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Carali McCall 

 

CURRENT + UPCOMING

International Performance Drawing Series - DRAW space, Sydney Australia  28 - 30 April 

Lecture / presentation at Performance Philosophy Biennial, University of Texas,17th May 2024

Wright + Doyle / JB Blunk (collab) Inverness San Francisco, April - May 2024

New Art Projects, curated by artist Andrew Vallance, City Road London, July 2024

RUN VERTICAL (Running up the Side of a Building): Live Performance (awarded Arts Council England) 

RECENT

2024  Centre for Policy, Citizenship and Society + Department of Social and Political Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

            Productivity or Process: What is the Value of Making / Panellist with Patrick Loan and Oli Cloke. 

2024   DRAWING NOW ART FAIR, PARIS - MEMO Paris, VIP event, Circle Drawing performance 

2023   An exhibition of SMALL things and BIG ideas, White Conduit Gallery, London UK 

2023   Group exhibition curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Yuki Miyake

2023   GOLD (group show) CLOSE Gallery, Somerset UK 

2023    Intervals of Jupiter (solo show) Gryder Gallery, New Orleans, US

2023    Aubert Jansem Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland (Live performance)

2023    WOOLFF GALLERY, The Barn Froxfield, Hampshire UK 

2023    Lines of Empathy Close Ltd Gallery Somerset UK

2023    Performing Rock, Château Arton Lectoure, France

2023    The Fores Project Residency, London 

2023    Blunk Space / with WRIGHT & DOYLE, Inverness California 

2023    Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Lines of Empathy (group exhibition) London UK 

2023    V i d e o S o u n d A r c h i v e : S6  L.A.

2022    Artseen Gallery Cyprus, Exhibition and Live Performances, 'i miss the land but does the land miss me?'

2022    Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Performing Rock (Basque) *MEM festival curated by Txema Agriano

2022    Wright + Doyle Art Residency for SS23 collection

2022    Performing Rock, Live performance, (and holding rock sculpture, Liane Lang) at Wirksworth Art Festival 

2022    'Now Nancy' - SohoRadio - guest on the episode: Physicality

2022    Out of Site / Performance Lecture 

2022    10 Magazine: Future, Balance, Healing [issue 68]  Editorial by Jermaine Frances and Julie Ragolia

2022    Beyond Beck Road, London UK  (apple video) curated by Andrew Wallace 

2022    Levels of Life: Photography, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective. LCC Gallery, London

2022    Out of Site public performances / FLOW curated by Beau Coleman, (streamed-live) Chicago 

2022    Filet Gallery: Mañana Incierto, London UK 

2022    We Were Never Human: The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD) NYC 

2022    tunglið, tunglið taktu mig - SÍM Group Show /  Exhibition Hall, Iceland

2022    MASS CC  (Crucible) - Thame-Side Studio Main Gallery UK 

2021     Hundred Years Gallery, Live Performance, London UK

2021     C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) Residency (with co-authors) London UK

2021     Gryder Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition, New Orleans

2021     Here and There, online live performance,  Philadelphia US

2021     Woolff Gallery, UNLOCKED, London UK

2020     Artspace, Gala, New Haven, NY

2019     An Arm's Reach, (solo exhibition) Gryder Gallery, New Orleans, US

2018     EMPIRE II, Oaxaco Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico

2018     Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017  (Finalist) Touring Exhibitions, UK

2018     Hampstead London AAF (represented by Woolff Gallery)

2017     EMPIRE II, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2017     Monochrome, Woolff Gallery, London

2017     EMPIRE II, curated by Vanya Balogh, Castello (during the 57th Venice Biennale) Venice, Italy

2017     Circle Drawing: Live Performance @ International Rural Expo, Huron County, Canada

2016     Tickner McLusky Bell & Young Gallery 46, 'topophobophilia', Whitechapel, London

2016     Metal at Southend-on-sea, Sight (Unsighted), Southend-on-Sea, UK

2016     House of Illustration, Drawn Together, drawing performance, Kings Cross, London

2015     Notes on a Table, Drawn Conversations, exhibition, Conventry University

2014     Del Mar Para Ti, poca GALLERY, Spain

2014     Deptford X, London Contemporary Arts Festival, London

2014     Seeafar, Folkestone Fringe Festival, Folkestone, UK

2014     The Waste Land Trilogy (group exhibition, initiated by Lisa Peachey) The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, London

2013     Draw to Perform, Line Dialogues IV, Performance Space, Hackney, London

2012     Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery (curated by Daina Augaitis)

2012     Restraint, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2011     VAM, Belmont Art Collection, Vancouver, Canada

2011     Tensao, Antigo Tribunal da Boa-Hora, Lisbon, Portugal

2011     Running as Drawing, Lethaby Gallery, UAL, London

2011     Skype vs Night Sky, Papay Gyro Nights International Contemporary Art Festival, Orkney Scotland

2010     Non-Negotiable, Byam Shaw School of Art Exhibition Space, London

2010     Arc: I Draw for You, The Centre for Drawing UAL, London

2009     Drawn Together, The Centre for Drawing UAL, London

2008     Circles, Window Gallery, Charing Cross Rd, London

2008     Wrapped and Encased, Independents Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

2008     Through the Darkly Glass, (Group exhibition, at Kenny Schatcher's ROVE Gallery, Hoxton Square, London

2008     SEE-ME (Lee Campbell Projects: BATS Open Studios (Bow Arts Trust, London, UK)

2007     Phase Space, (Group exhibition, initiated by Lisa Peachey and Ellie Smith) Brunswick Gallery, London

2007     Fwd: Cult – Forward Culture, Nolias Gallery, Liverpool Road, London

 

CONFERENCES / LECTURES / RESIDENCIES 

2023      Artist Talk 'Performance Drawing' University of Bolten Art School 

2023      Bedales, Artist Talk, Hampshire UK 

2023      Churches College, upper Sixth form, Artist Talk, Hampshire UK 

2023      The Fores Project, London UK 

2022      Artist Talk, MASS / Turps Banana Programme, Woolwich 

2022      Out of Site / FLOW   Performance Art Symposium; Performative Lecture / Chicago US

2022      3RD UCM CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY DRAWING

2022      1-Month Residency, SÍM, Iceland 

2022      Drawing Room, London UK: Research Talk, Performance Drawing (with co-authors)

2022      Artist Talk, Talking Heads - Winchester School of Art

2021      Artist Talk on Performance Drawing - London Metropolitan University 

2021      TURPS MASS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

2021      Guest MFA in Studio Art, external examiner/crit. Guelph University, Canada 

2021      Remote Visiting Artist: Post Baccalaureate in Studio Lecture Series and crits at Brandeis University

2020      Artist Lecture: Bath University, hosted by Robert Luzar

2020      Artist Talk: MFA in Studio Art, hosted by Sandra Rechico, Guelph University, Canada

2019      Artist Talk: Art & Art History,  Program Lunchtime series at Sheridan College / UTM, Canada 

2019      Approaching Estate: Furtherfield Gallery, London

2018      Sport­ / Spectacle: Performing, Labouring, Circulating Bodies...  Kings College, London

2017      Drawing Matters: Symposium; paper presentation, York St John University, U.K

2016      The Future of the Document: documenting performance (co-presented) City, University of London

2016      RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016; film screening host and co-curator of the 3-part event (London, Leeds, Cardiff)

2015      In this Neck of the Woods, (initiated by Susan Trangmar and Steven Ball) Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2014      NEW LIFE BERLIN Art Festival, Germany

2014      Dialogues on Performance III: Draw to Perform, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2014      Performing site, Falmouth University, UK

2012      Sensingsite, performance and talk, initiated by Susan Trangmar and Steven Ball, Parasol Unit, London

2012      DRAWING OUT 2012: The Drawn Out Network, The Center for Drawing, UAL, London

2012      Fields of Vision – Conference at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

2011      DRN/UNIDCOM, Drawing and Design Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

2011      Artist-in-Residence (with PDC), Arc I Draw for You, The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon UAL, London

 

PUBLICATIONS

2023     Live Art: blood, the land and the role of the artist’s body, in Performance Research Journal, issue 27.8 'On Blood'  

2021     Artist as Athlete, TRACEY, Drawing Matters Publication, York St John University, Vol.15 issue 1 
2020     Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 [co-author, Bloomsbury Visual Arts Publication]
2020     Black Book: Drawing and Sketching [Scientific Journal]. Vol 1 Issue 1 : RUN VERTICAL
2020     Endurance Running as Gesture [...]' by Andrew Filmer in Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol3 issue 1, ISSN: 1048-6801
2019     An Arm's Reach, Artist Book, publication. Printed by Book Works UK. ISBN 978-1-78972-638-1
2017     Body, Space & Technology Journal Vol16 SIGHT (UN)SPECIFIC (co-author with L.Campbell and A. Lee).
2014     PhD Thesis title, A Line is a Brea(d)thless Length: Introducing the physical act of running as a form of drawing
             (Director of Studies: Anne Tallentire, Supervisors: Joanna Greenhill, Jordan Baseman)
2013     Cognition through Drawing), written by Agnieszka Karasch, Kopaed Publishing (Germany), Munich Art Symposium
2012     On Duration Performance Research, vol.17/No.5, October, pp64-65, ISSN 1352-8165, Routledge, Oxford
2011     The Sense of Drawing conference paper & UNIDCOM/IADE, International Publication, Lisbon
2009     Studio International, January Issue. 2010 Drawn Together, co-written (M. Foá, J. Grisewood, B. Hosea, C.McCall)
2010     Tracey: Contemporary Drawing Research’, online journal, September Issue
 

b. 1981, Ontario Canada
lives and works in London, UK

PhD Fine Art, [Running as Drawing] Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UAL, London, UK

MFA  Sculpture, Fine Art, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK

BA (Hons) Sculpture I Photography, Art & Art History, University of Toronto and Sheridan College, Canada

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