After a six year sojourn in Bedford, England I have now returned to Belfast and am currently a PhD researcher at Ulster University.
My art practice is sometimes dialogical and site specific, involving differing levels of participation and collaboration. I often work with smell as a device to re-programme how we perceive our surroundings and the systems they are built on.
Emancipation has been an underlying force in much of my work. Using moments of interaction to escape into different memories / places. The work oscillates between participatory events and obsessive research using archives, walking, food, film, sound, smell, bookmaking, interventions or combinations of all the above.
For me, research and the processes by which I gather information are as much a part of my work as any end result.
I also work as part of artist collective Sociable NonScience and as a freelance Curator/Producer.
Contact: Januprichard@gmail.com
C.V.
Education
2010 MA Art in Public (final semester at Bauhaus university, Weimar), University of Ulster
2003 BA HON.s Fine and Applied Arts, University of Ulster
Exhibitions
2019 Grounding, Instigator of a week-long alternative art school/residency with Bernardine Carroll and Caelan Bristow, DeWett House, Cloughjordan
2019 Vibrant Matter, Group show, St Josephs Church Sailortown, Household Belfast & NI Science Festival, Belfast
2018 Sometimes My Smile Is A Grimace, limited edition print & badges, published by Made With Maud, Rotterdam
2018 Clubhouse Cookbook, Clubhouse, Bedford Creative Arts, Queen’s Park, Bedford
2018 Tea Alchemy, with Unilever Tea Blender Ryan Clifford, Bedford Creative Arts, Bedford
2017 Victoria Botany Stroll, with botanist Manos Bazanis, Victoria Square Project, Athens
2017 Grounding, Instigator of a week long alternative art school with Bernardine Carroll and Paul Bailey, Limerick
2016 I Left My Senses in I.Drosopoulou, 2 month residency and solo show, Snehta, Athens
2016 The Time Machine by H.G.Wells Abridged, Group show, Cathedral Studios, Belfast
2016 Prisoner’s Cinema, PS Squared, Belfast
2016 Metonymic Time Machine – An Archive of the Invention, NNContemporary Project Space, Northampton
2014/15 Eastern Approaches, Group show, Museum of St Albans
2013/14 August Strindberg Abridged, Signal to Noise*, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Group show curated by Stefanie Hessler, Stockholm
2013 Paradigm Drift, Bedford Creative Arts Mini Commission, various locations in Bedford
2012/13 Odourific Odyssey, Abridged 0-28 Once A Railroad
2012 ExperiMENTAL, Catalyst Arts Members Show, Belfast
2012 /13 (Touring) Paper Jam #2, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich | Le Commissariat at Treize, Paris | marke.6 – gallery of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar| Ygrec, Paris | Messy Shop, Bangkok | Piano Nobile, Geneva
2011 Metonymic Time Machine – Protoype #1, Fix 11 Live Art Festival, Catalyst Arts, Phone box on corner of Queen Street, Belfast
2011 Howser’s Law, PS Squared, Belfast
2011 “We’ll Build a House (we’re good at that), working as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Werkatelier Galerie, Den Helder
2011 Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay), working as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Jenseits des Wachstums?! Beyond Growth Congress, Technische Universitat, Berlin
2010 Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay), working as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Art Trail 2010, Basement Project Space, Cork City
2010 Parfum Maison de Beton, Beton Salon, Paris
2010 Was ist die Geschichte von diesem Ort?/What is the history of this place?, Pergamentergasse 3, Erfurt
2010 Scent of A Layman, Re:Public, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2010 S.R.I.L. (Smell Reminiscence & Inquiry Lab) – Smell Association Denominator, North St./Bridge St., Belfast
2009 S.R.I.L. at Palm House Botanic Gardens & Bookfinders Café ongoing process based project, Belfast
2009 S.R.I.L. / European Smellscape, Den Helder
2009 Buzzbrook, Sound installation, Bessbrook
2009 What Does Your Granny Smell Like?, public intervention, Linenhall Library café, Belfast
2009 Save an endangered smell, Miss Moran’s tobacco shop, Belfast
2008 Smell Revival Project, public intervention, Ormeau Road, Belfast
2008 Studio C group show, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
2007 Group show of young Irish artists, Werkatelier, Den Helder
2006/7 25/25 touring exhibition and Publication of Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast
2006 ‘Visual Connections’, The National Gallery of Bulgaria, Sofia
2005 ‘New Contemporaries’ NIVAF – Art Tank Gallery, Belfast
2005 Double Summer Exhibition, Galerie Windkracht 13 & Gebouw 62 Rijkswerf, Den Helder
2004 Cathedral 6 group show, Ulster hospital, The Castlereagh Visual Arts Festival
Grants
2016/17 Arts Council Northern Ireland SIAP funding for self arranged residency in Athens
2015/16 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Research & Development of Metonymic Time Machine
2011/12 Arts Council Northern Ireland SIAP funding for Odourific Odyssey
2011 British Council sponsorship for Sociable Science ‘Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay)’ to take part in Jenseits des Wachstums Congress, Berlin
2010 Garfield Weston Trust, research grant
2006 British Council youth funding for Art Tourist, open studios event, Belfast
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Entrophy: Garbage and Art, Bauhaus University Weimar
2010 Swimming Backwards, MFA Program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2010 Art and urban city space – art and commemoration, Stadtkunst Kunststadt Nr. 57, Publisher: Office for Public Art Berlin
2006 25/25, celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast
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