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Shaun C. Badham is an artist from Essex, UK
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2012 BA First Class (Hons) Fine Art, University West of England, Bristol
2011 Erasmus Exchange, Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
EXHIBITIONS
2024 ArtWorks Open 2024 Exhibition at ArtWorks Project Space, Barbican Arts Group, London
2024 An Edgeland Plot, The Old Waterworks, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
2024 Concrete Dreams: Just Cant Get Enough, Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, UK
2023 Abandoned at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow
2023 Land Locked at House of Annetta, London, UK
2023 Play at The Stone Space, London, UK
2022 This Plot is Not for Sale at The Old Waterworks, UK
2022 Anonymous Drawings at Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin
2021 Briquette Well at Razklon Gallery at Tsarino Foundation in Bulgaria (solo)
2021 Plot: The People’s Landscape at Tip of the Iceberg, Focal Point Gallery, UK
2021 Outpost Members Show 2021 (selected by Catalyst Arts) at Outpost Gallery, UK
2021 Open Studios at Nick Crowe & Ian Rowlinson Germany Studio, Brandenburg Germany
2021 Forced Collaboration, Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall
2021 Estuary Festival, Wat Tyler Country Park, Basildon, Essex
2020/21 I'M STAYING, Sculpture in the City, Edition 9, Leadenhall Market, London
2020 This Plot is Not for Sale on Hoax Publication (online)
2020 Caraboo Projects - Loops Podcast (online)
2019 Odds, TOMA Project Space, Southend.
2019 A Street Loud with Echoes, South Kiosk, London.
2019 I'M STAYING Summer Project, Letrangere Gallery, London.
2019/20 I'M STAYING Sculpture in the City Edition 9, Leadenhall Market, London
2018 Dialogues 5, Newbridge Project Space, Newcastle
2018/19 I'M STAYING Sculpture in the City Edition 8, Leadenhall Market, London
2018 The Plotlanders, Back Lane West, Cornwall (solo)
2017 Togetherness: Notes on Outrage, South Kiosk presented at Kestle Barton, Cornwall.
2017 MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London,
2017 MORNING Moon Probe, Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend, (solo)
2016 MORNING Publication Launch Focal Point Gallery, Southend, (solo)
2016 MORNING Laindon Launch Victoria Park and King Edward Centre, Laindon, Essex.
2016 I'M STAYING The Old Bookshop, Bristol.
2016 I'M STAYING Survey Paintings, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (solo).
2016 I'M STAYING The Island, Bristol.
2015 I'M STAYING Hamilton House Open Day, Bristol.
2015 I'M STAYING Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol.
2015 I'M STAYING Redgrave Theatre, Clifton College, Bristol.
2015 HOWLING OWL: NEW YEAR / NEW NOISE 2, Video Showreel, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2014 ASSEMBLE NOW Inland Arts Festival, Redruth, Cornwall.
2014 I'M STAYING Bristol Biennial, Bristol Folkhouse, Bristol.
2014 Shields of Destiny, Curfew Tower, Cushendale, Northern Ireland.
2014 Liminal Space, Temporary Arts Project, Southend, Essex.
2014 I'M STAYING, Bristol Art Weekender, Arnolfini, Centre of Contemporary Art, Bristol.
2013 All ByPassed Straw Bale Cinema, Smugglers Festival, Kent, Deal.
2012 Tran-sit Spike Island Sculpture Yard, Bristol.
2012 UWE Degree Show Spike Island Studios, Bristol.
2012 MayFly Bristol Diving School, Bristol.
2012 Strange Angel Southbank, Bristol.
2012 Shaun C Badham The Crypt, Bristol.
2012 Its Us, Its Us Part 1 Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/COMMISSIONS
2025 Building Residency at Lawsons Park, Grizedale Arts
2024 Waltham Forest Council’s Make It Happen Grant with James Ravinet
2023 A-N Artists Bursary
2022 Professional Development Programme via TOW
2022 Essex Art and Cultural Fund with James Ravinet
2021 Arts Council Project Grant
2021 Artist in Residence, Estuary Festival with Metal
2019 Firstsite Collectors Group Bursary Award
2018 Dialogue 5, Mark Devereux Projects
2018 Threads Micro Residency
2018 Back Lane West Residency, Cornwall
2017 A-N Bursary Recipient, Venice Biennial
2016 Recipient of Grants for the Arts ACE - MORNING project
2014 Liminal Space Residency, TAP, Essex
2013 Curfew Tower Residency, Northern Ireland
2012 Dispatch Residency Spike Island Sculpture Yard
2012 Giftraum Residency, Das Gift, Berlin
TEACHING/TALKS/SEMINARS etc
2024, The Great Gathering Festival, Shine ON! Hub, Basildon
2024 Visiting Tutor, Graduate Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths University
2019 to present, Visiting tutor, BA Fine Art, South Essex College (UAL)
2021 UWE Alumni Panel B : self employment, design & communication, art & fashion
2021 Unusual Rules for Making, Camden Arts Centre, Youth Collective Online
2021 Things you never get taught: Proposals at Focal Point Gallery with Zarina and Gabrielle (The White Pube) and Mark Cork (Zelda)
2020 Concrete & Ink: Storytelling and the Future of Visionary Architecture. On Walking and Dreaming Whitechapel Gallery in association with Theatrum Mundi.
2019 Radical histories of Basildon, Beecroft Art Gallery Auditorium incl Radical Essex
2019 Collaboration in the field with Mark Devereux Projects at Heart of Glass, St Helens
2016 to 2018 Visiting Tutor on Foundation, South East Essex Collage, Essex.
2015 Artist Talk and Visiting Tutor, University West of England, Bristol.
EVENTS/WORKSHOPS/PERFORMANCE/PODCASTS etc
2025 A Journey of the Spaces In-Between (walk/talk) at Henry Moore Studios and Gardens
2025 Follow the Forest, Audio Guide and Map - Make It Happen Grant
2024 Food Gatherings: Who Owns The Land? with Emma Edmondson at Metal Peterborough
2024 Follow the Forest Walks - Make It Happen Grant
2024 Co-Build (workshop) Reading Room project, a collab between Pluto Press, Left Book Club, TOMA and The Old Waterworks
2022 Marking the Land Walk - Essex Arts and Culture Fund
2021 The People’s Landscape: Podcast with Focal Point Gallery (online)
2021 Contemporary Elders - PLOT: The Peoples’ Landscape with Focal Point Gallery
2021 This Plot is Not for Sale workshop at St Laurence Orchard with Trust Links and FPG
2019 Plot: Briquette, workshop at The Old Waterworks
2019 The Will to Proceed, tour Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, Sculpture in the City
2018 Rule by the people tour, Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, Sculpture in the City
2018 Interviewed/Featured in New Town Utopia Film by Chris Smith
2018 LDCA Annual Display, Manor Mission, Laindon, UK
2016 Die Yuppie Hipster Artist Scum No.w.here, London, UK
2015 MORNING Fun Walk Barleylands, Basildon, UK
2015 LDCA Annual Display, Manor Mission, Laindon, UK
2013 Magic Bus Tour Various Locations, Bristol curated by A-peg
2013 Off The Page, Experementica Festival, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Wales
2013 RomCom, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2013 In Official Proceedings, 34 Bristols, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2012-2013 The artist you wont forget ... but might miss Five Public performances, Motorcade FlashParade, Spike Island, Bristol Diving School, Arnolfini and Curfew Tower.
PUBLICATIONS/BOOKS/ZINES
2023 Marking the Land (collab with James Ravinet) published by The Old Waterworks
2023 Glomalin Issue 1: Patchwork Orchard by Graham Burnett
2019 Basildon Tenants Handbook by Lu Williams
2019 RUNG Issue 2
2019 WordPower: Language as Medium published by Library X
2018 MORNING Featured in Radical Essex Book
2016 MORNING Publication
2014 It will all be clear in the end, Liminal Space at TAP
2013 Paper Stages Forest Fringe.
2013 UPCOMING December 2012 - April 2013, Publication of proposals for series of solo performances.
OTHER COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY
Care Contractors (2024 - present)
A-N Council Member (2019 - 2022)
Ghost Playgrounds led by Katy Hawkins (2018 - 2019)
Peek Kollective (2012 - 2013)
Bristol Diving School (personal involvement 2012 - 2013)
Helibase (2010 - 2015)