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)
1979-1987 Steyning Grammar School, Sussex
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016 'Fourteen Turns' at Lubomirov Angus Hughes, London (curated by Peter Suchin and Keith Bowler)
2016 'Altered States' Royal British Society of Sculptors London
2016 'Distress Signal' in 'Bodies of Water' screening at Force 8 Festival Bridport
2015 ' Collaborators 4' Roaming ROOM London
2015 'Bideford Black: The Next Generation' Burton Museum and Art Gallery, curated by Flow Projects
2015 'Surface Deep: Bodies of Water' screening at Cornwall Film Festival
2014 'Bodies of Water' screening curated by Kayla Parker at RWA Bristol
2014 'DUAL' a performance, Karst, Plymouth (organised byTextually Active)
2014 'Pilot' AA2A Artists show, Room 101, Plymouth University
2013 ‘Square Eyes Istanbul’ Kultur University Istanbul and Exchange Gallery, Cornwall
2012 ‘New Inhabitants’ ; Greenhill Arts, Moretonhampstead curated by Susan Derges, Peter Randall Page and John Virtue
2012 ‘My Favourite Tree’ exhibition and auction for CCANW
2011 ‘Lust’ screening at Skowhegan, NYC (curated by Marc Swanson)
2010 Printmaking show at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
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 (curated by Clive Adams)
2006 ‘REVEAL’: Forest of Dean Sculpture Commission (outdoor projection)
2005 ‘ROOM TOO’: at ROOM Gallery, Bristol andLondon
2005 ‘Art Caucasus’ 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 'Lost Space' Pinkard Gardens, London
2003 ‘Precursor’ First Base ACAVA Award Winners, Century Gallery, London
2002 '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 Anne Lanavere
2000 'Noise: Information and Transformation' Kettles Yard and the Whipple Museum of History of Science, Cambridge. Curated by Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer
2000 DVolution; LUX Centre: Projection work with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
2000 'Slade Engine' 14-16 Dolland St Warehouse, Vauxhall, London
2000 'Macademia' performance at Bloomsbury Theatre, London with Mirjam Buergin
2000 ‘Nown’ performance at 291 Gallery, London
2000 ‘Nown’performance at Flaxman Gallery, UCL Library
2000 Broadcast and Webcast of 'Rufflette' on Fourth Wall FM Radio (curated by Cathy Haines and Sasha Craddock)
1999 'O', performance with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Leicester New Works Festival
1999 'Phonomena-the Site of Sound' Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
1998 Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales
SOLOEXHIBITIONS:
2016 'The Dispensary' currently in residence on the dementia wards at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
2016 'Chassis' on show in entrance hall of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London
2015 'Among Remote Lost Objects' ROOMartspace London and KARST Plymouth
2009 ‘Forbitten Words’ at Bridport Old Books, Dorset
2006 ‘Anchor’ Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2005 ‘BLACKOUT’ Plymouth Arts Centre
2005 ‘Descent’ DVD projection installation, ROOM, Bristol
2003 ‘Tabatha Andrews, Artist in Residence, Gloucester Cathedral’ 2002-3
2000 'Mappamonumentalis'at the Monument to the Fire of London
2000 ‘Nown’performance at UCL Library
1998 'Rufflette' sound work at the Glasgow Independent Project Space
RESIDENCIES and COMMISSIONS:
2016 RBS- '[email protected]' Public Art Award winner: to make sculpture for the Alzheimers and Dementia Ward of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London
2015 Bideford Black commission: Flow Projects and Burton Museum
2006 Artist in Residence, Centre for Art and the Natural World (CCANW), Haldon Forest
2006 ‘REVEAL’: Forest of Dean Sculpture Commission (outdoor projection)
2002-3 Artist in Residence, Gloucester Cathedral
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine USA (visitors included Shirin Neshat and Carolee Schneeman)
1999 Shortlisted Artist in Residence for Today Programme, Radio 4
1998 'Semi-Subterranean' Collaborative Residency between artists and architects, Scottish Sculpture Workshop
SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS:
2017 Building Better Healthcare Award winner (Collaborative Projects)
2015 ACE Small Grants Award to fund 'Among Remote Lost Objects'
2006 AA2A placement, Plymouth College of Art and Design
2004-5 Arts Council England Award to fund a year’s activity including two solo shows
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 ACE bursary to attend the School of Sound symposium on voice and the moving image
1998 Camden Council Small Assistance Grant
1995 Friends of Glasgow School of Art Travel Scholarship to visit James Turrell, study light, architecture and the desert.
PUBLICATIONS:
2015 Review of Bideford Black: The Next Generation: by Lizzie Lloyd in Aesthetica magazine http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/review-of-bideford-black-the-next-generation-burton-art-gallery-and-museum-devon/
2005 ‘BLACKOUT’including ‘What Lies Hidden’ an essay by Guy Brett on Tabatha Andrews, and prose by Larry Lynch.
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 Andrew: Descent’ Metro Magazine (Southwest) Jan 2005
2005 ‘Descent:Tabatha Andrews’ Best Art Review: Big Issue Jan 17th 2005
2005 ‘Tabatha Andrews’ Preview, Guardian Guide January 15th –21st 2005
2003 ‘Tabatha Andrews, Artist in Residence Gloucester Cathedral’ Published by University of Gloucestershire with essays by Peter Suchin, Denys Turner and Imogen Cornwall-Jones
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
1999 'O'erGang': Publication resulting from residency at the Scottish Sculpure Workshop
Tabatha Andrews has lectured at Byam Shaw School of Art, University of Plymouth, University College Falmouth, University of Gloucestershire, Slade School of Art, Kingston University, Loughborough University, and Plymouth College of Art. She moved to Devon in 2003 to bring up her children, and lives on the edge of Dartmoor. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University.