EMILY WOOLLEY
emwwoolley@gmail.com | @emwwoolley | www.emilywoolley.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Gilbert Bayes Award Winner’s Exhibition, The Art House, Wakefield, 2023
Gilbert Bayes Award Winner’s Exhibition, Dora House, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, 2023
Un/Sense, NEXT at Christies, London, 2022
National Sculpture Prize, 2021 Summer Exhibition, Broomhill Estate, Devon , 2021
Radical Residency V, Unit 1 | Gallery, London, 2020
Protean (A Retracing) (solo), AMP Gallery, London, 2019
Bodily Encounters, A.P.T Gallery, London, December 2018
Visions & Signs, School of the Damned Graduation Show, Sluice Space, London, 2018
Prop Me up, Show.me.up, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, 2018
Protean (solo), BAES, London, 2017
Super Yonic Women's Art Festival, Copeland Gallery, London, 2017
School is now in session, Is This It, online exhibition, 2017
Baesquit, BAES, London, 2017
Perpetual Inventory II, BAES, London, 2016
Surface Intimacy, Limbo space, London, 2015
Reverb, DIG space, London, 2014
Rounds, Art Licks Weekend, London, 2014
Friday Late: Art Licks X V&A, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014
Tilt, DIG space, London, 2014
Q-Art Annual Exhibition No. 5 'The Big Crit', APT Gallery, London,r 2013
Publications:
50 Days 50 Conversations, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, 2021
Bodily Encounters| Offline Press, London, 2018
PERPETUAL INVENTORY | Issue III, Offline Press, London, 2018
PERPETUAL INVENTORY | Issue II, Offline Press, London, 2016
Surface Intimacy | Offline Press, London, 2015
Press:
Artist Spotlights: Un/Sense, NEXT at Christies, London, 2022
In Conversation: Emily Woolley, Boundary, 2019
Awards and Grants:
Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, 2022
Finalist for National Sculpture Prize, Broomhill Estate, 2021
Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Funding, Arts Council England, 2021
Residencies:
Radical Residency V, Unit 1 | Gallery, London, 2020
Merz Barn, Langsdale, Cumbria, 2017
Guest Projects, London, 2017
EDUCATION
February 2017 - September 2018
School of the Damned
School of the Damned is an unnacredited, free year-long art course that brings together 20 practicing artists from across the UK for monthly crits. These sessions intend to facilitate the growth and development of individual art practice through peer-to-peer support and reciprocal learning.
September 2012 – August 2015
Goldsmiths University,
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art
September 2011 – April 2012
Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
TEACHING
2021- current
University of the Arts London (UAL), London
Associate Lecturer
2018 - 2023
David Game College, London
Art and Design Lecturer
2016 - 2017
Blake: Art & Design College, London
Art Practice Tutor
PUBLIC FACING PROJECTS
DIG
October 2013 – August 2015
Founding member of the DIG collective
DIG was a collective and not-for profit arts initiative based in Lewisham which, after 3 months of renovation, housed 17 studios, 2 rehearsal rooms, a 2000 sq ft project space, as well as wood and casting workshops. This ran parallel to educational workshops such as DIG Maths Club, Life Drawing and lectures, including the Turner Prize winning architecture group Assemble, as well as an ongoing programme of performances, exhibitions, workshops and screenings.
DIG was featured in V&A Friday Lates, Art Licks Weekend, Timeout, South London Press and Dazed and Confused.
