Education
from 2013 PhD candidate, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1987-90 Royal Academy Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools London
1981-85 BA Fine Art (1st class hons) University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Professional Practice
1994 – present: co-founder and Director of Beaconsfield, London: a streamlined resource for the development and presentation of contemporary art www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk
1993–present: Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art for institutions including Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London, University of Reading, Middlesex University London, University of Kent, Goldsmiths College London, University of Essex, University of Hull, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of East London, University of Trent Nottingham, Dartington College of Art, Exeter School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, Winchester School of Art.
2015-19: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant for BFA Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
1991-1994: co-founder and curator of Nosepaint, London: interdisciplinary art events and site specific art projects
Residencies
2018 UCL Art Museum, London
2017 Slade Summer School, London
2015 the guesthouse, Cork
2000 Tullipamwe Artists’ Workshop, Triangle Trust, Namibia
1998 Dartington College of Art, Totnes
Exhibitions (selected)
BAW is the art moniker for Naomi Siderfin and David Crawforth working in collaboration as Beaconsfield Art Works.
2019
Salon for a Speculative Future, Chisenhale Studios, London
2018
Landscapes of the Future (BAW), Helsinki Contemporary, Finland
Dwelling in Things, Redress, UCL Art Museum, London
Smoking Mirror_Med.15, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, The Cello Factory, London
2017
Famine Pass_electromagnetic (BAW and Bruce Gilbert), Diagonal Diagram of Dispersed Documents, ArtLacuna, London
Woman drowning in grey paint or is she waving? Slade Summer School, London
Smoking Mirror_Med.15, The Intercontinental, Roaming ROOM, London
2016
Famine Pass_live (Bruce Gilbert & BAW), The Multiverse, Wysing Festival, Cambridge
2015
Beara 2014, Protolinguistics, the guesthouse, Cork, IRL
2013
Diluvial iii (Bruce Gilbert & BAW), AGORA 4th Athens Biennale, GRC
2012
Invisible Stitches Enquiry 1: Arting and Curating, 6 Chairs, Art House Foundation, London
2011
Diluvial i (Bruce Gilbert and BAW), Faster than Sound, Aldeburgh Music/Big Shed, Suffolk
2010
Saleh Days (BAW), Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive, Houston, USA
God Machine (BAW), Chronic Epoch, Beaconfield 10th anniversary, London
2008
White Hole (BAW) and Terminal Services (Naomi Siderfin and Katherine Araniello), Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
2007
Undergrowth (BAW), Volume IV: Forest, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2006
Apology, Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2004
Suffer Little Children, Moral Plinth, Beaconsfield, London
2001
Element (BAW), Sacred Site, Alta Museum, Alta, NOR
Earthshaker (BAW), UKS Biennial, Oslo, NOR
The Nosepaint-Beaconsfield Archive 1991-2000, Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000
Monochrome II, Realm of the Senses, Turku Museum, FIN
Tullipamwe 2000, National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, NAM
Colonial Post 19/8/00, Tullipamwe 2000, Triangle Trust workshop, NAM
Earthshaker (BAW), Speculum 2000, Stavanger, NO
RAF (BAW), Small Pleasures, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, DEU
Clouding the Issue (BAW), Passion, Gasworks, London
Awards
2018 UCL Art Museum/Slade commission
2015 Jean Spencer /Malcolm Hughes Travel Bursary, Slade School of Fine Art
2002-2015 Arts Council England various awards (Beaconsfield)
1994-2002 London Arts Board various awards
1994 BT Innovation Award (for Nosepaint)
1993 BT Innovation Award (for Woodwork)
1990 De Segonzac Travel Award, RA Schools, London
1989 Fred Elwell Prize for Still Life, RA Schools, London
1987 Jack Goldhill Scholarship, RA Schools, London
1985 Travel scholarship, University of Newcastle upon Tyne