SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2020 After Hortus Malabaricus: Sensing & Presencing Rare Plants, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
2016 Descriptions True & Perfect, Jilin University of Arts, Changchun, China
2012-13 Siân Bowen and Nova Zembla: Suspending the Ephemeral: Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing, Berlin;
Trinity Contemporary, London
2012 Capturing the Ephemeral: Siân Bowen and Nova Zembla, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2008 Of Dust, Japan House, Daiwa Foundation, London
2007 Drawing, Context and the Collection, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2006 Shift, North Gallery, Kyoto Arts Centre, Japan.
Habit, A1 Art Space, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Siân Bowen – New Work, The Drawing Gallery, London
2004 Siân Bowen, Galerie am Markt, Kunstverein, Schwâbisch Hall, Germany
Habit, METAL, London
2002-3 Ream, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Mead Gallery, Coventry; and Angel Row, Nottingham
2000 Seal, The New Gallery, Grizedale, Cumbria
Passage, Hart Gallery, London
Siân Bowen: New Works, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2020-21 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Drawing Projects. Trowbridge; Cooper Gallery, Dundee;
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; The Gallery at AUB, Bournemouth.
2019 Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art, RWA, Bristol
2018 Folding Islands, Drawing Boundaries, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture
I am What I am, The Gallery, AUB, Bournemouth
2017 25 Jahre: Werkstatt für Papier, Projecktraum Kunstquartioer Bethanien, Berlin
Black Mirror, The Gallery, AUB, Bournemouth
Bucherlese, Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Vienna
25 Jahre : Werkstatt für Papier, Projecktraum Kunstquartioer Bethanien, Berlin
2015 Paper, Table, Wall and After 2, National Taiwan University of Art, Taipei
2014 Angels, Equator Arts, Singapore
The Barents Sea, Arkangelsk Museum, Russia
Paper, Table, Wall and After 1, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne
2013-14 British Drawings: 1600 to the Present Day, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2013 Drawology, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
2012 Unknown Fields: Recent British Drawings, Young Gallery, Salisbury
2011 Dust on the Mirror 2, Institute for Contemporary Art, Lasalle University, Singapore
Unfinished Business, Wallington Hall, Northumberland
2010 Touchstones, Salisbury Museum and Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Dust on the Mirror 1, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2009 40 Artists - 40 Drawings, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
In Between the Lines - Recent British Drawings, Trinity Fine Art, London
Recent British Drawings, Trinity Arts, New York
Northern Print Biennale, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2008 Refractions/Shadows – A Critics Choice: Mel Gooding, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2006-7 Drawing Breath, 10 Years of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Wimbledon College of Art & tour
Making a Mark, Northern Print Studio Gallery, Newcastle
2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2005 Mostyn 15, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
2004 Look to This Day, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2003 Drawing the Process, Knights Park Gallery, Kingston University & tour
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space London & tour
2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize, School of Fine Art, Cheltenham & tour
2001 Jerwood Drawing Prize, School of Fine Art, Cheltenham & tour
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RESIDENCIES
2022-25 Artist-in-Residence, Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2019 Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, India
2010-12 Guest Artist in Drawing, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2009 Artists + Archaeology, Salisbury Museum & Stonehenge World Heritage Site
2006-8 Resident Artist in Drawing, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2006 Guest Artist, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan
2003-4 Time & Space Residency, METAL, London
2003 Resident Artist, Costume & Textiles Museum, Nottingham
2000 Invited Artist, Villa Romana, Florence
1993 Grizedale Forest Residency
1993 Resident Artist, Burford House & Gardens, Worcestershire
SELECTED AWARDS
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2022 Small Research Grant, AUB
2017 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
2013 AIR Award, Leverhulme Trust
2010 Research Grant, AHRC
2006 Daiwa Foundation Award
2002 Encore Award, Northern Arts
2001 Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize
1997 Northern Arts Major Award
Grant for the Arts, Art Council England
1995 British Council Visitorship to India
COLLECTIONS
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British Council, India
British Museum, London
European Patent Office, Munich
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Artist Book Collection, Leipzig
Heian Art, Kyoto, Japan
Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum
Lowick House Print Collection
Metzingen Town Council, Germany
National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague: Artists Book Collection
New York City Library: Artists Book Collection
Northern Print Studio
University of Nottingham
Paintings in Hospitals Scotland
Stanford University Libraries, California: Special Collections
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Teikyo University, Durham
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Villa Romana, Florence
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Sarah Casey & Gerry Davies,‘Drawing Investigations: Graphic Relationships with Science, Culture and the Environment’, Bloomsbury, 2020
Gemma Brace; Rachel Nee & Christiana Payne, 'Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art, 1692-2019', Sansom & Company, 2019
Ian Heywood, ‘Sensory Arts and Design’, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
Marsha Meskimmon & Phil Sawdon, ‘Drawing Difference: Connections Between Gender and Drawing', Sew Editions, 2016
Susan Owens, The Art of Drawing; British Masters & Methods Since 1800', V&A Publications, 2013
Jan Philipp Fruehsorge,’The Art of Recollection and Material Memory’, catalogue essay, 2012
Joel Fisher, ’The Suddeness of Place; Siân Bowen and Nova Zembla’, catalogue essay, 2012
Paul Coldwell, Contemporary Printmaking, Black Dog Publishing, 2010
Tony Godfrey, ‘Dust on the Mirror’, catalogue essay (interview), 2010
Jeremy Cooper, ‘In Between the Lines’, catalogue essay, 2009
Mel Gooding, ‘Refractions/Shadows’, catalogue essay, 2008
Tim Travis, ‘Of Dust’, catalogue essay, 2008
Richard Cork, ‘The Stubborn Art’, Financial Times, May 2007
Richard Cork, ‘Shift & Gaze’, catalogue essay, 2007
Tony Godfrey, ‘To See is to Touch, to Touch is to See’, catalogue essay, 2007
Deanna Petherbridge, Psycho Dynamics of Obsessive Drawing, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007
Gill Saunders, ‘Reflections on Drawing’, catalogue essay, 2007
Pauline Webber, ‘Paper of a Very Special Kind’, catalogue essay, 2007
David Buckman, Artists in Britain Since 1945, 2006
Deanna Petherbridge, ‘Drawing Inspiration’, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, catalogue essay, 2006
John Cornall, ‘Ream’, Arts Review, March 2003
Robert Clark, ‘Ream’, The Guardian’, November 2002
Sacha Craddock, ‘The Ream Series’, catalogue essay, 2002
Francis McKee, ‘Making Time’, catalogue essay, 2002
Richard Cork, ‘Hung Drawn and Courted’, The Times, Sept. 2001
Richard Cork, ‘Drawing a Line’ Jerwood Drawing Prize catalogue essay, 2001
Tony Godfrey, ‘It Carries Its Own Time With It’, catalogue essay, 2000