Halo Nevus
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