Onya McCausland

2020

In Steps of Sundew Group show curated by Fermynwoods, The Arches, Fineshade Wood, Northamptonshire UK.

Working on it Group show curated by Mika Hannula, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland.

2019
Europe After the Rain  A group exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery, in Newlyn UK. Curated by Simon Faithfull. Exhibitors in the exhibition were Larry Achiapong, Peggy Atherton, Karin Bos, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Simon Faithfull, Anne Hardy, Tim Knowles, Nick Lessing, Onya McCausland, Melanie Manchot, Rebecca Partridge, Benny Nemerofsky.

Aerial Landscapes Event with Joy Sleeman Nicky Bird, Katherine Jackson Onya McCausland at Flat Time House, Peckham.

2018

Landscapes of the Future Helsinki Contemporary Group show curated by Beaconsfield Art Works including David Burrows, Anna Bunting-Branch, , BAW (aka David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin) in collaboration with Bruce Gilbert, Onya McCausland, Keith Piper, Ioana Marinescu and Philip Thompson.

Landscapes Anima Mundi Gallery St. Ives Cornwall, solo presentation.

Five Colours / Five Landscapes University College London Cloisters Gower Street, London. Wall paintings ran the length of UCL’s main cloister and presented five unique colours made from earth pigments formed from coal mine remediation processes. The exhibition coincided with a symposium titled From Coal Mine Waste to Landscape Painting which focused on ochre generated from coal mine-water treatment.

2017
Horizon: Against Nature at Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi. Curated by Vaibhav Raj Shah, Finlay Taylor, Jasone Miranda-Bilbao.

2016
Perfectionism Griffin Gallery London. Curated Rebecca Pelly-Fry.
The Edge of Printing Royal Academy London. Curated Tess Jaray.
Charcoal Works Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham. Organised and curated group exhibition of invited artists to make new artwork using the charcoal generated from the burning of Magdelena Jetalova’s sculpture Place in the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail

2015-16
Charcoal Measure Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail. New public art work developed out of a year long engagement with the decommissioning and charcoaling of Magdalena Jetalova’s sculpture Place.

2014
Turning Landscape Visual Thinking, Exhibition and two public presentations, performance and reading group, Camden Arts Centre London

Enantiodromia, Simon Callery, Laurence Carroll, Onya McCausland and Angela de la Cruz. Fold Gallery, London.

ImMATERIAL: PhD research exhibition and conference, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London

2013
The Edge of Painting, curated Tess Jaray. Piper Gallery, London

Turning Landscape into Colour Exhibition accompanying book launch North Lodge, University College London.

2012
Touching White Research Residency, Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Sited (Salt Green/Blue Earth) Anima Mundi formerly Millennium Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall.

John Moores Painting Prize. Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London

2011
Carbon/ Iron/ Chalk, Summer research residency, Slade School of Fine Art, London.

White Earth, curated by Michael Harrison with introductory text by Spike Bucklow. St. Peter’s Church Kettle’s Yard Cambridge.

Three lines Academy summer show shortlisted for the Wollaston Award most outstanding work 2012

London to Cairo with Khaled Hafez. Delfina Foundation London www.delfinafoundation.com/whats-on/talk-present-our-notion-of-present-is-subjective/

Mark Out (Part Two) Meantime Cheltenham.

2009
Deep Red Somerfield Gallery, University of Gloucestershire.

Transition, Mid Pennines Gallery, Lancashire.

Alentejo Red Earth Drawing Spaces Fabrica Braco de Prata Lisbon

2008
Salt Green (Displacement) Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall.

English Red Earth, Gloucester Cathedral.

Contact by Tess Jaray, with Tess Jaray Martin Creed, Onya McCausland, Rana Begum 79a Brick Lane, London.

Mark Out Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.

Delineate, East Street Arts Patrick Studios Leeds.

2007
Multiple Occupancy with Teresa Carniero, Simon Barker, Patrick Adam Jones Meantime Cheltenham.

2018
Leverhulme Early Career Researcher Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Tutor in Undergraduate Painting.

2018 April – August
Senior Teaching Fellow, Painting. Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

2014 – 17
Post Graduate Teaching Associate Tutor, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Lead tutor Drawing Methodologies.

2003-2014
Lecturer, Foundation Diploma Hastings School of Art, Hastings.

2012-13
Pathway Leader University of Brighton (BA top up) Fine Art

2011/2013
Honorary Research Associate. Materials Research Project Slade School of Fine UCL.

2012
Visiting Lecturer Finnish Academy of Arts, Helsinki

2007-08
Visiting Lecturer University of Gloucestershire during Artist in Residence at Gloucester Cathedral.

2002
Visiting Lecturer, Chelsea School of Art.

Dec 2018
Knowledge Exchange Award UCL. 6 month KE Partnership with Michael Harding Paints.

Sept 2018
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

Dec – May 2018
Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund Research Fellow UCL.

March – Dec 2017
Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund Research Fellow UCL.

2013-17
AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award. Turning Landscape into Colour PhD Thesis. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

Dec – May 2018
Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund Research Fellow UCL.

March – Dec 2017
Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund Research Fellow UCL.

2013-17
AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award. Turning Landscape into Colour PhD Thesis. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

2017
UCL Provost’s Spirit of Enterprise Award Nominee Turning Landscape in top Colour / From Coal Mine Waste to Landscape Painting.
2015 -16
Octagon Small Grants Fund Award from the Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies, UCL to support the running and co-ordination of Deep Material Encoun-ters; A Symposium in a Cave.

Research Committee Award at the Slade School of Fine Art provided funding for the documentation of for Deep Material Encounters; A Symposium in a Cave.

UCL Grand Challenges Award Sustainable Cities From Pigments to Solar Power Hugo Bronstein (PI), Ruth Siddall, Onya McCausland and Jo Volley (PI). Cross-disciplinary research project between Chemistry dept. and Slade School of Fine Art.

2013 -17
Funding : AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Winsor & Newton as collaborative partners PhD Funding for Turning Landscape into Colour.

2012- 13
Provosts Small Grants Award for Collaborative Research. Turning Landscape into Colour.

2009
British Council Travel Award for Research trip and exhibition at Drawing Spaces Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon.