Rhona Eve Clews
Born Kent, UK, 1977. Lives and works in London, UK.
Education
2023-2025 Diploma in Environmental Humanities, The New School of The Anthropocene, (NSOTA), London, UK (currently studying part-time).
2017-2019 MFA in Fine Art (Media): Distinction, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
2012-2013 Postgraduate Diploma in Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, UK.
1996-1999 BSc (Hons) Psychology: 2:1, University of Westminster, London, UK.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant), Relation de voyage, Screening room, SLQS Gallery, online. 2015 Land & sound, Audio Foundation, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand.
Collaborative practice
2023-ongoing Intercultural Roots, place awarded, UK.
2022-ongoing The More-Than-Human Book Club, co-founder & co-host of monthly Art and Ecology reading group with Lilly Edward, Barbican Library and online.
2022-ongoing LUX/Deluxe Critical Forum, place awarded, LUX Moving Image, London, UK.
2022 Gooey care, Squishy sessions workshop with Becky Lyon and Amanda Rice, London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck, London.
2021-22 Art x ecology walks, four walks connecting bodies, elements, and seasons with Becky Lyon, for London National City Parks and Brent connects, funded by Natural England, London, UK.
2021 Earthshapes, art and ecology midwinter event with artists Becky Lyon and Sophie Hughes, Phytology Nature Reserve, London, UK.
2021-ongoing Squishy sessions, Materials, tactility, touch & care themed artist’s group, place awarded, online.
2021 Gut Feelings: Voicing the Visceral, place awarded, TACO!, London, UK.
2020-2021 School of Broadcasting, with Evan Ifekoya, place awarded, Arts Catalyst, Sheffield, UK, online.
2018-21 Arts Territory Exchange, Letter-written correspondence with Berglind Hreioarsdottir, Iceland-UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 I want to eat the earth, Bad Punk, Resonance FM, UK.
2023 Soft Tissue: Feeling through precarious times, Metroland Cultures, London, UK.
2023 Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
2023 WAVES, Fieldnotes for Sirkhane Darkroom, Café Oto, London, UK.
2023 Sunscreen, LUX Moving Image, London, UK.
2022 Homerton Short Film Festival, London, UK.
2022 Kiez Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
2021 The Digest Reader, Thameside Arts and Cultural Office (TACO!), London, UK.
2021 When was the last time you saw the sea?, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2021 Sonic punctuation, Arts Catalyst, Sheffield, UK, online.
2020 Entering the dark room, with Cristina Planas, Montreal, Canada-London, UK, online.
2020 VEGETATE, curated by Anna Souter, online.
2020 Bears at a Picnic, curated by Andrea Spisto and Michelle Madsen, Resonance FM, London, UK.
2020 Words to be looked at, curated by Carey Young and Sharon Morris, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2020 Future Impermanent, curated by Amy Butt and Dan Byrne-Smith, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, London, UK.
2019 Put this in your window and think of me, curated by Art, language, location with Arts Territory Exchange, Cambridge Artworks ArtSpace, Cambridge, UK.
2019 you’re mulchy green, you’re verdant matter, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
2019 Fastforward Women in Photography, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK.
2019 Envisioning Other Worlds, curated by Lumen Studios, Bow Arts/ RAW Labs/Lumen Studios, London, UK.
2019 Bite the Bullet, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK.
2018 SURGE, East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK.
2018 Re: Happening 8, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, North Carolina, USA.
2018 Small Press Project: Sound, Slade Research Centre, London, UK.
2018 writing aloud, again differently, programmed by Ruby Wroe & Art/Work Association, Auto Italia Southeast, London, UK.
2018 DRIP DRY, Chalton Gallery, London, UK.
2018 One need not be a chamber, Curated by Sasha Burkhanova-Khabadze, EXPOSED Arts Projects, London, UK.
2017 Quartos, Curated by Francesca Aires Mateus, Dona Laura’s House, Lisbon, Portugal.
Curating/Talks/ Research/ Teaching
2023 Expanded photography, nature and performance, The Slade Widening Participation Summer School with Sadie Coles HQ, UCL East, London, UK.
2023 My solar plexus was suddenly bathed in green, Artist’s talk for UAL Psychedelic Society, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK.
2022 Fear won’t butter the parsnips, Artist’s talk for ‘The World After’ series curated by Amanprit Sandhu, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK.
2021 Opening to the other, Talk with Berglind Hreidarsdottir and audio recording with Alex Knight, for Iceland: Mobility, spatiality, virtuality for Arts Territory Exchange, Lancaster University and Strondin Studio, Iceland, online.
2021 As your fall full lung exudes a smooth white sheen, Experiential performance for Soft Tissue, School of Machines, Making and Make-believe, Berlin, online.
2021 More than human photography, Artist’s talk with Rebecca Najdowski for London Alternative Photography Collective (LAPC), online.
2021 By the green spring light of my generous liver, Experiential performance for Squishy Sessions, four-part research series, curated by Becky Lyons, UK, online.
2020 Connective Tissue: bodies, ecologies, somatics, aliveness and care, Talk, presentation and roundtable discussion for Contemporary Art in the Anthropocene, curated by Edward Christie, UCL Anthropocene Department, London, UK, online.
2020 Plump out your bodies, we’ve sacrificed too much for flatness, Taught experiential creative writing workshop exploring hybridity, technological-human dialogues and embodied-ness as an act of subversion for Beyond Borders, London Science Fiction Research Community. Online.
2020 Back of hand & shrivelled apple, Taught expanded writing, walking and weird ecologies workshop for Myriads of Things, by Transparent Domain, Funded by Arts Council England. Online.
2019 Women and the land, Taught poetry workshop in response to texts and visual poems selected from UCL Special Collections by Art librarian, Liz Lawes, forming part of you’re mulchy green, you’re verdant matter, feminist ecologies exhibition and fortnight of public facing accompanying events, Slade Summer School, UCL & Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
2019 you’re mulchy green, you’re verdant matter, Co-curated feminist ecologies exhibition and fortnight of public facing accompanying events with Artist Lea Collet invited by Sandra Smith, Slade Summer School, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
2019 Sci-fi and Ecologies Reading Group, Led reading group for members of public alongside Envisioning Other Worlds exhibition, RAW Labs/Bow Arts/Lumen Studios, London, UK.
2019 Fastforward Women in Photography, Co-curated Photography exhibition with Nancy Krakaur and Andreea Teleaga as part of Fastforward Women in Photography event co-led by Maria Kapajeva, Susan Collins, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
2018-2019 Slade Summer School, Teaching of two-day Photography as interdisciplinary class + co-teaching of two-day Photogram & Pinhole photography class with Bea Haut, UCL, London, UK
2018 Photography + ritual, Artist talk and roundtable discussion post Black Mountain College performances, The Asheville Darkroom, North Carolina, USA.
2018 Meet the ghosts: on respectful place-making, Artist talk and discussion with curator and fellow artists for group show One need not be a chamber, EXPOSED Arts Projects, London, UK.
2017 Projections I & II, Artist talk, New Approaches to Photography, Four Corners Film, London, UK.
Residencies
2024 Giddy Threshold, The Writers’ Room, Wild Pansy Press, Islington, London, UK.
2019 Lumen & Mayes Creative, Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK.
2015 Arts, letters & numbers, Upstate New York, USA.
2015 BigCi, Bilpin, New South Wales, Australia.
Publications
2023 An emotional affair with a particular orchid: A review of Plants in Science Fiction, Vector, Critical Journal of British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), online.
2021 The Digest Reader, Edited by Esme Boggis and Fiona Glen, Thameside Arts and Cultural Office (TACO!), London, printed publication.
2020 Birth, death, dreaming and disruption: let’s spread our arms wide to catch them all, Guest editor of issue Speculative Art, Vector, Critical Journal of British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), printed publication.
2020 Back of hand & shrivelled apple, Digital publication from participants poetry, photography and writing contributions, for Myriads of Things, Transparent Domain, online.
2019 Memory and snapshot: some thoughts on photography, drawing and writing as inscriptions of Northern landscapes, Aileen Harvey. Feat. photographs from We overlap but never touch, in Proximity and distance in Northern landscape photography, D. White & C. Goldie (Eds)., print and online.
2018 Small Press Project: Sound, 10-inch record press feat. optical sound and film still from Every change is a form of liberation, 16mm film, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK.
2018 Underexposed magazine, Dedicated to female photographers. Featuring photographs from series We overlap but we never touch / Coal is born of the mountain, online.
2017 Beneath the Salt, Book by Marianne Bjørnmyr and Dan Mariner. Featuring photographs from series Suddenly the darkness turned into water, Traena, Norway.
Awards/ Funding / Prizes/ Places
2021 Best Environment and Climate Short Film, Kiez Berlin Film Festival
2019 Boise Travel Scholarship, Shortlisted, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
2019 Dolbey & Duveen Travel Scholarship, Shortlisted, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
2017 Monovisions Photography Awards, Honourable Mention, Monovisions, USA.
2017 Photo Made Emerging Scholarship, Shortlisted, Lucie Foundation, USA.
2016 Alternative Processes Award 2016, Awarded for The heat and light of fire persists,
London Alternative Photography Collective (LAPC), Photofusion, London, UK.
2016 Best in Show, Prize awarded, #AVLGLITCH, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
Press/ Links/ News
2020 Featured Artist, UCL Department of Anthropocene, UK
2020 Future impermanent, Wimbledon Art space, Wimbledon school of art, UAL, London
2019 Arts Territory Exchange/Strondin upcoming exhibition, Iceland
2019 Degree shows early scoop: lets make lots of Monet, online
2019 MFA Fine Art Graduate, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2019 Warm bodies (Air), Resonance FM, London, UK
2019 writing aloud, again differently, Art/Work association, London, UK
2018 Black Mountain College performance, USA
2017 Monovisions Photography Awards, USA
2017 One need need not be a chamber, London, UK
2015 Arts, letters and numbers resident, USA
2015 Land and sound at Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand
Image Libraries/ Collections
2020 8-ball Library, New York, USA
2020 Keats Community Library, London, UK.
2019 UCL Special Collections, UCL, London, UK.
2012-23 Works in variety of private collections in UK, Europe, USA & New Zealand.
2011-22 Millennium Images, Accredited Contributing Photographer.