NAOMI DINES


CURRICULUM VITAE


CURRENT POSITIONS AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE:

The research, development, production and public exhibition of a broad based Fine Art practice including architectural and site-specific installation, object, photographic, video and digitally manipulated works.

0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art : Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design, London

Director and Company Secretary of Figureband Ltd: Non-profit Limited Company providing at-cost Artists' Studio accommodation.

Management Committee Member: ACME Artists/Studios/Housing Association, Major provider of charitable studios to non-commercial Fine Artists in Central London

Studio Manager of Occupation Studios: Voluntary Organisation providing charitable studios to 17 non-commercial Fine Artists in Central London

OTHER PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

Part-time and Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art on a range of BA and MA courses throughout the UK since 1993

Consultant to Arts Council of England on:
           Studios Development Advisory Group
          Development of the National Artists Association Steering Committee
          Development of Community Land Trust models for artists' workspace provision, via the New Economics Foundation

RELEVANT ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

1993      MA Fine Art Sculpture, Royal College of Art
1991 BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, 1st class, Chelsea School of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000      'Whole', Home, London
1999'Altered Reflections', Artesium, Luton
1996Solo Exhibition, Prema Arts Centre, Uley

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004  'Something Strange', The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2003 'No Fixed Position', Lethaby Gallery, London
2002 'Hygiene: The Art of Public Health', The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2000 'L'Incurable Memoire des Corps', L'Hopital Charles Foix, Paris
1999 'disEMplacements', Woodlands Art Gallery, London
'Private Views', Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
'Harlech Biennale', Harlech, Wales
'Nerve', Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1998 'Private Views', National Museum of Modern Art, Tallinn, Estonia
'Mostyn 10', Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
1997/8 'Craft', at the following venues:
Richard Salmon Gallery, London;
Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge;
Vardy Gallery, Sunderland;
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
'Touching Matters', Swiss Cottage Central Library, London
1997 'The Look of Love', at the following venues:
The Approach, London;
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
'30 Years of Cheltenham Fellows', Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
'Virtual Vulgarity', University of Reading
1995/6 'A Suivre', at the following venues:
The Tannery, London;
L'H du Siege, Valenciennes, France;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bruneck, Italy
  National Museum of Modern Art, Madrid Spain
1995 'Composite adj.', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  'Multiple Choice', Jibby Beane, London
1994/5 'Germinations VIII', at the following venues:
De Beyerd Centre for Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands;
National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland;
The Factory, Athens, Greece;
1994 'Whitechapel Open', Atlantis Upper Gallery, London
'Name and Address Supplied', Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham
1993 'Western Exposure', Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London
'Snap Shots', Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, Eagle Gallery, London
'Whitworth Young Contemporaries', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1992 'East International', Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury

BIBLIOGRAPHY / PUBLICATIONS

2004 'Something Strange' catalogue, essays by Timo Valjakka and Joanne Morra, The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2003 'Hygiene: The Art of Public Health', article, Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 2 No. 1, SAGE Publications, London,
2001 'Private Views: Spaces and gender in contemporary art from Britain and Estonia', W.A.L., London
2000 'L'Incurable Memoire des Corps' catalogue, Alliage, France
1999 'Nerve' catalogue, Nerve Systems / ICA, London
1997/8 'Craft' catalogue, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
'Craft' Review, Martin Coomer, Time Out;
'Craft' Review, John Tozer, Art Monthly;
'Craft' Review, Izi Glover, Artists Newsletter
1997 'The Look of Love' catalogue, texts by Jean Paul Martinon & Peter Cross,
1995 'A Suivre' catalogue, Association Acte de Naissance, France
'A Suivre' review, Mark Currah, Time Out
1995 'Multiple Choice' review, Adrian Searle, Time Out
1995 'Composite adj.' catalogue, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1995 'Germinations VIII' catalogue, Germinations Europe
1994 'Whitechapel Open' catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
'Whitechapel Open' review, Mark Durden, Art Monthly
'Whitechapel Open' review, Sarah Kent, Time Out
1993 'Snap Shots' review, Sarah Kent, Time Out
1992 'East' catalogue, NIAD, Norwich

SELECTED AWARDS

2000 London Arts Board, Award to Individual Artists
1994 South West Arts Project Award
1993/4 Cheltenham Fine Art Fellowship
1992 'East' International Award

PUBLIC PAPERS

2003    ‘A Case Study in Co-operative Survival’, keynote speaker, Making Spaces Conference, Arts Council England / Yorkshire Artspace Trust
2001 'Capital Needs, Creative Solutions: New financial and constitutional strategies for workspace development', Visual Artists Representatives conference, Arts Council of England
2001 'The Independant Artists’ Studio Sector: Captial Purchase and Organisational Development', Creativity and Regeneration conference, Tate Modern / London Borough of Southwark
1999 'Reality, Virtuality, Technology’, at conference ‘Creativity & Consumption’, Artesium, Luton
1997 ‘Virtual Vulgarity’, at conference ‘Virtue & Vulgarity’, University of Reading
1997 'Public Secrets and Unwanted Gifts’, at symposium ‘Identity in Art’, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Art & Design