Rosemary Jane Cronin
About
Rosemary Cronin is an artist, writer and lecturer with a research-based practice focusing on gender, psychoanalysis and subversion. The work is realised through film, performance, paint, print and sculpture. Cronin has exhibited at The Freud Museum, ICA London, National Portrait Gallery, Transition Gallery, South London Gallery and The Wallace Collection. Film piece ‘Reverie’ was selected by the Guggenheim Foundation as part of their Under the Same Sun season in 2016.
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b.1988, London based.
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MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts 2014 - 2016
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts 2007 - 2010
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AWARDS & FUNDING:
a-n Artist Bursary 2019
Lifeboat Award 2016 (ACAVA, Artquest and UAL Postgraduate Community)
University of Arts London Communities of Practice Fund 2016
UAL Knowledge Exchange Funding, Performance & VR Research 2020
Camden Together, Camden Council Commission
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EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS:
2024
Undoing, Redoing, Revolting: A Feminist Response to the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts, 6 - 28 March 2024
Female Collective Power, Panel Discussion with Linsey Young (Curator of Modern British Art, Tate), Samantha Sun, ELSC and Sicgmone Kludje (Black Girl Knit Club), 6 March, Chelsea College of Arts
Hard Candy, Transition Projects at SPACE Studios, 23 May - 2 June
Christie's Auction, May
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2023
Biography, Garageland Magazine
Art Chat: Unseen Forces, Tate Modern, 28 April
Magical Women and the Arts, College of Psychic Studies, 19 May
Christie's Auction, May
Mother Memories, Zabludowicz Collection, 3 June
Diva Disrupted, V&A Museum, 28 July
Lost in Transit: Finding Gendered Journeys, Hartley Gallery, 7 - 13 August
In the Light of Her Mirror, Safe House 2, Peckham 14 - 16 September
(Jagger Johnson Takeover curated by Cathy Lomax for Peckham Festival)
The Art Car Boot Fair, 16 September
I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!, APT Gallery, November
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2022
Poster Girls, Solo Show, Lewisham Arthouse (Frieze Week, October)
Alternative Miss World, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, 28 October
The Art of the Football Scarf, Oof Gallery, 4 November - 23 February 2023
Playing Up, Freud Museum, 24 November
Launch of The Freudian Cocktail Book
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2021
Selected for Make Residency at Freelands Foundation London
Make, Freelands Foundation London, 12 August - 19 September
Everybody's Got One, Broca, 31 July - 15 August
Camden Together Commission, A Trilogy of Performances, August - November
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2020
Selected as London Creative Network (LCN) Intensive Artist
The Offending Article with Stuart McKenzie, Transition Two, 18 January - 19 February
You Burn Me, An evening of performance and film at the Freud Museum, 6 March
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, 7 March - 5 April
No Wave is Ever The Same, collaboration with Cafe kaput
PRADA Acronyms Publication
Nightsweats, curated by Guillaume Vandame
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2019
a-n Artist Bursary Fund 2019
Transitional States, Campbell Works (as part of Art Licks Weekend), 17 - 20 October
Artist Workshop for Frieze London and Zabludowicz Collection, Frieze Week October
I wanna be me, I wanna be EU - with collective Foreign Investments,
as part of Design + Politics Season, Fashion Space Gallery, Arcade East, 18 July
Sketching Salon for Pride London, National Gallery, 30 June
Wild Daughter Newsaper Publication to support ICA performance 'The Moon Sextiles the Sun', 28 June
Artist for the London Festival of Architecture at V&A Museum of Childhood, 1 - 2 June
Bonnet, Sketch Mayfair London, 18 - 23 April
i wanna be me, i wanna be EU - with collective Foreign Investments, as part of Waltham Forest Borough of Culture, 27 March - 5 April
"Revolt, She Said", Long table discussion and performance for International Women's Day, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 8 March
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2018
LUX Critical Forum Member 2017/18
Fig-2: 50 Projects in 50 Weeks (Black Dog Publishing)
Difficult Women, Garageland Magazine
Making It, Talk at Victoria & Albert Museum, London 24 November
Lunar Salon, Sketch Mayfair London, 31 October
Bad Home, Bad Love, Bangkok Underground Film Festival curated by LI_VID, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, 29-30 September
As Do Eye, Resource for Zabludowicz Collection, September - November
Artist Studio Workshops Series, National Gallery London, June - September
The Transformative Red Dress, Arty Magazine
Palais Ballet: Europa, Performance and curated evening at the Wallace Collection, 20 April
Artist Studio Workshops Series, Tate Modern January - May
2017
LUX Critical Forum Member 2017/18
Artist for Early Years and Families workshops, Tate Britain
Bare Cheek, with Scrapes Collective at Arbeit Gallery 19 November
Nasty Women: Architecture, Anise Gallery, 26 October - 18 November
Anarchivism: To Convert a Place into a State of Mind, Garageland Magazine
Schools Exhibition: Jack Petchey Programme, South London Gallery, 12 - 15 July
"Revisiting the Gaze: Feminism, Fashion and the Female Body", Conference at Chelsea College of Arts, 28 - 29 June 2017
Ghost Cinema, Transition Gallery, 13 May
Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind, Convened by Zoe Mendelson, Arts Admin, Toynbee Studios, 24 March
Create:Insights, Talk at The Victoria & Albert Museum, 17 March
Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis Conference Fringe, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 5 - 12 March
Artist for the Jack Petchey Schools Programme, South London Gallery
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2016
Articulating the Body, Panel discussion, Zabludowicz Collection, 8 December
Won't You Please, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, 13 October - 5 December
Screensavers, Limehouse Art Foundation, Art Licks 2016 29 September - 3 October
Under the Same Sun artist film screening, South London Gallery 17 August, selected by Guggenheim Museum,
South London Gallery & Recreative Editorial Board
Encounters, Gallerie Mejan, Royal Insitute of Art, Stockholm 10 - 14 August
Awarded Lifeboat Award 2016 (ACAVA, Artquest and UAL Postgraduate Community)
Jack Petchey Schools Exhibition, South London Gallery 13 - 16 July
Absolute Demolition: Gender & Anarchy, ICA, 5 July
Two Minute Studio Visits, Selected by Jeremy Deller, Lewisham Arthouse 27 May - 5 June
Artist for the Jack Petchey START Programme, South London Gallery, January - July 2016
A Creeping Through Suburbia, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, 4 March - 16 April
The Isadorables, Acts: Re-acts Performance residency at Wimbledon College of Arts, 19 - 25 February
2015
Donuts, Fig-2, ICA, London, 2 - 9 November (with Anthea Hamilton)
Bizarre Sound Creatures, Het Glaspaviljoen, Eindhoven, Nederlands 17 - 25 Oct (as part of Dutch Design Week)
Redefining Art Speak, Performance & Publication Launch, South London Gallery, 21 Oct
‘Chelsea 10’, Alumni exhibition selected by the College, Chelsea College of Arts, 19 Sept - 7 Oct
‘A Vehicle for Revolution’, Solo show, The Old Police Station, New Cross, Deptford X Festival, 25 Sept - 4 Oct
'The Young Ladies Treasure Book', Chelsea College of Arts Project Space & Library, 8 June - 31 July
Online Artist in Residence, TATE, BP Art Exchange, January - March
'After Ladies Paradise' - Performance, Wallace Collection, London, 6 March
'Gaga Manifesto' - Performance to Jack Halberstam, Chelsea Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group,
Chelsea College of Arts, February
'Invisible Hours', South London Gallery, 27 November 2014 - 18 January 2015
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2009 -
'Behind The Scenes', National Portrait Gallery, London 9 July - 22 July, 2013
'Jeunesse', Jester Jacques Gallery, Blackall Studios, Shoreditch, London 1 - 6 November 2012
'Kadin - Feminism East Meets West', Arbeit Gallery, 4 Helmet Row, London, 22 - 31 March 2012
Louis Vuitton "Recreativeuk.com" launch, Covent Garden Piazza, June 2011
(With Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fiona Banner,Michael Craig-Martin and Keith Tyson.)
"I am not a good enough Feminist", Concrete Utopia, New York, May 2011
"The Phallic Matron", Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group, Chelsea College of Arts, July 2010
"The Cosey Complex", ICA, London; 27 March 2010,
Discussion and publication with the Chelsea Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group.
"Vulva" Mumford Fine Arts, Soho, London, March 2009, Group Show.
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PUBLICATIONS:
A Glossary for Art Speak, South London Gallery
The Performance Dinners, Mo Throp
The Cosey Complex: A Reader, Edited by Maria Fusco, ICA
Domino Effect Toolkit: Engaging NEET Young People through photography, National Portrait Gallery
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LEARNING PROJECTS:
South London Gallery
Tate Modern
Tate Britain
Centre Pompidou
Art on the Underground
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The Photographers' Gallery
The Wallace Collection
National Portrait Gallery
British Museum
Watts Gallery
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CURATED:
The Young Ladies Treasure Book, Chelsea College of Arts Project Spaces & Library, 8 June - 31 July 2015
Paint Club: We Need to Talk About Painting, a panel discussion with Pamela Golden and Rita Keegan, 26 May 2015
Paranormal: Susan Hiller, Tate Britain event for Louis Vuitton Recreative, May, 2011.
A Night in with the Chelsea Girls, featuring Viv Albertine of The Slits, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 17th Feb, 2010.
Tate Takeover: Exquisite Corpse, October 31st 2009, Tate Modern Turbine Hall Bridge, London
Tate Takeover: London Calling , 28th June 2008, Tate Modern, London
TEACHING:
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London - Visiting Artist for the BA Fine Art Course
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
Outreach Programme for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon College of Arts, London
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