Alan Smith
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The Old School House Allenheads Northumberland NE47 9HR

Tel: 01434 685040 m: 07813313985

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Lives and works in Allenheads, Northumberland

Currently Artistic Director of Allenheads Contemporary Arts

1994    Co founder and director of Allenheads Contemporary Arts,

86-88   MFA University of Massachusetts, USA., .

 

Residencies:

2005    Gillford Centre Pupil Referral Unit Carlisle, Creative Partnerships.

2006    Distington PRU, Cumbria Art in Education (mentor)

2004    Spyglass, Bristol.

2003   ‘Interaktions Labor’ Göttelborn coal mine Germany

2000   The year of the Artist as resident Artist with The North Pennines Heritage Trust at Nenthead           Mines.

Selected Solo installations/exhibitions:

2011    There She Goes My Beautiful World Galerija Akademija Vilnius, Lithuania

2010    Video installation Off Loop, La Interior Bodega Barcelona

2004    Video installation, Eastern to Spyglass Bristol

2002    Walkabout, installation Queen’s Hall Art Centre, Hexham

Selected Group Exhibitions/events:

2011    Parameter 3, durational live event at the Duke of Cornwall in Plymouth

2011    Parameter 2, durational live event at The Allenheads Inn

2010    Northern Soil, ACAshop

2010    Pelican, live event and performance, ACAdovetail

2010    Parameter, 1st of a series of live events, investigating shared extreme experience through            nonverbal communication (Nenthead mines)

2009    2009 a Brass Odyssey (video) Durham Brass Festival

2008    All National Flags and  Anthems, Cultural Olympiad, MIMA

2008    Eastern to Spyglass and in conversation with Tracey Warr, Choreographing the City The            Nunnery, London

2006    Anthem The Sage, Gateshead.

2006    SKY You Shall Know Our Velocity Baltic Gateshead.

2005    SKY -  Berwick film festival

2005    Screening of Eastern to Spyglass, Louisiana State University

2004    Vom Industrieraum zum Kunstraum.K4 Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Saarbrücken.

2004    Windows Wide Open, Side Cinema Newcastle

2003    Performance and video instillation at Göttelborn coal mine.

2003    Video instillation at new media gallery in Saarland Germany.

2003    Midday till Midnight live cinema event at Side Cinema Newcastle with Phil Ogg.

2002    Video/Sound Installation with Phil Ogg, Allenheads Contemporary Art

1999   Run Rabbit Run, an exhibition across two venues, Allenheads Centre for the Arts and the           Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.