CV – Jennie Pedley
Artist, former NHS physiotherapist, founded and leads Edible East Community Interest Company to combine art, science and horticulture through exhibitions workshops and consultancy for a healthy sustainable future for all.
Selected exhibitions and projects, those produced as Edible East marked *
2025
*Through the Microscope - secrets of Norfolk's changing landscape with Edible East. Gallery exhibition March - November, which will develop across site at Gressenhall Museum as we create work with local communities. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
2024
*Through the Microscope - residency with Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum, Norfolk and the John Innes Centre, leading to an exhibition in 2025. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
*Creative; reuse, arts and health workshops for Out There Arts, Great Yarmouth
*Edible East exhibit at Norwich Cathedral Refectory with Pint of Science, touring from the Earlham Institute
Shadow Theatre and Collage Workshops for Freshly Greated with communities around Great Yarmouth, developing films and window installations
*Community Green Space surveying and garden design with Mile Cross Green Hearts
*Edible East exhibition at the Earlham Institute (EI) of outcomes of art and citizen science school workshops with EI & SOS-UK
*Pea Creatures – drawing workshop at Norwich Seed Swap
2023
*City in an Orchard art workshops, part of the Possitopia Festival Mile Cross Library
*Shadow Theatre Workshops for Creative Arts East, Libraries at Norwich and Fakenham
*Heritage Open Days printmaking workshops, supporting Tara Sampy
Residency at Chateau de Sacy, France, exhibition
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art Ways of Working exhibition
*Edible East Embryonic Installation Unthank Artspace Norwich Summer
*Edible East Hopes for Health Installation at St Martins at Palace May and Hungate
Trees for Cities shadow theatre workshops in Great Yarmouth
2022
Enduring Circumstances exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck University, installation of commissioned film Particulate Matters 2.5, London
*Edible East Workshops at Norwich 100 Day Challenge - Devised and delivered collaborative workshops for wide range of sites in Norwich. Funded by Community Renewal Fund with Norwich City Council
*Edible East and Norwich Good Economy Shadow Theatre workshops with Norfolk Family Carers, older women and food bank users, visualising a better Norwich, exhibition at the Forum
2021
*Edible East workshops at Anglia Square Creative collaborative food growing and health workshops, including a paper food garden growing up the pavilion as part of our proposal to create a temporary community food garden.
*Edible East Edible England Heritage Open Days Ten day exhibition and series of workshops filling Norwich Forum, hosting food growing organisations, creative workshops to populate a giant sculpture (by Chris Jackson) exploring sustainable food growing. Supported by SAW Trust, Norfolk HODS and Arts Council England. Tours of the trail for Norwich Science Festival.
*Edible East Art Science Trail about the Future of Food
Featuring the work of 12 artists exploring current issues in food and health and food security. Conceived and project managed, curated cocreated with Chris Jackson, SAW Trust and Norwich Research Park, hosted by Norfolk Museum Services, Norwich Heritage Churches and Chantry Place, Norwich BID and supported by the Peoples Postcode Lottery
Instinct Film commission on the work of pioneering author/botanist Priscilla Wakefield, Bruce Castle Museum
2020
Particulate Matters 2.5. Film commissioned by the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, London University, online exhibition, 'Lessons from
Lockdown'
Imagining an Island Taigh Chearsabhagh’s gallery, Uist, selected group show online. Part of a symposium on depictions of landscape
2019
Art of the Gut Residency at Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich. Art Science workshops at a school for Deaf children and families at a library, leading to a participative exhibition and workshops at Norwich Science Festival SAW Trust, funded by Arts Council England and Norfolk County Council
2018
Britishness Exhibition Commission for Firstsite, Colchester, group exhibition of art created with school students
Breast(1) film in Transitional States: Hormones at the cross roads of art and science
Group international touring exhibition, Lincoln, Birkbeck London, France, Spain
2017
British Sign Language shadow theatre workshop interpretation of Paolozzi, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Shape Open 2017 Group Exhibition. Ecology Pavillion Mile End, London
A Sketch of the universe: art, science and the influence of D'Arcy Thompson Group Exhibition. Edinburgh City Art Gallery
2015
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
2014
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
2013
D'Arcy Thompson Museum of Zoology, Dundee
Commission for short film, 'On Aristotle as a biologist' supported by the Art Fund
2012
Coming of Age Group show of commissioned film installation, GV Gallery, London
Paintings in Hospitals Commissioned animation, collaborating with young patients at Whipps Cross Hospital
Cultural Olympiad, Cargoes, Shadow theatre collaborations on canal boats in the East Midlands with Breath of Fresh Air and Ignite!
Great Ormond Street Hospital and Go Create Residency at the dental and maxillofacial department, shadow theatre workshops with families culminating in permanent art installation
Chateau de Sacy Group exhibition, 12 Star Gallery, London
2011
Natural History Museum Lecture and shadow workshop at the Participation and Performance Event for staff, researched ideas with staff for future participation event
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!
Cultural Olympiad, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Shadow performance with primary schools, shown at Idle Valley Nature Reserve. A Breath of Fresh Air project with Ignite!
National Trust, Calke Abbey stables permanent installation of artworks, shadow theatre set, silhouettes, training and drop in family performance
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
2010
Unfolding Exercise silhouette portraits of hospital staff / patients exploring personal histories of exercise, exhibition tour of: fourLondon hospitals, Original Gallery London Supported by Wellcome.
Mini Shadow Theatre - product used ongoing for animation workshops and Sold at: Firstsite, National Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, Pollocks Toy Theatre Shop Covent Garden, Samuel French’s Theatre Bookshop, Tate Modern and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
2009
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.
2007
Idyll One person exhibition at Royal London Hospital, with Vital Arts, supported by the Wellcome Trust,
2005
The soul and the feather residency and exhibition, Sacy, France, British Council Travel Award
2004
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.
2002
ValeTown virtual world made with students at the Vale Resource Base, NESTA Award, Year of the Artist Award
1999
Bed Time Stories One person exhibition Colville Gallery, London
Performance
Beneath the surface 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
Chapter about Edible East in Seeds to Solutions by Incredible Edible Movement 2022
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 2013-2020
Artist educator freelance for Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art and Stage Two, Norwich 2018
Education
BSC Physiotherapy - University of East London/The Royal London Hospital
BA & MA Fine - Art University of the West of England & University of the Arts, Camberwell
British Sign Language Level 1, 201 and 301
Selected Workshops/Talks which pre-date the formation of Edible East Community Interest Company
Norwich science Festival 2020
Art and science panel discussion on-line
Norwich Science Festival 2019
Hopes for health drawings and installation and microbe making at libraries, the Forum & shopping centres
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