B. 1994
England.
London
Education
The Royal Drawing School. MA. 2019-20
Glasgow School of Art. BA (Hons) Fine Art. 2015-18.
Kyoto Seika University (Study Abroad)
Kyoto, Japan 2016-2017
Art University Bournemouth. Foundation Diploma. 2013-15
Marina Renee-Cemmick (b.1994) grew up in Dorset, moving to Glasgow to study Painting at Glasgow school of Art (2018). During this time she was awarded an exchange program to Kyoto Seika, Japan. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with her first solo show ‘Underlying Structures’ at The New Glasgow Society (2018). In 2018 she was awarded the Aon Community Arts Award and shortlisted for Most Promising Artist, later receiving the RSA John Kinross award to travel to Florence. Currently, she lives and works in London as is finishing an MA in drawing at The Royal Drawing School, London (2021).
Marina works across multi disciplines, which all fundamentally stem from a strong drawing practice. Drawing is a process of understanding the world around her. She works from observation to explore the form and light of objects, people and landscapes; discovering how something works, it’s structure and it's relationship to the space around it. She makes figurative drawings, oil paintings as well as installations and performance. All explore the human body, as a vessel for experience. Her interests lie in how we inhabit our bodies, physically and emotionally, and their capacity to hold the memory of our lives and past generations. Her background in dance and physical theatre allows for a sensitivity and innate interest towards the expression of the body and it’s movement. In the process of creation, there is a constant dialog between materials and ideas; an expansion and contraction that is playful and fluid, and evolves during the making.
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Underlying Structures, The New Glasgow Society
Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Aon Community Arts Exhibition, The Leadenhall, London
'Best of Degree Show' The Six-foot Gallery, Glasgow
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show Exhibition
'Gestures' group show as part of GWhy Festival, Glasgow.
'Counterpoint', The old hairdressers, Glasgow
2017
'Series Three', The Glue Factory, Glasgow
'The Gaps Between' Yokai SOHO, Kyoto, Japan
The Broom Hill Project. Rig Arts, Glasgow
2016
'Painter’s in Progress', The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
'Lets Limbo' SWG3, Glasgow
'25 Percent Extra', The Laurieston Arches, Glasgow
‘PAT TESTED' Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery & The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
'10 Painters', The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
2015
'Bridport and west Dorset Open Studios', Dorset
'Christmas Exhibition',The Lieper, Glasgow
2014
Henley Arts and Music Festival, Henley-on-Thames
Selected Publications
2020
Anotha Page - Online Platform
2018
Underlying Structures. Poetry and Thoughts.
Marina Renee-Cemmick
Published Book Sold at GoodPress, Glasgow.
Aon Community Arts Award 2018
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show Publication
Bridport Times. 2nd edition. Dorset UK
2016
Interview for Hellion Online Magazine
2014
Fabrica Magazine Feature - Summer Issue ‘Metamorphosis’
2013
Evolver. 2013 Edition. 'Inside Looking Out'
2009 Saatchi Online Gallery
Awards
RSA John Kinross Scholarship, Florence, 2018
AON Community Arts Award 2018
The Eric Morris Award for Outstanding Artist
Prep HE Exhibition at Bournemouth Arts University
Performance Experience
2018
The Swell Mob, Flabbergast Theatre Company
Immersive Theatre. Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Empty, Acolyte.
Poetry, spoken-word, theatre
Edinburgh Hidden Door Festival.
2017
'Before' Film Directed and produced by Marina Renee-Cemmick and Akinori Sembe
Shown in The Glue Factory Glasgow and as part of 'BODS' The Safe House 1, Peckham, London.
Exposed: Skin and Bones
Personal Performance
'BODS' The safe House 2,
Peckham Rye, London.
Confinements of my Skin.
Solo Performance
The Glue Factory, Glasgow.
Elrow
Halloween Event, Edinburgh.
Improvisation collaboration
Reaching, Crawling.
Solo perfomance
25% Extra, The Laurieston Arches, Glasgow
The Enchanted, Pharmacy Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe Festival