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Emily Cole CV  

Solo Exhibitions
September 2013 Holt Festival Art Prize Exhibition, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
April 2008  An Experiment In Leisure,  Horace Blue Gallery Norwich
February 2006  Artist Space  Firstsite Colchester
June 2005  Stay  Great Eastern Hotel Liverpool Street London   
September 2003  Road Diversions  Babylon Gallery Ely

Selected Group Exhibitions
December 2014 Apartment: Style Cruise Canal Gallery London
October 2014 Place and Landscape East Contemporary Art Waterfront Gallery UCS Ipswich
August 2014 Zinger Canal Gallery London
August 2013 Coastal Collective, Wiveton Hall, Norfolk
July 2013 The Holt Festival Exhibition, The Nicholson Gallery, Holt
March 2012 Words and Women, The Forum Norwich
June 2012 Always Greener: Views from the Contemporary Countryside, PM Gallery London
October 2009 Perfect Present, Stable Productions at 242 Space London
September 2009 Gathering Storm, Queen of Hungary Gallery, Bayfield Hall
December 2008  these valued landscapes, Oriel Davies Gallery Wales
November 2008  Future50, Project Space Leeds
October 2008  The Wharf Road Project, Tom Rowland Fine Art London
September 2008  these valued landscapes, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
October 2007 art-file gallery, The Affordable Art Fair London
October 2007  Flow  East of England Regional Assembly Brussels
September 2007  Start your collection  Contemporary Art Projects London
July 2007  Spirit of the Age  Salthouse  07 
June 2007  E8: Hackney's Heartland  Transition Gallery London
January 2007  Winter Exhibition  Contemporary Art Projects London
July 2006  Off  Outpost Gallery Norwich
June 2006  V22:ON  Clerkenwell Workshops London
May 2006  V22 Selection Exhibition  Ashwin Street Gallery London
May 2006  Outdoors  Danielle Arnaud London
May 2006  Cities  Philips Contemporary Art Manchester
March 2006  Suburban Landscapes  Nicholson Gallery Norfolk
July 2006  Summer Exhibition  Outpost Gallery Norwich
September 2005  Stand 46  Hackney Art Fair
May 2005  Art Auction East  Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
November 2004  Kettles Yard Open  Cambridge
September 2004  The Cut  NEWCUTARTS Halesworth 
July 2004  Crossing the Line  Salthouse 04 
April 2004  Locus  Visions Gallery Ningyo-cho Exhibition Space Tokyo Japan
Feb 2004  Branson 2004  Atkinson Gallery Somerset

Awards and Residencies
2013 The Holt Festival Art Prize 2013
2006 Firstsite Contemporary Art Colchester Residency
2005 Individual Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England East 
2005 Escalator Visual Arts Commission
2004 Escalator Visual Arts, Commissions East and Arts Council England
2003 Vernon Crowther Painting Prize

Collections
Paintings held in collections in Berlin, Luxembourg and the UK, including purchases by Saatchi Gallery director, Arts Council England, The East of England Regional Assembly Brussels, and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
September 2013 East Contemporary Art Collection, University College Suffolk
Nov 2007 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Picture Loan Collection 
Oct 2007 East of England Regional Assembly Brussels
May 2007 Arts Council England East Collection 
Aug 2006 V22 Contemporary Art Collection London 

Employment 
2003-2011 Lecturer in Fine Art and Critical Studies, Norwich University Of The Arts
1994-1999 School teacher, Cambridge and Norwich schools 

Education
2003-2004 Middlesex University, Integrative Psychotherapy (including art therapy)
2002-2003 Norwich School of Art and Design MFA
1999-2002 Norwich School of Art and Design BA (Hons) Fine Art
1990-1994 Homerton College Cambridge University B.Ed (Hons) English

Selected Bibliography
Robert Macfarlane The Guardian, London fields, Saturday 8 December 2007
Iain Sinclair  Making Pretty: Emily Cole as urban tourist,  E8: Hackney's Heartland  Transition Editions June 2007
Ed Cathy Lomax  Studio Secrets  Garageland Issue 4  May 2007
Martin Herbert  Platform Alterations  Firstsite Paper May 2006
Cherry Smyth  Stay  Great Eastern Hotel London
Cherry Smyth  Escalator Visual Arts East  a-n Magazine May 2005 
Gillian Nicol Ed  Open Showcase  a-n Magazine p23 December 2004 
Michael Harrison  Kettle's Yard Open  Cambridge 2004
Manuel Chetcuti  Crossing the Line  Salthouse 04 Norfolk 2004
Nako Kamikanda  Locus  Visions Gallery Ningyo-cho Exhibition Space Tokyo