Category Archives: Exhibitions

Artist Talk – Bobby Baker, On the Drawing of Breath


Bobby’s illustrated talk explored how painting, breathing and madness led to her remarkable drawings forming a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London, touring internationally and eventually becoming a book.

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Suspension – Jo Longhurst


Jo Longhurst is an artist best known for The Refusal, a study of human/animal relations and the British Whippet. Her practice features a mixture of analogue and digital lens-based processes, performance and installation. more…

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Wendy McMurdo – Childhood, fantasy and play

Wed 12 Oct – Fri 16 Dec Wendy McMurdo’s photographs explore the psychological world of the child, expressed through play. Specially selected from her past 15 years’ work, this comprehensive exhibition included many pieces never before exhibited in the UK. … more…

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Tom Marshman – Artist-in-Residence


Tom Marshman was artist-in-residence at ICIA during the 2010-11 academic year. His playful interventions raised smiles, eyebrows and interesting questions amongst students, staff and visitors on campus. more…

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Janek Schaefer – The Changing Room


Janek Schaefer is a sound artist, musician and composer. He explores site and context to reveal how sound and image can play with the spatial and architectural aspects of place. As the Olympics approach, Schaefer explored the University’s Sports Training Village via his camera lens and microphones to create a mixed-media installation in response to ICIA’s 2011 theme more…

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Tom Marshman – Exhibition

Wed 16 Mar – Thurs 21 Apr – ICIA Art Space 2 As part of his residency on campus, performance artist Tom Marshman created an installation that changed and developed over time. Tom spent the academic year getting to know … more…

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Class Wargames – Guy Debord’s The Game of War

Wed 19 Jan – Sat 26 Feb – ICIA Art Space 2 Guy Debord is celebrated as chief strategist of the revolutionary group Situationist International. His book, The Society of the Spectacle is a searing critique of the media-saturated society … more…

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Bobby Baker & Charlie Whittuck – Mad Gyms & Kitchens: A Work in Progress

Wed 10 Nov 2010 – Fri 28 Jan 2011, Art Space 1 Based on her experiences of recovery from serious physical and mental ill health, Bobby Baker’s Mad Gyms and Kitchens investigates the benefits of exercise and nutrition in the … more…

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Ruth Maclennan – ‘We need to talk about the future’

Wed 13 Oct – Fri 17 Dec 2010, Art Space 2 Artist Ruth Maclennan’s video installations examined how individuals react to the pressures of social, political and technological change. She set up situations where different perspectives collide to unnerve the … more…

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Margareta Kern – Guest

Thu 6 May – Fri 18 June 2010, Art Space 1 Artist Margareta Kern took up residence in the University’s Department of Social & Policy Sciences during March and April 2010 in a project organised by ICIA. The results of … more…

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