Ben Coode-Adams
Born 1965 Lives and works in Essex
www.bencoodeadams.com
http://bcoodeadams.dphoto.com
@bencoodeadams
www.tumblr.com/blog/bcoodeadamswalksscott
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Ben-Coode-Adams
Education
1994-1996 MA Art in Architecture, University of East Lond
1983-1988 MA (hons) Fine Art, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art
Awards with Hudson Architects
2013 Surface Design award
Shortlisted for Architects Journal small buildings award
2012 Wood Award – Winner adaptive re-use category
RIBA East – Special award with English Heritage for Conservation
RIBA East – Spirit of Innovation Award
Architects Journal Retrofit Award Winner
Work
2013
Discernible
An exhibition at Zeitgeist Arts Projects, New Cross, London
Exhibition at Spring Projects, Kentish Town, London of furniture and collections
2012
Chagall and Me
An exhibition at the Gallery in the Garden, Great Saling, Essex
Zeitgiest Open
An exhibition at Zeitgeist Arts Projects, New Cross, London
Transformations
An exhibition at Smiths Row, Bury St.Edmunds,
The Great Eye
Construction a 7.5m camera obscura installed in the Norfolk village of Cley designed by architect Antony Hudson shortlisted for an AJ Small Projects Award
Coastal Collective
An exhibition at Wiveton Hall, Blakeney, Norfolk
Collectible
An exhibition organised by Zeitgeist Arts, New Cross
2011-2012
Ben Coode-Adams walks Scott
A flawed re-enactment of Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition during which the South Pole is arrived at in Essex. Documented at www.tumblr.com/blog/bcoodeadamswalksscott
2011
The Big Problem
a book written and illustrated for Philips Design Probe ‘Microbial Home’ about using mycelium to recycle plastics.
Drawings
Exhibition Hayletts Gallery, Maldon
2008-2011
The restoration and conversion to residential and employment use of Feering Bury Farm Barn, a C16th listed timber-framed barn featured on Grand Designs.
2010
Andover Square Play Builder
Public Commission for Homes for Islington: Andover Castle and 11 associated play structures
Little Owl
Private Commission – two gates, Sarratt, Herts
Artist Drawing
Exhibition – West Dean College, West Dean nr. Chichester
2009
Andover Square Play Builder
Public Commission for Homes for Islington: extensive consultation and design project with residents and Celia Pym
Unnamed Collaboration
Collaboration and exhibition Waterside Projects, London.
2008
Founded Blackwater Polytechnic with Freddie Robins – a trade school combining design and manual skill
1992-2008
Set-up and managed Horse Workshops and Studios at the Tram Depot, Clapton providing wood and metal workshops for artists
2008
Bottom Drawers
Exhibition PM Gallery, London
Jerwood Drawing Prize
Exhibition Jerwood Gallery, London
Gods of Old Ford
Site-specific permanent installation Lefevre Estate, Old Ford, London, funded by Circle Anglia Ltd.
Triangle Arts Three Islands Workshop
Residency Hoy, Orkney
Live feed of a recorded thing
Solo Exhibition Gallery Pfeister, Bornholm, Denmark
2007
Melton Calvary
Public commission King Street, Melton Mowbray funded by Leicestershire County Council and Melton Borough Council
The Growing City
Public commission from the Southern Housing Group for their HQ, Spire House, Horsham
Barge Pass
Public commission Montieth Estate, Old Ford, funded by Circle Anglia Ltd.
The Heckington Chimes
Public commission funded by Lincolnshire Development and artsNK,
Four Gates
Public commission from the Southern Housing Foundation, Timber Wharves Estate, Isle of Dogs, London, publication
Abandoned Chairs
Exhibition Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, publication
2006
Residency at the Cedar Centre, Isle of Dogs, London funded by the Southern Housing Foundation
Johnny Foreigner
Exhibition Rheinhessen Kunstverein, Mainz, Germany
Barge of Invisible Memories
Public commission Montieth Estate, Old Ford, London funded by Circle Anglia Ltd.
Towards a Museum of Zeroes and Ones (2003-2006)
Research project with the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester to establish a museum of computer history, with Kris Cohen (sociologist) and Professor Hilary Kahn funded by FACT, NESTA and the Arts Council
Lead Artist Isle of Wight Art at the Centre project (2005-2006) funded by the Arts Council with consultant Gerry Wall. The project was to ensure excellence of design and community involvement in the building of a development of 800 homes
2005
Arch
Public commission King Street Melton Mowbray funded by Leicestershire County Council and Melton Borough Council
Research project for the Manchester Museum and the Horniman Museum developing an approach to re-hanging their zoological collections
Public art programme
Consultancy to Joint Initiatives Fund Public Art Group, a consortium of Hampshire councils with consultant Brigid Howarth (Artefact Projects)
Street Furniture
Public commission Heckington, Lincolnshire funded by Lincolnshire Development
2004
At work
Residency and exhibition Wagner & Partner Gallery, Berlin
Is someone coming to get me?
Paper for the conference Simulation and Other Re-enactments the Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada with sociologist Kris Cohen
The man who ate his boots
Video juried screenings the Walter Phillips Gallery Banff Centre, Banff Alberta, Canada and The Side Cinema, Newcastle with Marcus Coates
2003
Explore Expand Exchange
Curated and managed with consultant Brigid Howarth (Artefact Projects) funded by the Arts Council, the Wellcome Trust, NESTA. A programme of commissions to expand audiences at the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery (www.exploreexpandexchange.net) publication
Public art programme
Lead Artist with consultant Brigid Howarth (Artefact Projects), Melton District Council, Leicestershire
Public art programme
Curated and managed with consultant Brigid Howarth (Artefact Projects), the Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Is someone coming to get me?
Performance the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada with sociologist Kris Cohen funded by the Banff Centre
Is someone coming to get me?
Paper for the seminar Things that can’t quite speak Department of Sociology, Lancaster University with
sociologist Kris Cohen
The man who ate his boots
Residency at Bow Boys School, Bow, London funded by Old Ford SRB
Is someone coming to get me?
Performance Hastings Museum and Art Gallery with sociologist Kris Cohen. Part of the Experimental Spaces programme. A recreation of the 1996 Everest disaster. It is discussed in a paper by Dr. Sarah Cook The Art Of Re-Enactment: Curating Real Time Presence published by Vivid, Brimingham.
2002
Explore Expand Exchange
Paper conference Bridges II the Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada, with Brigid Howarth (Artefact Projects)
Poles Apart
Research project to establish the feasibility of a project to recreate Captain Scott’s journey to the South Pole in London funded by LIFT
Lost and Found
Public Commission A sound based orientation and navigation system for Barrow-in-Furness, using Sonic Vista audio benches, with product designer Mil Stricevic
Play Garden
Research project for the Arts Council Combined Arts Unit into audience development in science museums
2001
The man who ate his boots
A video installation and performance based on Sir John Franklin’s first voyage to the Arctic with artist Marcus Coates, funded by the Arts Council.
