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Amy Boulton  

Artist and writer based in Gothenburg, Sweden
b. 1992, Huddersfield, UK



Exhibitions & Residencies


2019
  • If You Listen I Will Tell, group exhibition, Galleri Monitor and ROTOR2, Göteborg
  • Things We Will Forget, Masters graduation exhibition, Göteborgs Konsthall

2018
  • City Samples, Audio Installation, Galleri Monitor, Akademin Valand, Göteborg
  • Gothenburg Underground Tour 12-22 April, Gothenburg. Audio-visual tour of four sites in Gothenburg with a hidden underground, accessed through augmented reality. Produced in collaboration with Connie Nguyen. Part of Stuck in the middle with you, MFA 1 end of year presentation, Akademin Valand

2017
  • 1kg group exhibition, Galleri ROTOR2, Gothenburg
  • BABA PIE, group exhibition of studioholders from Rhubaba, Edinburgh at Assembly House Gallery & Studios, Leeds

2016
  • Ludicrously Ideal and Beautifully Placed, duo show with Laura Yuile at GENERATORprojects Dundee
  • Graduate Residency at Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath
  • Undercurrent, solo show at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
  • Isn’t it wonderful there in the brightness, Screening of ‘The Waterfront’ (2016) at Hidden Door Festival, curated by Edinburgh Artist’s Moving Image Festival, Edinburgh.

2015
  • Graduate Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
  • ALT. group exhibition, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh
  • Shift and Spin group exhibition, Stanley Mills, Perthshire
  • Square Egg group exhibition, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
  • I Think This Film is About You group exhibition, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh



Writing & Editorial work

︎ Link to copywriting portfolio


2019

2018
  • Copy editor and contributor, Stuck In the Middle With You publication, Göteborgs Universitet

2016
  •  Interview for accompanying text of Undercurrent solo exhibition with Dr. Angela McClanahan-Simmons, Senior Lecturer of Visual Culture, Edinburgh College of Art

2015



Awards


  • 2017, Grant from the Eaton Fund
  • 2015, ECA/ESW Graduate Bursary Award
  • 2015, Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Scholarship, University of Edinburgh 



Education

  • Höst 2019, EAT: Food, Materiality and Design, HDK Academy of Design and Crafts (Fristående kurs)
  • Höst 2019, Publikationens utvidgade fält/Publicering som social praktik (Fristående kurs) Valand Academy
  • 2017-2019, MFA Fri Konst (Free Art), Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2011-2015, First Class BA (Hons) Intermedia Art, Edinburgh College of Art
  • 2013-2014, Erasmus exchange, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest



Talks, Workshops and Events


2019

2017
  • The A to Z of Artist-Led workshop aimed at generating discussion around self-sustaining artistic practices through a series of collaborative tasks and activities. Taking place within BABA PIE, a group exhibition of studioholders from Rhubaba, Edinburgh at Assembly House Gallery & Studios, Leeds, June 2017.

2016
  • The Spaces We’re In mini symposium at Dundee Contemporary Arts, part of NEoN Digital Arts Festival 2016.

2015
  • Artist talk at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
  • Thought Leadership – Organised an afternoon of talks, screenings and performance which took place as part of Embassy Gallery’s Annuale Festival, Evolution House Boardroom, Edinburgh. Video documentation courtesy of Suzanne Van Der Lingen.
  • What to Wear for Work? Performance lecture with Daisy Lafarge, presented at Female Sexuality in the Media workshop, (Hosted by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd) Minto House, Edinburgh.



Relevant Employment

  • 2019-Present, Research/project assistant for artist Benjamin Gerdes

  • 2017 - 2019, Platform for Artistic Research Sweden (PARSE) conference assistant, Gothenburg

  • 2016 - 2017,  WHALE Arts, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh: Street arts support worker

  • 2016 – 2017,  Lists of Life: Life drawing tutor

  • Apr – Sep 2016,  Studio Alec Finlay: Studio assistant

  • 2016,  Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival: Curatorial team member

  • 2014-15, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: Events assistant