lois palframan ARTIST
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2024- Artist in residence with Notes and Sounds, Sheffield- vocalisation. Also at Vilnius Museum of Applied Arts and Design.
2013, 2024 – major curators- Victoria Lucas and Michael Archer
2020- solo vocalisation of drawings as scores
2018/2019- Iklectik and Access concert- improvised singing (Kay Grant) and playing (Charlie Collins and Faye MacCalman) of drawings as scores
2010-2024- residencies, artists talks, group and solo exhibitions- Leeds, Sheffield, Halifax, Redcar, London, Wakefield galleries
2008-2026- ‘Life Book’ artists book exhibited internationally including Tate Library, Bokartas, Lodz, UWEngland.
2007- exhibition at Luce Irigaray conference, Liverpool University
2006- scholarship- International Society for Philosophers
2003- MA Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Leeds Metropolitan University
2001- BA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
1982- BTech Environmental Science, Bradford University
2024 in group exhibitions at Open Gallery, Halifax; Fronteer Gallery, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. Artist in Residence with 'notes and sounds' vocalising, Sheffield. performance and artists book -10th Artists book triennial, Vilnius. Redcar Summer Exhibition, and performance (curated by Michael Archer)
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2023 'Animal Kingdom', 'Light', 'Spring', 'Botanical and Floral Art', 'Air, Water, Earth, Fire' Open Gallery, 'Nature's Endurance' Artworks, Halifax; 'Print it!' Aire Place Studios, Leeds; ' 2020 ' Access space; Cupola- 'Delphic'; 'Abstract' 'Open' Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield; Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery; improv. performance 'Notes and Sounds', Sheffield; Redcar solo residency and exhibition.
2022 'Meet the Locals', 'Drawing', 'Paint', Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield. 'Fluid' Espacio Gallery, London
'Reflection', 'Open Mind' Open Gallery, Halifax. 'We Called Yesterday Today' Cupola Gallery, Sheffield 'Bring it!' Aire Place Studios, Leeds
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2021 virtual exhibition 'Default' Zest Hall, Round Lemon, 'Abstract' Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2020 'melodic aphorisms' Unstone Grange, Derbyshire. postcard show, Cupola Gallery
2019 20 x 20 show, Access Space Sheffield. concerts:- 'at edge of see' Iklectik, London and Access Space, Sheffield, with Kay Grant. 'Beyond the Real' group show at Cupola Gallery. solo: Access-
'Scores: painting not writing'
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2018 'score' concert with Charlie Collins, Faye MacCalman and Beatrix Ward-Fernandez; workshop improvised graphic score concert, both at Access Space
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2017- scores in group exhibition Cupola Gallery and Access space, Sheffield
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2015 - 16 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, Allotment Soup, Sheffield
2014 6 months artist in residence at Burngreave Cemetery Chapel, Sheffield (initiator and advisor of this scheme). ‘Drift’ group show at Art House, Wakefield. ‘Room 311’ drawing installation at Fell House, Wakefield-Art House Residency
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2013 Allotment Soup, Grow Sheffield and Burngreave Cemetery Chapel-solo: ’Colours’
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2012, 3 Art House ‘Open’ annuaI members exhibition (curated by Victoria Lucas)
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2012 Affordable Art and Craft Fair, the Orangery, Wakefield
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2011 ‘Peering Sideways’ group exhibition and artists talk-‘Drawing and Punishment’ at Project Space Leeds.
4 week residency award at the Art House, Wakefield
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2010 ’20 Drawings’ solo exhibition at the Art House and reading from Life Book-artists talk
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2009 - ‘Artists books in the Library’-Sheffield Central Library, curated with eveArt (women artists association)-part of ‘Off the Shelf’ literature festival)
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‘Post Conceptual Text ’artists page in ‘The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists Books’ vol.3 no.2. Impact Press
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‘Life Book’ in Book Arts Festival, Doverodde, Denmark
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2008 ‘From Book to Book’ group exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery
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Artists book in Daniel Shand Gallery London
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2007 ‘Dream Writing’ exhibition at Luce Irigaray conference, Liverpool University
2006 scholarship- International Society for Philosophers (dream writing essay)
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2003 MA Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Leeds Metropolitan University
Collections: Art house, Wakefield. Sheffield Hospitals.
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​Artists Book (Life Book) in:- Tate Britain Library; Bokartas, Vilnius Lithuania; Lodz Book Art Museum, Poland; University of West of England Bristol- Bower Ashton Library and Centre for Fine Print Research; Bookart Bookshop, London.