Solo Exhibitions
(group exhibitions - collections - awards)

1999

Actuation in Performance Gallery, c/o Video, Multimedia and Performance Art, Brno T. University, Brno, Czech Republic

Actuation, Performance Festival, Centre for Metamedia, Hermit Foundation, Plasy, Czech Republic

Contributed `Fire Hire´ for Foot-Ware, organized by Artpool Art Research Center, for Budapest Autumn Festival '99, Budapest, Hungary

Contributed `In-Sole´ for International Living Art Festival, organized by Etna Foundation and Baász Art Foundation at St. Ann Lake, Transylvania, Romania

`Encompass Dearth´ - Actuation for Signum Novum Performance Series, organized by Mediavox and Inneova at Cathedral of Amalfi, Amalfi, Italy

`Turning Word´ - Actuation for Performance Art Series, organized by Sergio Edelsztein, curator, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel

Actuation, Performance/Installation for Horsehead International Projects, in Lagan Weir, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Unseeing Trace´ - Actuation, Performance/Installation for Trace, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary International Art, Exchange Flags Building, Liverpool, England

`Living Stones´ for Inscription on Stones exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Actuation for Art Trail '99, Guy's Building, Cornmarket Street, Cork Ireland

`Emit Time Item´ - 30 hour non stop commemorative Actuation for the `Time Time Time´ durational performance series organised through `Fado´, Toronto, Canada

Black Market International Performance, c/o Green on Red Gallery, Lombard Street, Dublin, Ireland

Black Market International Performance, c/o Kasino (by former German Chemical Plant), Frankfurt, Germany, for 8th International Performance Conference

Actuation, Performance/Installation, c/o Kasino (by former German Chemical Plant), Frankfurt, Germany, for 8th International Performance Conference

1998

`Palimpsest´ - Actuation, Performance/Installation at National Centre for Fine Arts, for The 7th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

`Whose´ - Actuation, Performance Art Festival, c/o Stadtgalerie and Schlachthaus Theatre, Bern, Switzerland

Black Market International Performance, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria

Black Market International Performance, Stadtraum, Linz, Austria

Three Black Market International Performances at Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria

Four 6 ft x 4 ft Charcoal Drawings from the `No Lead Spread´ series, shown for `Art Futures´, Contemporary Art Society Projects, London at the London Art Fare, London, England

`Serpens II´ - Installation, shown at Installation Project '98, c/o Artpool, H-1277, Budapest 23 pf.52, Hungary

`Pore Rope´ - Actuation for Bridge, Construction in Process VI, Old Newport Power Station, Melbourne, Australia

`March 19´ - Installation for Transgression, c/o Fenderesky Gallery, Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Dule Duel (I)´ - for Performance Art Series, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland

`Dule Duel (II)´ - for Klub Kulturalny, Krakow, Poland

`Palimpsest´ - Series of Installations and a Performance at Stadt Galerie, Berne, Switzerland. (With B Connolly and B Kennedy)

One Man Exhibition of Drawings and Installation, Context Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`Naming the Dead´ - Installation, Ormeau Bridge, Belfast for YES Campaign - All Ireland Referendum

`Infusion '98´ - Actuation, National Review of Live Art, Belltable Art Centre, Limerick, Ireland

`Fix´ - Actuation, Festival of Performance Art, c/o Catalyst Art Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Working´ - Actuation (with Pio Trowski), c/o Castle of Imagination, 6th International Artists Meeting, Bytów, Poland

`Ground Work´ - Actuation (with Pio Trowski), City Museum, Sandomierz, Poland

Black Market International - Performance, City Museum, Sandomierz, Poland

`Words Sword´ (Ustka Omagh) - Actuation for Irish Days 5, c/o Baltic Art Centre, Ustka, Poland

`Palimpsest/Mace Came/Slow Lows/Omagh´ - Actuation for Horsehead Sculpture Project, Sandpoint Naval Preserve, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

`Slow Lows´ - Drawing for `Hardline´ Annual Members Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Inhale/Exhale´ - Actuation, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. (With B Connolly and B Kennedy)

Participation in Exhibition of Documentation of `Streetworks´ Performance Art, c/o Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

`Whose Scotland?´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation), c/o Streetlevel Gallery and Kings Street, Glasgow, Scotland

1997

One Man Exhibition of Drawings (and Drawing Installation) at Ormeau Baths Gallery in conjunction with the launch of the book `Alastair MacLennan Thirty Two Drawings and a Text´

`Shuttered Anemonies (ll)´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation) on the occasion of the `Shattered Anatomies´ Performance Art Publication at Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, England

`Dearth´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation) for `Infusion 97´, c/o Dolmen Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

Actuation, c/o Machinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany

Black Market International - Performance, c/o Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany

Black Market International - Performance, c/o Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany

Black Market International - Performance, c/o Trinitatis-Kirche, Köln, Germany

`Body of (D)earth´ - Installation (and Live Work), representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, in the Galleria Nuova Icona, Giudecca, Venice, Italy

`Mael II´ - Installation (and Live Work) for the Belluard - Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland

`Spine of (D)earth´ - Installation (and Live Work) for the International Time Based Art Festival, `ON´, the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

`Meitheal´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation), the Artists Museum, Lódz, Lódz, Poland

`´ - 12 hour, non-stop Actuation (Performance/Installation) for Inner Art, Firestation Artists Studios, Sean McDermott Street, Dublin, Ireland

`Pael´ - 12 hour, non-stop Actuation (Performance/Installation) for Performance Festival 1997, at Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Black Market International Performance, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland

Black Market International Performance, ‘Liquid Visions’ International Symposium of Science, Lucern, Switzerland

1996

`Sarajevo´ - Mixed Media Installation, Gallerija Gabrijel (Kamerni Teatat 55, Sarajevo

`Feh´ - Mixed Media Installation, Bedroom Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Actuation for `Northern Exchanges II´, part of `Performance and Individual Identity´ Symposium, University of Huddersfield, England

`Dole Lode II´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation) for `Transmutations´ International Festival of Live Art, Zap Art, Brighton, England

`No On´ - Actuation for `Office at Night´ Celebration of 75 issues of Circa Art Magazine, Belfast

`To Heal the Wounds of Self and Other´ - Postcard Work for EV+A, Limerick and Imaginaire Irlandais, Paris

`Pore Rope´ - Performance/Installation, EV+A, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

`Serpens I´ - Actuation for the International Festival of Performance and Action Art, Synagogue Na Palmovce, Prague, Czech Republic

`Skye Mackay´ - Ten hour Actuation, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland

`Ides Side´ - Installation, Commune di Verzuolo Provincia di Cuneo, Italy

`Fix '96´ - Installation, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`In Memoriam István Angyal´ - Sound Work broadcast on the 40th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, via Lászlo Simon and Endre Szkárosi, Magyar Radie, Rádió, Budapest, Hungary

Disorder 'H' - 24 hour non-stop Actuation (Performance/Installation) for `Disorders´, organized by Beaconsfield, London, for St Thomas Hospital, London

`Tains Stain´ - Actuation and Installation, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Actuation - Cornish School of Art, Seattle, Washington, USA

`Mael´ - Actuation and Installation - Commission for New Moves, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland

`Body of Earth´ - Installation, Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland

1995

`Mean Wean´ - Actuation at Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland

`Wain Vane´ - Sound Installation for Intermedia '95, Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland

`Nascent´ - Performance, King John's Castle, Limerick, Ireland

`Samizdat´ - International Performance Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

`Hit´ - Video Broadcast on Canadian TV5 through Pixart, Montreal, Canada

`Void á Void´ - Video Installation, Castle of Imagination, Bytow, Poland

`Axe X is´ - Site Specific Installation for `The Meridian Route´, Centre for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic

Black Market International Performance, Performance Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland

Black Market International Performance with Ensemble Neue Horizonte and Stop PT, Performance Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland

`Lin in Nil´ - 6.5 hour Non-Stop Actuation in Ann Art: International Performance Days, St Ann Lake, Transylvania, Romania (funded by Baász Art Foundation)

`Ni Us´ - Actuation for `Body Dimension: International Performance Presentation´, hosted by Jutempus Interdisciplinart Art Programmes, Vilnius, Lithuania

14 hour Non-Stop Actuation as part of `Irish Days III´, Baltic Art Centre, Ustka, Poland

`Share Snare´ - Installation for `Cracovian Meetings, BWA Gallery, Cracow, Poland

`Arm Ram´ - Actuation (Performance/Installation), Institut Mathildenhöhe, Ausstellungsgebäude, Darmstadt, Germany (organized through A Bechers Gallery and ASA-European)

`Nape´ - Performance for the International Seminar `Body: Ritual Manipulation´, organized by The European Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark

1994

Professorial Lecture/Performance `LÆT LÆN PÆON PÆAN´, Jordanstown Campus, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

`Rain Rein Reign´ - Installation for University of Ulster, Art and Design Matters Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`War Raw´ - Installation, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Palimpsest´- Performance/Installation, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada

Actuation for `Extreme Unction´ at Market Garage, Spital Square, Old Spitalfields Market, London

Installation and Performance Documentation for `Extreme Unction´ at Market Garage, Old Spitalfields Market, London

`Raw War´ - Actuation, Berner Galerie, Bern, Switzerland

`Raw War´ - Installation, Berner Galerie, Bern, Switzerland

`Hit and Run´ - Installation and Flags for Catalyst Arts at Wilmont House, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Seam Same´ - 24 Hour Non-Stop Actuation (Performance/Installation) for Irish Days II by Baltic Art Centre, Ustka, Poland

`To Dissolution´ - Mixed Media Installation for `Castle of Imagination´ Meeting of International Art and Artists, Bytow, Poland

Performance for `Performance: Process and Documentation´ organized by Centre for Performance Research and Lancaster University Theatre Studies Department, Lancaster University, England

Performance for `Mind the Gap´ organized by Centre for Performance Research and Lancaster University Theatre Studies Department, Lancaster University, England

6 Actuations while Artist in Residence for `The Connected Body´ International Project and Conference held at the School of New Dance Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands

`Rain Rein Reign´ - Actuation, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, England

`Rain Rein Reign II´ - Mixed Media Installation at Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Actuation for `X'teresa´, 3rd International Performance Festival Mexico City, Mexico

1993

`Where/When´ - Actuation for Centre for Performance Research at The International Conference - `Points of Contact between Ritual and Shamanism’, c/o CPR and Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, Wales in Chapter Arts Centre

`Can't Cant´ (Slide Side) - Installation, Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Artists' Book for the `Art = Start +´ Contemporary Artists' Book Archive, Middelburg, Holland

`Black U Jack - Tri No Colour´ - Actuation (performance/illustration) Cornerhouse Art Centre, Manchester, England

2 Actuations (performance/installations) for the commemorative `Woodwork´ project, Vauxhall Spring Gardens, London

`Pyre Ire´ (ll) - Actuation (24 hour non-stop performance/installation) at the Baltic Art Centre, Ustka, Poland

`Pyre Ire´ - Installation for the International Artists' Meeting at the `Castle of Imagination´, Bytow, Poland

Black Market International Performance at Das Grosse Fest 2, Hellerau Festival House, Dresden, Germany

`Twinning Tolerance Tokens Tides´ Commissioned Actuation for Hull Time Based Arts at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England

`Twinning Tolerance Tokens Tides (II)´ 12 hour non-stop actuation for the Performance Art Festival (Real Time - Talked Stories) at the Bureau of Art Exhibitions Gallery, Lublin, Poland

`Am No´ - Actuation (performance/installation) commission for N.O.W. Festival, Nottingham, England

`No-On´ - Installation and Video at Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria

Black Market Performance for `Relic and Sediment´ Performance Festival at Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria

Actuation for `Showreal´ a week of British Performance and International Video at Artifact Gallery Tel Aviv organised by British Council in Israel and Artifact Gallery

1992

Performance/Lecture and Video presentation, Fundacio `La Caixa´, Montcada Showroom, Barcelona, Spain

Three joint `Kontrapunkte´ Performance/Installations, Dampfzentrale, Berne, Switzerland

`Empedokles´ I - Black Market International Performance, Wesserstrasse, Alte Reithalle, Kassel, Germany

`Empedokles´ II - ditto

`Empedokles´ III - ditto

`Empedokles´ IV - ditto

Black Market International Performance, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Black Market International Performance, BWA Gallery and Museum Okregowe, Sandomierz, Poland

Black Market International Performance for Tarnobrzeg, Poland

Black Market International Performance in Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

`Oui/Non´ - Actuation for Festival D'Intervention `Interzone´, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada

`Can't Cant´ - Actuation for Duncan of Jordanstone Decade Show, McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland

`A Wake´ - Actuation, Pryzmat Gallery, Kracow, Poland

`Can't Cant´ II - Actuation, QQ Gallery, Kraccow, Poland

1991

Performances in Ulster Festival of Performance Art at:

(a) University of Ulster at Coleraine

(b) Old Museum Art Centre, Belfast

`Ash Is´ - 24 hour non-stop actuation for `New Irish Realities´ series at Ash Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

`"H" As Ash´ - Installation for `New Irish Realities´ series, Ash Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Performance for ARCHA (Archives and Research for Contemporary Humanism and Art) in Art Museum, Gorlitz, Germany

Performances with Black Market International:

`Tills Still´ - Installation and drawing exhibition and seminar for `INTERMEDIA´, Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland

`Layer a Dair´ installation for `Available Resources´ series, through the Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`Layer a Dair II´, for `Available Resources´ series, through the Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Actuation for `Available Resources´ at the Diamond, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Black Market International - two actuations - Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge Series, New York, USA (through Franklin Furnace Gallery)

Performance/Lecture for Helsinki Festival

Black Market International - Performance for Helsinki Festival

Black Market International - Performance for New Museum, Aachen, Germany

`Knot Naught´ - Installation in Manta, Italy (organised by Mutus Liber)

1990

`Pyre Byre´ - Actuation/Installation - International Performance Festival, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada

`Still Tills´ - Actuation/Installation - Commission for National Review of Live Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

‘Duct Duce´ - Actuation/Installation - Mediavoc Performance Festival, Salerno, Italy

`Hit´ - Interventionist TV work - `Fields and Frames´, Broadcast by Channel 4 TV, London,

`Interscop Festival´ - Actuation, Centre of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

`Interscop Festival´ - Actuation, Gallery `Laboratory´, Lublin, Poland

`Interscop Festival´ - Actuation, Centre of Creative Work, Lucznica, Poland

`Black Market´ - Performance/Installation at Dundas Vale Teachers' Centre, Glasgow, for Edge

International Performance Festival

`Black Market´ - Performance/Installation, All Saints' Church, Newcastle, for Edge International Performance Festival

`Black Market - Performance/Installation, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, West Germany

`Mit Hit´ - 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation (actuation), Norbert Klassen Gallery, Berne, Switzerland

`Fool-Fire-Fate´ - 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation (actuation), Kunstbetrieb, Dachau, Germany

`Pair-a-Part´ - Disinstallation, Orpheus Gallery, Belfast

Joint Actuation (with N Rolfe, B Catling and B Nieslony), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

1989

`Heel-Hale-Veil´ - 24 hour non-stop vigil, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, USA

`Stock Exchange Actuation´ - Stock Exchange, Chicago, USA

`Working Out, Working In´ - Joint Actuation with N Rolfe, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA

`Missent´ - Performance/Installation (Actuation), for ECCO5 - Medical Conference, Lyttleton Theatre Circle Foyer, South Bank Centre, London, England

`Bag to Prague´ - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation (Actuation), Performance Festival, Prague, Czechoslovakia

`Mean Amend´ - 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation (Actuation), Galeria Teatr, Krakow, Poland

`Cell Well´ - Performance/Actuation, Richmond Shopping Centre, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`The On´ Series - Drawing Installation, Orchard Art Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`Site Cite´ specific - Drawing installation - with EM/Immigration Ballad, Gallery T O O, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1988

`Is No´ - 34 hour non-stop performance/installation plus exhibition of drawings, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

`Driven´ - 120 hour non-stop performance/installation - Wharves Milkmarket, Newcastle, England

`Spread Lead´ - drawing installation, Fenderesky Art Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Slow No´ - drawing series shown as part of National Review of Live Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

`Bled Edge´ - One hundred & eleven hour non-stop performance/installation, in/out of cells under Princeton Kingsway College, Clerkenwell, London

`The Burn´ - 8 hour non-stop performance/installation, Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland

`Slow No´ - 120 hour continuous performance/installation and drawing exhibition - AIR Gallery, London, England

1987

`Is Not´ - 72 hours non-stop Performance/Installation - commissioned for Art in Action Series, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England

`Out the In´ - 50 hours non-stop Performance/Installation commissioned for No Definition series, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

`In the Out´ - 96 hours non-stop Performance/Installation commissioned for National Review of Live Art, Riverside Studios, London, England

`Slow Know´ - 13 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Banff Art Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

`Actuation´ - Performance/Installation, King David's Dungeon, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England

`Actuation´ and `Birth-Death-Day´ (2), Octagon Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1986

`Bury the Veil´ - Performance/Installation, Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada

`Bury the Veil´ - 50 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA

`Death Stop´ - 6 hour non-stop Performance in Ancient Cloisters, Turin, Italy

`Sink a Death Stop´ - 7 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Art Space, Aberdeen, Scotland

`Lie to Lay´- 120 hour non-stop Performance/Installation for Projects UK, Newcastle, England

`Headless´ - Performance (I) - Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow, Poland

`Headless´ - Performance (II) - Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1985

`Lies in Weight´ - 96 hour non-stop Performance/installation, Hamilton House, for Southampton Art

Gallery - British Art Show

`Body Break´ - 72 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield - British Art Show

`If Underhand´ - 48 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh - British Art Show

`Healing Wounds´ - 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA

`Open Art´ - Installation, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

1984

`Healing Wounds´ - Performance/Installation, Pyramid Art Centre, Rochester, New York, USA

12 hour non-stop Performance, The Artists Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

`Birth Death Day´ - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

`Birth Death Day´, 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation at And/Or Seattle, Washington, USA

Performance of `MUD´, International Garden Festival, Liverpool, England

‘Buried Error’, 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England - for British Art Show

1983

`Felt Crosses/False Teeth´ (III) - 24 hour non-stop Performance/Installation in Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

`Felt Crosses/False Teeth´ (IV) - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation in Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

`Felt Crosses/False Teeth´ (V) - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation in Metro Media, Vancouver, BC, Canada

`63 Minutes´ Performance in Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada

`Felt Crosses/False Teeth´ (VI) - Two 12 hour non-stop Performances and Installations at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Inc., Los Angeles, USA

`Healing Wounds´ - Performance/Installation at Fri-Son, Rue de L'Hopital, Fribourg, Switzerland

`Healing Wounds´ (II) - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation at Marginalia, Turin, Italy

`Alientegration´ - 48 hour non-stop Performance/Installation in Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA

1982

Exhibition of drawings, Octagon Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

24 hour non-stop Performance, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, England

`Second Cycle´ - Performance and Drawing Installation in Projectos and Progestos series in Teatro Estudio Citac, Coimbra, Portugal

`Human Sheep´ - Performance and Drawing Installation in Laboratorio Di Poesia, Novoli, Italy

Installation/Performance - 120 hour non-stop - Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

1981

`Days and Nights´ - 144 hour non-stop Performance, ACME Gallery, London

Performance - Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland

Performance - 24 hour non-stop, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

`Hanging´ - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation , Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

`Time´: 13 hour non-stop Performance, St Andrews University Festival, St Andrews, Scotland

Performance: 48 hour non-stop - Art Exchange Festival, Berlin, W Germany

1980

Numerous Installations and Performances, Art and Design Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Performance, Orchard Art Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`To Walk a Stone´ - 24 hour non-stop Performance, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Exhibition of drawings, Galeria Rysunku, Posnan, Poland

`Performance´, ARE, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Drawing Exhibitions in Polish galleries: in Poznan and Wraclaw (and Performances in Poznan and Wraclaw)

`As Is´ - Performance in ARE, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1979

Performance in ACME Gallery, London, England

Performance in Orchard Art Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`What is Performance´, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

`Four Pillars´ Performance in Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland

1978

Arts Council, Performance in conjunction with Queen's University Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1977

Seminar Performance, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

1976

Numerous performance presentations inside and outside the Art and Design Centre, York Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1973

Performance, Toronto-Dominian Bank Tower, Vancouver, Canada

Performance, Royal Bank Office Tower (Robson & Georgia), Vancouver, Canada

Performance, Granville Park, Vancouver, Canada

Performance, Jonathan Rogers Park, Vancouver, Canada

1972

Performance, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Performance, West Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada

Performance, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1971

32 Outdoor Performances, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1970

Performance, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Group Exhibitions
(solo exhibitions - collections - awards)

1997

‘Coming to Meet (II)’, single photowork in ‘Sternkarte’, Stadt Galerie, Bern Switzerland

Participation in `Medium 4´ - International Exhibition of Living Art Documentation, St. Gheorghe Art Gallery, St. Gheorghe, Romania

`Rebate Blank´ - Installation for Monviso Re Di Pietra exhibition, c/o Spazioarte, Manta, Italy

`Sztuki´ - 24 hour non-stop Actuation (Performance/Installation) at Fort Sztuki, 31-322 Krakow, Poland

1996

`VIE´ - Installation for `Invitation´, Context Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`Exhibition of Sculptor's Drawings´, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, England

`Project for Europe: Europe Rediscovered II - Art, Resistance and the English Garden´

`Transmutation´ - Word Work for `White Hysteria´ Exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of Southern Australia

`Vael´ - Installation for `City Limits´ Exhibition, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England

1995

`Words´, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England

`Nascent´ - Installation in Group Exhibition `Art as the Object of Desire´, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Video Work included in 3 week screening of International Video, Newkapolis Gallery Video Space, Kapolcs, Hungary

`Words´ (Group Exhibition selected from `Words´ at Aspex Gallery), Fringe Gallery, Castlemilk, Glasgow, Scotland

Documentation of Performance Work included in `As a European´, Performance Art Information Office, The Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

Installation Box for `View on Freedom: Monumental Installation´, Liberation Festival, Vlissingen, The Netherlands

Work included in `Visual Poetry 1985 - 1995´ through Magyar Mühely, Budapest, Hungary. Toured Hungary: Keszthely, Balatoni Museum

Participation via Video Documentation in `Video-Expedition in the Performance World: Year of Performance´, Artpool Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary; touring to Kaposvár, Csolonai Vitéa Mihály Teachers Training College, Cultural Centre of Vác

1994

`File Life´ Artwork in `Extreme Limite´, Galerie Janos, Paris, France

‘International Mail Art Show’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA

`PEACE´ Artwork in `10,000 plus´, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Alumni Art Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1993

`Skye Mackay´ Flag shown at Ateliers Municipaux d'Artistes, Marseilles, France

`Naught Not Knot´ - Mixed Media Work in `An Artist's Choice´, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Self Portrait included (as new acquisition) in the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland Exhibition, University of Limerick, Ireland

1992

`The Willing Yield No Killing Field´ - Mixed media contribution to `Salon Glasgow´, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

`Skye Mackay´ - Flag Participation in Flux Flag Show, Autumn Festival, Budapest, Hungary

`The Selected Line´ Group Drawing Exhibition, William Jackson Gallery, London, England

Fax Art for Decentralised Network Congress, Artpool, Budapest, Hungary

Performance Documentation from National Review of Live Art Archive (1986-90) shown at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1991

`Shocks to the System´ - British Arts Council Touring Exhibition starting at Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London (touring throughout Britain)

Participation in ´Pentagonale Plus´ - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1990

`It's a Still Life´ - British Arts Council Exhibition, Main Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, London

`Now for the Future´ - Purchases for the British Arts Council Collection since 1984 Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London, and Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, England

`Hit´ - TV work shown in Festival Du Nouveau Cinema et De La Video, Montreal, Canada

The TV Interventions full compilation was shown at a number of Festivals in Europe including:

A selected compilaton of the TV Interventions, within which "Hit" was included, was made up for the British Council at their request, and VHS copies bought by them for use by them in their offices at

the following locations: India, The Philippines, Singapore, Poland and Japan

1988

`The Drop´ public sculpture project, Halifax, England; Dundee, Scotland; Gateshead, England; Londonderry, Northern Ireland

`Sliced Cut´ installation for `Images of Silence´ at Abbazia De Novalesa, by Turin, Italy

Mixed media prints in `Collaboration´ - Group exhibition of prints in Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

`Mind a Gap´ drawing installation for Open Futures, group drawing exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

Drawing included (in projected form) to help build the set for opera `The Maginot Line´ at Riverside Studios, London, England

1987

`Burn No End´ - Installation for `State of the Nation´ Show, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, England

Drawings in Group Exhibition - Visiting Artists, Trent Polytechnic, England

1986

`Contrasts´ - Artists in Belfast, Waterman's Art Centre, Brentford, Middlesex, England

Performance Art Documentation Show, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, through Projects UK

1985

`Healing Wounds´ - 11 Drawings in Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin Ireland

1984

`Renovation minus Adhesion´ in International Mail Art Exhibition, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA

`Touring Exhibitionists´ series organised by the Basement Group, Newcastle, England. Venues were the Zap Club, Brighton; Arnolfini, Bristol; Rochdale Art Gallery; Midland Group, Nottingham; Balmbra's, Newcastle

`Off the Body´ - 6 hour non-stop Performance/Installation, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Project Art Centre, Dublin

Participation in `Art and the Human Environment´ Conference. Presented by the Demarco Gallery as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

`Felt Crosses/False Teeth´ - Drawing series shown at the Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

`Birth Death Day´ - 48 hour non-stop Performance/Installation at Edinburgh College of Art for Edinburgh International (Demarcation) Festival of Art

Performance/Installation at Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Ireland

`Entropy´ - Performance/Installation in the Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

`Healing Wounds´ - 6 hour non-stop Performance/Installation in `Marginalia´, Turin, Italy

1983

`Fish´ - Video of non-stop 24 hour Performance/Installation (at Project Art Centre, Dublin) shown at New Regent Club in Brighton, England

`Hidden Line´ - 12 hour non-stop Performance/Installation at First Dartington Festival of Performance Art and Visual Theatre

`Healing Wounds´ - Street Performance in Lombard Street, Belfast, opening `3 Days of Live Art´ held at Art and Research Exchange, Belfast Northern Ireland

`Healing Wounds´ - 12 hour non-stop vigil at Gt George's Street Project, Liverpool, England

1981

Three Drawings in 2nd International Drawing Triennale, Wraclaw, Poland

Video Screening - La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco, California USA

`Cut Off´ - Performance - La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

Mail Art Show: Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA

1980

1979

`Oasis´ open air sculpture exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

`Poste Restante´ Exhibition at Liverpool Academy of Arts, England

1978

The 10th International Sculpture Conference, Toronto, Canada

1977

Performance: Documenta, Kassel, Germany

Art and Research Exchange Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Participation in BIPCMAE, c/o Broadway Galleries Ltd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Mail Art Exhibitions in Holland, Canada and the USA

Circle 77 Uniart, c/o Pawet Petasz Kamienna, Elblag, Poland

1976

The Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

1975

Painting and Performance documentation, Scottish Arts Council Exhibition, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

`5 + 1´ Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

1972

Performance documentation. Exhibited in Scan, organised and presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1971

Aluminium/plexiglass structures, Second Atlantic Biennial Exhibition touring Canada 1971/72

1968

Aquantints: Sun House, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Plastic Structures: School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

Paintings and Prints: G Williams College, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Prints: Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois

Work in several group shows, Chicago, Illinois

1965

Paintings and Drawings: Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland

Paintings and Drawings: Society of Scottish Artists - The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

Paintings: British Commonwealth Art Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland - Annual Edinburgh Festival

Paintings: Royal Academy School, London, England

1964

Paintings, Horticultural Institute, Dundee, Scotland

Collections
(group exhibitions - solo exhibitions - awards)

Work in private collections in America, Canada, Italy, Poland, Germany, Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.

Work in public collections of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Arts Council of England, and Limerick City Art Gallery

Awards
(group exhibitions - solo exhibition - collection)

1998 Winner in the Visual Art Category of the 1998 Belfast Arts Awards, Belfast City Hall, Belfast, Nothern Ireland

1996 Honorary Fellowship for contribution to Visual Performance conferred by Dartington College of Art, Dartington, England

1991-97 Research Awards from the University of Ulster to conduct visual research and present art performances abroad

1988 Recipient of a London Dance and Performance Award for `outstanding creative achievement´ in Performance Art from the National Organisation for Dance and Mime, in association with Dance Umbrella and Time Out magazine.

1980-83 Research Awards from Ulster Polytechnic for Art Exhibitions, Performances and Installations and communicating information regarding the Belfast MA Fine Art programme in North America and Canada, etc.

Granted Travel Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to present `Alientegration´ at Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA

1979 Awarded Carroll Prize in Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin, Ireland

Awarded Research Grant from Ulster Polytechnic to study developments in live art in European Colleges and Galleries

1972 Received $4,000 Canada Council Arts Award for Painting, Writing and Performance Member of Halifax-Vancouver, Canadian Artist Exchange Programme, sponsored by $7,000 Canada Council Award

1971 Received $4,000 Canada Council Arts Bursary award for Painting

1967 Year's tuition scholarship, plus $1,000. Van De Grift Fellowship, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

1966 Major Travel Scholarship granted by the Scottish Education Department for graduate study in Fine Arts abroad.

Alexander Cross Trust Foundation Scholarship for graduate study in Fine Arts abroad. Granted by Cross Trust Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland

Year's tuition scholarship granted by the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

1965 David Murray studentship from The Royal Academy of London, England (Work taken at Hospitalfield College of Art, Arbroath, Scotland)