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CHRISTOPHER SAMUEL
Exploring the voice behind the redacted
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2023 MANIFEST / Policy Lab - Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK
2023 The Archive of an Unseen - Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
2023 MANIFEST / Policy Lab - London, UK
2023 The Waiting Room - Object Memory, Phoenix, Leicester, UK
2022 You’re Not as Tall As You Look on Instagram - RADAR, University of Loughborough, Olympic Park, London, UK
2022 The Archive of an Unseen - Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2021 Swinging In The Wind - Sex With Cancer Online
2021 The Cared For Network - Careful Networks Online
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2023 Everywhere and Nowhere - National Trust, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, and University of Leicester, UK
2020 The Full Light of Day - VAE Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre
2018-19 AB&B COMMISSION - Welcome Inn - , AB&B - Blackpool, UK
2019 DMU Mentor Awards, De Montfort University
2014 The Lodge Hotel - Hereward College
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Solo show: Housing Crisis - Attenborough Arts Centre
2016 Solo show: Our Family - BBC Leicester, 9 St Nicholas Place
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Cared For Network - Careful Networks Online
2021 Swinging in the Wind - The Gallery, DeMontford University Leicester, UK
2021 / 2022 What You Do Not See - Hounslow Library, London, UK
2020 Visions in the Nunnery - Visions
2020 - Bow Arts, London UK
2020 The Future is Loading - Shape Open 2020, Online
2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre
2017 LoveArt - New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
2017 Emancipation? - Attenborough Arts Centre
2016 Outside In National: Radical Craft - Alternative Ways of Making
2013 Impact Art Fair. Block 336, Brixton, London
2013 Outside In: Central - Compton Verney Art Gallery
2013 N22OPENSTUDIOS - The Chocolate Factory, Clarendon Road, London
2012-13 Outside In: National - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2012 Shape Open - Portobello Gallery 6 Thorpe Close London
2012 Tight Modern - Touring
TALKS / LECTURES / CONFERENCES
2023
Unseen: Archiving the Hidden Black Disabled Experience: In Conversation / Wellcome Collection London and Online
Object Memory: Artist Talk / Phoenix Leicester
Open College of the Arts & The Human LIbrary: Artist Talk / Online
2022
Unlimited Festival 2022: Artist Talk / Southbank Centre, London
TATE MODERN LATES: Art Chats with Senior Creative Producer, Liat Rosenthal
DANC Hybrid Networking event @ HOME Manchester
Attenborough Art Centre: Artist talk
2021
DANC Jennifer Gilbert / Disabled Artists Networking Community / Plus Tate Network
Exploring Research: Nothing About Us Without Us
The Wellcome Collection
Cities: The City in British Art Working Class British Arts Network
Museums on Prescription National Portrait Gallery / Tate Online
A Conversation on Sex with Cancer Sex With Cancer / Battersea Arts Centre
The Creative Manifesto Assembly / University of the Arts London
Artist’s Talk What You Do Not See / Hounslow Library
Critical and Creative Approaches to Disability / Illinois State University
2020
Diversity in Architecture Loughborough University - Lu-arc Summer Discussion Series
EDUCATION
2014-17 BA (Hons) Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
2013-14 BTEC Art and Design, Hereward College, Coventry, UK
SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA
2020 A Sleepless night, Enable magazine - January/February
2019 Welcome Inn , Ian Youngs, BBC
2019 Welcome to the Welcome Inn, Jo Verrent, We Are Unlimited
2019 Blackpool's new Art B&B, Front Row, BBC Radio 4
2019 Accessibility issues with awkward, uncomfortable and vexing hotel room, Emma Lake, THE CATERER
2019 Room for improvement! World's most annoying hotel, Terri - Ann Williams, DailyMail ONLINE
2019 Accessible Housing? The Art Of Experiencing Life In An Unliveable Living Room, By Staff, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACTION
2019 A hotel room that’s uncomfortable on purpose, Carol Hills, “THE WORLD,” FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE, WGBH, PRI, AND PRX
2019 Confronting Discomfort: VAE Exhibit Reframes Disability, Colony Little - WALTER magazine
2019 Art B&B in Blackpool features a misshapen room to give guests an insight into the difficulty disabled people face, Dan Coles - Mirror
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