Tracey Bush Artist

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

2018 British Land, Broadgate a showcase of Tracey Bush works with paper.

2017 Natural Histories, the ground floor lobby at 201 Bishopsgate, London. Part of the Urban Eden season. Curated by Emma Hill.

2006 ‘Nine Wild Plants’ and Arts Council funded exhibition at Craft Central, Clerkenwell, London.

2004 ‘Paper Butterfly’ part of the ‘Creative 8’ series of exhibitions at Craft Central, Clerkenwell, London

2002 ‘The Ephemeral Imago’ A ‘wunderkammer’ in the Members’ room, the Natural History Museum, London.

2000 ‘London River’ at the Clerk’s House, Shoreditch High Street, London.

Selected Group exhibitions:

2023 ‘Flowers Forever’ Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich. (with catalogue) 

2023 ‘Blütenpracht’ Galerie Handwerk, Munich

2022 Insect Odyssey, the Salisbury Museum. (with catalogue)

2022 ‘Transition Paper Biennale 2022’ at the Museum Rijswilk, the Netherlands (with catalogue) 

2019 ‘Secret Rivers’ The Museum of London (Docklands)

2019 The John Ruskin Prize, The Holden Gallery, Manchester. (with catalogue) 2019 On the Same Page, Jagged Art, London.

2019 The Small Publishers Fair, London.

2019 Recent Acquisitions, The Yale Centre for British Art, USA. 2017 Migrations 2 February – 3 March

2018 Mapping the Present: Selections from the Driek and Michael Zirinsky Collection, The Boise Art Gallery, Idaho, USA.

2017 ‘Migrations’, Tracey Bush, Rachael Clewlow, Julie Cockburn, Déirdre Kelly & Hormazd Narielwalla. Eagle Gallery, London.

2016 ON THE SAME PAGE - Loose leaves and bound books 9 March - 2 April Jagged Art, London.

2016 ‘Chalk Hill’ an award-winning intervention created for 10 Days Chalk, Winchester City Museum ‘Sharing Heritage’

2016 Tracey Bush at the Small Publishers’ Fair, London.

2015 Bound/Unbound at DM Contemporary, New York, USA.

2015 Cornucopia at Jagged Art, Marylebone, London.

2014 Of Green leaf, Bird and Flower. Natural History and Artist’s Books at the Yale Centre for British Art, USA. With catalogue.

2014 The Garden Show curated by Flow Gallery, London at Dyffyn Fernant, Pembrokeshire.

2013 Naturalienkabinette – Vorbilder aus der Natur. Natural history cabinets - examples from nature An exhibition of the Galerie Handwerk in the Munich Paleontological Museum.

2013 Topographic the Store Street Gallery, London.

2013 Craft Emergency at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.

2011 Natural Histories Eagle Gallery EMH Arts London 4 Feb-4 Mar.

2011 Paperworks curated by Yvonna Demczynska of Flow Gallery Notting Hill.

2010 In Miss Rowe’s Footsteps. 4-27 March Eagle Gallery EMH Arts.

2010 Cut and Fold, the Art of Paper. New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Glous.

7 Nov 2009-3 Jan 2009 Precious: Reclaiming Art and Craft Curated by Matt Smith. Hove Museum & Art Gallery. Be dazzled by the beauty in the overlooked and discarded.

2009 Pulp Fictions a showcase of artists and designer makers who use paper. Rochester Art Gallery, 21 June-30 August.

2009 Make Believe Curated by Frank Gallery, Whitstable at the Zetter Hotel, London.

2009 ‘Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship and the Order of Things’ work included in the installation by London based Jane Wildgoose, at the Yale Centre for British Art, USA and the Sir John Soane Museum, London.

2009 Paper Works An exhibition featuring International Artists who harness the sensitivity of hand made objects through paper. Curated by Yvonna Demczynska. Flow Gallery.

2008 State Library of Queensland, Australia. Freestyle Books- Artist’s Books from the Collection. 

2008 Galerie Handwerk, Munich Artistic Toys 28 November-31 December.

2008 Barts Gallery London, presented by Vital Arts Material Worlds 20 October- 14 January. 

2007 Galerie Handwerk, Munich. Die Blume 21June-28 July.

2007 Emma Hill Fine Art, Eagle Gallery, London EC1. Flora, 5 April-4 May.

2007 Edinburgh printmakers, Union Street, Edinburgh Inkubator, An exhibition of artists’ books, prints and multiples curated by David Faithfull.

2005 Emma Hill Fine Art, Eagle Gallery, London EC1.Tracey Bush and Julie Cockburn. Mixed paperworks and artists’ books.

2005 Yale Centre for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, USA. Recent Gifts and Acquisitions

2004 Arcadia id est, Artists’ Books, Nature and the Landscape, An exhibition of 111 artists’ books touring to venues in Europe, Australia and the USA until 2007.



A group of silhouettes of wild plants made from paper packaging in frames on a gallery wall