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 Louise
K Wilson - Visual Artist
lkwilson@dircon.co.uk
Education:
MFA Studio Arts (Open Media)
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1996
BA Hons (1st Class) Fine Art
Newcastle Polytechnic (University of Northumbria), Newcastle upon
Tyne 1987
Diploma in Foundation Studies
West Surrey College of Art and Design, Surrey 1984
Current
and forthcoming Projects 2002/3:
1)
OPENPLAN: Two artists respond to one company
David Collins and Louise K Wilson
at
Leeds City Art Gallery from October 4th to November 17th 2002.
Private View on Saturday October 26th 6 - 8 pm
2)
Participation in an Artist Discussion on Tuesday 5th November, 6-
8pm at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art entitled 'The Curated
Outdoors'.
3)
Participation on a panel entitled "Interdisciplinary Microgravity
Movement Research: Experiments on a Zero Gravity Flight" for:
ArtSci2002:
new dimensions in collaboration an international symposium December
6-8, 2002 at the American Museum of Natural History and the CUNY
Graduate Center, NYC, USA
Event
details: www.asci.org
4)
Memory and Forgetting
Exhibition at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle April 2003
A sci-art project involving four artists working with four scientists
on the theme of memory and forgetting. See www.sciart.org
5)
One person exhibition of new video work at TPW (Toronto Photographers
Workshop), Toronto, Canada. Dates to be scheduled: October - November
2003
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Solo
Exhibitions:
Southern
Electric 2002
Permanent sculpture commission for the Chiltern Sculpture Trail,
Oxfordshire
Seeing for Oneself Nov-Jan 2001
Specially commissioned video made for Spectacular Bodies, Hayward
Gallery
Also shown at Conquest Hospital, Hastings
Vanishing Resident Aug 2000
Wider View commission for Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire
35mm film shown Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge Sep 2000
In Lost Space Oct 1997
Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone, Kent
Oneironaut ©/New Works Sep 1997
The Library and Archive,
Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA), London
Oneironaut © Apr 1997
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Terra Firma Oct 1996
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Abulia Feb 1996
Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
The Museum of Accidents Aug 1993
Great Hall, Museum of Science and Engineering, Newcastle
The Eros of Splitting Jun 1992
Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
Zehn mal Null May/Jun 1992
Westphalian Industrial Museum, Dortmund, Germany
Soft Attrition Apr 1991
Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Warm
Seas 1988
(Projects UK) for New Work Newcastle 88 Festival, Newcastle
Selected
Group Exhibitions
Open
Plan Oct 2002
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Yorkshire
Out to the Waste June 2002
Live Art event for Grizedale Live, RAF Spadeadam
Crafting Space June 2002
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Grizedale Show Sep 2001
Grizedale Arts, Hawkshead
East of Eden Jun 2001
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Nina Pope's A Public Auction of Private Art Works Jun 2001
Kimbolton Castle
Gagarin 12th April 1961 Apr 2001
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Visions in the Void: Post-Heroic Visions of Space Nov 2000
Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Space Camp: Uncertainty, Speculative Fiction and Art Oct 2000
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Invisible Body: Under the Skin of Art and Medicine Jan 2000
Atrium Gallery, Whiteley's Shopping Centre, London
Vegas May 1999
Olay Vision Award for Women Artists, Lux Gallery, London
Submerged May 1999
Old Royal Baths, Bath
Unclassified Oct 1998
Eich Gallery, Humberside University campus, Hull (Photo 98)
Into Focus/Art on Science Sep 1998
Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Albany, USA
Interface: Encounters with New Technology May 1998
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Dark Matter Mar 1998
Harris Museum, Preston and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (and tour)
October 1917-1997 Oct 1997
Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design
The Visible and the Invisible Sep/Oct 1996
Wellcome Institute, London
RX Oct 1995
Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
ISEA 95 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) Sep 1995
Ecole Cherrier, Montreal, Canada
Corps
Machine Apr 1995
Galerie La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
\Art(s) d'Europe? 1994
Galerie de l'Esplanade, La Defense, Paris, France
Northern England in Northern Slovakia 1993
Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia
Power and Providence 1992
Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge
-Two installation projects 1992
Sheffield Cultural Festival, Sheffield Science Park
Ward Spring 1990
St Nicolas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
September in the Garden Autumn 1989
Camden Arts Centre, London
Switching Centre (performance with Alexa Wright) 1989
De la Pole Psychiatric Hospital, Hull
Earthworks 1989
Untitled gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Awards:
London
Arts Board Visual Arts Award 2002
Short-term visitor grant, National Air and Space Museum, (Smithsonian
Institution) Washington DC 2001
South West Arts Annual Award 1999/2000
South West Arts Enhanced Project Award 1997
Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship 1993-6
British Council travel grants:
" USA 2000
" Canada 1996
" Slovakia 1993
Northern Arts Bursary 1993
Northern Arts Award 1987 & 1990
Placements/Residencies:
Memory
and Forgetting June 2002-
Sci/Art Project, PEALS/ Northern Print, Newcastle
Parabolic Flight (zero gravity) October 2001
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Facility, Moscow (Arts Catalyst)
Year of the Artist residency Mar-May 2001
Brahm Ltd (advertising/PR agency), Leeds
Grizedale Arts residency 2000/2001
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
Wider View residency May-Aug 2000
Wysing Arts, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Superposition Artist in Residence Feb 1998
Petri's Quadrille, Regina, Canada
Artist in Research programme Mar/May 1997
The Science Museum, London
(Institute of International Visual Arts)
European Artists' Pepinieres residency (Eurocreation) Jan-July 1992
Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
Exchange residency at Plug-In Gallery Spring 1991
(Projects UK), Winnipeg, Canada
Arts Council Performance Art Training Placement Aug-Nov 1989
with Helen Chadwick
Related
Employment:
Part
time Lecturer September 2001 - date
Contemporary Media Practice (BA Hons), University of Westminster
Curator for 'Flock' (forthcoming) Spring 2002
First Site Gallery, (Wysing Arts) and Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Visiting Artist/Lecturer May 2001
'Cell Culture', Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
0.5 Lecturer Autumn 1997-9
BA (Hons) Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts
Visiting Lecturer:
George Mason University, Washington DC March 2002
Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC December 2001
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada November 2001
University of Westminster May 2001-current
Huddersfield University Mar 2001
Goldsmiths College Feb 2000
University of the West of England Winter 2000
University of Central Lancashire Autumn 1999
Hull School of Art and Design Spring 1998
University of Northumbria Autumn 1999
Dartington College of Arts Spring 1997
Sheffield Hallam University Autumn 1996
West Surrey College of Art and Design Feb/Mar 1991
Teaching Assistant 1994-6
Dept of Design and Interdisciplinary Studies
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Production, Education and Administration Assistant Jul/Aug1989
Festival of the Five Senses, Hexham
Part-time Lecturer Apr 1988 &
Dept of Creative and Performing Arts, Newcastle Polytechnic Jan-Mar
1991
Installation Participant 'Another Way of Seeing'
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead Oct-Nov 1987
Kendal Natural History Museum (and commissioned sound tape) Apr
1990
Construction and Education Assistant Jan-Mar 1988
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Lectures/Panel
Discussions
Artists
and Cosmonauts March 2002
Sadlers Wells, London
Artist's talk, Grizedale Live Jun 2001
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
Panel Discussion, Gagarin 12th April 1961 2001
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Artists' guided tour: Spectacular Bodies 2000
Hayward Gallery, London
Artist's talk for Space Camp Winter 2000
Regina Public Library, Regina, Canada
Paper "In Surgical Sleep" for:
" 'Uncommon Senses' at Concordia University, Montreal Mar 2000
" 'The Impact of the Artistic Imagination Feb 2000
on Science and Technology during the Second Half
of the 20th Century', CAA conference, NYC, USA
" Consciousness Reframed: Art, Technology and Consciousness'
2000 (CAiiA-STAR),
" Newport, Wales
Paper 'Hitchcock and the Haptic' 1999
Illicit Contrabands: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art conference
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Artist's guided tour: Panamarenko 2000
Hayward Gallery, London
Gallery tour, Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art Jul
1999
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Artist's talk: Submerged May 1999
Bath
Panel discussion: Vegas (Olay Vision Award) May 1999
Lux Gallery, London
The Soul in the Cosmos Oct 1998
Herstmonceux Castle and Hertsmonceux Observatory, Sussex
Superposition:The Art and Science Fair Feb 1998
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Utopia/Dystopia, Symposium Oct 1997
Floating Gallery, Winnipeg
Virtue and Vulgarity Sep 1997
Feminist Arts and Histories Network, Third Biennial Conference
University of Reading
Rx, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre Oct 1995
Kingston, Canada
Corps-machine May 1993
La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
Tatranska Gallery May 1993
Poprad, Slovakia
AKA Gallery, Saskatoon; Plug-In Gallery, Winnepeg; Apr/May 1991
Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Cumbria College of Art and Design Sep 1990
Carlisle
Selected
Bibliography
Fallon, R. (2000) 'Spaced Out' in Philadelphia Weekly, November
8
Duncan, A. (2000) 'Science and the Body in Contemporary Art' in
Strange and Charmed edited by Ede, S. Gulbenkian Foundation
Mikhail, K. (1999) 'What are the odds of that?' in The Independent,
May 25 1999
Herbert, W. (1998) 'Interface appeases the Jetson in you' in Metro,
June 1998
Charity, R. (1996) 'The Visible and the Invisible' in Portfolio,
No. 24 1996
Lamontagne, V. (1996) 'Louise Wilson, Janet Cardiff' in Parachute,
No. 83 1996
Grande, J.K. (1995) 'La Centrale' in Art Forum, Summer 1995
Duncan, A. (1995) 'La Centrale' in The Gazette (Montreal), 22 April
1995
Couelle, J. (1995) 'Louise Wilson, Alexa Wright' in Le Devoir (Montreal),
22 April 1995
Jordan, J. (1993) 'Locus +: New Projects by Artists' in Hybrid Summer
'Northern England in Northern Slovakia' (TV documentary), Bratislava,
1993
Little, M. (1993) 'Artist profile' in Profil 2 (Slovakia)
Little, M. (1993) 'Northern England in Northern Slovakia' in Profil
6/6
Jordan, J. 'Andrew Stones and Louise Wilson' in Variant, Issue 1993
Stewart, N. (1992) 'Ward' in Performance, No. 62 March 1991
'Zehn mal Null' in SiemensWelt, October 1992
Cadwallader, H. (1990) 'Ward' in Women's Art Magazine, No. 37
Cadwallader, H. (1988) 'New Work Newcastle 88' in Performance, No.
56/57 December 1988
Published
Writings/Artworks
Wilson,
L.K. (2001) 'Seeing for Oneself' in Tales from the Trust, A-N magazine,
January 2001
Cover artwork, end icons and photo text piece 'Stories from the
Research Labs' for 'Machinic Modulations' in Angelaki, 4:2 1999
'Astronaut Stories' artist's contribution to On Line: Performance
Research CD-ROM, Volume 4, No. 2, Summer 1999
Images and text for Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA)
publication Artists-in-Research 1996-98
Out of Time, Hull Time Based Arts 1998
Vade Mecum: A compendium of New Art (Locus+), essay by Mark Little.
Revised as Locus + 1993-6.
Wilson, L.K (1996) 'The Electronic Caress' in Touch and Contemporary
Art, Public, No. 13 (Toronto) edited by Tomas, D
Wilson, L.K. 'Cyberwar, God and Television: Interview with Paul
Virilio' in CTHEORY (Electronic Review of Books: Montreal) Dec 1994
Reprinted in:
Electronic Culture, 1996 Aperture, NY edited by Druckrey, T.
Digital Delirium, 1997 St Martins Press, NY edited by Kroker, A.
and Kroker, M.
Wilson, L.K. (1994) 'Weapons of Deconstruction?'in Parachute, No.
76
Wilson, L.K. (1993) 'Time and Tide: the 2nd Tyne International Triennial'
in Variant, Issue 15
Wilson, L.K. (1992) 'Random Access: conference report on art outside
the museum' in Arts Monthly December 1992
Wilson, L.K. (1992) 'The Last Weekend' in Performance, No. 65
Wilson, L.K (1992) 'Burning the Flag' in Variant, Issue 10
Wilson, L.K. (1991) 'Four Cities: Newcastle 1990' in Performance
No.63
Wilson, L.K. (1991) 'The Last Weekend' in Variant, Issue 9
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