Morwenna Grace Kearsley
2013-2015 Master of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art
2004-2007 BA(hons) 1st Class Photography Film and Imaging, Napier University, Edinburgh
2021 Hope Scott Trust Award
2019/2021 Visual Arts & Crafts Maker Awards, Glasgow
2019 The Richard & Siobhan Coward Foundation
2019 Visual Arts & Crafts Maker Awards
2016 The Eaton Fund for Women Artists
2013-2015 Leverhulme Scholarship for Fine Art (The Glasgow School of Art)
2022 Photographer in Residence, North Lands Creative, Caithness
2022 Contemporary Collecting Symposium: Collecting the New Past, (invited speaker), National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
2022 Morwenna Kearsley & Beca Lipscombe (invited speakers), Stills, Edinburgh
2022 Future Paisley Conference (invited speaker), Renfrewshire Council, Paisley
2021/22 Street Level Culture Collective (Lead Artist, Govanhill) Glasgow
2021/22 MacKinnon Collection: Outreach Programme, National Library of Scotland
2020 Faux Posters (Beca Lipscombe, Morwenna Kearsley, Annette Lux, Bernie Reid & Laura Richmond), Ester Krumbachová Archive, Prague
2020 Revisit the Gaelic 1980s National Libraries of Scotland & Creative Scotland
2020 CCA Creative Lab Residency, CCA, Glasgow
2017/18 Digital Artist Residency, CPK, Museums of Perth & Kinross
2017 Artist in Residence, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2013 Artist in Residence, Vis-à-Vis/Limiti Inchuisi, Oratino, Italy
2012 Artist in Residence, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy
2015 - 2018 Mount Florida Screenings (a bi-monthly screening event for moving image led by artists Morwenna Kearsley & Myles Painter), based at CCA and formerly at Mount Florida Studios and GoMA, Glasgow
2019 Alchemy Film Festival Hawick, Scotland
2018 CIVES GRATI! & Sunrise with Seamonsters Morwenna Kearsley & Myles Painter, CCA Cinema, Glasgow
2018 CIVES GRATI! Perth Museum & Galleries, Scotland
2018 16th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
2017 Uncanny Loop: New Habitats. Deborah Stratman (USA), Yuri Pattison (IRE), Morwenna Kearsley (UK), Emily Richardson (UK), and Jon Schorstein (UK), curated by Transit Arts as part of the Crossing the Line strand, Glasgow Film Theatre
2017 The Ethereal Wireless of the Dreaming Mind, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2016 Southside Film Festival, Glasgow
2016 Grrl Haus Cinema Boston, U.S.A
2021 Notch Code Curfew, Edinburgh
2020 Leave the Dishes, Poke the Jelly CCA, Glasgow (part of the Intermedia programme)
2022 Culture Collective: Govanhill, Trongate 103, in partnership with Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
2022 Street Level Open Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
2021 Photographing Fairies (Curated by Alice Sage with works by young people from Young Carers & Multicultural Family Base, Morwenna Kearsley, Wendy McMurdo & Frank Quitely) Stills, Edinburgh (online)
2020 Photography in Print Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2019 Streetlevel Open Streetlevel, Glasgow
2019 Ambit: Photographies from Scotland 2019 Stills, Edinburgh
2019 Passer-by Atelier E.B, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (contributor)
2018 SuckerSuccourSucker Laurieston Arches
2018 The Ethereal Wireless of the Dreaming Mind, The Lighthouse (part of 150 years of Macintosh), Glasgow
2018 ANIM8 X: HOPE Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2017 Hidden Doors Festival Citadel Theatre, Leith, Edinburgh
2016 Members Video Mini-Festival Transmission, Glasgow
2016 The Weight Of Things (Lutz Mommartz, Semiconductor, Jonas Staal, Jeremy Okun & Morwenna Kearsley, Curated by Emily Gray and Transit Arts, part of the Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Glasgow
2016 This Is Not a Mask (Morwenna Kearsley & Roi Carmeli) Le Laptop, Paris
2016 Open House Roma Vis à Vis Artists in Residence Project, Rome
2016 Bloomsberg New Contemporaries Glasgow Masters Series, Blooms, Glasgow
2015 Indelible Traces Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2015 MFA Degree show The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2013 PAST FORWARD: Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography Britony Fletcher, Alexander Hamilton, Morwenna Kearsley, Nicola Murray, Justin Quinell, Susanne Ramsenthaler and Katie Stenaford; curated by , Susanne Ramsenthaler, Edinburgh College of Art
2012 Work In Progress (Caroline Douglas, Lena Dobrowolska & Morwenna Kearsley) Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 Culture Collective Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow (Lead Artist)
2021 Photographing Fairies Stills, Edinburgh (online)
2021 MacKinnon Collection: Outreach Programme
2020 The Salty Cat Walks the Shiny House Immerse Residency (Associate Artist) at St Davids RC Primary School, Muirhhouse, Edinburgh Imaginate, Edinburgh.
2019 Picturing Paisley Renfrewshire Council, funded by Renfrewshire Council’s Townscape Heritage and Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme 2.
2019 Gorbals Through the Lens Glasgow Life, Tramway, National Lottery.
2018 Community Shapes Squad Wester Hailles Moving Image Festival, Edinburgh
2017/18 Talkin’ Aboot Ma Past (Lead artist) Roots Heritage Project, West Lothian Council & Youth Action
2017 A Seat at the Table (Lead Artist) National Galleries of Scotland & Action for Children
2017 House/Work Care for Carers, Stills, Edinburgh.
2017 Every Woman Super Woman Young Saheliya, Glasgow Womens Library & Stills.
2017 Play Multicultural Family Base, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
2014 Fresh Fruit: Stan Douglas The Fruitmarket Gallery & Stills, Edinburgh.
2012 Girls Youth Group Save the Children, Clydebank
2021 Mother & Child (portraits of Elizabeth Radcliffe, Beca Lipscombe & France-Lise McGurn, curated by Linsey Young) Spring/Summer Edition, Port Magazine
2021 A Surrealists Eye Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2020 Passer-By Atelier E.B, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
2020 Top Lodge Text written for Debi Banerjee, MAP Magazine
2019 Notes Journal #5 Featured Artist