Selected Exhibitions
(* Collaborative practice)
*2003
Elsewhere, Crawford Museum & Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
*2000
EAST International, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich.
7/5, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds.
Vim and Vigour, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
*1999
Line; Neil Conroy and Lesley Sanderson, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
*1998
Blink; Neil Conroy and Lesley Sanderson and Kim Merrington,
The Loading Bay, London.
*1998-9
Lines of Desire; an International Drawing Exhibition, The Bluecoat, Oldham Art Gallery, Wrexham Arts Centre, Newlyn Art Gallery, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London.
1997-8
Transforming the Crown, The Bronx Museum and Studio Museum, New York, USA.
1997
Making Presence, Contemporary Drawing from Britain, Artsway, the New Forest
Off-Centre, An Exhibition of Contemporary Women's Art, Exhibition Hall,
Swiss Cottage, London
1996
Works on Paper, National Gallery of Mongolia, Ulan Batar
The Last Dance, Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Wales
1994-5
These Colours Run, One person touring exhibition.
Wrexham Arts Centre, The Mappin, Leeds City Art Gallery, Midlands Art Centre, The Bluecoat.
1992
Mask, Impressions Gallery, York
Confrontations, Walsrall Art Gallery, Worchester City Art Gallery
and the Untitled, Sheffield
1991
Four X 4; Installation by sixteen Artists in four Galleries, The Harris, Preston
Translations, The Mappin, Sheffield
Search for Self, Ikon Gallery touring exhibition
History and Identity, Norwich Gallery touring exhibition
1990
New North; New Art from the North of Britain, The Tate, Liverpool,
then toured to Laing Gallery, Tramway, Orchard Gallery, and The Mappin.
The British Art Show, McClellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery.
1989
Along the Lines of Resistance, An Exhibition of Contemporary Feminist Art, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, touring exhibition
North by Northwest, The BBK, Cologne, Germany.
1988
Black Art - Plotting the Course, Oldham Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Trip over This, One person exhibition. The Mappin.
A Reputation amongst Artists, The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1986
City Life: Political Life, Private Life. The Cornerhouse, Manchester
New Contemporaries. The ICA, London
Neil Conroy; Artist in Industry, One person exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery.
Projects
*2004
inter...., The Harris Museum and Art Gallery. Group exhibition.
Are you in or are you out? Solo exhibition, PM Gallery and House, London
*2003
Transmission 3. Publication. Artwords Publishing.
Conroy & Sanderson in dialogue with Sarat Maharaj.
Cruel/Loving Bodies, Touring group exhibition
Shanghai, China and Para/Site, Hong Kong.
The Body as a Site for the Feminine and the Inter-cultural. Paper.
Conference in Shanghai, Feminism in China since the Women's Bell.
Organised by Fudan University, China and University of Michigan, USA.
Catalogue accompanying Cruel/Loving Bodies.
Further publication on Cruel/Loving Bodies. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (published quarterly in Taipei, Taiwan and edited in Vancouver)
has agreed to do a special theme issue focusing on the exhibition.
The Journal History and Gender are doing a theme issue on this conference/exhibition.
Strangers to Ourselves, commissioned new work, touring group exhibition.
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
Television
The Late Show. BBC 2 1989. Review of Black Art; plotting the Course.
Issues in Women's Studies: Feminist Strategies.
BBC Open University, 1991-98.
Selected reviews and citations in books
* Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art,
Routledge Press.
* Robert Clark, Body of Work, The Guardian, 15 May 1999.
* Robert Clark, The Appeal of the Pencil, The Guardian, 26 Oct 1998.
Nicola Foster & Penny Florence, Differential Aesthetics, Ashgate Press.
Eddie Chambers, Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers, inIVA Press.
Rosemary Betterton, An Intimate Distance; Women, artists and the Body. Routledge Press.
Lynda Nead, The Female Nude. Art, Obscenity and Sexuality. Routledge Press.
Publication
2003
Transmission: Speaking and Listening. 2
Edited by Lesley Sanderson & Sharon Kivland.
Published by Site Gallery, distributed by Cornerhouse Publications
2002
Transmission: Speaking and Listening. 1
Edited by Lesley Sanderson & Sharon Kivland.
Published by Site Gallery, distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.
Awards
Linbury Fellowship in Drawing. Wimbledon School of Art.
Supported by Lord Sainsbury.
The Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. Nominated in 2000 and 2001.
Arts Council Residency, Systime Computer Industries, Leeds. 1987.
* Year of the Artist, Research and Development Award. 2000.
* AFE Arts Council of Great Britain. Award. 1998.
Conference Papers
2002
At Odds- An Evolving Response.
Paper at the conference, Chinese Contemporary Arts in the International Arena. The British Museum.
Transmission: Speaking and Listening.
The Baltic, Gateshead.
Current Employment
1997-20 03
Lecturer, MA Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London. (Sanderson)
1997-20 03
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University. (Sanderson)
1987-20 03
Associate Lecturer in Sculpture, Sheffield Hallam University. (Conroy).