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'''Zoë Mendelson''' (born 17 April 1976) is a ]-based British artist. Her father is television comedy writer ]. '''Zoë Mendelson''' (born 17 April 1976) is a Glasgow-based British artist.


==Biography== ==Biography==
Mendelson studied Fine Art, Painting at ] from 1995 to 1998 and Painting at the ] from 1998 to 2000. She gained her practice-based PhD in 2015 from Central Saint Martins. Mendelson studied Fine Art, Painting at ] from 1995 to 1998 and at the ] from 1998 to 2000. She has a practice-based PhD from ] (2015) and currently practices in Glasgow.


From 2015 to 2021 Zoë Mendelson was Head of BA Painting at Wimbledon College of Art (UAL), London. She is now Head of Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. She is a co-editor of - an online, interactive and inclusive bibliography for Fine Art students.
Zoë Mendelson lives and works in London and is Course Leader for Painting at ]. At Wimbledon she co-convenes the network with fellow artist, Geraint Evans. Mendelson's studio is in East London at Chisenhale Art Place, where she has worked for ten years.


Mendelson has shown widely, predominantly in Europe, including at the ] in Paris in 2005 and Chapter Centre for Contemporary Arts in ] in 2006. She speaks regularly at conferences and symposia, often engaging performance as a medium for giving papers. Mendelson has exhibited widely showing works, performing and publishing, nationally and internationally - largely in public spaces, including Science Museum, London (2018), ] in Paris (2005) and Chapter Centre for Contemporary Arts in ] (2006). Her work is also installed permanently (visibly and covertly) in public buildings, such as at Town Hall Hotel, London.


==Work== ==Work==
Zoë Mendelson is an artist and writer with a collagist practice, using collation as a methodological framework for creating networks between psychoanalytic theory, psychotherapeutic practice, spatial theory, fine art and critical practice. Her work includes various forms of writing (fiction and non-fiction), collage, drawing, performance, animation and installation. Zoë's research engages disorder as a culturally produced phenomenon, in parallel to its clinical counterpart, suggesting its value to knowledge production within Fine Art and critical theory.
Mendelson’s artistic practice is multi-disciplinary with drawing pivotal, and relationships sustained between temporal and permanent supports. She mostly makes drawing, collage, performance and site-specific installation. Her intricate drawings and collages occur on paper, walls, and often within communication devices (as allegorical to her process) and within objects such as defunct projectors, fax machines and furniture. Mendelson has described her work as possessing "conflicting roots in decoration, psychoanalysis and the functionality proposed by Modernist thought".


Her PhD, at Central Saint Martins, was titled ‘Psychologies and Spaces of Accumulation: The hoard as collagist methodology (and other stories)’. This research locates and spatialises systematised archiving alongside seemingly pathological object relations, and includes relationships drawn between urban space and wellness.
⚫ In 2010 four of Mendelson's works were selected by Artsadmin and ] to be permanently installed at Town Hall Hotel, London.


Mendelson has recently worked on a project entitled , which is supported by ] and produced by Artsadmin. The project focuses on psychopathology of hoarding at its intersection with rationalised collection. It was timed to coincide with the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and its inclusion of Hoarding Disorder.
⚫ In 2007 Mendelson made an online work commissioned by ]. Titled ''The Envelope Machine'' it references advances in postal technologies at the time of the 1851 ] in London and operates as a hand drawn, and ultimately unrequited, version of ].


⚫ In 2010 four of Mendelson's works were selected by Artsadmin and ] to be permanently installed at Town Hall Hotel, London.
⚫ Also in 2007, Mendelson received an ] Grant for the Arts to create a work called ''Scheherezade's Sideboard'' which has since been shown at ], London and Galerie ], ].


As part of a solo show on 26 November 2008 Mendelson performed with a sugarcrafter at Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers. For four hours they constructed drawn and sugared sandcastles, which were then eaten and erased. As part of a solo show on 26 November 2008 Mendelson performed with a sugarcrafter at Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers. For four hours they constructed drawn and sugared sandcastles, which were then eaten and erased.


⚫ In 2007 Mendelson made an online work commissioned by ]. Titled ''The Envelope Machine'' which referenced advances in postal technologies at the time of the 1851 ] in London and operated as a hand drawn, and ultimately unrequited, version of ].
Curator, critic and artist, Gordon Dalton has described Mendelson’s installational practice, saying,

⚫ Also in 2007, Mendelson received an ] Grant for the Arts to create a work called ''Scheherezade's Sideboard'' which has since been shown at Transition Gallery, London and Galerie ], ].


Mendelson co-convenes the network with artist, Geraint Evans.
{{cquote|Zoë Mendelson’s practice operates in two distinctly separate but related ways. One is the peace and relative calm of her commitment to drawing in the studio, searching through source material that includes wildlife photos, porn magazines and pictures of domestic furniture. The second part sees her operating out of the safety and confines of the studio and in large temporary spaces, drawing directly onto the wall, and using the context of the space to spark some kind of intuition. This performative act plays out within the deadlines, noise and nature of the space but the former studio practice has a long-lingering influence.
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''From ‘Fable’, catalogue, Chapter Centre for Contemporary Arts, Cardiff, May 2006''}}


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==
* 30 May 2018: ''Hoard as Home: Clutter as Comfort'', Performance/lecture, Science Museum, London
*March 2017: ''Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind'', one-day event in the theatre at Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios curated by Zoë Mendelson
*May 2016: ''Wayfaring'', &Model, Leeds
*Oct 2015: Museum of the Unwanted, pub. Kunstmuseum Olten, 66 pages, colour.
* Oct. 2013: This Mess is a Place: A Collapsible Anthology of Collections and Clutter, 205 pages. Edited, Compiled and misfiled by Zoë Mendelson, funded Wellcome Trust, pub. And Publishing.
* Sept. 2011: Inconscients! (Les artistes et la psychanalyse), 170 pages, colour, Galerie Alfa, Paris
* March 2010: The Journal of Performance Research, Transplantations issue, 4 artists’ pages, (ed. Phillip Warnell), pub. Routledge.
*''Fable'', Exhibition Catalogue, Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton, Chapter Publications, {{ISBN|1-900029-22-7}} *''Fable'', Exhibition Catalogue, Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton, Chapter Publications, {{ISBN|1-900029-22-7}}
*'']'', Exhibition Catalogue, ], {{ISBN|978-2-7427-5776-3}} *'']'', Exhibition Catalogue, ], {{ISBN|978-2-7427-5776-3}}
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==External links== ==External links==
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* The website for paintingresearch a network co-curated by Zoë Mendelson and Geraint Evans
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* - an online, interactive and inclusive bibliography for Fine Art students developed with Paula Smithard at University of the Arts London
* Mendelson's page at University of the Arts London
* The website for Wellcome Trust funded project, This Mess is a Place
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Glasgow-based British artist

Zoe Mendelson
Born (1976-04-17) 17 April 1976 (age 48)
NationalityBritish
OccupationArtist

Zoë Mendelson (born 17 April 1976) is a Glasgow-based British artist.

Biography

Mendelson studied Fine Art, Painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1995 to 1998 and at the Royal College of Art from 1998 to 2000. She has a practice-based PhD from Central Saint Martins (2015) and currently practices in Glasgow.

From 2015 to 2021 Zoë Mendelson was Head of BA Painting at Wimbledon College of Art (UAL), London. She is now Head of Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. She is a co-editor of The Edit - an online, interactive and inclusive bibliography for Fine Art students.

Mendelson has exhibited widely showing works, performing and publishing, nationally and internationally - largely in public spaces, including Science Museum, London (2018), Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris (2005) and Chapter Centre for Contemporary Arts in Cardiff (2006). Her work is also installed permanently (visibly and covertly) in public buildings, such as at Town Hall Hotel, London.

Work

Zoë Mendelson is an artist and writer with a collagist practice, using collation as a methodological framework for creating networks between psychoanalytic theory, psychotherapeutic practice, spatial theory, fine art and critical practice. Her work includes various forms of writing (fiction and non-fiction), collage, drawing, performance, animation and installation. Zoë's research engages disorder as a culturally produced phenomenon, in parallel to its clinical counterpart, suggesting its value to knowledge production within Fine Art and critical theory.

Her PhD, at Central Saint Martins, was titled ‘Psychologies and Spaces of Accumulation: The hoard as collagist methodology (and other stories)’. This research locates and spatialises systematised archiving alongside seemingly pathological object relations, and includes relationships drawn between urban space and wellness.

Mendelson has recently worked on a project entitled ‘This Mess is a Place’, which is supported by Wellcome Trust and produced by Artsadmin. The project focuses on psychopathology of hoarding at its intersection with rationalised collection. It was timed to coincide with the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and its inclusion of Hoarding Disorder.

In 2010 four of Mendelson's works were selected by Artsadmin and Iwona Blazwick to be permanently installed at Town Hall Hotel, London.

As part of a solo show on 26 November 2008 Mendelson performed with a sugarcrafter at Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers. For four hours they constructed drawn and sugared sandcastles, which were then eaten and erased.

In 2007 Mendelson made an online work commissioned by Cartier. Titled The Envelope Machine which referenced advances in postal technologies at the time of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and operated as a hand drawn, and ultimately unrequited, version of Outlook Express.

Also in 2007, Mendelson received an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts to create a work called Scheherezade's Sideboard which has since been shown at Transition Gallery, London and Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers.

Mendelson co-convenes the network paintingresearch with artist, Geraint Evans.

Bibliography

  • 30 May 2018: Hoard as Home: Clutter as Comfort, Performance/lecture, Science Museum, London
  • March 2017: Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind, one-day event in the theatre at Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios curated by Zoë Mendelson
  • May 2016: Wayfaring, &Model, Leeds
  • Oct 2015: Museum of the Unwanted, pub. Kunstmuseum Olten, 66 pages, colour.
  • Oct. 2013: This Mess is a Place: A Collapsible Anthology of Collections and Clutter, 205 pages. Edited, Compiled and misfiled by Zoë Mendelson, funded Wellcome Trust, pub. And Publishing.
  • Sept. 2011: Inconscients! (Les artistes et la psychanalyse), 170 pages, colour, Galerie Alfa, Paris
  • March 2010: The Journal of Performance Research, Transplantations issue, 4 artists’ pages, (ed. Phillip Warnell), pub. Routledge.
  • Fable, Exhibition Catalogue, Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton, Chapter Publications, ISBN 1-900029-22-7
  • J'en rêve, Exhibition Catalogue, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, ISBN 978-2-7427-5776-3
  • The Artist's Yearbook, Ed. Ossian Ward, essay by Zoe Mendelson, pub. Thames & Hudson, editions 2007 and 2008/09, ISBN 978-0-500-28613-5; ISBN 978-0-500-28692-0

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