Shane Waltener (b.1966)

Lives and works in London.

projects

• 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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press

• 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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