2023
Cineastra Film Festival, Scotland.
Radiophrenia – the light at the end of the dial, Scotland.
Braziers International Film Festival (5th edition), UK.
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.
61st Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour 2023/4, USA.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland.
61st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA.
2022/3
The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, Somerset House, London, co-curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall.
Biophilia International Film Festival, Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London. Selected by Patrick Goddard
2021
Miraculous Noise, curated by LUX Scotland, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark.
there and then and never again, Margaret Tait 100+ Personae book Launch. LUX, London.
2019
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100, Inverness Film Festival.
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100, Pier Art Centre, Orkney.
Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting: 16mm film as a collaborative action, ’Bouquets’ with Alexander Hetherington.
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100, commissioned by LUX Scotland Pier Art Center, Stirling University, CCA Glasgow.
Mewantemooseicday, University of Glasgow, included as part of city wide event.
2018
Movement and Handling: Selected Works from the LUX Collection, Close-Up Cinema, London.
Visions-V Ideas, Performances | 5th Edition, Beton7, Athens, Greece. Curated by Demosthenes Agrafiotis and Rania Kapetanaki.
2017
Filming Ruins, Film works by Manon de Boer, Wendy Kirkup, Bill Morrison, Andrew Steward Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow.
2016
Certain Tension, Gaze, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, Selected by the Gaze Collective curatorial team, ATA Programming, Mallary Abel Heaton, Adrianne Finelli, Targol Mesbah, Tessa Siddle, Meredith Sward.
Derwent Art Prize, selectors: Meryl Ainslie, Eileen Cooper RA and Michael Glover. Mall Galleries, London, Trowbridge Arts Centre, Wiltshire.
Player Piano, An interdisciplinary performance by Dr Catherine Laws, created as part of the research project ‘Performance, Subjectivity and Experimentation’. With theatre makers Teresa Brayshaw and Hannah Butterfield, composers Edward Jessen, Andrea Lockwood, Roger Marsh and Paul Whitty, and film maker Wendy Kirkup, Scenic Stage Theatre, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York.
Touches Bloquées, 1 Royal Terrace Gallery, Glasgow. Curated by Ruth Switalski and Petter Yxell.
2015
Videoarte e Cinema Experimental, Aliança Francesa do Derby, Recife, Brazil. Curated by Yann Beauvais.
Idiot Box, Kate McGarry, London, curated by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
2014
Return to Sender, curated by Sally Madge, Berwick-upon-Tweed Museum and Art Gallery, Northumberland.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking. MAC Birmingham.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking, The Atkinson, Southport.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking, Plymouth Art Gallery.
2013
vitheque.com, (December edition), Videographe, Montreal, invited curator, Sarah Cook.
Biomediations Festival of Electronic Arts and Video, Tranistio__MX05, Mexico, Invited Curator Sarah Cook.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking, PMG, London.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, 40 Years of Art Walking. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, curators Mike Collier and Cynthia Morrison-Bell in partnership with NGCA.
Taking Place, Black Maria in The Crossing, Granary Square, London. Curated by British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection.
2012
Kompas, Sculpture Court, ECA/University of Edinburgh.
To be is to be perceived, Online Exhibition, LUX Artists’ Moving Image, London.
2011
Art After George, (with Simon Murray), Dacre Hall, Lanercost, Cumbria.
DOCument, Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh.
2010
Map, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.
2009
ARC Shorts, ARC, Stockton, UK.
MAP, The Little Theatre Picturehouse Cinema, Bath
Setting the Fell on Fire, ACAdovetail, 61 Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne.
2008
Broadcast Yourself, AV Festival ’08, Co-curated by Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman. Cornerhouse, Manchester, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Archive Show, The Mobile Cinema, Allenheads, Northumberland, Curated by ACA.
2006/7
This will not happen without you, Arts Council UK Touring exhibition travelling to John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Hatton Gallery Newcastle University and Belfast. Curated by Richard Grayson. Publication available from Locus+.
2004
Roving. Portable Culture. Attitudes And Prototypes In Public Space: The Museum And The City, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo , Sevilla.
A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain, curated by David Curtis, Tate Britain.
Round the World: London, Side Cinema (curatorial) showing Ian Bourne, William Raban, Cordelia Swann.
2003
‘Chute, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland.
2002
911+1: The Perplexities of Security, Brown University, USA.
Anxious Omniscience: Surveillance and Contemporary Cultural Practice, curated by Thomas Y.Levin, Princeton University Art Museum, USA.
CTRL [space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, curated by Thomas Y. Levin, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2001
Cell Culture, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain.
Gagarin Celebration, Dundee Centre for Contemporary Art. Curated by Gair Dunlop.
Live Art at Site Gallery, Sheffield. Curated by Michelle Hirschhorn.
2000
Private, KultureAllianzen, Koln, curated by Wolfgang Schoddert.
Echo, Video Satellite transmission between the International Centre for Life, Newcastle and The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Produced by Locus+.
1997
B.c.c. held concurrently at The Tannery Gallery and Cleveland Gallery London. Curated by Andrew Renton.
Biennial Internacional de Escultura e Desenho das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Curated by Andrew Renton.
Pasarse de la raya, Guadalajara Film and Video Festival, Mexico, Curated by Esther Regueira.
1996
White Hysteria, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Cleveland, Gallery London, Stripp Gallery Melbourne, The Arts Centre of New Zealand. Curated by Suzy Treister.
SEARCH (Newcastle), Leeds Metropolitan Gallery.
Flashpoint, Globe Gallery, Tyne & Wear.
Soundscapes, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne & Isis Gallery, Melmerby.
SEARCH (Adelaide), International Adelaide Festival & Experimental Art Foundation commission. (Broadcast on Channel 7, Australia)>
Cross-Winds, The Experimental Art Foundation & FM Radio Broadcast, Adelaide, Australia. Commissioned by Richard Grayson.
1995
A History of Video 1975-1995, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester.
@shift, Puente de Pasaje”, Bilbao,Spain. Curated by Corinne Diserens.
1994
Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain.
MCT Broadcast, Access Station, Western Massachusetts, USA.
Deep Dish TV Network Broadcast, New York, US SatelliteTV.
Independents’ Day, Film & Video Festival, Victoria, Canada.
Someone To Watch Over Us, Converse Gallery, Glasgow.
1993
Time & Tide, Tyne International Festival, Newcastle, Curated by Corinne Diserens.
Intervening Spaces, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre. Curated by Alison Lloyd.
1991
0836 785555, 15 Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne
A Question of Identity, The Close, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Published Writing:
2020
W. Kirkup, S. Murray, ‘Revisiting Then – Now’, THEN/NOW, Minty Donald and Nick Millar. Publication to accompany exhibition commissioned by Scottish Canals/Scottish Waterways Trust.
2019
W. Kirkup, S. Murray. J.Hall, ‘After Into the Mountain’, eco/art.scot/land: A platform for research and practice. (online)
2007
W. Kirkup, ‘Reflecting forward, thinking back’, This Will Not Happen Without You: From the collective of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ (1977-2007), Publication to accompany exhibition.
2001
W. Kirkup, ‘Some Co-ordinates for a Fragile Space’, Echo, Locus+ publication.
1999
W. Kirkup, ‘Scan’, Curious, Artists’ Research within Expert Culture, Visual Art Projects Publication, Glasgow.
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