Siân Hutchings is an artist whose practice is grounded upon how we can understand environments through an ‘active’ listening approach. Her work often considers an equality of the senses and works as an ‘aural architect’ first termed by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter in their book ‘Spaces Speak, Are you listening?’. Her work often incorporates participation with her audience whether that may be through joining her on a sonic walk, generating paper compositions and listening to paint dry. Through her work, Siân aims to highlight the importance of sonic understanding and how we can navigate experience through a multitude of senses rather than just relying on the western dominant sense of the eye.
EDUCATION
2019 |Master of Fine Arts | Northumbria University
2016 | BA 1st Class Honours | The Arts University Bournemouth
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 | Quietly Beneath | Tyneside Cinema | Newcastle upon Tyne
2020 | Quietly Beneath | Gallery North | Newcastle upon Tyne
2017 |TRANSMISSION | Sea Music Sculpture Antony Caro | Sian Hutchings & RichardWaring | Poole, Dorset
2016 |The composition of Sway | ArtSway, Sway, New Forest
2015 |48 Bags of Sticks | Sound Installation | ArtSway, Sway, New Forest
2015 |The Sound of Still Life | The Arts Festival by the Sea Bournemouth | West Beach& The Gallery at The Arts University Bournemouth
SELECTEDGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 | Until We Run Out of Roads | Baltic39 | Newcastle
2019 | Workforce | Newbridge Project | Gateshead
2019 | Zip | VaneGallery | Newcastle
2018 |BOLD TENDENCIES | Peckham, London
2018 |RESPOND | BALTIC, Newcastle
2018 |O’ | BALTIC39 | Newcastle
2018 |Audiograft, Oxford
2018 |Strange Pursuit | Vane Gallery, Newcastle
2017 |The Noematic Collective | The Drawing Studio, Bournemouth
2016 |Platform award | The Turner Contemporary, Margate
2016 |Platform award | Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2016 |SALT Graduate show | The Old Truman Brewery
2015| Discovering the Unfamiliar | Lokaal01, Antwerp, Belgium
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019-2020 | Artist in Residence | Tyneside Cinema | Newcastle
2018 |RESPOND (Selected Artist) | BALTIC | Newcastle
2016 |Graduate in residence | The Arts University Bournemouth | Fine Art
2016 |Artist in residence | Imagine 2020 lab | Arts Admin | Slovenia
2016 |Best Collective Award | SALT | Free Range Shows, The Old Truman Brewery
2015 |ArtSway | ArtSway, Sway, New Forest
2015 |The Garden Party (Prize winner) | Bournemouth Lower Gardens
2015 |Artist in residence | Lokaal 01 | Antwerp, Belgium
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2017 |The Noematic Collective | The Drawing studio, Bournemouth
2017 |Curator | A painting exhibition | Band stand, Bournemouth Lower gardens(forthcoming)
2016 | Curator| Coexist Alumni Exhibition | Poole Lighthouse
2016 |Invigilator | Coastal Gallery | ArtSway
2016 |Mary Dalton | ArtSway
2015 |Gallery Assistant | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON | 336 Oldstreet, Shoreditch, London, UK
WORKSHOPS
2019 | Sonic Mapping workshop | Arts University Bournemouth
2018| Sonic Journals workshop| Arts University Bournemouth
2018 | The Ecology ofSound Symposium | Bold Tendencies | London
2018| Sonic Casting |Audio Paper Symposium | Inter Arts Center | Malmö, Sweden
2018 | Playing withpaper: documentation and conservation of live art | MA Conservation students |Northumbria University | Newcastle
2017 |Sound Walk | Musicity Festival | London
2017 |Sound of Memory Symposium | Goldsmiths University | London
2017 |Drawing as a Composition | Richmond College
2017 |Drawing as a Composition | Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan
2016 |Sonic Journals | Arts University Bournemouth
2016 |Why we should listen rather than hear | Lecture | Arts University Bournemouth
2016 |Life Drawing with Sound | BA Hons Graphics | Arts University Bournemouth
2016 |Sound Workshop | ArtSway, Sway, New Forest
2015 |Sound Workshop | The Church Rooms, Sway, New Forest
PUBLICATIONS
2019 | Workforce | Newbridge Project
2019 | Sonic Casting |Audio Paper
2018 | The Dominant Eye| Podcast Series | Sonicstudies.org
2018| O’ | ExhibitionCatalogue
2018 | A Recipe Book |Simón Granell
2017 |Sonic based workshops: why we should listen rather than keep hearing | Journalfor creative pedagogies
2017 | Apainting exhibition | Exhibition catalogue
2016 | Interview with ATTN Magazine
PRIVATECOLLECTIONS
2018 | The Dominant Eye| The British Library
2018 | The Dominant Eye |BOLD TENDENCIES