Biography - Caro Halford

Contact

Caro Halford

caro@carohalford.com
enquiries@millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk

Caro’s profile can be found on UNFRAME

Lecturing
2019 - Date	Art and Design Lecturer, Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges, UCA Creative Workshop Tutor, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey Assistant Print Tutor, Mill Street Etching Studio and Putney School of Art, Putney, London Foundation Lecturer, Arts and Business College, Bloomsbury, London,
2019	Kingston College, Kingston – Lecturer in BTEC Diploma in Art and Design and Foundation Diploma
2017 - 2019	Camberwell College of Arts, London – Lecturer in Drawing and Conceptual Practice/Sculpture pathway on Foundation Diploma
2018 - 2019	Bath Spa University, Bath – Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art and one to one Critiques. Winchester School of Art, Winchester – Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art final year mid-term critiques/Fine Art Interim Review
2015	Camberwell College of Arts, London – Visiting Lecturer for BA Painting final year Critiques

Talks
1 April 2022	Thinking methodologically: Creative Arts practice and academic research, 2 - 4 pm, University of Bristol, St James Priory, 1 Whitson Street, Bristol BS1 3NZ
4 March 2020	Coming out of the shadow - Equality in Contemporary Art, 6.30 - 8 pm, Unframe & Fora, Fora Great Eastern Street, 21-33 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3EJ
12 September 2019	‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser!’ At Pow! Interdisciplinary Collisions, Making Public, Graduate Show, MRes Fine Art and Humanities, The Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art

Teaching
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. This included drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics. Also advice on submission of portfolios and interviews for Art Scholarships.

Mentoring
2022 - 2023	Goldsmiths Mentor, Goldsmiths’ Mentoring Scheme, GOLD AWARD STREAM, Goldsmiths, University of London.
2021 - 2022	Goldsmiths Mentor, Goldsmiths’ Mentoring Scheme, BAME STREAM, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Education
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
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
2023	‘Mary Moser’s Friends’, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, 25 July to 26th August 2023

Recent Exhibitions
2023	‘Mary Moser’s Friends’, The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk, 25th July to 26th August 2023/PV 29th July 2023
2022	Visionary Miniatures, Angelica and I 2020, Visionary British Museum, 2 December 2022 to 31 January 2023 ‘I have a Meeting with Mary Moser outside the British Museum!’ At Love, Visionary Brit Museum, 3pm, on 12 February 2022
2021	The Shock of the Lock showing at Aldeburgh Beach Lookout & Art House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 12 April to 5 September 2021

Curated Projects
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
2022	'Are you enjoying the attention now Mary?' on 27 November 2022 and 4 December 2022, 42 Sutherland Avenue and ASC Open Studios, Kingston Upon Thames, London 'Are you enjoying the attention now Mary?' on 23 June 2022, DFA Showcase 2022, University of East London, London E16 2RD
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, The William the Fourth, London E10
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 UNIVERSE, Venice Biennale ‘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 January 2019 and at Tate Britain, October 2018
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 ‘Life of a 1950’s Housewife’, Zone offices organized by Arterial ‘Mothership’, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset UK
2016	‘Mothership’, The Sawmills, Wandsworth, London Clifford Chance’s Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2016, Goldsmiths MFA Final Degree Show 2016, Goldsmiths, University of London Untitled BCN_8th Birthday ON PAPER, Festes de Gracia, Spain
2015	Performance of ‘I keep Losing Balance’, Maverick Expo, Film screening of ‘If You Have Got That Feeling’, The Big Screen at Latitude Music Festival, Suffolk,
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 ‘LDN/BCN’, Barcelona, Spain
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
2023	Caro’s work is held in private and public collections across the world in the UK, America and Japan; including: The Cut Digital Archive 2023, The Fora Space 2016 and Catalogue no 492 in the Schio municipal public collection Italy.