Jacqueline Donachie’s work is rooted in an exploration of individual, family and collective identity and the structures, platforms and spaces (both actual and conceptual) through which it is constructed and supported. Her work encompasses sculpture, installations, photographs, films, drawings and performance and is research-based, collaborative and participatory. Drawing is key; she isolates and records familiar urban objects as a means to illustrate similarity and difference. Recently she has also been working in print, using both digital processes and etching. Her sculptures in metal or concrete inhabit space indoors and in public spaces, and are intended as sites of rest and activity. Linear works made from steel or aluminium pick out a route through architecture, drawing a colourful line through space.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

11 - 27 June 2021 STEP, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Govan Project Space & Govan Graving Docks, Glasgow

September 2021 New commissions for Creative Folkestone Triennale

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Right Here Among Them, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh*

2016 Deep in the Heart of Your Brain, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow*

2015 South (Oslo), public commission, Aker Brygge, Oslo

2014 Keep Up, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum

2014 Glasgow Slow Down, public event for Commonwealth Games Culture Programme, Glasgow

2014 New Weather Coming, public commission for GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland

2013 Jacqueline Donachie, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

2013 Melbourne Slow Down, public work as part of Desire Lines, Australian Centre for

Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2012 Contemporary Art Society purchase commission, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum

2011 The Temple of Jackie, Radar, Loughborough University Arts

2010 Speedwork, public work for Glasgow International, Bellahouston park, Glasgow

2009 Huntly Slow Down, residency and public project, Deveron Arts, Huntly,

Aberdeenshire

2006 Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (with Professor Darren Monckton)*

2004 Green Place, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (Contemporary Art Society Commission)

2003 A Walk for Greville Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire*

2002 Jacqueline Donachie, i-n-k, Copenhagen

2002 Dear Wives, IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm

2002 Three Pinkston Drive, FRAC Languedoc Roussilon, Montpelier *

2001 South, Henry Moore Fellowship Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

2001 House of Fun, Hal, Antwerpen

2001 Edinburgh Society, Round Room, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh*

2000 In the Arms of Strangers, City Art Gallery, Leeds

1999 Jacqueline Donachie, The Pineapple, Malmo

1999 The Trees, The Book and the Disc, public work commissioned by Visual Art Projects, Glasgow*

1999 Sword, The Jerwood Gallery, London

1997 Stars + Bars, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

1996 Home Taping, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

1996 Tour Bus E-18, Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden (part of Sawn-Off project)

1995 Knoll Galleria, Budapest

1994 Part Edit, Tramway, Glasgow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Mary and Elizabeth, Edinburgh Art Festival Commission, Edinburgh

2012 Going Viral, Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow and Brick Lane Gallery, London

2012 Artists and Science, Weismann Institute, Tel Aviv

2010 The Land Between Us, Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester

2008 Talkin’ Loud and Saying Somethin’, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg*

2008 Perspectives on Muscle Disease, Novas Gallery, London

2004 Designer Bodies, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

2003 AIR 2003, Gallery at Glenfiddich distillery, Dufftown

2002 Travelogue, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

2002 New: Recent acquisitions of contemporary British art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2001 Here and Now, Scottish Art 1990– 2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts

2001 Circles, Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

2000 International Selection, Salon de Montrouge, Paris and Institute of Contemporary Art, Lisbon

1999 48 Hours, Tablet Gallery, London

1999 In The Midst of Things, Bournville, Birmingham

1999 Freestate, art.tm, Inverness

1998 Magic Carpet, Malmo Art Museum

1998 Host, Tramway, Glasgow

1998 Narrative Urge, Upsalla Konstmuseum, Upsalla, Sweden

1997 Site and Sound, Site Gallery, Sheffield

1997 Correspondences Scotland - Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1997 Approach, CASCO, Utrecht

1996 Girls High, Fruitmarket, Glasgow

1996 Borland, Buchanan, Donachie, Gordon, Eigen + Art, Berlin

1996 Perfect Speed, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida

1996 Kilt ou Double, La Vigee, Nimes

1996 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (with Roderick Buchanan)

1995 Maikafer Fleig, Bunker of Cologne-Ehrehnfeld, Cologne

1995 Ateliers du FRAC du Payes de la Loire, St. Nazaire

1995 Karaoke, South London Gallery, London

1995 Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London

1995 Inside Out, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut

1995 Shift, De Appel, Amsterdam

1995 Make Believe, Royal College of Art, London

1995 Every Time I See You, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmo; Galleri Index, Stockholm

1994 Information, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Paisley

* Exhibition Catalogue

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2017 Freelands Award, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

2016 Creative Scotland Artists’ Bursaries Award, Open Project Fund

2015 AHRC Anniversary Film Awards, BFI London. Winner, ‘Best Doctoral Film since 1998’

2015 Wellcome Trust Research and Production Award, with University of Glasgow Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences

2014 Research residency, School of Sports Science, Loughborough University / Radar

2009–2010 Residency / Commission, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow

2008 Marigold Foundation Award, Canada

2006–2009 Lead artist, Centre for Health Science, Inverness

2005 Paul Hamlyn Award for the Visual Arts

2004 Contemporary Art Society Commission, Whitworth Art Gallery

2004 Scottish Arts Council, artists award

2003–2005 Wellcome Trust SciArt Production Award (with Department of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow)

2003 Artist in Residence, Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown

2002 IASPIS Stockholm – International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden

2002 Copus – Connecting People to Science Award, with the University of Glasgow

2001 Henry Moore Sculpture Fellowship, Spike Island, Bristol

1995-1996 Fulbright Scholarship, Hunter College, New York, MFA

PUBLICATIONS

2017 Right Here Among Them, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

2016 Deep in the Heart of Your Brain, notes from an exhibition. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

2014 New Weather Coming, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

2010 Huntly Slow Down, Deveron Arts, Huntly

2008 Talkin’ Loud and Saying Somethin’, Gothenburg Museum of Art

2006 Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (with Prof. Darren Monckton)

2004 Somewhere to Stand, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh / Frac Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier

2002 DM, University of Glasgow, Glasgow

2002 Three Pinkston Drive, FRAC Languedoc Roussilon, Montpelier

2001 Edinburgh Society, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

1999 Kenny’s Head, Visual Art Projects, Glasgow

1999 Home Improvements, Tablet Gallery, London

1999 The Trees, The Book and the Disc, Visual Art Projects, Glasgow

1996–97 3,532 Miles, The Armpit press, Glasgow

1995 Handwashing, FRAC Payes de la Loire, Nantes

1994 Part Edit, Tramway, Glasgow