CHRISTOPHER SAMUEL

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CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

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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

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2021   Swinging In The Wind - Sex With Cancer Online

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2021  The Cared For Network -  Careful Networks Online

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SELECTED COMMISSIONS

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2023 Everywhere and Nowhere - National Trust, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, and University of Leicester, UK

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2020 The Full Light of Day - VAE Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 

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2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre

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2018-19 AB&B COMMISSION - Welcome Inn - , AB&B - Blackpool, UK

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2019 DMU Mentor Awards, De Montfort University

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2014 The Lodge Hotel - Hereward College

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2018 Solo show: Housing Crisis - Attenborough Arts Centre 

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2016 Solo show: Our Family  - BBC Leicester, 9 St Nicholas Place

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2021  The Cared For Network -  Careful Networks Online

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2021   Swinging in the Wind - The Gallery, DeMontford University Leicester, UK

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2021 / 2022    What You Do Not See - Hounslow Library, London, UK

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2020     Visions in the Nunnery - Visions 

 

2020 - Bow Arts, London UK

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2020      The Future is Loading - Shape Open 2020, Online 

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2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre

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2017 LoveArt - New Walk Museum and Art Gallery

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2017 Emancipation?  - Attenborough Arts Centre

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2016 Outside In National: Radical Craft  - Alternative Ways of Making

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2013 Impact Art Fair. Block 336, Brixton, London

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2013 Outside In: Central  - Compton Verney Art Gallery

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2013 N22OPENSTUDIOS - The Chocolate Factory, Clarendon Road, London

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2012-13 Outside In: National -  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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2012 Shape Open -  Portobello Gallery 6 Thorpe Close London

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2012 Tight Modern - Touring 

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TALKS / LECTURES / CONFERENCES

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2023

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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

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2022

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Unlimited Festival 2022: Artist Talk / Southbank Centre, London

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TATE MODERN LATES: Art Chats with Senior Creative Producer, Liat Rosenthal

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DANC Hybrid Networking event @ HOME Manchester

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Attenborough Art Centre: Artist talk

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2021

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DANC Jennifer Gilbert / Disabled Artists Networking Community / Plus Tate Network

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Exploring Research: Nothing About Us Without Us

The Wellcome Collection

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Cities: The City in British Art Working Class British Arts Network

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Museums on Prescription National Portrait Gallery / Tate Online

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A Conversation on Sex with Cancer Sex With Cancer / Battersea Arts Centre

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The Creative Manifesto Assembly / University of the Arts London

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Artist’s Talk What You Do Not See / Hounslow Library

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Critical and Creative Approaches to Disability / Illinois State University

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2020

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Diversity in Architecture Loughborough University - Lu-arc Summer Discussion Series

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EDUCATION

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2014-17 BA (Hons) Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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2013-14 BTEC Art and Design, Hereward College, Coventry, UK

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SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA

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2020      A Sleepless night, Enable magazine - January/February  

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2019 Welcome Inn , Ian Youngs, BBC

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2019 Welcome to the Welcome Inn, Jo Verrent, We Are Unlimited

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2019 Blackpool's new Art B&B, Front Row, BBC Radio 4

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2019      Accessibility issues with awkward, uncomfortable and vexing hotel room, Emma Lake, THE CATERER 

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2019      Room for improvement! World's most annoying hotel, Terri - Ann Williams, DailyMail ONLINE 

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2019      Accessible Housing? The Art Of Experiencing Life In An Unliveable Living Room, By Staff, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACTION

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2019      A hotel room that’s uncomfortable on purpose, Carol Hills, “THE WORLD,” FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE, WGBH, PRI, AND PRX

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2019      Confronting Discomfort: VAE Exhibit Reframes Disability,  Colony Little - WALTER magazine

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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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