Professor André Stitt

FRSA HEA
e: tracegallery@aol.com
w: www.andrestitt.com / www.tracegallery.org

Specialist Subject Areas

Performance Art, Painting, Interdisciplinary, site specific and context based Art

Qualifications

First Class BA [hons], Ulster University

Biography

André Stitt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1958. He studied at Ulster Polytechnic and Belfast College of Art & Design, Ulster University 1976-1980. From 1980-1999 he lived and worked in London increasingly travelling and making work internationally throughout the eighties. In 1999 he moved to Wales to take up position as Subject Leader and Senior lecturer of Time Based Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC). He is currently Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC), chair of CFAR [the Centre for Fine Art Research], a fellow of the Royal Society of Art and the Higher Education Academy.

Working almost exclusively as a performance and interdisciplinary artist from 1976-2008 Stitt gained an international reputation for cutting edge, provocative and politically challenging work. A predominate theme in his artistic output is that of communities and their dissolution often relating to trauma, conflict and art as a redemptive proposition. His ‘live’ performance and installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites specific throughout the world.

His recent exhibition work has been included in group shows at PS1, New York 2000, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York 2001, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork 2001, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast 2001, Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, England 2005, The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, 2008, NRLA, Glasgow 2008 & 2009, Galerie Lehtinen, Berlin 2011, St. Paul St. Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2011, and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2011.

His recent solo exhibitions include Chapter, Cardiff 2005, Artspace, Sydney, Australia 2007, Spacex Gallery, England 2008, The Lab, New York, 2009, MCAC, Portadown, Northern Ireland 2009, GTgallery, Belfast, N. Ireland 2010, and
Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff 2010

Stitt also has a long history of organising artist-initiated projects and collaborations; curating exhibitions, and producing large scale international performance art festivals and exchanges. In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff, and latterly Trace Collective (since 2008), initiating a robust programme of international time based work. (www.tracegallery.org)

Current research

Currently  exploring the historical, theoretical and practical relationships between painting and performance art.  Personal practice-led painting investigation explores and seeks to occupy a liminal space that might be defined as ambiguous abstraction with references to Jungian analysis and processes of transformation.  This also considers the working [studio] environment as a performative space.

As leader of the Painting Performance research group at CSAD key interests include:

·     Historical and contemporary perspectives on the relationship between painting and performance art.
·     Environmental traces, residues, and evidential documents of the performative experience
·     The artists studio and the performative act of painting in a studio specific environment.
·     Creativity, age, health, well-being and their relationship to the studio environment.
·     Work, labour and physicality in the studio environment.
·     Time and space: decision making during moments of making and doing in the studio environment.
·      Materials and tools: adaption, discovering, personalising, designing in/for the studio environment.

Principal Publications and/or Exhibitions

Click here to view Professor Stitt’s papers and publications on Cardiff Metropolitan University’s DSpace repository.

Stitt, A., [ed.] [2011] TRACE Displaced, Parthian, UK

Stitt, A., Schwensen, T., [2011] Haunted, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia

Stitt, A., Reeve, H., [2010] The Friend, Transmission: Host, Artwordspress, London

Stitt, A., [2010] Belfast Akshun Map, GT Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

Stitt, A., Welch F.,[2009] SHIFTwork, Curcioprojects, New York

Stitt, A., [2009] Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, MCAC, Portadown, Northern Ireland

Stitt, A [2008] Substance, Spacex, Exeter, England

Stitt., A., (2008) ‘The Institution’ in LiveArtWork, DVD edition 7, ed. Hewlett, C., Berlin Stitt, A., French, B.,[ed.], [2007] Dingo, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Stitt, A [ed.] [2006] TRACE 00’05, Seren Wales

Stitt A. [2005] The Institution, Chapter, Cardiff

Stitt A. [2005] Reclamation, Chapter, Cardiff

Stitt A. [2004] Cargo Cult, Café Gallery Projects, London

Stitt, A. [2002] South Of No North, Sirius Art Centre, Cork, Ireland.

Stitt, A. Locus+ [ed.] [2002] Small Time Life, London: Black Dog Publishing

Stitt, A., Pokoyski D. [ed.] [2000] Homework, Cologne: Krash Verlag.

Performances [selected]

2010 National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

2009 The Lab, New York

5th World Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, Korea

Campbelltown art Centre, Sydney, Australia

Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Centre for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland

2008 NRLA, Tramway, Glasgow

National Eisteddfod, Cardiff

Asiatopia, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre

2007 National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

British School in Rome

Artspace, Sydney , Australia

Campbellltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia

Hiroshima Art Project, Japan

Contemporary Art Centre, Warsaw, Poland

2006 Drawing Centre , New York

Accione , Madrid Centre of Culture, Spain

Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada

National Eisteddfod, Wales

2005 SMFA, Boston, USA

Scope, New York

Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff

MTV Art Action, Monza, Italy

51st Venice Biennale, Italy

Reaction, Maestre, Italy

Baltic Art Centre, Gateshead

Trace Residency, 798 Factory, Beijing, PR China

Re-Direksyon’05, Manilla, Phillippines

Galerie Animal, Santiago, Chile

Prerfo-Puerto Valparaiso, Chile

Cork European City of Culture

2004 Currency, Exit Arts, New York City, USA

The House Project, Cardiff

DaDoa Live Art, Beijing, China

EPAF, Lublin Cultural Centre, Poland

EMAF, Odzaki, Serbia

Wales-Quebec Exchange, Le Lieu Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec, Canada

Experimentica, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Huesca Arts Festival, Spain

Scope and Frieze Art Fair, London

2003 The Bedford Project : various locations, Bedford, England

Brrr festival, Oporto, Portugal

City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Hall Street Gallery,- Portland, Oregon, USA

Waterloo Arts Centre, Cedar Valley Performance Art Series, Iowa, USA

Arab Israeli Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Awards

2011 British Council Travel Award

2010 Wales Art International, Arts Council of Wales Travel & Research Award

2009 British Council [Australia]

2008 Wales Arts International Travel & Research Award

Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales

2007 Henry Moore Foundation

Arts Council of Wales Production Award

Visiting Arts Award

2006 British Council Travel Award [New York]

Wales Arts International [New York/USA tour]

Arts Council of Wales Production Award

Visiting Arts, Artist to Artist Award

Ivor Davies Award, National Eisteddfod, Wales

Wales Arts International Travel & Research Award

2005 Wales Arts International [China project]

Wales Arts International Travel & Research Award

Wales Arts Council Production Award

2004 Visiting Arts , Artists-To-Artist Scheme

Arts Council of Wales Research Award

Wales art International travel Award [Beijing]

Wales Arts international Travel award [Quebec]

Arts Council production award

Mondrian Foundation[Netherlands]

2003 Arts Council of Wales, Presentation & Audience Dev. Award

Wales Arts International Travel & Research Award

2002 Wales Arts International Travel & Research Award

Cardiff 2008 Research Award

Commissions East, East England Arts

Arts Council of Wales, Development Award

Arts Council of Ireland Publication Award

2001 London Arts – 2 major awards for Span

2000 Wales Arts International Travel Award

1999 Arts & Humanities Research Board [UK]

1998 British Council Travel Award [Japan]

1997 British Council travel award [Finland]

British council travel award [Slovakia]

British Council travel award [Germany]

Arts Council of England travel & research grant

Arts Council of Northern Ireland visual arts award

1996 Arts Council of England travel & research grant

1995 British Council travel award [Poland]

Arts Council of Northern Ireland visual arts award

1989 Arts Council of Northern Ireland travel award

1989 Arts Council of Northern Ireland travel award

1983 Arts Council of Northern Ireland travel award

1982 BBC TV Riverside Studio Award

1980 Greater London Arts Projects Grant

Modules Taught

• Introduction to Studio Practice ADF101

• Towards studio practice ADF108

• Independent Studies ADF106

• Approaches to Studio Practice 1 ADF213

• Independent Studies ADF209 and ADF210

• Advanced Studio Practice ADF311

• Advanced Studio Practice and Exhibition ADF312

• Independent Studies ADF310

Supervision of Doctoral Research

Current PhD supervision:

• Elements of Shamanism in Performance Art

• How The Moving Image Can Reveal the Interaction Between Ceramicist & Material

• A Robotic Analysis of Emotive Performance

• How And To What Extent Can The Physical And Mental Demands Of Bouldering Be Represented?

• What is the role of the material trace and how do these traces connect with and produce moments of intimacy within performance?