Pandora Vaughan is a UK/Canadian artist based in London.
Selected exhibitions, projects. commissions:
Upcoming 03/2019: SWAP Editions, London. Edition No.4 : BREXIT SURVIVAL KIT & Puncture Repair
2018
Genesis Light Magic- w/ PeerSocial St John’s, Bethnal Green, London
Selected for Artquest's Peer Forum Award 2018 group at Cubitt Gallery, London
The Brownfield Research Project contributor- Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
Commission: 4 month forest installation for Wilde,Welt,Wald -w/ BBM e.V. Unbesandten, Germany
30/30 for 12oCollective, London - 30 works in 30 days completed
2017
Out of Space, book launch & solo exhibition, The Horse Hospital, London
LCN Showcase, [Space] Hackney
Grrrr!2 Truth Machine, London NW5
Banner commission, Christchurch School, Hampstead
2016
John Kilduff's Art Basil, Los Angeles, As Grrrr! with Cathy Ward
Grrr! at the ArtHouse, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Grrr! Gallery pop up project with Raw Art / Siân Pattenden, London
Parc Pawb, Tremadog - community play area, a V&O project
Joe Carcary / Pandora Vaughan, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford
Maindee Triangle, Newport, a V&O community design project
2015
Creekside Open 2015, selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, London
Summer Salon, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
Participant in ‘MEMORY FACTORY’ performance for Spatial Re-enactments, Hackney Wick
Garden of the Imagination, textile mural, Fleet Primary School, London
2013-14
Panorama, print & textile works, Porth Y Swnt, National Trust, Wales
Interpretation strategy & design, Porth Y Swnt, National Trust, Wales, a V&O project
ZAP Members Show, London
Summer Salon, Islington Art Factory, London
2010 - 2012
Exitstencil Press at the Underground Gallery, London w/ Penny Rimbaud, Dominic Thackray & Gee Vaucher,
Landscape design for Ellis Williams Architects, Welsh National Sailing & Events Centre, Pwllheli (a V&O project)
External Learning Space, Bishop of Winchester School, Bournemouth (a V&O project)
Small Tales Big City, with KeelerTornero, Lemon Monkey, London
2004-08
Landscape, sculpture, exhibition design - Canolfan Cywain, Bala, Wales (a V&O project)
Janus Path, Llyn Cwellyn, Snowdonia National Park, Wales (a V&O project)
Move #15, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sensing the Land commission: 2 bridges, Langport, Somerset
11 Minutes, installation series with Nova, Brunel 200, Bristol
Heartfelt, 96 Gillespie, London
Rhyl Museum re-design, Denbighshire, Wales (a V&O project)
A Haunting, University of Salford, Manchester
Prospector, 96 Gillespie, London (solo)
The Honiton Diamonds (commission) Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon
Sherpa Bus Shelters, Snowdonia National Park, Wales (a V&O project)
Carnesky's Ghost Train - development, London, with Marisa Carnesky
1995 - 2002
The Art Auction for Dial House, The Horse Hospital, London
Participant in 'pools in a golden carpet' for Shelagh Wakely
Re-Fuel (commission), Q Arts, Derby, with Lesley Davy
New Paintings, Birdland Cabaret Gallery, Halifax, Canada (solo)
Free Donuts, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada (solo)
study
MA Landscape Architecture, University of Greenwich
MA Art In Architecture, University of East London
BFA Fine Art, Painting, minor: Art History, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada
w/ Joint Hons Painting/Metalwork Camberwell College of Art, London
She makes work with confined & isolated spaces, some of which are nostalgic, some futuristic, some internal, some imposed. Recently transient habitations, rather than permanent settlement, have been the focus of her installations. There is a continuing interest in land use, power and the occasional failure of collective memory in the public realm. She likes to use vernacular traditions and techniques for the social history they represent and the way they can speak to a wider audience. Her frequent use of living material in the landscape is connected to human dependence on plants.
Upcoming 03/2019: SWAP Editions, London. Edition No.4 : BREXIT SURVIVAL KIT & Puncture Repair
2018
Genesis Light Magic- w/ PeerSocial St John’s, Bethnal Green, London
Selected for Artquest's Peer Forum Award 2018 group at Cubitt Gallery, London
The Brownfield Research Project contributor- Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
Commission: 4 month forest installation for Wilde,Welt,Wald -w/ BBM e.V. Unbesandten, Germany
30/30 for 12oCollective, London - 30 works in 30 days completed
2017
Out of Space, book launch & solo exhibition, The Horse Hospital, London
LCN Showcase, [Space] Hackney
Grrrr!2 Truth Machine, London NW5
Banner commission, Christchurch School, Hampstead
2016
John Kilduff's Art Basil, Los Angeles, As Grrrr! with Cathy Ward
Grrr! at the ArtHouse, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Grrr! Gallery pop up project with Raw Art / Siân Pattenden, London
Parc Pawb, Tremadog - community play area, a V&O project
Joe Carcary / Pandora Vaughan, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford
Maindee Triangle, Newport, a V&O community design project
2015
Creekside Open 2015, selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, London
Summer Salon, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
Participant in ‘MEMORY FACTORY’ performance for Spatial Re-enactments, Hackney Wick
Garden of the Imagination, textile mural, Fleet Primary School, London
2013-14
Panorama, print & textile works, Porth Y Swnt, National Trust, Wales
Interpretation strategy & design, Porth Y Swnt, National Trust, Wales, a V&O project
ZAP Members Show, London
Summer Salon, Islington Art Factory, London
2010 - 2012
Exitstencil Press at the Underground Gallery, London w/ Penny Rimbaud, Dominic Thackray & Gee Vaucher,
Landscape design for Ellis Williams Architects, Welsh National Sailing & Events Centre, Pwllheli (a V&O project)
External Learning Space, Bishop of Winchester School, Bournemouth (a V&O project)
Small Tales Big City, with KeelerTornero, Lemon Monkey, London
2004-08
Landscape, sculpture, exhibition design - Canolfan Cywain, Bala, Wales (a V&O project)
Janus Path, Llyn Cwellyn, Snowdonia National Park, Wales (a V&O project)
Move #15, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sensing the Land commission: 2 bridges, Langport, Somerset
11 Minutes, installation series with Nova, Brunel 200, Bristol
Heartfelt, 96 Gillespie, London
Rhyl Museum re-design, Denbighshire, Wales (a V&O project)
A Haunting, University of Salford, Manchester
Prospector, 96 Gillespie, London (solo)
The Honiton Diamonds (commission) Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon
Sherpa Bus Shelters, Snowdonia National Park, Wales (a V&O project)
Carnesky's Ghost Train - development, London, with Marisa Carnesky
1995 - 2002
The Art Auction for Dial House, The Horse Hospital, London
Participant in 'pools in a golden carpet' for Shelagh Wakely
Re-Fuel (commission), Q Arts, Derby, with Lesley Davy
New Paintings, Birdland Cabaret Gallery, Halifax, Canada (solo)
Free Donuts, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada (solo)
study
MA Landscape Architecture, University of Greenwich
MA Art In Architecture, University of East London
BFA Fine Art, Painting, minor: Art History, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada
w/ Joint Hons Painting/Metalwork Camberwell College of Art, London
She makes work with confined & isolated spaces, some of which are nostalgic, some futuristic, some internal, some imposed. Recently transient habitations, rather than permanent settlement, have been the focus of her installations. There is a continuing interest in land use, power and the occasional failure of collective memory in the public realm. She likes to use vernacular traditions and techniques for the social history they represent and the way they can speak to a wider audience. Her frequent use of living material in the landscape is connected to human dependence on plants.