Bio
Marcia Swaby is British of Jamaican and Caribbean heritage, based between Sydney, Australia and London, UK. She is a multi-disciplinary visual artist creating jewellery, wearables, prints and objects, recently incorporating photography and video work. In 2018, she graduated with a Master of Philosophy honoured with a faculty award for ‘Excellence in Post Graduate Research’ for her thesis Haptic tactility: how design processes can remediate identities past and present. Her studio-based research and theoretical practice investigates tactile means of connecting with obscured histories, re-joining fragments of the past into the present.
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Education
2018 Master of Philosophy (Research), Majored in Jewellery & Object, University of New South Wales, Art & Design
2014 Master of Design, Jewellery Course Work, University of New South Wales Art & Design
2008 Bachelor of Design, Majored in Jewellery & Environments, University of New South Wales Art & Design
2002 Access & Foundation, Architecture & Interior Design, London Metropolitan University
Awards
2019 Recipient of the 'Dean's Award' Postgraduate Research Excellence, University of New South Wales Art & Design
2015 Girl Genius Award – Kudos Gallery, University of New South Wales Art & Design
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Exegesis: 'Haptic Tactility', AD Space, University of New South Wales Art & Design
Group Exhibitions
2023 Looking At Gold, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Sydney
2023 Looking At Gold, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool
2022 Insole/Soul, Sydney Craft Week, Windowsmiths & F. Tanner-Baker Gallery, Sydney
2021 Murmuration: A Pliable Formation, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2021 Flux, Sydney Craft Week, Online Video Exhibition, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2020 Change Makers, Sydney Craft Week, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2020 The Cooked & The Raw, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2019 Text to Contexture, SquarePeg Studios, Sydney
2019 Do You Hear the People Sing?, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2018 Jamaica 1696: From One Garden To Another, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2018 Les Misérables'18, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2017 Under Pressure, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2017 Secret 7, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2016 Girl Genius: Rountable, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2014 Ontogeny, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2007 Parasite Octopus, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
2007 Dissonance, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Artist Talk
2019 Lightning Talks – Radiant Pavillion Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne
2019 Sydney Craft Week, Profile 19, SquarePegs, Sydney
2018 Q&A Session, 'Les Misérables' 18, Kudos Gallery, UNSW Art & Design
2017 Under Pressure, Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia
2016 Prelude 1.1, Girl Genius: Roundtable, Kudos Gallery, UNSW Art & Design
Catalogue
2017 Tarnanthi, Catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia
2017 Parasite Octopus, Il Labbro (The Lip), Politecnico Di Milano, Italy