Libby Scarlett
I am a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the affects of labour on both bodies and emotions, particularly in relation to beings in precarious positions in society.
Using a range of experimental media including video, choreography, movement, interventions, and instructions; my work asks questions and experiments with answers through propositional works, often activated by others.
Selected exhibitions
Bathroom Dances (solo) - outhouse gallery, London (2026)
Show Garden - Le Jardin Project (performance) (2026)
All Mouth and No Trousers - The Icing Room, London (2025)
Song Books - SHOP, Preston (2025)
Soft Proof - Rogue Studios, Manchester (2025)
Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees) - Bower Ashton Library, Bristol (2025); Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick (2025)
Fluxus Video Prize - Fluxus Museum, Paros (2024)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - Hong Kong Arts Centre (2023)
Something Other Live: On Circularity - Live Art Development Agency, London (2020)
Warrington Contemporary - Warrington (2020)
Time after [( )] after Time - The Briggait, Glasgow (2019)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - HOME, Manchester (2017)
Microprovocations (Studio Tej) - Central YMCA, London (2016)
Put Your Feet on the Ground - di’spouz, Salzburg (2016)
PRESENT003 - Protein Gallery, London (2016)
Mit de Data: Source Materials Visualised - New York Center for Book Arts, New York (2015)
An Overview of Small Occurrences - Women's Studio Workshop, New York (2014)
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here - New York Center for Book Arts, New York; John Rylands Library, Manchester; The Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts (2013)
European Artist Book Awards - Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague (2012); International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2012); Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna (2011)
funding / residencies / awards
a-n Artist Bursary (2022-23)
Arts Council England - Emergency Relief Funding (2020)
Marpha Foundation Artist in Residence, Nepal (2019)
a-n Artist Bursary to attend Marina Abramović’s Cleaning the House workshop (2019)
Arts Council England - DYCP Funding (2018)
StudioBook - Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester (2017)
Ahvaland Artist in Residence - Åland Islands, Finland (2016)
Arts Council England - Artist's International Development Fund Award (2016)
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Artist in Residence - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2016)
Women’s Studio Workshop Art-in-Education Artist book residency, New York, USA (2014)
National Endowment for the Arts grant (2014)
Publication of the year - Think Tank awards (2012)
Honourable Mention - European Artist Book Awards (2011)
Hot Bed Press Artist in Residence (Parlour Press), Manchester, UK (2011)
Warrington Arts Grant (2011)
The Phil Thomas Foundation Grant (2010)
An Inventory of Northern Extremes - Droog Lab, Amsterdam (2010)
collections
Book works held in the following:
Anglia Ruskin University | Bank Street Arts | Bath Spa University | Bibliotherapy Artist’s Book Library | Bucknell University | Center for Liberatory Practice and Poetry | Chethams Library | Chelsea College of Art | Edinburgh College of Art | Fayles Library, NYU | Franklin Furnace Archive | Glasgow School of Art | Harvard University Fine Art Library | Iraq National Library | Indiana University | Library of Congress | London College of Communication (UAL) | Manchester Metropolitan University | MOMA (Franklin Furnace archive) | New York Public Library | Norwich University of the Arts | Ohio State University | Oxford Brooks University | Performistanbul | Portsmouth University | Rochester Institute of Technology | Savannah College of Art & Design | The Library of Congress | University of Delaware | University of Michigan | University of Utah | University of West England | Vassar College | Virginia Commonwealth University | Yale University
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