Contact: sophiehuckfield@hotmail.co.uk
Upcoming and Current
A-N: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.
Blackhole Club Guest Editors for A-N Newletter
(As Ambience Factory with Sophie Bullock, graphic design by Kieth Dodds) Jan, 2021
London Design Biennale,:
Design In The Age of Crisis.
Online and Somerset House, London, UK. 2021
Multistory Artist Commission
History of Manufacturing in Wednesbury,
UK. 2021
'SURGE’: A collaborative
artist and engineering partnership
project with Dr George Dwyer. Funded by UCL, The
Wellcome Trust / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences. 2021
Artist Commission
British Art Show 9 in association with Arts Connect
Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, UK. 2021
Collaborations
Ambience Factory
Residencies and Research Projects
Black Hole Club. Vivid Projects. 2020-21
Manifestos for the Future (collaborating with Sophie Bullock.). With Mansions of the Future, 2020
Designer in Residence at Fashion Space Gallery (collaboration with Lucy Hutchinson).
London College of Fashion,
2019
Selected for
Living Research with The British Council.
2018, 2019. Mapping and researching Maker Practices in Chengdu and Xi'an, China.
Artist In Residence at the Research and Cultural Collections. University of Birmingham., 2018-19
Artist in Residence at Modern Clay, Birmingham, 2017
Summer Lodge, Nottingham Trent University, 2017
Grymsdyke Farm/ RIBA. With Eastside Projects, 2015
Leonardo Program. Florence, Italy. 2014
Artist in Residence at Coventry University (AA2A scheme) 2013-14
"CPAGES." CGA/ESP Manchester/Birmingham Exchange, 2014
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
It Gets Lighter From Here (online). Culture Central. December 2020.
United Matters. Dutch Design Week. Netherlands. October 2020.
London Design Festival. London, UK. September 2020
The Design Film Festival. The Design Museum, London. September-November. 2020
Oven fresh. Film Free and Easy with Primary Studios. Nottingham.
(Group Show Online.) August 2020
Purgatory Object Theatre Variety Shelf.
Waste Paper Opera. (Group show online) July 2020
Reverie, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Astrea. London. Feb 2020
The Everyday Martian. Design Museum, London. Dec 2019
FLIMSIES (small acts of care). With GU Womxn. Art Licks Weekend. London. October 2019
The Art of Not Doing. Birbeck University. London.
October 2019
New Babylon. With Lucy Hutchinson. Arcade East/London College of Fashion for London Design Week. September 2019
London Experimental Variety Show. Shaw Theatre. July 2019
disORDER Festival, Wolverhampton July 2019
'Virtual Futures’ Near-Future Fictions Lasting Labours. London. May 2019
Future Factory, Design Museum, London. Dec 2018
Where are you in these interesting times? Curated by Scaffold Gallery. Hosted by AIR Gallery, Altrincham. November 2018
Maker Monday. Birmingham City University, Nov 2018
Between the Interdisciplinary and the Expanded Field Conference. University of Wolverhampton, Oct 2018
GU Women at Modern Clay, Grand Union, Birmingham August 2018
Radio Play, With Tate n Lyle and Collette Raynor, live radio broadcast, Nottingham Trent University, July 2017
Artefact, Birmingham. March 2017
"Useful Edition" for Production Show. Eastside Projects. Birmingham. February 2017
Life in Clay: Experimental Practice at Grymsdyke Farm. RIBA, London. Oct 2016
West Midlands Craft Open. Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, September 2016
Awards/Funding/Commissions
Artist Commission
British Art Show 9 in association with Arts Connect
Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, UK. 2021
Multistory Artist Commission
History of Manufacturing in Wednesbury, UK. 2021
The WESLDET Project Award. 2020
Research and Cultural Collections, University of Birmingham. Commission funding, 2020.
Viaduct Materials Award. 2019
Living Research Follow on Funding. British Council, China. 2019
The Walter Edmund Sykes Lunn Design Education Trust. Masters Scholarship, 2018
Alumni Impact Fund, University of Birmingham, 2018
Making Futures Independent Creatives Bursary, funded by Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Plymouth Culture Board and Plymouth College of Art, 2017
"Engineering Student of The Year", Dudley College, 2017
New Art West Midlands, Engine Bursary, 2017
Oscar Nomination for Best Short Animation 2013 - “Head Over Heels”- Main Puppet Fabricator with Charlie Buck. National Film and Television School. Director: Tim Reckhart Producer: Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Teaching
Visiting Lecturer
Kingston School of Art. UK. 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant
and Visiting Practitioner.
Central Saint Martins, UAL. UK. 2020
Selected Workshops
Performing with Things for BA Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences, University of Birmingham. March 2020.
Co-Lab for Radar. Loughborough University. Jan 2020
Designing sustainable systems. Maker Circle, Chengdu, China. July 2019
Science is Fiction is Truth with Lucy Hutchinison. University of the Arts London, May 2019
Make Your Future. Craft Council. 2017 - 2019
Ikon Youth Program. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, September 2017
Elegantly Wasted. Arts and Science Festival. University of Birmingham. March 2017
Writings/Publications
Artist-Newletter: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. Blackhole Club Guest Editors (As Ambience Factory with Sophie Bullock, graphic design by Kieth Dodds) 2021
May Day Reader with Black Hole Club. Vivid Projects. Birmingham. May 2020
New Babylon. Published with Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, UAL. February 2020. (With Lucy Hutchinson and design by Kieth Dodds)
FLIMSIES (small acts of care) with GU Womxn. 2019
The Makers role in shaping the Circular Economy, British Council, 2019
Atmospheric Memory, Futureeverything, 2019
Sleep Cycles, Publication Happens,collected works of Write Club, Published by Eastside Projects, Birmingham, December 2018
Pewter Casting, Resource for teachers for Key Stage 3 Published by the Crafts Council, 2018
Ambience Factory. With Sophie Bullock, design by Keith Dodds. Self- Published November 2018
An exploration of women’s engagement and participation in Makerspaces in China and the UK. Published by the British Council, 2018 PART 1
Footnote, Published by Tate n Lyle, 2018
Decelerating at Summer Lodge. New Art West Midlands, 2017
Dovetail Edition 0, Self Published. 2014
Events/Talks
United Matters,: Social Design. Dutch Design Week Online Talks 2020
Ghost Labour with Mark Essen. University of Birmingham. October 2020 (online lecture)
Solo Club, MA Material Futures, online talks. Central Saint Martins, 2020
Arts and Digital Cultures Talk. University of Birmingham, October 2019
New Babylon. Artist Film Screening curated with Lucy Hutchinson. Arcade East, London College of Fashion, August 2019.
Seminar for Computer Science Department at University of Birmingham with Sophie Bullock. June 2019
The Metallization Of A Dream: Paolozzi and the Physics Workshop. Birmingham University.
Talk and tour. April 2019
Who are the Ambience Factory? Neoliberalism and the Commoditisation of Anxiety. With Sophie Bullock. University of Birmingham, March 2018.
2017
Speaker, "Building Interdisciplinary Practices into Contemporary Modes of Production". Crafting in Industry panel (in association with RCA) Making Futures Conference, Plymouth College of Art, September 2017