Polly Verity - Biography

ART    


Exhibition Comme des Garçons, 17-18 Dover St London W1S 4LT
h y b r i d s

Miniature wire and paper sculptures of mythological creatures in Glass Domes

Alongside miniature costumes by Anna Cocciadiferro.
Collector & Curator - Emma Hawkins


February 14th - March 14th 2007

Solo Exhibition
- Howden Park Centre, Livingston, West Lothian
Wire and Paper, Bend and Fold

Birds in glass cases with folded paper backdrops


July 1st - August 9th 2005


Exhibition
Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
Wire frame sketches

September 2003 to present

Costume creation – Miller-Geisler Gallery, New York
Costume Building
Created for and worn by artist Anna Ellerington during her gallery show

November 2003
Exhibition – Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
Wire Frame
Festival August 2003
Performance – Koln, Germany
Peace War
A live sound installation performance inside the Deutcher Brucker, Koln with Edinburgh based artist spotov
Flat-pack folded paper geometrical costume, wind-machines, screeching membranes and megaphones designed for the astounding acoustics of the tunnel space.
March 2003
Performance – Tinsmiths Workshop, Edinburgh
Who is the Protlor?
Verity and spotov organise and publicise the first solo show of their new art protégé. Never shy of turning anything into a performance, this undertaking is carried out in the guise of the spinsisters [sic], the two insufferable Miss Gambles.
December 2002
Performance – Arches Glasgow
The Berkeley Institute
Perform as part of a trio and create static styled hair for this work directed by spotov. Spy-hole lenses peep into a perfect timeless office. Kaleidoscopic illusions created with wall mirrors turn 3 secretaries into 300 with lavish “Busby Berkeley” inspired synchronisation.
2001
Performance – Arches Glasgow
Stiff
Intervening with “Stiff” – art performance slot at the Intervention Fashion Show
2001

WORK


Interactive Sound Costume

Workshops for Bonnington Resource Community
Collaborating with Protlor to create workshops so that adults with learning difficulties could make vibrant quick-to-create costumes based on their drawings. With a distinct hands on approach working closely with the clients to enable them to create the means to have spontaneous sound as they moved.


October 2003

  Digital Colouring for Artist Chad McCail
Colouring 8’ x 5’ line drawn images of "Snake" on a computer for Chad’s show at the Baltic Gallery in Newcastle and included in the artist’s book– “Alien Genital”. This digital colouring was also used in Chad’s October/November 2003 show at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
2002/2003
EDUCATION

Furniture Design BA Course (unfinished)
Edinburgh College of Art


1989 - 1990
INTERESTS

Ashtanga Yoga – travel to India December 2003 – Feb 2004 for intensive yoga study
Paper folding obsession - pleated and corrugated paper that squashes flat, workings for eventual paper dresses see work in progress at here

Member of experimental electronic band “i”. Play purpose built and modified instruments also voice work through a trombone.

ongoing