Biography
home | work | biography | contact
Hephzibah Rendle-Short is a visual artist who is currently undertaking a PhD by practice to research the operation of painting from observation. She starts with Freudʼs claim that when we observe something in the world we compare it with a hallucination in the mind: we re-find it. Her project is an interrogation of this claim employing fiction: Drawing the diagram/me/ in pursuit of the lost object
At a yet undetermined date the house in which H grew up was cut in half, put on the back of a semitrailer and moved from its plot of land out of the city. The empty space left by its removal forms the conceptual possibility for the L O A – once an archive, now a network of forms - which the project aims to generate as an operation of retrieval to reconstruct the absent house. A shift from archive to network occurred some time into the project allowing for a certain migration across and between elements.
The L O A comprises a body of art objects, including drawings, graphic diagrams, video diagrams, paintings and S T Oʼs (strange transitional objects), creative textual forms, including Hot Pink (a box-set of seven video manuals), Indirections (a self published book), and a portfolio set of fictional writings.These items can be found in the L O A's e-repository.
| Curriculum Vitae | ||
| Education | ||
| 2007- | PhD | Royal College of Art, London |
| 2005 | Philosophy and Language | Birkbeck College (FFPL020UACB) |
| 1995 | PGCE in Higher Ed Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge | Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge |
| 1988 | PGDip. Fine Art | Slade School of Fine Art, London |
| 1986 | B.A. Hons Fine Art | Slade School of Fine Art, London |
| Solo Exhibitions-recent | ||
| 2010 | Indirections_1 | Five Years, London |
| 2007 | Do |
The Leper Chapel, Cambridge |
| 2005 | Like Helen | JHW Fine Arts, London |
| 2003 | Confronting Presence | Artstarté, Paris |
| Selected exhibitions-recent | ||
| 2011 | Public Monument–as contributing reader for Sean Dockray–Shadow Boxing | Royal College of Art, London |
| Manual Setting | Danielle Arnaud, London | |
| 2010 | Scale of Thought | Slade School of Art, London |
| Shelf: 50 artists | Peckham Rye, London | |
| Seven Day Weekend | Beaux Arts, Paris | |
| 2009 | Paint Lab | Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London |
| 2008 | Act Actions | Café Gallery Projects London, Southwark Park, London |
| Interim Show | Royal College of Art, London | |
| 2005 | Print Show | Clare Hall, Cambridge |
| 2003 | In the Presence of Passion | Canberra, Australia |