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Paloma Proudfoot

Paloma Proudfoot works within a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, single and group performances. The London-based artist combines natural, organic materials, including hair, food or wax, with ceramics in order to create her sculptures and installations. Her works oftentimes display anatomical references and ostensibly otherworldly creature-like forms, while also depicting abstract shapes that are seemingly playful yet at the same time reflect on current topics of her own generation.

The artist implements her long-standing keen interest in clothing, textiles and fabrics, not only as materials that she incorporates into her work, but also in a technical sense. Proudfoot applies her knowledge of pattern-making to inform new and unique ways of envisioning and constructing her ceramic works. Besides her solo practice, Proudfoot also engages in several collaborative projects. She is co-director of the performance group Stasis, one half of PROUDICK (with London based ceramic artist Lindsey Mendick) as well as Proudfoot and Piasecka (together with Aniela Piasecka).

Proudfoot holds an MFA from Royal College of Art, London (2017). She will have a solo exhibition at The Lowry Museum in Manchester in 2024 and a solo exhibition during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023 at Soy Capitan in Berlin.

In 2022, Paloma Proudfoot’s commissioned work “Grief is recognised as a friend” was featured in Bold Tendencies in London. Her recent solo and duo shows include The Memory Theatre, Bosse & Baum, London, UK (2022), Today but not today, PROUDICK, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK (2021), Ferine with Saelia Aparicio, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2021), Project for an Overcoat, Editorial, Vilnius, LT (2021), Curing, Sans Titre, Paris, FR (2019), A History of Scissors, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2019), The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2018), PROUDICK with Lindsey Mendick, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK (2018) and There is one missing from your bunch, May Projects, London, UK (2016). Proudfoot’s work has also been included in group shows such as Off the beaten track, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE (2022). She has participated in the Tramway Residency, Glasgow, UK (2021), The Work Room Residency with Angela Piasecka, Glasgow, UK (2020), the Residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, UK (2019), the Moly Sabata Residency in Sablons, FR (2019) and the Thun Ceramic Residency in Bolzano, IT (2018).

Paloma Proudfoot, born 1992 in London, United Kingdom, lives and works in London.

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Exhibition

Paloma Proudfoot • The Three Living and The Three Dead • 28.04.–10.06.2023

Works

Paloma Proudfoot, Drinking in my eyes (III), 2023, glazed ceramic, bolts, (2x) 50 × 30 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, A fly like you (I), 2023, glazed ceramic, embroidered gauze, bolts, 40 × 20 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Spool, 2022, glazed ceramic, 28 × 35 × 3 cm each Paloma Proudfoot, Stitches, 2022, glazed ceramic, metal bolts, rope, 142 × 61 × 2 cm (figure), other parts at variable dimensions Paloma Proudfoot, Pin, 2023, glazed ceramic, metal, h = 19, Ø 9 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre, 2022, installation view Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre (detail), 2022, glazed ceramic, metal bolts, rope, embroidered fabric, 609.5 × 245 × 163 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Yoke, 2023, wood, glazed ceramic, rope, bolts, 120 × 122 × 48 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre (detail), 2022, glazed ceramic, metal bolts, rope, embroidered fabric, 609.5 × 245 × 163 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Behind my flesh, 2023, glazed ceramic, embroidered gauze, metal, bolts, 217 × 158 × 16 cm Paloma Proudfoot, There was a whispered story and a shouted one and both were true, 2022, glazed ceramic, metal bolts, chord, embroidered fabric, 207 × 160 × 2 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Splinter, 2022, glazed ceramic, 15 × 38 × 3 cm each Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre, 2022, installation view Paloma Proudfoot, The three living and the three dead (detail), 2022, glazed ceramic, bolts, 220 × 438 × 3 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Grief is recognised as a friend, 2022, glazed ceramic, painted wood, metal bolts, 130 × 218 × 17 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Mortal coil, 2023, glazed ceramic, bolts, 36 × 28 × 2 cm Paloma Proudfoot, A History Of Scissors, 2019, glazed ceramic, 56 × 40 × 34 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Three Living and The Three Dead, 2022, glazed ceramic, 300 × 500 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre, 2022, installation view Paloma Proudfoot, The Three Living and The Three Dead (detail), 2022, glazed ceramic, 300 × 500 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Accelaration of Days 2, 2021, glazed ceramic, 2 parts, each 35 × 38 × 1 cm Paloma Proudfoot (in collaboration with Saelia Aparicio), A Divine Messenger of Catastrophe, 2021 , fabric, glass, ceramic, 50 × 180 × 15 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Humours of the Exe 2, 2021, glazed ceramic, 21 × 25 × 1 cm Paloma Proudfoot, What Happened To Flying Dreams II, 2021, glazed ceramic, 26 × 17 × 1 cm Paloma Proudfoot, What Happened To Flying Dreams 1, 2021, glazed ceramic, 26 × 13 × 1 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Slow Dwelling, 2021, glazed ceramic, 2 parts, each 31 × 15 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Comma, 2021, glazed ceramic, brass screws, 2 parts, 31 × 56 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Comma, 2021, glazed ceramic, brass screws, 2 parts, 31 × 56 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup, 2018, glazed ceramic, dimensions variable Paloma Proudfoot, Private Pool, 2018, glazed ceramic, 17 × 110 × 94 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Memory Theatre, 2022, glazed ceramic, metal bolts, rope, embroidered fabric, 609.5 × 245 × 163 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Accelaration of Days 2, 2021, glazed ceramic, 35 × 38 × 1 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Turtle neck, 2018, glazed ceramic, 36 × 44 × 16 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Drinking in my eyes (IV), 2023, glazed ceramic, bolts, (2x) 50 × 32 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Turtle neck, 2018, glazed ceramic, 36 × 44 × 16 cm Paloma Proudfoot, A quick descent 2, 2018, glazed ceramic, 26 × 58 × 11 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Small sips and neat steps, 2018, glazed ceramic, 15 × 63 × 25 cm each Paloma Proudfoot, Town Planner, 2018, glazed ceramic, metal, 48 × 161 × 45 cm Paloma Proudfoot, What you have put outside yourself, 2019, glazed ceramic, stainless steel, latex cushion, 3 part, 32 × 39 × 26 cm Paloma Proudfoot, I am sick to death to this particular self, I want another (I), 2019, glazed ceramic, 39 × 22 × 27 cm Paloma Proudfoot, I am sick to death to this particular self, I want another (II), 2019, glazed ceramic, 42 × 23 × 43 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Remote from reality, but true (II), 2019, glazed ceramic, glass by Miranda Keyes, 2 parts, 56 × 14 × 14 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Remote from reality, but true (I), 2019, glazed ceramic, glass by Miranda Keyes, 3 parts, 75 × 16 × 16 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Memory never stops, 2019, glazed ceramic, 51 × 31 × 20 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Drinking in my eyes (III) (detail), 2023, glazed ceramic, bolts, (2x) 50 × 30 × 4 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The Nomad Skin, 2019, glazed ceramic, 40 × 50 × 10 cm Paloma Proudfoot, A History Of Scissors, 2019, glazed ceramic, 56 × 40 × 34 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Many a girl has lost her glove, 2018, glazed ceramic, 2 parts, left: 15 x 26 cm | right: 18 x 30 cm Paloma Proudfoot, The sigh, relaxing, 2020, mixed media, 45 × 95 × 10 cm Proudfoot & Piasecka, Cannulate, 2021, poly tube, wire, tubular joint, aluminum, bolt, 3D printed PLA/TLU, motor, 140 × Ø 55 cm Proudfoot & Piasecka, Floating ribs, 2021, textile, pins, wire, 73 × 71 × 28 cm Proudfoot & Piasecka, Pleated hour, 2021, resin, pigment, 3D printed PLA/TLU, motor, 62 × 63 × 20 cm Proudfoot & Piasecka, Calliper, 2021, resin, pigment, metal, 3D printed PLA/TLU, motor, 64 × 40 × 10 cm Paloma Proudfoot, Softness becomes a seam, 2021, spray finished Jasmonit, rope, 21 × 28 × 20 cm Paloma Proudfoot, An old idea of now, 2019, textile, 90 × 130 cm Proudfoot & Piasecka, Pair of bodies, 2021, wall drawing, dimension variable

Exhibitions
Paloma Proudfoot • The Memory Theatre • Bosse & Baum, 2022
Proudfoot & Piasecka (ft. Nima Séne, Ailie Ormston and William Darrell) • Ensemble • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2021
Paloma Proudfoot • Project for an Overcoat • Editorial, 2021
Paloma Proudfoot • Curing • Sans titre (2016), 2019
Paloma Proudfoot • The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup • Cob Gallery, London, 2018
Paloma Proudfoot • PROUDICK – a collaborative show by Lindsey Mendick & Paloma Proudfoot • Hannah Barry Gallery, 2018
Paloma Proudfoot • Special Projects: Paloma Proudfoot • art berlin 2018
Paloma Proudfoot • A History Of Scissors • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2019

Press

Publications

Paloma Proudfoot, Lisa Biedlingmaier, Isa Schieche, Camilla Steinum, Theresa Weber • off the beaten rack • KIT Düsseldorf • 2022

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