore the Medieval Prison Tower of Crest, Catalogue for exhibition
Umfeld<->Inwelt, Catalogue for exhibition at Frauenmuseum, Bonn,
Artists at Work, feature article by Karen David, Elan, Spring 2007
Expressive and Creative Arts for Trauma Survivors, Edited by Lois Carey,
-A book review
Mental Health Practice, December 2006, V10 No 4
Arts in Health; 'Evaluation within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services’, (research article)
Mental Health Practice, November 2006
‘Quest: Artist as Pilgrim’, March 2006
review of the work of artist, Solveigh Goett at Ovada gallery, Oxford
‘The Art Activity Manual’ by Marylyn Cropley- A book review
Mental Health Practice, June 2005, vol 8 no 9
‘Tracing the International’, Issue, Internationalism and Arts of Cross-Culture
The Cutting Edge, vol 4, 2002
‘What can the Art of Anorexics tell us about their Internal World?’
European Eating Disorders Review, Dec 1995
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