Karen Guthrie's CV
Filmography
• 2007 ’Little Deluxe Living’ (12mins, HD DV)
Directed & produced with Nina Pope, shot in Japan and England.
Screened as part of Northern Art Prize, Leeds City Art Gallery 2007/8
• 2007 'Living with the Tudors’ (83mins, HD DV)
Researched, wrote, directed & produced ‘Living with the Tudors’ with Nina Pope. Funded by the Channel 4 Documentary Film Foundation.
Screened at Britdoc Film Festival & to be premiered at SXSW Film Fesival, Austin, Texas, March 08
• 2006 ’Life-size Lilliput’ (10mins, HD DV)
Short documentary with Nina Pope, commissioned by Grizedale Arts for ‘7 Samurai’ exhibition at the 2006 Liverpool Biennale. Editor, camera, co-director, co-writer, co-producer.
• 2005 ‘Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future’ (93mins, DV)
Co-produced, wrote, directed & distributed documentary feature with Nina Pope.
Selected film festivals screenings: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005, SXSW 2005 (Texas), Rooftop Films (New York City) plus gallery screenings including Tate Britain, Cornerhouse (Manchester) & Arnolfini (Bristol).
• 2003 ’Welcome To’ (3mins, DV transfer to 35mm film)
Short dance film. Writer, director & producer.
Screened as pre-feature trailer in local cinemas throughout Cumbria & Lancashire & at UK festivals incl. Can Film Festival and Waterford Art Centre ‘Reeling In’.
• 1995 – ongoing
Many short artists’ films & videos exhibited & commissioned by institutions including Tate Modern & ICA (London)
Projects & Exhibitions
2008
• What will the harvest be?
Development of a community garden in East London over 2008-2011, commissioned by Newham Council (UK)
• Litfest (Lancaster)
Solo residency in two Lancashire prisons (UK)
• Triparks
Solo residency in Exmoor National Park & commissioned project (UK)
• Agrifashionista.tv
Commissioned solo project (UK)
• Northern Art Prize
Winning artist w/ Nina Pope, exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery (UK), Nov. 2007 - Jan. 2008
• The Sneeze 80 x 80
Commissioned solo video, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens (Greece); Iziko Aouth African National Gallery [SANG] in Cape Town & Durban Art Gallery (South Africa)
2007
• Almanac
Public art commission for the redevelopment of Cinema City in Norwich, launched on their new digital projection system October 2007. Almanac commemorates the history of cinema as well as looking to its digital future. We developed a bespoke dynamic database of one year’s time-lapse footage shot at East Anglian sites made famous as film locations.
• Living with the Tudors
Documentary feature film part-funded by Britdoc Channel 4 Documentary Film Foundation & Arts Council England. Premiering at SXSW Film Festival, March 2008.
• Seven Samurai & Return of the Seven Samurai
Site-specific project for Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan - curated by Grizedale Arts and developing into the exhibition 'Virtually Grizedale' at A Foundation, Liverpool Biennale 2006, and Return of the Seven Samurai at Gallery Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland 2006.
• Pilot 3
Selected for archive for artists & curators, shown at Atelier Bevilacqua, Venice Biennale (Italy)
2006
• Sometime Later
Short films / photography works documenting time spent amongst historical re-enactors. Website commissioned for 'Private View' by BBC & Arts Council England.
• Purescreen
Solo video as part of programme, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK)
• Virtually Grizedale (Liverpool Biennal)
Group exhibition including Seven Samurai film / installation, A Foundation, Greenland Street, Liverpool (UK)
2004
• Romantic Detachment
Video work, group show, PS1, New York City, USA & touring to Q (Derby), Folly (Lancaster) & Chapter (Cardiff, UK)
• London Underground Platform for Art
Featured artists
• It’s an East End Knockout
Bow Festival / Space commissioned live event, London, UK
• Live Culture
Curators / exhibitors, video programme, Tate Modern, London, UK
2002
• @rt.net.uk now
British Council group show, Sarai, Delhi, India
• Art For Networks
Group show, Chapter, Cardiff; Fruitmarket, Edinburgh & touring
• TV swansong
Nationwide public art / site-specific webcast project commissioning 8 artists
(artists / curators)
• Housework
Group show, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
• Game On 2002/3/4
Commission, Barbican Gallery, London & touring internationally
• It Rocks, But Gently
Group show, Folly, Lancaster
2001
• A Fair Place
British Council Group show, Nouvelles Peripheries, Istanbul (Turkey)
• Public Spaces, Private Reveries
Proboscis, prototype commission
• Lo-Fi Net Art Locator
www.low-fi.org.uk - invited Guest List curators
• Grizedale Show
Group show, Q Arts, Derby, UK
• People from Off
Solo show with Nina Pope, Anna Best & Simon Poulter; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
• Art in Motion
Festival, Museum of Santa Monica & U.S.C, USA
• The Idea of North
(Group show), Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
2000
• Limo Day
Live event & video work with Nina Pope, Anna Best & Simon Poulter; Grizedale Show, Cumbria, UK
• David Shuttleworth (Rally Hopeful)
Live project & installation with Nina Pope,Anna Best & Simon Poulter; Grizedale Show, Cumbria, UK
• The Festival of Lying
Live event & web cast with Nina Pope,Anna Best & Simon Poulter; Grizedale Show, Cumbria, UK
• Additional Footage
Live project & installation (Group show), East / Riverside; Norwich Gallery, UK
Education
1987 – 1991 BA Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art (UK)
1991 – 1993 MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art (UK)
Professional development
2007
Channel 4 Documentary Film Foundation (Britdoc) Creative Capital Film-makers’ Retreat
2005
‘Discover Digital’ week-long course by Film London / London Film Festival
Selected Reviews & Publications
• ‘Hothaus Papers: Perspectives and Paradigms in media arts’ 2006
Contributors (Ed. Joan Gibbons & Kaye Winwood) VIVID / Article Press ISBN 1873352247
• Artforum - May 2005
Review of 'Bata-ville' by Rachel Withers
• ‘New Media Art: Practice & Context in the UK 1994-2004’ 2004
Featured artists (Ed. Arts Council England) Cornerhouse Publications ISBN 0948797886
• Contemporary - No.55 / 2003
Duncan McLaren reviews Grizedale Arts
• ‘Tell it like it is ....on being Curated’ 2002
Artists’ essay ‘Curating New Media’ (Ed. Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham & Sarah Martin, BALTIC ISBN 1-903655-06-4)
• Art Monthly no. 256 2002
Review of TV swansong
• Frieze - July issue 2002
Review of TV swansong by Dan Fox
• [a-n] - April & May issues 2002
Reviews of TV swansong
• Financial Times - March 16/17 2002
Preview of TV swansong by Lucy Kimbell
• Contemporary - March issue 2002
Art & TV Preview of TV swansong by Duncan McLaren
• TV swansong 2002
Editors / contributors ARTicle Press, ISBN 1 873352 58 1
• Public Art Journal 2001
Spring / summer issue
• Art Monthly - no. 242 2000/01
Review of ‘The Idea of North’, Leeds, UK