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Claire Doherty, Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art
director@situations.org.uk
Claire Doherty is a curator and writer and Director of Situations. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art MA in Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Art in 1995, Doherty has investigated new models of curatorial practice beyond conventional exhibition models at a range of institutions such as Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. She initiated Situations in 2003, locating an extensive programme of commissioning within the context of international research, public events, printed and online publishing.
She lectures widely on curating, commissioning, art and place, and has recently written essays for artists, such as Daniel Buren, Lyndal Jones, Anna Lucas, Paul Rooney and Ergin Çavusoglu. She is editor of Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (2004) and is currently researching the ‘Place’, special issue of Art and Research (forthcoming 2008) and an edition of the Whitechapel/MIT Press series Documents of Contemporary Art on Situation.
PhD Supervision
James Dixon, GWR Research Studentship in collaboration with University of Bristol and Bristol Alliance: Art and Archaeology in the Context of Urban Renewal: investigating relationships between public art, contemporary archaeology and commercial urban regeneration.
Hilary Ramsden, AHRC-funded studentship: Walking as Civic Dialogue: A Critical and Performative Investigation of the Relationship of Walkers to their immediate Neighbourhood and Environment
Funded Situations projects
International Lecture series, 2003-4
Arts Council of England Grants for Arts
Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (Black Dog Publishing), 2004
AHRC Small Grant
The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art Conference
British Academy Conference grant
National Tour of Curating Degree Zero Archive, 2005
Arts Council National Touring Programme
Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol, 2005
Bristol City Council, Creative Bristol, Henry Moore Foundation, Rokeagle
Material City 2006-7
Interdisciplinary programme of lectures, fieldwork and symposium
Arts Council of England; AHRC conference training grant
British Art Show: Heather and Ivan Morison commission
Curating Post-Nation: Rethinking the Survey Exhibition for the Biennial Age symposium
Arts Council of England British Art Show grant
Clark Bursary - 6th UK Digital Art Award 2007
Clark Foundation and Place Research Centre
Arts and Ecology residencies, 2007
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
GWR Research Fellowship: Locating the Producers, 2007-10
Great Western Research Initiative
GWR PhD Studentship: Art and Archaeology, 2006-9
Great Western Research Initiative
One Day Sculpture – New Zealand, June 2008-July 2009
British Academy/ACU Joint International Projects grant
Bristol Interrupted, 2008-9
Media Office
Ivan and Heather Morison, The Shape of Things to Come, 2008-9
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Selected key outputs in relation to Situations research
Invited speaker
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Keynote Lecture for ‘Art in the Life of the City’ conference, April 2008
Glasgow International Festival/CCA, ‘Private Thoughts and Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places, April 2008
Hasselt, Belgium, ‘Out of the Studio: A symposium on art in public space’ , October 2007
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, ‘European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century’, September 2007
Sculpture Projects Münster, Blumenberg Lecture, 15 September 2007
City Gallery, Wellington, ‘Art/World Symposium’, April 2007
Kunsthaus, Graz: ‘From Studio to Situation’, October 2006
Fundaçio La Caixa, Barcelona: ‘Interdependencies between criticism and curatorial practice’, March 2006
ARCO International Experts Forum, Madrid, 2005
University of Ulster, Belfast: Launch of ‘Art in Contested Spaces’ programme with Chris Smith MP and Declan McGonagle, 2004
Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD): ‘Thinking Curatorially’, 2003
Conferences/Panel sessions chaired/moderated
A Day for a Disposable Museum, Tate National, 2007
Breaking Ground: Ballymun Regeneration Project, Dublin, 2005
Cardiff, ‘May you live in interesting times: Festival of Creative Technology’, (Locative Media and Emplacement), 2005
Tate Britain, ‘Relationships between public and private sectors’, 2003
Modern Art, Oxford, ‘Bristol’s Visual Arts Renaissance’, 2003
Selected Publications
Edited books and catalogues
‘Situation’, edition of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2009 (forthcoming)
‘Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation’, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2004
‘Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol’, Bristol: University of the West of England, 2005
‘FACTORS 1989-2000’, seven books on the recent history of art, film and creative technology, Liverpool: FACT, 2003
‘as it is: a season of commissioned work in Birmingham’, Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2000
‘Out of Here: Creative Collaborations beyond the Gallery’, Birmingham: Ikon Gallerym, 1998
Articles and essays
‘Public art as Situation’, in Jan Debbaut (Ed.), Out of the Studio: Art in Public Space, Hasselt, 2008
‘New Institutionalism’ and ‘Performative Curating’, Sculpture Projects Münster, Berlin: Walter Koenig Books, 2007
‘Engaging Places: Participation as the Process, Medium and Subject of Making Art’, Art in the Public Realm, London: Arts Council England, 2007
‘Curating Wrong Places… or Where Have all the Penguins Gone?’ in Paul O’Neill (Ed.), Curating Subjects, Amsterdam and London: De Appel & Open Editions, 2007
‘Daniel Buren’, Lisson Galley, London, 2007
‘A stranger wherever I go’, Anna Lucas, Liverpool: FACT, 2007
‘New Institutionalism and the Exhibition as Situation’, Protections Reader, Graz: Kunsthaus Graz, 2006
‘Topographies in Question’, STAR: a psycho-topography of place, Cardiff: CBAT, 2006
‘Landscapes of Mobilities’, Ergin Çavusoglu: Point of Departure, London: Film and Video Umbrella, 2006
‘The Wrong Place…or a brief utopia: Australian Contemporary Art in 2005’, Australia Council/Venice Biennale, 2005
‘Atmosphere’, Paul Rooney, Colchester: Firstsite, 2005
‘The Institution Is Dead! Long Live The Institution! Contemporary Art and New Institutionalism’, Engage 15, Gallery Education Journal, 2004
‘Location, Location: The Biennale and the City’, Art Monthly, November 2004
‘14th Biennale of Sydney’, Art Monthly, July 2004
‘Nathan Coley, 161 Places of Worship’, Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 2004
‘Out of Here: Curating Beyond the Edifice’ in Gavin Wade (Ed.), Curating in the 21st Century, New Art Gallery Walsall and University of Wolverhampton, 2000
‘Soft Cities’, Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, November 2000
‘Contact Zones’, Diversity: Erika Tan, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust, 2003
‘Social Work/Social Sculpture’, Supermanual: The Incomplete Guide to the Superchannel, Liverpool: FACT, 2001
‘Awaiting Oblivion’, Jane and Louise Wilson, London: Film and Video Umbrella/ellipsis monograph, 2000
Awards and affiliations
Invited International Expert to IASPIS, Sweden, August 2007
Member of IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art since 1997
Member of VAGA - Visual Arts and Galleries Association since 1993
Professional Positions/Peer Review Activities
Member of the AHRC Peer Review College, 2007-
Executive Committee member: VAGA – Visual Arts and Galleries Association (1999 – 2005)
Founding member Bristol Visual Arts Consortium (Constituted in 2005)
Nominator for University of Oxford/Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Fellowship 2009
Judge: Clark Digital Bursary 2006
One of 8 National Nominators: Beck’s Futures, 2005
Judge: Manchester Art Prize, 2005
Nominator, Paul Hamlyn Awards 2004
Editorial Board Membership
Art & Research, Glasgow School of Art (artandresearch.org.uk)
Research/Curatorial Fellowships
Inaugural Curatorial Fellow at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand 2006/9
Guest Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2010
International Visiting Lecturer
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland
Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm
School of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington
External Consultancy
Tate: Curatorial advisor on feasibility study for Tate project 2007-8
University of Bristol Centenary Public Art commission: Curatorial advisor on the commissioning of landmark, permanent public art work in Bristol
Site Gallery, Sheffield: Strategic programme advisor to Site Gallery during Recovery Programme 2006-7
Firstsite, Colchester: Strategic programme advisor to firstsite on £16m development of new building
Arts Council Review of Presenting the Contemporary Visual Arts: Consulted as one of 30 ‘key national players’ across the visual arts sector for the Scoping Review conducted by AEA Consulting, 2004
Creative Quarter, Development of former Sorting Office site, Bristol: Lead curatorial consultant on strategic plan for art programme for commercial development of former Sorting Office site in Bristol with project architects and London-based developer Media Office, 2004/5
Building a Creative City: Bristol Cultural Strategy: Consulted as one of the city’s ‘key visual arts leaders’ by Peter Boyden Associates for Bristol City Council, 2004/5
Moving Image Group (MIG), London: Produced policy review on advocacy for artists’ film and video for group including TATE, LUX, FACT, Site Gallery and Cornerhouse, 2003
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