Video stills from BLOOD 1999, a video installation by Shona Illingworth, made in collaboration with Vici Wyatt and Sarah Gleaves and commissioned by Lighthouse for Art on the Net. Video projection with sound, duration 6 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shona Illingworth was born in 1966 and studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art, London from 1985-88 where she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art. She works predominantly with film, video and digital technologies and has exhibited her installations in exhibitions including From Moment to Moment, at the Cambridge Darkroom, Acting Out, the Body in Video, Then and Now at the Royal College of Art, at Galerie Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, Whitechapel Open, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gym Practice, at the Arts Depot, London, Site Work, at the Architecture Association, and outside of the gallery for the R.I.B.A exhibition Desiring Practices.

Artists residencies in schools using digital technologies including The Rosendale Odyssey and A Tale of Four Cities, have resulted in project work exhibited at the Photographers' Gallery, London, and in the British Council touring exhibition, High Definition: - British Design for a Digital Future in Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan and South Korea.

Shona has taught in both architecture and art colleges including, Kingston University, Chelsea School of Art, the Royal College of Art, Greenwich University, North London University, South Bank University and Nottingham Trent University. She has given regular public talks for the Hayward Gallery, and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Gallery, London, as well as organising a series of symposia events for the South Bank Centre.

Her work has featured in exhibition catalogues and various art publications, including From Moment to Moment Cambridge Darkroom publication, Acting Out Royal College of Art publication, Whitechapel Open Whitechapel Art Gallery publication, East End Masters of Projection Richard Dorment, Independent,1995,Acting Out - Untelevision a quarterly arts video journal,Beyond the Lost Object: >From Sculpture to Film and Video Michael Newman, Art Press, Paris, May issue 202, 1995, Desiring Practices Black Dog publication and research commissioned by the Museums Association was published in 1997.

She lives and works in London and is currently teaching at the School of Architecture University of Greenwich, is a Company Director for Insight Arts Trust and is engaged in the development of a series of video and performance projects to take place in prisons over the next three years and in the production of new works, for exhibition at the National Gallery, Albania in December 1999.