LIAM CRICHTON
b. 1984, Scotland

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SOLO SHOWS

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2019    'Stereo Object' Void, Derry

2016    ‘Sleeper’ Sunken Gallery, MAC, Belfast

2016    ‘Untitled Black on Grey’ Townhall Arts Space, Cavan

2015    ‘Silent Valley’ Platform Arts, Belfast
2013    ‘Vacant Echoes’ Household Artist in Residence, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast
2012    ']|[' Satis House, Belfast
2011    ‘Black Country Sonata’ Wigtown Parish Hall, National Book Festival, Wigtown
2007    ‘Here Comes the Sun’ Boiler Room, ECA, Edinburgh

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
 

2018    ‘Open House Belfast’ various sites, Place, Belfast

2017    ‘Dissolving Histories’ Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2016    ‘The Headless City’ TULCA Arts Festival, Galway

2016    ‘City as a Gallery’ Carlisle Memorial Church, Place NI, Belfast

2016    ‘Future Ruins’ The Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast

2015    ‘Peer Review #5’ Pallas Projects, NCAD Gallery, Dublin

2015    ‘The. Dark. Outside. 87.7MHz FM’ Dark Skies Forest Park, Galloway Forest Park
2014    ‘A False Sense’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2014    ‘Have to Hand, By My Hand, Oh Handyman’ Flood, Dublin
2014    ‘Cache’ Tomb Street Car Park, Belfast
2013    ‘Trolly of Folly’ Bruno Glint, London
2013    ‘A.F.L.S’ Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia
2013    ‘In a Certain Light’ Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford
2012    ‘Out of Place’ Disused Shop North Street, Place NI, Culture Night Belfast
2012    ‘The. Dark. Outside. 87.7MHz FM’ Dark Skies Forest Park, Galloway Forest Park
2012    ‘Static State’ Summerhall, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh
2012    ‘Household’ Ormeau, Belfast
2012    ‘Static State’ The Old Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol
2011    ‘Gorbals Sound’ Gorbals Sound, Glasgow
2010    ‘ECA Degree Show 2010’ ECA, Edinburgh
2010    ‘Static State’ Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
2009    ‘The Precipice’ WIR Gallery, Berlin
2008    ‘COME [religiously]’ Forest Hall, Edinburgh Annulae, Edinburgh

PRESS / REVIEWS

 

21/08/2016    ‘Liam Crichton: Sleeper’ Sunken Gallery, MAC, Belfast - Slavka Sverakova

11/2015         'The (Re)turn of the Glacial' Collected - Dave Loder

07-08/2015    'Belfast Round-up' Art Monthly, Issue No 388 - Joanne Laws

13/05/2015    'In The Studio with Liam Crichton' International Sculpture Centre, re:Sculpt - Dorothy Hunter
08/2014         ‘Unsettling Essences’ How is it Made, Visual Artists Newsletter, VAI - Jason Oakley
27/09/2012    ‘ ]|[ ‘ Paper Visual Art Journal - Alissa Kleist

AWARDS
 

2018    Jerwood Artist Bursary, Jerwood Arts

2017    Artist Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES) ACNI

2015    Visual Artists Ireland (VAI), Digital Arts Studio (DAS) Residency Award 2015

2015    SIAP General Awards Scheme, ACNI
2014    SIAP General Awards Scheme, ACNI
2013    Shortlisted - Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, Dazed Digital

EDUCATION

2005 - 2010    BA (hons) Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
2009               KHB Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Erasmus International Exchange

 

DIRECTORSHIP

 

2013 - 2015 Co-Director Platform Arts Belfast