Amy Thomas-Irvine (b.1986, Manchester, UK) and Oliver Thomas-Irvine (b.1986 Portstewart, N.Ireland) live and work in Cornwall. They formed a relationship in their early twenties due to a shared interest in the physicality, division and psychological nature within space, they went on to build a material driven practice through constructing live sculptural environments.
Within their work they aim to create shifting layers of connectivity and tensions; where image, objects, structures, situations and raw material can relate physically, politically or symbolically to the body and its present changing environment. Whilst their work is concerned by structural societal elements the core of their work stems from an interest in tensions or failures that rupture those ideals, contextually and physically. It is this state of physical or philosophical degradation that interests them and how material and form can be suggestive to that change.
Amy Thomas-Irvine (b.1986, Manchester, UK) and Oliver Thomas-Irvine (b.1986 Portstewart, N.Ireland) live and work in Cornwall. They formed a relationship in their early twenties due to a shared interest in the physicality, division and psychological nature within space, they went on to build a material driven practice through constructing live sculptural environments.
Within their work they aim to create shifting layers of connectivity and tensions; where image, objects, structures, situations and raw material can relate physically, politically or symbolically to the body and its present changing environment. Whilst their work is concerned by structural societal elements the core of their work stems from an interest in tensions or failures that rupture those ideals, contextually and physically. It is this state of physical or philosophical degradation that interests them and how material and form can be suggestive to that change.
Amy Thomas-Irvine (b.1986 Manchester)
Oliver Thomas-Irvine (b. 1986 Portstewart, N.Ireland)
Live and work in Cornwall, UK.
[email protected]
SOLO
2021
Holding Breath, Outdoor sculptural installation, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, UK
2019
Inhale, Exhale, SAPH, The Bund, Shanghai, China
2018
Speaking Between Somehow The Spaces, Solo presentation, Commissioned by Slate Projects, Averard Hotel, London
Binlang, Gallery333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2016
Monday Morning, OVERHEAD, To_Bridges, Bronx, New York
Limen Locale, G39, Cardiff
RROYA, Castor Projects, London
Derailer Derailer, The Still House Group, New York
2014
Accost Nascent, KARST, Plymouth
2013
The Dislocation, Public sculpture, Co.Derry, N. Ireland
The Feeling of Nothingness, Part 2 - Infiltrated Rank, ATOI & CULL
2012
The Feeling of Nothingness, Roll 5269, ATOI & CULL
End of the Valley, Pull of the Bull, La Fragua, Spain
Foist, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
Content in Collision, Anarch, London
2010
Playing in Storms, Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2009
Cloud Seeding, G35, Manchester
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
RELEASE, A group exhibition curated by Yotaro Niwa in the former production facility for surveillance, technology opposite the, Berlin - Hohenschönhausen Memorial site. September - November
2023
FORGE, Rafael Botí Foundation, Cordoba, Spain
2022
Chapter 6: The Return, Coundon Hall Park, with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, July-August
Blue Gate, Gesture, Chapter 5 of Hand Earth Gesture Return, Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, Coventry Canal Basin, July
Hand Earth Gesture Return, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire, with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, April
The Rick, Chapter 2 of Hand Earth Gesture Return. Hatton Farm, Warwickshire. Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, March
2021
The Seed, Chapter 1 of Hand Earth Gesture Return. Film Launch with live drumming performance. Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall,Daimler Powerhouse, 2021
2018
Dialogues5, Newbridge Project with MDP, Newcastle
European, Foreign and Domestic, Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, 10 Lancaster Gate, London, 8th June-1st July . ARTISTS INC - LOUIS ET MARIE AMAR//AMY AND OLIVER THOMAS IRVINE//MICHAEL IVESON// JACK BRINDLEY//MARC EINSIEDEL AND FELIX JUNG//THE COMMUNITY//ITTAH-YODA//OPHELIA FINKE n JJ LINCOLN
TAV, Taiwan, March, 2018
2017
Collateral Drawing Archive, UCA Project Space, Folkestone
Collateral Drawing Archive, Margate Washhouse, Margate
2016
Maybe Your Lens is Scratched? The Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, London
2015
One + One, Lubomirov/Angus Hughes, London
FT@ Sluice Art Fair, London
Bideford Black: The Next Generation. The Burton Museum, Devon
Plymouth Open, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
Testing Tropes, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
Monochrome, Beers Contemporary, London
2014
In the Face of Collapse, ATOI & Jacobo Castellano, COMBO, Cordoba, Spain
Office of The Dead, Collaboration with La Fragua, Belalcazar, Spain
Collateral Drawing, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2013
The First 11, CAST, Helston.
Manhunt, Suspended Sentences,Turners Warehouse, Newlyn
Crux Point, Cornwall Art Biennial, Halzephron House, Cornwall
A.P.T Gallery. Creekside open, selected by Paul Noble, London
2012
Extraction, Art in Action, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London
Mutual Annihilation (Antimatter), Florence Trust , London
Six Shooter Art Fair, Art in Action, Tate Britain, London
Cull Gallery, Cage Cull, Florence Trust, London
2011
Inland Fracture (Battles), Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Things That Fall, P1 Project Space, London
2010
Imagined Land, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
2008
Orchestrated Circuit, Live Art Falmouth Festival, Falmouth
AWARDS
Selected for Dialogues5, Mark Devereux Projects. 2018
Selected for Testing Ground: Master Class 2015 at the Zabludowicz Collection, 2015
National Lottery Funding for THE DISLOCATION - Public Sculpture, 2014
AIDF Award, The Arts Council England and The British Council, 2013
ARTANGEL, open 100, 2014
ARTANGEL, open 100, 2013
Grant for Sculpture Award, La Fragua, 2012
British Council Award with Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture 2011
Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England 2009
AWARDED RESIDENCIES
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai November 2018-2019
Selected for TAV AIR, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
The Still House Group, Red Hook, NY, 2015
La Fragua / Combo and Co, 2014
La Fragua, Grant for Sculpture, Spain, 2012
Aid and Abet, Cambridge, 2012
The Florence Trust, London, 2011-2012
Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China 2009-2010
PUBLICATIONS
Try To Be Better- Work made in response to WS Graham prompts. Co edited by Sam Buchan Watts and Lavina Singer. Published by Prototype. 2019
Combo and Co 2017
Peninsula Open, 2015
The Florence Trust 2012
Interview with GARAGE CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE- GARAGE MAG 2012
Interview and review in M STYLE , Chinese lifestyle and Culture magazine 2009
EDUCATION
BA Honours Fine Art, University College Falmouth 2008
LECTURING
Lecturer at Falmouth University, 2021 - Present
Visiting Lecturers at Falmouth University, 2019
Visiting Lecturers at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013
TALKS
The Inclusivity of Taipei, Panel Discussion, TAV, Taipei, 2018
TAV Friday Night Talks, Taipei, 2018
Testing Ground: Zabludowicz Collection, 2015
PAC Home Talk at KARST ,Plymouth, 2014
Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013
COMMISSION
ATOI t-shirt collection sold through Maison Twenty at Harvey Nichols, 2012
Far from The Madding Crowds -Video commission for Pam Hogg at London Fashion Week on/off Venue, 2011
Notre Dames - Film commission for Pam Hogg, Paris Fashion Week, Paris, 2011
Harvey Nichols, Floor set design, London, 2010