CV – Maria Howard
writer / artist / translator / co-editor of Nothing Personal Magazine
Contact
maria.howard06@gmail.com
instagram: @tenderasmemory
Prizes
2023
The Ginkgo prize for Ecopoetry – Longlisted
2021
The Nightboat Novel prize – Longlisted
UEA New Forms Award – Commended
The Yellow Paper Prize for Art Writing
2019
Gillian Purvis Trust Award for New Writing
Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize – Shortlisted
Residencies
2023
Confluence, CCA Glasgow and Qanat Collective
2022
Lyth Arts
Taattisten Tila
2021
Can Serrat
2019
The Bothy Project, Inshriach, funded by the Gillian Purvis Trust
2018
Hospitalfield
Selected publications
2023
The Gingko Prize for Ecopoetry Anthology
The Yellow Paper 4, ‘Citing/Siting the Claypits’
Waterwings #1, pamphlet, an extract from The House of Water
‘Absent Rivers’, a collection of site writings in response to the Confluence residency in Morocco
2022
Review: ‘Camara Taylor, Backwash’, at Collective, Nothing Personal
‘Soft Quarry (Column party!)’, an essay in postcard fragments, A Piece of Earth, Taattisten Tila
Review: ‘Amartey Golding at Tramway’, Nothing Personal
BALTIC S.P.A.M. Spreads #2, with Rosie King
2021
Review: Young Art at the RCA, Nothing Personal
‘Vigilant Care’, Nothing Personal
‘The House of Water’, The Yellow Paper
‘Malls Mire’, Keystone Speaker Project
‘All the tired horses’, From Glasgow to Saturn
‘Writing Through Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory”’, Nothing Personal
2020
‘Marge’, The Paper
‘Last Words’, with the Art Writing cohort of 19/20
‘The body remembers’, Algia #1
‘The Train’, MAP Magazine
‘Anna Maria Maiolino, Making Love Revolutionary’ – A response, MAP Magazine >
2019
‘Time is Chance She Said’, The People’s House >
Exhibitions
2023
All islands connect underwater, CCA Glasgow (contribution of a publication and clay samples to resources and references table)
2022
Piece of Earth, group show, Taattisten Tila, Finland
Selected talks / workshops / conferences/ other
2023
‘Engaging Art Worlds: Art Magazines in Focus’, Panel discussion, Edinburgh College of Art
Radiophrenia, Shorts 34, ‘Striations’
Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry: Readings, Southbank Centre
‘Art Out of Place’, AAH Conference, Glasgow Women’s Library
Encounters Conference, University of Glasgow
Errant Conference, University of Lancaster
Site Writing Workshop for Art Writing MLitt at Glasgow School of Art
A Very Heavenly Social, Dissenter Space, Edinburgh
Carrying over: sighting, citing and siting the stork workshop,
OCEAN / UNI & TBA21–Academy
2022
PhD Research Methods symposium, Glasgow School of Art
Writing with clay workshop, Taattinnen residency
‘How to Write’ workshop with Scottish Artists’ Union, Cove Park
‘Close of Play: Khidr Collective in conversation with Maria Howard’, Glasgow School of Art
2021
From Glasgow to Saturn launch
Teiko/Resist, Cromarty Cinema
The Long Note, Art Writing at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2019
The People’s House, Burley Fisher, Dalston
12 Hour Non-State Parade – International Symposium, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Poetics in Commons, University of Sheffield
Where, Then and To What, An Art Writing Symposium at Glasgow Women’s Library
Scottish Writers’ Centre New Writing Showcase,CCA, Glasgow
2018
Soft Shell, The Poetry Club, Glasgow
Selected curatorial projects
2017
A to Zakka, Telegram Gallery at dn&co., London
2016
L A N D S C A P E, Telegram Gallery at dn&co., London
2015
Alberta Bamonte: Beyond the TowPath, Telegram Gallery at the London Canal Museum, London
2014
Hayley Nia Thomas: London Fog, Telegram Gallery at the London Review of Books, London
Employment
2023—
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Glasgow School of Art
2022—
Freelance tutor, Dundee Ceramics Workshop
2016—
Freelance writer / editor / proofreader / translator (Italian to English)
Education
2022—
PhD, Glasgow School of Art
2021
MLitt Art Writing, Glasgow School of Art
2011
BA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art
2008
Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Camberwell College of Art
Volunteering
2021—
Govanhill Community Garden, Board Member
2021
Grizedale Arts
2015—
Young Art
2017–2020
Art Space G41
2017–2018
Woodcraft Folk