Brigid Mc Leer CV (selected)

Aug/Sept. 2002 ÔHabitatÕ: Live reading with projected video at 'The Studio and After' Victoria & Albert Museum, London & Creative Re-Use: The Body of Knowledge symposium, Arnolfini, Bristol and University of Bristol

May 2001 ÔFreezeÕ (video) :ÔSpace DoubtÕ Group Show, studiothirtynine, Plymouth, Devon.
April/May 2001 ÔFreezeÕ (16Õx 2Õ collaged free-hanging frieze) : Verbal inter Visual, Lethaby Galleries, Southampton Row, London

July - December 2000 (and ongoing) ÔIn Place of the Page, Construction Phase 3Õ Live events at; ÔMobile PorchÕ, Under the Westway, London ÔIncubation, writing and the internetÕ conference, Nottingham Trent Uni. & Dartington Gallery, Dartington, Devon.

March 1999 ÔImage Defining Word Defining ImageÕ The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London Group show as part of London Literature Festival

June 1998 ÔDark FieldÕ Group Exhibition, at The Boiler House, Eastway Baths, Hackney, London

Feb. 1996 ÔWriting With A ThalamusÕ Photographic Installation, Dartington Art Gallery

April 1994 Artists Books, shown at the ÔArtists Book FairÕ Royal Festival Hall, London (Represented by Greenwood Contemporary Books)

June 1993 Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School, London

March 1993 ÔTwo Thousand Square FeetÕ Group Show 52 Whitfield St. London

 

PUBLICATIONS - of image-text work & academic essays

ÔFoil, defining poetry 1985-2000Õ Etruscan Books, UK
Shark, contemporary poetry journal, New York, Autumn Ô99
Coil, journal of the moving imageÕ, RCA London (Spring. Ô99)
Circa 86, Irish and International Art, Winter Ô98 (pub. Dublin & Belfast)
Performance Research Journal Vol.3 No.2 ÔOn PlaceÕ Summer Ô98
Performance Research, Journal Issue 4 ÔLetters From EuropeÕ Spring 1997
Performance Research, Journal. Issue 1, ÔThe Temper of the TimesÕ Spring 1996 Published by Routledge, in association with Writing Research Associates, Cardiff.
CHAIN, ÔProcess and ProceduresÕ Summer 1997, Uni. of Hawaii, Honolulu & New York
Artists Yearbook, Issue 1, June 1995, Magpie Press, London
Engaged Magazine, Issue 2 (Poster Issue) Feb. 1995 Published by Rachel Steward, 332a Kennington Rd. London

Rewritten text of ÔAxisÕ paper (see conferences) published in ÔVisible Language 33.1Õ, Rhode Island School of Design, USA. April Ô99.

Work shown on websites at, www.clubi.ie/stunned/ www.heelstone.com/perihelion

 

PAPERS GIVEN AT CONFERENCES

Organiser and participant of Ôtaking placeÕ (various feminist spatial interventions)at:
University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, Nov. 2002
University of North London, School of Architecture 22nd &24th Nov. 2001 (see production work)

ÔCollapsing HereÕ : rereading of Version 2 of this project (pub. in Circa) at ÔPerspectives, Irish Identity in the 2othcÕ, Inst. for Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen University, Nov. Ô99

ÔOf Surfaces and HolesÕ : spaces of the feminine in Collapsing Here (image-text project spanning 3 different print journals and two web sites). At ÔAlterities; feminism and architectureÕ, Paris, June Ô99

ÔIn Place of the PageÕ : non-linear poetry and graphic design - a performed reading. At ÔVisual CulturesÕ Scripps college, California. March Ô99. This paper also presented in a different mode at ÔEphemeralities of WritingÕ conference in Utrecht, April Ô99 And at ÔLiminalitiesÕ, Brunel University, April 2000

ÔAxis, a line about which a body : contextualising photo-text work.Õ At Ômixed messages, image, text and technologyÕ conference, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina, Oct. Ô97

 

PRODUCTION/CURATION WORK

Curator of LLAW a series of public text-works for ÔbookartbookshopÕ, Hoxton, London 2002 - 2004

Part of a group of architects and artists Ôtaking placeÕ who organise events/conferences and spatial interventions exploring the practices and theories of contemporary feminist spatial practice.

 

AWARDS

AA2A, Artists Access to Art Colleges residency scheme; Oct 02 - April 03, London Metropolitan University
Labculture: one week residency at PVA, Bridport, Dorset on course for artist working with digital media. 2002
ACME artistÕs live-work residency 2002 - 2007 The Sugar House, London
London Arts Individual Awards to Artists July 2001 ÔKicking OffÕ,
South West Arts fund for new writers. 1999
Creative Arts Residency at Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, Summer 1997
Duveen Travel Award for Artists One months residency at Ny Alesund, Svalbard, Norway. Sept. 1993

 

 

 

 


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