Mo White
I make work in film and video, photographic media and printmaking. My interests are in visualising gender, diasporic identities and queer identities. For some time my work has placed my own body at its centre in what has become a series of 'performances for the camera'. Recent concerns in moving image and photographic work have been with addressing themes of desire, memory and dislocation, and are a reflection on the experience of Irish migration. This theme is addressed in Kitchen Accounts (2016, book publication; 2018, exhibition). I have also been involved in co-curating a large-scale research and exhibition project, SLIDE TAPE: Key Work in the UK since the 1970s, in collaboration with Vivid Projects, Birmingham. In 2013 the project staged exhibitions, a symposium, an artists' residency and talk events presenting a fresh appraisal of this overlooked and forgotten form and in 2018 a gallery book was published by Vivid Projects summarising these events. Following this, there has been further articles; both published online by Open Screens (BAFTSS, 2019) and a book chapter published by Oxford University Press in Projection Practices: Histories and Technologies (OUP, 2020) exploring artist's slide-tape. The overall aim of the project was to re-stage, reinstate and reappraise this work and its contribution towards the development of artists' moving image work in the UK. This project is related to the doctoral research programme I had previously undertook which examined film theories that emerged in the 1970s and their effects on artists and art practices from the 1970s to the present and for which I was awarded a doctorate in 2007. Recently, I have been contributing to a number of archive and legacy projects. For example, see FROM PRIDE IN DIVERSITY TO STANDING FAST: OUT ART, 1996-2001 platforming the work of LGBTQ+ artists from Ireland and abroad. For online reading see https://heyzine.com/flip-book/1aa7c4d0c3.html
Qualifications and training 2007 - PhD, Fine Art (Critical and Historical Studies), Loughborough University, Leics 1992 - MA, Fine Art, BIAD, University of Central England, Birmingham 1981 - BA Hons, Fine Art, Stourbridge College of Art. Selected Exhibitions (Solo exhibitions) 1999 - More Than The Eye Can See, Lighthouse gallery, Wolverhampton (Group exhibitions) 2022 - Family and Other Ties, Foyer Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. 2018 - Migration, Memory and Mimesis, Linen Hall Library, Belfast. 2014 - Film, feminism, activism: Looking out from the CCCS, Vivid Projects, Birmingham. 2013 - Queer: An exhibition of contemporary queer photography, Showcase Gallery, Birmingham. 2013 - A3 Works, A3 Project Space, Birmingham. 2012 - Frame: splendid art in places you already go, Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. 2012 - Civil Partnerships, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton. 2010 - 0 & 1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender, 501 Contemporary Art Space, Chongqing, China. 2008 - UltiMAte 08, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton. 2007 - Relay, Friese Greene Gallery, Brighton and Remote Transmitters. 2006 - 2nd Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece. 2006 - Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester. 2006 - Videonale 11, Cinema Union, Berlin. 2005 - Printing Inc., Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham. 2004 - Birmingham Printmakers, Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield. 2004 - Otherside, Side Cinema, Newcastle. 2002 - A lesbian arts festival, Trinity College, Dublin. 2001 - Singularity, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham. 2000 - 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, Crawford Gallery, Cork. 2000 - 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. 2000 - Vivid Now-Bursary Artists 1997-2000, Vivid, Birmingham. 1999 - 0044: Irish Artists Working in Britain, PSI Gallery, New York. 1999 - Video Invideous, Arthouse, Dublin. 1997 - In(Visibilities), RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. Residencies 2007 - Artists Access to Art Colleges, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton Educational experience 2008 - 2023 Lecturer in Fine Art, Loughborough University, Leics. 2000-2005 Part-time Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Loughborough University. 1997 Visiting Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, Nottingham Trent University. 1996-2008 Associate Lecturer, Art and Design, South Birmingham College. 1993 -1996 Visiting Lecturer, School of Fine Art, Limerick College of Art and Design Publications 2020 - Mo White AKA Dr Mary C White, "...'it's just a little bit of History repeating': Slide-tape's key works in the UK since the 1970s", in Gabriel Menotti and Virginia Crisp (eds) Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies, Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190934118.001.0001/oso-9780190934118-chapter-8 2019 - Mo White, After All This Time, Isn't it Still 'About Time'? Artist's Work in Slide-tape in the UK since the 1970s. Open Screens, 2 (1):3, pp 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/os.15 2018 - Mo White (ed) SLIDE/TAPE, Vivid Projects, Birmingham. 2016 - 'Kitchen Accounts' in Meskimmon, M and Arnold, M (eds), Home/land: Women Citizenship, Photographies, Liverpool University Press. 2013 - 'How we live today...Florence Ayisi in dialogue with Mo White' in Meskimmon,M and Rowe,D (eds), Women,the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience, Manchester University Press. 2007 - 'a round...', in Relay: an exhibition of sound and installation, catalogue, Brighton, Friese Greene Gallery
