Contact
Email: lilianptacek@gmail.com
Instagram: @lilianptacek
CV
b. 1992 London, U.K.
Lives Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Higher education
2022-2024 – MFA, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011-2015 – BA (Hons), The Glasgow School of Art, Fine Art Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow, U.K.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Anatomical [an approximation], Glasgow Project Rooms, Glasgow, U.K.
2020 Without Tide, The Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, U.K.
2019 Warp Tool, Hidden Lane Studios, Glasgow, U.K.
Group Exhibitions
2023 Limburg Biënnale, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, N.L.
2023 KAMOULUX, Rib Gallery, Rotterdam, N.L.
2022 Folly, The Store, Dulwich College, London, U.K.
2021 Prestwick, New Glasgow Society East, Glasgow, U.K.
2019 Graven Images, group exhibition, New Glasgow Society, U.K.
2019 Unruly Methods, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, U.K.
2018 Say What I Am Called, Glasgow International, The Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, U.K.
Residencies
2023 Performing Art Forum Residency, Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France
2019 Apprentice Training Programme, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Commissions
2019 Grassroots Public Art Commission, Boghall Drop In Centre, West Lothian Council, U.K.
Invited to create three permanent public artworks with Poppy Nash at Boghall Drop in Centre.
2019 Make Do & Mend, Artist Development Fund, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, U.K.
Seed funding for development with Poppy Nash to research activist clothing & costume.
2018 Scottish Artist Union Commission to develop a Bart Waltz performance, Inverness, U.K.
An invitation to make a collaborative participatory performance for the Scottish Artist Union’s ‘Bread and Roses’ event.
Talks / Reading Groups
2024 On Memory, Co-host reading group with Johannes Hugo Stoll, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, NL
2024 Artist Talk, The Glasgow School of Art, U.K.
2019 Apprentice Training Programme Artist Talks, Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2018 Scottish Artists Union Representative, STUC fringe event for Scottish Trade Union Congress, Aviemore, U.K.
Teaching
2019-22 Art Development Officer, ACES, Widening Participation, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
2022 Spring Workshops Series, Outspoken Arts, Paisley, U.K.
2021 Project Artist, Summer of Play, Glasgow Print Studio & Hamilton Museum, Hamilton, U.K.
2020 Distant Spaces, digital workshop series, CAMPLELINE Gallery, Dumfriesshire, U.K.
2020 Project Artist, Quaranteen, Scottish Youth Theatre, U.K.
2019 Workshop Leader, BBC Get Creative Workshop, East Renfrewshire, U.K.
2018-19 Art Tutor (screen print), East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure, East Renfrewshire, U.K.
2018 Art Tutor, Saturday workshops, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, U.K.
Projects
2019-20 Scottish Artist Union Committee Member - advocating and campaigning for arts worker rights
2018-19 Member of the collective BART WALTZ that staged performances and participatory events with a focus on collective celebration.