
BA Hons Fine Art, 1996
MA Fine Art, 2006
Recent exhibitions:
2006
Open Frequency
Online exhibition www.axisweb.org/openfrequency
St Michael’s Tower, Gloucester UK
2005
Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol
New commission (Grande Spagna) within scattered-site exhibition of new work by
artists including Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Susan Hiller and Silke Otto-Knapp, in Bristol, UK
2004
Out of Site, Bristol, UK
Exhibition of work (Out of Site, 3 monitor DVD installation) produced as Lead Artist on
an Arnolfini & Education Unlimited project
Intermix, Leeds, UK
Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Station X, a two monitor DVD installation funded by Arts Council England was exhibited at the Triennial. Other exhibiting
artists included: Laurie Anderson, Chris Cunningham, Jenny Holzer, Callum Morton, Lorna Simpson, Sean Snyder, Jane & Louise
Wilson www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/triennial
2003
Time & Again, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland
CLUBS project space, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Heimlich/Unheimlich, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Exhibition exploring the uncanny curated by Juliana Engberg and part of the Melbourne International Festival. Exhibiting artists
included Robert Gober and Gillian Wearing.
Seeing By Wireless, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings, UK
Other exhibiting artists included: Elke Karnik, Mari Lagerquist, Juneau Projects, Eduardo Padilha, Chole Steele and Marilyn Whittle.
SCAPE, Art & Industry Biennial 2002, Christchurch, New Zealand
Other exhibiting artists included: Nathan Coley, Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Lucy Orta, Erwin Wurm and Richard Wentworth.
2001
Highlife, Architecture Centre, Bristol, UK
Exhibition of artworks commissioned by Bristol City Council, exploring the ecology, history and architecture of Queen Square.
Other exhibiting artists included: Julian Opie, Elizabeth Wright, Antoni & Alison.
Loci Memoriae, Watershed & Architecture Centre, Bristol, UK
Dia E Vento, Teatro do Campo Alegre, Porto, Portugal
BOP, Gallery Caldeira 213, Porto, Portugal
Silk Purse Procedure, Arnolfini & Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Exchanges & Residencies:
May 06 – Apr 07 Artist in Residence, Gloucester Cathedral, UK
Nov 03 – Jan 04 PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset
June 2003 Shortlisted for the 2004 Durham Cathedral Residency
Sep 2002 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Sep 1998 Ultpak 98, Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina
Awards:
Sep 2003 Grants For Individuals, Arts Council England, South West
Grant awarded to fund a period of research and production of new work ‘Station X’ to be exhibited in the
Auckland Triennial, 2004.
Sep 2002 British Council, Travel Award to participate in the Melbourne Festival & residency at the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology.
Nov 2001 Kicking Off Award, South West Arts, UK
Research grant for a period of research into new work.
June 2001 Travel Award, Bristol O’Porto Society, UK
Award for travel to participate BOP, an exhibition in Portugal.
Sep 1998 British Council, Travel Award for the residency in Bosnia Herzegovina
April 1995 ERASMUS, Award to study in Berlin, Germany.
Collections: Monash University Museum of Art (www.monash.edu.au/muma)
Bibliography:
Francis McKee, Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol, University of the West of England and Bristol Legible City, 2005
(also includes interview with Claire Doherty)
Robin Wilson, ‘Things here are subject unto change’, Art and Architecture Journal, 2005, p. 10
Jennifer Purvis, ‘Ever get the feeling you’re being watched?’ Flash Art International, 2004, n.236
Carolyn Black, 'Introducing Kathleen Herbert', Public/Private, New Zealand: Auckland Triennial, 2004 (exhibition catalogue)
Peter Murray, 'Time & Again, Innocence and Experience', Crawford Open 1-4, Cork, Ireland: Crawford Art Gallery, 2003 (exhibition
catalogue)
Malcolm Burgess, ‘Memetic Field Trials’, Art New Zealand, 2002, issue 106
Juliana Engberg, The Heimlich Unheimlich, Melbourne International Festival 2002 (exhibition catalogue)
Ewen McDonald, ‘Kathleen Herbert’, Christchurch, New Zealand: Scape: Art and Industry Biennial, 2002 (exhibition catalogue)
Claire Doherty and Catsou Roberts (eds.), The Silk Purse Procedure, Bristol: Arnolfini and Spike Island, 2001 (exhibition catalogue)
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