about my work

A small group of people stand in a stripped‑back, industrial room, looking over a wall covered in bright, handwritten notes. Someone points out a detail and the others lean in.

I make work that sits between the everyday and the slightly odd. I like playful linework and simple forms. In my ceramics practice, I use clay as another drawing surface, loose and never too serious.

Across all of the mediums I make work in, I enjoy exploring the banal, the ordinary and life’s small imperfections. I’m interested in life, awkward gestures and everyday objects.

The exterior of a contemporary gallery on Conduit Street, with a bold red‑and‑orange artwork reading “PARADISE” visible through the glass entrance. Exhibition details are printed on the door, and two people walk past in motion blur.

A sculptural installation featuring two lifelike hands with exaggerated red nails placed on a black plinth, one propped on an upside‑down glass. A painted hand study sits behind the piece, all set on a concrete floor in a minimal studio‑style space.

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b. 1998, UK

Education:

-BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts 2017-2020

-Foundation, USCH, 2016-2017

Solo Exhibitions:

-Things I Can’t Remember, The Dirty Old Gallery, Hastings, May 2022

-Molly Stredwick: A Collection of Painted Works, The Dirty Old Gallery, Hastings, August 2021

-What is the opposite of floating?, 29 South Street, Eastbourne, April 2021

-It might not have been better, I feel like it was, A-Space Gallery, Hastings, November 2020

Group Exhibitions:

– Eastbourne Open, VOLT, Eastbourne, March 2022

– Man v Machine, Bare Bones Gallery, Hastings, March 2022

-Transcend, Gallery 3, Margate, October 2021

-Digital Graduate Showcase, www.graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk, July 2020

-HANDS IN THE DIGIT(AL) AGE, www.bigrat.studio, May 2020

-I’M MAKING THIS FOR THE RAT THAT LIVES UNDER MY OVEN. www.bigrat.studio, April 2020

-‘Class Of’ Third Year Interim Show, Copland Gallery, Peckham, London, February 2020

-A Wild Goose Never Lays a Tame Egg, The New Cross House, New Cross, London, May 2019

-‘Merge” Second Year Interim Show, Dilston Grove, CGP Gallery, Southwark, London, January 2019

-First Year Painting Show, Camberwell College of Arts, Camberwell, London, May 2018

-Foundation Art Show, Sussex Coast College, Hastings, June 2017

Press & Publications:

-BBC Radio 4, Front Row, March 2021

-“In Conversation With Molly Stredwick” www.middlegroundprojectspace.com, March 2021

-Skate Jawn, Issue 58, November 2020

-Gatekeeper, Issue One, November 2020

-ICKY! Magazine, 2015

Photograph of Molly Stredwick's exhibition window in Eastbourne. The show was called 'What's The Opposite of Floating?' The window shows posters, small printed pieces and abstract artworks inside the gallery.

This was one of my first solo shows, in a unused shop on South Street in Eastbourne. The space was completely bare. Anyone walking past could see exactly what I was doing. I made the whole show in the space with my headphones on, and every so often someone would stop, stare for a bit, or lean in to ask what was going on. Mostly it was just me painting and staring at the walls. Working like that, outside an art school studio for the first time, shifted how I think about making and showing work in public.