Kirsty Russell

kirstyrussell.uk@gmail.com

Present
Talbot Rice Resident 2022/23
Talbot Rice Residents Exhibition - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (16 March - 1 June 2024)
Practising Bodies - Cubitt Gallery, London (June 2024)
Jerwood New Work Fund Recipient 2023, Jerwood Arts


Education

Syllabus IV - Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Eastside Projects, Iniva - 2018/19
BA (hons) Printmaking – Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen - 2009 – 2013



Selected Exhibitions

2024
Practising Bodies (solo) - Cubitt Gallery, London (June 2024)
Talbot Rice Residents - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Betwixt - Mimosa House, London

2021
Platform, Edinburgh Art Festival

2019
A Spoon is the Safest Vessel - Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
Practicing Concern - Artlicks, London
Common Positions, Jerwood Staging Series - Jerwood Arts Space, London
Syllabus IV - Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Threshold(s) - Look Again Art Weekender, Aberdeen
Outwith - Guest Projects, London

2018
holding - No. 8 Summer Programme, Aberdeen
Bring Back the Mountains - The South Block, Glasgow
Awards

2017
Touch Studies - DanceLive 2017, Aberdeen
Borrowed Forms - The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen
PALM - Look Again Festival, Aberdeen


2016
Go Here - The Suttie Art Space, Aberdeen

2015
Dundee Print Collective: The Silk Road - IMPACT 9, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2014
SAY Art Commission – Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow
In The Pipelines - Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen

2013
Hard Ground – Peacocks Visual Arts, Aberdeen




Selected Projects


Present
Children’s Parliament - Project worker
Creative Practitioner, Creative Learning Aberdeen
Tactics for Togetherness, an artist group exploring collaboration and resource sharing


2020
Artist Residency, City Moves Dance Agency SCIO
Underpinning - a discursive platform that invites artists to share their practice through workshops and events, Founder

2019
Emerging Artist Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop

2018
Artroom, Grampian Hospital Arts Trust, Aberdeen - Lead Artist
Working in the Pauses - Screening, Lux Scotland, Guest Curator
Curatorial Curriculum - Grand Union, Birmingham

2017
Artist Led Exchange Residency - The Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire
Support Structures: Reading Group - a reading circle building conversations surrounding support, Co-Founder

2016
Beta Beta - Residency, Braemar
“Please, what should come into museums?” - KunstvereinGRAZ, Regensberg, Germany

2015
Temporary Studio, Co-Founder
TRUCK: Contemporary Arts in Calgary, Artist Residency – Calgary, Canada

2014
Graduate in Residence: Printmaking Department - Grays School of Art, Aberdeen



Awards
Jerwood New Work Fund recipient, Jerwood Arts, 2023
Jerwood Bursaries Recepient - Jerwood Arts, 2020
a-n Artist Bursary - 2019
Open Project Funding - Creative Scotland, 2018
Creative Funding - Aberdeen City Council, 2017/ 2021
Visual Artist Award - Aberdeen City Council, 2016/2018



Writing


Supporting Bodies/Bodies of Support, Jenny Richards - Betwixt 2024
WRITINGS BETWEEN
Taking Time: A series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality, MAP Magazine, September 2020

Outer Space, Caroline Gausden
This text was commissioned by Lux Scotland as a response to Working in the Pauses, a screening curated by Kirsty Russell that took place at the Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen on Sunday 20 January 2019.

Practicing Concern, Laura Hindmarsh - written for Underpinning