Mona Casey

Mona Casey’s research activity, manifests in the generation of conceptual frameworks, into which other producers are curated, commissioned and collaborated with. Her current projects are Staging the Artwork, which includes a series of exhibitions and writings, investigating the use of staging and scenographic tactics in the development of curatorial approaches to exhibition making and Silent Stage, a collaborative research project based in Lithuania, which investigates the site of the exhibition as an inter-disciplinary and staged environment.Her work also explores ‘curatorial-gesture’ in the making of ‘exhibition – events’. This has led to a preoccupation with exploring curatorial structures, both conceptual and physical, which question the theatrical event of the ‘exhibition’ and its potential as a scenario-set into which selected artists are shown. Her interest is in the blurred boundaries of ‘artwork’ and ‘curation’ and in so doing question ideas of ‘authorship’, ‘narrative’ and the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ of the exhibition form.

• Fine Art - Practice and Theory
• Curatorial Practice

• 2000 - 2002 University of Wolverhampton – P.G.C.E. in Further and Higher Education
• 1996 - 1997 MA Fine Art, B.I.A.D., University of Central England, Birmingham UK.
• 1987 - 1991 BA in Fine Art, Crawford School of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland

• BA Fine Art
• MA Fine Art
• Arts Based Masters Programme – Curatorial Practice

Curating Exhibitions – Outputs 

2018 – Silent Stage, Yaga Festival, Lithuania, in collaboration with Tadas Stalyga. 

2015 - SALON, The Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Co-curated Rachel Bradley & Mona Casey. 80 Artists including: Gillian Wearing, Victor Burgin, Hurvin Anderson, Doyle & Mallinson, Hamish Fulton, Juneau Projects, George Shaw, etc. 

 2015 – Annuale 2015, ARTICLE, Co-curated Rachel Bradley & Mona Casey. Artists include Vanley Burke, Graham Chorlton, Chris Clinton, Corey Hayman, Yvonne Hindle, Lucy Hutchinson, Barbara Walker, Matt Westbrook, etc. 

2012 – The Museum of [           ] Objects, The Allotment Project, mac Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Curated by Mona Casey & Sonya Russell-Saunders. 22 solo shows over 22 weeks, artists include Mel Brimfield, Martin Bardell, Matt Smith, The Jackson Twins, David Cheeseman, Rosemary Terry, etc. 

2012 – This is the Point, Curated film, Flatpack Festival 6 

2011 – B42 - SLICE Distribution Center, The Event, Birmingham. New commissions from artists, Ross Sinclair, Jeffrey Charles/ Henry Peacock, Heike Heilig, Niall Singh, Paul McAree, Ryan McClelland 

2009 – The Space Between, Surrounds our Desire II – The Event Festival, Birmingham. Artists include Adam Burton, Ryan McClelland, Tim Maslen and Jennifer Mehru, James Lander, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin Ungureanu, Stephen Felmingham, and Michael Cousin 

2009 – The Space between, Surrounds our Desire – Online digital exhibition, commissioned by Axis online (www.axisweb.org/atselection.aspx?AID=2359). 

2008 - Merging Territories, The Que Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham (Commissioned as part of New Generation Arts Festival) 

2006 - Inside/ Outside, Bantock House, Impact Women’s Group and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. 

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Curated: As ARTICLE gallery, Birmingham School of Art, BCU

2016 – This Frontier so Familiar so Strange, ARTICLE. Artists include Oscar Cass-Darweish, Bruno Grilo, James Irwin, Christopher Liam Oakes, Jack Marder, Laura O’Connor and Jennifer Wright

2016 – Obscene and Pornographic Art, ARTICLE. Two person show Matthew Stradling and Sadie Lee

2015 – 7 Disorderly Dramas, ARTICLE off-site, Live & Loud 2015, Selfridges, Birmingham. 7 acts designed and curated by Mona Casey in collaboration with Sonya Russell-Saunders. Artists include, Tadas Stalyga & Matt Springer with Andy Ingamelis, Robert Foster, David Poole, Paul Newman and David Miller, Dan Auluk and Frederick Hubble

2015 - Staging the Artwork II, ARTICLE. Curation & Props Mona Casey. Artists include Tereza Buskova, Abi Hubbard, Ryan McClelland and Lisa Selby. Commissioned Performance/ Play – If You Haven’t Been Announced, Don’t Come In - Written and Directed by Amelia Beavis-Harrison

2015 – Staging the Artwork I, ARTICLE. Curation & Props Mona Casey. Artists include Megan Broadmeadow, Mona Casey, Ole Hagen, Pamela Howard, Ryan McClelland, Stuart Robinson and Thomas Vassaux

2014 – Diamond Armour, ARTICLE. Structure Mona Casey. Artists include Ben Cove, Dermot Punnet, John Timberlake, Paul Newman, Yvonne Hindle, Geoff Diego Litherland and Jayne Anita Smith

2012 – And Miles to go before I sleep, ARTICLE gallery, School of Art, Birmingham. Print display designed by Mona Casey, Artists Adam Smythe, Trevor Pitt, Nikki Pugh etc.

2012 – Prologue – Each to their Own, Film Bug, Flatpack Festival 2012,

2012 – NOTICE, ARTICLE gallery, School of Art, Birmingham. Open submission, various artists.

2011 – We’ve been Re-distributed - Ryan Hughes, solo show, ARTICLE gallery, School of Art, Birmingham

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Curated: As COLONY projects, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2007 - Last of the Urgents, Colony, Birmingham. Nikolas Arvanitis, Simon Bedwell, GL Brierley, Ryan McClelland, Jo Mitchell. Text commission by Mark Hutchinson

2007 - ZOO Art Fair, The Royal Academy, London. Represented artists include Nikolas Arvanitis, Terry Atkinson, Jonathan Baldock, Anne Mare Barry, Mona Casey, Amanda Coogan, Christian Sullivan Neil Zakiewicz, etc.

2007 - Drunken Boat, Colony, Birmingham. Artists include Casey & McAree, Susan Finlay, Nevan Lehart, Mark Pearson etc.

2007 - Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, Colony, Birmingham. Artists include Jonathan Baldock, Emma Barrow, Greg Cox, John Timberlake etc.

2007 - Flavia Muller Medeiros, solo show, Colony, Birmingham

2007 - Black Light (The Event Festival), with Gordon Dalton, Alex Pearl, Michelle Deignan and HK119

2006 - Legacies of Dissolution, Colony, Birmingham. Curatorial structure by Casey & McAree with artists Terry Atkinson, Eric Bainbridge, Miles Thurlow etc.

2006 - The Birmingham School of Business School, (New Generation Arts Festival), Island House, Birmingham

2006 - Black Implication Flooding, Colony, Birmingham. 20 video artists including Knut Åsdam, Amanda Coogan, Seamus Harahan, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Alexander Vaindorf etc.

2005 - All at once together at the same time, Colony, Birmingham. 101 national and international artists, with new commissions by Simon & Tom Bloor and Peter Lloyd-Lewis.

2004 - The End is the beginning is the end, Colony, Birmingham

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Exhibitions: Solo and collaborative

2015 - SALON, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

2015 - Staging the Artwork I, ARTICLE

2011 - Performance - Clementine Deliss’ for Symposion, The Event 2011

2008 - Heavier than a coffin on your shoulder, Solo Exhibition, The Agency, London, (Casey & McAree)

2006 - Deep in the Woods, Tulca (within and without), Solo Exhibition, Galway, Ireland, (Casey & McAree)

2006 - Misdemeanours and Regurgitations Solo exhibition, Colony, Birmingham

2005 - Wolf Eyes, Periscope, Birmingham UK. (Casey & McAree)

2004 - Internal Centre of imaginary Resistance, Independant space, Birmingham

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Published Writings

2015 - Seeing and Believing - Introductory Essay, New Art Annuale 2015 Magazine 

2015 - Paul Newman - Stage, Catalogue monograph on the work of Paul Newman, mac Birmingham, distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester. ISBN 9781907796180 

2014 - I curate, you curate, we all curate (a nod to Alex Farquharson), What does it mean to curate, mac Birmingham. 

2011 - Mona Casey interviews Elizabeth Rowe, Turning Point West Midlands 

2009 - Mona Casey interviews Tatham & O’Sullivan, Map Magazine, Autumn 2009 

2007 - ‘As if something once mentioned now plain to see’, Editor, Colony publication. With texts by Terry Atkinson, Art & Language, Mark Hutchinson, Vincent Honore, Paul O Neill, Sally O’ Reilly, Amanda Beech, David Burrows etc.

ISBN-10: 0955741106

2007 - ‘Taking the matter into common hands, Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practice’, Black Dog publishing, Review by Mona Casey in [an] magazine

2006 - ‘The 18^th Storey’, Haddon Tower, Birmingham, Review by Mona Casey [an] magazine

2005 - ‘The Best Years of our Lives’, Midwest, Birmingham, Review by Mona Casey [an] magazine

2005 - ‘The Nature of Things’, The Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UCE/ BM&AG

2005 - ‘Space’, The Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, Review by Mona Casey [an] magazine

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