Selected awards & commissions

2020

The Nationwide Degree Show Invited judge & curator

Arts Council Emergency Response Awarded funding

 

2019

Artquest Peer Forum programme at The Photographers' Gallery Participating artist

 

2018

Photoworks & Brighton NHS Hospital Public Arts Programme Winning commissioned artist

209 Women - Marking 100 years of votes for women Commissioned artist

 

2017

Pink Lady Food Photographer of The Year Highly Commended

 

2016

Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers Category winner

Prix Virginia International Prize for Women Jury's Selection

Creative Review Photography Annual Category winner

 

2013

Magenta Flash Forward Awards Honourable Mention

 

2011

Hereford Photography Festival Award and Commission Winner

European Publishers Award for Photography Shortlisted

Deutsche Bank Photography Award Shortlisted

International Photography Emergentes DST Finalist

LUCIE Foundation Scholarship Shortlisted

 

Selected exhibitions

2021-22

Shot in Isolation A Generous Space Hasting Contemporary Group show

 

2020

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen The Royal Academy of Art Summer/Winter Exhibition Group show

 

2019

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen OpenWalls British Journal of Photography, Rencontres d'Arles France Group show

209 Women Open Eye Gallery Liverpool, UK Group show

 

2018

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen Hull International Photography Festival Hull Solo show

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen Museum of Photography Ireland Projection show

209 Women Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament Group show

Tulip Family of No Man Cosmos, Rencontres d'Arles France Group show

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen Photoworks Presents: Collaborate Truman Brewery London Group show

 

2017

Tulip VIA Summer Exhibition Francesca Maffeo Gallery Essex Group show

Tulip Athens Photo Festival Benaki Museum Athens, Greece Photobook show

Tulip FIX Photo Festival Bargehouse OXO Tower Wharf, London Group show

Tulip Carlisle Photo Festival University of Cumbria, Carlisle, UK Group show

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award Mall Galleries Award show

A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen Free Space Project Kentish Town Health Centre London Group show

 

2016

Tulip Prix Virginia International Prize for Women Paris France Group show

Tulip Felifa Book Awards, Buenos Aires, Argentina Photobook show

Tulip Book Awards 2016 Rencontres d'Arles France Photobook show

Tulip Offprint Tate Modern London Photobook show

Tulip Photo London Somerset House, London Photobook show

Portrait Salon The Reminders Stronghold Gallery Tokyo Group show

 

2013

The Wye Hereford Photography Festival Herefordshire Solo show

 

2012

Tulip Photobookshow D The Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, Finland Group show

Tulip Firecracker: Lives of Others London Festival of Photography Curated by Fiona Rogers Group show

 

2011

Tulip European Publishers Award For Photography Award show screening

Tulip International Photography Award Emergentes Encontros da Imagem festival Portugal Group show

 

Talks & Workshops

2021

Invited speaker Facing Death Creatively conference, St Christopher's Hospice, London

Invited speaker In-Conversation with Celine Marchbank, Arts & Health Hub, online

Professional Mentor EPQ Photography programme, The Photographers Gallery, London

 

2020

Conference keynote speaker Reading and Writing Death and Dying, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Invited speaker Socially Engaged Practice, SEPN Network, OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool

Visiting Lecturer Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem, Porto, Portugal

 

2019

Photography workshop leader Bright Futures Charity, UCH & Royal Free Hospital, London

Visiting Lecturer Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem, Porto, Portugal

Conference speaker REF Research Conference, Ravensbourne University London

 

2018

Photoworks: Meet The Artist talk with Helen Sear, Murray Ballard & Zoe Childley, Brighton University

Visiting Lecturer BA (Hons) Photography, Bath Spa University, Bath

PhotoForum Artist Talk with Matthew Finn, The Print Space, London

Photography workshop leader funded by The Big Lottery Fund, Kentish Town Health Centre, London

Invited speaker Hothouse, RedEye Photo Network, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester

Photography workshop leader Accumulate, The Photographers Gallery, Somerset House & Autograph Gallery

 

2017

Artist Talk panel discussion with Michal Iwanawski, Ravensbourne University, London

Conference speaker Family Ties Network symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, The University of Greenwich

Artist Talk with Matthew Finn, David Chancellor, Laura Pannack & Sophie Harris-Taylor, Francesa Maffeo Gallery

Artist Talk panel discussion with Chris Steel-Perkins, Carlotta Cardana & Mike Crawford, FIX Photo Festival, London

Photography workshop leader Leica Akademie Harrods, Knightsbridge, London 2017 Artist Talk PechaKucha, Photofusion, London

Photography workshop leader Leica Akademie, Royal Photographic Society, Bath

 

2016

Invited speaker Inside Out symposium, Free Space Project, Kentish Town Health Centre, London

Visiting Lecturer BA (Hons) Photography, Bath Spa University, Bath

 

Education

2019

PGCE in Teaching and Learning for Creative Courses Ravensbourne University Distinction

2010

MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography London College of Communication Distinction

2002

BA (Hons) Graphic Design University for The Creative Arts (Epsom) First Class

 

Selected press

British Journal of Photography Celine Marchbank depicts the passing of time and mortality through the life cycle of flowers April 2021

The Observer 'Photobook of  the Month' Tulip by Celine Marchbank, reviewed by Sean O'Hagan May 2016

The Guardian How I photographed my mother's last days, feature by Homa Khaleeli December 2016

PhotoVoice How Photography Helped me: Celine Marchbank October 2017

The Guardian In Pictures: Tea, tulips and tenderness: my mother's final days July 2017

Photo-Eye 'Book of the Week' A Pick by Jordan Sullivan November 2016

BBC News My mother's favourite flower: A life remembered. Phil Coomes March 2016

British Journal of Photography Tulip: Quiet Images of a Mother's Struggle with Cancer April 2016

Photoworks Showcase: CONNECT commissioned artist Celine Marchbank May 2018

Creative Review: The Photography Annual December 2016

Photomonitor Book review by Anna McNay April 2016

Fleur & Arbor Q&A with Celine Marchbank July 2018

Shutterhub Photo books: our latest favourites: Summer 2017 August 2017

L'Oeil de la PhotographicTulip, My Mother's favourite flower March 2016

Ilpost, Italy A flower not to forget August 2017

Vanity Fair, Italy I photographed my mother's last days of life December 2016

The Times Literary Supplement Book review October 2016

B&W Photography Magazine Book review April 2016

The New Yorker Photobooth by Amber Terranova February 2014

The Telegraph Magazine Chronicle of a Death Foretold October 2012