2017 Automatic, Colchester Library, Colchester
2017 Stitch and Bitch, Queen St, Colchester
2016 Rapture: Artist Residency, The Waiting Room, Colchester
2016 Instructional Art, The Minories Galleries, Colchester
2018 Art, War and Reconciliation, The Minories, Colchester
2018 Broke, The Minories, Colchester
2018 MA5, The Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich
2018 Colchester Art Society Summer Exhibition, The Minories, Colchester
2018 Backyard Artist Exhibition, Colchester
2018 The Lit Exhibit: Bridges, Brooklyn
2018 Rejuvenation, UNA Gallery at The Shoe Factory Social Club, Norwich
2018 Dame of the Hour, St James Wine Vault, Bath
2018 Secret Art Exhibition and Sale, The Minories, Colchester
2017 Colchester Art Society Winter Exhibition, The Minories, Colchester
2017 Fun Palace, Colchester Library
2017 FOUNTAIN, fountain, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Bury
2017 Coastal Open Exhibition, Martello Tower, Jaywick
2017 Float: Identity, Firstsite, Colchester
2017 200 Exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2017 Colchester Art Society Summer Exhibition, Colchester
2017 Displaced, The Whit Gallery, New York
2017 Realist and Vision, Essex Art Exchange, Colchester
2017 Miscommunication, The Bicycle Shop, Norwich
2017 The Lit Exhibit, New Woman Space, New York
2017 The Fall, Acklam Village Market, London
2016 UNA Gallery Exhibition, Undercrofts, Norwich
2016 57th Essex Open, Beecroft Gallery, Southend
2016 Sense of Healing, Firstsite, Colchester
2016 Switch Festival, Tate St Ives, St Ives
2016 CAS, The Minories, Colchester
2016 Unity, Exchange Palace Studio, Sheffield
2016 What Is The Future Of Art?, Tate Modern, London
2016 Degree Show, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
2016 Celebrate Landscape, Art Exchange, Essex
2016 Social, The Playhouse, Norwich
2016 Dialogues, St Georges, Norwich
2016 Process and Preparation, The Stone Space, London
2016 Got Mail?, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol
2016 The World – Personal Tales, It’s Liquid, Online
2015 Firstsite Open Exhibition, Firstsite, Colchester
2015 You’ve Got Mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn New York
2015 Art23, Streatham Festival, London
2015 Going Once, Going Twice, Gone, Moor Theatre, Sheffield
2015 Backyard Artist Exhibition, Colchester
2015 Hidden Spaces, Firstsite, Colchester
2015 Transparent Truths, 13a, Norwich
2013 The End, Colchester Institute, Colchester
2012 Pop up, The Minories Galleries Garden, Colchester
2018 Keep Going, University of Suffolk
2018 Lavenham Community Art Project – Short Listed
2017 Firstsite Collectors Group Bursary - Accepted
2016 It’s Liquid International Photography, Video Art and Performance Award – Short Listed
2016 Jennifer Davey Memorial Award for Fine Art – Long Listed
2014 Dora Love Prize – Won
May 28th / June 10th 2017 Colchester Library, Workshops
Most recently I have hosted four 3hour workshops held at Colchester Library, with a focus on Automatic Writing.
July 2016 The Waiting Room, Artist Residency Workshops
I ran a three-day art work shop open to the public and attended by members of the HomeEd Group and Best Level Café, during which I led sessions in Instructional Art. The sessions drew on different skills from the participants including; reading, maths and communication. The outcome product of the sessions was a collaborative art piece.
Bauer, M. (2018) Artists of Social Media. Thirty5Eleven.
Cairns, A. (2018) After the Event: Documentation of Video Documentation. Blurb.
Cairns, A. (2018) Text/Context: Letter by Letter. Blurb.
2018 Artists of Social Media. [online] http://www.thirty5eleven.com/edition-ii/. [2nd July 2018].
2018 Backyard Artists celebrate 25 years of artistic endeavour. [online] http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/16287498.backyard-artists-celebrate-25-years-of-artistic-endeavour/. [13th June 2018].
2018 This Interactive Lit(erary) Art Exhibit Wants to Change Your Relationship with Words [online]
https://www.bkreader.com/2018/06/interactive-literary-art-exhibit-wants-change-relationship-reading/. [13th June 2018]
2017 Winter Show by the Colchester Art Society has talent old and new. [online] http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/leisure/theatre/15775283.Colchester_Art_Society_show_has_lots_of_talent__old_and_new/. [15th December 2017].
2016 Waiting Room to host new series of art residencies. [online] http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/14504015.Waiting_Room_to_host_new_series_of_art_residencies/. [19th May 2016].
2015 Snaz Mag. [online] http://snazmagazine.com/post/132623869186/abbie-and-the-unconscious-mind-abbie-cairns-is. Issue 2. [Dec 2015].
September 2017 – September 2018 MA Fine Art, University Campus Suffolk
September 2016 – June 2017 PGCE, University Centre Colchester
September 2013 – June 2016 BA Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts
August 2012 – June 2013 Art Foundation, Colchester School of Art