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