Haydn Albrow
Haydn Albrow
In your mouth, 2020
Acrylic and ceramics on paper and card
80 x 62 cm
About this Work
This painting was created in response to one of Albrow’s poems titled “Battleships for your birthday”. The poem is a way for her to make sense of her own dreams and thoughts, and how she tries to hold on to the sensation of dreaming once she’s awake. One of the major running themes in her work (and dreams) has been the integration and symbolism of teeth, suffering herself from bruxism (teeth grinding).
About Haydn Albrow
Haydn Albrow is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, where she is currently undertaking an MFA in Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Previously, she studied Fine Art at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, where she was awarded 2nd place in the Owen Rowley Prize during the undergraduate degree show. Recent exhibitions include at Saatchi Gallery, London, and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.
Albrow works across large-scale sculptural works, installations, poetry and sound. Her work often addresses themes of the conscious and unconscious mind; thinking of our brain as a machine that manipulates, interprets and manoeuvres memories, language and dreams into tangible thoughts and ways of thinking. More recently she has been exploring language, and the discourses that evolve through conversations about the act of dreaming. This has brought her to interrogate the ways we interpret our dreams, as well as everyday scenarios that we experience, and how we can relate them to each other. The artist sees all materials as tools for both drawing and performance, stating: “My work reflects in equal parts the processes of making and the processes involved in thought, and I create sculptures that contain a performative, interactive element.”
Education
The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), MFA Sculpture, 2018 - 2020
The Cass- London Metropolitan University, BA(HONS) Fine Art, 2012 - 2016
Exhibitions
Art Works Open BAG Trust, London - 2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London - 2020
Slade/RCA Grad show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London - 2020
I’m In The Bath Where Are You?, The Icing Room, London - 2019
House Warming, Desperate Artist Seeking, Safe House 1, London - 2019
Desperate Artist Seeking, A Side B Side Gallery, London - 2018
Nostalgia, Art Number 23, London 2017 Marked, The Flying Dutchman, London - 2018
The London Summer Intensive Showcase, Camden Arts Centre, London - 2017 Summer Show, Walthamstow Village Window Gallery, London - 2017
Hippocampus, Malden Road Pop-up, London - 2017
Spring Salon, Candid Arts Trust, London - 2017
Close To Home, Rich Mix, London - 2017
Only Place, New River Studios, London - 2017
Platform For Emerging Arts 13, Leyden Gallery, London - 2017
Colour Assembly, Malden Road pop-up, London - 2017
Cass Degree Show, Central House, London - 2016
Craftivism, Bank Gallery, London - 2016
We, Now: Exchange LMU ALU, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb - 2015
Residencies
The London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Fine Art and Camden Arts Centre, London
Prizes
Jeanne Szego Travel Scholarship Prize, awarded £726 to travel to Oslo - 2019
Owen Rowley Prize, 2nd place, awarded £750 at undergraduate degree show - 2016