EDUCATION:
1999-2001 Slade School of Fine Art MFA Sculpture (Distinction)
1992-1995 Glasgow School of Art BA Hons Fine Art (2:1)
1987-1991 Edinburgh University MA Hons Art History (2:1)
2021 Falmouth University PGCHE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Wander_Land Tremenheere SculptureGardens and Gallery, Penzance (curator/writer Martin Holman)
2022 Together We Rise Chichester Cathedral.Sculpture show curated by Jacquiline Creswell
2019 Stillpoint performance with neurobiologistAndrea Streit, choreographer Katrina Brown, Somerset House London (KCL Cultural Institute)
2019 Heads Up! Bush House Gallery, London (KCL Innovation Awards, curator Shelley James)
2019 Spare Parts Science Gallery London, curator Stephanie Delcroix
2018 Where It Is, There It Is Groundwork project, Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall (curators Liam Jolly and Rosanna Martin)
2016 FourteenTurns at Lubomirov Angus Hughes, London (curators Peter Suchin /Keith Bowler)
2016 Distress Signal in Bodies of Water at FORCE 8 festival, Bridport (curator Kayla Parker)
2016 Altered States Royal Society of Sculptors, London (curator Claire Mander)
2015 Collaborators4 Roaming ROOM London
2015 Bideford Black: The Next Generation Burton Museum and Art Gallery (curators Flow Projects, Claire Gulliver)
2015 Surface Deep: Bodies of Water Cornwall FilmFestival
2014 The Power of the Sea RWA Bristol (Curated by Janette Kerr and Kayla Parker)
2014 DUAL: performance in Textually Active, KARST Plymouth
2013 Square Eyes Istanbul Kultur University Istanbul and Exchange Gallery, Cornwall
2011 New Inhabitants; Greenhill Arts, Devon, curated by Susan Derges, Peter Randall-Page, John Virtue
2011 Lust screening at Skowhegan, NYC (curated by Marc Swanson)
2009 Countertext Bridport Art Centre and venues (curated by Nigel Slight and David Rogers)
2008 The Night: a Time Between RWA Galleries Bristol: curated by Janette Kerr
2006 ROOM TOO: ROOM Gallery, Bristol and London
2006 Forest Dreaming Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2006 REVEAL: Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust Commission
2005 ROOMTOO: at ROOM Gallery, Bristol andLondon
2005 ArtCaucasus British Stand, Tbilisi, Georgia (representing Station, Bristol)
2005 Picture Window Station North public art project, Baltimore, USA
2005 There Is No More Butter show on Bronze at STATION, Bristol
2004 In The Presence Of DVD projection, St Marys Church, Nottingham (YAH festival)
2003 Platforme Primera , La Plat-Forme, Dunkerque, France
2003 Notebook Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, USA
2003 Precursor First Base ACAVA Award Winners, Century Gallery, London
2003 It Was Bigger Than All of Us Prenelle Gallery, London
2002 Broadcast of Rufflette on Resonance FM, London
2001 Communicating at an Unknown Rate The Old Armory,Kensal Green, London
2001 Amidst Concrete, Clay and General Decay Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm (curated by Helen Legg and Marie AnneLanavere)
2000 Noise -Information and Transformation Kettles Yard Exhibition at Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, curated by Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer
2000 DVolution; LUX Centre: Projection work with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
2000 SladeEngine 14-16 Dolland St Warehouse,Vauxhall, London
2000 Macademia performance with Mirjam Buergin at Bloomsbury Theatre, London
2000 Nown performance at 291 Gallery, London
2000 Nown performance at Flaxman Gallery, UCL Library
2000 Broadcastand Webcast of Rufflette on Fourth Wall FM Radio (PADT and www.londonart,curated by Cathy Haines and Sasha Craddock)
1999 'O',performance with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Leicester New Works Festival
1999 Phonomena-theSite of Sound Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
1998 Oriel MostynOpen, Llandudno, Wales
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Chassis Chelsea and Westminster Hospital entrance hall,London
2015 Among Remote Lost Objects: KARST Plymouth and ROOMartspace London
2009 Forbitten Words at Bridport Old Books, Dorset
2006 Mooring Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2005 BLACKOUT Plymouth Arts Centre
2005 Descent DVD projection installation, ROOM, Bristol
2003 TabathaAndrews, Artist in Residence, Gloucester Cathedral 2002-3
2000 Mappamonumentalis at the Monument to the Fire of London
COMMISSIONS
2019 Make ItUp Community Engagement Commission with Tim Bolton for Plymouth Art Weekender
2018 The DispensaryII – series of works for residents of The Devonshire Dementia Care Home,London
2016-17 TheDispensary an interactive artwork for dementia patients, Edgar Horne Ward and otherlocations, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
2017 Chassis entrance hall Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
2015 Bideford Black commission with Flow Projects and Burton Museum
2006 REVEAL sculpture commission, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust
RESIDENCIES:
2019 Cell Café: context and culture in stem cell biology and art: collaboration with scientist AnaAngelova, science students and Culture Institute, Kings College London June - September
2018-19 Call andResponse : exploring hearing and listening - collaboration with neurobiologist AndreaStreit and Culture Institute Kings College
2017 The Cornwall Workshop residency, Kestle Barton and CAST, led by sculptor Christina Mackie
2013 AA2AArtist in Residence, Plymouth University
2008 AA2AArtist in Residence, Plymouth College of Art
2006 Artist in Residence, Centre for Art and the Natural World (CCANW), Haldon Forest
2002-3 Artist inResidence, Gloucester Cathedral
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine USA (mentors including Carolee Schneeman,Vic Munoz and Shirin Neshat)
1999 Shortlisted artist in residence for Today Programme, Radio 4
1998 Semi-Subterranean Collaborative Residency between artists and architects, Scottish SculptureWorkshop
SCHOLARSHIPS /AWARDS:
2018-19 Call andResponse: Innovation Award from Kings College London for collaboration with StreitLab on the inner ear and listening
2017 Building Better Healthcare Award Winner, Collaborative Projects (for The Dispensary)
2015 First@108Public Art Award Winner, Royal Society of Sculptors and CW+
2015 ACE Project Grantto fund my project on blindness, sculpture and sensory awareness ‘Among RemoteLost Objects’ with composer John Matthias and singer Victoria Oruwari
2004-5 Arts Council England Award to fund a year’s activity and two solo shows in Plymouth and Bristol
2004 Plymouth City Council Visual Arts Award
2001 Skowhegan School Residency – full award
2001 Dolby Scholarship from Slade School of Art to research sound and silence in the cityand desert, USA
2000 ACEbursary to attend the School of Sound symposium on voice and the moving image
1998 CamdenCouncil Small Assistance Grant
1995 Friends of Glasgow School of Art Travel Scholarship to visit James Turrell, study light, architecture and the desert. Also funded by Peter Palumbo
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 50 Women Sculptors Book, Aurora Metro Press
2020 Crafting Language: Andrews presents at Making Futures 2020, Cebu, Philippines (BritishCouncil)
2018 ‘Crafting Language: Dementia,Community and Play’ paper presented at Making Futures, 2017,Plymouth College of
2016 Review of‘Fourteen Turns’ in Art Monthly, May issue
2016 Art Monthly review of ‘Collaborators 4’ show, Kathryn Lloyd, Dec 15-Jan 16
2016 Andrew Pickering on‘Oracle’ in ‘Art, Science and Experiment’
MaHKUscript: Journal of Fine Art Research 15 Jan 2016
2016 As above in‘Experimentality’ (H. Slager (ed.), Utrecht: Metropolis Books)
2015 Review of Among Remote Lost Objects: Plymouth Culture, by Ellie Richardson https://plymouthculture.wordpress.com/tag/plymouth/
2015 Aesthetica Magazine reviewof Bideford Black by Lizzie Lloyd (2 Nov 2015) Link
2005 BLACKOUT including What Lies Hidden, an essay by Guy Brett on Tabatha Andrews, prose by Larry Lynch. Published by Plymouth Arts Centre
2005 White Window Shared Work: Travail Partage published by La Platforme, Dunkerque
2005 Tabatha Andrews Artists Newsletter, review of ‘Descent’ by Peter Suchin (March)
2005 Tabatha Andrews: Descent Metro Magazine (Southwest) January 2005
2005 Descent:Tabatha Andrews Best Art Review: Big Issue Jan 17th-23rd
2005 Tabatha Andrews Preview, Guardian Guide January 15th –21st 2005
2003 Tabatha Andrews, Artist in Residence Gloucester Cathedral published by Univ of Gloucestershire, essays by Dr Denys Turner, Imogen Cornwall-Jones and Peter Suchin
2002 Contemporary Magazine Dec 2002 Preview of ‘On Breath’ by Sotiris Kyriakou
2001 Public Art Journal (Mar) article on Mappamonumentalis by Peter Suchin
2000 Noise Kettles Yard publication of Noise Exhibition
1999 British Mythic Magazine issues 3 and 5 (found texts)
1999 O'er Gang : Publication resulting from residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Tabatha Andrews is an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth School of Art. She has taught widely including Plymouth University, Plymouth College of Art (now AUP), Slade School of Art, Leeds Met, Byam Shaw School of Art, UCA Canterbury and Dartmoor Arts Project. She is an accredited Relational Dynamic Coach (Culture at Work and RD1st, 2022)