Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 Artist
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 Artist
Royal West of England: Artist Network Member
2018 MA Fine Art – Bath Spa University
2014 BA Hons Fine Art (1st Class) – Plymouth University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018
Manifesta 12 Biennale: Ingruttati Palermo research project and installation of works – Palermo, Sicily
250th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
RWA Academician Candidates’ Exhibition – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Inventory of Behaviours – Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London
The Porthleven Prize – UK touring exhibition commencing at Sion Hill Gallery, Bath
Weather Report – solo exhibition at Ace Arts Gallery, Somerset
In Extremis: Images of Landscape – two person show with C R Brownridge, Green Hill Arts, Devon
2017
Casespace – solo exhibition sponsored by Hauser and Wirth, Bruton Museum, Somerset
Deborah Westmancoat: Recent Works – solo exhibition at Tincleton Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
249th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
ING Discerning Eye – The Mall Galleries, London
Defining Moments – Act Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
Cross Pollination – 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
165th RWA Open (Judges Award: First Prize for Watercolour) – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016
Subasta de Arte Contemporaneo 2016 – exhibition and auction of International Contemporary Art at Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
Arising: installation by Yoko Ono – Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Points of Views – Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, USA
ING Discerning Eye – The Mall Galleries, London
Catchments and Transcripts – solo exhibition at Dukes Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
Material Fact – joint exhibition with Stewart Geddes PRWA, Studio 1.1, London
248th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – ICA, London and The Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
Subasta de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo 2015 – exhibition and auction of British Contemporary Art, Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
Subasta de Verano: Contemporary British Art - Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
163rd RWA Open 2015 – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Open West 2015 – The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
2014
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – Liverpool Biennial
246th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
Now in Reverse – Hundred Years Gallery, London
(Complete list of exhibitions at www.westmancoat.com)
RESIDENCIES
2018 Manifesta12 Biennale – a cross-disciplinary project working with an international team of architects, artists and thinkers on the Ingruttati Palermo project re-imagining the 10th century underground ‘qanat’ waterways of Palermo, Sicily, culminating in an in-situ art installation and printed publication.
2018 The Porthleven Prize – multi-disciplinary collaborative residency based in Porthleven, Cornwall, working with international artists, performers, musicians, writers and film makers to interrogate ways of opening up practice and produce work for a major touring exhibition.
2017 Ancient Scent: Ireland – residency working with the art techniques and writing of British female Surrealist, Ithell Colquhoun. Nine days were spent travelling to significant sites in the Irish landscape gathering research and materials and working with methods developed by Colquhoun.
2016 Ancient Scent: Cornwall – year long residency based in Lamorna, West Cornwall, working with the art techniques and writing of British female Surrealist, Ithell Colquhoun, culminating in an exhibition of works in collaboration with Peter Owen Publishing and a planned publication.
2015 Water-Meadow-Wood – lead artist on a year long residency based at Yeovil Country Park, Somerset, funded by SAW and the Arts Council, culminating in several workshops and an exhibition of works.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Hive, Issue no 4, April 2017 – private publication, ed. of 22, Watts (guest ed)
2016 Subasta de Arte Contemporaneo – exhibition and auction catalogue, Morton Casa de Subasta, Mexico City, Mexico, p.197 (exhibited alongside works by Jeff Koons, Ed Rushcha, Alex Katz and Damian Hirst)
2016 Fresh Paint: International Issue no. 13, June 2016 – R. Wilson, Saatchi Art (guest ed), p. 114-115
2016 Internationale Kunst Heute 2016 – IKH Publishing: Germany, M Kolle, Dr I Gardill (eds), p.302-303, 357.
2016 Average Art: Feed The Starving Artists edition, magazine publication (image and text), November 2016
2016 British Vogue: A Vogue Interior, June 2016 publication, p.443.
2016 The Tempest: William Shakespeare – limited publication of 500, Contains Art (ed), ISBN: 978-0-9932989-1-2, p. 23, 150
2016 Hive, Issue no 3, June 2016 – private publication, edition of 15, Gronw-Lewis (guest ed)
2015 Subasta de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo 2015 – exhibition and auction catalogue, Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City, Mexico, p.40 - 41, 98 (exhibited alongside Eileen Cooper RA)
2014 The State of Art: Landscape and Portrait #1 – Bare Hill Publishing, A Laffan (ed), p. 90 - 93
2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – Enrico David (author), Kirsty Ogg (ed), p.21, 108
AWARDS
2018 The Porthleven Prize – selected prizewinner: fully funded residency and subsequent touring exhibition
2018 The Bath Open Art Prize – awarded ‘Highly Commended’
2017 Royal West of England Academy 165th Open Exhibition – Judges Award: Best Watercolour In Show
2015 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust – award towards progression of work for 2016
2015 Dorchester Arts Open – Judges Award: First Prize (awarded Solo Exhibition in 2016)
2014 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust – award towards progression of work for 2015
2013 Taunton Deane Borough Council – Art and Design Bursary 2013/14
Deborah Westmancoat
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2014) http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/deborah-westmancoat
Royal West of England Academy: Artist Network Member http://www.rwa.org.uk/rwa-artists/
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018
Manifesta 12 Biennale: Ingruttati Palermo research project and installation of works – Palermo, Sicily
250th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
RWA Academician Candidates’ Exhibition – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Inventory of Behaviours – Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London
The Porthleven Prize – UK touring exhibition commencing at Sion Hill Gallery, Bath
Weather Report – solo exhibition at Ace Arts Gallery, Somerset
In Extremis: Images of Landscape – two person show with C R Brownridge, Green Hill Arts, Devon
2017
Casespace – solo exhibition sponsored by Hauser and Wirth, Bruton Museum, Somerset
Deborah Westmancoat: Recent Works – solo exhibition at Tincleton Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
249th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
ING Discerning Eye – The Mall Galleries, London
Defining Moments – Act Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
Cross Pollination – 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
165th RWA Open (Judges Award: First Prize for Watercolour) – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016
Subasta de Arte Contemporaneo 2016 – exhibition and auction of International Contemporary Art at Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
Arising: installation by Yoko Ono – Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Points of Views – Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, USA
ING Discerning Eye – The Mall Galleries, London
Catchments and Transcripts – solo exhibition at Dukes Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
Material Fact – joint exhibition with Stewart Geddes PRWA, Studio 1.1, London
248th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – ICA, London and The Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
Subasta de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo 2015 – exhibition and auction of British Contemporary Art, Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
Subasta de Verano: Contemporary British Art - Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
163rd RWA Open 2015 – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Open West 2015 – The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
2014
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – Liverpool Biennial
246th RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy, London
Now in Reverse – Hundred Years Gallery, London
(Complete list of exhibitions at www.westmancoat.com)
RESIDENCIES
2018 Manifesta12 Biennale – a cross-disciplinary project working with an international team of architects, artists and thinkers on the Ingruttati Palermo project re-imagining the 10th century underground ‘qanat’ waterways of Palermo, Sicily, culminating in an in-situ art installation and printed publication.
2018 The Porthleven Prize – multi-disciplinary collaborative residency based in Porthleven, Cornwall, working with international artists, performers, musicians, writers and film makers to interrogate ways of opening up practice and produce work for a major touring exhibition.
2017 Ancient Scent: Ireland – residency working with the art techniques and writing of British female Surrealist, Ithell Colquhoun. Nine days were spent travelling to significant sites in the Irish landscape gathering research and materials and working with methods developed by Colquhoun.
2016 Ancient Scent: Cornwall – year long residency based in Lamorna, West Cornwall, working with the art techniques and writing of British female Surrealist, Ithell Colquhoun, culminating in an exhibition of works in collaboration with Peter Owen Publishing and a planned publication.
2015 Water-Meadow-Wood – lead artist on a year long residency based at Yeovil Country Park, Somerset, funded by SAW and the Arts Council, culminating in several workshops and an exhibition of works.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Hive, Issue no 4, April 2017 – private publication, ed. of 22, Watts (guest ed)
2016 Subasta de Arte Contemporaneo – exhibition and auction catalogue, Morton Casa de Subasta, Mexico City, Mexico, p.197 (exhibited alongside works by Jeff Koons, Ed Rushcha, Alex Katz and Damian Hirst)
2016 Fresh Paint: International Issue no. 13, June 2016 – R. Wilson, Saatchi Art (guest ed), p. 114-115
2016 Internationale Kunst Heute 2016 – IKH Publishing: Germany, M Kolle, Dr I Gardill (eds), p.302-303, 357.
2016 Average Art: Feed The Starving Artists edition, magazine publication (image and text), November 2016
2016 British Vogue: A Vogue Interior (image and text), June 2016 publication, p.443.
2016 The Tempest: William Shakespeare – limited publication of 500, Contains Art (ed), ISBN: 978-0-9932989-1-2, p. 23, 150
2016 Hive, Issue no 3, June 2016 – private pub., ed. of 15, Gronw-Lewis (guest ed)
2015 Subasta de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo 2015 – exhibition and auction catalogue, Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City, Mexico, p.40 - 41, 98 (exhibited alongside Eileen Cooper RA)
2014 The State of Art: Landscape and Portrait #1 – Bare Hill Publishing, A Laffan (ed), p. 90 - 93
2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 – Enrico David (author), Kirsty Ogg (ed), p.21, 108
AWARDS
2018 The Porthleven Prize – selected prizewinner: fully funded residency and subsequent touring exhibition
2018 The Bath Open Art Prize – awarded ‘Highly Commended’ by the judging panel
2017 Royal West of England Academy 165th Open Exhibition – Judges Award: Best Watercolour In Show
2015 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust – award towards progression of work for 2016
2015 Dorchester Arts Open – Judges Award: First Prize (awarded Solo Exhibition in 2016)
2014 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust – award towards progression of work for 2015
2013 Taunton Deane Borough Council – Art and Design Bursary 2013/14
EDUCATION
2018 MA Fine Art – Bath Spa University
2014 BA Hons Fine Art (1st Class) – Plymouth University
