Vanessa Short is a London-based artist with roots in north-west England. Her work documents social history, specifically the transformation over time of industries, communities and the environment.

2023 Windows and Thresholds

2023 Original Print, Bankside Gallery; Windows and Thresholds, Dulwich Festival Bell House; Thinking for Print, Bankside Gallery

2022 Ways of seeing Green, Dulwich Festival Bell House
; Artcan Winter-show, Kingsgate Project space London

2021 Festival of Print, Mile End Pavilion
 Prelude

2020 The Parents Artist, AGIP, London


2019 209 Women, Openeye Gallery Liverpool

2018 209 Women, Houses of Parliament, London
; Photography changes everything, Photo Fringe Brighton
; Because we can!, Festival Pil’ours France
; Girls Town, Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art and Culture Tel Aviv, Israel

2017 Festival of Print, the Art Pavilion London;
 LCN Salon 17, Four Corner gallery London;
 RA Summer Show, London

2016 Girl Town, St. Margaret’s House London;
 Salon des Refusés, Space Gallery, London;
 Get Living London art tour, Athletes Village London

2015 Salon 2015, Photofusion Gallery London;
 Portrait Salon London


Open House East Dulwich, London;
 Get Living London art tour, Athletes Village London

Solo Shows

2018 Pit House To Politics, Four Corners Gallery London

2015 Other side of the Line, Surface Gallery Nottingham

2011 Concrete Love, Modern PantryLondon

Grants, Awards and Competitions

Arts Council funded Counting on the Planet 2020