The Girls have exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery, the ICA, the National Portrait Gallery, PayneShurvell, the Art Car Boot Fair, Beverley Knowles Fine Art.
The Girls’ Studio at Tate Britain was a special commission for Loud Tate, and in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, The Girls were artists-in-residence at Selfridges’ Ultralounge, London.
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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2018 ‘Diamonds & Toads’ - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in conjunction with Fierce Festival.
Exhibition ‘Within and Without: Body Image and the Self’
2015 ‘Diamonds & Toads’ - AGO Toronto
2015 ‘Diamonds & Toads’ - Just Like A Woman London Live Art Development Agency details
2015 ‘Diamonds & Toads’ - Just Like A Woman New York
2013 ‘Diamonds & Toads’ - Just Like A Woman Slovenia
2013 Arts Pavilion Bournemouth present Boîte-en-valise, Venice Biennale, Italy - 29 May - 2 June 2013. Artists: The Girls (Zerelda Sinclair and Andrea Blood), Marcia Farquhar, Tim Russell. Supported by Arts University Bournemouth and Arts Bournemouth, co-curated by Professor Stephanie James, Carol Maund and Mark Segal. The Girls' tableau Diamonds & Toads was performed daily.
2012 ‘Double Regina Experience’, West Undercliff Promenade, Bournemouth seafront, England. Launch of the second Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival. Sound design by Language, Timothy!
2012 ‘Double Regina Experience’, Art Car Boot Fair, Brick Lane Yard, London. Sound design by Language, Timothy! Curated by Ashton Hayward Productions
2011 ‘Diamonds & Toads’, PayneShurvell Gallery, London. ‘I am a Fantasy’ show – Margaret Harrison and The Girls, curated by Beverley Knowles
2011 Valentine's Day performance, 'Please Write' show at POSTED Projects, London, curated by Julia Royse
2010 ‘Postcard Hawkers’, Art Car Boot Fair, Brick Lane Yard, London
2009 ‘Garden Party’, Goodwood Lawn, Goodwood Estate, UK; curated by Wayne Hemingway, Geraldine Hemingway and Morag Myerscough
2008 ‘Garden Party’, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London, curated by Beverley Knowles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Alive For Your Pleasure, Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast. Curated by Ben Crothers. 12 April - 26 May 2013
2008
‘In Bed With The Girls’, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London. Curated by Beverley Knowles
2007
‘Raised by Wolves’, Burlington Club, London. Curated by Stephen Mahoney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
'Interplanetary' – Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; curated by Ben Crothers. Part of 'Interplanetary Revolution', curated by Peter Richards
2011
'I am a Fantasy' – PayneShurvell Gallery, London – Margaret Harrison & The Girls, curated by Beverley Knowles
'Mass: Tomorrow Never Happened' – Aubin Gallery, London; curated by Genevieve Jones
'Please Write' at POSTED Projects, London; directed and curated by Julia Royse
2010
Feminism in London Postcard Auction, curated by Sarah Maple, Aubin Gallery, London
'This is England', Aubin Gallery, London; curated by Stuart Semple
2009
‘Mind the Gap’, Crypt Gallery, London; curated by Marie Maynard
Lead artists, ‘Cradle’, off-site exhibition, Arts University Bournemouth
‘Take-Out’, ArtWash, Oxford
2008
‘Crème Egg Show’, Publicis, London
1998
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London; curated by Andrew Watson
D&AD award exhibition, London
Association of Photographers award exhibition, the Association Gallery, London
Long Acre, Central Saint Martins, London
The Observer Hodge Photographic Award exhibition, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
The John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London (now the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize)
1997
‘Belladonna’, ICA, London
BOOKS & CATALOGUES
2013 We are Photogirls (Emily Stein, Celia Willis), book published by Laurence King (UK).
2011 ‘The A-Z of Ideas’ by John Ingledew, published by Laurence King (UK), ISBN 978-1856697149
2010 Limited edition postcard pack, published by The Girls (UK)
2005 ‘Photography’ by John Ingledew, published by Laurence King (UK), ISBN 978-1856694322
2005 ‘The Creative Photographer’ by John Ingledew, published by Abrams (USA), ISBN 978-0810992412
2000 The Observer/Hodge Award book, published by Vision On Publishing (UK), ISBN 978-1903399033
1998 D&AD Awards Annual (UK)
1998 Zoo Annual (Germany)
1998 The John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award book, published by Zelda Cheatle Press (UK), ISBN 978-1899823055
SELECTED AWARDS
2011 Nominated for the Sovereign European Art Prize
2008 Selected for the Insight Out Programme and awarded a grant, funded by Nesta
1999 Marie Claire Photography Awards (Blood)
1998 The Observer Hodge Photographic Award, first prize (Sinclair)
1998 Association of Photographers Sixteenth Awards (Sinclair)
1998 British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) Student Awards, first prize
1996 Central Saint Martins Dermot Goulding Photographic Award, first prize & second prize
COMMISSIONS
2012
'Land of Lower Gardenia' - performance, Bournemouth's Lower Gardens. A commission for the second Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, a collaboration with Wulf Theatre and choir director Ali Sharpe. Curated by Carol Maund. Over fifty local people took part.
2011
'Grand Grotesque Parade' - film & performance, a special commission for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival. Directed by The Girls, associate directors: We 3 (Alice Flynn, Antonia Beck, Felicity Crabb), choir director: Ali Sharpe. Curated by Carol Maund. Over 200 local people took part.
Vauxhall Art Car Commission - installation and performance. POSTED Projects (curated by Julia Royse) and The Girls transformed one of four sponsored vehicles at the Art Car Boot Fair, in collaboration with the British Postal Museum & Archive. Curated by Ashton Hayward Productions. Brick Lane Yard, London
2010-2011
‘The Paper Eaters Do Bargate!’, installation, residency and magazine publishing; commissioned by Millais Gallery Off-Site Projects, Southampton. Curated by Bridget Cusack
‘The Paper Eaters’ magazine by The Girls – issues 4 and 5, published by Millais Gallery Off-site Projects
2010
‘The Girls Studio’ a special commission by Tate Britain as part of Loud Tate 2010, ‘SUPERminitinyBIG’, in response to the Tate's ‘Rude Britannia’ exhibition. Tate Britain, London
‘The Paper Eaters – Long Live the Photo-Story’, installation, residency and magazine publishing; commissioned by Selfridges in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery (UK). Selfridges’ Ultralounge, Oxford Street, London
‘The Paper Eaters’ magazine by The Girls – issues 1, 2, 3 and collectable box, published by Selfridges in association with The Photographers’ Gallery
‘Runaround Sioux’, photo-story, Diva Magazine (UK), October 2010 issue
2009
‘First’, Trespass Magazine (UK), front cover
TALKS / WORKSHOPS / CURATORIAL
2012 Selection panel, new commissions programme, Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival 2012
2012 Artist talk, 'The Body' seminar, MA Photography, Arts University College at Bournemouth
2011 Photography workshop, 'Obsession', Millais Off-Site Projects, Southampton
2010 Artist talk, Millais Off-Site Projects, Southampton
2010 Portrait workshop, Sketchbook Magazine’s Carnaby Street pop-up shop, London
2010 Artist talk, The Girls in conversation with Karen McQuaid, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2010 Curatorial panel, Lower Gardens exhibition, Arts University Bournemouth
2009 Curatorial panel, Lower Gardens exhibition, Arts University Bournemouth
1999 Judging panel, The Observer Hodge Photographic Award, London