Jennie Pedley CV
Selected exhibitions and projects
Film commission
launch September 2020
Taigh Chearsabhagh’s gallery, Uist, selected group show online, to be projected in the gallery. Part of a symposium on depictions of landscape, Summer 2020
residency at Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich. Art/science workshops at a school for Deaf
children and with families at a library, leading to a participative exhibition and workshops at Norwich Science Festival 2019 with Science Art & Writing, funded by Arts Council England and
Norfolk County Council
Britishness
commission for Firstsite, Colchester
Group exhibition of art created with school students, spring 2018
Transitional States: Hormones at the cross roads of art and science
Group international touring exhibition, Lincoln, Birkbeck London, France, Spain 2018
British Sign Language shadow theatre workshop interpretation of Paolozzi
Whitechapel Gallery, London 2017
Shape Open 2017
Group Exhibition. Ecology Pavillion Mile End, London, Jan 2017
A Sketch of the universe: art, science and the influence of D'Arcy Thompson
Group Exhibition. Edinburgh City Art Gallery 2016-17
Shadow Sign Exhibition The Point Gallery, Doncaster
Conceived and created an exhibition of British Sign Language shadow films, developed with Deaf actress Jean St Clair and the Deaf communities of Doncaster, funded by Grant for the Arts, ACE, Autumn 2015
Street Art Tottenham
Commissioned by Haringey Council, shadow theatre workshops with schools, including a school for Deaf children, to make prints for a street frame, which I installed in Tottenham, funded by ACE Grant for the Arts and Haringey Council, 2014-16
D'Arcy Thompson Museum of Zoology, Dundee
Commission for short film, 'On Aristotle as a biologist' supported by the Art Fund, 2013
Coming of Age
Group show of commissioned film installation, GV Gallery, London, 2012
Paintings in Hospitals
Commissioned animation, collaborating with young patients at Whipps Cross Hospital, 2012
Cultural Olympiad, Cargoes,
Shadow theatre collaborations on canal boats in the East Midlands with Breath of Fresh Air and Ignite!, group exhibition 2012
Nonesuch Theatre Company,
Thunder and Coal musical, development at Battersea Arts Centre, animations, design and making for final production, 2012, Little Angel Theatre, London
Great Ormond Street Hospital and Go Create
Residency at the dental and maxillofacial department, shadow theatre workshops with families culminating in permanent art installation, 2012
Chateau de Sacy
Group exhibition, 12 Star Gallery, London, 2012
Natural History Museum
Lecture and shadow workshop at the Participation and Performance Event for staff, researched ideas with staff for future participation event, 2011
Cultural Olympiad, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Shadow theatre with primary schools / film commission, projected in a limekiln at Millers Dale nature reserve, A Breath of Fresh Air project with Ignite! 2011
Cultural Olympiad, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Shadow performance with primary schools, shown at Idle Valley Nature Reserve. A Breath of Fresh Air project with Ignite! 2011
National Trust, Calke Abbey stables permanent installation of artworks, shadow theatre set, silhouettes, training and drop in family performance, July 2011
Coming of Age: The Art and Science of Ageing
Commission for exhibition at the Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, supported by Arts Council England and the Wellcome Trust, 2011
Unfolding Exercise silhouette portraits of hospital staff / patients exploring personal histories of exercise, exhibition tour of: four major London hospitals and Haringey’s Original Gallery 2010 – 2011, Supported by the Wellcome Trust
Mini Shadow Theatre a product and workshop materail
‘a beautiful whimsy’ inspired by historical exercise manuals from the Wellcome Library, London. Sold at National Theatre Shop, Pollocks Toy Theatre Shop Covent Garden and Samuel French’s Theatre Bookshop, formerly at Tate Modern and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Silhouette Journey permanent installation at Royal Brompton Hospital inspired by meetings with patients with cystic fibrosis, exhibition toured hospitals in Sweden. Supported by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2009
Idyll One person exhibition at Royal London Hospital, with Vital Arts, supported by the Wellcome Trust, 2007
The soul and the feather, residency and exhibition, Sacy, France, British Council Travel Award, 2005
Memory Island
3 year off site residency leading to exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London. Virtual reality world and animations investigating life-stories of people with cerebral palsy with psychologist and anthropologist, supported by the Wellcome Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Moose Foundation, Juliet Gomperts Memorial and Janet Konstram Travel Awards, 2001-1004
ValeTown virtual world made with students at the Vale Resource Base, NESTA Award, Year of the Artist Award, 99-02
Beneath the surface shadow show, commissioned by Frog Life, performed at various nature reserves, Heritage Lottery funded, 2010
Inside shadow show devised and performed with Zsuzsa Kohan, The George Tavern, Camden Head Theatre, London. Music by Victoria Hume and Quinta 2009
Life Lines shadow show created alongside Silhouette Journeys, performed at Royal Brompton Hospital and Jacksons Lane’s Secret Theatre, with Zsusa Kohan, music by Victoria Hume 2009
Publications
Transitional States Catalogue 2018
Shape Open 2017 Catalogue
A Glimpse of a Great Vision D'Arcy Thompson Museum of Zoology, 2014
Coming of Age Exhibition Catalogue ed Lucy Jenkins, 2011
The soul and the feather Exhibition catalogue, Chateau de Sacy France, 2005
Memory Island ed H. Galbraith, Camden Arts Centre: ISBN 1 900470 37 3, 2004
Jennie Pedley File Note E. Ashton, Camden Arts Centre ISBN: 1 900470 349, 2004
Navigating Memories in Experiment:Conversations in Art and Science ed B.Arrends & D. Thackara, Wellcome Trust:ISBN 1 84129 043 2, 2003
Part-time positions held
Senior Physiotherapist, in mental health then children’s services, London, 93-08, 2010
School for Deaf Children 2013-2017
Artist educator freelance for Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art and Stage Two, Norwich 2018
Education
BSC Physiotherapy, BA, MA Fine Art.
British Sign Language Level 1, 201 and 301
Selected Workshops
Norwich Science Festival, various locations
Hopes for health drawings and installation and microbe making
St William's Way Library and Colman Junior School Norwich
Exploring microbial science and health with Science Art & Writing & Quadram Scientists 2019
Firstsite and Cherry Tree School Colchester
Exploring maps and elements of the British geology, soil, wildlife and contemporary ecological issues 2017
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Shadow theatre workshop with Deaf teenagers, using elements of British Sign Language in colourful projected environments, inspired by Eduardo Paolozzi 2017
Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children and The Point Gallery Doncaster
British Sign Language visual workshops using stencils, animation and shadow theatre 2014, 2016
Lead artist at Tottenham Green Fair workshops of puppetry and performance 2015
Day of the Dead Tottenham Ploughmans event 2014
Dundee Science Festival animation with mini shadow theatre kits 2013
Wellcome Trust Outreach Project shadow tableaux, at the Wellcome Midsummer Picnic 2012
Wellcome Collection Youth Co-Production Seminar shadow theatre workshop on body image at Wellcome Trust, London, September 2011
Great Ormond Street Hospital
National Trust, Breath of Fresh Air, Ignite
Haringey Council
Mini Shadow Theatre and shadow performance workshops with families, primary and secondary schools, 2010-12
Camden Arts Centre Life history workshops with young adults with cerebral palsy and family workshops for The Big Draw, 2001-3
Ignite! NESTA Creativity and animation workshops with 2001-4
The Architecture Foundation Building virtual towns with primary school children, 1999
Vale Resource Base Building virtual towns wth students with physical disabilities 1999-2001
Islands - group exhibition and symposium