Louise K. Wilson
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1996
MFA Studio Arts (Open Media)
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1987
BA Hons (1st Class) Fine Art
University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
1984
Diploma in Foundation Studies
West Surrey College of Art and Design, Surrey
Solo Exhibitions
2002
Southern Electric, permanent sculpture commission for the Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxfordshire
2001
Seeing for Oneself, specially commissioned video made for Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, also shown at Conquest Hospital, Hastings
2000
Vanishing Resident, Wider View commission for Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, 35mm film shown Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
1997
In Lost Space, Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone, Kent
Oneironaut (c)/New Works The Library and Archive, Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London
Oneironaut (c) YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
1996
Terra Firma, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Abulia, Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1993
The Museum of Accidents, Great Hall, Museum of Science and Engineering, Newcastle
1992
The Eros of Splitting, Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
Zehn mal Null, Westphalian Industrial Museum, Dortmund, Germany
1991
Soft Attrition, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1988
Warm Seas (Projects UK) for New Work Newcastle 88 Festival, Newcastle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
Memory and Forgetting, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002
Open Plan, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Yorkshire
Out to the Waste, Live Art event for Grizedale Live, RAF Spadeadam
Crafting Space, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2001
Grizedale Show, Grizedale Arts, Hawkshead
East of Eden, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Nina Pope's A Public Auction of Private Art Works, Kimbolton Castle
Gagarin 12th April 1961, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2000
Visions in the Void: Post-Heroic Visions of Space, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Space Camp: Uncertainty, Speculative Fiction and Art, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Invisible Body: Under the Skin of Art and Medicine, Atrium Gallery, Whiteley's Shopping Centre, London
1999
Vegas, Olay Vision Award for Women Artists, Lux Gallery, London
Submerged, Old Royal Baths, Bath
1998
Unclassified, Eich Gallery, Humberside University campus, Hull (Photo 98)
Into Focus/Art on Science, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Albany, USA
Interface: Encounters with New Technology, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Dark Matter, Harris Museum, Preston and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (and tour)
1997
October 1917-1997, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design
1996
The Visible and the Invisible, Wellcome Institute, London
1995
RX, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1995
ISEA 95 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Ecole Cherrier, Montreal, Canada
Corps Machine, Galerie La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
1994
Art(s) d'Europe?, Galerie de l'Esplanade, La Defense, Paris, France
1993
Northern England in Northern Slovakia, Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia
1992
Power and Providence, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge
-Two installation projects, Sheffield Cultural Festival, Sheffield Science Park
1990
Ward, St Nicolas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
1989
September in the Garden, Camden Arts Centre, London
Switching Centre (performance with Alexa Wright), De la Pole Psychiatric Hospital, Hull
Earthworks, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Awards
2002
London Arts Board Visual Arts Award
2001
Short-term visitor grant, National Air and Space Museum, (Smithsonian Institution) Washington DC
1999/2000
South West Arts Annual Award
1997
South West Arts Enhanced Project Award
1993-1996
Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship
British Council travel grants:
_ USA 2000
_ Canada 1996
_ Slovakia 1993
1993
Northern Arts Bursary
1987 & 1990
Northern Arts Award
Placements/Residencies
2002-(June 2003)
Arena, Baltic/Samling Foundation, Newcastle/ Gateshead
June 2002-(March 2003)
Memory and Forgetting, Sci/Art Project, PEALS/ Northern Print, Newcastle
October 2001
Parabolic Flight (zero gravity), Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Facility, Moscow (Arts Catalyst)
March-May 2001
Year of the Artist residency, Brahm Ltd (advertising/PR agency), Leeds
2000/2001
Grizedale Arts residency, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
May-August 2000
Wider View residency, Wysing Arts, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
February 1998
Superposition Artist in Residence, Petri's Quadrille, Regina, Canada
March/May 1997
Artist in Research programme, The Science Museum, London (Institute of International Visual Arts)
January-July 1992
European Artists' Pepinieres residency (Eurocreation) Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
Spring 1991
Exchange residency at Plug-In Gallery (Projects UK), Winnipeg, Canada
August-November 1989
Arts Council Performance Art Training Placement with Helen Chadwick
Related Employment
2003
Curator
for 'Flock on Film', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Curator
for 'Flock', Spacex Gallery, Exeter (touring to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, May 2003)
2001-to date
Part time Lecturer
Contemporary Media Practice (BA Hons), University of Westminster
February 2002 - to date
External Examiner,
Installation Arts and Events (BA Hons), University of Huddersfield
2001
Visiting Artist/Lecturer,
'Cell Culture', Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
1997-1999
0.5 Lecturer
BA (Hons) Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts
2002
Visiting Lecturer
University of Northumbria, Newcastle
Visiting Lecturer
George Mason University, Washington DC
2001
Visiting Lecturer
Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC
Visiting Lecturer
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
May 2001-current
Visiting Lecturer
University of Westminster
March 2001
Visiting Lecturer
Huddersfield University
February 2000
Visiting Lecturer
Goldsmiths College
Winter 2000
Visiting Lecturer
University of the West of England
Autumn 1999
Visiting Lecturer
University of Central Lancashire
Spring 1998
Visiting Lecturer
Hull School of Art and Design
Autumn 1998
Visiting Lecturer
University of Northumbria
Spring 1997
Visiting Lecturer
Dartington College of Arts
Autumn 1996
Visiting Lecturer
Sheffield Hallam University
February-March 1991
Visiting Lecturer
West Surrey College of Art and Design
1994-1996
Teaching Assistant
Dept of Design and Interdisciplinary Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
July/August 1989
Production, Education and Administration Assistant
Festival of the Five Senses, Hexham
April 1988 & January-March 1991
Part-time Lecturer
Dept of Creative and Performing Arts, Newcastle Polytechnic
October-November 1987
Installation Participant
'Another Way of Seeing'
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
April 1990
Installation Participant
'Another Way of Seeing'
Kendal Natural History Museum (and commissioned sound tape)
January-March 1988
Construction and Education Assistant
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Lectures/Panel Discussions
ArtSci2002: new dimensions in collaboration
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, USA December 2002
The Curated Outdoors
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, November 2002
Artists and Cosmonauts March 2002
Sadlers Wells, London
At The City's Edge Conference
Hosted by The Centre, St Andrew's in The Square, Glasgow, October 2001
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