Tim Spooner works in performance, collage, painting and sculpture. His work uses materials and objects in ways that reveal unexpected properties, aiming to open up perspectives beyond the human scale.
Fundamentally interested in unpredictability, his work is an exercise in balancing control with a lack of it in the handling of the materials he is working with. Since 2010, Tim has created a series of increasingly complex live works centred around the revelation of “life” in material.
Projects include The Voice of Nature, an interconnected system of fragile sculptures; The Assembly of Animals, made for young audiences and concerned with the abstraction of an animal form; and The Telescope, which uses a microscope camera to reveal a universe of miniature objects manipulated using magnets, electricity and chemical reactions. Alongside, and in relation to these projects, he has produced a continuous stream of paintings and collages.
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 October 2021 | Artsadmin Youth Workshop: Exploring Materials | ||
| 29 February 2020 | The Assembly of Animals | The Tolmen Centre | Constantine, Falmouth |
| 6–13 December 2019 | Monuments of Tower Hamlets | St Botolph's without Aldgate | London |
| 28–29 October 2019 | Cuteness Forensics | Theater der Dinge, Shaubude | Berlin |
| 9 September – 3 December 2019 | Monuments of Tower Hamlets | Toynbee Studios | |
| 14 August 2019 | The Assembly of Animals | LasFest | Bialystok |
| 28–29 June 2019 | Dead Nature | Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 4–9 June 2019 | Monuments of Tower Hamlets | Toynbee Studios | |
| 11 November 2018 | The Telescope | NoD Theatre | Prague |
| 29–30 September 2018 | The Assembly of Animals | Westfluegel | Leipzig |
| 13 September 2018 | The Telescope | Il Festival Opera Prima | Rovigo |
| 8–16 September 2018 | Monuments of Portland | B-Side Festival | Portland |
| 23 June – 15 September 2018 | Natural Habitat | Bury Art Museum and Sculpture | Bury |
| 6–9 June 2018 | The Voice of Nature | Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 22–24 March 2018 | Pulverised Palace | TJP Strasbourg | Strasbourg |
| 10 March – 27 May 2018 | Natural Habitat | DCA | Dundee |
| 10–11 February 2018 | Weekender Lab: A HOLE IN THE SHAPE OF SOMETHING | Toynbee Studios | |
| 21 January 2018 | The Assembly of Animals | Junges Nationaltheater, Imaginale | Mannheim |
| 20 October 2017 – 14 January 2018 | Natural Habitat | The MAC | Belfast |
| 12–13 October 2017 | The Voice of Nature | Grand Plateau La Friche de La Belle de Mai, Actoral Festival | Marseille |
| 21–23 July 2017 | The Telescope | Culture Station Seoul284 | Seoul |
| 27 May 2017 | The Voice of Nature | WATCH OUT Festival, Cambridge Junction | Cambridge |
| 20 May 2017 | The Assembly of Animals | Internationales Figurentheater Festival | Erlangen |
| 19 May 2017 | The Voice of Nature | Internationales Figurentheater Festival | Erlangen |
| 20–21 January 2017 | The Voice of Nature | TJP Strasbourg | Strasbourg |
| 2–4 December 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Pesta Boneka Festival | Yogyakarta |
| 29–30 November 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | NuArt Sculpture Park | Bandung |
| 26–27 November 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Komunitas Salihara | Jakarta |
| 22–23 November 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Ladang Tari Nan Jombang | Padang |
| 24–25 September 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | LLAWN | Llandudno |
| 10–18 September 2016 | The Voice of Nature: The Shambles | B-Side Festival | Isle of Portland |
| 28 May 2016 | THE VOICE OF NATURE: MILK VOICE | WATCH OUT Festival, Cambridge Junction | Cambridge |
| 14–15 May 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | FIMFA Festival, Teatro Maria Matos | Lisbon |
| 5–8 May 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Macau Arts Festival | Macau |
| 29–30 April 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Culture Station Seoul284 | |
| 13–14 February 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Mini Vault Festival | London |
| 30–31 January 2016 | The Assembly of Animals | Mini Vault Festival | London |
| 23–29 August 2015 | The Assembly of Animals | Small Animal Hospital, Summerhall | Edinburgh |
| 14 December 2014 | The Telescope | Festival Natura dei Teatri #19 | Parma |
| 30 November – 2 December 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape | Rillieux-la-Pape |
| 21–23 November 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | TJP Strasbourg | Strasbourg |
| 1–2 November 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | The Egg | Bath |
| 28 October 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | STUK | Leuven |
| 12 October 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | Cambridge Junction | Cambridge |
| 27–28 September 2014 | The Telescope | Terni Festival | Terni |
| 6–14 September 2014 | The most extreme form of knowledge | b-side Festival | Dorset |
| 24–25 May 2014 | The Assembly of Animals | Mayfest | Bristol |
| 28–29 March 2014 | 24 Grotesque Manipulations | Les Giboulées de la Marionnette | Strasbourg |
| 24–25 March 2014 | The Telescope | Les Giboulées de la Marionnette | Strasbourg |
| 31 October 2013 | Subliming Furiously | Chisenhale Dance Space | London |
| 30 October 2013 | The Telescope | Manchester Science Museum | Manchester |
| 6 March 2013 | The Telescope | Toynbee Studios | |
| 16 January 2013 | Subliming Furiously | Chisenhale Dance Space | London |
| 10 January 2013 | The Telescope | Camberwell College of Arts | London |
| 2 December 2012 | The Telescope | Whitechapel Gallery, Zilkha Auditorium | London |
| 26–28 October 2012 | When I first observed the planet it blushed | St Pauls House Project Space | London |
| 22–23 September 2012 | 24 Grotesque Manipulations | TJP Strasbourg | Strasbourg |
| 8 September 2012 | The Telescope | Whitstable Biennale | Whitstable |
| 21 March 2011 | Tim Spooner Demonstrates 24 Grotesque Manipulations | Toynbee Studios |
