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MONICA BONOMO
Instagram: @ monica_bonomo
monicabonomo81@gmail.com
EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS
MA Fine Art Arts University Bournemouth 2016 - 2017
BA (Hons) Fine Art Arts University Bournemouth 2011 - 2014
ACADEMIC PRACTICE
2021 Delivering Back to Basics, workshop oriented to the harvesting, processing, and weaving of local plants from the bioregion of Punta Mona, Costa Rica.
Delivering Intentional Colours, introduction to natural dyes workshop, experimenting with plants from the bioregion of Punta Mona, Costa Rica.
Programming and curating Regenerative Arts at Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies, Costa Rica
2019 Delivering Botanical Sensory Workshops to schools and visually impaired audiences as part of Aspex's "Exchange" Summer Residency Program
Assisting Susan Stockwell with Rumpelstiltkin workshops
Delivering "Natural dyes for sustainability" workshop as part of the Women's Empowerment program of the High Atlas Foundation, Marrakesh
2018 Delivering “Matter Collaborations” workshop to Ma Fine Art students at the Arts University Bournemouth
2017 Assisting curators and artists at the Boite-en-Valise: Generator in the preview week of the 57th Venice Biennale
Assisting with setting up the exhibition for the Jerwood Drawing Prize at The Gallery at AUB
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Symposia/ Artists talks
2019 Artist talk at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Artist talk at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Panel Discussion: What is Drawing? AUB, Bournemouth
Discussion: Art and Its Materials, Spike Island, Bristol
World of Colour, Society of Dyers and Colourists, UAL, London
2016 Respondent at the Tensegrity Symposium, Tenderpixel, London
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Art Week, Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies, CR
2019 Exchange, Aspex Gallery, UK
2018 This temporary matter, Bath Arts Fringe, UK
Infinite Content, Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe, UK
2017 Drawing by any other name. A response to the 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Live Project Space, The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2016 Inside Art, Southbourne, Dorset, Uk
2015 Restart, Science and Art Festival, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2014 -15 Camouflage, The Blank, Bergamo, Visualcontainer TV, Vegapunk Studios, Milan, Italy
2014 Bad Behaviour, Brixton East, London, UK
Best of the West, Pounds Arts, Pound Pill, Corshan, UK
Teeth Cut, Free Range, London, UK
The Basement, MST Gallery, Boscombe, UK
2013 OUTPUT, Experimental sound and video, Drop Project Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
Grey Matter: Drawing Exhibition, Drop Project Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
Drop Project Opening, Drop Project Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
AUB-1,5,7, Dorset Tech, Boscombe, UK
Defining Practice, Museum of Design in Plastics, Bournemouth, UK
2012 Hide Project, Holton Lee, Poole, Dorset, UK
2011 Excellence in Foundation 2011, The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Bonomo, M, "Artist. In: "A Recipe Book", Limited edition, UK
AWARDS/GRANTS
2018 The Batsford Prize, “Craving Colours”, Runner up
Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe Commission
2017 Travel Prize awarded by the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, AUB
2014 The Batsford Prize, "Working in Three Dimensions", Shortlisted
RESIDENCIES
2021 Resident artist, Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies, CR
2019 Summer Residency, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Dar Slimane, second period, Marrakesh, Morocco
2018 Dar Slimane, first period, Marrakesh, Morocco