TRACEY ELIZABETH DOWNING Artist CV
Born 24.04.1967
Artist and Art Psychotherapist
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Statement
I am an Artist and Art Psychotherapist. My paintings are informed by thought, memory, everyday objects and ephemera. I am interested in visual metaphor and the relationship between physical ritual and visual noticing. Words increasingly influence my work and vice versa; I write poetry and memoir often in the form of ekphrasis in response to the subjects within my paintings, subjects most often inanimate and based in unconscious thought. I have a BA in Fine Art: 1987 and an MA in Art Psychotherapy: 2012. My Art Therapy training and experience also influence my work. I am a member of The Artist Art Therapist Collective https://winnicottwednesdays.weebly.com and have completed 2 years of The Turps Banana correspondence course 2019-2022. I currently work for the charity Studio Upstairs as a Studio Manager and offer coaching to Artists.
Education and Continuing Professional development
Contemporary Art Academy PG1 and Remix with Sam Jackson January - April 2024
Turps Banana correspondence course 2019 - 2022
Member of the Painting Group 2018- 2021 https://emilyballatseawhite.co.uk
Member of The Drawing Lab 2016-2017 and The Painting Group 2019 at https://emilyballatseawhite.co Contemporary Painting School
MA in Art Psychotherapy Goldsmiths University of London 2009-2012
Person Centred Certificate in Art Therapy 1996-1997
BA Hon Fine Art Exeter College of Art and Design 1986-1989
BTEC Higher National Diploma General Art and Design 1984-1986
Residencies
Cyprus College of Art Summer Residency funded by Grampus 29 May - 29 June 2022
‘Home Comforts’ Drawing Residency - Studio 6, Oaks Park Carshalton 1 January - 31 March
You can see my film here - Home Comforts short film
Interviews
Idontwannamessthisup Studio visit and Interview with Marisse Cato March 2024 - Moems and Memories and Lemons and Mothering - Listen here
Studio Notes with Sasha DeWitt - Season 2, episode 1 -May 2023 - Listen here
Authentic Obsessions podcast with Margret Petrie - Episode 21 -November 2020 - Listen here
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Urban Art Fair Brixton July 2024
CAOS Open Studios June/July 2024
This Year’s Model Part 111 Studio 1.1, London June 6 - 30 2024
Drawing Open No Format Gallery, London, May 10 - 19 2024
Oaks Park Artists Group Exhibition at Vellum Mill Gallery, Carshalton, April 22 - 28 2024
100 x 100 online exhibition BobCat Gallery, 1 - 30 April 2024
'Object Relations’ pop up exhibition of pastel drawings at Tazza Coffee shop, Sutton, March 28- June 27 2-24
Recent Exhibitions
Unravelled, Artcan part of Contemporary Textiles Fair at Landmark Arts Centre, and Rupture Exibit , Teddington March 11-15 2024
Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent 2 December 2023 - 27 January 2024
Precious Postcards, charity exhibition, That Art Gallery, Bristol ; pop-up Dec 5th, then online Art and People until 31 January 2024
Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Silence of Swimming at Sprout Arts Community Gallery 19-30 April
Open Studios and Art Fairs
Urban Art Fair Brixton July 2023
CAOS Local Open Studios June/July 2023
CAOS Local Open Studios June/July 2022
Group Exhibitions/Workshops
Painting Open, Second Floor Studios and Arts, London 1-10th December 2023
Hi, Hey! Hello. Dog and Bone Gallery and Fresh Salad online, Hove 11 – 30 November 2023
‘Home’ with ArtCan - Downstairs at the Department Store Brixton 20th October - 29th October 2023
Open Studio Group Exhibiton,Sprout Arts, London as part of Wandsworth Open Studios July 2023
That House on Mare Street, London, Takeover group exhibition with Studio Upstairs 21 - 23 July 2023
The Affordable Art Exhibition, Sprout Arts, London June 2023
10 x 10 Celebrating 10 years of Artcan - Hansard Studio, London May 2023
SFSA Drawing Open - No Format Gallery, London May 2023
‘The Power of Pencil’ online exhibition with Artcan March 20 - April 2023
‘This Year’s Model part 2’ Studio 1.1 Gallery, London March 2-26 2023
‘Studio Sale’ with The Auction Collective January 20 - February 10 2023
2022 Painting Open at No Format Gallery, December 1-11
2022 Legacy at The Crypt Gallery with Artcan, September 2022
2022 What Remained at Eel Pie Island Slipways Studios September 2022
2022 This Year’s Model part 3 Studio 1.1 Gallery London August 2022
2022 What Remains Cyprus College of Art Residency exhibition, Lempa, Cyprus
2022 Blue The Portland Brighton
2022 Authentic Obsessions, James May Gallery online Artsy
2022 In_ Formation, Thames-side Studios Gallery, London
2021 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Cohort.art
2021 Lockdown Reflections, Sprout Arts
2021 Out of the Blue, Group exhibition with at The Regency Townhouse, Hove
2021 In_Response, Group exhibition at The Nunnery Gallery Bow, London
2021 Painting Open, Second Floor Studios and Arts, London
2021 Double Take Group exhibition Sprout Arts
2021 Carshalton Artists community exhibition Honeywood House Carshalton
2021 The Halpern Gallery Original Print Show Chatham
2020 Art in Isolation, Group exhibition Surrey Quays London
2020 Art in Lockdown Exhibition, Honeywood House and Whitehall organised by London Borough of Sutton
2020 Wimbledon Art Studios online Art Fair
2020 Poetry During Quarantine, online exhibition ongoing: poetryduringquarantine.tumblr.com
2019 Merton Arts Festival exhibiting Artist
2019 CAOS Carshalton Artists Open Studios
2018 A:VOID: A-side B-side Gallery Hackney
2015 Scapegoat: A-side B-side Gallery Hackney
2014 Allowing : As part of the Islington Exhibits Festival, Winnicott Wednesdays teamed up with the artists/members at The Creativity Centre, Isledon Road Mental Health Resource Centre, to explore the relationship between service user and practitioner, and discover a meeting place where the two groups converge.
2014 Traces:The Unthought Known : Darnley Gallery Hackney
Publications and Writing
Contributing writer to ‘A Stain Remains’ a collaborative written piece with other painter writer peers in response to Turps Banana correspondence course published online January 11 2023 in Sage Journal ‘Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies’
My painting Bathe shortlisted for the front cover of IJAT (International Journal of Art Therapy / Newsbriefing) May 2020
Moems in Mind Poetic response to lockdown; 22 Moems. Illustrated by me. May 2020
Winnicott Wednesdays Reflections on A Void Exhibition : In BAAT (British Association of Art Therapists) Newsbriefing June 2019
A collective response to the collected works of D.W. Winnicott : In ATOL (Art Therapy on line 8(2) 2017
The Winnicott Wednesdays Collective Scapegoat Exhibition: In BAAT (British Association of Art Therapists) Newsbriefing January 2017
Studio
Studio Six Oaks Park, Carshalton, ACME studio