Cally Trench: biography

Cally Trench has recently finished an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

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, and then worked in Hong Kong as an administrative officer for the Hong Kong Government for two and a half years. She returned to England to become a full-time artist. She gained a Fine Art degree at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

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.

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 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. Other recent projects include 2 x 366 Drawings in which she exchanged drawings every day for a year with an artist based in France, Tineke Bruijnzeels. Most recently, she organised the Sketchbook Circle, in which 15 artists shared sketchbooks.

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