About
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Heather Tweed is an artist, writer and researcher with a practice spanning more than twenty five years.
Her exhibition work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, OXO Tower Wharf, Old Truman Brewery and Edinburgh Fringe. One of two British artists selected for the British Council's international Crossing Cultures partnership in Cairo and Alexandria, her work has been supported by Arts Council England, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the British Council, and covered by The Guardian, The Independent and the BBC. The artist has been selected as Saatchi Online Critic's Choice and Saatchi Video Artist of the Week three times.
Alongside her visual practice the artist has spent years recovering forgotten Victorian lives from the archive, writing for the Public Domain Review, Ripperologist Magazine and Historians Magazine. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Historical Society and the British Music Hall Society.
The visual and the written works intermingle, drawn from the same source — an obsession with the overlooked and the extraordinary.
Installation, Sculpture, Video, Digital Collage Canvasses, Mixed Media.
The artist has exhibited across the UK with pieces in international settings such as New York, Tokyo and Washington.
She has been selected as a Saatchi Online gallery Critic's Choice and Saatchi video artist of the week 3 times, won 1st prize in the Millfield Open, has extensive teaching and art workshop experience and has worked with Arts and Business, Bristol City Council and the British Council, Cairo.
She is researching and writing articles about lesser known 19th Century Circus and Music Hall characters and is currently writing a book unveiling the secret life of a 19th century acrobat. (Plus books about a true Music Hall Murder and a troubled Dickensian 19th century heiress!)
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 Lulu-The Eighth Wonder Of The World, Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol
2017 Anubis Other World Tour,Carnevale, Venice, St Mark's Square, Arsenale & various locations. Art Book and photographs.
2011 Chapmans Monkey: Artifacts of the Apocryphal, Centrespace, Bristol
2010 Edinburgh Art Festival, Lost Not Found:Abscission (Edinburgh II) Curator FAB Arts
2010 Crocodilopolis, The Forest Gallery, Edinburgh, Supported by The Forest
2009 Lost Not Found:Abscission, Edinburgh Fringe Arts Festival
2006 Anubis Other World Tour, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter
Supported by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
2006 Anubis Other World Tour, Window 2, Birmingham Central Library, Supported by Birmingham Artists Project
2005 Anubis Other World Tour, Paintworks, (first artists exhibition in Bristol's
new Creative Quarter) Supported by Paintworks, Bristol Wine Company & Boccabar
2004-7 Lotus Gallery, Bath, solo shows & gallery artist
2004 Anubis Other World Tour, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nexus Gallery, Supported
by Mumm Champagne
2004 Anubis Other World Tour, Bath Fringe Arts Festival
2003 Anubis Other World Tour, Otter Gallery, Chichester
2002/3 Anubis Other World Tour, OXO Tower Wharf , South Bank, London
2002 Anubis Other World Tour, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, Supported by Black Bush & Diagio
2000 Anubis Other World Tour, Blue Gallery, Cheltenham
1999 Anubis Other World Tour, Bath Fringe Arts Festival, site specific installation
Group Exhibitions:
2026 Carnivalé, Fringe Arts Bath, Curator and exhibitor. Alison Young, British Music Hall Chair and Wanda Opalinska Actor, writer, researcher
2018 Lulu, The Eighth Wonder Of The World, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Museums at Night: Circus Spectacular
2017 Venice Vending Machine, Giardino Venice & Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale 2017 (Arts Council)
2017 Artemotion, Press and publicity associate and member. Research group for Venice Biennale 2017- 2019
2012 Hamburg Art Vending Machine, Hamburg, Germany, Curated by Art E Motion
2010 Lost Not Found Abscission, Figment, Governers Island, New York
2010 Resort, The Residence, London
2009 Blood On The Snow, Colchester, plus Lost Christmas. I Give You My Art
(Lost Not Found:Abscission II) Solo
2007 Throes, Nottingham, Teather Arts Festival
2007 Mortal, Bristol, deserted Pro Cathedral
2004 5 Magazine: Labrinth Of The Gaze, curated by Gavin Turk
2004 Heather Tweed (curated) & Kate Wood, City Inn Bristol, Arts & Business New Partners Award. Supported by City Inn, City Cafe, Bristol Wine co.
2004 Passing Time, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset
2004 Mesh, London, Seven Seven Gallery & Broadway Market
2004 Still magazine
2003 Arts & Business Showcase, Brunels Engine Shed, Bristol
2003 Into The light, BANA Open, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2003 Yoke & Zoom multiples, Art Vending Machine, Tokyo
2003 Deptford X , VIA, London
2003 Artists Bookmarket, Expace Projects, Tribeca, New York
2002 Reactions, Exit Art, Broadway, New York & Pasadena
Permanent collection, National Library Of Congress, Washington
2002 No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, video, Central Space, London
2001-10 Night of 1000 drawings, Artists Space, Soho, New York
2001/2 Artmart, 291 Gallery & Cinch, London
2001 The Flag Project, Peekskill and Lois Abrons Arts Center, New York
2001 Group Show, Candid Arts Gallery, London
2001 Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
2001 Torbay International, Torquay
2001 Millfield Open - first prize winner, Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2000 Workplace, site specific installations, Redcliffe Caves, Bristol
1999 Off the Shelf, Art Supermarket, Sherborne House, Dorset
1998 New Womens Art Works, Old Crown Courts, Bristol