Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Judith Claire Findlay
QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION
1996-1999
University of Strathclyde
Department of English Studies (The John Logie Baird Centre for Television, Film andMusic)Research in Ph.D. (Cultural Studies / Performance Studies / Anthropology)
Thesis titled: Fine Art as Performance: A Definition of the Discipline
(A Study of the Fine Art World in the Art School), 1998.
Supervised by Professor Simon Frith
(Graduated 2000)1993-1996
University of Glasgow
Department of Film, Television and Theatre Studies (The John Logie Baird Centre for Research in Television, Film and Music)
Registered for Ph.D. Transferred to University of Strathclyde in 1996.
1992-1993
University of Glasgow
Department of Film, Television and Theatre Studies (The John Logie Baird Centre for Research in Television, Film and Music)
M.Phil. Media and Culture1980-1984
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee
School of Fine Art
B.A. (Hons. 1st Class) Fine Art
ACADEMIC WORK
1995-2000
Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies
Gray's School of Art
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen
(BA/BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA/BA (Hons) Design & Craft MA Art & Design)
Undertook research for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) under the title New Strategies for Teaching and Learning in Art and DesignUndertook research for new course / curriculum development / validation in Fine Art
Undertook the writing of Course Modules with regard to Curriculum Development for Contextual and Critical Studies, Fine Art, BA/BA (Hons)
1994-1995
Lecturer in History of Art and Design and Contextual Studies (P/T)
Gray's School of Art
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen
(BA/BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA/BA (Hons) Design & Craft MA Art & Design)1994
Specialist Lecturer - Communications Studies (Visiting)
Department of Photography Film and Television
Napier University, Edinburgh
(BA/BA (Hons) Photography)
Lecturer/Tutor - Fine Art - Sculpture; History and Theory (Visiting)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
University of Dundee
(BA/BA(Hons) Fine Art)
Tutor
Centre for Continuing Education
University of Edinburgh
(Adult Education)
PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS
1995 Selector for Fotofeis Photography Festival
1995-1998 Scottish Arts Council, Visual Arts (Awards): Panel Member
1995-present Scottish correspondent for Flash Art International
1996 Circa Magazine, Scottish Supplement: Co-Editor
1996-1997 Scottish Sculpture Workshop: Board of Directors
1997-1999 Member of Tramway (Glasgow) International Curatorium (with Sam Ainsley, Amanda Crabtree, Jan Debbaut, Douglas Gordon, Kasper König and Thomas Lawson)
1998 Selector / Interviewer for Artist's Residency, Duff House, Aberdeenshire
1998-present Editorial / Advisory Board of the journal 292: Essays in Visual Culture (published by Edinburgh College of Art)
2001 Consultant for the exhibition Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990 to the Present Day, Dundee Contemporary Arts
2001 Independent Evaluator, Arts and Humanities Research Board
PUBLISHED WRITING
'Side Step: Alice Angus and Charles Sandison', Live Art Magazine, no. 1, (May, 1994
'Unbuilding: Michael Kirkham, Andrew Millar, James Thornhill', Live Art Magazine, no. 2, (July, 1994)
'Fuck the Police: New Art as Subculture', in Nicola White (ed.), New Art in Scotland, (Glasgow: CCA, 1994)
Tracy Mackenna: Not a Shred of Evidence, (Coventry: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, 1995)
'Jonathan Monk', Flash Art International, vol. XXVIII, no. 181, (March-April, 1995)
Janine Antoni: Slip of the Tongue - works from 1989-1995, (Glasgow: CCA, 1995)
Do It - an exhibition from instructions, (Glasgow: CCA, 1995)
'Janine Antoni: a conversation between Janine Antoni, Lucy Byatt and Judith Findlay', Transcript, vol. 1, issue. 2 (Summer, 1995)
'Janine Antoni', Womens' Art Magazine, no. 64 (May/June, 1995)
'Roderick Buchanan', Flash Art International, vol. XXVIII, no. 183, (Summer, 1995)
'Living in the Real World (Robin and Other Artists)', Next? - Artists, Residencies, Hospitals, exhibition catalogue, (Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Museums and art Galleries, 1995)
'Positives and Negatives', Portfolio Magazine, no. 21, (June, 1995)
SWARM, (Edinburgh: The Scottish Arts Council, 1995)
'Trust', Untitled, (Summer, 1995)
Desire Line: Sarah McKenzie Smith, (Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, 1995)
'Stephan Gueneau', Flash Art International, vol. XXVIII, no. 184, (October, 1995)
The Persistence of Painting, (Glasgow: CCA, 1995)
'David Shrigley', zingmagazine, (Autumn, 1995)
'Spencer Finch', Flash Art International, vol. XXVIII, no. 185, (November - December, 1995)
'Ouverture: Dalziel and Scullion', Flash Art International, vol. XXVIII, no. 185, (November - December, 1995)
Small Living Things That Fly: Dalziel and Scullion, (Glasgow: CCA, 1995)
'There's Not Much Art That's Like A Good Story', Art & Design, Profile 46 (Public Art), vol. 11 1/2, (London: Academy Group Ltd, 1996)
'Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion: an interview with Judith Findlay' Art & Design, Profile 46 (Public Art), vol. 11 1/2, (London: Academy Group Ltd, 1996)
'David Shrigley', Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 186, (January - February, 1996)
Now That I am in Heaven... - Alan Currall: an interview with Judith Findlay, (Glasgow: Fringe Gallery, 1996)
'Lesley Punton', Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 187, (March - April, 1996)
All That Remains: New Work by Lucy Byatt, (Aberdeen: City of Aberdeen, 1996)
Lying Judas: Jonathan Monk, (Glasgow, Nantes: Tramway Visual Arts and Frac des Pays de la Loire, 1996)
'Alan Currall: God is Dog Spelt Backwards', Dimensions: Five Artists from Britain (Hannah Collins, Alan Currall, Mona Hatoum, Tanya Leighton, Marcus Taylor), Hans-Jurgen Buderer and Thomas Kollhofer (eds), (Mannheim: Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1996)
'Cityscape: Glasgow', (interviews with Charles Esche, Douglas Gordon, Tracy Mackenna, Jonathan Monk, Transmission Committee, David Shrigley, Ross Sinclair and Nicola White), Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 188, (May-June, 1996).
'21 Days of Darkness', Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 189, (summer, 1996)
'Jeremy Deller', Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 189, (summer, 1996)
'I feel good here, travelling in the city', Taming Goliath (Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, 1996)
'Global Art: Zoe Walker' Flash Art International, vol. XXIX, no. 191, (November - December, 1996)
Claude Closky, (Glasgow: CCA, 1996)
Kerry Stewart, (Glasgow: CCA, 1996)
'If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay....', zingmagazine, no. 3 (winter/spring 1996/97).
'Jeremy Deller', zingmagazine, no. 3 (winter/spring 1996/97).
'Angus Hood', Flash Art International, vol. XXX, no. 192 (January - February, 1997)
'Kerry Stewart', Flash Art International, vol. XXX, no. 193 (March - April, 1997)
Goes Ah: Dalziel + Scullion (Aberdeenshire: Iain Irving, 1997)
'Ouverture: Sandy Grant, Flash Art International, vol. XXX, no. 197 (November - December, 1997)
'Jacqueline Donachie (Dream a Little Dream of Me)', in Keith Hartley and Ursula Prinz (eds.), Korrespondenzen / Correspondences, (Berlin and Edinburgh: Berlinische Galerie and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997)
'Suburban Affair', Flash Art International, vol. XXXI, no. 198 (January - February, 1998)
'Seeing Something Wonderful (a thought from here to there)', in Charlotte Day, Max Delany, Stuart Koop, Clare Williamson (eds.), Morning Star, Evening Star, (Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography and the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1998)
'Of All Places: a few thoughts on identity and location (a conversation between Judith Findlay and Iain Irving), Iain Irving (ed.), This Island Earth (Isle of Skye: An Tuireann, 1998)
A Theory of Ideas (or, Just Mere Baggage), (Edinburgh: Inverleith House, 1998)
'In My House: A Short Essay on Art in Scotland', Critical Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4 (winter, 2000)
'Grasping Shadows and Writing on Water (Art and Precision)', 292: Essays in Visual Culture, no. 2 (winter 2000)
'A Less Remote Place: Art Ecology and Dalziel + Scullion', in Juliet Knight (ed.), Dalziel and Scullion: Home, (Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2001)
'Art as Leisure', Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, (forthcoming)
SELECTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS ETC.
1993
'Everyday Aesthetics', Baird Seminar, John Logie Baird Centre, University of Glasgow (paper given - with Seona Slevin).
'Everyday Aesthetics', Scottish Arts Council Workshop, Edinburgh (paper given - with Seona Slevin).
1994
'Art and Policy', Baird Seminar, John Logie Baird Centre, University of Glasgow (paper given).
1995
Panel discussion (chaired by Robert Dawson Scott) on the theme of 'the present relevance of sculpture'; annual conference of the Scottish Sculpture Trust, University of Stirling (panel member).
'Dalziel and Scullion', Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (in conversation with the artists).
1997
Panel discussion (chaired by Andrew Nairne), 'Art Schools in Crisis', Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (panel member).
2000
'Art as Leisure', Visual Art Noo: Contemporary Practice in Scotland, Conference of the Scottish Society of Art History, Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (paper given - with Iain Irving).