Elisabeth Tomlinson

Elisabeth Tomlinson is a London based transdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the working class, rural, queer feminist perspective and is expressed in writing, moving image, textiles, installation, teaching, and performance. Holding in parallel personal and collective histories, Elisabeth’s work questions reproduction of knowledge and the construction of self. Depictions of family, religion, the psyche, and relational intimacy are tied to the socialised learning we endure as citizens of our families, nations, and cultures.

Elisabeth was awarded the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship (CSM, 2020-2021), the Waseda Visiting Scholar Award (UCL and Waseda University, Japan, 2017) as well as the Central Academy of Fine Art Sculpture Fellowship Award (Beijing, 2016). She has published research on transdisciplinary arts education and practice with the Institute of Education, University College London as well as research on independent art spaces in London published through CreditX projects and Central Saint Martins. She was a selected participant in Autograph Gallery’s “PILOT: Rights, Care, Future” (2020) course and completed a writing residency at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop (2019-2020).

Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Los Angeles, New York, Beijing, Lisbon, and Cairo.

EDUCATION

2019-2021 MFA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

2017-2018 MA Education, Gender, and International Development, University College London

2010-2013 BS Dual Degree, Fine Art Sculpture & Visual Art Education K-12, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY
          

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2021 Mona Hatoum Grant Recipient, UAL
2020 Autograph Gallery, PILOT: Rights Care Future
2019 Writer in Residence, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
2018 Visiting Scholar, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Artist Fellowship, Sculpture, China Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
2014 Artist in Residence, Core Clay Studios, Cincinnati, OH

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2021
Central Saint Martins, Graduate Showcase, London
Candid Arts Trust, Away with Words, London
2020
Best First Time Director, Nominated Best Film, The Parable of the Grounded Woman, Independent Shorts Awards, LA
New Cinema Film Festival, The Parable of the Grounded Woman, Lisbon
Apiary Studios, I Promise You, London, UK
Tate Modern for Tate Exchange, Human Capital Bank performance - London, UK
2019
Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, ‘The Parable of the Grounded Woman’ - London, UK
University College London, ‘The Parable of the Grounded Woman’ Screening and Workshop - London, UK
2018
Whitechapel Gallery, London Open Exhibition - London, UK
2017
Central Academy of Art, Experiencing China, Hangzhou, China
Xue Sheng Gallery, Material Things, Beijing, China
CAFA Gallery, Figurative Abstraction, Beijing, China
2016
6th Ring Road Museum,  The River Forces, Beijing, China
Gongzuò Exhibition Space, Force and Will, Beijing, China
2015 
Croisements Festival in collaboration with The Institute for Provocation and La Cire Bleue - Fragments: This Obscure Object of Desire, Beijing, China
2014 
Missouri Western State University, Twin Cups Exhibition, St. Joseph, MO
Neihoff Urban Studios and Core Clay Studios, Proof of Residence, Cincinnati, OH
East Hills Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
Assumption Gallery, Untitled Works, Cincinnati, OH
2013 
Davison Gallery, Senior Exhibition, Rochester, NY
Genesee Center for the Arts, The College Clay Collective, Rochester, NY
Roberts Wesleyan College, Curated Student Show, Rochester, NY

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