| GILLIAN McIVER |
Gillian McIver started her artistic journey by picking up a camera and shooting bands, and then progressed to underground cinema-making. After a spell at film school, she co-founded the artist group Luna Nera, and spent a decade making large-scale site-specific projects in unusual sites, from a Russian naval base to a derelict grand hotel. She makes installation art, films and videos, photography, and curates exhibitions. Her most recent curatorial project was the exhibition Alchemy! in London, 2022. She has a PhD in art history and cinema studies, and is currently a researcher in residence at the Swedenborg House, researching theatre design history and the special effects artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. She has written several books on film, art history and scenography. She is the writer and producer of the play Apologia, which premiered at Camden Fringe 2024. Upcoming Into the Sublime the Eidophusikon Reimagined Oct 21-28 A reconstruction and reimagining of the iconic Eidophusikon, a milestone in theatre history. Reimagined as five-scene performance incorporating current contemporary art to explore de Swedenborg’s ideas about art and science, material work and the afterlife, and his vision of the Divine. see more Most Recent Curator and Producer of Exhibition ‘Alchemy!’ London 2022 Exhibited video Trans-States group show, curated by Elizabeth Tomos Exhibited photography “Last Orders” The Steamship PS, London October 2021 Exhibited video and spoken word performance “Timeless Thames” The Steamship PS, London October 2020 Exhibited photography “Invisible Cities” The Steamship PS, London 2019 Curator and Producer of Exhibition and Film Festival, British Film Institute, #timetoact PSVI Film Festival 2018 Exhibition “Bon Collage” at Kottishop Berlin, 2018 Several Video works were featured at Casablanca Bienniale autumn 2016 catalogue excerpt ——————————————————— Talks, spoken word and interviews Spoken Word Performance, Swedenborg House – launch of Swedenborg Review 4 publication 2023 Talk, Emery Walker House London 2023 Interview for SHWEP* podcast with Earl Fontanelle; *SHWEP is the Secret History of Western Esotericism 2022 Podcast for New Books Network 2017; interview by Kirstin L. Ellsworth Profile of Gillian McIver in Stigmart01 Videofocus Summer 2014 Interview on Monocle Radio Sept 2014 ——————————————————— Selected Exhibitions and Exhibition Screenings 2019 Invisible Cities, The Steamship PS London 2018 Bon Collage, KottiShop Gallery Berlin PSVI Film Festival, British Film Institute, London 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 * Co-founded Studio 75 artist run space in London* 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 Alchemy! exhibition Blackwall, London 2022 PSVI #timetoact Film Festival BFI London 2018 Studio75 London 2010 – 2013 “Schematic: Eric Raymond” Canada House Gallery, London “Schematic: The Machine that Moves Us (New Media Art from Canada)” SPACE London Luna Nera Education • PhD, Cinema and Art History, University of Roehampton. Supported by the AHRC. • 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 British Council Touring Grant AHRC Postgraduate Award, Master of Fine Arts AHRC Postgraduate TECHNE Award, PhD |