Maeve
Thompson

b.2002
Looe, Liverpool, Manchester.

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Education


BA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art 2021-2024
UAL Level 3 Diploma in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art 2020-2021
Calderstones Sixth Form, 2018-2020
Calderstones School, 2013-2018

Exhibitions


To Her, A Memoir, NoHo Showrooms, London, 2024.

A to Z and Back Again ... , Holden Gallery, Manchester, 2024.

Manchester School of Art Degree Show, Manchester, 2024.

Testament,
PINKHilton House Lord Street, Stockport, 2024. 

Haçienda 2,  Antwerp Mansion, Rusholme Grove, Manchester, 2024.

Manchester Open 2024, HOME Manchester, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, 2024. 

(SOLO) Rabbit Holes in the Playing Field,  Independent’s Biennial, The Royal Standard, 5 Mann Street, Liverpool, 2023

No Lamb is Ever Happy Where He is,  2nd Whalley Range Scout Hut, 7 Egerton Road South, Manchester 2023

Souvenirs for the Unexpected Visitor,  SEESAW, 86 Princess Street, Manchester, 2023

From Joya, Manchester School of Art, Manchester 2022

Artist Spotlight
, Nobody Journal, Online, 2021 

Studio Shuffle
, 43 Jordan Street, Liverpool, 2019 

Curation


Testament, PINK, Hilton House Lord Street, Stockport, 2024.

Rabbit Holes in the Playing Field, The Royal Standard, 5 Mann Street, Liverpool, 2023

No Lamb is Ever Happy Where He is, 2nd Whalley Range Scout Hut, 7 Egerton Road South, Manchester, 2023

Into The Archives: Celebrating Liverpool’s Black Creatives, Online, 2020

ANTISTEEL,  Make. North Docks, 34 Regent Street, Liverpool, 2020

Studio Shuffle, 43 Jordan Street, Liverpool 2019

Workshops and Talks


Subject Support, UAL Level 3 Foundation, Manchester School of Art, 2023.

Future Network Shorts, Metal Liverpool Commission, Online, 2020 

20 Stories High Workshop facilitator, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 2020

Keith Haring Exhibition Tour, Tate Collective Instagram Live Stream, Online, 2019

Project25, Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 2019

In Conversation with Bethany Williams, Panel talk, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 2019

Residencies


No Lamb is Ever Happy Where He is, Llangadog UK, 2023

Joya: arte + ecología / AiR, Vélez Blanco, Spain, 2022

Wilderness, Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, Elterwater, UK, 2022

Publications and Features


Eulogy, Fiddler’s Ferry, Issue 10, STAT Magazine, 2023.

The Ballad of George Bassett, Maeve Thompson and Harry Williams, Self-Published fiction, 2023

I Can’t Wait to See You, Maeve Thompson and Is This Your Child?, Self-Published zine, 2021

Activism & Art- the next generation, Interview, Scottie Press, 2019 

Experience


Jewellery Design, Freelance, 2024. 

Creative Direction, Freelance, 2023.

Technical Services Associate, Live Productions Props & Sets, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester, 2023. 

Manchester Provocation: Student Practitioner, ELIA Leadership Conference, Manchester, 2023.

Volunteer, Projektraum Drahnsdorf GbR, Drahnsdorf, Germany, 2023

Ceramic Assistant, Brigitte Jurack, UK,  Manchester, 2023

Workaway, Dannycoed, UK, Llangadog, 2023

Invigilator,  Manchester School of Art, UK, Manchester, 2021-2023

Workaway, Black Mountains College, UK, Talgarth, 2022

Studio Assistant, Jot Press, UK, Liverpool, 2022

Studio Assistant, Dorothy, UK, Liverpool, 2020-2022

Fundraising, ANTISTEEL For Liverpool Foodbanks, Online, 2020

Freelance, Tate Liverpool, UK, Liverpool, 2019-2020

Tate Collective Producer, UK, Liverpool, 2018-2020