Charlie Tweed
Charlie Tweed is an artist and curator based in Bristol. He graduated from Goldsmiths MFA Art Practice in 2008, was selected for dragged down into lowercase (Sommerakademie) at the Zentrum Paul Klee in 2008, was the winner of the Galerie Klatovy Klenova prize at the Start Point European Academy Awards 2008, the winner of the ECO 09 prize in 2009 and selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007.
In 2010 he had solo shows at Spike Island, Bristol and Animate Projects, London and was selected for the 2010/2011 residency programme at Grizedale Arts. In 2011 he had a solo show at Alma Enterprises, London, was selected for The Box Season 5 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales and selected for Emergency 5 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth where his work Archimeters was selected as the winning work. In 2012 he was selected for the London Open at Whitechapel Gallery where he was also commissioned to do a new performance piece titled Grain and he was also commissioned to do a new performance at Chapter Arts, Cardiff.
In 2013 he had a solo show at Aspex, Portsmouth called ‘I am algorithm’ which coincided with the launch of a new publication and this show will tour to a number of other UK venues. He was also selected by Animate Projects for their Wellcome Trust project ‘Silent Signal’ where he is working towards a proposal for a new film about genome sequencing in collaboration with a scientist at the Sanger Institute.
He received an AHRC PHD Studentship from Kingston University in 2011 where he is currently a Part Time PHD Researcher.
www.charlietweed.com
www.animateprojects.org/films/by_artist/t/c_tweed
www.animateprojects.org/interview_with_charlie_tweed
www.animateprojects.org/writing/essays/ma_mcquay
