About
Oren Shoesmith is an artist and writer from Cornwall, living in Glasgow. He works in an entangled way between clay, poetry, performance and film. Oren is focussed on research around unruly lands and unruly bodies, finding paths of liberation through boglands, claylands and gender borders
Selected Exhibitions
there is a place where you are not persecuted that they will never find you in collaboration with Rabindranath X Bhose and Belladonna Paloma, Gaada, Shetland
Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, 2024
Uncertain Futures, SaltSpace, Glasgow, 2024
EPOCH Tremenheere Gallery, Cornwall, 2024
DANCE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN text contribution for Rabindranath X Bhose, Collective, Edinburgh, 2023
The black rain shall be your coat Yonder Gallery, HCMF, Huddersfield, 2021
Want Moor, Queer Rural Connections Museum of English Rural Life, Reading , 2021
For Those Most Urgent, Beyond Otherness Open Hand Open Space, Reading, 2021
For Those most Urgent, Out and About Project RAMM, Exeter, 2020
This Path Will Lead You to Hot Burning Desires! Audio contribution in collaboration with Rabindranath X Bhose, Platform Edinburgh, 2020
All was vibrating fur Civic House, Glasgow, 2019
Rock-a-bye Bivalve Delicious Clam, Sheffield, 2019
SINC Backlit, Nottingham, 2019
Selected Talks
Wayward Clay: Communing with Disobedience, Patchwork Artist Talks, in collaboration with Ciara Neufeldt, V&A, London, 2025
Bet Low: An island on your doorstep: Artist-led models in Glasgow Round Table, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, 2025
Clay Commons, Eva Masterman and Scottish Scupture Workshop, 2023
Making a home between the cracks, Montez Press, 2019
Selected Press and reflections
The Parade, Uma Breakdown, 2024
https://glasgowinternational.org/journal/the-parade/
Rabindranath X Bhose Unearths Queer Histories From Boglands, Tom Jefferies, Freeze, 2023
https://www.frieze.com/article/rabindranath-x-bhose-review-collective-edinburgh-2023
Organising projects
Transmission Gallery Committee, Glasgow, 2023-2025
School of the Damned, Unaffiliated Nomadic Masters, 2019-2020
Double Okay, Reading 2018-2021
Education
Reading Unviversity, BAhons Fine Art 2012-2017
Falmouth University, Foundation in Art and Design 2009-2010