Jane Topping’s post-digital interdisciplinary practice draws from subjects as diverse as sci-fi, feminism, the archive, intertextuality, the screen and the life and works of writers Naomi Mitchison and Philip K. Dick. Mixing them with elements of autobiography she creates alternative pasts, presents and futures through her work.

CURRENT & UPCOMING

2019 - Present Domestic Bliss, GoMA, Glasgow 

2022 The Man Who Fell to Millom in Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorro and EcoGothic, Issue 3

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2018 She Was A Visitor, a No. 35 Project, curated by Alex Hetherington, Stirling

2016 Screen Used, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow 

 

2013 The Women, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

 

2011 There’s Some on Her Palm and in the Crook of Her Arm Nomi’s Kitchen, Glasgow

 

2010 Black Magic, Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103, Glasgow

 

2009 Persuasion Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow 

 

2006 Cuckoo Revue, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

 

2005 They Are the We of Me, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

 

2003 Look, For Your Information, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

 

2000 Bulkhead 24 hr Window, Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow

 

2000 Paintings For Airports, British Airways Executive Suite, Glasgow Airport

 

2000 Big Store, 254 High Street, Glasgow

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Art Walk Projects, Murky Waters, film programme curated by Rosy Naylor, Live Screening, Edinburgh

2022 Art Walk SALT Exhibition, Edinburgh

2022 Art-O-Rama, Immaterial Salon, The Hypnotised Machine, curated by Francesca Zappia

2021 8 x 6, Anderson Gallery, Carpenter’s Wharf, London

 

2019 Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow UK

2018 The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin GER

2018 Matter Matters, Moving Mountains Festival, Millom Palladium Millom, Cumbria UK

2018 The 16th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Maison du Japon, Paris

2018 The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, New York, USA

2018 Old Hair, Glasgow International 2018, The Old Hairdresser’s, Glasgow UK

2018 Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind, The Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle UK

2018 Experiments in Cinema v13.6, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

 

2017 Picnic at Tornado Sands, Show Reel, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

 

2017 The Fifth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York

 

2017 ANTIPHON, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (curated by Lux Scotland)

 

2016 Video Festival, Transmission, Glasgow

 

2016 Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow

 

2016  TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight, Locations around Glasgow

 

2016 Eye Eye screening, FOMO#3, The Dancehall at The Rum Shack, Glasgow

 

2015 FILM OPEN, ICA London

 

2015 FILM OPEN, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

 

2015 FILM OPEN, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

 

2015 White Watch, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle

 

2015 LUX Scotland’s Artists Moving Image Festival Prologues, Tramway, Glasgow 

 

2015 The Fisher Street Social, Fisher Street Social Club, Carlisle

 

2015 Caldewgate, Caldewgate Building, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle 

 

2015 FILM OPEN, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 

 

2015 FILM OPEN, Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol

 

2015 The 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany

 

2015 Ripples on the Pond, GoMA, Glasgow

 

2014 The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, September 15 – 21, Studio des  Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris

 

2014 Pulse, Various sites in East End of Glasgow, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow

 

2014 Discordia, The Poetry Club, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow

 

2014 Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow 

 

2014 The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester

 

2014 ART 14, London

 

2014 The Luck of Edenhall, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle

 

2014 Peter, Screening, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, New York, USA

 

2014 It’s Not All About Me: My Performance in Blade Runner, Paper & Screening, Doctoral Colloquium, University of Cumbria, Lancaster

 

2013 Plus Jamais Seul, Standards, Rennes, France

 

2013 The Nabokov Paper, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire

 

2012 Rise The Galley, Carlisle

 

2012 The Irregular Correct: New Work From Glasgow, Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia

 

2013 Smoking Forever, Co-collaborator in Clare Stephenson performance piece, Commissioned by Radar, Loughborough University

 

2011 Vault, The Bank, Carlisle

 

2010 Vocal Sans, 48 King Street, Glasgow

 

2010 Little Magazine, SWG3, Curated by Alex Pollard, Glasgow 

 

2010 FIELD, Satellite, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

 

2010 Fizz Up and Dissolve, Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103, Glasgow 

 

2009 The Corridor of Uncertainty, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Australia

 

2008 From the Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

 

2007 Naked Intruder Tries on Jacket, Aye Aye Books, Glasgow

 

2007 Out of Nowhere Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2006 The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin

 

2006 Down With You, Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester

 

2006 The Poets Still Throwing Up their Hands, The Changing Room, Stirling

 

2006 NADA Art Fair, Miami (with Transmission) 

 

2006 The Armory Show 06, New York (with Transmission)

 

2005 All at once, Together, at the Same Time, Colony, Birmingham 

 

2005 Low Lights and Trick Mirrors, Generator Projects, Dundee

 

2005 Doubtful Works and Copies, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

 

2004 Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich

 

2004 Coco Switchspace, Sword Street, Glasgow (two person show with Lynn Hynd)

 

2004 What Appears to be Yours, The Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee

 

2003 Green Margarine, Curated by Lapland, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

 

2003 Past Standing, The Changing Room, Stirling

 

2003 The Chateau Cells Out, Old Briggate Police Station, Glasgow

 

2000 Who The **** Do You Think You Are?, Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow

 

2000 Louder Than Love, ING Cultural Centre, Brussels

 

1999 Museum Magogo, PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

 

 

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

 

2017 Early Career Researcher Grant, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts

 

2017 Hospitalfield Summer Residency

 

2015 British Council Film Fund Travel Grant

 

2015 Creative Scotland Film Fund Award 

 

2015 University of Cumbria Research & Development Grant

 

2011 University of Cumbria Staff Development Award

 

2010 University of Cumbria Research Funding Award 

 

2010 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award 

 

2010 Hope Scott Trust Award 

 

2007-08 The Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Residency

 

2006 Edition commissioned by Transmission Gallery for The Armory Show 

 

2006 Poster commissioned by Patricia Fleming for Bankley Studios & Gallery

 

2003 Artist in residence at the Wellcome Trust Research Facility at the Western2 General Hospital (in association with Artlink), Edinburgh 

 

2001 Shortlisted for Prospects 

 

2000 Finalist for the Bulkhead Prize 

 

2000 New work commissioned by PACE for Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals Trust, 

Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride

 

1999 Cargill Trustees Travel Scholarship

 

1999 British Airways Travel Award

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2016 Transit#3 and everything crooked will become straight, Marcus Jack ed., Transit pp 26-33

 

2013 The Nabokov Paper, Kate Briggs & Lucrezia Russo eds., Information As Material 

 

2012 Artists pages in Pist Protta, Volume 71, Danish Visual Art Periodical

 

2011 Centrefold, Canned Magazine, Issue 2

 

2006 Exhibition catalogue, Cuckoo Revue, Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions Dept. Essay by Fiona Jardine

 

2005 Exhibition catalogue, They Are the We of Me, GoMA. Essay by Laurence Figgis

 

2004 Switchspace publication

 

2003 FUNCTIONSUITE Issue 1

 

2003 Green Margarine exhibition catalogue

 

2001 October public art project publication

 

2000 Bulkhead Prize publication

 

1999 Exit ‘99: Catalogue for painting department, Glasgow School of Art