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| Contact: |
info@marjolaineryley.co.uk |
| Born: |
London, 1974 |
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Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Research and
Art Practice |
Research Interests
1960s and 1970s counterculture, technology and the counterculture,
free school education, photography in the era of web 2.0, digital
technologies/family photography and the shifting nature of these
archives in the digital age, experimental film and video art,
re-cycled film, art and text.
Current Projects:
Growing up in the New
is an artist initiated research project that
explores the counterculture', from communes in the south of France,
squatting in South London and 'free school' education to the many forays
into all things 'New Age' set against the backdrop of social and
political happenings of the era. Using a range of approaches including
photography, film and video, writing, collecting, re-using archival
materials and the web 'Growing up in the New Age' sets out to reconsider
the social utopias of the 1960s and early 70s and what we might learn
from them today. The work can be read as sitting between fact and
fiction, past and present, the real and the imaginary. A new artists
Monograph showcases this work. 'Growing up in the New Age', Daylight,
NY.
The Thin Blue Line / The Deep Red Sea
Using photography, moving image, creative texts and found materials I
explore issues that look at linking my own personal experiences to
broader social and political narratives. 'The Thin Blue Line The / Deep
Red Sea' is a new body of work exploring my experience of recurrent
miscarriage and journey to motherhood. Drawing on my own and other
women's experiences, the images tell personal stories, while utilising
the commonly shared imagery that women in different cultures use to
represent miscarriage and loss.
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| Work Experience: |
| Higher and Further Education |
| 2003-current |
Senior Lecturer on BA (hons) Photography,
Video and Digital Imaging and MA Photography Programme. I am currently
0.5 Senior lecturer at Sunderland University teaching across a range
of modules at levels one, two and three. Including leading the video
art area and modules for students working with video art and experimental
film. I teach regularly on MA photography and am involved with the
programme at all levels. |
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| Education: |
| 2017-Current |
PhD Candidate in Fine Art, Newcastle University (Part-time Northern Bridge Funded) |
| 1998-2000 |
MA Fine Art (Photography), Royal College
of Art, London |
| 1993-1996 |
BA (Hons) Photography, Surrey Institute of Art &
Design, Farnham |
| 1992-1993 |
BTEC Dip. Foundation Studies (Art & Design), Guildhall
University, London |
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| Solo
Exhibitions: |
| 2019 |
‘This is What I See’ – (Marjolaine Ryley a mid career retrospective), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland as part of NEPN ‘Observe, Experiment, Archive’ programme. |
| 2013 |
‘Growing up in the New Age’ as part of the Social Encountering Photography, Festival at Sunderland Minster, Sunderland |
| 2012 |
'Growing up in the New Age'
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (as part of Glasgow International festival)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery |
| 2009 |
'Photography on Display', Victorian and Albert Museum, London |
| 2008 |
'Résidence Astral,' Impressions
Gallery, Bradford |
| 2007 |
'Résidence Astral', Street
Level Photoworks, Glasgow. (Artists' Minigraph with newly commissioned
essay by Val Williams ) |
| 2006 |
'Residence Astral', Atrium Gallery,
London College of Communication |
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'Villa Mona - A Proper Kind of House',
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
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'Avenue', York Quay Centre, Harbourfront
Arts Centre, Toronto |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions: |
| 2018 |
‘Growing up in the New Age’ Collections Gallery, NGCA, Sunderland |
| 2015 |
‘Art Lending Library’, City Library, Sunderland |
| 2014 |
'Eulogy' Vane Gallery Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
| 2012 |
'Moral Holiday', Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
| 2011 |
'Civic' international
festival of Billboard Art, Vardy Gallery, Northern gallery for
contemporary Art and off site Billboards locations both in UK and Greece |
| 2010 |
'growing up in the new age', 'Like
Tears in Rain', Palácio das Artes, Fábrica de Talentos,
Portugal |
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'Résidence Astral', Victoria
& Albert Museum, London |
| 2009 |
'Research 09', Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
'Photo 50 09' , London Art Fair, Islington |
| 2007 |
'Special Edition Prints' Brahm Gallery, Leeds |
| 2006 |
'The Elephant Vanishes', East Room, Tate Modern,
London |
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'Northern England in Northern Slovakia',
Dom Fotografie, Galeria P.M., Slovakia |
| 2005 |
'The Space Between the Sole & the
Heal', Globe Gallery, North Shields |
| 2004 |
'Trace Editions', Hirschl Contemporary
Art, London |
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'Home Ideal Show', Eshoda Arts, Bath
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| 2003 |
'Dislocation', K3 Project Space, Zürich
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'Fruit of the Loop', Symposium on
Video, Art & Food, Immola Museum, Italy |
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'Interior Life', Northern Gallery
for Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
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'Proof', Studio 1.1, London |
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'26.09.03', Flaca, London |
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'Hand Luggage', K3 Project Space, Zurich |
| 2002 |
'Experimental Spaces', Hastings Museum
& Art Gallery |
| 2001 |
'Two Thousand & One', Caf?Gallery
Projects, London |
| 2000 |
'Assembly', Stepney City, London |
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'Together Again', Pump House Gallery,
London |
| 1999 |
'The Five Pound Show', Hockney Gallery,
London |
| 1997 |
'Sinsestre', Candid Gallery, London
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| 1996 |
'Mallpractice', Mall Galleries, London
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'Pandora's Bath', Recontres Internationales
de la Photographie, Arles, France |
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| Video
Screenings: |
| 2013 |
'Jura Bound' Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK |
| 2008 |
'Résidence Astral' Centenary
square, Bradford |
| 2003 |
'Fruit of the Loop', Symposium
on Video, Art & Food, Immola Museum, Italy (exh.cat) |
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'Braziers 2003' International
Artists Workshop exhibition, Oxfordshire (exh. cat) |
| 2002 |
'Experimental Spaces 2', Hastings
Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex |
| 2000 |
'Assembly', Stepney City, London
(exh. cat) |
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| Artists'
Books / Publications: |
| 2019 |
‘This is What I See’ Mid career retrospective monograph with NGCA and Kerber Verlag (forthcoming) |
| 2015 |
‘The Thin Blue Line / The Deep Red Sea – explorations of miscarriage and pregnancy loss’ NEPN, Essay by Camilla Brown |
| 2015 |
‘Growing up in the New Age - A Journey into Wonderland?’ in ‘Alternative Worlds – Blue Sky Thinking Since 1900’ Vidal, Cornils (eds.) |
| 2013 |
'Growing up in the New Age', Artists Monograph, Daylight, NY 2013 Essays by Val Williams and Malcolm Dickson. |
| 2012 |
'One photograph: Life on the Floor', Journal of Photography & Culture, 2012. |
| 2011 |
'Encountering the Counterculture'
Field Study 14 (with Dave, Walkling & Val Williams) |
| 2007 |
'Résidence Astral' Portfolio
Magazine, Spring issue |
| 2006 |
'Villa Mona - A Proper Kind of House',
photographic book published by Trace Editions with an essay by Camilla
Brown, senior curator at the Photographers' Gallery, London |
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'Residence Astral - Field Study 7',
Photography & the Archive Research Centre, London |
| 2004 |
'Villa Mona - A Proper Kind of House',
n.paradoxa - International Feminist Art Journal, issue 13 (Domestic
Politics) |
| 2003 |
'Fash N Riot', issue 2 |
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'26.09.03', Flaca, London |
| 2002 |
'No. ABC Magazine', issue C (ed. Hussein
Chalayan) |
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'Fash N Riot', issue 1 |
| 2000 |
'Assembly', Stepney City, London (ex.
cat.) |
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'Eventful: Photographic Time' (ed.
Yve Lomax), Royal College of Art, London |
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'Royal College of Art Show', Royal
College of Art, London (ex. cat.) |
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| Selected
Reviews / Bibliography: |
| 2014 |
‘Inspirational Photo Books for 2014’ Newman, C and Bonagio, L. The Telegraph |
| 2013 |
Countercultural Lifeways’, Gidley, M. Book Review in Source Magazine |
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‘Growing up in the New Age’ Brown, C. Book Review in Photomonitor |
| 2012 |
‘Growing up in the New Age’ Stewart, S.Photography highlights on The Radio 2 Culture Show |
| 2008 |
Clark, Robert Review in Guardian Guide,
April 19-26 p.36 |
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Begbie, Guy, 'Villa Mona - A Proper
Kind of House', Book Arts Newsletter no. 31, UWE, Bristol |
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Hedges, Ruth, 'Villa Mona - A Proper
Kind of House', Eight Magazine: Home, vol. 5, no. 4, spring 2007
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| 2006 |
Brown, Camilla, 'Looking at the Overlooked'
in 'Stilled: Contemporary Still Life |
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Photography by Women', Ellipsis volume
3, pp. 74-75 |
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Williams, Val, 'Ghost Worlds: Photography
& the Family' in Exit Magazine no. 20 spring 2006 |
| 2002 |
'Creative Review', May 2002 |
| 2001 |
'Lab Magazine', issue 2 |
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Dyson, Jonathan, 'Development Stage'
in 'The Independent Magazine', 27th May |
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| Awards
& Residencies: |
| 2019 |
Northern Bridge - British School at Rome Residential
Selected for the Northern Bridge-British School at Rome residential
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| 2015 - 2017 |
Artist in Residence at Dilston Physic Garden, Corbridge.
Artist in residence at Dilston Physic Garden undertaking ‘A Gardeners Daughter’ looking at the relationship between plants/gardens, health and well-being. https://dilstonphysicgarden.com/artist-in-residence/ |
| 2013 - 2014 |
Artist in Residence at the
'Miscarriage Association Charity'. I am working on 'The thin blue line /
the deep red sea', a project exploring miscarriage and pregnancy loss,
funded through Arts Council England and in collaboration with the
Miscarriage Association.
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| 2014 |
Arts Council Funding for personal
research and development project 'The thin blue line / the deep red sea'
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| 2009 |
Arts Council Funding for personal
research and development project 'Growing up in the New Age'
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| 2005-2007 |
Visiting Research Fellow at PARC (Photography
and the Archive Research Centre) University of the Arts, London.
This two-year fellowship looked at the effects of digital technologies
on family photography and the shifting nature of these archives
in the digital age. I posed a number of research questions around
personal photo archives creating a forum for study and discussion:
www.thelastpictureshow.org.
Acollaborative project with Prof. Val Williams at the Photography
& the Archive Research Centre, London College of Communication. |
| 2005 |
The Elephant Vanishes, Tate Modern,
London
This weeklong residency invited artists, writers, filmmakers and
photographers to explore Elephant and Castle prior to the planned
1.5 billion-regeneration of the area. The ageing pink shopping centre
and hectic traffic roundabout are now seen as unsatisfactory experiemts
in modernity. This residency/workshop explored, investigated and
documented the area around elephant and castle and culminated with
a performance and exhibition in the East Room at Tate Modern. My
work focused on Baldwin's Herbal Remedies shop on the Walworth
road where I work as a student. |
| 2005 |
AN Networking Artists Networks, award
for study trip to Berlin |
| 2004 |
Arts Council England funding for 'Villa
Mona - A Proper Kind of House'. photographic book to be published
by Trace Editions (forthcoming) |
| 2003 |
Braziers International Artists Workshop,
Oxfordshire
Braziers brings together up to 30 artists of all nationalities for
16 days to work, exchange dialogue and experiment in a way that
is mutually beneficial. It offers an opportunity of participating
in an activity removed geographically and conceptually from usual
studio practice; in an environment where experiments can be made
and leaps of imagination can occur. My work explored the communal
environment and role of food in the community through video and
photography. Arts Council England funded. |
| 1999 |
Cité Internationale des Arts,
travel award to live & work for one month in Paris.
The Cité Internationale des Arts is for professional artists
who want to develop an artistic work in France. The Cité
Three of its historic founders and key partners are the City of
Paris, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
During my month long residency I worked with Super 8/Video, Photography
and sound to explore my turbulent relationship with Paris a place
I lived in as a 12 year old girl during an unstable period in my
childhood. |
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| Lecturing
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| University of Westminster, Surrey Institute
of Art & Design, University of Sunderland, Arts Institute Bournemouth,
London College of Communication, Baltic Centre for Contemporary
Art, University of the Arts, University of Northumbria, National
Portrait Gallery |
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| Selected Talks
/ Papers at Conferences: |
| 2017 |
Beyond the Visible: Contemporary visualizations of illness, loss and the ‘unseen’ in Photographic Practice, Newcastle
Speaker and organiser of symposium in collaboration with The Family Ties Network, Northern Charter and North East Photo Network, Newcastle.
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| 2014 |
Patterns of Disclosure, The Narrative Document and the Photographic Book (Keynote speaker) - Plymouth University.
Disclosure, a term usually associated with psychology, relates to a
process of revealing and sharing information, often personal and
intimate, between one person and another. Taking that idea as a point of
departure, this one-day symposium explores the ways in which
photographic narratives are constructed and aim to communicate'. www.growingupinthenewage.org |
| 2013 |
Family Ties Manchester Met University.
Following on from the selection of my paper 'The Thin Blue Line / The
Deep Red Sea', Artists autobiographical explorations of Pregnancy Loss
for the Family ties conference event at RGS in 2012. I have been invited
by the Family Ties group to talk at a seminar event in June and to
participate in a touring group show. The show includes key artists
working in the filed of family photography such as Rosy Martin and Trish
Morrissey. |
| 2011 |
Alternative Worlds. The
institute for Germanic and Romance studies (University of London
School of Advanced Study).
In an attempt to escape the doom and
gloom of the economic crisis the seminar's theme for 2011
is 'Alternative Worlds'. The aim is to examine the dreams,
plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in
utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. My talk will
be on the project 'Growing up in the New Age'. |
| 2008 |
Marking Space, Swansea Metropolitan
University / CIRIC.
This was a multi-disciplinary one-day symposium where artists and
designers from many disciplines explored sometimes very different
interpretations of what it means to 'mark space'. Some
considered issues of gendered space, belonging and displacement,
others interrogated the meaning of virtual and physical space: how
we occupy space and how we move through it. My talk focused on my
art practice in critical context exploring in particular how people
'mark space'. |
| 2006 |
2006 Interacting with the Archive;
Creative Approaches, National Glass Centre, Sunderland.
Including presentations on the Peterlee Project by Stuart Brisley
and North East Mining archive by Stuart Howard. Co-ordination of
conference in collaboration with Michelle Allen and Interface, University
of Ulster as part of the series of events; Performing the Archive.
I also gave a paper on archives and artists working practices. |
| 2007 |
2007 Picturing the Family - From the
Inside Out The National Portrait Gallery, London
This one-day event looked at family Photography. My talk 'Dirty
Linen, Nausea and Belgian Waffles' explored the question 'Can
a subject ever be too personal?' through looking at my own
work within the context of family and drawing on examples from arts
and popular culture to examine these issues. |
| 2005 |
Art in Boxes PARC (Photography and
the Archive research centre) University of the Arts, London.
'Art in Boxes' was a series of seminars for invited speakers and
MA and PhD students held at PARC. My talk asked, 'Is the way
photographs are collected and stored changing forever in the digital
age? How will we examine a legacy left on-line a personal collection
out there in the ether? Is this indeed the last picture show?'
The talk also explored ideas of the miniature and the contained
through Bachelard's 'Poetics of Space'. |
| Prizes and Awards |
| 2018 |
Nomination for 100 Heroines in Photography award |
| 2018 |
Northern Bridge funding awarded for Doctoral Research |
| 2016 |
Arts Council England Funding awarded for ‘The Thin Blue Line / The Deep Red Sea’ |
| 2014 |
Winner of Pixel Pin Portfolio Award at Format Photo Festival |
| 2013 |
Arts Council England Funding awarded for ‘The Thin Blue Line / The Deep Red Sea’ |
| 2012 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Growing up in the New Age’ Artists Monograph and Touring exhibition |
| 2011 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Growing up in the New Age’ Research and Development |
| 2009 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Residence Astral’ Touring Exhibition |
| 2008 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Residence Astral’ Research and Development |
| 2007 |
University of Sunderland and UCAL Research Development Fellowship Awarded for ‘The Last Picture Show’ |
| 2005 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Villa Mona’ Artists Monograph |
| 2003 |
Arts Council Funding Awarded for ‘Braziers International Artists workshop’ |
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| Work in Collections:
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| Serralves Museum |
| Victoria & Albert Museum |
| Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East
Sussex |
| Pavilion, Leeds |
| Private collections |