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Professor ELAINE SHEMILT MA(RCA), FRSA, FRSG
EXHIBITIONS | RESEARCH
| LIST
OF WORKS | Works
in Collections | Residencies | Academic
Papers/Chapters | Awards | Curatorial
Work | Bibliography | BIOGRAPHY |
| MOST RECENT WORK
Hi-Definition
Video installation, a joint work with Stephen Partridge. Exhibited
at Fuoriluogo
15 - Una
Regressione Motivata,
Limiti Inchiusi Arte Contemporanea, Campobasso,
Molise, Italy. December 18 - January 23.
updated February 6, 2011 |
Professor
Elaine Shemilt's research and practice is diverse in terms of subject,
media and content. Her work has often centred on the body.
Since 1999 she has also been involved in environmental protection
in remote environments, genetic coding relating to image pattern and
sound
sequencing. Outcomes have been produced using etching and screenprinting,
video, 3-D imaging and digital animation, and exhibited as prints
and large scale hi-definition projection. The purpose of this official government web site (http:www.sgisland.org) is to raise environmental awareness, contribute to sound and safe management, and provide an online educational resource. A live webcam is available through the South Georgia site- or Click - here. In 2006 David Nicholls died and Shemilt helped to develop Project Atlantis into the Centre for Remote Environments. |
The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands funded Project Atlantis to develop the refurbished shell of the historic scientific research station Discovery House, into a visitor’s center. Discovery House was built to support the research work of RRS Discovery (now berthed at Discovery Point, Dundee). Space is to be devoted to the achievements of scientists on South Georgia, including British Antarctic personnel as well as to re-create a facsimile of the early Post Office. Her visits to the South Atlantic inspired an exhibition on the Falkland's Conflict for the Imperial War Museum in 2002, 'Traces of Conflict' The Demarco Archives In November 2004 The AHRC awarded Euan McArther, Arthur Watson, and Elaine Shemilt a Resource Enhancement Award of £312,327 for The Demarco Archives: accessing a 40-Year Dialogue between Richard Demarco and the European Avant-Garde. Richard Demarco had discussed with Professor Shemilt his anxiety about the preservation of his archives. For the past four decades Demarco has contributed to Scotland’s cultural life. His 250,000 photographs plus books, documents and original artworks and unique material of international range and significance, relevant to contemporary visual art, theatre, literature, cultural studies, history and politics. With the experience gained from developing and delivering electronic resources through Project Atlantis a digitization approach to his archive seemed a good solution. The three year project was based at the Visual Research Centre and is now online. www.demarco-archive.ac.uk. The Scottish Crop Research Institute This research project started in 2004, with Scientists from the Scottish Crop Research Institute. The full genome sequence of the bacterial potato plant pathogen (Erwinia) carotovora subsp. atroseptica (Eca) has now been fully sequenced in a project led by the Scottish Crop Research Institute in collaboration with the Sanger Institute. A portfolio of work including prints, digital animation, and music is continuing to be developed. She has made a number of joint works with Stephen Partridge including the installations Chimera, Rush, Quattro Minuti di Mezzogiorno, and the digital prints and etchings series Intangible Bodies.
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Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Education 1958-60 Mary Erskin’s
School, Edinburgh Academic Experience 1979-86 Visiting
Lecturer, Hull School of Art External Academic Committee Service 1991-94 External Examiner for Printmaking, University of the West
of England, |
1979 Arts
Council of Great Britain Award 1980-82 Artist/Printmaker
in Residence, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire 1983 Selector and Organizer
for Southern Arts, A touring group Exhibition Out of Print . ‘Fourteen artists who challenged the notions
of printmaking.’ The introduction to the catalogue was written
in collaboration with Jennifer Walwin. British Broadcasting Corporation |
A Blueprint
for Bacterial Life; Can A Science-art Fusion Move the Boundaries
of Visual and Audio Interpretation? pp23-32. Chapter in Digital
Visual Culture: Theory and Practice, Computers and the
History of Art, Editors A. Bentkowska-Kafel, T. Cashen, H.
Gardiner, Bristol: Intellect, 2009 ISBN 9781851502489 AHRC
ICT Methods Network Volume Art Practice in a Digital Culture Edited
by Charlie Gere, under the title: title Limited Edition – Unlimited
Image: Can a Science/Art Fusion Move the Boundaries of Visual
and Audio Interpretation? Ashgate, 2010 Bibliography (Selected Publications) 1996 The
New Scientist, 30 March p44-45 ISSN 0262 4079 30
Professional Service/Memberships 1989-96 Director
of Dundee Printmakers Workshop
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