Miranda Whall

Lecturer in Fine Art
BA (Wales) PG Cert (RA School, London) Photograph of Miranda Whall.

Contact

Email: mpw@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 01970 621940
Personal Web Site:http://www.mirandawhall.com/

Biography

A graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, London, Whall has developed a distinctive, dynamic, and provocative visual response to autobiographical issues of femininity, sexuality, conception and motherhood explored in ironic relation to art-historical, technological, pastoral, and Romantic imagery.  Her exhibitions, held at important contemporary art galleries such as BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Mostyn, Llandudno, MOMA Oxford, in solo, joint and group shows, comprise works that combine conventional media with time-based, mixed- and digital format media.  She was Arts Council England, North East Artist in Residence in Berlin and Wheatley Bequest Fellow at BIAD.  Whall’s digital lace drawings have been exhibited in the Jerwood Drawing Prize competition and Pizza Express Drawing Prize selected by Tim Marlow and featured in international contemporary drawing exhibitions: The Square Root of Drawing at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, and Salon 2007 New British Painting and Works on Paper, curated by Flora Fairburn, London.  Whall was one of ten artists representing the UK in the 2008 international Kaunas Art Biennial and Textile 07 Unpicked and Dismantled at the M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Lithuania.

In 2008, Whall’s drawings were exhibited in the Courtauld Institute’s East Wing Collection 8.  Her work has been included in exhibitions curated by distinguished curators of contemporary art such as Soriya Rodriquez, curator of Zoo Contemporary Art Fair (Write–On Right–Off), Irene Bradbury from the White Cube, and J. J. Charlesworth in Jake Chapman’s house and gallery. Recent exhibitions include: The Animal Gaze, a major exhibition of international artists which toured to the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, and Plymouth City Museum and Gallery; Kunskog contemporary drawing curated by Stuart Pearson-Wright and including Michael Landy and Drydon Goodwin; and Papyrophilia curated by Zavier Ellis alongside Paul Noble, Chris Offilli and Andy Warhol.

Teaching and research supervision covers contemporary fine art: installation, video, site - specific, performance, drawing, animation, relational aesthetics, text and audio.