Exhibitions/Projects:
2020 Empty Building performance, former Comrades Club, Nailsworth Gloucestershire - collaboration w/ Alice Sheppard Fidler
2017 Motherhood and Metamorphoses, Lansdown Gallery Stroud
2016 Other Places (Glendower), SVA Site Festival, Glendower Watledge - collaboration w/ James Porter
2012 Double fold, E17 Arts Trail, London - (curator)
2011 In-Between Two Sounds, E17 Arts Trail, London - (curator)
2009 Word Play, Whitechapel Gallery, London - (curator)
2008 Triad, performance at The Place, London - collaboration w/ choreographer Marguerite Caruana Galizia
2007 Out of Print, review of Hugh Mendes works published in The Newpaper
2006 The Works of Others, former Whitechapel Library London
2006 All Four One, Ada Street Space, London
2005 Glitter and Grime, Nottinghill Arts Club, London
2003 Spirit Machine, Deveron Projects Brander Building, Huntly Scotland
Teaching/Facilitating:
2019 Second Skin, ACP the Wearable Art Show, Make It Studios and Our World youth group, Stroud Glos
2018 Mothers Who Make, Stroud hub facilitator, SVA and Atelier, Stroud Glos
2018 Creative Carers, project manager, Sits Select studio and Atelier, Stroud Glos
2017 Mother House Stroud pilot, coordinator, Nailsworth Glos
Awards:
2004 Gordon Forum for the Arts Certificate of Award
2004 Gordon Forum for the Arts Personal Development Grant
2001 Barbara Blando Grant
Education:
Bachelor of Arts, May 2002
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA USA
Stapleford’s practice explores the physicality of storytelling and body memories. Occupying spaces outside of art venues, places of worship, empty buildings and public spaces, she examines subtle gestures and audible experiences. Her work questions gender roles, the everyday and the overlooked.
She is the former Live Words and Music curator, Whitechapel Gallery. Works include: Crowning and Drive Thru Wet Nurse, Metamorphosis 2017, In-Between Two Sounds, Walthamstow Quaker Meeting House, 2010. Collaborations include Other Places with James Porter Site Festival 2016, Triad and Body Chandelier with choreographer Marguerite Caruanagalizia, Place Theater London 2008.
The Hide Retreat, January 2021