Cally Trench: biography
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Cally Trench completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2007, having gained a Fine Art degree at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Bucks New University) in 2004.
Cally Trench was brought up in the suburbs of London, and spent summer holidays by the seaside on the south coast of England. She studied Chemistry at Oxford, writing a thesis on the philosophy of the language of science, and then worked in Hong Kong for two and a half years. She returned to England to become a full-time artist.
She has exhibited in London, Oxford, Nottingham, Bracknell, Bury (Greater Manchester), and Poland (where she twice took part in international artists' workshops). She has contributed to public art projects, including making art for billboards, and flying her giant fish windsocks from towers in Oxford.
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Cally Trench was the prizewinner at the Surface Gallery's 2D Open Exhibition in December 2004. With the three prizewinners from the other open exhibitions, she exhibited in a four-person show at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham in February 2005. She has taken part in over thirty art projects in schools and community centres, including a CARA Creative Partnerships project at Wood Lane High School, London. In 2003, she curated Surprise, Surprise!, an exhibition of contemporary art by fifteen artists, which toured six primary schools in High Wycombe. In 2005, Cally Trench organised 2 x 366 Drawings in which she exchanged drawings every day for a year with an artist based in France, Tineke Bruijnzeels. She also set up the Sketchbook Circle, in which 15 artists shared sketchbooks over two years, 2005-2007. |
In 2008 and 2009, she curated two exhibitions exploring marks on surfaces: On the Surface at The Parlour, Chalk Farm, London, and Surface! at The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock.
She is currently co-curating with Outi Remes exhibitions exploring ideas about play: At Play 1 (2009) and At Play 2 (2010) will be followed by At Play 3 and At Play 4 in 2011 and 2012, all at South Hill Park, Bracknell.
Her latest project, Remarkable and Curious Conversations, involves a network of over thirty artists, who converse, collaborate and interact with each other.