CALLY TRENCH

Biography, exhibitions and projects

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Cally Trench's work is primarily drawing, but also includes very short animation films, artist's books, and original board games. Her work circles round recurring topics and themes, especially the fragility of everyday life, growing older, memory, and death.

Cally Trench completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London in 2007. She previously gained a Fine Art degree at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2004, where her dissertation was on Could Peter Doig's painting 'A Hundred Years Ago' have been painted a hundred years ago?, supervised by Dr Damon Taylor.

Cally's first degree was in Chemistry at Oxford University (where she was part of the first intake of women at Wadham College). In her fourth year at Oxford, she completed a Part II thesis on Studies in the philosophy of the language of science, supervised by Rom Harré. After Oxford, she lived in Hong Kong for two and a half years.

Cally Trench:Left Hand, Right Hand II 021/387, Sunday 25th August 2024, 1.43-2.28 pm

Cally Trench is concerned with how people respond physically to her ink drawings. Viewers tend to move backwards and forwards, towards the drawings to view the detail of individual ink marks and backwards to see the overall image, in a physical engagement that is hard to replicate in a book or on a computer. The ideal viewer for these lifesize drawings of faces and bodies, such as her Faces and Metamorphosis series, is one who behaves as if they are meeting another person, as if they are the only viewer, or as if they are observing their own hands or feet.

Her interest in art that invites complicity or some kind of direct physical engagement led to a series of four annual exhibitions: At Play, at South Hill Park, Bracknell 2009-2011, and touring in 2012, which she originated and co-curated with Dr Outi Remes.

Another interest is in uncertainty, in particular whether a work of art can also be something else, or whether it must always be one thing or another; this was the topic of her MA (Fine Art) research paper Uncertainty in Contemporary Landscape at Central Saint Martins in 2007. This is a concern that she tests in practice by making original board games; these are both playable games and also works of art.

Cally Trench lives and works in Buckinghamshire, England, where she observes and maps the hilly urban landscape of High Wycombe. She is married with two grown-up children. She is currently working on new drawings, artists' books and films.

Contact me: hello at callytrench dot co dot uk
Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels:'Making Connections' Preview at South Hill Park

Solo exhibitions

2019 Cally Trench's Book Art, Wycombe Library, High Wycombe
2017 Faces by Cally Trench, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
2011 Cally Trench's Board Games, Link Gallery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford (curated by Notfamousyet Art Consultancy)
2009 Cally Trench: Nine Black Boxes, Truwash Launderette, Oxford, 20 July 2009 (curated by ArtWash)
2008 Cally Trench: Zoom & Ground Level, Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe
2004 Cally Trench: Surface Tension, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2003 Cally Trench, College Gallery, BCUC, High Wycombe
1999 Cally Trench: Air, Sea, Sand and Sky, Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe
1996 Cally Trench: Commissioned paintings for Consumers' Association, Research and Testing Centre, Milton Keynes
1987 Cally Trench: Trompe l'oeil bookcase, Robin Waterfield's Bookshop, Oxford
1985 Cally le Poer Trench, Somerville College, Oxford

Two-person and small group exhibitions

2025 Alex Dewart / Cally Trench: Recording the Everyday, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
2025 A Question of Drawing, Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire (with Tineke Bruijnzeels, Alex Dewart, Steve Perfect and Mary Yacoob, curated by Cally Trench)
2024 Twofold Quintet, Courtyard Gallery, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (with Sophie Loss, John McDowall, Judy Goldhill, and Philip Lee, curated by Sophie Loss)
2023 In The Likeness of Birds, The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford (with Annie Rapstoff and Monika Tobel)
2022 Tineke Bruijnzeels / Cally Trench: Exploring inside the box, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
2020 Tineke Bruijnzeels / Cally Trench: Making Connections, South Hill Park, Bracknell

2018 Cally Trench / Philip Lee: Artists' Books, University of Westminster Library, Harrow
2018 Cally Trench / Nick Trench: Siblings Cannot Agree, Heseltine Gallery, Middleton Cheney
2017-18 The Art of Dying, Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe (with Alex Dewart and Sally Scagell)
2017 Cally Trench / Philip Lee: Artists' Books, Ravensbourne, London
2016 Cally Trench / Philip Lee: Artists' Books, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
2010 Alex Dewart / Cally Trench: Landscape: Memory and Maps, Blue Fin Building, London

2007 Cally Trench / Nick Trench: HOME, Penny School Gallery, Kingston
2005 Alex Dewart / Cally Trench: Memory, CARA project and exhibition, Woodlane High School, London and BCUC, High Wycombe
2005 Tineke Bruijnzeels / Cally Trench: 2 x 366 Drawings, BCUC, High Wycombe
2005 Prizewinners Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

1990 Paul Amey: new sculptures & reliefs / Cally Trench: new paintings, Isis Boathouse, Oxford
1989 Five Artists from Great Britain, Galeria Katarzyny Piskorskiej, Willa Podgorskich, Warsaw, Poland (with Helen Ganly, Alan Franklin, Roger Perkins, and Elizabeth Kozmian Edwards)
1988 Red in Tooth and Claw, Westgate Exhibition Room, Oxford (with Paul Amey, Miles Bodimeade, Nick Bodimeade, and Lucy Reford)
1987 Martin Jennings: Stone Sculptures / Cally le Poer Trench: Paintings, Shark House, Oxford

Annie Rapstoff, Monika Tobel and Cally Trench: In the Likeness of Birds, 2023

Group exhibitions

2024 Everything in the Garden, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2024 Art Sauce members' exhibition, Common Ground, Oxford
2024 Equinox, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2023-24 Animal Magic, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2023 The Artist Book, Haus-A-Rest, online exhibition
2023 Excappare, St Andrews Mews, Hastings (curated by Charlotte CHW, a Cerebellum project)
2023 From Where I Stand, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2022 Eye of the Beholder, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2022 Metamorphosis, Haus-A-Rest, online exhibition
2022 Metamorphosis, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury (Featured Artist)
2022 Breathing Space, Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury
2022 International Women's Day Art Exhibition, Wycombe Arts Centre
2021 105 Artists Hands: Touch Tell Create book launch, Space 36, London
2021 the playful turn, Espacio Gallery, London (curated by Degrees of Freedom)
2021 Unprecendented, Ovada, Oxford (online and physical exhibition)
2020 Art in Isolation, Heseltine Gallery, Middleton Cheney (online exhibition)

Cally Trench: Metamorphosis (Magpie)

2019 FiLiA Arts 2019, Atelier Tammam, London
2019 Enshrine (curated by Rekha Sameer), Fringe Arts Bath
2019 The Big Picture, Heseltine Gallery, Middleton Cheney
2018-19 FiLiArt 100, Atelier Tammam, London; FiLiA Conference, Manchester; Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil; in a guerilla banner showcase, Parliament Square, London; Spinning Mill, Sunnybank Mills, Farsley, Leeds
2018 Enshrine, Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London (curated by Rekha Sameer)
2018 Only The Sunny Hours: Contemporary Photography with a Brownie 127, Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading
2018 Rebel Daughters, Doncaster Community Arts, The Point, Doncaster
2017-18 Draw, Thought Foundation, Birtley
2017 Lost & Found, Hundred Years Gallery, London (curated by Mervyn Diese)
2017 Intergenfem: Intergenerational Feminism in the 21st Century (curated by Desperate Artwives), part of FiLiArt, at the FiLiA Conference, Institute of Education, London
2017 Cou Cou Gascony, Miradoux, France (curated by Cou Cou)
2017 Draw/Bridge, Zug/Brücke, ARTHOUSE1, London (curated by Alex Dewart)
2017 PASSPort Britannia, Safehouse 1, London (curated by Rekha Sameer)
2017 Draw/Bridge, Zug/Brücke, Galerie REMISE, Berlin (curated by Alex Dewart)
2016 Art on a Boat on the Peagreen, King's Cross, London (curated by Rekha Sameer)
2015 365 Drawings 365 Dessins, Galerie d'Anières, near Geneva, Switzerland (with Tineke Bruijnzeels and 51 guest artists)
2015 Book Acts, Arnolfini, Bristol (with AMBruno) during BABE 2015
2015 Re object, The Tetley, Leeds (curated by Sophie Loss)
2014 Control Room, The Control Room, Bristol (curated by Rekha Sameer)
2014 365 Drawings 365 Dessins, Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading (with Tineke Bruijnzeels and 51 guest artists)
2014 Art Happens, Fifth Plinth, Buckinghamshire New University
2014 Book Act, The Tetley, Leeds (with AMBruno) during the 17th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair
2014 Arts Libris, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (with AMBruno)
2013 I'm telling you stories. Trust me. in Multiplied 2013, Christie's, South Kensington, London (AMBruno event, curated by Sophie Loss)
2013 "THOTS" AND... (invited contributor), Mile End Pavilion, London (curated by Neil Ferguson)
2013 Do you remember it - or weren't you there?, London Gallery West, University of Westminster (curated by Cally Trench and Philip Lee)
2012 Remarkable Shed Party, Sophie's Shed, London (curated by Cally Trench)
2012 Surfaces: Works on Paper, Sput+Nik Gallery, Porto, Portugal (AMBruno event, curated by Steve Perfect and John McDowall)
2012 Get Carta, Karin Janssen Project Space, London (curated by Stephen Harwood)
2012 At Play 2012, South Hill Park; New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham; and OVADA, Oxford (curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes)
2012 Boundaries and Beyond, Gallery@49, Bracknell (curated by ReOrsa)
2012 Art at the Shelter, Wycombe Museum
2012 Remarkable Place, The Keep, Reading (curated by Cally Trench)
2011 The Re...Show, Out of the Dark, High Wycombe (curated by Rekha Sameer)
2011 Parcel Fever 2, The Keep, Reading (curated by Ingrid Jensen as part of Nuit Blanche Reading)
2011 At Play 3, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes)
2011 Smaller Than A Lemon, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe (curated by Danny Rolph)
2011 Need and Desire, Blue Fin Building, London (curated by Alex Dewart)
2010 Together, Lucy Landers Fine Art, High Wycombe
2010 Invasion of Privacy, Barnet Street, Oxford (curated by Notfamousyet Art Consultancy)
2010 Parcel Fever, The Keep, Reading (part of Nuit Blanche Reading)
2010 At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes)
2010 Anthea Turner Prize, Union Chapel Workshops, Islington, London (curated by Heidi Locher and Simon Moore)

Growing older: Linocut by Cally Trench

2009 Salisbury Open Drawing Exhibition, Salisbury Arts Centre
2009 Surface!, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock (curated by Cally Trench)
2009 At Play 1, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes)
2008 Originals 08, Mall Galleries, London
2008 Wrapped and Encased in Liverpool 08, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool
2008 On the Surface, The Parlour, Chalk Farm, London (curated by Cally Trench)
2008 Pavilion II, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
2008 The Great Purpose, Mile End Art Pavilion, London (curated by Sian Harris)
2008 Looking Thinking Drawing, Queens Park Arts Centre, Aylesbury
2008 Geography, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
2008 Emotional Maps, Friars Square Shopping Centre, Aylesbury
2007 Freedom, Shaun Project Space, University of Sunderland
2007 Surveillance, Mirror Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2007 Going Places, Riverhouse Arts Centre, Walton-on-Thames
2007 Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Greater Manchester
2007 Central Saint Martins MA Degree Show, London
2007 Sketchbook Circle, Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated by Cally Trench)
2007 DIY, Nolia's Gallery, Islington, London (curated by Andrew Markham)
2007 Central Saint Martins MA Interim Show, The Bargehouse, South Bank, London
2006 Sublime Domesticity, Henley Exhibition Centre (curated by Susan Burton)
2006 Identikit, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London (curated by Brendan Murphy)
2005 ArtSway Open 05, ArtSway, Hampshire
2005 RE:INVENT, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
2005 Contexture, Candid Galleries, London
2005 Cass Business School, London
2005 Memorise, Candid Galleries, London
2005 Ashridge Art Exhibition, Ashridge College, Berkhamsted
2005 Artspeak, Candid Galleries, London
2004 2D Open Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2004 Fine Art Degree Show, BCUC, High Wycombe
2003 Insight, Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe
2003 Surprise, Surprise!, six primary schools in High Wycombe and Wycombe Museum (curated by Cally Trench)
2002 Something, BCUC, High Wycombe
2002 Battersea Art Fair with Bell Fine Art, Winchester

Lost Garden 3 by Cally Trench

1999 Printmakers Council - Open Biennale, Whiteley's Gallery, London
1998 The Book Project, Bronham Mill, Bedfordshire, and touring (curated by Cally Barker)
1998 The Visual Images Group, Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
1997 Art in Buckinghamshire, Spring Gardens Art Centre, High Wycombe
1996 First Midsummer Exhibition of Women Artists, Dover Street, London
1995 Society of Wood Engravers - 58th Exhibition, Orleans House, Twickenham, and touring
1995 Relief Prints, Oxford University Club, Oxford
1994 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1992 Impressive Women, London Print Workshop
1992 Oxford Artists Group, Southern Gas Exhibition Room, Oxford
1992 Contemporary Portrait Society - 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Medici Gallery, London
1991 Artweek International Artists' Plener, Sutton Courtenay Abbey and Oxford Baptist Church
1991 Oxford Artweek The Painting Park, South Park, Oxford [Mosaic]
1991 Oxford Artweek Flag Project [Yellow and Green Fish Flags at Carfax Tower and Abbey National Building, Oxford]
1990 Contemporary Portrait Society - Music and Dance, Alpine Gallery, London
1990 Artists' Encounters - Krasiczyn 90, Krasiczyn Palace and Pzremysl Franciscan Church, Poland
1990 Oxford Artweek Flag Project [Yellow Fish Flag at St Hilda's College, Oxford]
1990 Oxford Artweek The Painting Park, South Park, Oxford [Ladder to the sky]

Cally Trench:First Thing in the Morning

1989 Christmas Show, Holland Gallery, London
1989 Biennial Unofficial Exhibition, Pzremysl Franciscan Church, Poland
1989 Oxford Artweek Billboards Project [The house next door: double take billboard painting in Stockmore Street, Oxford]
1988 Oxford Artweek Billboards Project [This isn't a brick wall billboard painting in Stockmore Street/Cowley Road, Oxford]
1988 Women Artists Diary 1989, Fulham Palace, London
1987 Contemporary Portrait Society - Self-Portraits, Alpine Gallery, London
1987 Contemporary Portrait Society, Holland Gallery, London
1987 Oxford Scene: Paintings Bought by Oxford City Council, Town Hall, Oxford
1986 Self-Portraits, Delahaye Gallery, Cirencester
1986 Contemporary Portrait Society, Alpine Gallery, London
1985 Contemporary Portrait Society Open Exhibition, Bloomsbury Galleries, London

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Board games played

2025 A Question of Drawing at Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire [Gravestones and Dry Bones, Trees versus Axemen]
2024 Fun things to do when you're dead too, Cambridge City Crematorium, on 11th May 2024, curated by Dying for Life [Gravestones and Dry Bones]
2023 In The Likeness of Birds at The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford [Tulip Birds and Daffodil Birds]
2023 Fun things to do when you're dead, Cambridge City Crematorium, on 13th May 2023, curated by Dying for Life [Gravestones and Dry Bones]
2022 Cally Trench's Original Board Games, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, on 8th October 2022 [Tulip Birds and Daffodil Birds, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Trees versus Axemen, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Danger Money, Vegetable Thieves]
2022 Exploring inside the box, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot [Gravestones and Dry Bones]
2022 International Women's Day, Bucks Board Games, Wycombe Arts Centre, on 8th March 2022 [Tulip Birds and Daffodil Birds, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Gravestones and Dry Bones, Trees versus Axemen, Hitched, I've brought you back a baby dragon]
2022 Community Games Day, Space Studios, Ilford, on 12th February 2022, curated by resident artist Lydia Julien [Tulip Birds and Daffodil Birds, Gravestones and Dry Bones, Trees versus Axemen, Hitched, I've brought you back a baby dragon]
2022 Recent Work, Warehouse Art School, Oxford, 19th January 2022 [Tulip Birds and Daffodil Birds, Gravestones and Dry Bones, Trees versus Axemen]
2021 the playful turn, Espacio Gallery, London [I've brought you back a baby dragon]

Trees versus Axemen by Cally Trench

2019 In Dialogue 2019, Déda, Derby, on 19th November 2019, a conference convened by Heather Connelly and Rhiannon Jones [Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Gravestones and Dry Bones, Trees versus Axemen, I've brought you back a baby dragon]
2019 Elisabetta Balasso / Cally Trench: Original Board and Card Games, OpenHand OpenSpace, Brock Keep, Reading, on 17th September 2019 [Trees versus Axemen, Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Hitched - new version]
2019 Things to do when you're dead, Cambridge City Crematorium, 18th May 2019 (curated by Dying for Life) [Gravestones and Dry Bones]

2018 Cally Trench's Original Board Games, The Heseltine Gallery, Middleton Cheney, on 22nd September 2018 [Trees versus Axemen, Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Board Game, Hitched - new version]
2018 On Death, Banham Barrel, Banham, Norfolk, 6th May 2018 (curated by Esoterica Arts) [Gravestones and Dry Bones]
2018 Cally's Board Game Evenings in The Art of Dying, Wycombe Museum, on 15th February 2018 and 25th October 2018 [Trees versus Axemen, Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Board Game, Hitched - new version]
2018 Board? Gaming is the answer! in Draw, Thought Foundation, Birtley, on 10th February 2018 [Trees versus Axemen, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Hitched - new version]

2017 Cally Trench: Interactive Board Games in Festal Favours curated by Clare Carswell, Charlbury Festival, on 10th June 2017 [Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Whirlpools and Lifebelts]
2017 Cally Trench's Board Games, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, on 4th February 2017 [Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Whirlpools and Lifebelts, Board Game, Hitched - original version]

2016 Board Games with Cally Trench, OVADA Stammtisch, Joe Perks & Co, Oxford, on 24th November 2016 [Gravestones and Dry Bones, I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Whirlpools and Lifebelts]
2016 Austerity, curated by Margaret Godel), Fringe Arts Bath [Shopping Spree]
2016 Homunculus, Asylum, London, curated by Rekha Sameer [Whirlpools and Lifebelts]

2014 In Dialogue 2014, Primary, Nottingham, on 4th October 2014, a conference convened by Heather Connelly, Rhiannon Jones and Rebecca Beinart [I've brought you back a baby dragon, Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money]
2013 Be Our Guest, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys, curated by Alex Boyd Jones [I've brought you back a baby dragon]

2012 Floraphilia, Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow, on 1st September 2012, curated by Folie A Trois - Sarah Grainger-Jones and lili Spain [Vegetable Thieves]
2012 At Play 2012, South Hill Park in Bracknell, OVADA in Oxford, and New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham [Shopping Spree], and during the private view at the New Ashgate Gallery [Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money]
2012 Board Games Event in At Play 2012, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, on 9th July 2012 [various games]

2011 The Re...Show at Out of the Dark, High Wycombe, on 19th November 2011, curated by Rekha Sameer [Shopping Spree]
2011 Cally Trench's Board Games, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, on 6th October 2011, curated by Notfamousyet Art Consultancy [Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves] to coincide with an exhibition of photographs in the Link Gallery of four of the games [Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Board Game]
2011 Cally Trench's Board Games at the Rubik's Cube, Joiners' Arms, Hackney, London, on 11th September 2011, curated by Iceberg Fernandez [Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Board Game]
2011 Board Games with Cally Trench, OVADA Stammtisch, Port Mahon, Oxford, on 28th July 2011 [Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Hitched - original version]
2011 At Play 3, South Hill Park, Bracknell [Vegetable Thieves]
2011 The Effort Presents a Puzzle, The Windmill, Brixton, on 10th July 2011 [Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Board Game, Hitched - original version]
2011 Cally Trench's Board Games at Quaker Meeting House, High Wycombe, on 30th January 2011 [Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money, Board Game, Hitched - original version]

2010 Beyond the Dustheaps Christmas Party, Charles Dickens Museum, London, on 11th December 2010, curated by Island Projects [Vegetable Thieves, Danger Money]
2010 Games of Money and Death salon, Hanbury Hall, London, on 23rd October 2010, curated by Island Projects, at This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG) Festival [three games including Vegetable Thieves and Danger Money]
2010 At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell [Danger Money]
I've brought you back a baby dragon by Cally Trench

2009 Cally Trench's Board Games as part of The Home Delivery, Oxford, on 4th November 2009, curated by ArtWash [Board Game, Danger Money, Hitched - original version]
2009 Hop Skip evening of events, Liquid Studios, Hackney Wick, London, on 31st July 2009, curated by Martina O'Shea [two games including Board Game]

2007 HOME, Penny School Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames [Board Game]
2006 Central Saint Martins MA symposium, Matt's Gallery, London [Board Game]
2004 Passing Time, Sherborne House, Dorset [Hitched - original version]
Dancing by Cally Trench

Films festivals and screenings

2026 Rugby Warwickshire Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, on Saturday 3rd January 2026. [A Year of Hands]

2025 Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival (USA). Finalist and Official Selection, with a live screening at Singh Performance Center, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, on Friday 17th October 2025. [Attention!]
2025 Brighton International Animation Festival (UK) screening 'Artists Film #2' at Presuming Ed's, Brighton, on Monday 13th October 2025 [Goodbye]
2025 Tees Valley International Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at ARC Stockton Arts Centre, on Friday 7th November 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, and Commended in the Best Experimental category, having been on the Judges' Shortlist, with a live screening at Depot, Lewes, on Saturday 13th September, and online screening, 5th September to 6th October 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK). Selected Films, with a live screening at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London, on Sunday 29th June 2025. [A Year of Hands, Star Jumps] Short-Listed Film (Animation), with a live screening at Forest Cinema, Walthamstow, on Sunday 22nd June 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 MicroActs (UK) presents Intimate Histories. Official Selection, with a live screening at FOMO House, Shoreditch, London, on Thursday 29th May 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 Wolverhampton Film Festival (UK). Official Selection and Nominee for Best Micro Short, with a live screening at the University of Wolverhampton on Sunday 27th April 2025. [Star Jumps]
2025 Fisheye Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live 'exhibition' screening on Sunday 27th April 2025. [Star Jumps]
2025 Spark Micro-Short Film Festival (USA). Official Selection and Finalist, with a live screening in Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York, USA on Saturday 19th April 2025. [Dancing, Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2025 Absurd Art House Film Festival (UK). Finalist, with a live screening at the Criterion Music Hall and Theatre, Blue Town, Sheerness, Kent, on Saturday 5th April 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 Brighton International Animation Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton, on Saturday 5th April 2025. [A Year of Hands]
2025 WOFFF community screenings (UK) on the theme of 'Dance and Play' at The Hub Lounge, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, on Wednesday 26 February; at the Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone, London, on Thursday 6 March 2025; and at the All Ages Club, Round Chapel Old School Rooms, Hackney, London, on Thursday 27 March 2025. [Dancing]
2025 Cardiff Mini Film Festival (Wales). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Angel Hotel, Castle Street, Cardiff, on Sunday 19th January 2025. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]

2024 Secrets of the Dead Short Film Festival (USA) at TV Eye, Ridgewood, Queens, New York on Sunday 15th December 2024: a series of screenings of selected films from the previous twelve years of the festival. [Burial]
2024 Clapham International Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, on Saturday 30th November 2024. [Goodbye]
2024 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - November 2024. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 23rd November 2024, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Star Jumps]
2024 Newcastle International Short Film Festival (Australia). Official Selection and Winner of Best Super Short International Animation, with a live screening at the Royal Exchange Salon Theatre, Newcastle, Friday 22nd November 2024. [A Year of Hands]
2024 Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival (USA). Official Selection and Nominee, with a live screening at the Capitol Theatre, Arlington, Massachusetts, on Monday 7th October 2024. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2024 Unthinkable (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, on Friday 4th October 2024, and in Whitefriargate, Hull, 12th-22nd October 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - September 2024. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 28th September 2024, curated by Banks Helfrich. [A Year of Hands]
2024 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with online screening, 7th September to 7th October 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - July 2024. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 27th July 2024, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Nick in Conversation]
2024 The Short Cinema: Leicester International Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, Leicester, on Friday 28th June 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK). Selected and Shortlisted Film, with a live screening at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London, on Sunday 9th June 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Seeing in the Dark in Fringe Arts Bath (UK). Live screening at the Newark Works, Bath, on Saturday 1st June 2024, curated by Inga Burrows. [Goodbye]
2024 MicroActs 18 - Artist Film Screenings (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London, on Sunday 26th May 2024. [Fossil Fish Film]
2024 Wolverhampton Film Festival (UK). Official Selection and Nominee for Best Micro Short, with a live screening at the University of Wolverhampton, on Sunday 5th May 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Fisheye Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, on Sunday 21st April 2024. [Dancing]
2024 Hastings Rocks International Film Festival (UK). Honourable Mention, with online screening, 10th-17th April 2024. [Goodbye, Dancing]
2024 Brighton International Animation Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton, on Sunday 7th April 2024. [Goodbye]
2024 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - March 2024. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook and live at the Winter Park Library, Florida, on Saturday 23rd March 2024, curated by Banks Helfrich. [VU Meter]
2024 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). 'Best of the Fest on Tour' - live screening at Ramsgate Community Cinema, on Saturday 9th March 2024 for International Women's Day. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2024 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival - January 2024 (USA). Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 27th January 2024, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Dancing]
2024 Cardiff Mini Film Festival (Wales). Official Selection, with a live screening at Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff, on Sunday 21st January 2024. [Goodbye]

Feet by Cally Trench

2023 Minute Madness Toronto (Canada). Official Selection and Honourable Mention, with a live screening at Naturlandia Juice Bar, Toronto, on Thursday 30th November 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood in Sixty Seconds]
2023 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA)- November 2023. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 25th November 2023, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Goodbye]
2023 Newcastle International Short Film Festival (Australia). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Royal Exchange Hybrid Theatre, Newcastle, on 17th and 18th November 2023. [Goodbye]
2023 Tees Valley International Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at ARC Stockton Arts Centre, on Friday 27th October 2023. [Dancing]
2023 Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Arts Centre Washington, Tyne & Wear, on Friday 20th October 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at West Newton Cinema, Massachusetts, on Saturday 14th October 2023. [Goodbye]
2023 Unthinkable (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Godber Studio, Hull Truck Theatre, Friday 13th October 2023, and in Whitefriargate, Hull, 12th-22nd October 2023. [Goodbye]
2023 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - September 2023. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 23rd September 2023, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Attention!]
2023 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). Winner of Best Animation, having previously been an Official Selection and on the Judges' Shortlist, with a live screening at Depot, Lewes, Saturday 23rd September 2023, and online screening, 9th September to 9th October 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Spark Micro-Short Film Festival (USA). Official Selection and Finalist, with a live screening at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library, on Saturday 9th September 2023, and online screening during the 2022-2023 season on the Micromania Channel. [Fossil Fish Film, Feet]
2023 Stand Up Cinema: Short Film Evening (UK). Live screening at Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, on Friday 8th September 2023. [Attention!, Goodbye, Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood, Dancing]
2023 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - July 2023. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 22nd July 2023, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood in Sixty Seconds]
2023 Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, and live screening at at Redline VR's Raven Room, Chicago, on Thursday 15th June 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK). Selected Films, with a live screening at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London, on Sunday 4th June 2023. [Attention!, Goodbye, Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Wolverhampton Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, and Nominee for Best Animated Film, with a live screening at Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton, on Saturday 27th May 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Absurd Art House Film Festival (UK). Winner of Best Very Short Film, having previously been a Finalist, with a live screening at the Criterion Music Hall and Theatre, Blue Town, Sheerness, Kent, on Saturday 15th April 2023. [Feet]
2023 MicroActs 14 - Artist Film Screenings (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Atlas Grinds, London, on Thursday 30th March 2023. [Twenty Objects from a Sixties Childhood]
2023 Life Screenings International Short Film Festival (USA) - March 2023. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 25th March 2023, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Cemetery Botany]

Doors by Cally Trench

2022 MicroActs 13 - Artist Film Screenings (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Hotel Elephant, London, on Friday 9th December 2022. [Burial]
2022 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - December 2022. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 3rd December 2022, curated by Banks Helfrich. [The First Hard Stare of the Morning]
2022 Newcastle International Short Film Festival (Australia). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Royal Exchange Hybrid Arts Centre, Newcastle, on 18th and 19th November 2022. [Feet]
2022 Weird Film Fest (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at PianoFight, San Francisco, on Saturday 29th October 2022. [Burial]
2022 Secrets of the Dead Short Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at Film Noir Cinema, Brooklyn, New York City, 22nd October / 1st November 2022. [Burial]
2022 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA) - October 2022. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 22nd October 2022, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Fossil Fish Film]
2022 Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at West Newton Cinema, Massachusetts, 22nd-23rd October 2022. [Feet]
2022 Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, on Monday 17th October 2022. [Burial]
2022 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with online screening, 9th-30th September 2022. [A Follower of Holy and Godly Matrons]
2022 Micomania Film Fest / Spark Micro-Short Film Festival (USA). Official Selection and Finalist, with a live screening at the Frank E Merriweather Library, Buffalo, on Saturday 10th September 2022, and online screening during the 2021-2022 season on the Micromania Channel, Animation section. [Windmills]
2022 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival (USA)- August 2022. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 27th August 2022, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Roses Hat]
2022 ELO(KUVA)KUU (Finland). Official selection, with a live screening in a short film screening event in Tampere, Finland, 4th-19th August 2022. [Burial]
2022 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival - June 2022 (USA). Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 25th June 2022, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Feet]
2022 Santa Cruz Shorts (UK). Live screening at Curzon Soho, London, on Saturday 18th June 2022. [Burial]
2022 Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at Truman's Social Club, London, on Sunday 12th June 2022. [Burial]
2022 Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at Burning Bush Brewery, Chicago, USA, on Thursday 9th June 2022. [Feet]
2022 The Ostranenie Theatre (UK). Live screening at The Plough, Farnham, on Tuesday 24th May 2022. [Horizontal Lines]
2022 New Jersey International Short Film Festival (USA). Award Winner for Best Ultra-Short, with a live screening at Annabella's Kitchen, Newark, New Jersey, USA, on Friday 20th May 2022, and online screening via xerb.tv, May-June 2022 [Feet]. Also Official Selection, with online screening via xerb.tv, May-June 2022. [Burial]
2022 MicroActs 11 - Artist Film Screenings (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at VFDalston, London, on Thursday 19th May 2022. [Feet]
2022 Indiefilmopolis Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with a live screening at the Actress & Bishop, Birmingham, on Sunday 27th February 2022. [Pink House]
2022 Shiver International Film Festival (Canada). Official Selection, with a live screening in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, 25th-26th February 2022. [Burial]. Also Finalist. [Feet]
2022 Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival USA) - February 2022. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 6th February 2022, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Pink House]

Horizontal Lines by Cally Trench

2021 Newcastle International Short Film Festival (Australia). Official Selection, with a live screening in the 'Indi Animation Arvo' at The Royal Exchange Hybrid Performance Space & Cinema, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, on Sunday 12th December 2021. [Doors]
2021 Life Screenings International One Minute Film Festival (USA) - November 2021. Official Selection, with a screening via Facebook, on Saturday 13th November 2021, curated by Banks Helfrich. [Windmills]
2021 Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival (USA). Official Selection, with a live screening at Twisted Hippo Brewing, Chicago, USA, on Thursday 11th November 2021. [Windmills]
2021 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (UK). Official Selection, with online screening, September-October 2021. [Screaming Goddess]
2021 Emerging Artists Film Festival (Canada). Finalist Animated Shorts, with screening on YouTube, July 2021. [Fossil Fish Film]
2021 Soundstripes 5 (UK). Silent film screening with live scoring at Abbeydale Picture House, Sheffield, on Sunday 18th July 2021. [Fossil Fish Film]
2021 Birkenhead International Film Festival (UK) - 30 Second Film Festival. Official Selection, with online screening (Day 7) from June 2021, and live screening at Convenience Gallery, Birkenhead, on Saturday 17th July 2021. [Fossil Fish Film]

Roses Hat by Cally Trench

2019 Stand Up Cinema: Silent Films (UK). Live screening at Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, on Friday 20th September 2019. [Doors, Nick in Conversation, Screaming Goddess, Horizontal Lines, Circles, A follower of holy and godly matrons, Undressing Nationality]
2018 Only The Sunny Hours Film Show (UK). Live screening at Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading, on Saturday 23rd June 2018. [Undressing Nationality, Peephole Hut]
2017 Lost & Found Film Night (UK). Live screening at Hundred Years Gallery, London, on Friday 10th November 2017. [Circles, Feet, Roses Hat, Hand, Face]
2017 Soundstripes (UK). Silent film screening with live scoring at The Making Space, Huddersfield, on Thursday 12th October 2017. [Feet, Ice Lollies]
2017 Candid Projection Room (UK). Live screening at Candid Arts Trust, London, on Tuesday 19th September 2017. [Peephole Hut, Pink House, Cemetery Botany, Face, Chess Wars]
2017 Videovada 2017 - Festival of the Moving Image (UK). Live screening at OVADA, Oxford, on Thursday 15th June 2017. [Roses Hat, Pink House]
2017 Live Art Cinema: It's Alive! (UK). Live screening at The Edge, Birmingham, on Thursday 25th May 2017. Curated by Home for Waifs and Strays and the Magic Cinema. [Peephole Hut]
2016 Videovada 2016 - Festival of the Moving Image (UK). Live screening at OVADA, Oxford, on Friday 24th June 2016. [Cemetery Botany]
2013 British Ceramics Biennial (UK). Live screening at Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent. [Exercise Slip Silent Movie]
2012 Hoopla! (UK). Live screening at Sugarhouse Studios, London, on 13th July 2012. A Nunnery Gallery Event curated by Tessa Garland. [Exercise Slip Silent Movie]
2011 Project 101 (USA). Live screening in a video installation, The LAB Gallery, New York. An AMBruno event curated by Sophie Loss. [Face, Chess Wars]

Cally Trench: Book-Wing

Artist's books exhibited

2026 AMBruno: Finale at the Artists' Bookmarket, at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh [FOR THE DEAD]
2025 AMBruno: Finale at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [FOR THE DEAD]
2025 AMBruno's Finale, Tate Britain (Library and Archive Reading Rooms) [FOR THE DEAD]
2025 Cally Trench: Books at Bookface Chapter 16, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
2025 Cally Trench: Books at PAGES Artist's Book Fair, Leeds Art Gallery
2024 AMBruno: rhythm at Miss Read, Berlin [Tapping Score]
2024 Cally Trench: Books at Bookface Chapter 15, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
2024 AMBruno: rhythm at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), University of the West of England, Bristol [Tapping Score]
2024 AMBruno: rhythm at Book Arts Day (Society of Bookbinders), Kentish Town Congregational Church Halls, London [Tapping Score]
2024 AMBruno: rhythm at Printed Matter, Chelsea, New York City [Tapping Score]
2023 AMBruno: rhythm at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [Tapping Score]
2023 AMBruno: rhythm at Vienna Art Book Fair #2, dieAngewandte - University of Applied Arts Vienna [Tapping Score]
2023 AMBruno: Margins at Offprint, Tate Modern, London [Marginal Notes on Simon]
2023 AMBruno: Margins at PAGES: Reset Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds [Marginal Notes on Simon]
2023 Peculiarity Press at Paper Ink Print Festival, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington [105 Artists' Hands]
2022 AMBruno: Margins at Volumes Art Publishing days, Zentraläschrei, Zürich [Marginal Notes on Simon]
2022 AMBruno: Margins at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [Marginal Notes on Simon]
2022 AMBruno books at Printed Matter, New York [VU Meter, Book-Wing]
2022 AMBruno: Volume and One and many pages at Miss Read, Berlin [VU Meter, Book-Wing]
2022 AMBruno: Volume and One and many pages at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), University of the West of England, Bristol [VU Meter, Book-Wing]
2021 AMBruno: Volume and One and many pages, London launch event, 19th December 2021 [VU Meter, Book-Wing]
2021 Cally Trench: Books at Bookface Chapter 12, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading (online event)
2021 AMBruno: One and many pages at BABE - The Lost Weekend, Bristol (online exhibition) [Book-Wing]
2021 AMBruno: One and many pages at Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF), New York (online exhibition) [Book-Wing]
2020 Cally Trench: Books at Bookface Chapter 11, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading (online exhibition)
Cally Trench: VU Meter

2019 BBruno: From this to there and other recent books at VOLUMES, Zürich [WE SHALL MEET AGAIN]
2019 BBruno: From this to there and other recent books at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [WE SHALL MEET AGAIN]
2019 Cally Trench's Book Art, Wycombe Library, High Wycombe
2019 BBruno: From this to there and other recent books at the New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island [WE SHALL MEET AGAIN]
2019 Cally Trench's Books at Elisabetta Balasso / Cally Trench: Original Board and Card Games, OpenHand OpenSpace, Brock Keep, Reading, 17th September 2019
2019 AMBruno: Cover and BBruno: New books at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, Bristol [A follower of holy and godly matrons, A Dictionary of Geographical Features ..., Footsie Footzine, Mirror Mirror]
2018 AMBruno: Cover at VOLUMES, Zürich [A follower of holy and godly matrons]
2018 AMBruno: Cover at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [A follower of holy and godly matrons]
2018 Philip Lee / Cally Trench: Artists' Books, University of Westminster Library, Harrow
2018 BBruno: Recent books at the New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island
2018 AMBruno: Cover at Miss Read, Berlin [A follower of holy and godly matrons]
2018 AMBruno: Recent books at Malmö Artist's Book Biennial, Malmö, Sweden [A follower of holy and godly matrons]
2018 AMBruno: Cover at the 21st International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, the Tetley, Leeds [A follower of holy and godly matrons]
2017-18 Cally Trench / Philip Lee: Artists' Books, Ravensbourne, London
2017 AMBruno: [Sic] at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London [International Day]
2017 AMBruno: [Sic] at the New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island [International Day]
2017 AMBruno: Show and Tell at Tate Britain (Library and Archive Reading Rooms)
2017 AMBruno: [Sic] at Miss Read, Berlin [International Day]
2017 AMBruno: [Sic] at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, Bristol [International Day]
2017 AMBruno: [Sic] at PAGES Leeds / 20th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, the Tetley, Leeds [International Day]
2016 Philip Lee / Cally Trench: Artists' Books, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
2016 AMBruno: 53 Books, Chelsea Library, London
2016 Cally Trench / Philip Lee: Books and Prints at Bookface 2016, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
2014 AMBruno: Artists' Books Exhibition, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
2014 AMBruno at the Small Publishers' Fair, Conway Hall, London
2013-14 The Atlas of places that don't exist (project by Ting-Ting Cheng) in
        Corner, Hotel c'est la vie project space, Whitechapel, London;
        Art Stage, Singapore; and
        You are here Festival, Kingsgate Gallery, London [An Emotional Atlas of Friars Square]
2013 AMBruno: Lines at the By Leaves We Live Book Fair, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh [Twenty-five Wrought Iron Front Gates]
2013 Punctuations, Separations & Artists' Books, Emma Hill Fine Art Eagle Gallery, London (curated by Emma Hill) [16 Dada Heads]
2013 AMBruno: Lines at the London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Art Gallery [Twenty-five Wrought Iron Front Gates]
2013 AMBruno: 16 at the Artists Book Fair, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead [16 Dada Heads]
2013 AMBruno: 16 at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, Bristol [16 Dada Heads]
2013 AMBruno: 16 at the 16th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds [16 Dada Heads]
2013 AMBruno: One Fold Books at Publish and Be Damned 2013, ICA, London [Start and End Paper]
2012 AMBruno: One Fold Books, X Marks the Bökship, London [Start and End Paper]
2012 Bookmarks X, UWE Bristol project to distribute bookmarks (curated by Sarah Bodman) [I fear the Twig Ogre and I love balloons]
2012 AMBruno: One Fold Books in At Play 2012, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham [Start and End Paper]
2012 AMBruno: One Fold Books at the 15th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds [Start and End Paper]
2011 AMBruno: Blue at the London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Art Gallery [Blue Home Grown]
2011 AMBruno at Artsmart, Chelsea Art College [Feel Good Miniature Scrolls]
2011 AMBruno at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, Bristol
2011 AMBruno at the 14th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds [Teatime, Remarkable Bookshelf]
2010 AMBruno at the London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Art Gallery [Teatime]
Cally Trench: Tapping Score

2009 AMBruno at the 13th International Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds [An Emotional Atlas of Friars Square and others]
2009 AMBruno at the Reading Book Fair, Reading
2009 AMBruno at the New York Art Book Fair, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
2009 AMBruno, Bookartbookshop, Hoxton, London
2008 AMBruno at the Manchester Artist Book Fair [Eleven Views of Fiona's Washing Line] and the Liverpool Artist Book Fair [Letter from Gran]
Passport by Cally Trench

Performances

2025 For The Dead, performance as part of AMBruno's Readings, during the Small Publishers Fair, in the Library at Conway Hall, London, on 25th October 2025.
2025 For The Dead, performance at 'AMBruno's Finale', at Tate Britain (Library and Archive Reading Rooms), on 26th September 2025.
2019 Faithful and Obedient, with Philip Lee, performance during the Small Publishers Fair, at Conway Hall, London, on 16th November 2019.
2017 International Day Readings, with Philip Lee, performance during Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), at the Arnolfini, Bristol, on 2nd April 2017.
2017 International Day Readings, with Philip Lee, performance during PAGES Leeds / International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, at the Tetley, Leeds, on 5th March 2017.
2016 Peephole Hut, with Philip Lee, performance in Visions in the Nunnery (curated by Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland), at Bow Arts, The Nunnery, London, on 17th November 2016.
2016 Portable Zebra Crossing, with Annie Rapstoff and Philip Lee, performance in Bedlam Fair, part of Fringe Arts Bath, on 5th June 2016.
2014 Campaign for Tiger Crossings, with Annie Rapstoff and Philip Lee, performance in the 365 Drawings 365 Dessins Open Day, at The Keep, Reading, on 27th September 2014.
2014 Sixteen Dada Heads, with Philip Lee, performance in Book Act (AMBruno event curated by Sophie Loss), during the 17th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, at the Tetley, Leeds, on 9th March 2014.
2012 Zebra Pelican Cross, with Annie Rapstoff and Philip Lee, performance in the Remarkable Shed Party (curated by Cally Trench), at Sophie's Shed, London, on 15th July 2012.
2013 Sixteen Dada Heads, with Philip Lee, performance in Drinks and Dada (curated by Emma Hill), at Emma Hill Fine Art Eagle Gallery, London, on 13th July 2013.
2012 Echo (curated by Arjeea21), at The Keep, Reading. Film by Jonathan Roe of a performance by Philip Lee and Cally Trench.
2012 Triple Spin, with Annie Rapstoff and Philip Lee, performance in Remarkable Place (curated by Cally Trench), at The Keep, Reading, on 25th March 2012.
2012 Ceramics on Screen in Tradition and Innovation, CAA, London. Film by Jonathan Roe of a performance by Philip Lee and Cally Trench.
2011 In Praise of Zebra Crossings, with Annie Rapstoff and Philip Lee, performance at Beaconsfield Roundabout, on 3rd May 2011.

Other projects

2021 Miscarriage and Wellbeing: performative rituals for visualizing loss, work included in blog and focus group, University of Leeds

Curation

2025 A Question of Drawing, Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire (with Tineke Bruijnzeels, Alex Dewart, Steve Perfect, Cally Trench and Mary Yacoob)
2018 Only The Sunny Hours: Contemporary Photography with a Brownie 127, Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading
2013 Do you remember it - or weren't you there?, London Gallery West, University of Westminster (curated with Philip Lee)
2012 Remarkable Shed Party, Sophie's Shed, London
2012 At Play 2012, South Hill Park, Bracknell; OVADA, Oxford; and New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (curated with Dr Outi Remes)
2012 Remarkable Place, Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading
2011 At Play 3, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated with Dr Outi Remes)
2010 At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated with Dr Outi Remes)
2009-2012 Remarkable and Curious Conversations
2009 Surface!, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
2009 At Play 1, South Hill Park, Bracknell (curated with Dr Outi Remes)
2008 On the Surface, The Parlour, Chalk Farm, London
2007 Sketchbook Circle, Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell (2-year sketchbook project)
2004 The Small Show at Fine Art Degree Show, BCUC, High Wycombe
2003 Surprise, Surprise!, six primary schools in High Wycombe and Wycombe Museum
Brownie 127 photography by Cally Trench

Work in collections

Cally Trench's artist's books are in the collections of the British Library, London [FOR THE DEAD, Tapping Score, VU Meter, Marginal Notes on Simon, A follower of godly and holy matrons, Book-Wing, International Day]; the Tate, London [Tapping Score, VU Meter, Remarkable Bookshelf]; the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London [Tapping Score, Blue Home Grown]; Chelsea College of Arts Library (University of the Arts London) [A follower of godly and holy matrons]; Berlin Kunstbibliothek [A follower of godly and holy matrons, International Day]; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore [Book-Wing, International Day]; Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem, Library for the Artist's Book, Sydney [Twenty-five Wrought Iron Front Gates]; the Bodleian Library, Oxford [WE SHALL MEET AGAIN, Marginal Notes on Simon]; Winchester School of Art Library [Marginal Notes on Simon, Book-Wing, VU Meter]; London College of Communication Library (University of the Arts London) [Tapping Score]; and private collections.

Paintings, prints and drawings are in the collection of Oxford City Council; Consumers' Association, Milton Keynes; Robin Waterfield's Bookshop, Oxford; Lucky Onion Hotel, Cheltenham; and private collections.
A follower of godly and holy matrons by Cally Trench

Publications

Book

2021 Cally Trench. 105 Artists' Hands: Touch Tell Create. Design Jane Glennie. Publ. Peculiarity Press. July 2021.
105 Artists' Hands: Touch Tell Create by Cally Trench

Talks and interviews about own work

2023 Cally Trench: Artists Filmmaker Q&A Corner in The MicroActs Newsletter, September 2023.
2023 Annie Rapstoff, Monika Tobel and Cally Trench: In The Likeness of Birds. Talk at art-sauce, Oxford, on 18th July 2023.
2023 Annie Rapstoff, Monika Tobel and Cally Trench: Art, Science and the Natural World. Online discussion with guest speaker Alexis Williams, director of Ayatana's Biophilium Science School for Artists, hosted by The North Wall Arts Centre, on Friday 7th July.
2023 Cally Trench: In The Likeness of Birds. Talks to summer school students at The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, on 4th and 11th July 2023.
2023 Cally Trench: Recent Work. Talk to Biddy Boost (curated by Clare Carswell) at Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, on 30th March 2023.
2022 Cally Trench: 105 Artists' Hands. Talk and gallery tour, with four readings from the book (by Nick Trench, Annie Rapstoff, and Cally Trench on behalf of Lydia Julien and Roger Perkins). Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, on 3rd November 2022.
2022 Cally Trench: Metaphor & Metamorphosis. Short talks at Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury, on 6th August 2022.
2022 Cally Trench: Recent Work. Talk to Warehouse Art School, Oxford, on 19th January 2022.
2021 Cally Trench: 105 Artists' Hands. Radio interview. The Arts Show, Wycombe Sound, with presenter Dane Cobain, on 19th October 2021.
2021 Cally Trench: 105 Artists' Hands. Illustrated talk, plus Q&A with designer Jane Glennie, with four readings from the book (by Jim Attewell, Salma Ahmad Caller, Chris Mercier, and Nick Trench), hosted by Neile Wright. Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, on 15th October 2021.
2021 Cally Trench: 105 Artists' Hands. Illustrated talk, plus Q&A with designer Jane Glennie, with two readings from the book (by Nick Trench, and Philip Lee on behalf of Marco Calí), hosted by Loucia Manopoulou. South Hill Park, Bracknell, 23rd September 2021.
2021 Annie Rapstoff and Cally Trench: In conversation: OVADA Associates Feature Artists, Ovada Gallery, Friday 17th September 2021. Zoom interview.
2021 Cally Trench: 105 Artists' Hands. Illustrated talk, plus Q&A with designer Jane Glennie. Wycombe Arts Centre, High Wycombe, on 4th September 2021.
2021 WOFFF Q&A with Nuala O'Sullivan and other film-makers in the Women Over Fifty Film Festival. Online.
2021 Cally Trench and Katie Hellon: In conversation: OVADA Associates Feature Artists, Ovada Gallery, on Friday 23rd July 2021. Zoom interview.
2021 Q&A: OVADA Associates Feature Artist, Ovada Gallery, June 2021. Online.
2021 Cally Trench: My Life in Art. Heseltine Gallery blog. April 2021.
2020 Loucia Manopoulou and Cally Trench: In Conversation about Making Connections. South Hill Park, Bracknell, on 17th October 2020.
2019 Cally Trench and Philip Lee. Bringing books to life: Artists' books, performances and films in the art practices of Cally Trench and Philip Lee. University of Westminster Library (Harrow Campus), on 3rd June 2019.
2018 Alex Dewart, Sally Scagell and Cally Trench: The Art of Dying. Radio interview. Him n Her, Wycombe Sound, with presenter Sarah Stone, on 5th March 2018.
2015 Cally Trench: Maps and Collections. Talk to Warehouse Art School, OVADA, Oxford, 2015.
1989 Cally le Poer Trench: Billboards Project. Interview on Consuming Passions, BBC Radio 4.

Articles, conference papers and discussions

2024 Panel conversation with AMBruno artists and past project selectors (Gustavo Grandal Montero, Elizabeth James, Sophie Loss, Richard Price, Chris Taylor, and Cally Trench) at AMBruno's Intervals launch at Tate Britain in the Library & Archive Reading Rooms on 18th October 2024.
2020 Cally Trench and Elisabetta Balasso: Board games as an art medium. Conference paper. Presented by Cally Trench. 'Medium' conference, London School of Mosaic, on 19th February 2020.
2018 Sophie Loss and Cally Trench: AMBruno at Tate Britain Archive: Themed Artists' Books. The Blue Notebook, University of the West of England, Vol. 12, No. 2 Spring - Summer 2018.
2013 Dr Outi Remes and Cally Trench. At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness in Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters, ed. Remes, MacCulloch and Leino, publ. Peter Lang, 2013.
2012 Dr Outi Remes and Cally Trench. At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness. AAH Conference, Museums and Exhibitions Group, The Open University.
1991 Susan Foster and Cally Trench. Expanding Oxford. The Arts Business: Britons Abroad, publ. Southern Arts, Summer 1991, p12-13.

Art history talks

2026 Cally Trench: Edmund John Niemann: The High Street or the road to ruin?. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 1st February and 19th March 2026.
2025 Cally Trench: Artists and Fisher Folk in Staithes: Harold Knight's 'The Storm'. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 24th July 2025, 19th October 2025 and 27th January 2026, and to the South Bucks U3A Discovering Art study group at Rossetti Hall, Holmer Green, on 11th March 2026.
2025 Cally Trench: Wrong Sitter, Wrong Artist: Why is there a slave trade investor on the Art Gallery wall? A discussion of John Michael Wright's portrait of Sir Robert Vyner. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 28th November 2024 and 9th February 2025.
2024 Cally Trench: Lely or not Lely: 'Moses Tryon' and 'Lord Wharton and family'. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 12th May 2024 and 5th September 2024.
2024 Cally Trench: Hand on Hip with a Parrot: Joseph Highmore's portrait of Joseph Pettifer. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 4th February 2024 and 15th May 2025.
2023 Cally Trench: Portrait of Lord Shelburne by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 3rd September 2023 and 7th September 2023.
2023 Cally Trench: Paul Stevenson: Chairs and Flying Temples. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 26th February 2023, 12th July 2023 and 25th January 2024.
2022 Cally Trench: Isabella and the Pot of Basil by George Manton. Illustrated Art Collection talk at Wycombe Museum, on 9th December 2022 and 27th April 2023.
2014 Cally Trench: Paul Stevenson - Chairs, flying temples, and why we need to experience the real thing. Illustrated talk. Bucks New University, on 1st May 2014.

Reviews, catalogues and catalogue essays

2023 Annie Rapstoff, Monika Tobel and Cally Trench. In The Likeness of Birds exhibition guide, with original writings by and about the artists.
2022 Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels. Exploring inside the box exhibition guide, with original writings by Mary Yacoob, Annie Rapstoff, Guy Tarrant, Alan Franklin and Cally Trench.
2018 Cally Trench. Only The Sunny Hours: Contemporary Photography with a Brownie 127. Catalogue.
2014 Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels. 365 Drawings 365 Dessins. Catalogue and Q&A.
2014 Cally Trench. Creating a Scene Blue Pages, Journal of the Society of British Theatre Designers, no. 2, p. 9-11. Review.
2013 Cally Trench and Philip Lee. Do you remember it, or weren't you there? Catalogue and catalogue essay.
2012 Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes. At Play 2012. Catalogue.
2011 Cally Trench. A throne is only a bench covered in velvet. a-n. Review.
2011 Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes. At Play 3. Catalogue.
2010 Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes. At Play 2. Catalogue.
2009 Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes. At Play. Catalogue.
2009 Cally Trench. On the Surface. Catalogue.
2008 Cally Trench. Surface! Catalogue.
2003 Cally Trench. Surprise, Surprise! Catalogue and schools booklet.
1991 Cally Trench. Artweek International Artists' Plener. Catalogue.
1991 Cally Trench. Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith. Catalogue essay.
1990 Cally Trench. Polish Heaven, Polish Hell - Paintings by Stanislaw Koba. Catalogue essay.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Derek Culley. Oxford Times, 20th January 1989. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Engravers exhibit. Oxford Times, 13th January 1989. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Masters of Wood. Oxford Times, 14th October 1988. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Oxford Craft Guild. Oxford Times, 16th September 1988. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Stones and Kings. Oxford Times, 2nd September 1988. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench.Sam Dodwell. Oxford Times, 15th July 1988. Review.
1988 Cally Le Poer Trench. Oxford Art Society. Oxford Times, 17th June. 1988. Review.

Other publications

2020 Alison Hagley and Cally Trench. Hagley and Trench's Beautiful Mathematical Puzzles for Pleasure in Write Read Puzzle, Artlink / Oxford Hospitals Charity, 2020.
1992-95 Cally Le Poer Trench and Caroline M. Fraser, Literary quizzes in Antiquarian Book Monthly.
1991 Cally Trench. Oxford Artweek Guide. Edited.
1990 Cally Trench. Oxford Artweek Guide. Edited.
1990 Cally Trench. Oxford Friends of the Earth Newsletter. Cartoons. June 1990.
1989-90 Cally Le Poer Trench. Artsage. Covers and illustrations for the Oxford Arts and Age programme magazine. Southern Artlink, July 1989, Nov 1989, Feb 1990, July 1990.
1987 Cally Le Poer Trench and Caroline M. Fraser. ABMR & Waterfield's Winter Frivolity: A Competition. Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, December 1987, p. 474-475.
1986 Cally Le Poer Trench. Open Exhibitions - Positive Effects. Artists Newsletter, March 1986, p28. Article.
1985 Cally Le Poer Trench. Getting your work photographed. Artists Newsletter, December 1985, p13. Article.
1985-88 Cally Le Poer Trench. Antiquarian Book Monthly Review. Cartoons.
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