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Andrew McNiven (Art Practice)
Practice-led PhD at Northumbria University
Born: UK
Education: (linked below)
Exhibitions/Projects/Publications: (linked below)
Work experience: (linked below)
E-mail: andrew.mcniven@northumbria.ac.uk
‘Monkey Business’: an artist’s action research into the parameters of temporary installation through reflexive formal and informal documentary practice.
Fully funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council.
MA Fine Art
1993-1995, Goldsmiths College, University of London, (part-time).
BA Hons Fine Art
1984-1987, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
First Class
Foundation
1981-1982, St. Martin’s School of Art, London.
Solo:
1990: Artist of the Day, Flowers East, London (Selected by Richard Wentworth)*
1992: Remote Sensing, ACAVA Central Space/Riverside Studios, London
1997: Hamburg from 987 kms. Philip Mecklenburg, Hamburg, Germany*
1999: Possum's Fargo, readysteadymade, Glasgow
2002: Witten Apparatus, Witten Town Hall, Germany
2003: protoacademy, Edinburgh
Group:
1985: Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1992: A Simple Twist of Fate, Riverside Studios, London
1993: Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1993: 2 out of 4, Centre 181 Gallery, London
1994: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London*
1994: Convento da Arrabida, Lisbon, Portugal*
1996: 50x50x50, Bank, London*
1996: Ferne im Innern, Town Hall, Witten & Neue Gallerie, Dachau, Germany*
2000: Bleibe, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin*
(*Denotes publication)
Lecturer
2000-2004- School of Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
Between 1987 and 2000, McNiven worked within professional contemporary visual art as a technician, gallery manager, exhibition designer and project manager for a number of galleries and organisations, including: the Lisson Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, The Architectural Association, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Interim, Camerawork, Lux Europae, Holly Street Public Art, and for individual artists including Grenville Davey and Hannah Collins. In addition to this he worked as an assistant to installation photographer Steve White.