Louise Ritchie C.V. PhD Candidate, MFA, PGcert, PGDip, BA (Hons) PPSSA
QUALIFICATIONS
2019-Present PhD Candidate at DJCAD, University of Dundee (UoD) Supervisors Professor Graham Fagen and Professor Mary Modeen. Year 4 of a 5-year part time PhD.
Title- Hybrid States: A practice-led exploration examining the ways in which artists experiment and improvise with materials, making-processes and concepts in the creation of artworks.
2017-18 MFA Art & Humanities at DJCAD, UoD
2014-15 PGCert TQFE UoD
1990-91 PG Diploma, Drawing & Painting DJCAD, Dundee
1986 -90 BA (Hons) Fine Art DJCAD, Dundee
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011-Present Lecturer Fine Art- City of Glasgow College (CoGC) /University of West of Scotland
2019-22 Invited Artist/ Lecturer, DJCAD- Open Tutorials, CAP/ Art & Philosophy- Expanded Module Delivery, Group Crits and Staff Illness Cover. This period also includes working with Delia Baillie and Level 3 CAP students to create a pop-up exhibition at WASPS Meadow Mills Project 1 Space in my capacity as a member of Project 1 curation panel. In addition, I devised & delivered a 2D into 3D online practical workshop for Interior & Environmental Design Level 2.
2013-18 Guest Lecturer: UWS, MA: Creative Media Practice, School of Media Culture & Society
1996-05 Glasgow College of Building & Printing/ Glasgow Metropolitan -Lecturer Fine Art
1996-Pres Self-employed artist practice
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS
2022 In Praise of Silos, Transformative Teaching: Focus on Pedagogy, Architecture Media Politics Society, UoD.
2021 Reflecting on Brackish Waters- Open Rivers-e. journal Ritchie, Louise. 2021. ‘Reflecting on Brackish Waters.’ Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no.20. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/reflecting-on-brackish-waters/.
2021 Decolonising Place-Based Arts Research – ISBN 978-1-899837876 Ritchie, Louise. ‘On Belonging’, (pp 106-109), in Modeen, M (Ed), Decolonising Place-based Arts Research, (Dec. 2021) DJCAD, University of Dundee, in association with the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, and Te Ipukarea Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, Huia Press, With contributions by 16 artist/scholars. (Modeen is Editor and Contributor.) ISBN: 9 78 -1-899837 87 6. Auckland, NZ. 128 pp.
2021 Me, a Swan? 100ºC Hauntology, Turmoil, Change, PhD Conference, University of Dundee (online)
2020 Material Stories, Encounters PhD Symposium, DJCAD/UoD
2019 Hidden in Plain Sight: An Approach from Within Milligan A, Adams R, Bruce-Simpkins N, Ritchie L. In Architecture and Collective Life: 16th Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference AHRA Conference 2019. Architectural Humanities Research Association. p. 50-51. Conference Paper, Between The Lines, contribution to Hidden in Plain Sight: An Approach from Within.
2014-15 Co-Editor of 11:11 Nove Mosty / New Bridges publication. Supported by the Charge D’Affairs of the British Embassy, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Fine Arts Fund, Slovakia in collaboration with SSA & Association of Slovak Printmakers, ISBN: 978-80-971656-9-7
RESEARCH FUNDING AWARDS
2019-22 Research & Professional Development Funding Award, CoGC (PhD)
2017 Post Graduate Alumni Scholarship, DJCAD, UoD
2017-18 Research &Professional Development Funding Award, CoGC (MFA Art & Humanities)
2016-17 Engage UK – Extend, Leadership Programme (Creative Scotland/ CoGC)
2013 International Partnerships & Networks Funding Award for Society of Scottish Artists/Creative Scotland
2011-14 Co-Founder TRiGGER Research Network, ArtWorks Scotland/Creative Scotland/AHRC/Paul Hamlyn Foundation
SELECTED PRIZES & NOMINATIONS
2019 Best Exhibition Award, Hybrid International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
2018 The Duncan of Jordanstone MFA Art & Humanities Prize 2018
2018 Studio Faire Student Residency Award, Nérac, France
2015 Dundee Visual Artist Award, Dundee City Council and Creative Scotland
1998 The Glasgow Art Club Fellowship, RGI, Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow
1997 The Scottish Arts Club Prize, SSA, Edinburgh
1992 Dundee District Council Purchase Prize
1992 Nominated for Young Scottish Artist of the Year, Miller Homes
1990 Nominated for Young Scottish Artist of the Year, Miller Homes
1990 Paris Cite International Des Arts Award Winner Miller Homes Scholarship, Paris
1989 The Hospitalfield Fine Art Scholarship– Hospitalfield School of Art, Arbroath, Scotland
SELECTED GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Tales of The Unexpected- Scotland’s Stories, Lamb Gallery, UoD-Archives
2022 Nietzsche- Science Art Life-International Conference, UoD
2022 Pentalogia Feminina- Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
2022 thought space– South Block, Glasgow, with Celia Garcia and Lorna Mitchell
2022 On Time -Tatha Gallery, Newport- with Delia Baillie and Georgia Rose Murray
2022 Weights of Responsibility– Birnam Arts, Dunkeld, with Jenny Pope and Susie Johnston
2021-22 Presence of Absence– Edinburgh Printmakers-with Leena Nammari
2021 Nexus-Group exhibition, UoD
2021 157 Reliquaries– Hidden Door Festival Commission
2020 Material Stories- 2 Person Exhibition with Rosalind Lawless, The Briggait, Glasgow
2019-20 Alma College, Michigan, USA- MFA Art & Humanities Alumni Exhibition
2019 Hybrid International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid-co-curator, Winner of Best Exhibition
2019 Resolute, Tatha Gallery, Newport
2018 Hybrid States, at DJCAD, MFA Art & Humanities Exhibition
2018 PPSSA Exhibition- Wall Projects, Montrose
2018 Sleeping with Mary Shelley, City of Glasgow College
2017 This Exhibition Has Been Cancelled– Symposium with GoMA Curator and members of Engage UK in conversation with Students of Contemporary Art Practice, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2017 This Exhibition Has Been Cancelled, with Lorna Mitchell, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2017 Verdant @ Verdant, Verdant Works, Dundee Heritage
2016 UNpainting – Solo Exhibition, WASPS Project Space 1, Meadow Mills, Dundee
2016-22 60 x 60 International Touring Print Exhibition including Paris, Japan, Bulgaria, and China
2016 Liminal- Cupar Arts Festival, Guest Artist
2016 Paint>Print>Paint, Collaboration with Leena Nammari at The Meffan Gallery
1998-19 SSA Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
2014 Colour Flood, Solo Exhibition,&Collective Gallery, Bridge of Allan & Edinburgh
2013 Abstract, Lamb Gallery, UoD
2013 In the Eye of the Needle, Solo Exhibition, NOMAS* Projects and McManus Galleries, Dundee
2012-18 The Affordable Art Fair, London represented by Bridgegate Gallery
2012 Imagineering, Solo Exhibition,The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2011 Chromatopia, Solo Exhibition, Bridge View Gallery, Aberdeen
2011-15 RSA, Royal Scottish Academy, NGS Edinburgh
2007 Award Winners, Air Gallery, London,
2007 Visiones en Color, Solo Exhibition, The White Gallery, Barcelona
2006 The London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington
2002 Richard DeMarco Foundation, Group Exhibition, Edinburgh
1996 Land Light Vision, Solo Exhibition,Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1993 Espania Joven, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
1993 The Collector’s Eye, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE & MEMBERSHIP
2022 Invited Guest Prize Judge-The Big Art Show, Paisley
2021 Invited Speaker and Roundtable Participant, Ethics, Advocacy and
Decolonizing Place-Based Research Symposia, organised by DJCAD
(Dundee, Scotland) and the College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota
2020 Encounters PhD Symposium, DJCAD, UoD
2019 Invited speaker with colleagues from Universities of Portsmouth & Northumbria, Hidden in Plain Sight: An Approach from Within for the Architecture & Collective Life Conference, DJCAD for the Architecture & Humanities Research Association
2019 Member of Dundee Print Collective
2018-Pres Member of Visual Arts Scotland, (VAS)
2019 Elected Selection Panel for SSA 2019, National Galleries, Edinburgh
2017 Guest Facilitator, Fife Contemporary Arts; TRiGGER Active Listening Sessions- Off the Rails Collective, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2016-17 Engage UK – Extend, Creative Leadership Programme, 2017 Alumni
2015-Pres Project 1-Meadow Mills Curatorial Panel Member, Dundee
2012 Creative Dundee Pecha Kucha, Juggling Acts, Vol 1, Dundee http://vimeo.com/32804825
2009-15 Guest Lecturer Museum of St Andrews & International Summer School of St Andrews
2009-14 Artist in Residence, Angus Council-projects included community engagement, site specific art projects and working in a variety of formal and informal learning settings.
2011-13 Elected President Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
2009-11 Elected Vice President of SSA
2009-13 Board Member of ESSA: Exhibiting Societies of Scottish Artists
2008-13 Elected Council Member SSA
1997-99 Elected Council Member SSA
1998-Pres Professional Member Scottish Artists Union (SAU)
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
2019 Represented WASPS Studios at Hybrid Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
2015 Invited Special Guest- Xth International Residential Print Symposium, Castle Mojmirovce, Slovakia
2015-18 60 x 60, International Printmaking Touring Exhibition Project launched in Antwerp, Belgium
2015-16 Co-Editor of ’60×60′ publication, accompanying an international travelling exhibition to 60 countries launched in Gallerie Epruve, Antwerp, Belgium.
2014-16 New Bridges 11:11 International Touring Exhibition, Nitra, Trencin, Piestany, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 Distance Learning, with Leena Nammari, British Ambassador`s Residence, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Amaterus Paper Arts Academy Biennale, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011-12 Mosty / Bridges 1X, Piestany, Slovakia, supported by the Slovak and The British Consul
2011-13 Design in Action GIDE, creative lead in research-led international workshop with DJCAD+ V&A Dundee
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021 157 Reliquaries– Hidden Door Festival Funded Commission, with Susie Johnston, Edinburgh
2021 Nexus: Collaborative PhD Artist Book Project + Exhibition, DJCAD
2018 Co-Curator, Project Lead, and symposium co-organiser, Ways We Work @ West Ward Works, Dundee
2017 Project co-Lead, Verdant @ Verdant, Conversation + Collaborative Exchange, Verdant Works High Mill & Dundee Heritage with artists Delia Baillie RSA and keynote by Eddie Summerton RSA
2017 Engage UK: Extend– Project Lead, There’s a Hole in My Bucket: Experimental Workshop Project & Research Enquiry, The Tetley: Contemporary Art Gallery, Leeds
2016 Commission-site specific artwork, Elegy for City of Glasgow College for the New City Campus
2011-12 Community Arts and co-design collaboration, Eastern Primary School Gate Project with Louise Scullion for The Big Art Project, Dundee City Council, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Gvlnw6IR0
2009-14 Community Arts & co-design collaboration for Project Blueprint, Angus Council, Ginkgo Projects, Creative Scotland
2009 Community Arts and co-design collaboration for Wide Open Space Seaview Primary and Creative Scotland
2009 Curator for Juteopolis, acollaboration with DJCAD and Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) at Vision, Dundee
2009 Curator for The Jute Bag Project, an arts outreach event targeting regional schools in collaboration with Dundee City Council, Verdant Works, and Dundee Heritage Trust, Overgate Centre, Dundee
SELECTED PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE & FILM
2013 Lyke a River short film for Son of the Sea Productions, Dundee- Lyke A River by Stephen Knight OFFICIAL VIDEO – YouTube
2009 Speaking the Land, performer, and vocal coach for Dalziel + Scullion, Scottish Natural Heritage, and Gingko Projects- Speaking the Land: Dalziel + Scullion – Environmental Art
2009 Meet Sid, short film for Wide Open Space with the Care Commission and Dundee Rep Education outreach programme and Youth Theatre
2006 Killing Time atDundee Contemporary Arts with Graham Eatough (Suspect Culture) and Graham Fagen- Installation Performer- https://youtu.be/fboNAqpuphU