My practice is strongly influenced by science and explores notions of identity and individuality through repetition often juxtaposing microcosim and macrocosm adjusting as if with the lens of a microscope.
My practice is strongly influenced by science and explores notions of identity and individuality through repetition often juxtaposing microcosim and macrocosm adjusting as if with the lens of a microscope.
I am attracted by the everyday made beautiful, by the infinitesmal that surrounds us, the world within a world, invisible to the naked eye. My work aims to provoke uncertainty in the viewer, to tease their cognitive senses by simultaneously revealing and not revealing. All about perception, the visual overwhelms analysis, the 'how' or 'why' relegated, as the art invites the viewer into a silent dialogue with it.
email: [email protected]
http://www.pamelaschilderman.com
Education: Goldsmiths 2004
Pamela Schilderman Dutch/Brazilian artist born in Rotterdam 1982, recently received The France Brodeur Young Artist Award and an Arts Council England grant to exhibit her project 'Casket' in museums across the UK.
Selected Solo Shows
2019 Casket, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury
2018 Casket, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
2017 Casket, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Casket, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
2016 Needle, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
2014 The Harold Thomas Collection, Oxford Natural History Museum
2014 The Harold Thomas Collection, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
2014 The Harold Thomas Collection, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2012 The Harold Thomas Collection, Haslemere Museum & Art Gallery
2010 The Harold Thomas Collection, Rugby Museum & Art Gallery
2009 The African Museum of Anthropology, Aberyswyth
2009 Africa , Malakta, Malax, Finland
2008 Pamela Schilderman, Otter Gallery, Chichester
2008 Africa, Burgerweeshuis, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2007 Bula Matari, Self –curated solo tour of major site-specific installation that consisted of over three thousand different coloured salt-crystals individually sealed in glass. It was exhibited at St Pancras Crypt, London, St Andrew’s Church, Rugby and St Martin’s Church in the Bull Ring, Birmingham.
Selected Group Shows
2017: Emancipation? Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
2017: Finding A Face, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester
2013: Made In Warwickshire, Warwick Museum
Selected Publications
2017: Studio International Interview - P. Schilderman by Anna McNay, Editor Miguel Benavides
2017: Q & A with artist Pamela Schilderman by Annabel Clarke, New Art West Midlands
2014: The Circles Issue, Here Comes Everyone, Editor Gary-Sykes Blythe
2010: Precious, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Design Derek Lee, Gemini Press
2010: Check mate/Human sciences, Prof. Raquel Matos, St Mary College Publication
Selected Awards
2016: The France Brodeur Young Artist Award
2006: First Prize 15th Year Anniversary, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2006: Winner Re-Worked, Oriel Washington, Penarth
2003: Goldsmiths Award Visual Art Student of the Year, Goldsmiths