Staff

Stephen Partridge

Dean of Research

Tel: 01382 385284
Email: s.partridge@dundee.ac.uk
DJCAD Research Office 3rd Floor Crawford Building,
DJCAD, 13 Perth Road DD1 4HT

Biography

Stephen Partridge is an artist and academic researcher. He is the principal investigator on the research project REWIND, which has been awarded successive grants in 2004, 2008 and 2011 from the AHRC. He is a member of the REF2014 subpanel for Art & Design and is Dean of Research for DJCAD.

He was in the "landmark" video shows of the 1970s including The Video Show at the Serpentine in 1975, The Installation Show at the Tate Gallery in 1976, the Paris Biennalle in 1977 and the The Kitchen in New York in 1979. During the eighties he exhibited widely and also became interested in works for broadcast television and was commissioned by Channel 4 television to produce Dialogue for Two Players in 1984. Through Fields and Frames - an arts projects and television production company, he produced the innovative Television Interventions project for Channel 4. He also co-produced a short series of student and artists work Not Necessarily with BBC Scotland for BBC2 network television in 1991.

Recent collaborations with Elaine Shemilt include a series of works: installations Chimera, Rush, Quattro Minuti di Mezzogiorno, and the digital prints and etchings series Intangible Bodies.

Research Projects 

REWIND | Artists’ Video in the 70s & 80s, February 2004-June 2008, AHRC Research Grant £435,000. Role: P.I.

A multi-faceted research programme, REWIND investigates the first 20 years of UK video art, focusing on the artists/makers and artefacts, documenting and interrogating a range of conceptual issues and questions of representation. Re-stagings of early works including installations, has led to renewed curatorial interest and assessment.

Narratives in Expanded Cinema, £192,594 AHRC Research Grant, 2007. (Co-investigator with Jackie Hatfield P.I.)

Research into the complexities and definitions of expanded cinema across media

AHRC Research Leave, £110k, Jan- December 2008 (Awarded Nov 2007). Role: P.I.

To complete publication for REWIND project

World Class Visual Effects for Artists Grant, SAC/Creative Scotland, £30,000, May 2010 Role: P.I.

To support the research and production of four artist productions in hi-resolution.

RewindItalia, AHRC, Research Grant, £216,789, Jan 2011. Role: P.I.

Investigates Italian videoart activity from 1968 to 1994. What was produced and why? Who produced it and what were the ideas underlying the work. 

Websites

www.stephenpartridge.org

www.rewind.ac.uk

www.facebook.com/pages/Rewind/150123861707329