Pandora Vaughan
Pandora Vaughan is a UK/Canadian artist currently working between London and Scotland. Recent projects include ‘Wilde, Welt, Wald’ with the BBM arts collective in Unbesandten, Germany and ‘Out of Space’ a book of her work and solo exhibition at The Horse Hospital, London (2017). Other recent shows include the Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 with BooHooray Gallery (2019), SWAP Editions at Creekside Projects (2019), SPACE/LCN Showcase 2, London (2017), The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford, (2016), The Arthouse, Wakefield, (2016) and the Creekside Open, selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery London (2015). She is a member of Peer Social, a group awarded the Artquest Peer Forum Award at Cubitt, London in 2018. Vaughan has collaborated with architect Huw Owen on public space projects in Wales since 2003 (as V&O) and with Gee Vaucher & Gillian McCain for an ongoing project called Emblems. She also co- founded London artists group Grrrr! co-producing a number of exhibitions and events in London, Wakefield and Los Angeles. She holds degrees in Fine Art, Art In Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Working with confined spaces to explore their impact psychologically and interested in coercive landscapes, most of her work uses architectural plans as a starting point.
She studies how nostalgia is used for commercial gain, how politics inform formal design and works with temporary habitats as a way of circumventing the sense of incarceration. Much if her work has been with the design of prisons, re-imagined as another kind of outdoor space.
exhibitions (selected):
solo /duo
BBM e.V, Unbesandten, Germany. Forest installation commission for Wilde Welt Wald 2018
The Horse Hospital, London, Out of Space. Book launch & solo exhibition, 2017
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford, joint show with Joe Carcary 2016
The Arthouse, Wakefield, as Grrrr! 2016
Small Tales, Big City with KeelerTornero, Lemon Monkey, London 2012
96 Gillespie Gallery, London ‘Prospector’, solo exhibition 2004
group
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair w/Exitstencil Press & BooHooray Gallery, MoMA PS1, NYC 2019
Creekside Projects, London - SWAP Editions, 2019
Genesis Light Magic, with PeerSocial at St John’s, Bethnal Green, London 2018
Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, The Brownfield Research Project, contributor 2018
SPACE, Hackney, London Hyponoia, 21st Century Emblems, at LCN Showcase, 2017
Grrrr! Truth Machine, London NW5, co-curator 2017
Jon Kilduff’s Art Basil, as Grrrr! with Cathy Ward, Los Angeles 2016
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London selected by Richard Deacon, 2015
Angus-Hughes Gallery, Summer Salon, London, selected group 2015
The Underground Gallery, London Exitstencil w/ Penny Rimbaud & Gee Vaucher 2013
Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn NYC ‘Move 15’: curated by Rich Jacobs, 2008
A Haunting, University of Salford, Manchester selected group 2004
art projects (solo/group)
UnLtd / Edinburgh Printmakers, community print project, upcoming 2020
Peer Social at Raven Row, programme of events for peer support & review, 2020
*Paget Road Arts & Heritage public realm commission, Penarth, 2019-20
Artquest Peer Forum Award, selected as Peer Social, Cubitt Gallery, London 2018-19
Crass: FULL STOP, book research & production 2017-19
‘Out Of Space: Confined By Design’ published by Exitstencil Press 2017
*Maindee Library, Newport. Workshops & landscape design for Arts Council Wales Ideas, People, Places scheme. 2016-17
*Parc Pawb, Tremadog, Wales. Community playscape / landscape design 2016-17
Artists Union England accidentally created the union banner 2015
‘Memory Factory’ Participant /performer for Spatial Re-enactments, Hackney Wick 2015
*Plas Heli, Welsh National Sailing Academy, coastal landscape design for Ellis Williams Architects, RIBA Wales Award 2015
*National Trust, Porth y Swnt, Aberdaron, Wales. Arts based interpretation strategy as the core of a bespoke visitor centre. 2013-16
*Canolfan Cywain / Rural Life Centre, Bala, Wales, for Antur Penlyn. Landscape & interpretation design 2006-2009
Bristol City Council: Brunel 200, 11 Minutes, with NOVA group. A series of sculptural installations along Bristol docks, 2006
Somerset County Council Public Arts: Sensing the Land. Commission to design footbridge improvements in Langport, 2005-06
*Snowdonia National Park Authority, Wales. Cwellyn Boardwalk route with art- within a SSSI. 2004-06
*Denbighshire County Council: Rhyl Museum. Re-design of facade & new internal exhibition / experience 2005
*Snowdonia Green Key Initiative: Snowdon Sherpa, - to design a series of site-specific bus shelters in Snowdonia National Park, Wales 2004
Honiton Festival ‘The Honiton Diamonds’, External installation commission 2004
Carnesky’s Ghost Train, with Marisa Carnesky Co., live art touring Ghost Train. Visual art consultant. 2002
*working in partnership with architect Huw Meredydd Owen as ‘V&O’
Education:
BFA Fine Art, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD), Canada
MA Art In Architecture, University of East London
MA Landscape Architecture, University of Greenwich
