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Cally Shadbolt started her art career in traditional signwriting before developing sculpture and drawing through study at art schools and residencies around the world. She now has a doctorate in practice-based research. Cally currently uses an expanded notion of drawing that exploits the tactility and movement of diverse mediums to explore her personal presence in the Oxfordshire countryside.

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Awards

2026

Practice-based PhD, Oxford Brookes University

2020

Master of Fine Art (MFA), Oxford Brookes University

2013

BA (Hons.) Fine Art, Buckinghamshire New University

 

Publishing

2026 Between Earth and Sky: developing aerial thickness through kite flying and other poetic pastimes         

2022 Drawing in the Wind,  Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (journal)

 

Solo Shows

2026 Aerial Praxis, PhD final show, Oxford Brookes University

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

2025

What if..., Tom Hunter, Caroline Macdonald, George Quiney and Cally Shadbolt. St. John's College, Oxford.

For Women, by Women, Rona Painting gallery, Oxford.

Oxford Art Society Open, Oxford

East Oxford Portraits, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford.

SYZYGY, Oxford Brookes University

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 - 2022

Creator and leader of the Artists’ Salon, Oxford

2018 - 2022

Creator and administrator of East Oxford Portraits

2018 - 2020

Magdalen Art Space, gallery committee

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