Curriculum Vitae 2025: Carole Griffiths
Employment
2022- Present: Art and Design Technician/Instructor: Craven College.
2007-2022 Programme Leader: BA (Hons) Visual Arts, MA Visual Arts: Bradford School of Art.
1999-2007 Lecturer in Art and Life Skills: Wetherby Young Offenders. Manchester City College.
1990-1999 Deputy Manager/Art Care Worker for Adults with Learning Disabilities/Mental Health: Northern Life Care Ltd, Harrogate.
 
Education
2017-2023: PhD.  Philosophy, Practice -Led. ‘Sculptural Reconfigurations of the Kitchen Utensil: A Poetic Chaos of Domesticity’. Coventry University. (https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/85044430/Griffiths2023PhD.pdf)
2008-2010: M.A. in Visual Arts, Bradford School of Arts and Media.
2005: Teaching Adult Literacy Skills, City & Guilds.
1994-1996: P.G.C.E in Further Education, Huddersfield University.
1987-1989: BA (Hons) Degree in Sculpture, Wimbledon School of Art.
 
Group Exhibitions
2024: ‘Omnipotence of Dreams’ Group Show: Salford Museum and Gallery. Manchester.
2024: Group Exhibition, Keighley Creatives, Craven Arts, Skipton.
2024: Group Show, Bronze Works, Both Gallery, London.
2024: Selected and Exhibited at Bankside Gallery, Royal Society of Miniature Art, London.
2023: ‘Borrow Pit’ Yorkshire Sculptors Group. Huddersfield Gallery, Huddersfield.
2023: Group Show, Research and Practice, Annual Conference, Coventry University.
2022: ‘Art House Home of Dis/Content’ Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.
2022: ‘Assembly’: YSG, Wakefield Cathedral, Wakefield.
2022: ‘Raw Edge’ YSG, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.
2021: ‘Passages’ Old Parcel Office, YSG, Scarborough.
2021: Small House, Online Summer Show, London.
2021: ‘Curious Colours’ Linden Mills, Hebden Bridge.
2021: ‘Invasive Species 2’ Wentworth Gardens, Barnsley.
2020: ‘Invasive Species’ Harlow Car Gardens, RHS, Harrogate.
2020: ‘Interesting Times’ London Metropolitan University Gallery.
2020: ‘Some New World’ Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury.
2020: ‘Are you Ready?’ South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford.
2019: ‘I/material’ YSG, SNAPArts, Wakefield.
2019: ‘Object /Image’ WYPW YSG, Mirfield.
2019: ‘Temporal Terrains’ Dean Clough, YSG Halifax.
2019: ‘Whisk up, Grind Down’ Solo Show, South Square, Thornton, Bradford
2019: ‘Breaking Ground’ YSG Patchings Art Centre, Derby.
2018: Staff Exhibition, Selected Works, Dye House Gallery, Bradford.
2018: ‘Separation’ Dye House Gallery, YSG, Bradford.
2018: ‘Travelling Light’ Dye House Gallery, YSG, Bradford. Water Street Gallery: Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Dean Clough, Halifax, Baltimore, America.
2018: ‘Now and Then’ (Selected works). Bowery Gallery Leeds: (Contribution to Journal Article).
2018: ‘Wild Wings Fly’ (The Unlocked Collective) South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford
2018: ‘Selected works’ (Friends of South Square) South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford.
2018: ‘Connexions’ (Selected Works) Dean Clough, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Halifax.
2018: ‘Venus 100’ Leeds Art Gallery Library. (Welcome Trust) Leeds.
2017: ‘Separation’ Dye House Gallery, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Bradford.
2017: Summer Show – Dutch House, York.
2017: ‘Separation’ Dean Clough, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Halifax.
2016: ‘Place and Space’ Left Bank, Leeds.
2016: ‘Made of All Work’- Bowery Gallery, Leeds.
2016: ‘No Future No Hope’ (Unlocked Collective)- Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
2015: ‘If Walls Could Talk’ (Unlocked Collective)- Sunny Bank Mill, Farsley, West Yorkshire.
Solo Shows
2020: Are you Ready? South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford.
2019: Whisk Up, Grind Down: Solo Show, South Square, Thornton, Bradford.
2011: Couples – Collaboration with Writer/Poet Michael Stewart, South Square Gallery, Thornton. Limited Edition Book of Exhibition. (Images and Poems).
 
Commissions/Publications/Fellowships
2024: Interview: Studio, Practices, and Identities – Edited by Imogen Racz and Jill Journeaux:
2021: Hosking Houses Trust (Fellowship) Writers/Artist Residency
2019: Venice Fellowship, British Council.
2020: Are You Ready? Artist book. Journey through Venice (Coventry University).
2013: Large Steel Head Sculpture Design (Concept Artist: For Chris Beardshaw) Hampton Court Flower Show
 
Membership
2019: FHEA, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
2016: YSG (Yorkshire Sculptors Group).
 
Conferences/Presentations
2023: Conference Paper: Art House Home of Dis/Content, Association of Art History, London.
2022: Re) Gendering sculpture: research and practice-led workshop interrogating how gender and sculpture intersect: Birmingham.
2022: Researching Women in Sculpture: A Discussion Event at the Henry Moore Institute.
2021: Conference: Derby University Art House – Home of Dis/Content paper: ‘Creative Homemaking: Visualising Home in Times of Crisis’.
2021: Presentation/Seminar Coventry University: Hosking’s Houses Trust.
2021: Conference: Coventry University, Art House – Home of Dis/Content paper: House, Home, and the Domestic Symposium.
2020: Leeds Art University: Presentation/Paper: Whisk Woman, Wheel Woman.
2020: Presentation /Workshop: Communicating the Unsayable Learning at the Intersection of Language and Arts. Leeds University.
 
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YSG: Yorkshire Sculptors Group https://www.yorkshiresculptorsgroup.org