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Pandora Vaughan

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Pandora Vaughan is a UK artist working with regulated environments and the atmospheres created by our response to them.
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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.

 

Parasitic Architecture

Landing Pad (after the fire)

Road to Prospect, Pathway to Sanctuary

Truth Machine (Lucky/Unlucky Dip)

By Highway 103

Contemplative Garden on the Westside Freeway

Isle of Dogs

HMP Feltham Young Offenders Institute

Rock and Roll (Emblem 1)

The Seed (Emblem 2)

Group of 7 (In Transit)

The Prison Industrial Fairground Complex

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