b. 1993, UK
Lives and works in London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Adjacents, Greenfield Project Space, London, UK (group)
Scraps and scrapes, Filet, London UK (group)
Devonshire Collective Presents, Port Hotel, Eastbourne, UK (group)
2023
superstructure (public image), outdoor sculpture commission, Devonshire Collective in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023, Eastbourne, UK
consumer, solo presentation with Sherbet Green for First Edition, Collective Ending, London, UK
Asphodel Meadows, curated by Studio/Chapple, ACall Festival, Staffordshire St, London, UK
JUPITER WALK, Sherbet Green, London, UK
2022
The London Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Between You and Me, San Mei Gallery, London, UK
2021
Weaponized Glamour (two person exhibition with Alice Channer), CASE STUDY Project Space, London
Join a Union (Boty / Boots), for On the Western Window Pane, Van Gogh House, London (one of a series of solo poster commissions for the window)
2020
Like a Sieve, Kupfer, London (group)
2019
Stretch, Flatland Projects, Hastings (solo)
The Weather Garden, Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (group)
Spread, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff; travelling to The Horse Hospital, London, and Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend, Essex (touring group exhibition, 2019–2020)
The Exquisite Corpse Project Show, 23-27 Arcola Street, London (group, organised by Valerie Kong)
2018
Die Wohnung (The Dwelling), SET Project Space, London, UK (two person exhibition with Eva Gold)
Undercurrents, The Artesian Well, London, UK (group)
Preserves, Artist Run, London, UK (group)
IRL/URL LOVE, Muddy Yard, London, UK (group)
2017
Portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth Harmon, Tenderpixel, London, UK (group, curated by Sean Edwards and Tamsin Clark)
2016
Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art
Untitled, The Muse Gallery, London, UK (group)
2015
New Arrivals, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London, UK (group, curated by Alastair Mackinven, Kate Bright, and Hayley Newman)
2014
The Beautifullest Place on Earth, The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, UK (group)
Swimming Lessons, The Gallery on the Corner, Battersea, London, UK (group)
FLEX, Camden Art Centre, London, UK (group)
2013
Sculpture Season, The Grant Museum of Zoology, London, UK (group)
EDUCATION
2012-16
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2011-12
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, UCA Maidstone, Kent, UK
AWARDS
2020
Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award Grant
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2020-21 [shortlisted]
2013
Sue Jamieson Memorial Award, The Slade School of Fine Art. The prize is given to an undergraduate entering their penultimate year of study on the basis of academic merit and excellent performance on the programme.
2012
Sessional Prize, The Slade School of Fine Art
RESIDENCIES
2014
The Beautifullest Place on Earth – A residency at the Red House, Bexleyheath, UK, in collaboration with Slade School of Fine Art
FLEX, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
TALKS, TEACHING, AND WORKSHOPS
2024
Pattern Portraits, podcast with Lauren Godfrey
2023
Degree show crit, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
professional practice lecture, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
2022
Guest lecture in conversation with Jade Montserrat, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Working Together: Artistic Solidarity and Creative Coalitions, professional practice lecture, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
2021–2022
Lead Artist (with Adam Moore), Transformative Futures: A syllabus for young people to re-build, reclaim space and take action, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
2021
Alice Channer and Madeleine Pledge in conversation, Case Study Project Space, London, UK
Interview between Madeleine Pledge and Phoebe Cripps, Van Gogh House, London, UK
Stretching / Slouching / Shopping / Remaking: soft armours and weaponised glamours against fictions of neutral production and individualised authorship, Artist Talk, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
Visiting Artist, BA Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
Visiting Artist, MA Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK
PUBLISHED WRITING
2022
Interview with Wells Fray-Smith, thelondonopen.org
Ferment/Foment, preface for "Translator", Emma Wilson, published with Herenhaus Edenkoben, Germany
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2023
Exhibitions: Jupiter Walk at Sherbet Green, émergent magazine, June 2023
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See in London in Late June, Tabish Khan, fadmagazine.com, 18 June 2023
London Gallery Weekend curated route, Larry Achiampong, londongalleryweekend.art, May 2023
2022
The London Open, eds. Emily Butler, Inês Costa and Wells Fray-Smith, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2022
Review: The London Open 2023, londonartroundup.com, 6 July 2022
2021
Pauline Boty features in a new poster on view at Van Gogh House London, paulineboty.org, 11 May 2021
Anne Hardy, artist, on Madeleine Pledge, in: From one woman to another, Helena Lee, Harper's Bazaar Japan, January–February 2020-1, p.143
2020
2019
Stretch (exhibition text), Phoebe Cripps, 2019
The Weather Garden, Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection (exhibition booklet), Anne Hardy, 2019
Carton, Numbered Editions, 2019, (publication)
Russon, Mary-Anne, Turning disused buildings into artists' studios, bbc.co.uk, 3 March 2019
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