GILLIAN McIVER

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Based in London UK

Selected Exhibitions and Exhibition Screenings

2024
"Into the Sublime" Swedenborg House, London
2022
"ALCHEMY!" The Steamship PS, London
"Trans-States" Northampton
2021
"Last Orders" The Steamship PS, London
2020
"Timeless Thames" The Steamship PS, London
2019
Invisible Cities, The Steamship PS London
2018
Bon Collage, KottiShop Gallery Berlin
2016
Casablanca Bienniale, Morocco
2014
Sheffield Docfest
Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, Exeter
Teatro Alexandria, Egypt
Trispace Gallery London
Portobello Film Festival London
The Mayflower, Rotherhithe
Nightpiece Film Festival, Edinburgh Fringe
2013
Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias
2012
Whitechapel Gallery, London. Film screening Tarkovsky's River.
Digital Landscape - Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias.
CeC'12 India - Parallel Visions | Global Art Video, Uttarakhand, India
2011
Intervalos Lúcidos - Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias
"Keeping Afloat - Gallery La Clinica Mundana, Valencia
ARTSIDE Southend on Sea (a Parallel Project production)
Revolution Now and Forever - Gallery Mavena, Croatia
HOST 02 - Art Funkl Manchester
Unfolding sequences - Montreal
CeC'11 India Global Art Video - Uttarakhand, India
2010
dokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries, Szczecin
EdgeLogue - New Delhi
Topolski Century Gallery, South Bank Centre, London
«PI five» Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin
Southend -on-Sea Film Festival, Fringe; TAP
2009
Optica Festival of Video Art, touring
Photocinema - Format Festival of Photography
Prospero's Library - Accademia di Belle Arte, Catania, Italia
The Irresistible District - Helsinki
TINAG Festival - London

Selected Curatorial Projects
Into the Sublime Swedenborg House London 2024
Profane and Sacred City
Swedenborg House 2023
Alchemy!
London 2022
#timetoact PSVI Film Festival
BFI 2018
Studio75 London Gallery
2010 - 2013

Selected Publications
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime (Bloomsbury 2016)
Art History for Filmmakers (Bloomsbury 2016)
chapters in: The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire; Refocus: the Films of Abel Ferrara; Screening the Art World; Scenography and Art History.

Education
• PhD, Cinema and Art History, University of Roehampton 2015-2020
• Master of Arts, MA by Project, Visual Art; Sir John Cass School of Art at London Guildhall. Supported by the AHRC.
• Bachelor of Arts, Film and Contemporary Media Practice. University of Westminster

Personal Grants and Awards
Canada Council for the Arts Critics and Curators Award
Arts Council of England Grants for the Arts
AHRC Postgraduate Award, Master of Fine Arts
AHRC Postgraduate TECHNE Award, PhD



 

 

 

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