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WEBLINKS:
EDUCATION:
MA Fine Art, Cardiff Institute, University of Wales, Cardiff
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2024 I Dream a Palace’ (Solo) The Lightbox, Woking
2022 Creek Dreams, Seager Gallery, London
2021 My life as a bird, (solo) Darl-e-and the Bear, Oxfordshire
2021 On The Road of Sea Stars, Zuzushii Art Laboratory, Hastings,
2021 Ornithologie hosted by Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford view video
2019 ‘I wish my hair was as long as yours’, (solo) Magdalen Art Space, Oxford
2018 ‘Dancing with the corporeal’ no format Gallery, London
2017 ‘Absent Beach’ (solo) Vinyl Deptford, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Fragments of our time’, British Textile Biennial 2023, The Whitaker, Blackburn
2023 The Stuff of Life The Life of Stuff, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2023 Hoarfrost on our lips, Paradise Works, Manchester
2023 ‘Zari Sona Moti’, Darl-e and the Bear, Oxfordshire
2022 ‘Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection’ The Whitworth, Manchester
2021 Ground Work, APT Gallery, London
2021 Displace, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, curated by Uthra Rajgopal
2021 Absent Authors, APT Gallery, London
2020 Groundwork_APT Open Day, APT Gallery, London
2019 Weave It! , Stour Space, London, curated by Decorating Dissidence
2019 Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, The Lightbox, Woking
2019 by the way Lewisham Arthouse, London
2018 ‘and the value of nothing’, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2018 Object, hARTslane, London
2017 Material World, An International Perspective, SJE Arts, Oxford
2016 Psychedelic Breakfast,Vinyl Deptford, Deptford X Fringe, London
2016 ‘Looking Up’, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2016 Material World, Ancien Musee de Peinture, Grenoble
2015 Unravelling Time,The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
2014 ‘Alps and Spires’ Museum of Oxford, Oxford
2013 ‘Sanctuary’ Home, Away and Common Ground, Part 2’, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
2011 ‘Sanctuary’ Home, Away and Common Ground, Part 1,National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi
2008 Within Walls, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire (ACE funded)
2007 Umfeld<->Inwelt, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2007 ‘Stories, Memories and Concepts’ at La Tour de Crest, (ACE funded)
Online Exhibitions
Topainterstoppaintings, curated by Althuis Holland Fine Arts
Springing FORWARD curated by Gita Joshi
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 That Island Feeling,Terrace Gallery,London
2018 Objection, Angus Hughes Gallery, London
2009 Jam: Cultural Congestions in Contemporary Asian Art, artist-curator with Dr Outi Remes, South Hill Park, Bracknell (funded by ACE, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan)
PRIZES, AWARDS, OPEN SUBMISSIONS
2023 First Plinth Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2023 The Primary Residency Prize awarded following selection for New Art Exchange Open 2023
2023 New Art Exchange Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022-23 Selected for UAL Decolonising Art Institute 20/20 Program, Residency at Lightbox, Woking as part of this
2022 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter
2022 Black Swan Arts Open, Black Swan Arts, Frome
2022 This Years Model Part 3, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2022 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, Cromwell Place, London, selected by Isabel de Vasconcellos
2022 Habitat, Contemporary Six,Manchester
2021 Developing Your Creative Practice Award, Arts Council England
2021 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, selected by Sigrid Kirk
2020 RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2020 New Emergency Art Unity Award (shortlisted)
2020 Summer Exhibition Royal Society of Sculptors (selected by Nicky and Robert Wilson, founders of Jupitor Artland)
2019 Artcan Open, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018 Fe/Male, AIR Gallery, Manchester
2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (selected by Cathie Pilkington RA)
2015 ‘ This Year’s Model’, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London (selected by studio 1:1 with Marcus Cope and Robin Seir)
2012 Wells Art Contemporary,Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells, Somerset (selected by Roy Ackerman and Richard Wentworth)
2007-2008 Grants for Arts Award, Arts Council England for international
residency and exhibition
COMMISSIONS
2020 ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ participatory project commissioned by Modern Art Oxford as part of the public program for Kiki Smith exhibition, ‘I am a Wanderer’.
2017 Oxford Festival for the Arts, commissioned to create wall based work for an Indian Tent (ACE Funded)
2007 In-tent-city: Commissioned as lead artist by Fusion, Oxford (ACE Funded)
2007 ‘This is Me’ Participatory Project commissioned by Oxfordshire Museum
2007 Mentoring Commission: to work alongside ‘Making Marks’ a partnership
of Public artists for the East Oxford Health Centre sculpture commission
RESIDENCIES
2021 Willowbrook Festival, Willowbrook Farm, Oxfordshire (ACE supported)
2020 Groundwork APT, APT Gallery, London
2011 Sanctuary, Neyri, Kenya
2009 Gosford Hill School working with young people making outdoor site-specific work commissioned by Kids@rt, (Oxfordshire , Artweeks Charity)
2008 Eynsham Primary School, outdoor site specific sculpture (Kid@art)
2007 ‘Art-in-situ’ residency in Crest, The Drome, France ‘Stories, Memories, Concepts’ (ACE funded)
PRESENTATIONS
2023 Meet the Artist, in conversation with Sarah Brown, director of The Lightbox, Woking,
2020 Visiting lecturer at Chichester University
2018 Walking through the forest, Searching for the sea, Finding, Collecting and Making as part of the symposium Modernism: Making, Place and Protest organised by Decorating Dissidence at Queen Mary College, London. View abstracts.
2018 Artist Talk for Warehouse Art School, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
2017 Syllabus 3 presentation to interview panel, Spike Island, Bristol
2008 ARC Seminar ‘International Residencies’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Making Waves interview by Ox in A Box
Interview with Asian Curator:http://asiancurator.com/madi-acharya-baskerville/ , 2020
I wish my hair was as long as yours, catalogue with essay by Stephanie Straine, Curator of Projects and Exhibitions, Modern Art Oxford
Artist of the month feature in Axisweb, 2018 https://www.axisweb.org/artist-of-the-month/2018/madi-acharya-baskerville/
Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2016, Exhibition Catalogue
Alps and Spires, Museum of Oxford, Exhibition Catalogue, 2014
‘Sanctuary Part 2’:Home, Away, Common Ground, Exhibition Catalogue , forward by John Hollingworth MBE, Director of Brunei Gallery, SOAS, 2013
‘Sanctuary Part 1’:Home, Away, Common Ground’, Exhibition Catalogue, 2011,
Immediate Territory,Exhibition Catalogue, Forward by Katalin Hausel, 2011l
Within Walls: Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
Umfeld<->Inwelt, Exhibition Catalogue, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Forward by Marianne Pitzen, director Frauen Museum, Bonn, 2008
COLLECTIONS
The sculpture ‘Here to stay’ has been acquired as part of the Art Fund New Collecting Award, as part of the permanent collection at the Whitworth, the University of Manchester, 2021
Work in private collections in London, Oxford and France