Michelle Rumney

Lent Installation Artist Southwark Cathedral, London - Part of Becket 2020. Artist-in-residence St Thomas Way, Hereford Cathedral 2018-20. Mappa Mundi - Medieval pilgrimage, pathways & labyrinths. I would love to continue to make work in historic cultural spaces.

My work is full of reworked maps, pathways and repetitive fragments pieced back together, often structured in grids and with many layers, attempting to make sense of 'where?' - a tactile filtering process.

Re-constructing. Re-thinking.

Also walking as part of making, and mapping where we'd been - taking 'artwalks' with people, getting 'lost' on purpose.

MA in European Fine Art, 2001 – 02
Winchester School of Art: UK & Barcelona

BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1st Class Honours), 1992 – 96
University of Plymouth: UK
& international exchange to University of Eastern New Mexico, USA

Foundation in Visual Arts, 1990 – 92
Chelsea School of Art: London, UK

2020
'Pilgrimage': Lent Art Installation, Southwark Cathedral, London, part of Becket 2020

“The Two Thomases - Medieval & Modern Journeys”: Hereford Cathedral, England

2019
“The Map of Mundi”, Lighthouse: Poole’s Centre for the Arts, UK
“Re-Making Maps of the Mind: Medieval & Modern Journeys”, St Thomas Way: Touring Exhibition continues:
– St. Illtud’s, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Wales
– Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Wales
– Newport Cathedral, South Wales

2018
“Re-Making Maps of the Mind: Medieval & Modern Journeys”, St Thomas Way: Swansea – Hereford: Launch Exhibition – Hereford Cathedral, England
“Re-Making Maps of the Mind: Medieval & Modern Journeys”, St Thomas Way: Touring Exhibition:
– St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny, Wales
– The Holy Trinity Chapel, St Mary’s Collegiate and Parish Church, Swansea, Wales
– St. Illtud’s, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Wales

2017
“Take Me to the River”, TDBC (artist-in-residence), Arts Taunton: Somerset
“Arts by the Sea Festival Fringe”, Bournemouth, Dorset
“Lyngford Park Labyrinth” co-created with artist Christopher Jelley, as part of ‘Pride in Priorswood’ community festival, Taunton: Somerset
“Longrun Meadow Labyrinth”, co-created...