research/projects/exhibitions/presentations
Curator
Looking Across the Fields
– screening
for LUX Scotland at Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen
17 February 2019
Included artists: Maurice O’Brien, Dalziel + Scullion, Helen Petts, Laure Prouvost and Angus Hood.
LUX Scotland link
Presenter and participant
5 Minute Presentations: Fictional exhibition / Future exhibition
– research presentation
True North Conference: Rewriting History
at Timespan, Helmsdale
17 – 19 March 2016
Exhibitor
You, Me and Them / An Artist Makes a Village
– text and image posters
Fine Art Staff exhibition, organised by Allan Watson
at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
7 – 11 March 2016
Researcher
https://iainirvingresearchandprojects.wordpress.com
– self-published research blog
March 2008 – January 2013
Researcher and presenter
2%: Where is Curating if It’s Not in the Institution?
– research presentation and seminar lead/coordinator
DART Seminar 6: ‘Where is Curating if It is Not in the Institution?’
with Dr Andrew Patrizio and Emma Nicolson/Atlas Arts
at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
2 May 2012
DART link
Shadow Curator
Gemuce/Money Crunch
– Shadow Curator project
at Deveron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
October – December 2009
Deveron Arts link
Co-curator with Lorraine Grant
Oak Trees and Fountains
– a season of site specific work at Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire
May – October 2004
Included artists: Jim Harold, David Blyth, Victoria Clare Bernie and Janice McNab.
Curator
The Blue Chamber
– exhibition
at Duff House, Banff, Aberdeenshire
4 March – 30 April 2000
Included artists Claire Barclay, Annie Cattrell, Ross Sinclair, Kenny Hunter, Jessica Stockholder, Gareth Fisher and writer Duncan McLean.
Curator
The House in the Woods
– exhibition
at CCA, Glasgow
3 April – 16 May 1998
tour to Aberdeen Art Gallery, 6 June – 11 July 1998
and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 20 August – 3 October 1998
Included artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Martin Honert, Mariele Neudecker, Wiebke Siem and Thomas Schütte.
Curator, in collaboration with Norah Campbell
This Island Earth
– exhibition
at An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Isle Of Skye
4 July – 9 August 1998
Included artists: Mary Bourne, Roderick Buchanan, Dalziel + Scullion, Moyna Flannigan, Douglas Gordon, Robert Maclaurin, Will Maclean, Wendy McMurdo, Tom O’Sullivan and Joanne Tatham, Carol Rhodes, David Shrigley, Ross Sinclair, Judy Spark, Donald Urquhart and Clara Ursitti.
Curator
Seeing Hozomeen
– exhibition
at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
11 July – 1 August 1998
Included artists: Angus Hood, Christine Frew, Sandy Grant, Claire Barclay, Eva Rothschild, Rowan Mace, Jane Strachan, Jane Fawns Watt, Steve Hollingsworth, Allan Walker and Toby Webster.
Curator and organiser
Iain Irving projects
– an independent art space at Greenwards, by Hatton, Aberdeenshire
projects included –
“Just down there…” – Angus Hood
14 September – October 1996
Goes Ah – Dalziel + Scullion
26 April – 4 May 1997
Views from the crust – Sandy Grant
14 June – 28 June 1997
Great Wall/Black Hole – Eva Rothschild
1 August – 30 August 1997
Real Life vs Nature – Ross Sinclair
13 September – 11 October 1997
A Fast Moving Car -– Angus Hood, Dalziel + Scullion, Sandy Grant, Claire Barclay,
Eva Rothschild, Rowan Mace, Jane Strachan, Jane Fawns Watt, Steve Hollingsworth and Toby Webster
15 November – 31 December 1997
Iain Irving 