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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| Born 1971, West Yorkshire |
| Born 1967, Norfolk |
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| EDUCATION |
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| Tatham: |
| 2000-04 | PhD, University of Leeds |
| 1993-95 | MFA, Glasgow School of Art |
| 1990-93 | BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee |
| O'Sullivan: |
| 1992-94 | MFA, Glasgow School of Art |
| 1987-91 | BA Fine Art, University of Leeds |
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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| | Arts Council England |
| | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | National Collecting Scheme for Scotland (Hunterian Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, MacManus Galleries, Dundee, Paisley Art Gallery and Museum) Government Art Collection (UK) |
| | Rhode Island Institute of Design Museum |
| | Fondazione Morra Greco, Italy |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | "Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation," Eastside Projects, Birmingham |
| | "You Can Take It As a Thing Or You Can Take it As a Thing," Salle de Bains, Lyon |
| 2008 | "Time has gone on and thinking has gone on about the thoughts we think we had about things that already happned before", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | "Are you feeling our meaning?" Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich |
| 2007 | "Lead Rhetoric & Other Category Errors", Galerie Ruediger-Schoettle, Munich |
| | "The This & The That of a Category Error" Smart project space, Amsterdam |
| | "A fee to avoid our expenses", The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| 2006 | "Rhetoric Works & Vanity Works & Other Works", Newhailes, Edinburgh, National Collecting Scheme for Scotland and Contemporary Art Society commission |
| | "Three Lean Meanings", Scotland & Venice touring, Pittenweem Arts Festival, Scotland |
| 2005 | "This is what brings things into focus", Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland |
| | Art|36 |Basel, Art Statements, with Sutton Lane |
| | "Oh we will, we will, will we", Studio Voltaire, London, sponsored by the Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation and Lambeth Arts. |
| 2004 | "That is the way, it is, it is, that is", Sutton Lane, London |
| 2003 | "Think Thingamajig and other Things", Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland |
| | "This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric" (with Alan Michael), The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| 2002 | "The Blacks", Cubitt Gallery, London |
| 2001 | "HK", Tramway, Glasgow |
| | "The Glamour", The Modern Institute at ARCO, Madrid |
| 2000 | "The Glamour", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1999 | "Deadzone", The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| | "Regardez-Vous", 24hrs window, Glasgow |
| 1998 | "Blow Your Mind", The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1997 | "Magus", Accident, London |
| | "Futura Skulpta", 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER PROJECTS |
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| 2010 | "Ornament and Pride", S.M.A.K., Ghent |
| 2009 | "N'importe Quoi", curated by Vincent Pˇcoil and Olivier Vadrot, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France |
| | "Back of the Head: Alternative Approaches to Portraiture", Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee |
| 2008 | "A show of many parts, each part more elaborate and spectacular than the last", City Gallery, Leicester |
| | "The Great Transformation; Art and Tactical Magic", Frankfurter Kunstverein, touring to Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain |
| 2007 | "Through The Looking Glass", CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux |
| | "24 November - 22 December", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | Art|38|Basel, Basel (performance) |
| | "Half Square, Half Crazy" Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice |
| | "Enlightenment" Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow |
| 2006 | "Art Now Live Work", Tate Britain, London |
| | "Falansterio", Supportico Lopez, Naples |
| | "If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it...A partial Showroom history", The Showroom, London |
| | "Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better", Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway |
| 2005 | Echo, echo Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| | "Art From Glasgow", Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin |
| | "Spectator 'T'", Art Sheffield 05 |
| | "Selective memory / Scotland and Venice", Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, curated by Jason E. Bowman and Rachel Bradley, touring to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art |
| | "Sutton Lane in Paris", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | "(My private) Heroes", MARTa Museum of Art & Design, Herford, Germany |
| | "Reflection part II", Sutton Lane, London |
| 2004 | The Slapstick Mystics with Sticks, Invited project, Frieze Art Fair, London |
| | "The principle of hope", Three Colts Gallery/ Cubitt, London |
| | "The Birthday Party", Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| | "Gertcha", group exhibition, Glasgow |
| | "Genesis Sculpture", Domain Pommery, Reims |
| | "Ain't no love in the heart of the city", temporary sited works, Cardiff |
| | "Frozen tears II", publication co-ordinated by John Russell, London |
| | "Brainchild", Magnifitat, Edinburgh |
| | "Publish and be Damned", Cubitt, London |
| | "Hit & Run", curated by SMART project space (Amsterdam) at Platform Garanti, Istanbul |
| | Kunsthaus Glarus at LISTE, Basel |
| 2003 | "Natural Decadence", Mini Gallery, Stockholm |
| | "Catterline Art Festival", Aberdeenshire |
| | "Prague Biennale", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague |
| | "Zenomap Projects", Venice Biennale |
| | "Turpentine", Studio Voltaire, London |
| 2002 | "Jahresgaben", Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany |
| | "Very Important Pictures", Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland |
| | "All You Need to Know", Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK |
| | "The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read", Braunschweig Kunstverein, Germany |
| | "My Head is on Fire but My Heart is Full of Love", Charlottenbourg Museum, Copenhagen |
| | "Village Hall Roadshow", touring to village halls and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, curated by All Horizons Club |
| 2001 | "The Nostalgia of Dum", Edinburgh College of Art |
| | "October", public art projects, St.Vincent Street, Glasgow |
| | "Here + Now, Scottish contemporary art 1990 Š2001", curated by Dundee Contemporary Arts at venues in Dundee and Aberdeen |
| | "Berlin Biennale 2", Kunstwerke, Berlin |
| 2000 | "Then there is no mountain then there is", Generator, Dundee |
| | "Tonight", The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| | "Museum Magogo", PG Gallery, Melbourne |
| | "The Evil Eye", Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow |
| | "Snowballing", Arthur R Rose, London and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
| | "Avalon", The Changing Room, Stirling |
| 1999 | "Sordide Sentimentale", Holden Gallery, Manchester |
| | "Museum Magogo", Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow |
| | "Education In Reverse", The Mirror and the Masque by Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, project curated by Sarah Tripp |
| | "Radio Tuesday", Radio project, Glasgow |
| | "Bent Aura", Publication by Stopstop, Glasgow |
| | "Evolution Isn't Over Yet", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and touring to Lugar Comum, Lisbon, 2000 |
| | "Dot", Teesdale Yard, London |
| 1998 | "Wallpapervideo", High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| | "This Island Earth", Iain Irving Projects at An Tuireann Art Centre, Skye |
| | "Unbelievable", Ikon Gallery touring, Birmingham |
| | "Various Artists", East Kilbride Arts Centre, Glasgow |
| | "Add Night To Night", The Showroom, London |
| | "Host", Tramway, Glasgow |
| 1997 | "Diorama", 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
| | "Nerve: Glasgow Projects", Artspace, Sydney |
| | "Tutor With An Idea", 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool |
| | "European Couples And Others", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow |
| | "60,70,80:90",The Showroom, London |
| | "Made In Glasgow", De Markten Arts Centre, Brussels |
| | "Young Parents, The Annual Programme, Manchester, 4 exhibitions curated by 4 artist-run spaces |
| 1996 | "World Of Ponce", curated by Toby Webster, Glasgow |
| | "City Limits", Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent |
| | "Art For People", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow |
| | "Chicken Farm", touring video programme, screened at Articule, Montreal; NIFCA, Helsinki; Hunter College, New York; CCA, Glasgow; De Markten Arts Centre, Brussels; Leeds University |
| | "Be-Er Monsta", touring video programme screened in London, Dublin and Belfast |
| 1995 | "Volcano", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| | "Making Out", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow |
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| SELECTED REVIEWS & FEATURES |
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| 2008 | van Rijn, Ilse. "Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan; The This & The That of a Category Error", Metropolis M, , December/January 2007/8, pp 84-85 |
| | Smolik, Noemi. "Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan", Artforum, February 2008, pp 303-4 |
| | Rathgeber, Pirkko. "Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan", Flash Art, January - February 2008, p 151 |
| 2007 | O'Reilly, Sally. "Things Fall Apart", Frieze, October 2007, pp 256 - 261 |
| | Mullholland, Neil. "Heroin Kills, Rhetoric Works", Texte Zur Kunst, March 2007, pp 165 -167 |
| | Mclaren, Duncan. "House of Enlightenment", Map, Issue 9 2007, pp 40-43 |
| 2006 | Gronlund, Melissa. "Momentum 2006", Frieze, issue 103, pp 159 -160 |
| | Mottram, Jack."Home in on objects of their affection", The Herald, 06/10/06, p. 5 |
| | Dewar, Reynaud. "Cynical Monuments; Anti-social Sculpture", Art Press 2, trimestriel no. 3, November -January 2006/7, pp 58 -67 |
| | Polly Staple & Melissa Gronlund, (eds.), "Frieze Projects: Artists Commisions and Talks (2003-2005)", Frieze, London, 2006, pp. 70-71 |
| | "Ha Ha!, in Magnetic Promenade (and other sculpture parks)", Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Studio Voltaire, London, 2006, pp. 51-62 |
| | Vincent, Martin. "Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan", Art Monthly, November 06 No. 301 pp 25 -26 |
| | Gale, Iain. "Making history the modern way", Scotland on Sunday, 22.10.06, Review p 9 |
| 2005 | Garnett, Robert. "Tom O'Sullivan & Joanne Tatham", Untitled, issue 34, Spring 2005, p 67 |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "Use Your Illusions", Tate etc, issue 4, Summer 2005, pp 76 – 81 |
| | Pethick, Emily. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Artforum.com, February 2005 |
| 2004 | Morton, Tom. "Mirror, Mirror", Frieze, issue 87, November-December 2004, pp 90-93 |
| | Firth, Hannah. "Cardiff: Aint no Love in the Heart of the City", Circa, issue 109, October 2004, pp 70-71 |
| 2003 | Staple, Polly. "50th Venice Biennale", Frieze, Issue 77, September 2003, p112 |
| | Hirsch, Helen. "Magische Konstrukte und rätselhafte Dimensionen", Kunstbulletin 6, 2003, pp36-37 |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric", The Scotsman, 18 March 2003. S2 Review p 12 |
| | Mottram, Jack Mottram. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", The List, 13-27 March 2003, p 89 |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "All you need to know", Frieze, issue 73, March 2003, pp 91-92 |
| 2002 | Usherwood, Paul. "All you need to know", Art Monthly, issue 262, Dec 2002, pp 24 - 25 |
| | O'Reilly, Sally. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Art Monthly, issue 260, Oct 2002, pp 31- 32 |
| | Herbert, Martin. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Time Out, 25 September-2 October 2002, p58 |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "Learning from Glasvegas: Scottish Art after 'the 90's", Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, volume 7, 2002, pp 61-70 |
| | Tufnell, Rob. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Untitled, Spring 2002, pp. 30 - 31. |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Flash Art, March - April 2002, pp.106 - 107 |
| | Mulholland, Neil."The Luxury Gap", Flash Art, January - February 2002, pp 54- 55 |
| | Mulholland, Neil. "Here + Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001",Frieze, issue 63, January 2002, p 105 |
| 2001 | "HK", Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 22.12.01, p 19 |
| | "HK: Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Sarah Lowndes, The List, issue 431, p 48. |
| | "A question of heroin chic", Graham Sutherland, Sunday Herald, 16.12.01, p 9 |
| | "Beyond the obvious", Neil Cameron, The Scotsman, 27.11.01, S2 p 10 |
| | "Staggering message writ large", Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, 23.11.01, p 1 9 |
| | "Berlin Biennale 2", Dominic Eichler, Frieze, issue 61, September 2001, p 103 |
| | "Berlin Biennale", Lars Bang Larsen, Art Forum, September 2001, pp 203 -204 |
| | "Then there is no mountain then there is", John Beagles, The List, issue 404, 5 -18 January 2001, pp 77. |
| 2000 | "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Rob Tufnell, Frieze, issue 55, November - December 2000 pp 118. |
| | "Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan", Jack Mottram, The List, June 2000. |
| | "Avalon", Rob Tufnell, Make, issue 88, June 2000, p 34 |
| | "Avalon", Jenny Crowe, An magazine, May 2000, p21 |
| 1999 | "Evolution isn't over yet", David Burrows, Art Monthly, issue 221, June 1999, pp 31-34 |
| | "Reviews: Scotland", Sarah Tripp, Circa, issue 88, Summer 1999, pp 58 -59 |
| 1998 | "Blow Your Mind", Paul Welsh, The List, January 1998 |
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| EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS |
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| 2006 | "The Pyramid", Fiona Jardine (exhibition guide), The Watchie, Catterline, Aberdeenshire, 2006 |
| | "Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better", Annette Kierulf & Mark Sladen, (eds.), (exhibition catalogue), Momentum, Moss, Norway, 2006, pp. 128-131 |
| | "Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Rhetoric Works & Vanity Works & Other Works", (exhibition catalogue), Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, 2006 |
| 2005 | "Scotland & Venice. Selective memory", published by Scottish Arts Council, British Council, National Galleries of Scotland for the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005. Essays by Lisa Le Feuvre, Will Bradley. |
| 2004 | "Hit & Run", published by SMART project space, Amsterdam, 2004. |
| | "Genesis Sculpture", published by Beaux Arts, Paris, 2004. Text by Will Bradley, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan pp 82 -83. |
| 2003 | "HK", published by Tramway and The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2003. Essay by Lars Bang Larsen. |
| | "Prague Biennale", published by Giancarlo Politi Editore, 2003. Essay by Neil Mulholland pp 250 -251. |
| 2002 | "Very Important Pictures", Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, 2002, pp 28 -31. |
| | "October", published by Red Group, Glasgow 2002 pp 40 - 45. |
| | "My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love", published by Charlottenborg, Udstillgsbygning, 2002. Pages by Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan pp 20 -27. |
| | "The best book about pessimism I ever read", published by Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2002. Essays by Lucy McKenzie, Neil Mulholland and Andrea Kusel. |
| 2001 | "HK", published by Tramway, Glasgow, 2001. Essay by Lars Bang Larsen. |
| | "Here + Now", published by Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 2001, pp 124- 125. |
| | "Berlin Biennale 2", published by Berlin Biennale fuer zeitgenoessische kunst, 2001. Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan interviewed by Will Bradley, pp 246- 245. . |
| | "The Glamour", published by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2001. Text by Will Bradley. |
| 2000 | "Avalon", published by The Changing Room, Stirling, 2000. Text by Cathy Wilkes. |
| 1999 | "Evolution Isn't Over Yet", published by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1999 & 2000. |
| 1998 | "Add Night To Night", published by The Showroom, London, 1998. Text by Will Bradley, Chris Evans, Alan Michael, Tom O'Sullivan, Joanne Tatham, Hayley Tompkins, Sarah Tripp, Cathy Wilkes. |
| | "Blow Your Mind", published by The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1998. Essays by Will Bradley and Anne Ooms. |
| 1997 | "Diorama", published by 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1997. Essay by Charlotte Day. |
| | "Nerve: Glasgow Projects", published by Artspace, Sydney, 1997. Essays by Charles Esche and Anne Ooms. |
| | "Made In Glasgow", published by De Markten Arts centre, Brussels, 1997. Essays by Francis McKee and Sam Ainsley. |
| | "Futura Skulpta", published by 3 month gallery, Liverpool, 1997. |
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| AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES |
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| | Scottish Arts Council Artists Award, 2003 |
| | Scottish Arts Council Professional Development grant, 2003 |
| | Glasgow City Council Visual Arts award, 2002 |
| | Hope Scott Trust grant, 2002 |
| | Grizedale Research and Development grant and residency, 2002 |
| | Arts Trust of Scotland grant, 2000 |
| | Stanley Burton Bursary, Leeds University, 2000-03 (JT) |
| | Scottish Arts Council Research and Development grant, 2000 |
| | Glasgow City Council Visual Arts award, 2000 |
| | Scottish Arts Council Public Art Initiatives award, 1998 |
| | Residency at Artspace, Sydney, funded by the British Council, 1997 |
| | Scottish Arts Council Small Assistance grant, 1997 |
| | Paul Hamlyn Foundation bursary, 1993-95 (JT) |
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