TONYA MCMULLAN
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In an attempt to expand the role of artist, audience, curator, host and performer Tonya uses her
practice to promote participation, seeking to actively involve groups of artists, the public, and her own family
and encouraging the viewer and participant to consider the confines of our environment - using a broad range
of media including video sculpture and performative practice.
The attempt is to offer the viewer a clue or comment to the themes of the everyday and the trials, tribulations
and struggles we all go through in our desires to win and achieve. By playing with the subject matter/ audience and
materials the work reveals the friction between actual everyday life and social expectations.
Co director at Catalyst Arts since July 2010, co founder of artist run initiative, echo, a member of the Belfast print Workshop and PRIME, new Belfast based arts collective.

Education:
Diploma in foundation studies: - U.W.E, Bristol, Sept 2000 – June 2001
BA Sculpture: - Edinburgh College of Art, Oct, 2001 – June, 2004
Art in Conflict: - Belfast social theatre lab, Sept 2009 - January 2010

Exhibitions:
2011
Field Work - group show curated by Charlotte Bosanquet, Niland Gallery, Galway
Curator in residence together with Colm Clarke, PSsquared Gallery, Belfast, June
Give and Take - transatlantic colaborative project, Belfast, PSsquared Gallery
In Tools, group show, Tools For Solidarity, Crumlin Road, Belfast
Give and Take, group show, Lost Coast Cultural Machine, Fort Bragg, California
2010
Going Green, Belfast print workshop members show, Belfast, August
Death to Delawab, group show, Delawab, Belfast, July
Transcend, solo show, MAS gallery, Odzaki, Serbia, July
Cutting Stories Engraving Lines, Island Art Centre, lisburn, June
PrinTwin, group show, Belfast Printworkshop, May
Dirty Cop Friday, group show, The Old Police Station, Deptford, London, May
Skinned Knees, Catalyst Arts Members show, Belfast, January
2009
Time and Time Again, 9 to 5 residency, PS2, Belfast
Obituraries, group show, Arcade Park, New York
New Members, group show, AD HOC, Belfast
On the Edge, group show, City East Business centre, Belfast
Carlisle arts festival, Carlisle
Open Studions Event, Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Bloid, Publication by cuboid
Artscopic, group show, Edinburgh
Gledinbow Group show, echo, Edinburgh
Starting Point installation in hotel bedroom in the point hotel, Edinburgh, Group Show, February
Generator Members Show, Dundee
2007
Transmission members show, Transmission, Glasgow
Visibility Good, Ullapool visual arts, Ullapool, Scotland
Art Weekender, Leith Festival, Edinburgh
2006
Genteel Jewellery, As part of the 2006 Leith Festival, New Kirkgate shopping centre, Edinburgh
Playing beyond the ha ha, Embassy gallery, as part of the 2006 Edinburgh Annuale Edinburgh
My Life Is Best, solo show, Generator Projects, Dundee
2005
Transmission members show, Transmission, Glasgow
2004
Student exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art
Stairwell to the lady, As part of the Edinburgh Annuale , Bruntsfield Place Edinburgh
2003
A response to war, Roxy art house, Drummond Street, Edinburgh
Gas works electricity sucks, New street car park, Edinburgh
Gas works electricity sucks two, New street car park, Edinburgh
Good Housekeeping and contemporary art, Roxy art house, Drummond Street, Edinburgh

Residencies:
9 to 5 residency, PS2 gallery, Belfast, November 2009
From Daingean with love, The good Hatchery, Daingean, Ireland, July 2009
Can Serrat residency, El Bruc Barcelona SPAIN, May/June 2009
Generator projects summer residency programme, Dundee, August 2006

Curatorial Projects
FIX, Live Art Festival, Catalyst Arts, 10th - 15th November 2011
Vicinity, Group show, Catalyst Arts, March 2012

Work Experience:
Catalyst Arts
co - director
echo
In 2007 Paulina Sandberg and I; set up echo, an Edinburgh based artist run initiative.
echo makes use of inbetween spaces and unseen locations, echo have curated exhibitions,
film events and a series of shows in the collective gallery, Edinburgh and participated in the
2009 supermarket art fair.
www.echogogo.co.uk
Artlink Midlothian
Since April 2007 I have worked with artlink Midlothian running art workshops for adults with learning difficulties.
http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk/
Arts in Mental Health
From May 2007 - September 2008 I worked with individuals on a one to one basis on a series of
film projects for arts in mental health.
http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk/projects/mentalHealth/
Red Apple Arts
Since June 2004 I have been employed by red apple arts, running workshops and working on collaborative
projects. Most recently a costume project for the Lord Mayors Parade in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

Awards:
Arts council for Northern Ireland, Travel Award, 2010
Arts council for Northern Ireland,Support for individual artists award, 2010
Culture Ireland Travel award, 2010
Edinburgh visual arts and crafts award, 2009
Scottish arts council curatorial fund, 2008
Edinburgh visual arts and crafts award, 2006

Writing:

The Visual Artist' News Sheet May - June 2011 Issue
Gifting Shock - Tonya McMullan discusses her project 'Give and Take' that featured a collaborative process involving
10 artists from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the USA