Details

First Name

Miriam
Last Name

Mallalieu
Username

miriammallalieu
Website

http://www.cargocollective.com/miriammallalieu
Region

Dundee
Disciplines

Ceramics, Installation, Printmaking, Sculpture

Statement

Statement

My art practice explores the idea of ‘making sense’. I am interested in what knowledge is and how things are understood, looking specifically at methods of catalogue, organisation, archiving and curation, and significantly, the structures of power that this knowledge creates and upholds. My work explores the conflict within organisation: to order things in one way is to disorder them in another. I am interested in the subversion of ideas of truth, and exploration of alternative understands in art of time, linearity and logic.
My practice is usually sculptural monuments to the ordering of material: things are arranged, they are placed into sequence and they are observed. Often the material is fragments or remains: paper, spiderwebs, dead insects, dust, bits of rag – things that are overlooked. They are placed into frames or boxes, elevated into inscrutable objects of importance.

Biography

Biography

Education

2018-22: PhD titled What Does a Museum think it is? Research and practice at the intersection of knowledge, organisation and interpretation, University of Dundee.

2017: MFA Art and Humanities, University of Dundee

2012: BA (hons) Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices, University of Dundee

Selected Awards

2020: Edinburgh Printmakers Residency Award

2018: Queen’s College Scholarship

2017: Vanessa Bell Prize

2017: Postgraduate Award

2017: RSA John Kinross Scholarship

2016: Invited Artist at Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh

2013: RSA Art Prize and Watters Maclane Medal

2012: Selection for RSA New Contemporaries

Selected Exhibitions

2021     Insectarium: Fear and Fascination (group show), Scottish Ornithologists Club

2021       Nexus (group show and international touring exhibition), Duncan of Jordanstone (2021)

2021       SSA Open (group show), Royal Scottish Academy

2021       RSA Open (group show), Royal Scottish Academy (online)

2020      Satellites (group show), Alma College, Michigan, January – March

2019      OPEN SSA VAS (group show), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22nd December – 30th January

2019      Hidden Door Weekender, Edinburgh, 30th May – 2nd June

2019      A description of the visible (solo show), Generator Projects, Dundee, April

2019      Observe/Engage/Organise (solo show series), Nomas* Projects, Dundee, January – May

2019      Resolute (group show), Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, January – March

2018      Ways We Work (group show), West Ward Works, Dundee

2018      John Kinross Scholarship Exhibition (group show), The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, March – May

2017      Masters Show, University of Dundee, 19th August

2017      Hidden Door, Arts and Music Festival, Edinburgh, 26th May – 4th June

2016      Hidden Door, Arts and Music Festival, Edinburgh, 27th May – 4th June

2015      Born of the Sea (group show), Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Vermont USA, September

2015      Hidden Door, Arts and Music Festival, Edinburgh, 22nd-30th May

2014      Summer School Exhibition (group show), Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus, 19th- 26th September

2014      Hidden Door, Arts and Music festival, Edinburgh, 28th March – 5th April

2013      New Contemporaries (group show) at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 13th April – 8th May

2012      Artsyland (group show), at Wall Projects, Montrose, 21st July- 25th August

2012      Dundee University Degree Show, 19th-27th May