Ju Gosling aka ju90

Group exhibitions 

2010: Objects of Curiosity and Desire, the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.

2010: Revealing Culture, Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington DC, US.

2008: Life & Liberty, Westbourne Grove Church Artspace, London.

2008: Renascence, World Financial Center, New York, US.

2007: Renascence, Kennedy Center, Washington DC, US.

2007: Connections 3: Exposed, Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

2006: Humans Being, Chicago Cultural Center, US.

2003: Sinnlos, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria.

2003: Identity, Mile End Pavilion, London.

2003: Senseless, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

2001-2002: Adorn, Equip. Originated by the City Gallery, Leicester, UK; toured nationally.

1999: Adorn, Equip work-in-progress exhibition, City Gallery, Leicester, UK.


Solo exhibitions

2008-2012: Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model of Disability National Institute for Medical Research, London (February/March 2008); A Foundation, Liverpool (August/September 2008); Bournemouth Library (February-April 2009); Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield (June-July 2009); Theatre Workshop Scotland, Edinburgh (August 2009); ADF, Belfast (October-November 2010); Centre for Life, Newcastle (January-March 2011); Oriel Joanna Field, Milford Haven (April-May 2011); Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London (September 2011-January 2012). Funded by the Wellcome Trust.

2010-11: Canning Town Folk, The Hub Canning Town until the end of January 2011, then Cecil Sharp House, the HQ of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, from September-December. Funded by Well London.

2003: Transformations, Oval House Gallery, London.


Symposia

2009: Australian Network for Arts and Technology's Super Human: Revolution of the Species (keynote speaker), BMW Edge, Melbourne.

2007: Alternative Arts Debate, Tate Modern.

2005: Body States, University of Warwick, Coventry.

2003: DaDaFest, Tate Liverpool.

2003: Sinnlos, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria.

2002: Dancing Differently, Manchester.

2000: Mardi Gras Arts Festival, ICA London.

1999: Eucrea! (keynote speaker) Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.


Performances

Wheels on Fire: Coventry (2005); Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich (2004); Wels, Austria (2004); Birmingham (2004); Science Museum (2003); Battersea Arts Centre (2003).


Commissions

2008: Men in White Coats, ESC Labor, Graz, Austria.

2004: Opening Doors, Bradford City Council, UK.

2003: EQ3, Drake Music/Croydon Clocktower.

2003: Helping the Handicapped, City of Graz, Austria.

2003: Wheels on Fire, Apples and Snakes/Science Museum, London.


Residencies

2011: Croydon Clocktower (with Fittings Multimedia Arts), England.

2010: Pembrokeshire Tea Company, West Wales.

2006-10: National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA), Dorset, England.

2006-7: National Institute of Medical Research, London.

2001: Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales.

1999: Mount Grace Priory ('virtual' residency), Yorkshire, England.


Film Festivals

2007: AbilityFest, India.

2005: Picture This, Calgary, Canada.

2004: London Disability Film Festival.

2004: The Other Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.


Fellowships etc

2008: New Work Network Associate, London.

2004: Artsadmin Digital Fellow, London.


Multimedia

2003-2005: Vulnerable Places, Zurich. Performance research project led by Gesa Ziemer with Milli Bitterli, Rika Esser, Ju Gosling, Raimund Hoghe and Simon Versnel. An accompanying film, Augen Blicke N by Gitta Gsell, was televised on 26/12/2005, and a book by Gesa Ziemer was published in January 2008.


Major grants

2008: Wellcome Trust Arts fund.

2006: Wellcome Trust Sciart fund.

2004: Arts Council London Live Art fund.

2002: Arts Council London Innovate fund.

2001: Arts Council London Combined Arts Fund.

2000: Arts Council England Disabled Artists’ Film and Video Fund.


Education

2001: PhD in Communications and Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury.

1992: MA by Independent Study in the field of Cultural Studies, University of East London.

1983: BA Hons in English Studies and Film Studies, University of East Anglia.

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