Biography
EDUCATION

BA Birmingham College of Art (now UCE) 1984
MA Goldsmiths College, University of London 1991
Research Bursary Goldsmiths' College, University of London 1998 -2000
PhD, University of the Arts, London 2003 -2006

 

EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1997 (*denotes exhibitions that were accompanied by a publication)

2008

Academics Find Formula for 14 Extra Years of Life, public artwork, Clockwork Gallery, Berlin
Betsey’s Salon, presentation of video work to live audience
Honey Honig, AutoItalia, London
Underwood*, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

2007

Video Art Festival, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Our Period: with Mathew Hale, Five Years, London
Viva Exhibition (for PhD), Central St Martins College, University of the Arts, London

2006

Always on My Mind’, Solo Exhibition Platform Gallery, London. Supported by the Arts Council.
Frenzy’, Group Show, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone *
The Society of London Ladies’, Group Show, Paris.
Outdoors’, Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London

2003

Adddiction’, Co-curator and exhibitor, Group Show, London
Sense and Nonsense’, Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Tender Prey’, Group Show, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.*
The Group of Seven’, Group Show, Platform Gallery, London

2002

Silence and Darkness’, (Co-curator), Group Show, Outline, Amsterdam*
(Supported by The British Council)
Between Two Deaths’, Solo Exhibition, Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam
Two Step’, Group Show, CCNOA, Brussels

2001

Eat. Fuck. Die.’, Group Show, Platform Gallery, London
'Starring', Group Show, Five Years, London*
The Difference Between You and Us’, Group Show, Five Years, London*

2000

'Perspective 2000', Group Show, Ormeau Baths, Belfast
'The Haunting', Solo Exhibition, Five Years Gallery, London
'For Your Eyes Only',* Group Show, London and Essex
'Dark Pop', Group Show, London*
'John, I'm Only Dancing',* Group Show, London and Edinburgh

1999

'Desire', Solo Exhibition, Project 304, Bangkok. (Supported by The British Council)
Project for Make Magazine, Issue no. 84, June 1999
'Ritual', Group Show, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
'Interior/Interior', A Five Years Project at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London*
'Resolute', Group Show, Platform Gallery, London

1998

'Silent Movies', Co-curator and exhibitor, Five Years Gallery, London*
'Playing And Reality', Curator and exhibitor, Salon II, London*
'What Is A Photograph?', Co-curator and exhibitor, Five Years Gallery, London*
Whitechapel Open, Group Show, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
'United in Death', Curator and exhibitor: Exhibition on C.D. Rom, and Gallery Installation. Cambridge Darkroom*.

1997

'On Boredom',* Curator and exhibitor: Exhibition on C.D. Rom. Launched at the I.C.A., London
'Between Hits', Solo Exhibition, Accident Gallery, London
'Accident', Group Installation, Accident Gallery, London*

PUBLICATIONS AND CURATED PROJECTS:

2007:
On My Nervous Illness: Artists’ Book for PhD submission, University of the Arts, London.
Our Periodical: inset page for Five Years Periodical, vol 1, number 2. (With Mathew Hale)

2006:
Frenzy

Text for catalogue accompanying exhibition ‘Frenzy’, at Metrople Galleries in Folkestone. Supported by the Arts Council.
Published by Five Years.

2003:
Tender Prey

Text for catalogue of exhibition Tender Prey’ in Amsterdam. Supported by British Council.
Published by Marc Hulson and Mariette Rensen, Amsterdam.

2000:
Experience
(Editor/ Contributor)
Four essays on experience. Contributions from cultural theorist Kate Love, psychoanalyst Darian Leader, barristors Anthony Heaton Armstrong and David Wolchover. With my artwork and writing. Supported by Goldsmiths’ College and Central St Martin’s School of Art and Design. Published by Looseleaf.

1998:
United In Death
(Editor/ Curator)
A collection of artworks produced and exhibited on computer. The publication takes the form of a book with C.D. Texts by David Kirkup and Marc Hulson. The computer based art works were also exhibited at Cambridge Darkroom Gallery in March/ April 1998. Exhibiting artists, on CD and in the gallery, were Alan Ball, Edward Dorrian, Mathew Hale, Marc Hulson Patrick McBride, Catherine Yass and myself. Supported by Eastern Arts (Winning an Award for Development of New Work) and the Cambridge Interactive T.V. project (Anglia Telematics Research). Published by Cambridge Darkroom Gallery.

1997:
On Boredom
(Editor/ Curator)
C.D. Rom and paper publication of artworks produced on computer. Contributing artists: Jeremy Akerman, Alan Ball, Edward Dorrian, Mathew Hale, Robert Mabb, Anna Mossman and Mariele Neudecker and myself. Introductory essay and artwork by myself. Main catalogue essays by David Bate and Andrew Benjamin. Supported by the Arts Council of England, and Studio Fish. The C.D was distributed by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and was launched at the ICA, in the Nash and Brandon rooms, on the 17th December 1997. Published by Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, with assistance from the ICA, London.

 

PUBLIC PAPERS:

2003

Art Historians Conference London: ‘Medium Matters Today’.
Paper: The Paradox at the Heart of the Photographic Apparatus.

2002

Presentation at Tate Modern: ‘Psychoanalysis and Art’ Seminar.
Paper: On The Blank. With Victor Burgin, Sharon Morris and Clare Bishop.

1998

A Choreographed Argument on Movement and Stillness with Marc Hulson
Painting and Time conference, Hull University.

 

AWARDS:

2006

Arts Council Grant to produce new text-based work using 'Concordance' software.

2005

Funding from the University of the Arts London, plus sponsorship from Cambridge Neurotechnology and Imperial College, London, to produce automatic writing generated by the body using an 'actiwatch' and 'actiheart'.

2003

Travel Grant from British Council to perform a reading of essay Tender Prey.

1999

Travel Grant from British Council to install exhibition Desire in Bangkok, Thailand.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND PROJECTS:

2008

Five Years Periodical/ Volume One
Instigated Sept 2007, launch of Volume One (four numbers): May 2008

2007

Van Nagsael: Artist’s publication. Photo-essay.
Launched January 2007 at Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2006

Platform 1998 – 2006.
Gallery Retrospective Catalogue. Documentation of three exhibitions.
Launched June 2006 at Platform. London

2002

Filmwaves Magazine Guest Editor and introductory essay: On The Blank.
Contributors: Lucy Steeds on Marcel Broodthaers, Lucy Reynolds on Stan Douglas, Marc Hulson on Edward Dorrian, Malcolm Le Grice on ‘Shoot, Shoot, Shoot’ and Ruth Blue on Robert Bresson.

2000

Make Magazine: Surveillance Issue Artists’ project:
Centre-page spread of art work.

1999

Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine
Review of Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.

1992

Frieze Magazine Project for Frieze as part of Artist/ Architect group
Content
. With Katherine Clarke, Mark Pimlott and Amy Eshoo.