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