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Professor Ciara Phillips is an artist and educator who has gained international recognition for her process-lead approach to individual and collaborative work in printmaking.
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Professor Ciara Phillips is a Canadian/Irish artist based in Bergen since 2022. She studied Fine Art at Queen's University (BFA, Hons.) in Kingston, Canada, and at Glasgow School of Art (MFA) before establishing her studio in Glasgow (2004 - 2022). 

Phillips' process-lead approach to working with print, has gained her international recognition for both her individual and collaborative work in the field of contemporary art. She has worked as an educator and as an artist in community contexts since the late 1990s, and her long-term artwork, Workshop (2010 - ) - which engages people of all ages and backgrounds in thinking-through-making with her - has been exhibited widely in public institutions. Phillips is the initiator of several collaborative projects including: Poster Club, an artist collective exploring the poster as site of experimentation (with Anne-Marie Copestake, Charlie Hammond, Nicolas Party, Tom O'Sullivan and Michael Stumpf, 2010-17); Press Room, a community-based project at Crosby Library, Liverpool, collaging new news from the daily papers in the month leading up to Britain's departure from Europe (2019); and Åpent Trykkeri, an open print studio for the community at Vaksdal Senter (2018 - 2019). Her work has been exhibited at: The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, TATE Britain in London, Benaki Museum in Athens, Kunsthall Stavanger and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Sydney Biennale. In 2014, Phillips was one of four nominees for the Turner Prize, the UK's most publicised art award, and in 2020 she received the world's leading award for graphic art, The Queen Sonja Print Award.

Since joining the Faculty of Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen, Phillips has been engaged in the following projects:

For exhibitions and projects prior to 2022 see: Ciara Phillips' website

Artist Residencies:

  • The Model, Sligo (2022)
  • after the butcher & Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin (2021)
  • Kunsthall Stavanger (2019)
  • Griffelkunst, Hamburg (2019)
  • Trykkeriet, Bergen (2018)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia (2018)
  • Grafikens Hus, Stockholm/Södertälje (2017)
  • Plymouth Arts Centre (2017)
  • Benaki Museum, Athens (2017)
  • Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada (2016)
  • Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA (2016)
  • Western Front, Vancouver (2016)
  • Koerner Artist-in-Residence, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada (2016)
  • Konsthall C, Stockholm (2015)
  • Zendai Art Museum, Zhujiajiao, China (w/ Poster Club) (2015)
  • St. John’s College, Oxford (2014)
  • The Showroom, London (2013)
  • Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich (2012)
  • Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim (2012)
  • Spike Island, Bristol (2012)
  • Anna Löbner Glasgow/Düsseldorf Exchange (2010)
  • Hamburg Kunstverein (2010)
  • Cove Park (2009)

Awards:

  • Queen Sonja Print Award, Oslo (2020) 
  • Irish Arts Council Project Award (2019)
  • Haugesund Internasjonale Tresnittfestival Festival Prize (2019)
  • Turner Prize nominee,TATE Britain, London (2014)
  • Creative Scotland Bursary Award (2013)
  • Drawing Room Bursary Award, London (2013)
Undervisning

2024/25

Supervisor & Course Leader for:

  • PhD in Artistic Research: re- radio by Karen Werner [full details in Research Catalogue]
  • MA & BA students in Fine Art
  • MEME 106: Introduction to Printmaking; PRO 233/333: Matter, Meaning and Making; ART 210: Art Practice 4

2023/24

Supervisor & Course Leader for:

  • PhD in Artistic Research: re- radio by Karen Werner [full details in Research Catalogue]
  • MA & BA students in Fine Art
  • MEME 202/322: Textile and Printmaking: Seriality and Reproduction (in collaboration with Ingrid Aarset); ART 250: Art Practice 6 - Bachelor's Project
  • Contributor to MEME 106: Introduction to Printmaking (with Herbert Wiegand)

Committee Leader for PhD Assessment of Urgent Affairs, Strange Empathy by Sveinung Unneland. With Committee members Hilde Hauan Johnsen and Dag Erik Elgin [full details in Research Catalogue]

Co-curator (with Oda Tungodden) of BA Graduation Exhibition Done is a Door

2022/23

Supervisor & Course Leader for:

  • MA & BA students in Fine Art
  • PRO 200: Publish! (with Chloe Lewis); ART 210: Art Practice 4
  • Contributor to MEME 106: Introduction to Printmaking (with Herbert Wiegand); PRO 322: Am I Other (with Annette Kierulf); PRO 213: Im/material Knowledge (with Ingrid Cogne)

Previous teaching positions (2005/2020):

  • Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, Helsinki (2020)
  • Lecturer in Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art (2012/15)
  • Associate Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies for Fine Art, University of Cumbria, Carlisle (2007/9)
  • Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies for Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle (2005/7)

Guest lecturer at:

  • International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria 
  • Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
  • Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
  • Queen's University, Kingston, Canada 
  • Kunst- og Designhøgskolen i Bergen, Norway 
  • HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland 
  • Royal College of Art, London, UK 
  • Open School East, London, UK
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
  • Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK
  • Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford, UK
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
  • Temple Bar Studios and Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • Island Mountain Arts, Wells, Canada 
  • Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK