Art Career Advice from Charles Ogilvie: Adelaide Damoah Art Discussion

 
Charles Ogilvie is a multi media artist and graduate of the sculpture department at the Royal College of Art where he gained an MFA with distinction. He is currently studying for a DPhil at Oxford University through an AHRC funded studentship where his research interests include the history of cosmology, alchemy, the UK nuclear fleet and the artist John Latham.
Recently he has shown work at the 2015 Venice Biennale and been awarded a Brettschneider Visiting Fellowship at Cornell University collaborating with composer Toby Young.
Charles was shortlisted for the 2011 Red Mansion Prize. and the 2011 New Sensations Prize.

Charles grew up in Eltham in South East London before attending Magdalen College Oxford to read Chemistry. He was awarded the University prize for organic chemistry before moving to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art where he graduated with a First Class Degree.

Selected shows:
2015 STORE contemporary, Pizza Parlance, September
The Quennington Sculpture Trust, Fresh Air 2015, June
Pizza Pavilion, Venice, Non Piu Pesto, May
The Gerard Moore Gallery, Orbits and Occults, April – June
Museum of the History of Science, Dreams of Homunculi, March- June
The Max Planck Institute, Circling the Square, February
2014 Robin Katz Gallery, The British Line, November,
Cornell University, Hypoxia (performance work), November
The Crypt Gallery, ILLUNINATION, June
The Old Royal Naval College, Modern Makers, May,
2013 NoFormat Gallery, Three Fields, Feb
The Hanmi Gallery, The Beautiful is Present, January
2012 The Ashmolean Museum, In-Site, June
Oxford Botanic Gardens, Sustainability, April/May
Gloucester Cathedral, Open West, March
2011 Victoria House, New Sensations, October
Blyth Gallery, Artifact, Sep
RCA Sculpture, Degree show, Jun
Waterloo Action Centre Gallery, FODO, May
2010 Departure Gallery, Rhizomatic, October,
Victoria and Albert Museum, Rapid Form, Jul,
Five Years Gallery at Bethnal Green Library, Reflectures, Jun, – performance lecture event pairing artists with research academics (also co-curated).
Triumph, Clerkenwell Festival, Jun,
RCA, Painting Project Space, Performance//Lecture, Mar, – performance lecture event (also curated)
RCA, Henry Moore Galleries, Work in Progress, May,

Other work:
Victoria and Albert Museum, Small Spaces, Jun- Aug, 2010 – designed and fabricated hot-forged mortise and tenon jointed steel ladder for The Beetle’s House by Fujimori Teruobu.

Conference Presentations:

-A Cabinet of Curiosities, 27th October 2015, King’s College Cambridge
-Art, Science and the Thirsty World, 6th-8th November, Cornell University:
Hypoxia, co-authored, Toby Young

-Art Out of Time, 26nd-27rd June, 2014 University of Oxford:
Out Of Time Aesthetics: an artist’s conversation with the Museum of the History of Science, co-authored, Vid Simoniti

– All About Imaging: Transactions, 22nd-23rd May 2014, University of Westminster:
Under the Scientific Picture, co-authored, Vid Simoniti and Matthieu Chavent

Text from: http://charlesogilvie.co.uk/about/
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