courtney askey
conceptual artist/musician/writer
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education
MA Fine Art at De Montfort University 2019 - 2021 - Distinction
BA Fine Art at De Montfort University, Leicester 2016 - 2018 -First Class (Hons)
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at De Montfort Leicester 2014-2015 - Distinction
residencies
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York City, US March - May 2023
Artists Alliance, Manhattan, New York City, US March - April 2023
Chapelmele, Alençon, France February 2023
LCB Depot/Phoenix, Leicester, UK June 2022
Leicester Contemporary/StudionAme Toru Namekawa residency, Leicester, UK September 2021 - March 2022
previous exhibitions (solo)
Certum quod factum, Leicester Contemporary solo exhibition 18 - 26 March 2022
The Exposition - Introducing Hercy B, virtual solo exhibition, January 2021
previous exhibitions (group)
Emergence, De Montfort University MA Fine Art degree show, Two Queens, Leicester 10th - 18th September 2021
The Sundial Journal, online opening exhibition, February - April 2021
Cultural eXchanges Finalist Online Exhibition, February - March 2021
L.O.V.E. Art, online exhibition, November 2020
Encrypted Sounds of Wellbeing, online exhibition, October 2020
Socially Distanced, StudionAme, Leicester, September 2020
Ceremony, LCB Depot and Interact Digital Arts, June 2020
The Idle Index (Leicester Art Week), Phoenix, Leicester, November 2019
DMU Graduate Award Exhibition, Two Queens, November - December 2018
De Montfort University Art and Design Degree Show, Leicester, June 2018
Silver Vine Arts Partnership Staircase with De Montfort University, June 2017 - June 2018
Commission for Handmade Festival main stage backing projection film, Queens Hall, O2 Academy, Leicester, April 2017
Art at Orange Tree One, Loughborough, February 2017
Art at Orange Tree One, Leicester, December 2016
Summer Art Trail, StudionAme, Leicester, August 2016
De Montfort University BA Fine Art Year 1 Show, May 2016
Points of Departure, Queen of Bradgate, Leicester, May 2016
Summer Art Trail, Queen of Bradgate, Leicester, August 2015
De Montfort University Foundation Show May 2015
awards
Outstanding Exhibition from De Montfort University for 'My week with a cyborg' 2021
Two Queens Graduate Award for 'The internet gave me brain tingles' 2018
Silver Vine Arts award for 'Archetypes of Discovery' 2015
Leicester Lo-Fi Photography Society award for 'Archetypes of Discovery' 2015
previous projects and positions
Gallery Director and Curator at Hub Leicester
Art Consultant at Oberon Gallery
Director, Publicity and Marketing, and Curator at Silver Vine Arts
Artist in Residence at Grosvenor House Day Nursery, Nottingham
Project lead for De Montfort University/Silver Vine Arts partnership
Curator at Orange Tree
Workshop Leader for 'Selfie Portraiture' project and exhibition at Soft Touch Arts
Artist Assistant to Leila Houston
appearances
Screen Time, film screening and In Conversation alongside Ronnie Danaher's iConfess, Assembly House, Leeds, UK, 16th June 2022
Headway - What is it like to be an emerging young artist in Leicester? - Documentary, Studio Fig, 2022