S U Z E   A D A M S

PROJECTS
Cafe Solo
BOMBSHELL
PEIXE
Somewhere Inbetween
Undone
Slump
Rag
Past Life
Breath
Corpus
Other Worlds
©Suze Adams 2022
 

EXHIBITIONS

2022 Oct-Dec Family & Other Ties; UCA Farnham (group show with Family Ties)
  May-Jun Coming of Age; FAB Bath (national group show, selected artist)
2021 Dec Watermarks; University of the Highlands & Islands (online EDGE conference/exhibition; collaborative group video)
2021 May-Oct Inch by INCH; various venues in SW England (group touring show)
2020 Mar Art Through the Lens; Artiesis Gaeleria, Tavira, Portugal (group show)
2019 Aug Loss & Lucidity (2); Braco de Prata Factory, Lisbon (group show, curator Diana Ali)
  May This Woman’s Work; FAB Bath (curator/exhibitor)
2018 Sept Somewhere In-Between (with Linda Ashe); Roper Gallery, Bath
2017 Sept The Box Project and Library of Pilgrimages; group show with SPP; Trowbridge Arts, Wiltshire
  Apr Feet on the ground, head in the air; project/group show; Roper Gallery, BAS, Bath
2016  May Cartesian Cut; FAB Bath (group show and performed artist residency)
  Mar Composite Approaches; Roper Gallery, BAS, Bath (screening followed by chaired discussion)
  Feb Visiona, Huesca, Spain (screening of Breath at international photo-film fest: with Family Ties)
2015 Sept Composite Approaches; SVA Stroud (group screening of short films + Q&A/discussion)
  May Disobedient Art; FAB (Fringe Arts Festival), Bath (group show: opening weekend performance plus contribution to public discussion/seminar)
  Feb The Space Between; Salisbury Arts Centre, Wilts (group show and performance)
2014 Oct Performative Writing & Architecture; BAS Bath
  Sept The Art of Walking; Museum in the Park, Stroud (international group show)
  Aug Lost; Salisbury Arts Centre, Wilts (national group show)
  July Re-framing Memory; Peltz Gallery, London (with Family Ties)
  May  Viewpoints (collaboration with Joanna Greenhill/Brenda Miller), Site14, Stroud, Glos
2013 July Bodies of Water; Parlour Showrooms, Bristol (solo show)
  May Generation; installation for launch of Site13, Stroud, Glos (solo show)
  May Something of Place; Museum in the Park, Stroud, Glos (with Space/Place/Practice; curator/exhibitor)
2012 June The Museum Box Project; Corsham Court, Wilts (with Space/Place/Practice; curator/exhibitor)
  May Corpus; Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham, Glos (residency with public events)
2011  June Living Flood Histories; Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester (invited artist)
  Apr Poetry & the Visual Arts; Meantime, Cheltenham (curator/exhibitor: international
series of poetry readings, film screenings and performance)
  Mar  Exchange; BV Studios, Bristol (international group show, invited artist)
  Jan  Taking PLaCE exhibition; A Gallery, Bristol (group show, invited artist)
2010 Sept Waiting for the Ferry; performance, Newnham, Glos
  Aug tidalSevern; Upstairs at The George, Newnham-on-Severn, Glos (curator/exhibitor)
  June Communion; Site 10, SVA, Stroud – performance: collaboration with Anna Saunders  
and Robert Perry
  Feb  Landscape in Process; F Block Gallery, Bristol (solo show)
2009  June Site 09; SVA, Stroud (invited)
  Apr Fieldwork; An Tobar, Tobermory, Mull, Scotland (curator/exhibitor)
2008 Nov Crossroads; MAMU, Budapest, Hungary (invited) 
  June Through the lens; International Photography Open, RWA, Bristol
  May Arboreality; Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos (invited)

RESEARCH GROUPS

On-going Family Ties Network (FTN) co-ordinator: artists and academics exploring representations of family www.familytiesnetwork.wordpress.com/
On-going Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG): research forum/network, UWE
Bristol    https://vcrg.co.uk/
On-going Incubation Chamber (InCh): artist group exploring critical texts alongside practice methodologies (in collaboration with BAS Bath)

PUBLICATIONS

2018 Visual Meditations; an island in time (photo-essay) in Picturing the Family (eds: Silke Arnold-de-Simine/Joanne Leal, Bloomsbury)
2017  Family Ties Network; spotlight on research network in Exposure Magazine (member profile and individual photo-essays)
2016 Home/Land; a collection of essays/photo essays (eds: Marsha Meskimmon/Marion Arnold, Liverpool Uni Press)
2013 Dwelling Body in Ways of Seeing a Body: Body & Performance (ed: S Reeve, Triarchy Press)
2012 Communion; a collection of photographs and poems: S Adams/A Saunders (editor)
2011 Moving between the Lines: collaboration between artists/geographers (editor)
2010 tidal Severn; time, season, ecology: exhibition catalogue (editor)
2009 Fieldwork: exhibition catalogue (editor)

RESIDENCIES

2016 Cartesian Cut, FAB, Bath (invited by curator Eloise Govier)
2015 Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby (selected artist; Lightlines Residency – creative research with studio/mentoring opportunities)
2014 Trowbridge Town Hall, Trowbridge, Wilts (using building as impetus for exploratory enquiry – culminating in a one-day public opening/show)
2013-14  Gloucestershire College, Llanthony Rd, Gloucester (AA2A residency)
2013 Wotton Auctions Room, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos (exploratory residency exploring the relationship between people, objects and places)
2012 Meantime, Cheltenham; artist-in-residence (development of work-in-progress; included film screening/workshop/show of work/discussion event)
2008 Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos (residency: invited collaborator)
2007 Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean, Glos (invited artist; series of temporary interventions - featured on BBC Radio 4)

TEACHING/WORKSHOPS

2014 Responding to Space and Place: photography workshop/studio critique with students at Gloucestershire College (student portfolio expansion)
2013 Walking Interconnections: arts-based workshops (photo/film and map-making to explore the relationships between body and environment)
2012  Method & Methodology: artist-led walk, Brackenbury Ditches, Glos (for Meantime)
2010-20 Associate Lecturer in Visual Culture, UWE Bristol

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

2006 - 12 PhD (Practice-led Doctoral Study), UWE Bristol
2003 - 06  MA (Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking), UWE Bristol