CV

 

 CV 

Gill Addison 

gill@gilladdison.com 

www.gilladdison.com 



Filmography 

The Conversation (5:50 colour/sound) 2021 

Becoming Fireflies/ Copy Press https://www.copypress.co.uk/index/the-conversation-by-gill-addison/ 

In Media Res (colour/sound 10:00) 2018 Japan/UK. 

Talked about Pink (Revisited 2017) 

Work-Out 

Fractions (Studio/Location/Material) 3 - 7minutes, sound, HD 2016 

Part of Work-Out, Video Installation 

White Maelstrom White (25mins, Colour, sound) 2015 UK 

tender, tender (5 mins Silent,) 2014 

March 2014 screened at 6th Subjectivities and Feminisms Performance Dinner 

A Chance to see a tassel vs. A single Hurt Colour (3 minutes, silent) 2013 

Screened at Suppose a Salon event Chelsea School of Art and Design, London 

I, Object (2-minute looped video animation Silent) 2013 May 2013 First screened as part of the Kantine Chapters, Gallery Futura, Berlin Vane Gallery, Newcastle, UK. 

Somewhere, Nowhere, Elsewhere (3minutes looped video silent) 2013 April 2013, First screened at the Visual Pleasure Subjectivities and Feminisms Dinner Coming Undone part one and two (Video animations – silent) 2012 September 2012 First screening as part of Deptford X Call and Response (video loop, silent) 2011 September 2011, First screening as part of Deptford X Talked About Pink 2011 UK/DVD 35 min 

March 2012Peckham and Nunhead film festival March 2011Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies (BiGS) 

Artist and Activist Seminar on International Women’s Day Win or The Cynical Function of Ideology – 2011 UK, 5mins 

June 2015 Screened as part of Parallax, Katowice, Poland July 2010 Screened at the Phallic Matron Subjectivities and Feminisms Dinner Extract from Talked about Pink (Director) 2010 (In progress) Part of the Room of One’s Own DVD: Subjectivities and Feminisms. March 2010 Visual Thinking 1, Camden Arts Centre Aria (Director) 2008 UK/DVD/Silent 5mins July 2008, Screened at the Candy Floss Parade – Chelsea College of Art and Design 2 

Dancing with a Dead Man’s Things 2008 (Director) collaboration with Doran George 2008 UK DVD 15mins February 2008, Screened at the Mourners Dance – Chisenhale London. Landscape for leaving her(e) (Director) 2006 UK.DVD 5mins Screened at the following: Jan 2014 - REACT, Romford - Part of Import/Export event Oct 2010 – Peepshow, Project Space 11, Plymouth April 2009 – Gallery 39k Pakistan Mar 26 - Apr 4 2008Unpack '08, Chinese Experimental Art Education and Practice Exhibition, Nanshan Art Museum and Xiangshan Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou March – April 2008 ViDea '08, University of Sienna & University of Ferrara, Italy, Mar 2008; and University of Salerno, Apr 2008 September 2006 The Society of London Ladies presents for Nuit Blanche in Paris Something she called a fever (Director) – 2006 UK DVD 3mins September 2006Screened at The Society of London Ladies presents for Nuit Blanche in Paris 

The Daily Hayley – (Editor) 2003, UK, DVD – 84mins Feature-length video, documenting The Daily Hayley (Hayley Newman) performance work. Matt’s Gallery, London September 2001 Screened: 

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Matts Gallery – London. 

Nightlife of the Jewellery (camera/editor) For Hayley Newman 2002 30min DVD, Silent, Screened: Ikon Gallery – August 2002 Part of Hayley Newman. 

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. March 2003 

Choco Gothic (camera/editor) for Hayley Newman,2002 20min DVD. Sound. Screened: Ikon Gallery – August 2002 Part of Hayley Newman. 

Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve. March 2003 International Exhibitionist. Curzon Soho . May 2006. 

Remnants of the Original (Director/Editor) 2001 U.K 15mins DV, Colour, Performance/Document A collaborative work with Doran George, Funded by Live Arts Agency, London Arts Board. Screenings: Documents, Documentaries and Documentations: Artists’ Film and Video. The Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, March 2002 

This is Where.... (Writer/Director) 2000. U.K 16mm Film, Colour, Commissioned short film part of East End Lives - Produced by Four Corner Films - Distributed by Four Corners. 

Jan 2014 - REACT, Romford - Part of Import/Export event 

Charlottenburg. (Written, directed, edited) 1999 UK 6min Beta Colour/Black and White, Sound Pool Productions - Distributed by Cinenova Screenings to date: X@Hex. MAC Birmingham November 1999 Volatile Bodies. Cine Corner. London January 2000 Handbags and Hardware- International Festival of Women’s Film, Lux Centre London February 2000 14th LLG Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London April 2000. Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany May 2000 Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000 BBC Short Film Festival, London September 2000 Dnet. Lux Centre London, October 2000 Rose Film Dagen, Amsterdam, December 2000 Women in the director’s chair, International film and video Festival, Chicago, USA. March 2001 Documents, Documentaries and Documentations: Artists’ Film and Video. The Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, March 2002 3 

Proposals + Props (SOLO) Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton Street London, NW1 1HJ. Curated by Eva Rowson 15th - 29th July 2017. 

Publications 

Re-Print Living on Air, Sandra Lahire. https://issuu.com/courtisanefestival/docs/cahier_sandra_lahire/s/13692857 

Sonayway SHE IS THE WORK. https://www.soanywaymagazine.org/issues 

Parallax 2015-2017. https://issuu.com/kasiawolny/docs/parallax_issuu 

Suppose an Eye, publication. 2013. Contribution The Performance Dinners, ed. Mo. Throp, 2013

Contribution Cosy Complex Reader – ICA. Subjectivities and Feminisms contribution Published by the ICA March 2010

Sarah Miles: What falls from pockets – Lux Online January 2008

White Collar. Artists page. White Collar Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2007.

The Ties that Bind: Documenta 12. Filmwaves Issue 34 Winter 2007

Separation and Restoration: The Work of Katrina Maguire. Catalogue essay Viewpoint Context Gallery Off-Site Project Prehen House. Summer 2007

YES, VALIE EXPORT – Art in Sight – Filmwaves Issue 26 January 2005

Speaking Openly – Art in Sight - Filmwaves Issue 25 Oct 2004

Editor – Art in Sight: A Third Space – Performance and Documentation. Filmwaves Issue 21 2-2003

Interview with Jananne Al-Ani. DisOrientation; Contemporary Arab Artists from the Middle East Catalogue House of World Cultures, 2003

Editor – Art in Sight Editorial: Ethnography of the Near. – Filmwaves Issue 19, 2002.

Now I am yours and Temenos (the work of Nina Dannino) at the 291 Gallery - Filmwaves Issue 16 2001 pp 8

Velvet Hyphen - Young -In Hong - Catalogue essay Proof Gallery October 2001

A conversation with Chantal Akerman - Filmwaves Issue 14 Spring 2001. pp 20-24.

Short By Nature - 6Degress, Independent Film and Video Web magazine. July 2000. www.6degress.co.uk 

Living On Air- A trilogy of films by Sandra Lahire. Filmwaves. Issue 10 Winter 2000 pp30-31. The Voice in Cinema, and interview with Michel Chion Filmwaves issue 10 Winter 2000 pp44-46. 

Selected exhibitions + events 

2021 People in a Room 6-17/Oct. WE ARE BOTH 

Backroom Gallery, Curated by Drawing People Together. 

2018 Tokyo Arts Space. Open Studio event and discussion. SHE IS THE WORK 

2017 Virtu, Hunt Museum, Limerick Eire. Talked About Pink (2017) 

https://www.huntmuseum.com/event/virtu/ 

2016 Parallax 2. Chelsea College of Art. Work-Out Video installation with printed matter 

British School of Rome. Opening the Studio Events September 2016 part of MEAD Fellowship 

Spotlight 2016: Doctoral Platform; Central Saint Martins. Performing Pavilion and Talking Pavilion March 2016. Granary Square, London. UK 

Panoptic, 2016 Chongqing Creative Festival, ADC Art Square, Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, China 4 




2015 Parallax Group Show Win or the Cynical Function of Ideology. New Space, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland 

Charming for the revolution: Gaga Manifesto. Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner 7, Presentation and reading “Wham Bam Thank you Mam…” 

2014 Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner 6 Screening tender, tender 

IMPORT/EXPORT Screening at REACT, Romford: Landscape for leaving her(e)/This is Where... 

2013 Suppose an Eye Screening Vane Gallery, Newcastle, UK. 

I, Object and A Chance to see a tassel vs. A single Hurt Colour. 

Suppose a Salon event Chelsea School of Art and Design, London Performance reading The Last One and screening A Chance to see a tassel vs. A single Hurt Colour – (part 2/3 of the Tend Her Buttons Suit) 

Suppose an Eye event Kantine Chapters, Gallery Futura, Berlin Performance reading: The Last One and video I, Object (part of the Tend Her Buttons Suits 

2012 BLANK PROMISCUITY - St Paul’s House Project Space, London. Part of Deptford X 

2011 Fleeting Resonance - St Paul’s House Project Space, London. Part of Deptford X 

2007 White Collar Exhibition - Studio 1.1 Redchurch St London. 

2003 The Daily Hayley (Feature-length DVD - editor) – Matt’s Gallery, London Hayley Newman – Centre d’Art Contemprain Geneva. The Daily Hayley (Feature DVD editor) 

2002 Hayley Newman – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Three short video collaborations were made as part of the exhibition. 

Since 1986 – Collaboration with Doran George – Presented video installation as part of three days live art event – Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. 

2001 Metamorphis Perfervidus - Body Freight. Performance/Video Installation (collaboration with Doran George, Johanna Tuukkanen) Taiten Tavaratola -. Kuopio, Finland 

2000 Deluxe - Artist Multiples - Proof Gallery - London Searching In Still (a collaboration with Doran George)- Toynbee Studio’s London Proof - Artist Multiples, East London Designers, London 

1997 Safe - Brewery Arts Space. Los Angeles. U.S.A

1995 Auslande - Zwischenstation. Dresden, Germany.

1994 “She lost it all.....” one person show University of Westminster.

London Whitechapel Open. London. 

Pitch Trinity Buoy Wharf. London.

1993 Fellowship Show - Royal College of Art. London

Bradford International Open Print, Bradford UK (Prize winner) Royal College Portfolio 1993,

Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1992 Marlborough Graphics. London.

“Those Pleasures..” Flaxman Gallery. University of Staffordshire

1991 Ernst and Young. Cambridge.

“A Change of Image” Ferens Gallery. Hull Touring to Belfast National Gallery and Whitworth Gallery Manchester

1989 Art ‘89. Islington. London.

Antwerp Biennial. Antwerp. Belgium.

London Group - Royal College of Art, London

Bristol Print - University of Bristol, Bristol

1988 Whistler’s Mother, London




Conferences/Symposium/Events and Performances 

2015 Charming for the revolution: Gaga Manifesto. Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner 7, Presentation and reading “Wham Bam Thank you, Mam…” 

March 2014 Curator of the 6th Subjectivities and Feminisms Performance Dinner: Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein. 

May 2013 Suppose and Eye event Kantine Chapters, Gallery Futura Berlin. Performance reading and video (The Last One and I, Object)

April 2013 Visual Pleasures Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner Screening of Somewhere, Nowhere, Elsewhere.

June 2012 The Gleaners and I Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner Performance reading The Ontology of Scouse April 2011.

The Practice Exchange: Feminine Narratives, Pink and Red. With Maria Kheirkhah and Alia Syed. London School of Fashion http://thepracticeexchange.blogspot.co.uk/

May 2011 – Errant Interludes: Wandering Women. Conference paper. Disobedience Workshop. Birkbeck College UCL June 2010 – Phallic Matron Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner – Screening of WIN (or the cynical function of ideology)

Apr 2009 - collaborative conference presentation with Jo Bruton, Monika Oechsler, Gill Addison & Laura Malacart, 'The Second Sex Dinner: A Re-Enactment', Creative Practice/Creative Research conference, York St. John University.

March 2009 S.C.U.M Manifesto Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner – Performance reading: The Restorative Scar.

June 2008 Second Sex Subjectivities and Feminism Performance Dinner – Performance: This is what it feels like to be a girl.

March 2008 The Life of the Mourners Dance Symposium 14-15th. Queen Mary, University of London. Paper Pure Mo(u)rning

January 2006 Subjectivities and Feminisms – Symposium Chelsea College of Art and Design Screening and re-reading of Charlottenburg

November 2006 Narrative Research Symposium- the University of East London, – Screening of Charlottenburg and paper – Five years and Still swimming – Loss and memory in Film

employment – academic. 

2015 to date 0.6 Senior Lecturer B.A Fine Art Chelsea College of Arts 

2006 to 2015 Senior lecturer B.A. Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design 

Stage Three Co-ordinator B.A. Fine Art 

2015 to 2017 External Examiner De Montfort University B.A. Fine Art 

2014 to 2017 External Examiner Bradford College, B.A. Visual Practice 

2008 -2009 Acting Course Director BA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design

2008- 2010 External Examiner, Limerick Institute of Technology, Eire: B.A (hons) Fine Art 

2005 -2009 External Examiner University of West Scotland: B.A (hons) Screen Practice/Digital Media 

2005 – External moderator/degree validation: Screen Practices BA (hons), University of Paisley 

2001- 2006 Senior Lecturer School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies 

University of East London: Programme Leader Film and Video: Theory and Practice, B.A (hons) 

1999 – 2006 Associate Lecturer Chelsea College of Art and Design, BA (hons) Fine Art Media. 1993- 2001 Lecturer University of Wolverhampton. Fine Art BA (hons): (fractional post 0.5). 1996 - 1998 Lecturer: Central Saint Martins. B.A (hons) Fine Art 1993 - 1995 Lecturer: University of Humberside. B.A (hons) Fine Art 1993 - 1999 Visiting Lecturer: Chelsea College of Art and Design. BA/MA Fine Art 1993 Visiting Lecturer: Ruskin School of Drawing Oxford University. BA(hons) Fine Art 

1992 Visiting Lecturer: Chelsea College of Art and Design. Foundation 1991 - 1992 Lecturer: University of Staffordshire. BA (hons) Fine Art 

arts-related posts 

2012 St Pauls Auction event Organiser Dec 2012 2011 to date

St Pauls House Project Space Team 2003 to 2008

Commissioning editor Art in Sight, Filmwaves magazine

2003 to 2007 Trustee MAKE Archive – UCL, Goldsmiths

2002 to 2007 Academic advisory panel to Filmwaves Magazine

2001 -2002 Joined Executive committee of MAKE: Women’s arts organisation, magazine

2001 Serpentine Talk - October - Doug Aitken. 

The organiser of the screening programme Never Mind the Bollex for No Future - 20 Years of Punk.Conference. University of Wolverhampton September 2001 

1999 to 2001 Founding member Cine Corner Screenings Programmer for Screenings:

Volatile Bodies January 2000, including work By Su Friedrich, Sally Potter, Tina Keane

Green is for Go ...lady...” November 2000 including Babette Manglote, Liz Rhodes, Bev Zalcock

Girlzone- March 2000- Eija Liisa Ahtila, Annie Wright, Cairo Cannon, Carol Morley.

F. Animate - June 2000 - Nina Sabnani, Vera Neubauer, Lotte Reineggar, Vicky Smith, Gail Thomas.

1999 to date Formed Pool Productions 1997 Visiting Artist Talk. Art Centre Pasadena. U.S.A 1994

Co-curator/ organiser/ editor Pitch Trinity Buoy Wharf. London.

1994 Artist in Residence. University of Westminster

1992- 1993 Senior Fellow Royal College of Art. Fine Art Printmaking 

Education 

1998 - 2000 London College of Printing and Distributive Trades - School of Media, London MA (UAL) Independent Film and Video. (Theory) 

1989 - 1991 Royal College of Art, London MA (R.C.A) Fine Art: with a commendation for thesis.

1986 - 1989 Chelsea School of Art, London BA (hons) Fine Art