Education:
1990-1993 MA degree
by thesis
Royal College of Art
1985-1988 BA
(Hons) Fine Art (2:1)
Leicester Polytechnic
Employment
History:
2000-present Senior
Lecturer, Fine Art as Social Practice.
University of
Wolverhampton
1999-2001 Visiting
Lecturer, MA Fine Art
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art
Westminster
University
1995-2001
Tutor, Modern European Art
Educational Programmes Abroad
1999,
94 & 95 Tutor,
A316: Modern Art Practices and Debates
Open University Summer
School
1998
& 92-95 Tutor, Introduction to Art History
Birkbeck Extra-Mural
College
1995 Tutor, Foundation Course
London Guildhall
University
Lecturer, Contemporary
Art Theory option, BA (Hons) Photography
London College of
Printing
1992-1994 Lecturer, BA and MA Art History
Birkbeck College
2003 Strolling
Into History in Artranspennine 03
(public
art project sited on a route between Liverpool and Hull)
Single channel video
work by artists based in Manchester, Lowry Gallery, Manchester
(DVD
sampler)
Thermo
03,
Lowry Gallery, Manchester
PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery,
Manchester
Stretching the Truth, Edinburgh
(solo exhibition as part of the Tag Team
Experiment
series, curated by Billy McColl)
Frozen Tears: the Word is Flesh
Book project edited/curated by John Russell, pub.
Article Press, 2003 ISBN 1873352689
2002
Tensionism, Perry Street Rove
Gallery, New York.
Daily News
Newspaper curated by Alexandra Mir for Greengrassi
Gallery, London and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
An internet-based platform for dialogue between 312
international artists and theorists, for Ars Electronica, Linz
Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
(curated by Gavin Wade)
Small Gold Medal
Project for Bookworks curated by
Elizabeth Price
Pub. Bookworks, 2001, ISBN 1 870699
47 5
2001
Dear
Sarah,
Project Space, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
(solo exhibition)
WHAT’SWRONG? The Trade Apartment, London.
Exhibition in which I asked over 80 leading
international contemporary artists and writers to respond to the question
‘what’s wrong?’
T.H.I.N.K., Institut for
Nutidskunst, Copenhagen.
2000 Watch
Out For the Agoraphobic Saviours of Mankind, FLAG gallery, London (solo
exhibition curated by Gavin Wade)
History Lessons Kunstaus, Bregenz
(curated by Pete Lewis)
With full colour publication. LKW Kunst in der
Stadt -4-
ISBN 3-88375-444-7
Dot, 5 Teesdale Yard, London
and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
(curated by Elizabeth Price)
With publication Pub?
ISBN?
1999 Seven
Wonders of the World
Exhibition/publication curated/edited by Matthew
Higgs for Bookworks
Pub. Bookworks date, ISBN?
Curated show within a show for Bank’s Dog-U-Mental exhibition, Galerie
Pooh-Pooh, London.
Thud Thud Thud ,Conductors Hallway,
London
(two-person exhibition with David Burrows)
Bank TV, Dog, London.
Dog’s Breath, Bricks and Kicks gallery, Vienna
(curated by John Roberts)
Cocaine Orgasm, Bank, London.
(curated by Bank)
Zombie Golf, Bank, London
(curated by Bank)
Selected writing
Edited Art, Politics
& Resistance?, a special issue of Third Text journal, Vol 16, Issue 4, No
6 ISSN 0952-8822
Video Purified of
Television
(co-written with John Beagles)
in Variant Magazine
Autumn 2003, no.18
Wrote and presented Video Art, TV programme for OU/BBC
The Philistine Controversy (co-written and
co-edited with John Roberts)
Pub. Verso, 2002 ISBN 1859848427
Cultural Bulimia (co-written with John
Beagles)
in Variant magazine, No. 16, Winter
2002, pp10-11 ISSN 0954-8815
Review of A. Danto’s The
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy and the End of Taste in Historical
Materialism, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp255-266 ISSN
Essay
for Jeremy Deller’s Life is to Blame for Everything: Collected Work
& Projects 1992-99, pub. Salon 3,
1999 ISBN 0953745600
Catalogue essay for Georgina Starr,
“The Bunny Lake Collection” at Artiglierie Arsenale, Castello,
Venice. Reprinted in “The Bunny Lakes”, London, 2002, ISBN
0-9532458-1-0
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
in Control magazine issue no.16,
2001, pp22-25
Barthes, Barthes and Barthes in Gymnasion. Catalogue pub.Bregenzer
Kunstverein,
Interview with Victor Burgin
(co-written with Pete Lewis) in Gymnasion. Catalogue pub. Bregenzer,
Kunstverein,
Interview with Bank
in Untitled magazine issue 25, Summer 2001, pp13-15 ISSN 0969-9716
Interview with Jeremy Deller
in Untitled magazine issue 25,
Summer 2001, pp10-12 ISSN 0969-9716
Public Art After Virtue in Public Art Journal
Catalogue essay for Secession
1999: Annika Strom, in conversation with Ina Blom. Secession, Vienna, 1999
ISBN 3-901926-10-0
Video After Diderot in Art Monthly.issue no
225. ISSN 0142-6702
Interview with Keith Tyson
in Everything magazine, issue no.
2:3, ISSN 1361-7699
Tolerating Impurities (co-written with John
Roberts) in New Left Review, issue, 227, Jan/Feb 1998 ISSN 0028-6060
Getting Carried Away in Variant magazine
issue no.1 1996 ISSN 0954-8815
Spectres of the Aesthetic (co-written with John
Roberts)
in New Left Review, issue 228,
July/August 1996 ISSN 0028-6060
Chill Out in Everything magazine
issue no. 20, 1996 ISSN 1361-7699
Chapter, Another Failure to
Understand the Work of Francis Picabia in Art Has No History!, pub. Verso, 1994, ISBN
0860914577
Peer review
§ Review of Group Shows
Are a Waste of Time, Catherine Grant, Flash Art, October 2003, p54 ISSN
0015-3524
§ Review of Artranspennine03, Neil Mulholland,
Frieze, Issue 79, Nov/Dec 2003, p92 ISSN 110334
§ Aperto Manchester, Neil Mulholland, Flash
Art, October 2003, pp69-71 ISSN 0015-3524
§ Review of Beagles and
Ramsay, Artforum, October 2003 ISSN 0004-3532
§ Small Gold Medal, David Lillington, Art
Monthly No. 254, pp37-8 ISSN 0142-6702
§ Review of The
Philistine Controversy, Michael Bird, Modern Painters, Autumn 2002, p164
§ Before We All Go Drab, Hywell Williams,The
Guardian, November 16th, 2002
§ Review of The
Philistine Controversy, Michael Sperlinger, Radical Philosophy, November/December
2002 ISSN 997082
§ Art Crazy Nation: the
Post Blimey Art World , Matthew Collings, pub. 21 Publishing, date ISBN 1901785084, p206
§ The Art of the Third
Way, JJ
Charlesworth, Art Monthly No. 241, pp7-10
§ ISSN 0142-6702
Other:
§ Chair of Public?, a
‘sweatshop’ panel discussion at the Serpentine Gallery, London
§ Vandals and
Philistines, head-to-head talk with Nigel Warburton at Tate Britain organised by
Lisa Le Feuvre
§
Member of Advisory Board for Article Press
§ Selection Panel for About
Belief South
London Gallery, London
§ Regular contributor to Art
Monthly magazine
§
Director of Floating IP Gallery, Manchester