Caitlin Hazell (UK) is an artist, researcher and clown college dropout.
Their practice intertwines the imagined and exaggerated aspects of everyday life with myth, folklore and ritual, aiming to highlight absurdity and draw parallels through real and speculative history.
Contact
caitlinhazellwork@gmail.com
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Education:
2023-2024 Royal College Of Art, Sculpture
2014-2017 Kingston University, Fine Art BA (Hons)
2013-2014 Shrewsbury, UAL Foundation Diploma
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Awards and residencies:
Upcoming: theCOLAB, BODY and PLACE Residency, June 2025
Ongoing: Cement Fields ‘Foundations’ Mentorship Programme 2024-2025
Research trip/micro-residency with Scarlett Wilson, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, March 2025
Artist in Residence- Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland, November/December 2024
DIY Residency/‘Boundaries of Collective Working’ @ Loco Loaf studio, Hayling Island with Flora Duley and Scarlett Wilson, September 2024
Kenneth Armitage Postgraduate Sculptor Prize 2024
Gilbert Bayes RCA Award Grant Recipient 2024
New Contemporaries 2017
Stanley Picker Gallery Travel Grant to Poland with Amelia Brokenbrow, 2016
Alexandra Arts 'Pankhurst In The Park’ residency with Bunny Collective, Manchester, April 2016
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Select group shows and projects:
A Hundredth Link in a Chain, curated by 3D Women, outhouse gallery, London, April 2025
How Would You Stay? The Manifesto of Roots, 56 Dawes Road, London, March 2025
The Oven Is A Stage, The Oven Is A Grave, Platform, Vaasa, Finland, December 2024
Take a Seat, Bow Arts x HA.LF, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, October 2024
RCA Sculpture show- ‘An Investigation into The Noseless Saint’, June 2024
Are We There Yet?, RCAXCSM, Peckham Arches, London, April 2024
Model Village 2.0- curated by Hot Desque, Steam Works, WIP Project Space, London, March 2024
Two For Joy, San Mei Gallery, London, November 2023-January 2024
Table Top Museums 2023, The Art Workers' Guild, London, September 2023
In The Garden, San Mei Gallery, London, November 2022-January 2023
The Knot, 146 Bethnal Green Road, London, December 2022
New Contemporaries 2017, Block 336, London, January-March 2018
Tarducken, Ready Steady Puke, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, January 2018
New Contemporaries 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, September-November 2017
Bagels Originated In Poland, Stanley Picker Gallery front space, London, June 2017
No Working Title, project (Jo Addison/Natasha Kidd), Tate Modern, May 2015/January 2017
Polyester X The Coven: What Does Our Future Hold?, Dye House 451, January 2017
Search by Image, publication project with Kate Fahey, London, 2016
Monoprint & zine making-Bunny Collective, Alexandra Arts, Manchester, April 2016
Still or Sparkling?, America Square, Tower Bridge, November 2015
Origins, Triangle Space at Chelsea College of Arts, July 2014
The Young-Girl’s Gaze, SOMA Contemporary, Waterford, Ireland, May 2014
Bunny Collective ‘URL’. CCAD, Ireland, November 2013
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Talks and Educating:
Visiting lecturer-workshop and tutorials, Westminster University, March 2024
A workshop on real/false bodies, South Thames College foundation course, March 2024
'Desire Paths', cartography walk around Ruskin Park- hosted for RCA Walkative Society, February 2024
'Clowning Around', zoom artist talk for Shrewsbury Colleges/Birmingham Metropolitan college, April 2021
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Metalwork:
Registered hallmark:
Metal Instagram
Website
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Other:
Metalwork sales with DIY Art Market, Endless Love Creative, N4 Makers, Gubbins, December 2021-Present
Brighton Illustration Fair Artist, May and December 2023
Part time hotdog assembly assistant, 2019-2024
Visual Artist for Thumpasaurus; merchandise and album art, including 'Thumpaverse', 2021, stage costumes (April 2019, March 2025)
Visual Submissions Editor at Rookiemag: April 2015-April 2016
Illustrator, Rookiemag: August 2012- March 2015
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Work and contributions for:
Illustrated works for 'Fruits Dogs Eat', Jordan Kaltz, published by Electric Frog LTD 2023,
Stamptown Edinburgh Fringe guide 2021, 50GS magazine, Bechdel Test Fest’s zine, Filmme Fatales,
Poetry Magazine, THE LE SIGH, Girls Get Busy, HAG, Oh Comely, 20+ self-published own zines and publications.