Oliver Thomas-Irvine

Qualifications

Independent professional practice

Solo exhibitions

2021

• Holding Breath, Outdoor sculptural installation, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, UK

2019

• Inhale, Exhale, SAPH, The Bund, Shanghai, China

2018

• Speaking Between Somehow The Spaces, Solo presentation, Commissioned by Slate Projects, Averard Hotel, London
• Binlang, Gallery333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

2016

• Monday Morning, OVERHEAD, To_Bridges, Bronx, New York
• Limen Locale, G39, Cardiff
• RROYA, Castor Projects, London
• Derailer Derailer, The Still House Group, New York

2014

• Accost Nascent, KARST, Plymouth

2013

• The Dislocation, Public sculpture, Co.Derry, N. Ireland
• The Feeling of Nothingness, Part 2 - Infiltrated Rank, ATOI & CULL

2012

• The Feeling of Nothingness, Roll 5269, ATOI & CULL
• End of the Valley, Pull of the Bull, La Fragua, Spain
• Foist, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
• Content in Collision, Anarch, London

2010

• Playing in Storms, Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China

2009

• Cloud Seeding, G35, Manchester

Group Exhibitions

2021

• The Seed & Chapter 1 of Hand / Earth / Gesture / Return, Daimler Powerhouse, Coventry, Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu, Amy & Oliver Thomas-Irvine and Jim Woodall
• The Rick, Chapter 2 of Hand / Earth / Gesture / Return, October – December, Hatton Farm, Warwickshire

2018

• Dialogues5, Newbridge Project with MDP, Newcastle
• European, Foreign and Domestic, Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, 10 Lancaster Gate, London, 8th June-1st July . ARTISTS INC - LOUIS ET MARIE AMAR//AMY AND OLIVER THOMAS IRVINE//MICHAEL IVESON// JACK BRINDLEY//MARC EINSIEDEL AND FELIX JUNG//THE COMMUNITY//ITTAH-YODA//OPHELIA FINKE n JJ LINCOLN
• AIR Exhibition, TAV, Taiwan, March, 2018 (inc Yotaro Niwa, Takuya Yamashita, Anna Fabricius, Amy and Oliver Thomas–Irvine, Huang Chih-Cheng and Krystina Kaza)

2017

• Collateral Drawing Archive, UCA Project Space, Folkestone
• Collateral Drawing Archive, Margate Washhouse, Margate

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2016

• Maybe Your Lens is Scratched? The Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, London

2015

• One + One, Lubomirov/Angus Hughes, London
• FT@ Sluice Art Fair, London
• Bideford Black: The Next Generation. The Burton Museum, Devon- Permanent collection
• Plymouth Open, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
• Testing Tropes, ATOI, Kira Freije, Lauren Kelley, Ruaidhri Ryan, Ben Sanderson. Kestle Barton, Cornwall
• Monochrome, Beers Contemporary, London

2014

• In the Face of Collapse, ATOI & Jacobo Castellano, COMBO, Cordoba, Spain
• Office of The Dead, Collaboration with La Fragua
• Collateral Drawing, Plymouth College of Art

2013

• The First 11, CAST, Helston. November
• Manhunt, Suspended Sentences,Turners Warehouse, Newlyn
• Crux Point, Cornwall Art Biennial, Halzephron House, Cornwall
• A.P.T Gallery. Creekside open, selected by Paul Noble, London

2012

• Extraction, Tate Modern - The Tanks, Art in Action, London
• Mutual Annihilation (Antimatter), Florence Trust , London
• Six Shooter Art Fair, Tate Britain, Art in Action, London
• Cull Gallery, Cage Cull, Florence Trust, London

2011

• Inland Fracture (Battles), Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
• Things That Fall, P1 Project space, London

2010

• Imagined Land, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow

2008

• Orchestrated Circuit, Live Art Falmouth Festival

Awards

• Selected for Dialogues5, Mark Devereux Projects. 2018
• Selected for Testing Ground: Master Class 2015 at the Zabludowicz Collection, 2015
• National Lottery Funding for THE DISLOCATION - Public Sculpture, 2014
• AIDF Award, The Arts Council England and The British Council, 2013
• ARTANGEL, open 100, 2014
• ARTANGEL, open 100, 2013
• Grant for Sculpture Award, La Fragua, 2012
• British Council Award with Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture 2011
• Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England 2009

Awarded Residences

• Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai November 2018-2019
• Selected for TAV AIR, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
• The Still House Group, Red Hook, NY, 2015
• ​La Fragua / Combo and Co, 2014
• La Fragua, Grant for Sculpture, Spain, 2012
• Aid and Abet, Cambridge, 2012
• The Florence Trust, London, 2011-2012
• Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China 2009-2010

Publications

• Try To Be Better- Work made in response to WS Graham prompts. Co edited by Sam Buchan Watts and Lavina Singer. Published by Prototype. 2019
• Combo and Co 2017
• Peninsula Open, 2015
• The Florence Trust 2012
• Interview with GARAGE CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE- GARAGE MAG 2012
• Interview and review in M STYLE , Chinese lifestyle and Culture magazine 2009

Talks

• The Inclusivity of Taipei, Panel Discussion, TAV, Taipei, 2018
• TAV Friday Night Talks, Taipei, 2018 (Anna Fabricius, Amy and Oliver Thomas–Irvine, Yotaro Niwa, Huang Chih-Cheng, Takuya YAMASHITA and Krystina Kaza)
• Testing Ground: Zabludowicz Collection, 2015
• PAC Home Talk at KARST ,Plymouth, 2014
• Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013

Commission

• ATOI t-shirt collection sold through Maison Twenty at Harvey Nichols 2012
• Far from The Madding Crowds -Video commission for Pam Hogg at London Fashion Week on/off Venue,2011
• Notre Dames - Film commission for Pam Hogg, Paris Fashion Week, Paris, 2011
• Harvey Nichols, Floor set design, London, 2010

Engagement with professional associations and societies

Currently working on a year long sustainable public art project and commission with a culturally diverse group based in Coventry for Coventry City of Culture 2021.