CALLY SHADBOLT
Cally Shadbolt has been an artist for 45 years, starting in traditional signwriting, developing sculpture and drawing through study at art school and residences around the world, and now working towards a doctorate. Recently, making and flying kites has revealed air as an important medium for her process. A combination of drawing and digital methods is enabling visualisation and sonification of air to address its more ethereal nature.
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Awards
2021-2026
(in progress) Practice-based PhD in Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University
2020
Master of Fine Art (MFA), Oxford Brookes University
2013
BA (Hons.) Fine Art, Buckinghamshire New University
Publishing
2022 Drawing in the Wind, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (journal)
Solo Shows
2020 Countenance, MFA final show (online)
2014 Small Exposure, Spare Room show, High Wycombe
2013 Showcase 2013, Milton Keynes Gallery Project Space
2012 Showcase 2012, Milton Keynes Gallery Project Space.
Group Shows
2024
Art Sauce, at Common Ground, Oxford
East Oxford Portraits, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford
2023
Between Earth and Sky, Cally Shadbolt and Tom Hunter. Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford.
2022
Henge 22, Dorchester-onThames
Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize, Uffington
2021
Hope Springs Eternal, Magdalen Road Studios, online
2020
A Dangerous Field, Photo Oxford, online (co-curated)
2019
OVADA Seven Counties Open, Oxford
A Meeting, independent open studio, Oxford (curated)
Open Exhibition, Oxford Art Society, Oxford
Priceless, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford (curated)
2018
Accord, Old Fire Station, Oxford
2017
Draw/Bridge (2), Arthouse 1, London
OVADA Seven Counties Open, Oxford
MK Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery
Draw/Bridge (1), Remise Gallery, Berlin
2016
Creative Fury, Frameless Gallery, Clerkenwell Green, London
Emerged, Frameless Gallery, Clerkenwell Green, London
Ellipse, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
Paradiso 111, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
Homunculus, Caroline Garden’s Chapel, London
2015
Shortlisted Jerwood Drawing Prize, London
Now you see it, now you don’t, Speen, Bucks
MK Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery
2014
God, LetArtWork, Pune, India
Residency show at Palazzo Cantelmo, Atina, Italy
House on Fire, Embassy Tea Gallery, London SE1
2013
Summer 13, One Church Street Gallery
MK Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery
SNOOP, Building 118 Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk
Exhibited at UCAS Fair in Manchester and London
2012
Open Drawing Exhibition, One Church Street Gallery
Open Summer Exhibition, One Church Street Gallery
2011
Open Winter Exhibition, One Church Street Gallery
Beware all inexperienced boatmen!, Buckinghamshire NewUniversity Gallery
Art in a Box, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden
Aporia, Wolfson College, Oxford
Residencies
2022
Group residency, La Wayaka, Chile
2021
Artist in residence, Casa Tagumerche, La Gomera, Spain
2017
Artist in residence, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford
2015
Group residency at Cascano, Latina, Italy
Group residency at Cortijada los Gasquez, Andalucia, Spain
2014
Group residency in Atina, Italy
2009
Royal Society of British Artists award at the British School in Rome
Talks
2023
Artist talk for Warehouse Art School, Oxford
2022
Artist talk for Art Sauce, Oxford
2019
Artist talk for Warehouse Art School, Oxford
2018
Associates talk, OVADA, Oxford
2017
Artist talk for Milton Keynes Galley
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Community
2018 - present
Creator and leader of the Artists’ Salon, Oxford
2018 - 2022
Creator and administrator of East Oxford Portraits
2018 - 2020
Magdalen Art Space, gallery committee