CLARISSA UPCHURCH

Contact Details

email:
clarissaup@googlemail.com
phone:
UK +44 (0)1953 603533
post:
Clarissa Upchurch,
16 Damgate Street,
Wymondham,
Norfolk,
NR18 0BQ
United Kingdom

Milestones

1967-1970Studied fine art at Sheffield, Harrow and Norwich
1976-1986Together with Geoerge Szirtes, set up the Starwheel Press, for production of portfolios of poems and etchings.
1982-1994Teaching part-time St. Christopher School, Letchworth, Hertfordshire
1992-2000Visiting tutor at University of Westminster, Dept of Architecture
1994-Moved to Norfolk. Teaching, part-time, at Norwich School.

Selected Exhibitions 1986-2009

1986 Broken Light: one woman show at Hitchin Museum
1987 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
1990 First Prize in Gainsborough’s House, Drawing for All competition
1991 Tenements and Towers: one woman show of Budapest material at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature
1993 Shadow Palaces: one woman show at the National History Museum, Budapest
1998 International Print Fair in New York, US
2000 City Narratives, at RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Joint first prize: Drawing for All, Gainsborough’s House. Touring exhibition.
2000 Good Drawing, at Boundary Gallery, London (mixed show)
2000 Taylor’s Gallery, Dublin (mixed show)
2001 London Art Fair, Royal College of Art
2001 Chelsea Art Fair, London
2002 Inside/Outside two woman show Boundary Gallery North London
2003 Art London Design Centre Islington
2003 Battersea Art Fair, London
2004 Art London, Design Centre, Islington
2005 'Landscape 200' Castle Museum Norwich
2005 Cityscapes, Retrospectives Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon
2006 'Budapest - Poem, Image, Film', Hungarian Culture Centre London
2007 Eastern Open Group show Kings Lynn - Drawing Prize
2007 Taylor Gallery Dublin - Group Show
2008 'Cities' - Boundary Gallery
2008 'Celebrating Palladio' - Plusone Gallery, London - Group Show
2009 'Cities, Landscapes, Wrestlers' - Becket's Chapel Arts Center, Norfolk
2010 Open Studios Show, Becket's Chapel Arts Centre, Norfolk

Literature/Publications

1993City Lights: The Art of Clarissa Upchurch, Mozgó Világ (Hungary)
1993Shadow Palaces: The Budapest Drawings of Clarissa Upchurch, Victor Határ, Budapest Historical Museum
1993British Contemporary Art 1993 (Galliardi)
2000City Visions: The Lost Movies of Clarissa Upchurch, Modern Painters
2002Inside/Outside - catalogue essay
2006 'BUDAPEST' Image, Poem, Film (Poem and Essay by George Szirtes), Publisher: Corvina, Budapest March '06