Merseyside artist shares skills to make your own Edible Photo/Digital or hand drawn Prints for cake decorating!

Chloe's CV

Education

BA (Hons.) Fine Art: Print and Time-based Media (First Class), Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London), 2013-2015

The City Lit Bookbinding Course, 2014-2015

Theatre/ Fine Art and Performance with Textual Practices (BA credit), Dartington College of Arts, 2008-2010

BTEC National Diploma Performing Arts (Performance) (DDM), Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, 2006-2008
Major Awards, Grants and Residencies

2017 London Borough of Waltham Forest Arts Development Grant
A £3060 grant to deliver free community book arts workshops within Waltham Forest in June 2017

2017 Central Parade Incubator Awardee
A six month studio residency In Walthamstow, London
to continue the development of Object Book

2015-2016 Wandle Studio Prize (Residency)
One year residency comprising of free studio space (worth £6000), and £12,000 bursary to aid start up of creative business/arts practice and aid creative revival of Merton Abbey Mills (awarded by Merton Abbey Mill and Wimbledon College of Art;

2015 Penguin Books Sculpture Prize
Commissioned by Penguin Books to create a book sculpture out of the Little Black Classics books for their 80th anniversary celebrations. Exhibited initially in Foyles flagship bookshop

2014 University of the Arts London Taipei Residency (Shortlisted)
An all-inclusive residency to create a book work in collaboration with students in Taipei.

Group Exhibitions, Performance and Festival Events

2017
English PEN Modern Literature Festival, Richmix London
Enemies Project North West Poetry Tour, Liverpool
‘Becoming the Book’ Performance Lecture Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh)
Object Book Festival, Walthamstow


2016
Tate Modern, The Internet Yami-Ichi at Offprint
Radical Libraries, Richmix (part of D.I.Y. Cultures)
Inland Festival, Redruth Cornwall
‘The Library Rave’ with Shelf Labels BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts Library, Gateshead (Newcastle)
‘The Library Rave’ Finishing Touches Bookshop/Barbershop (Illuminous Books), London
‘The Library Rave’ UAL Libraries staff conference, London
‘The Library Rave’ Fruitmarket Gallery, Intervention Artists BookMarket (Edinburgh)
Enemies Project South West Poetry Tour, Falmouth

2015
Fine Art Degree Show, Wimbledon College of Art, London ‘The Library Rave’ and ‘Books for the Body I, Ashes, Books for the Body II’
Bestial Tales, Ark Short Stories, Swiss Cottage Library, London
Me, You and Everyone We Don’t Know Wimbledon College of Art ‘BYOBBBBBQ’
Situate, Wimbledon College of Art Library, London

2014
Spontaneous Combustion, Central Books, Hackney Wick , London with Cluster Bomb [collective] ‘This place of Wild Grass’
Manifest Content, The Flying Dutchman, London ‘Manifesting Content’ curated by Helga Fannon

2009/2010
Kropotkin, Plymouth
Four Drones for Four Flutes Sam Richards Debut, Totnes
Immersion (Bath works) Dartington College of Art, Totnes
In the Flesh, Plymouth ‘Fragile Rage’ With Cluster Bomb [collective]

Teaching/Workshops
2017
Blythe Gallery, Imperial College
Chelsea College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art
Object Book, Central Parade
ARK Short Stories,
Summerfest Walthamstow
University of the Arts London Libraries Staff Conference
Street Fest, Walthamstow
Liverpool Book Arts

2016
BBC Diversity of Thought Event, Broadcasting House London
University of the Arts London Graduate Futures Week (Fine Art Panel)
Inland Festival, Redruth
University of the Arts London Libraries Staff Conference
D.I.Y. Cultures, Richmix,
YOUTOPIA Festival
Banbury GEEK Con
Object Book Merton Abbey Mills
Cheney High School

2015
British Library, Fairytales and Wonderlands Late
Blythe Gallery, Imperial College
Being Human Festival, Summer Social
British Academy, Literature Week Other Worlds Late
ARK Short Stories, a Literary Coup, Primrose Hill Community Library
Dyspraxic Me, Dyspraxia Awareness Week
ARK Short Stories, Bestial Tales, Swiss Cottage Library
Sustainable Merton, Abundance Festival
University of the Arts London Learning & Teaching Day: Creative teaching & risk


2014
British Museum, Folklore late
Wimbledon College of Arts Library, Book Arts Library Induction programme

Curatorial Projects

2015-2017
Curator of Books and founder of Object Book, alternative book makery and experimental writing space and artists workshop programme in London (Colliers Wood and Walthamstow)

2016 and 2017
Object Book Festival (of Book Arts)
Object Book Book Arts Workshop Programme (external artists)
Book Flick Nights (Bookish Cinema Programme) at Object Book

2014-2015
Library Curator, Wimbledon College of Art, London
Assistant Curator for Manifest Content

Collections
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Book Work)
Penguin Books, London (commissioned Book Sculpture)
Royal Academy of Arts Library archive, London (Book Work)
Wimbledon College of Art Library, London (Canvas Print, Book Works)
University of the West of England Library (Book Work)
Private collection, London (commissioned Book Sculpture)
Plymouth Arts Centre Artists Books Collection (Book Work)
Plymouth College of Art Library (Book Work)
University of Salford (Book Work)

Artist’s Book Fairs

2017
Fruitmarket Bookmarket (Edinburgh)
Liverpool Artist’s Book Fair
BALTIC Artist’s Book Market (Newcastle)

2016
Offprint, Tate Modern (Internet Yami-Ichi) (London)
BALTIC Artist’s Book Market, Gateshead (Newcastle)
Fruitmarket Gallery Artist’s Bookmarket (Edinburgh)
PAGES International Artist’s Book Fair, (Leeds)
London Radical Book Fair
D.I.Y. Cultures (Richmix, London)
Liverpool Artist’s Book Fair (Central Library, Liverpool)
Manchester Artist’s Book Fair


2015
Manchester Artist’s Book Fair
Counter Artist’s Book Fair Plymouth
Future Libraries Small Publishing Fair
Reading Radical Zine Fair
Published Book Works

2015 002 is the Book by Chloe Spicer ISBN (concealed information)
2015 Self Service Library Rave
2015 The Artists Book Year Book, Impact Press

Library Experience

In the early years of my practice, I gained several years experience working in a range of libraries, including academic art libraries, University of Birmingham and the Bodleian, in roles including school assistant librarian and cataloguer with a special interest in special collections care and accessibility for collections.