Dawn Woolley

Dawn Woolley


About

My artistic practice encompasses photography, video, installation and performance. I use photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation.

My artwork forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis, phenomenology and feminism I examine my own experience of becoming an object of sight and also consider the experience the viewer has when looking at me as a female, and a photographic object. Voyeurism and exhibitionism intertwine as I attempt to disrupt relationships of power in purposefully provocative scenes.

Primarily my artwork is self-portraiture, but not in the traditional sense. In the work I create a photographic copy of myself and place it in the real world instead of me. She becomes a substitute and my visual representative.
Location
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Website
http://www.dawnwoolley.com
Education
PhD by Project. Royal College of Art, London, GB. 2011-2017.

MA Photography. Royal College of Art, London, GB. 2006-2008.

BA Fine Art (printmaking). Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, GB. 1998-2001. Read More

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Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $950

Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $950

Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $800

Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $800

Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $950

Dawn Woolley
United Kingdom
Edition $450
The Substitute (woodland09)
Visual Pleasure (legs akimbo)
The Substitute (knees)
The Substitute (promenade
The Substitute (stairwell)
Interloper (dead legs fence)
The Substitute (woodland02)

Events & Exhibitions

Exhibitions

2012
All Your Women Things, Paper Gallery, Manchester.
Look Attractive, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City.
Create, Observe, Perform, Alkovi Gallery, Helsinki.
Manchester Contemporary, Art Fair (Paper Gallery), Manchester.
Opening Exhibition, Paper Gallery, Manchester.
Visual Pleasure, Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Lithuania (solo exhibition).
Short Lived Pleasure, Bloc Projects, Sheffield (solo exhibition).
100 Curators 100 Days, Saatchi Online, Selected by Matthias Harder, Chief curator, Helmut Newton Foundation.
Visual Pleasure, Photography and Performance, Newport University (to accompany seminar).

2011
Worldwide @ Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanshi, Japan.
Made in Roath, Window, Diana Street, Cardiff (Performance).
Nude and Erotic Photography, ONO Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy.
New Collectors Book, Published by Basak Malone LLC.
Time After 2011, MCK Gallery, Split, Croatia.
Visual Pleasure, Ffotogallery, Cardiff (Solo exhibition).
Expo et Reflexions sur les Stereotypes Sexistes, College des Bourg Mestre et Echevins de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
Time After 2011, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia.
Portmanteau, Halle14, Spinnerei, Leipzig. (Performance Installation commissioned by G39, Cardiff).
Virtually Real, The Audrey and Stanley Burton Gallery, Leeds.
Artemisia, St David’s Centre, Cardiff.
Objects of Desire, The Freud Museum, London.

2010
Visual Pleasure Book Launch, Ffotogallery, Penarth.
Virtually Real, Blyth Gallery, London.
My World: Visions of 21st Century Feminism, European Women’s Lobby, Brussels.
New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA.
Cut to the Measure of Desire, G39 Gallery, Cardiff (solo performance and installation).
Cut to the Measure of Desire, Castle Arcade shop window, Cardiff (solo performance).
Interloper, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales (solo installation).
Cut to the Measure of Desire, Park Conservative Club, Cardiff (solo performance).
The Substitute, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University (solo show).
Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic Space, Axisweb, Selection Curated by Matthew Shaul.
Auxesis, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff.
Nude, Loudoun Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

2009
Cream International Festival for Arts and Media
Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama, Japan.
Abandon Normal Devices Festival Fact Centre, Liverpool.
Failure / Success, Tactile Bosch Gallery, Cardiff.
Evolution Media Arts Festival, Leeds, Hyde Park Picture House and Burton Art Gallery.
Crosswire, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff.
Group Exhibition, Galleria Omphalos, Italy.
The Human Canvas, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Transfixed Motion/Transitory Still, Sheffield Hallam University.
Art vs. Film, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA.
Zero de Conduite, Elevator Gallery, London.
Screening, Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, London.
Sensitive Material, NEU Gallery, London.
Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London Art Fair.

2008
Interloper, South Square Gallery, Bradford (solo show).
Crash Worship, Tactile Bosch Studios, Cardiff.
Ending Feminist Futures, University of Aberdeen.
Another Roadside Attraction, The Griffin, London.
Videophile (Video Festival), Phoenix Art Gallery, Brighton.
Collision 08, Area 10, London.
The Show, Royal College of Art, London (MA Show).

2007
Success / Failure, Nova Huta, Krakow, Poland (Photomonth festival).
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Primo Alonso Gallery, London.
House, Elastic Residencies, London.
Another Publication, International Publication project, Utrecht.

2006
Making Love to My ego, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (publication).
The Other Woman, The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton (solo show).
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Liverpool Biennial Independents Exhibition.
Making Love to My Ego, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (publication).

2005
Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan (publication).
Makeshift, Midland Art Centre, Birmingham (2 person show).
We Didn’t Mean To Be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It (publication), Strathclyde University Gallery, Glasgow/ University of Hertfordshire Galleries.

2004
We Didn’t Mean To Be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It (publication), Warrington Museum and Art Gallery.

2003
Because I’m Worth It, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery (solo show).
The Dog and Partridge, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Because I’m Worth It, Warsaw Project Space, Manchester (solo show).

2002
Art Take Away, Cornerhouse Art Centre, Manchester.
Family, De Montford Hall, Leicester City Art Gallery, Leicester.

2001
FreshArtFair2001, Business Design Centre, London.
The Mancunian Candidate, Degree show, Manchester Metropolitan University.
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