STEPHEN PARTRIDGE
REWIND | Artists’ Video in the 70’s & 80’s
Stephen Partridge is an artist and and academic researcher. He is the principal investigator on the four-year research project REWIND awarded £433,350 from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which runs until June 2008.He was in the "landmark" video shows of the 1970s including the Video Show at the Serpentine in 1975, the Installation Show at the Tate gallery in 1976, The Paris Biennalle in 1977 and the The Kitchen in New York in 1979. During the eighties
he exhibited widely and also became interested in works for broadcast
television and was
commissioned by Channel 4 television to produce Dialogue
for Two Players in 1984. With Jane Rigby, he formed Fields
and Frames - an arts projects and television production company
- which
produced the innovative Television Interventions project for
Channel 4 in 1990, with nineteen works by artists for television
(including
his own piece in the series - The
Sounds of These Words. He also co-produced a short series
of student and artists work Not Necessarily with BBC Scotland
for BBC2 network
television in 1991. |
He
has also curated a number of influential video shows: Video
Art 78 in Coventry; UK TV
New York; National Review of Live Art 1988-90; 19:4:90 Television
Interventions; and the touring tape packages Made
in Scotland I,II, Semblances , Passages. He has lectured since 1975 in a number of art colleges, and established the School of Television & Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee). He is presently Professor of Media Art and Dean of Research, responsible for the research leadership of the College and the Visual Research Centre and Exhibitions Department. He has experience of evaluation for the Arts Council, Channel 4, the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, SACLottery, Creative Scotland Awards and the AHRC.
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