NATASHA MACVOY
(b. London 1977)
Lives in Dursley, Gloucestershire with a studio at Spike Island, Bristol
Exhibitions
Eye Witness, Solo presentation, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, 2024
U & I, Solo presentation, EOP Members Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2023
Mum! Mum! Artist Moving Image Commission for Exeter Phoenix, Two Short Nights, Exeter, Feb 2023
H Eye Jay K, Publication of artist’s text, designed and made by the artist with support from Conway & Young, first edition, 2022
OUTPOST Members’ Show selected by Amartey Golding, OUTPOST, Norwich, 2022
Blush, Group show with Johanna Bolton, Sandra Lane Gloria Sulli, Giota Papakyriakou, ASC Gallery, London, 2022
tibrO yalP, Group show curated by Anthony Shapland, g39, Cardiff, 2022
My Kid Could’ve Done That, Group show curated by Will Cooper, The Andrew Brownswood Gallery, Bath, 2021
OUTPOST Members Show selected by Catalyst Arts, OUTPOST, Norwich, 2021
Alternative Publications, Ceramic sculptures sent in the post, each with a text intended as associated memory, 2021
OUTPOST Members Publication selected by Rasha Kahil, autumn 2021
Dance Outside Dance, Podcast interview with Alice Gale-Feeny discussing performance, making, relational practice and neuroscience, 2021
Your phone is my gallery, Live readings by the artist over the phone, 2020-21 (calls to UK, Iceland & Germany)
Time fills space, Audio broadcast, The Monkey Sparrow community radio, Winnipeg, Canada, 2020
Forced Collaboration, Online exhibtion with Libby Heaney and Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou, 2020
UNITe 2019, UNITe residency exhibition, g39, Cardiff, 2019
Groping In The Dark, Solo presentation, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, 2019
One place and someplace else, Gallery 333, Exeter Pheonix, Exeter, 2019
Reading (silently) in Public, Performance, Spike Island’s PRODUCTIONPRODUCTIONPRODUCTION, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, 2018
The audience seeped in, Collaboration with writer Chinonyerem Odimba, The Studio, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2017
[The] Strange Case, Two person exhibition with Chloe Brooks inspired by Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Ickburgh Studio, London, 2017
Alternating Between The Two, Group show curated by Matilda Strang, Pebbledash Gallery, London, 2009
A portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth Harman, Curated by Sean Edwards, Limoncello, London, 2009
The Seed, Collaboration with Zoe Williams and Lucie Wilkins, Performance event in sculptural installation for one night only, Plan 9, Bristol, 2009
Residencies and awards
Syllabus VII, one of ten selected artists from across the UK, to collaboratively produce an alternative learning programme for one another over ten months. In partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Eastside Projects, PS squared, Nottingham Art Exchange, Studio Voltaire and TACO! 2024-25
Southwest Artist Moving Image Commission with Exeter Phoenix, support to make an artist’s short film for Two Short Nights Film Festival, 2022-23
a-n Time Space Money bursary to learn glass casting with Amy Whittingham, Flameworks Studio, Plymouth, 2022
DYCP funding, Arts Council England, to develop new writing and working with the voice, 2021
Reunited, 6-month ACW stabilization project with artists Kelly Best, Jennifer Taylor & Amber Mottram
UNITe, Selected residency with g39, Cardiff, 2019
a-n Bursary, Funded mentoring with Ben Borthwick (curator KARST, Plymouth), 2019
Residency, The Mothership, Selected and run by artist Anna Best, Bridport, Dorset, 2018
Curating and Other Projects
Holding Together in GL11, events & initiatives to establish GL11 as a trauma informed community, since 2021
Death Club, monthly art & reading group discussing art in order to learn how to live, Kitchen table, 2019
HER MIT Projects, Exhibitions for artists in my house and other innovative spaces, 2018-2020
NOT HERE NOT NOW, curator, Anna Barham, Tom Dale, Maria-Brigita Karantzi and Andy Parker, Plan 9, Bristol, 2008
When We Build, Let Us Think We Build Forever, co-curator, Group show with Chloe Brooks, Michael Dean, Maria-Brigita Karantzi, Anouk Mercier, Natasha MacVoy, Spike Island Open Studios, Bristol, 2008
Plan 9, a member of the artist-led group during its time at Bridwell Police Station, Bristol, 2007-2009
Education
MA Fine Art (Distinction), UWE, Bristol, 2006
BA(Hons) Fine Art, UWIC, Cardiff, 2001