Sophie Warren is an artist and Jonathan Mosley is an architect. They have a critical spatial practice that employs strategies of play, hybridisation and the construction of imaginary architectures to resist homogeneous perceptions of urban space. Using language, event, still and moving imagery and installation Warren & Mosley construct situations, an informal architecture of possibility, moving between
Solo exhibitions
2014 - Utopian talk-show line-up event, Moderna Museet, Malmo
2013 - Utopian talk-show line-up event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2012 - Utopian talk-show line-up event, ICIA, Bath
2012 - Rogue Game in collaboration with Can Altay, Spike Island, Bristol
2011 - Rogue Game in collaboration with Can Altay, Casco, Utrecht
2005 - Model situation (blue sky thinking), Plan 9, Bristol
2005 - Model situation (model city), The Architecture Centre, Bristol
2002 - Being There, Station, Bristol
2000 - M5 Southbound: Welcome Break, Prema, Gloucestershire
Group exhibitions
2013 - ‘Playing with Space’ film programme curated by Townley and Bradby at Firstsite Gallery, Colchester
2011 - Echoes of Home, curated by Nora Belovai and Helen Spence in association with the Whitechapel Gallery , The Mint Hotel, London
2011 - Rogue Game proposition in collaboration with Can Altay in 'An Exchange with Sol LeWitt', Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2011 - The Right to the City curated by Lee Stickells and Zanny Begg, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2010 - Crosstalk, Video Art Festival, Budapest
2010 - Expanded Cinema International Architecture Film event, Sydney Architecture Biennale, Sydney
2010 - Rogue Game in collaboration with Can Altay, within Can Altay-Church Street Partners' Gazette exhibition, The Showroom, London
2010 - Splitscreen curated by Pedro Torres, online exhibition, www.stuffinablank.com/splitscreen.html
2010 - Urban Research Film Programme curated by Klaus Eisenlohr for the 60th International Film Festival, Meinblau Gallery, Berlin
2009 - Coalesce: Happenstance curated by Paul O'Neill, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2008 - Design Cinema Works curated by Burcu Yancatarol, ITU, Istanbul
2008 - Directors Lounge Urban Film Programme curated by Klaus Eisenlohr, 59th International Festival, Berlin
2008 - Room Tone curated by Brandon LaBelle, Tuned City, Berlin
2006 - Wig Wam Bam curated by Marcus Coates & Claire Barclay, Plan 9, Bristol
2004 - 4th Gymruy International Biennale curated by Arpine Tokmajyan, Gymruy Centre of Contemporary Art, Armenia
2003 - In Site: Art and Architecture conference show, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2001 - Gone Missing, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
2001 - The Armory Show, International Art Fair, with Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
2000 - What We Call Progress curated by Anthony Iles and Craig Martin, Gasworks, London
Artist talks
2012 - Warren & Mosley collaborative practice, Royal College of Art, London
2011 - Architecture and Philosophy lecture series curated by Helene Frichot, RMIT, Melbourne
2009 - The Propositional Work of Warren and Mosley, Dartington College of Arts, Devon
2008 - Alas, Are We Still Bad Players: Play and Agency in Contemporary Culture initiated by Tim Stott, Gradcam, NCAD, Dublin
2008 - Initiative & Institution Symposium curated by Celine Condorelli & Public Works, London Metropolitan University, London
2007 - Architecture & Documentary Practice: Writing, Imaging & Performance initiated by Robin Wilson, The Bartlett, UCL, London Public commissions
2006 - Platform, Proposition No. 16, Urban Game, The Architecture Centre, Bristol
Projects
2007 - Proposition for the First Build (a vertical common) in collaboration with writer Robin Wilson, a critical planning application, engaging with City of London Planning Authority, CABE, 00 Research & selected theorists, Smithfield, London
2007 - Rogue Games, (ongoing), a series of events exploring hybrid games in collaboration with Can Altay, various venues, various locations
Competitions, prizes and awards
2012 - Rootstein Hopkins funding award, Spike Island, Bristol
2010 - Research and Production Award, University of the West of England, UK
2007 - Practice-led Research Grant with Robin Wilson, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
2006 - New Collaborations Bursary with Neville Gabie and Tessa Fitzjohn, NAN, UK
2003 - Research and Production Award, University of the West of England, UK
2000 - Annual Award, Arts Council England, UK
Publications
2013 - ‘Rogue Game, Proposition No. 17’ in Altay, C. (ed.) (2013) ‘Ahali: An anthology for setting a setting’ (London: Bedford Press)
2012 - Beyond Utopia - project focussed book with contributions from Maria Fusco, Paul O'Neill, Elizabeth Price, Jane Rendell- Errant Bodies Press, Berlin/Los Angeles
2012 - Danielle Rose King, review of Rogue Game solo show and symposium, Art Monthly, December
2009 - Michael Gibbs, review of Coalesce Happenstance, Art Monthly, Feburary
2009 - Tim Stott, review of Coalesce Happenstance in Art Review, April
2009 - Vaari Claffey, review of Coalesce Happenstance in Circa, April
2008 - Rogue Game within El Ahali Journal edited by Can Altay, Spike Island / Kunsterhaus Bethanien / Kunsterhaus / Self Publishing Fair, Bristol / Berlin / Stuggart / London
2007 - ‘A Conversation between Sophie Warren, Jonathan Mosley and Curator Lindsay Hughes’, commissioned by the Arts Council for Publicartonline
2007 - Robin Wilson, ‘At the limits of genre: the presence that WAS HERE’ chapter on the work of Warren & Mosley, published in Jane Rendell (ed) Critical Architecture, Routledge
2006 - Jonathan Mosley and Sophie Warren, ‘Proposed Alterations to a City Plan’, Surface Tension Supplement No.1, Errant Bodies Publications, Los Angeles
