Pamela Crowe
I’m an artist and writer based in Leeds. I work with text, image, video and performance making work about writing, voice, and acting.
I’m interested in words and how we say them, either written, verbally, silently; by occupying a space together, by being apart.
My practice explores how we form in response to others, as a work of relief perhaps, according to the spaces and gaps that another’s physical and psychic form allow. So power eventually, I look at power.
My performance work attempts to clarify the author’s voice and anchor it permanently to the text; to create a direct, authentic voice that interrogates what it means to 'act'. I publish, exhibit, and perform live and online, most recently with The Poetry Society, Leeds Art Gallery, The Poetry Archive, Hyde Park Art Club, Winchester Poetry Festival, Spelt Magazine, LEEDS 2023, Queer Folio, Leeds Summer Group Show, Soanyway Magazine, Leeds Poetry Festival, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Corridor8 and Leeds City Museum. My work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Competition and the Winchester Poetry Prize. The Bell Tower my first collection, is published with The Emma Press.
PAMELA CROWE
b: 1974, Stockport, UK
Education
MA School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies University of Leeds
BA English Lit & Theatre Studies, School of English University of Leeds
Commissions & Exhibitions
2023 SCRIPT, Leeds Artists Show, Leeds Art Gallery
2023 Queer Folio, 1623 Theatre Company - working with Sam Metz
2023 8 days, Creative Mothers Project, Humbl Cafe, Leeds
2022 AXISWEB, Phygital
2022 SEVEN SHORT CIRCULAR WALKS, 23PRESS
2022 THE BOOK OF BOOK IDEAS, 23PRESS
2022 grow (~faience, spine) Soanyway Magazine
2022 School of Languages, Cultures & Societies, 23PRESS
2022 TACTILE OPTIC SHOCK, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
2022 How-to Creative Writing, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
2021 LEEDS 2023 artist commission MWMCMN, Small Press
2021 Auto door I, II, III, Leeds Summer Group Show 2021
2021 Dialogues, Leeds Museums and Galleries, City Museum
2020 Aire Place Studios, Postcard 2 Exhibition, ‘Auto door’
2020 Otley Rd Glen Road, Leeds Summer Group Show 2020,
2020 Arts & Minds Annual Exhibition
2019 Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
2019 Arts & Minds Annual Exhibition
2018 Creative Mothers Project, Aire Place Studios & Leeds City Museum
2018 P_amela, Love Cure, Pamelashop, LMG, The Tetley
Writing
2023 SCRIPT, text & performance, Leeds Artists Show, Leeds Art Gallery
2023 Vertices, for Queer Folio, 1623 Theatre Company - working with Sam Metz
2022 The dig, SPELT Magazine
2022 River, 2022 Winchester Poetry Festival, Prize Winners Anthology
2022 THE BELL TOWER, Poetry collection The Emma Press
2022 Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up (V&A, 2018) Soanyway Magazine
2022 Kara Chin: Show Real & Ashley Holmes: Trust Melody at HSG, Corridor8
2021 What is it?, The Poetry Society – Poetry News, Winter 2021
2021 ‘Like everything is the end of a love affair’, Penny Thoughts #45
2021 Shortlist, National Poetry Competition 2020
2020 ‘Magnetic North’, Compass Live Art Festival, Corridor8
2020 Soanyway issue #6
2020 Taus Makhacheva at The Tetley, Corridor8
2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International at Henry Moore Institute, Corridor8
2019 Shortlist, Bridport Poetry Prize 2019
2019 'The Water’, Dwell Time
2019 Influence & Participation Toolkit, content writer, Mind
2019 ‘Novel Writing for Depressives: A Study of P & Non-P’, Wake Up Screaming
2016 ‘Burn Time’, Leeds Museums and Galleries
2016 ‘Up from Below’, Leeds Museums and Galleries
2016 ‘Kitchen Cabinet of Curiosities’, Leeds Museums & Galleries
Performance/Audio/Video
2023 SCRIPT, Leeds Artists Show, Leeds Art Gallery
2023 Vertices, for Queer Folio, 1623 Theatre Company - working with Sam Metz
2022 The Poetry Society, What is it?
2022 How-to Creative Writing, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
2021 The Poetry Archive, ‘Auto door’
2021 East Leeds FM, Love the Words
2021 Future History, Loudspeaker, Open Source Arts
2021 Loudspeaker LIVE, Chapel FM
2021 Meanwood Festival Poetry Showcase
2021 Chapel FM, Leeds, Loudspeaker, spoken word radio
2021 Sable Radio, Leeds
2021 Watch Your Mouth Film Festival, Open Source Arts
2020 Soanyway issue #6
2018 Ey Up with Harry Meadley #34, recorded at The Tetley, Leeds
Curation, Facilitation, Teaching
2023 Lecturer in Art, Architecture & Design, Leeds Beckett University
2022 Creative writing workshops, Burberry & National Literacy Trust
2022 Creative writing workshops, School of Languages, University of Leeds
2022 Co-creating Artist Book, THE BOOK OF BOOK IDEAS, Rainbow Junktion
2022 Co-creating ‘SEVEN SHORT CIRCULAR WALKS’ publication
2021 Creative writing workshops, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
2021-22 Artist Facilitator 23PRESS – LEEDS 2023
2021 Open Show 2021, Pyramid, Project Management, Facilitation & Curator
2021 Writing workshops, ‘I belong’ programme, University of Leeds
2020 MA Dance Practice & Performance, Salford University
2020-21 Artist, Pyramid, Leeds
2017- Artist Educator at The Tetley, Leeds
2018-19 Art Tutor, Adult Education, Leeds
Awards
2022 The Poetry Archive Winner 2022
2022 2022 Winchester Poetry Festival shortlist, commended
2021 The Poetry Society Winner, Poetry News, Extinction & Survival
2021 The Emma Press ‘The Bell Tower’, Poetry Pamphlet Competition, winner
2021 Shortlist, National Poetry Competition 2020
2019 Shortlist, Bridport Poetry Prize 2019
2018 Artist Bursary, Love Arts Festival, Leeds
Work & Freelance & Advisory
2023. Lecturer in Art, Architecture & Design, Leeds Beckett University
2022 YVAN Equality, Diversity and Wellbeing Working Group
2022 Same Skies Think Tank, Arts, Health & Wellbeing Group
2022 FailSpace Champion, AHRC research project, University of Leeds & QMU
2021- Access Support (freelance, ongoing)
2021- Producer and Artist Development (freelance, ongoing)
2021 Grants Assessor, Leeds Community Foundation (ongoing)
2021 Grants Assessor, Culture Recovery Fund, Arts Council England/DCMS
2021 Artist mentor & Access Support, Pyramid
2020-21 Artist, Pyramid
2020 Grants Assessor & Panel Member, Mind, Loneliness Fund (DHSC gov.uk)
2020 Grants Assessor & Panel Member, Mind, Coronavirus MHR Fund (DHSC)
2020-21 General Manager, Joss Arnott Dance, Yorkshire
2019-21 Personal Assistant to Disabled Students, University of Leeds
2019 Influence & Participation Film, part of co-production team, Mind
2019- Artistic and Quality Assessor, Arts Council England (ongoing)
2018-20 Advisor to Agenda/Mind Women Side by Side programme, London
2018-20 Peer Support Facilitator, Leeds Mind
2018 Grants Panel Assessor to Agenda/Mind Women Side by Side
2018- Core Member and Facilitator, Creative Mothers Project, Leeds (ongoing)
2017- Freelance Artist Facilitator, The Tetley, People Matters, Pyramid (ongoing)