Profile
My preoccupation with the theme of hidden histories emerged from my practice-based PhD at University of Leeds (1994-99), under the supervision of artist Susan Taylor and Art Historian Professor Griselda Pollock. For more about this experience, and for examples of work produced on the PhD, go to Archives and Writings. My profile outlines the range of experiences I draw from: art practice (selected shows, residencies, publications and commissions); teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels; writing as practice.
Education
1994-1999 PhD in Fine Art (Practice & Theory)
University of Leeds
1992-1993 MA in Feminism & the Visual Arts
University of Leeds (Distinction Awarded)
1979-1982 BA (Hons.) Fine Art (Painting)
Bristol Polytechnic (2:1 Awarded)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Archaeology of the Ordinary
The Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington
2009-10 Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place (Touring)
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (February – August 2009): Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, (26 September- 19 December 2009); Doon Valley Mining Museum (26 September 2009 – 1 October 2010), Prestongrange Museum, East Lothian (Site Specific, Permanent public works installed May 2010)
2008 Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place
Stills, Edinburgh
2006-07 Question for Seller
Belfast Exposed Photography Belfast, Northern Ireland
2001 Tracing Echoes
Dimbola Lodge, 19th Century Home of Julia Margaret Cameron, Isle of Wight, England
2001 Playing Detective
Convergence: International Arts Festival The Arcade, Providence, USA
1998 The Fitting
City Art Gallery, Leeds; Castlefield Gallery Manchester, England
Selected Group Shows
2012
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present
The National Gallery, London (Forthcoming)
2008 Alt-W: New Directions in Scottish Digital Media
CAA, Glasgow, Scotland
2004 Inside Out
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2004 In Residence
Scottish Royal Academy of Arts Edinburgh, Scotland
2003 The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogues as Autonomous Works of Art
Betty Rymer Gallery Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2001 I’m a Stranger here myself
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000-01 Vague but True
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Real Artspace, Limerick;
Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen; Arnolfini, Bristol
1999 6/24 Left, 6/36 Right
Thackray Medical Museum Leeds
1998 Haunting Houses
Lotherton Hall Yorkshire
1997 Domus: North & South Nomadic Spaces
York & London
1997 A Company of Strangers
Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery
Selected Artist Residencies
2009-10 Artist-in-Residence, Making Space, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, Scotland
2003 Artist-in-Residence, Hospitalfield House Arbroath, Scotland
2002 Artist-in-Residence, Prestongrange Industrial Museum East Lothian, Scotland
2001 Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2000 International Artist-in-residence, Convergence International Arts Festival Rhode Island, USA
2000 Artist-in-residence, Dimbola Lodge Isle of Wight, England
Selected Awards & Commissions
2011
Artist Commission, The Peter Potter Gallery (for Archaeology of the Ordinary)
2009 Visual Artist Award, East Lothian Council (for ‘Assemblage’)
Publications Award, The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation (towards production of publication ‘Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place’)
2008 Artist Commission, Stills (for Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place)
2007 Creative & Production Artist Award, Scottish Arts Council (for ‘Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place’)
2005 Production Award, Alt-W (for flash animation version of Question for Seller)
2004 British Academy Research Grant (for Knowing the Unknown Sitter)
National Lottery Award, Scottish Arts Council (for Imprinted Matter)
2003 Artist’s Research and Training Award,
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 Site-specific commission, Convergence International Arts Festival, USA
2000 Assistance Grant, Scottish Arts Council (for ‘Tracing Echoes’)
Arts & Humanities Research Board Project Grant (for ‘Tracing Echoes’)
1997 A4E Lottery Express Project Grant: ‘Haunting Houses’
A4E Lottery Express Project Grant: ‘6/24 Left, 6/36 Right’
1994-1997 The Stanley Burton Scholarship (for three year PhD full-time study)
Artist’s Publications/Catalogues
2010 Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place ISBN-978-096458-07-5
2004 Artists’ Residencies 2003/4
Essays by Illiyana Nedkova, Stills, ISBN 0 906458 34 x
2002 Portfolio: the catalogue of contemporary photography in Britain
No 35 ISSN 1354-4446
2001 Tracing Echoes
ed. Michelle Hirschhorn, Wild Pansy Press, ISBN 1 900687135
1998 Red Herrings
ed. Corinne Miller & Chris Taylor, Wild Pansy Press ISBN 0 901981 65 6
1998Haunting Houses
ed. Lynn Turner, Wild Pansy Press, ISBN 1 900687 06 2
Academic Experience (Teaching & Supervision)
2006- PhD Coordinator (0.5)
Fine Art, Design & Forum for Critical Inquiry
Glasgow School of Art
Supervisor (Director of Studies), PhD in Fine Art (Photography),
The role of panoramic photography in communicating the relevance of place in the formation of identity
Supervisor (Director of Studies from 2010), PhD in Fine Art (Photography), A Self Assertive White Woman’s Diary, Body Identity and Subjective I in a Travel Narrative
Supervisor (Director of Studies), PhD in Design illustration & Anthropology, Glen Taylor Depicting Difference: Domestic Dialogues in Ethiopia, 2009
Supervisor, PhD in Interaction Design, Chloe Matus (Designing Interactive Music History for Young Adults), 2010
2009- External Supervisor, PhD in Fine Art & Applied Sociology,
Highland & Islands/University of Aberdeen
2005-07 External Supervisor, PhD in Studio Practice, University of Leeds, Leeds
1997-2006Associate Senior Lecturer (0.5)
BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
2000-04 Supervisor, PhD programme in Fine Art, Northumbria University:
Henna Asikainen Environmental Aesthetics 2004
Silvana Macedo-Lamb From Fine Art to Natural Science through Allegory 2003
1997 Lecturer, BA Visual Cultures, University of Derby
Academic Experience (PhD Examination)
2011
External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, Newcastle University: Candidate completing minor corrections
2011
External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art: Candidate under resubmission
2008 Internal Examiner, PhD in Historical & Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art:
David Sweeney Life in the Multiverse: Fictional Worlds, Territorialization and the Reality of Fiction
2006 (2007) External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, University of Leeds, Leeds:
John Crossley Artifactuality and Actuality – Visual Representation and the Production of Truth in Art and the News Media
2006 External Examiner, PhD in Art History, University of Ulster, Belfast:
Louise Wallace Painting the Peripheral: A Reconsideration of the Feminine in the Late Interiors of Pierre Bonnard
Academic Experience (External Examination)
2009 - External Examiner, School of History & Theory of Fine Art,
Slade School of Art
2009-2011
External Examiner, BA (Hons.) Photography
Southampton Solent University, Southampton
2006-09 External Examiner, Critical Theory, BA (Hons.) Fine Art Birmingham City University Birmingham
2005-08 External Examiner, BA (Hons.) Fine Art
Arts Institute of Bournemouth, Poole
2002-05 External Examiner, MA in Feminism & Visual Arts (Feminist Theories & Practice), University of Leeds, Leeds
1997-2000 External Examiner, BA Subject Applied Photographic Practice, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Selected Conferences & Talks
2012
Speaker, Family Ties: Representation and Recollection, University of London (Forthcoming, March) Speaker, Home/Land: Women, Citzenship, Photographies, Loughborough University (Forthcoming, July)
2010 Respondent & Workshop Leader, Connecting the Dots: Virtuality, Technology & Feminism in the Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
2010 Speaker, Transmission: Hospitality, Sheffield Hallam University
2009 Guest Speaker, Framing Time & Place: Repeats & Returns in Photography, University of Plymouth, Plymouth
2003 Guest Speaker, ‘On A Portrait: The Aesthetic & Social World of Julia Margaret Cameron,’ National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Bradford
1998 Conference Convenor, Site Gallery, Sheffield: ‘Playing Detective: Facts, Fictions & the work of Sophie Calle.’ Speakers included Mark Durden, Hilary Robinson & Irit Rogoff
1997 Conference Convenor, Site Gallery, Sheffield: ‘I can’t explain it all myself.’ Speakers included Art Historians Fred Orton & Rosemary Betterton; artists Olivier Richon, Karen Knorr, Bernard Prinz & Dany Leriche
Other relevant professional experience
2011
Peer Reviewer,
Photographies, Routledge
2010
Writer/Artist, Artist In Residence 2010: Small Communities, Small Worlds Fondazione Fotografia, Modena /Stills, Edinburgh
2009-10
Artist Mentor, Creating Connections: Critical Exchange
Arts Council of England North East
2007 Consultant Artist,
Curatorial Advisory Group, Belsay Hall, English Heritage
2006-07 Panel Member,
Edinburgh Visual Arts and Crafts Awards
2005 Lead Artist,
Below Stairs at Newhailes, National Trust of Scotland & National Galleries of Scotland partnership project
1998-2009 Reviewer, Art Monthly
