Shane Waltener

Lives and works in London.

selected projects

  • Score for Newstead Abbey, Lace Unravelled, Newstead Abbey, Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, 2018

  • Ambient Jam, Tavistock Institute Festival, London, 2017 

  • Unearthing, Tate Modern and Stave Hill Ecological Park, in parnership with People's Bureau, London, 2017

  • strung, Reclaiming Asylum, Bethlem Gallery, London, 2016 
  • Open Moves, commission by Southwark Arts at the Coppleston Centre, Dragon Cafe (and Ortus Centre in 2017), London, 2016
  • Bobbin Dance #6, Manufactum, CC de Ververij, Ronse, 2015
  • The Weave Exchange at TransActions: The Market of Values, Chelsea College of Art, London 2015

  • Land of Plenty, with Rocsa & Made by Oya, De Site, Ghent, 2015

  • Bobbin Dance #5, Yan Tan Tethera at Walford Mills, Dorset, 2015

  • Sculptural, Coombe Trenchard, West Devon, 2015

  • Mapping the WeaveTees Valley YMCA, Darlington, 2015

  • The Fabric of Stave HillStave Hill Ecological Park, London, 2015 and ongoing

  • Flying Fedges, Tees Valley YMCA, Darlington, 2015

  • Willow Weaves / Knot Garden, Stave Hill Ecological Park, London, 2015 and ongoing

  • Resident artist at Stave Hill Ecological Park, 2014 and ongoing

  • Just Like This, Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts, 2014

  • Multi-sensory and movement workshops wih Entelechy Arts and Christian Kerrigan, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios and Museum of Garden History, London 2014

  • Festival of Thrift, Lingfield Point, Darlington, 2014

  • Bobbin Dances #1- 3, Yan Tan Tethera, English Folk Song and Dance Society, Cecil Sharp House, London 2014 (see also Bobbin Dance #4)

  • Yan Tan Tethera, English Folk Song and Dance Society, Cecil Sharp House, London 2014

  • Ambient Jam, with Ambient Jam Collective and Entelechy Arts, London 2013 and ongoing

  • Meet Me at The Albany, with Entelechy Arts, Kings College, London, 2013 and ongoing

  • Panoramic Pathways, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham 2013

  • Weave and Wealth, Museum of London Docklands, London, 2012

  • Melt Down, choreographed by Rosemary Lee for Dance Umbrella 2012

  • Little Boxes of Memories, with Entelechy Art and the Museum of London, 2012

  • Walking Piece, choreographed by Matthias Sperling, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 2012

  • One Giant Leap, choreographed by Cheryl McChesney Jones and produced by East London Dance for Big Dance 2012, London

  • Drawn to motion, written in space, stitched over time, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 2012

  • Intelligent Trouble, Festival of Materials and Making, Kings College, London, 2011

  • Another World Wide Web, Love Lace Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2011

  • Outdoor Weave-In, Powerhouse Museum Discovery Centre, Sydney, 2011

  • Knitted and Looped, Sydney Design Festival, 2011

  • Desire Lines, Encounters through Walking and Landscape, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Fermynwoods, 2011

  • Sweet Celebration, Swan Room, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon, 2011

  • Stitching Revolutions, Palm Court, Alexandra Palace, London, 2010

  • Stairwell Weave-In, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, 2010

  • The Hanging Gardens of Tibby Place, Secret Garden Project, London, 2010

  • Garland #21, Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (and touring), 2009

  • Show Your Logo, Yes. Yes. I Know. Free School. I Know., Five Years Gallery, London, 2009

  • Another World Wide Web, Fracture Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne, 2009

  • A World Wide Web, Jupiter Artland, West Lothian, 2009

  • Over Here, Jupiter Artland, West Lothian, 2008

  • Reaccion en Cadena, Centro Americano Colombo, Bogota, 2008

  • Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, 2008

  • Slip Slap Slop, MKgalerie, Rotterdam, 2008

  • Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney, 2008

  • Get Knitted, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 2008

  • For the Birds (gifts for Tatton Park's unsung singing collection), Tatton Park Biennial, Knutsford, 2008

  • Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Indiana State Museum, 2008

  • Sugarcraft Performance, Sun and Doves (Space Station Sixty-Five), London, 2008

  • Cooking and Constructing, Platform 21, Amsterdam, 2008

  • Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2007

  • Tatton Park Biennial launch event, Knutsford, 2007

  • Sweet Graffiti (alder and ivy), Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD), London, 2007

  • Harvest It, Myatt's Fields, London, 2007

  • Standon Calling Festival (Knitting Piece #15), Standon, Herefordshire, 2007

  • Tagging Tate, Tate Britain, London, 2007

  • Garland #12 (Festival Theatre), Cambridge Buddhist Centre, Cambridge, 2007

  • Fresh Paint, MKgalerie, Berlin, 2007

  • Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2007

  • Bonnington Sculpture Park, West Lothian, 2007

  • Unravel, South Hill Park, Bracknell, 2006

  • nEUclear reactions, Contemporary Art Centre, Burgos, September 2006

  • Cake for Me, Bread for the Others, MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam, 2006

  • Summer School for Self Improvement, Space Station Sixty-Five, London, 2006

  • Matthew Glamorre, Bishi, Marjan Pejoski, Shane Waltener, Andy Wahloo, Paris, 2006

  • Fresh Festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell, 2006

  • What's for Dinner, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, 2006

  • Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales 2005/6

  • Thy Neighbour's Ox 2, Space Station 65, London, 2005/6

  • British Art Week, Tate Britain, 2005

  • Imagine..., World day against Gender Based Violence, London Bargehouse London and Unicef, 2005

  • ArtForum Berlin, Berlin, 2005

  • Celebration, Pump house Gallery, London, 2005

  • Chaplin Festival, LCC, London, 2005

  • nEUclear reactions, National Gallery, Prague Biennial, Prague, 2005

  • Métissages, Museum voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent, 2005

  • Sensory Room, International 3, Manchester, 2005

  • Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting, Crafts Council, London, 2005

  • Art Rotterdam, MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam, 2005

  • Goth Moth, Transition Gallery, London, 2004

  • Art Fair Cologne, MKgalerie.nl, Cologne, 2004

  • British Art Week, Tate Britain, London, 2004

  • ArtForum Berlin, MKgalerie.nl, Berlin, 2004

  • Willkommen, Metropole Art Centre, Folkestone, 2004

  • Music for Walls and Other Takes, MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam, 2004

  • Craft Rocks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2004

  • Moral Combat, St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London, 2003

  • Castoff 2003 collection, London Fashion Week, Shoreditch, London, 2003

  • Exhumed, Museum of Garden History, London, 2003

  • Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London, 2003

  • Alight Here, Aldwych Tube Station, London, 2003

  • Diversion, Museum of Garden History, London, 2003

  • Lot 18, Candid Art Trust, London, 2003

  • Make, Morley Gallery, London, 2002

  • Shine, St Pancras Chambers, London, 2002

  • You Weekend Starts Here, Habitat Store, London, 2002

  • You Are Here, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 2002

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selected press

  • Protest and Production in Song, Liz Hoggard, Crafts Magazine, October 2014

  • Collaboration through Craft, edited by Amanda Ravetz, Helen Felcey and Alice Kettle, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
  • In the Studio: Shane WaltenerKaren Wright, The Independent, 13th September, 2013

  • A Time and Motion study in Thread, Teleri Lloyd-Jones in Crafts Magazine, March/April 2012

  • Warp and Weft, Jessica Hemmings, Bloomsbury, 2012

  • Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art, by Maria Elena Buszek, Duke University Press, 2011

  • Time Well Spent, Helen Carnac in Crafts Magazine, October 2009

  • The Culture of Knitting, Joanne Turney, Berg, 2009

  • The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney, 2008

  • Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations/collective Theorization, edited by Stephen Shukaitis, David Graeber, Erika Biddle, AK Press 2007

  • Upfront, Shane Waltener, Crafts Magazine, Jan-Feb 2007

  • By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art, Joseph Magliaro & Shu Hung, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

  • nEuclear reactions, Paco Barragan, Caja de Burgos, 2006

  • Ceremony, Janis Jefferies, Pump House Gallery publications, 2006

  • Catorce artistas reflexionan sobre la identidad Europea allende sus fronteras, A.S.R., El Mundo, 15 September 2006

  • Catorce artistas se acercan en el CAB a la identidad de la nueva Europa, I.L.H, Diario de Burgos, 15 September 2006

  • Knitting Guerrilla, Charles Darwent, Modern Painters, July/August 2006

  • nEUclear reactions, Paco Barragan, Prague Biennale catalogue, Prague National Gallery editions, 2005

  • Close Knit, Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, April 7-13

  • Knit 2 Together, Jez Fernie, Icon magazine, April 2005

  • Subversive Needles, Tanya Harrod, The Spectator, 19 March 2005

  • All Stitched Up in the Name of Art…, Paul Rhys, South London Press, 25 February 2005

  • Spin a Yarn, Liz Farrelly, Design Week, 24 February 2005

  • Put a sock in it Katie, Oliver Kamm, The Times, 8 February 2005

  • Political protest turns to the radical art of knitting, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 31 January 2005

  • Guerilla Knitters Unite, Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 24 March 2004

  • Geef me Aandacht!, Edo Dijksterhuis, NRC Handelsblad, 18 June 2004

  • The Stations, Allegra Stratton, Liberal Intervention: The Emperor's New Clothes: Foreign Policy Collective 2003

  • Old Tombs are the Best, Liz Hoggard, The Observer, 31 August 2003

  • Dead Good exhibition review, Helen Sumpter, Big Issue, August 2003

  • Exhumed exhibition review, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The Times, 16 August 2003

  • Exhumed exhibition review, Fisun Güner, Metro, 17 July 2003

  • Exhumed exhibition review, Martin Coomer, Time Out London, 6-13 August 2003

  • Anonymous Bodies, Jordan Kaplan, Exhumed, Parabola Press 2003

  • Shine exhibition review, Simon Grant, Modern Painters, Winter 2002

  • Your Weekend Starts Here exhibition review, JJ Charlesworth, 100 reviews (3), Alberta Press 2002

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broadcast media television

  • BBC Breakfast News, 23 February 2005

  • BBC London News, 23 February 2005

  • View London TV (digital viewers for Visit London), 23 February 2005

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radio

  • Coffee and Cigarettes, Resonance FM at Frieze Art Fair, 21 October 2005

  • Art on Mondays, Resonance FM, 15 January 2005

  • News Hour, BBC World, 26 February 2005

  • Today Programme, BBC Radio Four, 23 February 2005

  • BBC World Service, 2 February 2005

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