Miranda Cresswell (b.1963)

Miranda Cresswell (b.1963)

Swimming Through

Signed

Watercolour and gouache on paper

74 x 54.5cm

76 x 56cm (including frame)

Miranda Creswell studied at Camberwell School of Art in the 1980s and has since then held many solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad, for instance the Menier Gallery, London), Modern Art Oxford, Ely Cathedral; in Leiden, Holland (as part of a 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth) and in the British Art Exhibition in Perm, Russia.

She has held an art residency at the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Harris Manchester College and at the CentQuatre Art Centre, in 19eme in Paris, France for a year with the group exhibition: Materialite de L'invisible

She was the project artist for EnglaID for five years until 2016, a major research project on the English landscape, University of Oxford, Archaeology Department.

She has been artist in resident for Horatio's Garden Salisbury in 2014 to 2018 engaging patients and staff and the archaeology department of University of Oxford, with ideas of landscape with a project called Looking Out 2019 at Horatio's Garden in Glasgow.

She has in the last two years made a series of short films with drawings on women scientists, in collaboration with Professor Ashleigh Griffin from the Zoology Department, University of Oxford, funded by L'Oréal.

As a result of the film series, the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge have commissioned six short films on Women Physicists looking at Physicists of all ages, as role models, in the UK.

Miranda Creswell has recently been made Artist in Resident for the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, she is currently working for a public project with archaeologists, on the history of rivers, called The Ripple Effect, made possible by University of Oxford Public Engagement with research grant, Horatio's Garden, Salisbury was the first site to feature this work in March 2021.