ART CV
Beth Davis-Hofbauer
Web: badhofbauer.com/ liveartlocal.co.uk
Email: badhofbauer@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
January 2022: Arts Award Training in Discover, Explore, Bronze, and Silver
July 2020 – March 2022 SSE/Arts Council England Emerging Leaders Program, via ZOOM due to pandemic
May – July 2017: RD-1st/Culture at Work Accredited Artist Coaching Programme, Dukes Theatre, Lancaster
2016-17: SSE Hampshire startup Programme
2014-2016: Distinction (all marks 85) MA Fine Art, University of Portsmouth
Oct- Dec 2015, New Educators , Aspex Gallery Portsmouth (gallery education course/workshops)
2008: Merit MA Media (Photography and Design)
2002: 2:1 BSc (hons) Media and Society (specialising in photography) completed various elective modules including art and media (40% Practical 60% Theory)
AWARDS/ GRANTS/ BURSARIES:
Arts Council England, Emergency Response, 2020
A-N, RD-1st Accredited Artist Coaching Program and Bursary 2017
Family Arts Conference Bursary 2017
MA Student Achievement Award (School of Art and Design, University of Portsmouth, 2016)
A-N Professional Development Bursary
Arts Council England: Grants For The Arts:
Travel bursary from CVAN and A-N to attend conference March 2016
Women of the Year Awards Arts category (runner up) (Portsmouth News)
Today I’m Me: Inspirational Woman July 2014
RESIDENCIES
March – April 2018 SPACE
6th March -26th March 2017 AAA Residency Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
MEMBERSHIP:
Axisweb | Artists Union England | A-N
CURRENT: Founder/MD LIVE ART LOCAL CIC We engage families with great art and culture and enable artists to connect through events and different projects.
Trained in delivering Arts Award at Discover/Explore/Bronze/Silver
Up to date CRB check
PROJECTS:
*Creative Youth (Home Ed Arty Youth Cub for 11+)
*Home is Where the Art is: Culture at Home workshops during the pandemic
*Cardboard Coast (Re-imagining Gosport in Cardboard – including workshops with the community and special needs children)
*For Love and Money (FLAM Conference): Funding the arts in the twenty-first Century (conference and networking event)
*Arts for Health (series of arts workshops with different creative professionals to support young people with mental health issues)
*Fareham Heritage Trail (workshops with three isolated groups to create and print a heritage trail for Fareham)
*Publish South Central an Art and Culture Publication for the South of England, launched March 2016
*Director/chief curator Sticks Gallery (ongoing)
*Project Director Sticks Gallery Affiliate Artists (providing various opportunities to artists and chances for artist development)
*Director, designer and curator at Fareham Arts Festival August 8th – August 16th 2015
*Fareham Art Trail August 23-30th 2014 and leading up from March. Organiser, creator, designer, curator, exhibiting artist
* The Autism Project: A multimedia arts project that will culminate in a photobook,
exhibition and documentary (ongoing)
*Artsable Workshops for families, especially those with children with autism and LD
BOOKS & ZINES:
* I Am Not Myself You See (mini zine)
* Dwell: A collection of nets (a Collect Connect publication)
* Empty Chairs and Empty Tables: Britain’s Lonely Benches and Picnic Spots. Book part of The Photobook Show Archive
* Archive of Failure Book and Web Project Published November 2013
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
*Fareham Heritage Trail Map
*Autism Matters: Making Galleries and Museums ASD/SPD Friendly (available via numerous arts organisation’s websites)
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS & ONLINE:
*Axisweb, Live Out Loud PODCAST 30th April 2020
*The Portsmouth News, 24th Jan 2017
*The Daily Echo, PANIC, 20th February 2017
*A-N news, 30th August 2016, https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artist-creates-virtual-reality-panic-room-i-want-to-alter-your-perception-of-anxiety
*Arts Council News 16th August 2016, http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/art-installation-invites-audiences-feel-fear
*The Portsmouth News, “A Mass Exodus to Fine Art Exhibition” August 24th
*The Portsmouth News, April 2016
*The Daily Echo, The Portsmouth News, The Loop various May – August 2015
*The Daily Echo, feature 30th December 2014
*The Portsmouth News: Women of the Year, November 24th 2014
*The Informer September 2014
*The News (various articles June – September 2014)
* Hampshire Life magazine (various photographic works) February 2013
EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITING (SOLO SHOWS IN GREEN)
*Housebound, CAS Artists, Online/Instagram, May 2020
*Cardboard Coast, Sticks Contemporary Gosport (community-focused arts project) August- October 2019
*Shape Retrospective Exhibition – Cumulative Effect: Disability and the welfare state. Hoxton Arches, London 2-11 November 2018
*PANIC, Sticks Gallery Fareham, Feb – March 25th 2017
*Shape Open 2017, Eco Pavilion, Mile End, London February 2017
*MA show, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, August 19th – September 3rd 2016
*Panic Room (Virtual Reality and Real world space), Portsmouth University August 2016
*BYOB, Express House, Wakefield (film event) 27th July 2016
*All in the Mind Festival Basingstoke, Ghosts (installation) June 18th 2016
*MA Interim Show, Portsmouth University, May 27th – June 3rd 2016, Eldon building Portsmouth University
*Faces of Caring (a 2014 exhibition) will be on tour with SCOPE from April 2016
*In A Room Sticks Gallery, Fareham, March 17th 2016 – April 17th 2016
*Atkinson Gallery MA and Other Post Graduates Show, Street Somerset 22nd February – 19th March 2016
* Katerina Katzinis’ MA show Provoking The Feeling, Portsmouth University September 15th-18th 2015
*Ghosts (installation) Lysees House Hotel, Fareham August 2015
*Hope (group show) Sticks Gallery, Fareham June 2015
*Percept (joint show with Margaret Marks), Sticks Gallery, Fareham, May 2015
* MA Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset February – April 2015
* Here & There, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth January 28th – March 2015
*Dwell: Exhibition streets of London with Collect Connect January 2015
* Commissioned to produce a piece for Dementia Friendly touring exhibition (Basingstoke, Havant, Andover) January – March 2015
* Transience (project in progress) Community Action August 2014
* Inclusion in various exhibitions as part of Fareham Art Trail August 2014
*22nd June 2014 – Portsmouth Cathedral. Spice Island Arts Trail (part of Portsmouth Festivities)
*24th May 2014 — Fab Fridge — Magnetic Art (Part of Bath Fringe Arts Festival)
*8th May 2014 – Project Two Thousand Fourteen (web and possibly print-based project: http://projecttwothousandfourteen.com). Contributor for this day with 13.6%.
*Postcards From the Edge, a Rebellious Edge Exhibition online and Live April 2014
*Quay Arts Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight PO30 5BD….. SELF: 2nd March –19th April 2014. Private View 1st March
*Lewisham Art House, Lewisham, London, 11th -30th March 2014
* Well Hung, Hoxton, London Open Exhibition 16th Jan — 28th February 2014
*Growing Places Nursery Community Arts Project (creation of various boards representing the nursery and its pods at a community event) (on show 14th-17th December 2013)
* West End Centre, Aldershot, Open 10th Nov – 18th Dec 2013
*Museum of Motherhood, New York, USA: My Mum Story (a film for Story of Mum Project) shown as part of Story of Mum at MOM Dec 5th-8th 2013
*The Chocolate Factory, Wood Green London 9th November — 30th January 2014
* The Nunnery: Bow Arts, London Selected artist Shape Open: Disability Reassessed 3rd Oct – 27th Oct 2013
* Tight Modern at the Liberty Festival, Olympic Park London Selected Artist Sept 7th 2013
* Art in Libraries: Fareham Library Joint Exhibition 17th August-20th Sept 2013
* Aspex Gallery “Freedom’s Road” 2013
EXHIBITIONS CURATING
*In a Forest, Sticks Contemporary, Feb – March 2018
*Layers, Peninsular Artists, Sticks Contemporary, Jan – Feb 2018
*Female Abstraction, Sticks Contemporary, Oct – Nov 2017
*Krasimina Butseva and Sue Eves, Fragments, Sticks Gallery, Fareham April 2017
*Svetlana Osckovskaya, VIBRANT, Ethos Art Space March – May 29th 2017
*Lorna Jones, Stories in Stitch and Time, Sticks Gallery, Fareham November 19 -December 17 2016
*Fareham Art Open, Sticks Gallery, Fareham August – September 2016
*Mary Amos, HOME ESCAPE, Café Ethos, Fareham August – November 2016
*Jane Walker, CITY LINES, Garbos Gallery Space, Southsea, June – September 2016
*Dominic Bradnum, NEON Paintings, Garbos Gallery Space, Southsea, April – June 2016
*Amanda Bates, SEA, Café Ethos, Fareham March – July 2016
*Andrew de Bere, Painting With Light, Garbos Gallery Space, Southsea, Portsmouth February – April 2016
*CFA, Work in Progress in conjunction with Portsmouth University, Sticks Gallery Fareham, Decembers 2015 – February 2016
*Winter, Café Ethos, Fareham Janurary – March 2016
*Human, Sticks Gallery Fareham, October – November 2015
*Christina Evans, Boxes of Oranges, Ferneham Hall, November 2015
*Surveillance, Café Ethos, Fareham, October 2015 – January 2016
*Jenny J Tipton, Projecting Natures Image, Sticks Gallery Fareham, September 2015
*Fareham Art Open, Sticks Gallery, Fareham August 2015
*19 exhibition venues, Fareham Arts Festival 2015
*Art Beach (a child-friendly installation), Sticks Gallery, Fareham July 2015
*Hope, Sticks Gallery Fareham, June -July 2015
*Percept, Sticks Gallery, Fareham, May -June 2015
*Fareham Art Trail 19 exhibition venues: 1914, Community, Freestyle, Faith in the Modern Age, Children of the Urban Age, Sculpture Garden, August 2014