John Wynne b. 1957

Selected Exhibitions


2015 Anspayaxw, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, UK
2015 Research Residency installation at the Gallery, University of Bournemouth, UK
2014 Installation no 3 for high and low frequencies, Gazelli Art House, London
2014 I Am Not the Cancer, travelling exhibition 10 cities, including London, Athens, Brussels, Nicosia, Basel, Dubai, UAE
2014 Hlysnan: The Notion of Politics of Listening, Group Show, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013 Nocturnal, sound/video/camera obscura installation in collaboration with Atom Egoyan,  commissioned by Faster than Sound for Aldeburgh Music, UK
2013 I am not the cancer, sound/video installation in collaboration with Tim Wainwright, versions made for Brussels, Belgium; Lisbon, Portugal;Warsaw, Poland and Athens, Greece
2013 Anspayaxw, 12-channel photography and sound installation, solo show at Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2013 What is What and Cold Atlantic, Blurred Edges, Frise Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Cold Atlantic, installation, ‘Volume: Hear Here’ curated by Christof Migone, Justina M Bernicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
2012 Anspayaxw, 12-channel photography and sound installation, solo show for Ethnographic Terminalia and the American Anthropological Association, Alley Cat Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012 Installation no 2 for high and low frequencies, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
2012 Faster Higher Stronger, video, Open City Docs Film Festival,
London and ‘Incursions and Subversions: Art’s response to London’s Olympic Dreams’ at the Freeword Centre, London, UK
2012 The True Language, radio piece commissioned for BBC Radio 4 by Falling Tree Productions, UK
2012 Part and Parcel, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2008), UK
2012 Kispiox, ‘Sounds (Extra)Ordinary’, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
2012 Kispiox, ‘Sounds (Extra)Ordinary’ ‘RE:FLUX’ at Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada
2011 Installation #1 for high and low frequencies, Air I Breathe, Gazelli Art House, Rochelle School Gallery, London, UK
2011 Andromache, sound for theatre production, directed by Graham McLaren for Necessary Angel, Toronto, Canada
2010 Installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2010 Beating tones & flapping wings, commissioned by Sound and Music for Cut and Splice: Transmission, London, UK
2010 Anspayaxw, installation, Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, The Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver and ‘Ksan Museum Gallery, Hazelton, Canada
2009 Installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
2009 Faster Higher Stronger, installation, Sound Proof II, Unit 5, London, UK
2009 Wireframe, installation, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Transplant, installation with Tim Wainwright, The Nunnery Gallery London and Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, UK
2008 Hearts, Lungs and Minds, radio piece commissioned by BBC Radio 3. Bronze Award, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, USA
2008 Someone Else and ITU, two installations with Tim Wainwright, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
2007 Flow, installation with Tim Wainwright, Old Operating Theatre Museum, London, UK
2007 Push comes to Shove, installation with Denise Hawrysio, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
2007 Someone else has died, radio piece commissioned by CBC Radio Canada
2007 ITU, video w surround sound, The Performance of Sound, TATE Britain, UK
2007 ITU, video w surround sound, The Performance of Sound, Old Operating Theatre Museum, London, UK
2007 The Art of Immersive Soundscapes, Regina, Canada, and Hering Video Edition, Bonn and Leverkusen, Germany
2007 Hearing Loss, installation, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, for Signal and Noise Festival, Canda
2007 Feeding the Habit of Energy, podcast/soundwalk commissioned by RADR FOR Loughborough University, UK
2006 230 Unwanted Speakers installation, Hull Art Lab, UK
2006 Sound CAD, installation, E:vent Gallery, London, UK
2005 Hearing Voices, Botswana National Museum, National Art Gallery of Namibia, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, UK
2005 Hearing Voices, radio piece commissioned by BBC Radio 3, UK
2005 Disappearing in the Kalahari, Great Hall, Goldsmiths University and Sounding Out, University of Nottingham, UK
2005 Do(n’t), video and sound installation, Victoria Square, Hull for the Humber Mouth Literary Festival, UK
2005 Response Time, public installation in Kitchener City Hall for the Open Ears Festival, UK
2004 Fallender ton für 207 lautsprecher boxen, installation, 2yK Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2004 Medicine Box. Soundtrack for 16 mm film by David Leister, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
2004 Motion-triggered plastic carrier bags, installation, Great Hall, Goldsmiths College, UK
2004 Hmmm, installation for Noises, Open Arts Platform, London, UK
2003 !Xóõ Study 1:  Gosaitse, on vinyl LP Flatpack Antenna by London Musicians’ Collective, UK
2003 Auditory Alarm Study 6.03, installation, Wapping Hydraulic Power Plant for SPNM
2003 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, field recording released on Earshot 4: Architectural Soundmarks
2002-5 Upcountry, regular hour-long radio show on ResonanceFM, London, UK
2002 Response Time, public installation, Metro Hall Square, Toronto, Canada
2002 Horisontista Horisonttiin, public sound installation on a working commuter tram in Helsinki, Finland for Runaway Spatial Plan Project
2001 Cry Wolf, installation, Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Grasping and Clinging, installation with Denise Hawrysio, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 Upcountry, electroacoustic composition premiered in The Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, UK
1999 Festival Regola Gioco: Il Corpo Virtuale, Milan, Italy (8-channel live diffusion)

 

Awards and Grants


Nominated for the 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Sound Design / Composition
British Composer Award 2010 for Sonic Art
Arts and Humanities Research Council – grant for research residency at Beaconsfield
Canada Council for the Arts – various production and travel grants
Arts Council England – research and production grants for Transplant project
University of the Arts London – various research grants
Third Coast International Audio Festival – Silver Award 2005, Bronze Award 2009
Silver Award, Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago. Broadcast on BBC 3 in 2004 and 2005, BBC Europe, PBS in the US, Deep Wireless Radio Festival in Toronto, Canada

 

Education


2015 Residency at Bournemouth Art Gallery, University of Bournemouth, UK
2007 PhD, Sound Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
1984 BA Hons (First Class), English Literature, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada