CV Ackroyd & Harvey
Heather Ackroyd
• Artist / performer/ director
• 1959 born Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
• 1980 BA Honours 1st Class Creative Arts (Visual Arts and Performance), Manchester Metropolitan University, England
• 1980 – 83 founder member / performer / designer with Optik Theatre Company
• 1983 – 93 performer with Impact Theatre Co-operative; Graeme Miller; The People Show; Gary
Stevens; Lumiere & Son; Hidden Grin
• 1989 director, designer and deviser of ‘Uses of Enchantment’, performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• 1990 first collaboration with Dan Harvey
• 1991 A Girl Skipping with Graeme Miller
• 1993 The Desire Paths with Graeme Miller
• 1995 Easter with The Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Katie Mitchell
• 1999 Country Dance with Graeme Miller
Dan Harvey
• Artist
• 1959 born Dorking, Surrey, England
• Foundation West Surrey College Art & Design
• 1981 BA Honours in Fine Art, South Glamorgan Institute of HE, Wales
• 1986 MA Royal College of Art, London
• 1986 - 90 gallery exhibitions of sculptural work in London and Europe
• 1987 – 89 Birch & Conran Fine Art, Soho, London
• 1988 – 90 specialised prop-making and visual construction on Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books; The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Drowning by Numbers
• 1989 work with Derek Jarman on War Requiem
• 1990 first collaboration with Heather Ackroyd
• 1995 fountain commission for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions/ Installations
2016 Conflicted Seeds + Spirit, The David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, UK
Slate Work South, Pembroke Street Arch, Cambridge
Slate Work East, Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Commissioned by the University of Cambridge
2015 Radical Action Reaction: The Tree Ceremony, Jardin des Plantes, Musee national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris
Beuys’ Acorns: trees on tour, Bordeaux, Nantes, Mulhouse, Lyon, Nice, Versailles, first phase of Radical Action Reaction
Stranded, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2014 Life on Life, Festival Temps d’Image, Le Centquatre-Paris, France
7 000 oaks/ 7000 chenes, La Maréchalerie – Centre d’art Contemporain, Versailles, France
2013 Cunningham, Derry/Londonderry City of Culture 2013, curated by Void, N. Ireland
Beuys’ Acorns and Stranded, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK, supported with “Considering Landscapes” Study Days
History Trees – Sparked, View Tube, London, UK
Face to Face, Saison Printemps-Ete, Domaine de Chamarande, France
2012 Inis Bearacháin, public art commission exhibited as part of Tulca Festival of Visual Arts
History Trees, “Mapping the Park”, Olympic Park London 2012, opened in first phase, commissioned by the ODA and supported by Arts Council, England
2011 Park Ave + Resident, Void Contemporary Art Space, Derry, N. Ireland
2010 On the Field, Mladi Levi International Festival, Llubljana, Slovenia
2009 Strata, Chalkwell Hall, Metal Culture commission, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2008 Here and There, Mostra SESC des Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Twist, Newfoundland Gyratory, Cabot Circus, Bristol, UK
2007 FlyTower, Royal National Theatre, London
Myles, Basha, Nath and Alesha, Big Chill, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, UK
2004 Life Drawing, European Space, 9th Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia
Fotosintesi, Metronom, Barcelona, Spain
Green brick, green back, Rice Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2003 Dilston Grove, LIFT, Café Gallery Projects and Artsadmin, Bermondsey, London, UK
Supernatural (after di Cosimo) and Specific Natures, Chicago Public Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Yates Art Gallery, Chicago, USA
Field Study, Special Commission, National Eisteddfod, Wales, UK
2002 Sunbathers, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
2001 Presence, Special Exhibitions, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Afterlife, Beaconsfield, London, England
2000 Zuel di Qua, Creating Sparks, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
1999 Blasted Oak, Secret Gardens series, Salisbury Arts Festival, England
1998 Photosynthesis (Testament), The Icehouse, Photo 98 and HTBA, Hull, England
1996 Host, collaboration with D’Avoine Architects, Nuova Icona and PACA, Venice, Italy
The Divide, New Zealand International Festival of Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
1995 Reversing Fields, Hammoniale Festival der Frauen, Hamburg, Germany
Portrait of Ernesta, Artigianato Vivo, Chiesa San Vito, Cison di Valmarino, Italy
Le Ruisseau du Malard, Le Mois de la Photo, Dazibao Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1993 Theaterhaus Gessneralle, Zurich, Switzerland
Forcefield, Galway Arts Festival, Ireland
1991 1, Westbourne Avenue (aka Grass House), Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, UK
1990 L’Altro Lato, Bussana Vecchia, Itlay
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 FOUND, The Foundling Museum, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Manmade, Raversyde, Ostende, Belgium
2015 Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London, UK
Portrait +, Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, Scotland
Lens on Life, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Vanishing Ice, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario, Canada
2014 Here Today: Celebrating 50 Years of the IUCN Red List, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK
Lens on Life, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
Discover The Now, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2014, London, UK
Vanishing Ice, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, USA
2013 Vanishing Ice, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, USA
UNFOLD, The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
2012 The 3rd Art & Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China
Carbon 13, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA
Festival Images des Artes Visuels Vevey, Switzerland
Magic Moments: the Screen and the Eye – 9 artists, 9 Projections Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Festival of the World, Southbank Centre, London
Saison Printemps-Ete, Domaine de Chamarande, France
Capital Offense; The Ends of Capitalism, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Points of View, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2011 Out of the Blue, “What on Earth” Two Degrees Futures, Artsadmin, London; ICA Short Film Festival, London; Reel Earth, New Zealand
Principa, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy
UNFOLD, Liverpool John Moores University; Parsons New School Design Building, New York;
The Glass Curtain Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Crystal World, Royal Society Summer Exhibition, London
Terre Vulnerabili, A Growing Exhibition 2nd/3rd/4th Quarters, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2010 Terre Vulnerabili, A Growing Exhibition 1st Quarter, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Artists in Residence, Dorking, Arts Alive festival, funded by Arts Council England
Trasparenze Art for Renewable Energy, M.A.D.R.E Napoli; MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy
Unfold Kings Place Gallery, London, UK; University of the Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; University Gallery, Newcastle; Newlyn Art Gallery, University College, Falmouth, UK. Art & Climate Change, Cranbrook Academy Museum, Michigan, USA
2009 Earth: Art of a changing world, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Walking Forest, Part of C Words, curated by PLATFORM, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Environment 2.0, Futuresonic, Centre for Urban Built Environment, Manchester, UK
Darwin Originals, Natural History Museum, London; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey, London; Darwin Festival, Cambridge, UK
2008 /6 Art & Climate Change, Cape Farewell, Miraikan, Toyko; Fundacion Canal, Madrid; Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany; National Conservation centre, Liverpool Biennale; The Ship, Natural History Museum, London, UK
2007 Bios 4, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain
2005 World Expo, British Pavilion, Aichi, Japan
2004 Pleasure Garden, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
Je t'envisage: La Disparition du Portrait, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
2002 Traits of Life, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
2001 Ex Machina, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Galerie
Schuppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Precious, V&A collection at The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England
The Unexpected, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
Paradise Now, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore, USA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, USA
2000 Paradise Now, Exit Art, New York, USA
Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
1999 Natura Photographica, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Out of Sight, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
1994 1994 89-91 Lake Street, Perth Festival, W. Australia
UK Today-La Nuova Scena Inglese, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1992 The Undertaking, Les Arts Etonnants 2, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France
Living Skins, Heatwave 2, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Prima Materia, Arte Domani 3, Spoleto, Italy
1991 Implanted Spirit, Les Arts Etonnants 1, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
