BIOGRAPHY & CV

 
  Pernille Spence is an artist based in Scotland and currently lectures in the School of Media Arts & Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. She has been creating installations, performances and moving image works since the mid 1990s, and has exhibited in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and online. Pernille’s work explores a visual dialogue between the human body, movement and space and the body’s physical/psychological limits and constraints with in these parameters. In 2006 Pernille was recipient of a prestigious Creative Scotland Award.


 
  SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS

 
 

2006 Captured, National Review of Live Art 2006, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland (installation)

2005 INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallin/Estonia (screening)

2005 Borders, Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden (screening)

2005 Chronic Epoch, ‘In Flight Entertainment’, Beaconsfield, London (screening)

2004 + 2005 International Festival of Film & Video across outdoor public venues in
Ekaterinburg, Russia (outdoor video projection)

2004 Kinaree, The Empty Space, Independent Studios, Merchant City Festival, Glasgow, Scotland (performance & installation)

2003/4 About You and Your Fears, McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland (performance & installation)

2003 In Motion Dance Film Festival, Aberdeen, Scotland (screening)

2003 Lancaster Film & New Media Festival, Lancaster, England (outdoor video projection)

2003 Freefall, Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough, England (outdoor video projection)

2003 Kinaree, National Review of Live Art 2003, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland
(performance and installation)

2003 Itch, Adelaide International Film Festival, Australia (screening)

2002/03 Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion, Australian Centre for the Moving Image,Australia (video installation)

2002 Chumchains: VideoLinks, Blip Gallery, Troy, New York (screening)

2001/02 Cyberfem Spirit of Data, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany (video installation)

2001 Mediarama, CAAC (Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art), Seville, Spain (screening)

2001 DeepRoot, International Festival of Live, Sound and New Media Art, Hull Time Based Arts (outdoor video projection).

2001 'i look up ... i look down', touring outdoor projection @ the following Scottish galleries: Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, & Art.TM, Inverness

2000 'infusion/fix 2000 millennium review of live art' Catalyst Arts, Belfast (video installation)

2000 Infinitude, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (video installation)

2000 An Invitation to Kiss, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland (video installation)

1999 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh (video installation)

1998 Amorph'98, Finland (screening)

1998 Unimovie Video and Short Film Festival, Pescara, Italy (sceening)

1998 RADAR International exhibition, Generator, Dundee, Scotland (video installation)

1998 Online Banners (internet project) - part of Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival (Banners project curated by Beverley Hood).

1998 Video Soup, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (screening)

1998 Unicaja Film & Video Festival, Malaga, Spain (sceening)

1998 Longshots Video Festival, Glasgow University, Scotland (screening)

1996 New Visions Film and Video Festival, Java Exhibition Space, Glasgow, Scotland (video installation)

1996 Mashed Potato Supper, Scotland's first live internet performance between Edinburgh and New York. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival. Initiated by Cary Peppermint.


 
  FORTHCOMING

 
  For September 2007 I will be developing a series of interventions in the landscape along three of Scotland’s busiest commuter rail routes. This project is supported by a Creative Scotland Award 2006.


 
  COMMISSIONS

 
  2004/5 40 Minutes, video installation commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre for their 2004/2005 touring programme.

2003 Kinaree, National Review of Live Art 2003, The Arches, Glasgow. Co-commission between New Moves International and New Media Scotland.

2001 Touring Video Projection commissioned by SYOTA (Scotland’s Year of the Artist) and DPAP (Design and Public Art Programme).

2000 Site Specific performance for ‘Swipe2000 Festival’, commissioned by PVA Media Lab, Dorset.

1999 Time Signatures, video installation in collaboration with Caz McIntee, for a Scottish Dance Theatre Touring production, commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre.



 
  COLLECTIONS

 
  Mcmanus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland
Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia



 
  SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

 
  2003 Editor on Cultural Quarter (short film) directed by Mike Stubbs, footage supplied by Robert Page (Schedule D Productions) and produced by FORMA. Cultural Quarter was a multiple prize winner at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Trennial in Japan, Aug 2003 (Tom Finkelpearl and Barbara London Prizes). It has also been shown in many international venues including the International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Baltic, Newcastle, ICA, London, Next 5 Minutes, Amsterdam, Hamburg International Short Film Festival (No Budget Award), Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Microwave Short Film Festival, Hong Kong, Transmediale 2005, Berlin, Videoex 2004 Festival, Zurich (2nd Prize) and the International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, 2005 (1st Prize).

2002 Each & Every Inch, video installation in collaboration with Cathie Boyd, Theatre Cryptic @ CCA Glasgow & the Usine© in Montreal, Canada.

2001 Editor on 'Ropa (gor'a): mountain, parabolic flight' (short documentary of ZERO G flight, Star City, Russia), in collaboration with Catalyst Arts.

2001 If I Die B4 U Wake (directed by Robert Rae) – video installation in collaboration with Robert Page for Theatre Workshop production.


 
  PRIZES & AWARDS

 
  2006 Creative Scotland Award 2006
2005 Dundee Visual Artists Award
2002 Dundee Visual Artists Award
2001 Scottish Arts Council Assistance Award
2001 Scotland’s Year of the Artist Award
1999 Scottish Arts Council Projects Award (in collaboration with Generator, Dundee)
1998 Award for ‘Best Experimental Video’, Unicaja Film & Video Festival - Malaga, Spain.
1995 Fine Art Travel Scholarship
1994 The George Duncan of Drumfork Award (for Sculpture)


 
  RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 
 

2004 - 2006 Part-time lecturer/researcher in Time Based Arts, School of Media Arts & Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

June 2005 Jury panel member 21st International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, No Budget Competition

Ongoing - Dundee Contemporary Arts Cinema Advisory Group

2003 - 2005
Alt-W Awards panel and steering group member

2003 European Media Artists Residency Exchange (EMARE) Selection panel member

2001 - 2003 Project co-ordinator for Alt-W (a funding scheme for artists creating projects utilizing the internet)

2002 Management group member for Burning Bush 2 – Doing Time, a 3 day city wide event of performative and media art

2001 Project co-ordinator for National Curators & Artists Forum held in Dundee, October 2001

1999 - 2000 Project co-ordinator, fundraiser & curator for 'An Invitation to Kiss', Generator Projects, Dundee

1997 - 2004 Research Resident (part-time) in the School of Television and Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee

1996 - ongoing - Visiting Lecturer, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

February - March 1996 Live Guide for British Art Show, Talbot Rice Gallery


 
  EDUCATION

 
  1996-97 Post Graduate Diploma in Electronic Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

1991-95 Fine Art, Sculpture. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

1990-91 Leith School of Art, Edinburgh


 
  QUALIFICATIONS

 
  1st Class BA(Honours) Fine Art

Post Graduate Diploma in Electronic Imaging (with Commendation)


 
 

 

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