Amy Boulton
Artist and inter-dependent researcher based in Gothenburg, Sweden
b. 1992, Huddersfield, UK
Artist and inter-dependent researcher based in Gothenburg, Sweden
b. 1992, Huddersfield, UK
Exhibitions, residencies and research projects
Upcoming-
- International Residency at Zentrum Für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U)
Berlin,
with support from Helge Axelsson Jonsons
stiftelse, Konstnärsnämnden and Västra Götalands Regionen
(Sep-Nov 2022)
2022
- If time unfolds as change then space unfolds as interaction Temporary print installation on Trafikverket planks at the Haga construction site of Västlänken, Gothenburg
- Open studios: Det Nya Grannskapet within the trans-disciplinary Of Public Interest postmasters lab/studio, Stockholm
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Reality Harvester: Nature after Data after Nature Print publication and website launch at INDEX - the Swedish contemporary arts foundation Stockholm. In collaboration with artists
Lisa Trogen Devgun, Jacob Broms Engblom and Benj Gerdes. Supported by Artistic Research and Development funding (KFoU), Kungligakonsthögskolan Stockholm
2021
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Training Set audio and sculpture project currently in progress,
with support from Göteborgs Stad
- Residency at Nordiska Konstförbundet (NKF) Malognen, Södermalm Stockholm
- Open Call! Stadstriennalen c/o Rösska Museet, design museum Gothenburg
- Tracing flows Risograph double sided print poster project in collaboration with artist Benj Gerdes, with support from Göteborgs Stad
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, Göteborg
- Gothenburg Underground Tour, shown across 4 sites in Gothenburg city. 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’ 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
Education
Degree level-
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2017-2019 MFA Fri
Konst (free art), Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
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2011-2015 BFA (Hons)
Intermedia Art, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Other-
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2021-2022 Of Public Interest Post-masters lab at Kungliga Konsthögskolan / Studio at Gröndal, Stockholm
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2020-2021 SVA grund kurser C, D (Svenska
som andraspråk) intermediate level ‘Swedish as a second language’
qualifications, Folkuniversitetet and Studium Göteborg
- 2020 SFI (Svenska för invandrare) basic level Swedish language qualification, Studium Göteborg
- 2019 EAT: Food, Materiality and Design (Fristående kurs), HDK Academy of Design and Crafts
- 2019 Publikationens utvidgade fält/Publicering som social praktik (Fristående kurs), Valand Academy
- 2013-2014 Erasmus exchange, Intermedia department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
- 2009-2011 Advanced level Art, English and French, Greenhead College, Huddersfield UK
Awards
- 2021, Göteborgs Stad Tillfälligt Stipendium
- 2020, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
- 2017, Grant from the Eaton Fund
- 2015, Edinburgh College of Art/ Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Graduate Bursary Award
- 2015, Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
Relevant Employment
- 2019-Present, Research/project assistant and collaborator with artist Benjamin Gerdes
- 2019-Present, Freelance English copywriter and copy editor
- 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
- 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
Writing & Editorial work
2022
- Editor, Reality Harvester: Nature after Data after Nature in collaboration with artists Lisa Trogen Devgun, Jacob Broms Engblom and Benj Gerdes. Supported by Artistic Research and Development funding (KFoU) from Kungligakonsthögskolan Stockholm.
2021
- Assisted in writing and editing the successful artistic research grant application “Ghost Platform: Generating the “Complex Image” of Data, Labour and Logistics ”, led by artist Benjamin Gerdes, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
2019
- Sense and the City: Towards a Feminist Psychogeography, Masters thesis, Akademin Valand
- Copy editor and contributor, RE:SEARCH publication, Göteborgs Universitet
2018
- Copy editor and contributor, Stuck In the Middle With You publication, Göteborgs Universitet
2016
- Interview with Dr. Angela McClanahan-Simmons,
Senior Lecturer of Visual Culture, Edinburgh College of Art, published as
accompanying text for Undercurrent solo exhibition, Edinburgh
Sculpture Workshop.
2015
- Perfect people, Perfect Places: The Social Construction of Our Ideals, Bachelor thesis, Edinburgh College of Art
- Acting up: Talking Power, Parody and Identity with Rachel Maclean Interview with artist Rachel Maclean for BOTA Magazine, Edinburgh
︎ View Copywriting Portfolio
Talks, Workshops and Events
2022
- Co-led LARP workshop
Delivering dirty (fostering filthy frictions against the cleaned-up contemporary city)
on the theme of the Platform City at A thinking practice symposium,
Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus Stockholm. In collaboration with Rosa Danenberg, Benjamin Gerdes, Carmen Lael Hines and Ying-Tzu Lin
2021
- Artist talk at Rösska design museum about the project Mappa Trappa, commissioned for Göteborgs Stadstriennalen
2019
- Trust in Play European School of Urban Game Design, co-designer of Primitive Objects, presented at a public game-jam event, Innovathens, Athens 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.
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.
- 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.
Extracurricular
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2017-2019, Gallerigrupp member, Akademin Valand (social media management) Gothenburg
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2015-2017, Committee member, Critical Network for
Artists’ Moving Images, Edinburgh
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2017-2018, Equalities and working environments officer, Konstkåren, Akademin Valand Gothenburg
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2016, Selection committee member, Edinburgh
Artists’ Moving Image Festival
- 2015-2017, Study group member, Edinburgh Radical Feminists reading group, Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh