Throughout my adult life I have sought to go willingly into the unknown. This is a continual process between the struggle against my own vulnerability and my ability to relax enough to allow the necessary un-integration needed to use my imagination, and to therefore see possibilities.
I don’t know where my life, or my work, will take me. Sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t.
Throughout my adult life I have sought to go willingly into the unknown. This is a continual process between the struggle against my own vulnerability and my ability to relax enough to allow the necessary un-integration needed to use my imagination, and to therefore see possibilities.
I don’t know where my life, or my work, will take me. Sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes questions have no final answer. Sometimes things are in complete conflict and yet manage to hang together.
I simply try to listen. I respond. I play. I express, hide, repress, awaken, retreat, and express, again. Each mark, each gesture, is intuitive - a moment of experimentation that begets another. Each piece of work is the unknown communicating itself into being.
ADELAIDE SHALHOPE
EDUCATION
1999 Certificate in Interior Design, Inchbald School of Design, London, UK
1995 M.Ed, Creative Arts in Learning, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA
1986 B.F.A. Theater Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
ADDITIONAL ART EDUCATION
2017 Explorations in Abstraction, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow UK
2008 Fashion as Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Forth Valley Open Studios
2015 'Fusion' Gallery 23, Lancaster, UK
2014 'Arctic Resonance' - Exhibition of abstract photographs with Helen Grove-White, The Music Room, Lancaster, UK
2014 'Materiality' Ann Street Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Forth Valley Open Studios, UK
2011 'Wrapped Up' Gallery 23, Lancaster, UK
2006 'French Open', The French Library, Boston, USA
2005 Fort Point Channel Open, C Duell Arts, Boston, USA
2001 Solo Show, Shaw Cramer Gallery Vineyard Haven, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard University
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Skotsolv, Norway
Cambridge, US
New York City, US
Princeton, US
Chilmark, US
London, UK
PRESS
Art North Magazine - Issue 2, Summer 2019 (upcoming)
MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Scottish Artists
Visual Arts Scotland
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