Biography - Caro Halford
Contact |
Caro Halford caro@carohalford.com |
Lecturing |
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2019 - Date |
Art & Design Lecturer and Course Leader, 3-dimensional pathway, Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges |
2019 |
Kingston College, Kingston – Lecturer in BTEC Diploma in Art |
2017 - 2019 |
Camberwell College of Arts, London – Lecturer in Drawing |
2018 - 2019 |
Bath Spa University, Bath – Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art and
one to one Critiques. |
2015 |
Camberwell College of Arts, London – Visiting Lecturer for BA |
Talks |
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10 July 2024 |
Caro/Mary talks to djshanazzle, Hoxton Radio about her latest 'Mary Moser's Friends on Tour - Now You See Me, Mary Moser, Angelica Kauffman, Anna Airy and Sylvia Gosse' showing at Baker Howard Contemporary, 2 Hoxton Street, London N1 6NG |
1 April 2022 |
Thinking methodologically: Creative Arts practice and academic research, 2 - 4 pm, University of Bristol, St James Priory, |
4 March 2020 |
Coming out of the shadow - Equality in Contemporary Art, |
12 September 2019 |
‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser!’ At Pow! Interdisciplinary Collisions, Making Public, Graduate Show, MRes Fine Art and Humanities, |
Teaching |
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2017 - 2018 |
Tower House School, London - “Able Arts” Tuition for year 6 to year 8 to develop their work towards Art or Art Combined Scholarships and Art Awards. |
Mentoring |
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2022 - 2023 |
Goldsmiths Mentor, |
2021 - 2022 |
Goldsmiths Mentor, |
Education |
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2024 - 2029 |
PhD study in Fine Art Practice, Arts University Bournemouth |
2021 - 2022 |
DFA Doctorate in Fine Art, UEL, University of East London, London UK |
2017 - 2019 |
MRes Fine Art and Humanities Pathway, Royal College of Art, London UK |
PGCE, Post Compulsory Sector, UCL, Institute of Education, London UK |
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2012 - 2016 |
MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London UK |
2009 - 2011 |
MA in Art and Space at Kingston University, London UK |
1995 - 1997 |
BA in Design: Interior at Chelsea College of Arts - UAL UK |
1987 - 1989 |
B/Tec Design/Display, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford UK |
Recent Solo Exhibitions |
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2024 |
'Mary Moser's Friends on Tour' at Visionary Brit Museum, O/s British Museum, Great Russell St, London WC1B 3D. |
Recent Exhibitions |
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2024 |
'How Soon Is Now?' at the Baker Howard Contemporary Performance and intervention of Mary Moser with Maria Gimmeno in 'Old Mistresses - (Queridas Vejas Editing Gombrich)' 'Mary Moser's Friends on Tour' at Visionary Brit Museum, O/s British Museum, Grt Russell St, London WC1B 3DA, closing event Saturday 11th May at 11 am with live performances by Caro/Mary and Talk by Dr Hannah Lyons. 'How long is forever', Gleditschstrabe37, 10781 Berlin Schoneberg,Germany |
2023 |
‘Mary Moser’s Friends’, The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk, |
2022 |
Visionary Miniatures, Angelica and I 2020, Visionary British Museum, |
‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser outside the British Museum!’ At Love, Visionary Brit Museum, 3pm, on 12 February 2022 |
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2021 |
The Shock of the Lock showing at Aldeburgh Beach Lookout & Art House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 12 April to 5 September 2021 |
Curated Projects |
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2019 |
New Bourne 2019 – An on-going art exhibition exploring new beginnings for female artists within two barns in Suffolk |
2018 |
Foundations 2018 - A Clean Edit, Peckham Pelican, |
2016 |
Co-curator of ‘Mothership’ exhibition exploring themes of mother artists. Project management, art technician duties, fund raising, drinks sponsorship, marketing of exhibition incl. screen print of tote bags, employment of invigilators and organizing an Artist Talk. |
Group Exhibitions/Performances/Residences |
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2024 |
‘A Day in the Life of a 1950’s Housewife’ performed on 11th April at ‘How Long is Forever’ at Galerie 37, 10781 Berlin-Schoneberg, Germany 12-27 April 2024, Thurs to Sat 4 – 7 pm, Vernissage 11 April 7 till 9 pm |
2022 |
'Are you enjoying the attention now Mary?' |
2021 |
‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser!’ On 11 November and 5 December 2021 at Julie’s Bob 11.11.21 - 05.12.21 Terrace, |
2020 |
Alive in Isolation -The Aldeburgh Beach and Lookout, Suffolk |
2019 |
‘Making Public’ Graduate Show, MRes Fine Art and Humanities showing ‘Angelica and I’, ‘Dabber and I’, ‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser!’ and ‘Mary Moser’s Friends' ‘If you have got that feeling’ 2015 showing at ALIVE IN THE ‘I have at Meeting with Mary Moser!’, Interim show, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, March 2019 ‘Angelica and I’ at the WIP show, Royal College of Art |
2018 |
‘A Day in the Life of a 1950’s Housewife’ 2018 at WIMMIN ‘Please take me’ 2016, is showing online at The London Open 2018 applicants, Whitechapel Gallery ‘Who is this Disobedient?’ 2016, at the Fora Space, Clerkenwell, London ‘If you have got that feeling’ 2015, screening at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout for ALIVE in the UNIVERSE, June and Aldeburgh Carnival August 2018 |
2017 |
Film screening of ‘Wendy’, Exovision 2017, Pasto, Narino, Colombia August 2017 Members Summer Exhibition, London Print Studio, London |
2016 |
‘Mothership’, The Sawmills, Wandsworth, London Clifford Chance’s Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2016, Untitled BCN_8th Birthday ON PAPER, Festes de Gracia, Spain |
2015 |
Performance of ‘I keep Losing Balance’, Maverick Expo, |
2014 |
Artist Residency at The Aldeburgh Beach and Lookout, Aldeburgh Beach, Suffolk, UK |
2013 |
Members Summer Exhibition, London Print Studio, London Performance of ‘Life of a 1950’s Housewife’ Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London |
2012 |
Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Arts, London Alas Summer Residency Exhibition 2012, London Bad Behaviour’, Brixton East Gallery, London |
2011 |
Thank you and Goodbye’ MA Show, Kingston University/The Old Truman Brewery, London ‘Inspired by Circus’, The CRAFTCO Gallery, Southwold, Suffolk |
2010 |
SCG Open Contemporary Print Fair 2010, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Film screening of ‘Bangkok’, MA and Postgraduate Contemporary Art Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, 2009, UK |
2009 |
Film screening of ‘Bangkok’ shown at ‘Fluxion’, Toilet Gallery, Kingston UK |
Collections |
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2023 |
Caro’s work is held in private and public collections across the world in the UK, America and Japan; |