Artist statement
I am an artist, writer and academic. I make work in film and moving image, photographic media and printmaking. My interests are in visualising gender, diasporic identity, and queer identities. For some time my work has placed my own body at its centre, in what has become a series of 'performances for the camera'. Recent concerns have been with addressing themes of dislocation, desire and memory and reflecting on the experience of Irish migration - this continues in current work in progress, Kitchen Accounts. Other film work in post-production, The 95p lime, is a performance for the camera and addresses themes of class and ethnicity. In other work, made during an AA2A residency at University of Wolverhampton in 2008 I began to address the theme of movement and stillness, and again to visualise the body engaged in an action. This work and interest in using traditional photographic processes and chronophotography is a continuing project.
I was awarded a doctorate for research examining film theories which emerged in the 1970's and their effect on artists working in the moving image from 1970s to the present. I am currently developing a large-scale project to emerge from that on slide-tape and its use by artists in the UK during the 1980s.
Influences
Gender, sexualities, ethnicity
Areas of work
Tertiary education
Exhibiting
Lecturing
Practice-based research
Fundraising
Project management
Collections
Birmingham Central Reference Library Archive
Ex-Hail Video Archive, University of Plymouth
Qualifications and training
- 2007 PhD, Fine Art (Critical and Historical Studies), Loughborough University, Leics
- 1992 MA, Fine Art, BIAD, University of Central England, Birmingham
- 1981 BA Hons, Fine Art, Stourbridge College of Art
Employment
- 2008 Lecturer in Fine Art, Research and Teaching, School of Art and Design, Loughborough University
Solo exhibitions
- 1999 More Than The Eye Can See, Lighthouse gallery, Wolverhampton
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Civil Partnerships, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton
- 2010 0 & 1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender, 501 Contemporary Art Space, Chongqing, China
- 2008 UltiMAte 08, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton
- 2007 Relay, Friese Greene Gallery, Brighton and Remote Transmitters
- 2006 2nd Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
- 2006 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- 2006 Videonale 11, Cinema Union, Berlin
- 2005 Printing Inc., Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham
- 2004 Birmingham Printmakers, Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield
- 2004 Otherside, Side Cinema, Newcastle
- 2002 A lesbian arts festival, Trinity College, Dublin
- 2001 Singularity, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham
- 2000 Vivid Now-Bursary Artists 1997-2000, Vivid, Birmingham
- 2000 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, Crawford Gallery, Cork
- 2000 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
- 1999 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, PSI Gallery, New York
- 1999 Video Invideous, Arthouse, Dublin
- 1997 In(Visibilities), RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Residencies
- 2007 Artists Access to Art Colleges, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton
Educational experience - tertiary
- 2008 Lecturer in Fine Art, Loughborough University, Leics
- 2000 Part-time Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Loughborough University
- 1997 Visiting Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, Nottingham Trent University
- 1996 Associate Lecturer, Art and Design, South Birmingham College
- 1993 Visiting Lecturer, School of Fine Art, Limerick College of Art and Design
Publications
- 2013 'How we live today...Florence Ayisi in dialogue with Mo White' in Meskimmon,M and Rowe,D (eds), Women,the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience, Manchester University Press
- 2007 'a round...', in Relay: an exhibition of sound and installation, catalogue, Brighton, Friese Greene Gallery
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