Silvia Champion
 
 
BIOGRAPHY

Born in Austria, 1969, currently living and
working in Sheffield, UK

EDUCATION (relevant)

2011-2014

MA Fine Art, Hallam University, Sheffield, UK


2002-2004
BA First Class Hons Degree Fine Art/Sculpture, Hallam University, Sheffield, UK


2000-2002
Foundation + 1st year of BA Hons Degree in Fine Art/Sculpture), University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria

1999-2000
Bowling Green State University (BA classes in Sculpture and Painting), Ohio, USA

1993-2000

Magistra of Philosophy [Mag. Phil.] in Spanish and English & American Studies, incl. teacher training.


Vienna University, Austria; Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain; Salzburg University, Austria; Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA

Silvia Champion

EXHIBITIONS

2011

- Residency with exhibition in Castle Market, Sheffield, UK

2010

- waiting (side specific installation), The Moor, Sheffield, UK

- mama (installation), Art&Architecture Trail, Wirksworth Festival, UK

2009

- CLIPS (video), Sherbrook, Canada

- Precious (installation), Moot Hall, Art&Architecture Trail, Wirksworth Festival, UK

2006
- Distance (installation, group exhibition), Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria

2005
- Urban Decay / Invasion (performance/installation), Fringe Festival to Art Sheffield 05 Spectator T, Matilda/Sidney Works, Sheffield, UK
- Deconstructing-Reconstructing IV
(installation/performance, group exhibtition), S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
- Deconstructing–Reconstructing I (installation, group exhibition), Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2004
- Deconstructing-Reconstructing III (installation, group exhibition), Mile End Park, London, UK
- Deconstructing-Reconstructing I (installation, degree show), Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Deconstructing-Reconstructing II / Triptych (video and sound), Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, UK

2003
- 8 Rooms With A View (site specific installation), Sheffield, UK
- Changing Places (installation, group exhibition), Main Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Mapping Landscape (installation), Sheffield Hallam University, UK

2002
- Tea-Bar (installation/performance, group exhibition), Gallery Paradigma, Linz, Austria
- Tea-Room (site specific installation/performance), Linz, Austria
- Die Kleinplastik in Oberösterreich (Small Plastics in Upper Austria) (group exhibtion), Nordico Museum, Linz, Austria

2001
- Die Sprache der Dinge (The Language of Things) (installation, group exhibition), University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria

2000
- Exhibition of Summer Works (installation, group exhibition), Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

 

PROJECTS  IN  PROGRESS

2010


Castle Market Project continued; play with sound in shapes reacting to different spaces

 

COMMISSIONS

2005

- 3D Poem, for private client, Sheffield, UK
- Word Ball 1, for the Articulate Collection, Bristol, UK
- Word Ball 2, for Brampton Cortonwood Infants School, Rotherham, UK

2003
- Tea-Shirts (installation), Rotherham General Hospital, Rotherham, UK

RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS

2005
- Brampton Cortonwood Infants School, Rotherham, UK

2003
- Reignhead Primary School, Beighton, UK

 

PRIZES, AWARDS, FUNDING

2006

- Arts Council England, Grant for exchange project and group exhibition in Salzburg, Austria

2005

- Business Link South Yorkshire, Grant for Website

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

- Training and Placement for agallery tour guide during Art Sheffield 2010 (SCAF), Sheffield, UK

- Training artists working with(in) communities, Yorkshire Artspace (YAS), Sheffield, UK
- Training artists in Schools, YAS, Sheffield, UK
- Training artists in professional Development, YAS, Sheffield, UK
- Workshop Quiet Times with Reckless Sleepers, Summer Shift, Centre for Performance Research (CPR), Aberystwyth, Wales
- Workshop A Live Art Experiment with Silke Mansholt, CPR, Llandrindod, Wales

- Several years of teaching experience teaching modern languages in schools and colleges between 1998 and 2007)

 

MEMBERSHIPS

- Member of CPR (Centre for Performance Research) since 2005
- Studio holder at S1 Art Space/Sheffield/UK from 2004 till 2006, Accociate Member at S1 since 2006
- Member of Yorkshire Artspace/Sheffield/UK since 2002

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