Ian Nesbitt
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DOB: 30/12/76 address: 170 Alexandra Road, Sheffield, S2 3EG phone: 07791044678 email: info@iannesbitt.co.uk
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Education
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•Nottingham Trent University
1st – BA Fine Art
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Awards
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•Shortlisted Optical Sound award Flatpack Festival (2023)
•Shortlisted best independent Feature film Aesthetica Festival (2019)
•Shortlisted Short Film Award Berwick Film And Media Festival (2014)
•Winner Broadway Film and Video Prize (2012)
•Shortlisted Michael Whippman award (2011)
•Shortlisted Salon Video Art Prize (2010)
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Roles Held
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•Radio Commons - steering committee (2022 - ongoing)
•Out/Side/Film - Director (2011 - ongoing)
•Open Kitchen Social Club - co-director (2014 - 2024)
•Social Art Summit - co-convenor (2018)
•Nottingham Trent University - visiting lecturer in Fine Art (2015 - 2016)
•Sheffield Hallam University - Associate Lecturer in Fine Art (2014 – 2015)
•Manchester Metropolitan University - Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media (2013 - 2014)
•Nottingham Contemporary - Artists Advisory Group (2011 - 2013)
•One Thoresby Street, Nottingham - Steering Group (2008 – 10)
•Annexinema – Co-director (2007 - 2014)
•Stand Assembly - Co-director (2005 – 2008)
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Selected Commissions and Residencies
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•Research and Development (2024 - ongoing) Harris Museum, Preston
•'Where We Find Ourselves' (2024) Festival of Debate, Sheffield
•'Slowness As A Bridge' (2023) gentle/radical, Cardiff
•'Rituals For Change' (2022-2023) artist-in-resonance, Dancing On The Edge, Amsterdam
•'Mutual Effects' (2020) Radio Commons, Paris
•'Who Cares?' (2018-19) LU Arts artist in residence, Loughborough University
•'The Precarious Landscape' (2017-18) In Certain Places, Preston
•Ek-uh-nom-iks (2016) Primary, Nottingham
•Shared Vision (2015) Social Housing Arts Network, Manchester
•'The Cut' (2014 - 15) Sound and Music commission for Dead Rat Orchestra
•'Settlers In England' (2014 – 2015) Junction Arts, Derbyshire
•Annexinema commissions (2009 - 2015) G39 (Cardiff), Anarch Gallery (London), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), Nottingham Contemporary, Hinterland, Screenlit, Radiator, Sideshow (Nottingham) Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Falmouth Convention, Nottingham Contemporary
•‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ (2010) TG4, UK / Ireland
•‘The Model’ (2010) Sideshow Festival, Nottingham
•'Office of Community Sousveillance' (2009) Radiator Festival, Nottingham/Berlin
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Selected screenings and exhibitions
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•'Grief Is A Shape Shifter' screening/performance @ Flatpack Festival (2023)
•'Acts Of Quiet Resistance' @ Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle (2021)
•'The Art Of Moving Slowly' Micro-season of films by Ian Nesbitt @ Cube Microplex, Bristol (2019)
•'Walk With A Cart Through Upperthorpe' at Social Art Summit, Sheffield (2018)
•'Field Notes' at Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Castleton (2017)
•'Everything Flows' group exhibition at Millenium Galleries, Sheffield (2017)
•'Sketches Of Brunei c. 1978' live score at Flatpack Festival (2017)
•'The Co-produced Films of Ian Nesbitt': screening/q+a event at Nottingham Contemporary (2016)
•'The Boundary' exhibition at Bloc Projects, Sheffield (2016)
•'Sketches Of Brunei c. 1978' live score by Jim Ghedi, Nic Jonah Davis, Dead Rat Orchestra and C Joynes at Sin Eater Festival (2016)
•'Settlers In England' Berlin Prinzessinnengarten, 20 Vyner Street London, Regather Sheffield (2015)
•'Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!' Amorph! Festival, Helsinki (2014)
•‘Uncertain Ground’ Berwick Film And Media Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film (2014)
•‘Taking the Michael’
•‘Underground Music’ Sensoria Festival, Sheffield (2013)
•‘Don’ Sheffield Fringe (2013), Lab Film Festival (2013)
•‘Taking the Michael’ Glastonbury Festival (2014-15), Sheffield Doc/Fest Videotheque (2013), Bristol Cube Cinema, Nottingham Broadway Cinema, Dartington Hall Space (2012)
•‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ TG4 Irish television, CCA Glasgow, Metal Festival (Liverpool), Hammersmith Irish Centre, Manchester Irish Centre (2012)
•‘Byron Ghosts’ Nottingham Contemporary (2012)
•‘Home is where the Roof is’ Homeless Film Festival touring programme (2012)
•‘Sketches of Brunei c. 1978’ One Thoresby Street, Nottignham (2012)
•‘Not Just Pounds and Pence’ BBC2 (2011)
•‘Machine Poem #14’ Salon Video Art Prize (2010)
•‘Exploits in the Wireless City’ ,Radiator Festival (2009)
•‘Machine Poem #5’ ‘Metropolis’- Spanish TVE network (2008)
•Solo show, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham (2008)
•Punto Y Raya Festival touring programme (2009)
•Loop Pool DVD (2009)
•Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2008)
•INVIDEO, Milan (2007)
•700IS,Galleribox, Finland (2007)
•Nunnery Gallery ,London (2007)
•New Art Birmingham 07 (2007)
•The Perfect Real, CCA, Glasgow (2007)
•Alucine Festival, Toronto (2007)
•European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck (2007)
•Solo show, Nanogalerija, Zagreb (2006)
•Projection Gallery @ Seven Seven, London (2006)
•International Art Expo 06, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2006)
•Projection Gallery @ Liverpool Biennial (2006)
•Temporary Cities, Klaipeda, Lithuania (2006)
•Betrayed by the Senses’, Oxo Tower, London (2006)
•VAD festival, Girona, Spain (2006)
•Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria (2006)
•‘Intro/Out’ Digital Art Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (2006)
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Selected Writing
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•'Pilgrimage: The Road to Renewal' Dark Mountain Journal 24 (2023)
•'Tactics For Togetherness: An Obituary' Corridor 8 (2022)
•'Pilgrimage: Matters of Grief' Dark Mountain online (2022)
•Chapter in collaboration with Ruth Levene and Bob Johnston for book 'Practising Place' (Cornerhouse Press)(2018)
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Selected Press/Publications
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•'Everything Flows' review Art Monthly (2017)
•'The Expanded City', In Certain Places press (2016)
•'Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works / New Territories / New Publics'
edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer (2013)
•‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ Photo-article/essay Guardian Weekend magazine by Mann Booker shortlisted writer Jon McGregor (2011)
•‘Office of Community Sousveillance’ review We Make Money Not Art (2010)
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Selected Talks/Discussion
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•'Art And Care in a post-Pandemic World' Cambridge School of Art (2022)
•'Who Imagines The City?' lab @ Social Art Summit (2018)
•'Strategies For Collaboration', artists talk, UCLan (2018)
•'The Boundary' In conversation with landscape archaeologist Bob Johnston @ Bloc Projects, Sheffield and Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle (2016)
•'The Expanded City' Symposium, Preston (2016)
•'Into Action' symposium workshop, Primary, Nottingham (2016)
•Festival Opening Presentation/Screening Amorph! Festival Helsinki (2014)
•Panel Discussant ‘Ethnography is Sexy’ MA Screening programme, Granada Centre For Visual Anthropology, Manchester (2013)
•The Jarman Award Screening Tour, Nottingham Contemporary – In discussion with Mathew Trivett (2012)
•‘Cinema as social phenomenon’ – Annexinema in conversation with Neil Cummings, Hinterland Festival (2009)