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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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021, Beautiful Sunday, new commission for Creative Folkestone Triennale
2021 STEP Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Govan Project Space & Govan Graving Docks, Glasgow
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
2019 Donachie Rhodes Ryan, Freelands Gallery, London
2018 Next Top Model, Govan Project Space, Glasgow
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