Imogen Stidworthy

Imogen Stidworthy is a British multimedia artist based in Liverpool.

Biography

Stidworthy has exhibited at documenta 12[1] and most recently her work has been shown at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2007), Shanghai Biennale(2006), “Be What You Want but Stay Where You Are” at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2005) and ‘Governmentality’ at Miami Art Central (2004). Recent solo shows include ‘Get Here’ at Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna (2006), “Dummy” at FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (2005) and ‘Audio Cab’, a temporary public art work installed in taxi cabs in Luton (2005).

In 2004, Stidworthy was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize, for a video work featuring Cilla Black impersonators.[2] In 1996, she won the Dutch Prix de Rome.

Stidworthy is a tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Liverpool School of Art & Design and an Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. In 2008, she won the Liverpool Art Prize[3]

Her installation piece A Crack in the Light 2013 was part of the British Art Show 8 touring Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton from 2015 - 2017. Her installation 'traces connections between technologies and mechanisms of control, the act of listening and the power of the voice.'[4]

gollark: Orbital nature lasers are already warming up.
gollark: And this seems too vaguely defined to be useful if you can just handwave any issue which does not in fact run on something like "balance" as being caused by some other imbalance.
gollark: Actually, no, they're partly just background radiation. Nobody is particularly responsible for this, on the majority of Earth.
gollark: By some unreasonably stretched definitions, maybe.
gollark: There are upper and lower bounds for how much water I should drink. The precise amount of cancer I should contain is exactly zero, though.

References
  1. ArtForum news, accessed March 26, 2008
  2. arts.guardian.co.uk, accessed March 26, 2008
  3. bbc.co.uk, accessed March 26, 2008
  4. Colin, Anna. British Art Show 8. Hayward. ISBN 978-1-85332-331-7.
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