Karen Guthrie

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Karen Guthrie
Born1970
Alma materEdinburgh College of Art, Royal College of Art
AwardsNorthern Art Prize
2008

Karen Guthrie (born 1970) is a British artist that works with public art, installation, film making, and internet publishing. She lives and works in the Lake District, UK.[1] Most of her work is done in collaboration with Nina Pope. Guthrie and Pope started working together in London as a collaborative duo in 1995 on projects that "enrich and inform public life" and they founded creative non-profit Somewhere (artist collective) in 2001.[2]

Education[]

Karen Guthrie attended the Edinburgh College of Art from 1987 to 1991, receiving a BA in Printmaking. She attended the Royal College of Art in London from 1991 to 1993, receiving a MA in Printmaking.[3]

Career[]

Guthrie began working with Nina Pope in 1995.[3] She was part of an artist collective called , which contributed to 'A Different Weekend' with their 'Festival of Lying'. Its members included Nina Pope, , and .[4] Karen works on many public arts projects including initiatives with Grizedale Arts, including their website and land / garden development projects.[2] Guthrie and Pope founded Somewhere (artist collective), a creative non-profit to produce collaborative projects of interest.

Films[]

  • Making, A Life, as co-director & co-producer with Maria Benjamin, a portrait of Lakes artist Peter Hodgson
  • The Closer We Get, as director & co-producer (2015), uncovering her own families hidden stories[5][6]
  • Jaywick Escapes, as co-director & co-producer (2012) [7][8]
  • The View From My House, directed and edited films made with inmates of HMP Preston (2008)[9]
  • Cat Fancy Club, as co-director & co-producer (2008) [10]
  • Almanac, artist & collaborator (2007)
  • Little Deluxe Living, co-directed and produced (2007)
  • Living with the Tudors, researched, wrote, directed & produced (aka Sometime Later) (2007)
  • Life-size Lilliput (2006)
  • Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future, co-produced, wrote, directed & distributed (2005) [11]
  • Welcome To, Writer, director & producer (2003) [12]

Exhibitions, commissions, and other projects[]

  • The Years of Magical Thinking 2017 - Exhibition of work produced as Artist-in-Residence at the National Trust property Acorn Bank
  • A Fair Land 2016 - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Collaboration with public works on 'Glut' - a barn and pop-up vegetable garden
  • House of Ferment 2014/17 - A collaborative food installation with Grizedale Arts touring to various venues including Harris Museum Preston, Hauser & Wirth Somerset & Coniston Institute
  • Soil Culture - Artist-in-residence with Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Project curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World toured to various venues including Bristol Create, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the Eden Project, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton and White Moose, Barnstaple.
  • Tomorrow, Today 2014 - University of Cambridge NW Cambridge public art commission
  • Past, Present, Somewhere 2014 - Retrospective solo show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge[2]
  • Art Lending Library 2012 - Contributing artists to project by Walker & Bromwich, , Market Gallery
  • The Floating Cinema, London 2011 – ongoing[13]
  • Can Art Save Us? 2010 - Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. Multiple 'Titchy/Kitschy' shown in Grizedale Arts contribution [2]
  • Abbey Gardens, What Will The Harvest Be? Commissioned by London Borough of Newham 2009 – ongoing[14]
  • A Circle of Happiness, Jaywick Martello Tower 2009
  • Schnucken, Elefanten und andere Gastgeschenke 2009 -  [de], Germany. Multiple 'Titchy/Kitschy' shown in myvillages.org [2]
  • Agrifashionista.tv - Commissioned by A Foundation & Grizedale Arts for Rochelle School, London. Two projects - Karen Guthrie's 'The Grotto' (postponed indefinitely) and a musical collaboration 'A Song for a Circus' between Nina Pope and Tim Olden[2]
  • Broadcast Yourself 2007 - TV swansong archive exhibited as part of group show at Hatton Gallery (Newcastle) and Cornerhouse (Manchester)[2]
  • Almanac, Public art commission for the redevelopment of Cinema City, Norwich 2007
  • Seven Samurai & Return of the Seven Samurai (2007)[15]
  • Sometime Later, Commissioned by BBC & Arts Council England, 2006
  • Pilot 3 2007 - Selected for archive for artists & curators, shown at Atelier Bevilacqua, Venice Biennale (Italy)[2]
  • Romantic Detachment, Video work, group show, PS1, New York City & touring to Q in Derby, Folly in Lancaster & Chapter in Cardiff 2004
  • London Underground Platform for Art, Featured artists 2003
  • Live Culture, Curators exhibitors, video programme, Tate Modern, London 2003
  • TV Swansong, Nationwide public art site-specific webcast project commissioning eight artists and curators 2002[16]
  • The Festival of Lying 2000 - Live event & web cast with Anna Best & Simon Poulter; Grizedale Show, Cumbria, UK [2]

Awards and honors[]

  • 2008 Northern Art Prize awarded to Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope[17]
  • 2010 Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's new media installation ‘An Artist’s Impression’ was acquired by the Science Museum, London
  • 2015 At the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, Guthrie's awarded the juried Best International Feature Documentary Award[18] In the same year it also won Best UK Feature Documentary at London's Open City Documentary Festival & Best UK feature at the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
  • 2016 Guthrie's was awarded juried Special Awards at Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival (Russia) & Budapest International Documentary Festival
  • 2016 Guthrie was awarded the Women Filmmakers Award at the LA Diversity Film Festival
  • 2017 Guthrie was awarded the Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Fellowship by the National Trust

References[]

  1. ^ "Front Page". Somewhere. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Pope & Guthrie Biography / CV". Somewhere. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie". NORTH WEST CAMBRIDGE Art Programme. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Nina Pope". Grizedale Artists. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Main Page". The Closer We Get. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  6. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (7 November 2015). "My dad's secret family in Africa". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  7. ^ Wade, Jackson. "Review of Jaywick Escapes". Britflicks: The Home of British Film. Britflicks ltd. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Main Page". Jaywick Escapes.
  9. ^ "somewhere: About : Karen Guthrie's Biography / CV". www.somewhere.org.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  10. ^ Regine (2015). "Cat Fancy Club - we make money not art". we-make-money-not-art.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  11. ^ Felperin, Leslie (28 August 2005). "Review: 'Bata-Ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future'". Variety. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Karen Guthrie's Biography/CV". Somewhere. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Floating Cinema". Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  14. ^ "What will the harvest be?". Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  15. ^ "Seven Samurai". Somewhere.
  16. ^ "Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  17. ^ "Awards". ARTnews. 107 (3): 94. March 2008. ISSN 0004-3273. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  18. ^ "2015 Awards". Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Archived from the original on 19 October 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Further reading[]

  • Wither, Rachel (Summer 2005). "Pope & Guthrie". Artforum International. 43 (10): 340. ISSN 1086-7058.

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