BIOGRAPHY

Stuart Croft makes gallery based films and installations

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STUART CROFT

Born 1970
Lives and works in London


EDUCATION


1997-98
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1993-94
BA Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art, London [transfer]
1992
Erasmus Residency, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1990-92
BA Fine Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic

FILMOGRAPHY

2011
How to Arrange a Funeral (in development)

2010
Endless Trailer (in development; working title)

2009
The Stag Without a Heart (in postproduction))

The Death Waltz (8 min loop)
A man tells an endless ghost story in a film shot by its own actors

2007
Drive-In (7 min loop)
A woman delivers a non-stop joke about paradise to a man who drives a circular road journey.

2006
Century City (9 min loop, dual screen installation)
A murder case prompts an impossible phone call between a detective in Cape Town and a movie director in LA.

2005
Several Small Fires (3 min loop)
A series of fake, no-budget TV commercials.

2004
Df Dmb Blnd (11 min loop)
In 2070, a couple discuss their disintegrating relationship using nanotechnology

2003
Hit (22 min loop)
Two characters played by three actors are caught in a circle of shifting identities and noirish deception.

2002
Rococo 55 (36 min loop / 42m cinema semi-feature)
Sex, violence and modernism amidst a group of Wild West porn actors, a male escort and four Samaritans

2000
The Loss Leader (14 min loop / 27min cinema)
Three actors star in a cinematic psycho-narrative and a trilogy of fake car commercials.

2000
Loveless (18 min)
24-hour news reports interlock with the final throes of a doomed kidnapping.

1999
The Everlasting (14 min)
The maker of a corporate charity video falls in love with a terminally ill actor.

1998
Dead Happy (9 min loop)
A trailer for a non-existent TV drama is merged with a documentary, shot in the afterlife.

1998
Point X (6 min loop)
A small-town murder reconstruction is fused with a corporate video for a stress management centre.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
*catalogue/publication
2009
The Death Waltz, Malta Contemporary Art, Malta
The Wrong Road: Films by Stuart Croft, MuKHA_Media, Antwerp, Belgium
Drive In, Reis Projects. Antwerp
Drive In, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK
2008
Drive In, FRED [London]
The Man Who Died Twice: films by Stuart Croft, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
Drive In/ The Death Waltz, Fred [Leipzig], Leipzig, Germany
2007
Seen – Retrospective Screening, FACT (Foundation for Art & Technology, Liverpool)
2006
Century City, Fred [London]
2003
Hit, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London*
2002
Rococo 55, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London*
2000
Loveless (VideoSpin Series), The Photographers’ Gallery, London
1999
The Everlasting, (Projection Series), Gasworks Gallery, London
1997
Duomania, Unit, London


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2009
Love in the Age of Postponed Democracy, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Infernal Machine, g39, Cardiff, Uk
Artists vs Hollywood, Globe City Gallery, Newcastle, UK
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing, China
Artists vs Hollywood, Arts Space Wodonga, Melborne, Austrailia
Claire Hope / Adam Chodzko / Stuart Croft, Tank TV, www.tank.tv
2008
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
GSK Contemporary (Film Program), Royal Academy, London
Garden of Delights, Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, South Korea
Artists vs Hollywood, The Block, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia
The Venacular Terrian, touring to Brisbane, Yokohama, Beijing, Tokyo
2007
Theatre of Cruelty, White Box, New York, USA
Basel Volta Show03, Ultra Brag, Basel
80 x 80 - The Sneeze, Iziko South African National Gallery
Selective Affinities, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK
Selective Affinities, Skolska 28 Communication Space, Prague, Czech Republic
2006
Body Double, Lesnica Castle, Wroclaw, Poland
Dusk , Miami DIVA, Miami, USA
Video London II at FEM6, Hotel ME, Madrid, Spain
How I Learned to Accept Fate, EFA Gallery, New York
Pulse New York, Fiedler Contemporary, New York
2005
Video London, Espai Ubu, Barcelona, Spain
The Bermuda Triangle, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
Video Remix, Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne, Germany
Los Retratos de Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Video Box: The Loss Leader, White Box, New York
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Maltings Cinema, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, UK
Sound and Vision, Tank TV, www.tank.tv
Crime, Artists’ Network, New York, USA
State of Flux, Flux Magazine, online
2004
Loop 04, Barceló Hotel Sants, Barcelona, Spain
I’m Dreaming of the Future, Flux Events , London
The Phanton Limb, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, USA
80 x 80 – The Sneeze, Gazon Rouge Gallerym Athens, Greece
The Tenant, Embassy Suites, New York
Moving Images, Tank TV, www.tank.tv
Moving Images, ICA Digital Studio & Cinema, London
Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London
Video Mundi, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
Island Film & Video Festival, UGC Cinema Canary Wharf, London
2003
Senso Unico, San Salvador Convent, Venice, Italy
The Pleasure Dome, Windsor Hotel, New York*
25HRS, Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain*
Redefining the La-La-La Landscape Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
ArtTranspennine 03, Pennine Mountains, Cumbria, UK
2002
Sydney Biennale Video Program, Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney, Australia*
Commotion: Documents & Fictions Arnolfini Cinema, Bristol, UK
Potential Hits, Unit 2 Gallery, London
Art + Mountains, Alpine Club, London*
Gate, Open air cinema event, Dartmoor, UK
2001
B-Hotel, P.S.1/MoMA, New York
Lost In Space, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York
Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto, Debs & Co Gallery, New York
Don’t Go To Work, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London
All We Need is a Preacher and a Motel, Galerie La Friche, Marseille, France*
The Unchaperoned, Aroma Project Space, Berlin
2000
The Parallax Hotel, Chelsea Inn Hotel, New York*
Social Mutiny, Konstakuten at Stadtstheatern, Stockholm, Sweden
Fido TV, Hunter Times Square Gallery, New York*
Fix Films at the Ikon, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2000 Greenwich Film Festival, APT Gallery, London
Exit: 24 hr screening, Chisenhale Gallery, London
1999
DIN, ProjectSpace 4x4, Amsterdam, Netherlands
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany*
The Everlasting (solo screening), Architectural Association, London
Zauberhaft, Waldschlösschen Center, Dresden, Germany*
Acrebarparc, Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Club Europa, The Nunnery, London (curator)
1998
NWUK: Post Neo-Amateurism, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Bermuda (part ii), Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden (2 person)
Dead Happy (MA Exhibition), Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK*
The Bible of Networking, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
Hauptmelodie (event), Chisenhale Gallery, London
Roller, KSS, London
Station to Station (sound event), Aldwych Underground Station. London
No Particular Place To Go, Unit, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Exh. cat: ‘Beijing 798 Biennale: Constellations’, Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing (illus)

Herbert, M. – review, ‘Never let the truth…’, Art Monthly, London, issue 323, February

Wonfor, S. – preview: ‘Where Two Arts Collide’, The Journal (Culture), Newcastle, February (illus)

2008
Clark, R. – preview: ‘Never let the truth…’, The Guardian (Guide), London, 22.11.08 – 28.11.08 (illus)

Jackson, T. – interview: ‘Five Questions’, Metro, 20.11.08 (illus)

Thatcher, J. - review: 'Stuart Croft: Drive In', Art Monthly, issue 318, July-August (illus)

Review: 'Stuart Croft: Drive In', Kultureflash, issue 252, online, 10.07.08 - 16.07.09

Exh. cat: ‘Garden of Delights’, 2008 Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu (illus)

Zuvela, D. – review: ‘Making Art Out of Hollywood’, Realtime, issue 86, online, Aug-Sept

2007
Brown, C./Allen, K. - interview: 'Five Questions' , Liverpool Metro, 19.09.07 (illus)

Tawadros, G. (ed.) – ‘Life is More Important Than Art’ pub. Ostrich, London (illus)

2006
Searle, A - review/feature: 'It’s a Kind of Magic’ The Guardian, London, 17.01.06

Critic's Pick of the Week: 'Stuart Croft: Century City' The Guardian (Guide), London, 21.01.06 - 27.01.06

Lack, J. – preview: 'Stuart Croft: Century City', The Guardian (Guide), London,
07.01.06 - 13.01.06 (illus)

Sumpter, H – review: 'Stuart Croft', Time Out, London, 25.01.06 - 01.02.06 (illus)

Guner, F. – review: 'Stuart Croft: Century City', Metro, London, 13.01.06 (illus)

Review, 'Stuart Croft', Kultureflash, issue 150, online, 01.02.06 - 08.02.06

Morris, T. – review: 'Stuart Croft: Century City' AN Magazine, Newcastle, March

Patrick, K. – essay: 'Stuart Croft', Lux Online, London, January (illus)

2005
Funke, C. – review: ‘Neues aus der Videokunst’, Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger, Cologne, 08.04.05

Zamudio, R. – article: 'Video Fair or Video Fare?' Contemporary Magazine, London, no 73 (illus)

2004
Herbert, M. – review: ‘Stuart Croft: Hit’, Artforum International, New York, Apr.

‘I’m Dreaming of the Future’, preview:, Flux Magazine, Manchester, issue 65 (illus)

Dyer, R. – review: Contemporary Magazine, London, Feb.

2003
Thorp, D. – essay, exh. cat: ‘Stuart Croft: Hit’, pub. Rhodes + Mann, London (illus)

Kent, S. – review: ‘Stuart Croft: Hit’, Time Out, London, 3.12.03 – 10.12.03 (illus)

Guner, F. – review: ‘Stuart Croft: Hit’, Metro, London, 19.11.03

Anderson, H. – preview: ‘Stuart Croft: Hit’, Evening Standard, London, 7.11.03, 11.12.03, 18.12.03

Preview caption: ‘One thing to see this week’, The Guardian (G2), London, 17.05.03

Croft, S. – artist pages, Miser & Now, London, edition 1 (illus 4 page image spread)

2002
Preview: ‘Rococo 55’, Time Out, London, 27.11.02 – 04.12.02 (illus)

Ibbeson, R. – feature: ‘Rococo 55’, Flux Magazine, Manchester, Dec. (illus)
Haines, B. – essay, exh. guide: ‘Rococo 55’, pub. Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (illus)

Kyriacou, S. – preview: ‘Emma Bennett/Stuart Croft’, Contemporary Magazine, London, Nov.

Verhagen, M. – review: ‘Emma Bennett/Stuart Croft’, Art Review, London, Dec.

Shuckburgh, H. – preview: ‘Rococo 55’, Art Preview, London, Nov.

Sumpter, H. – review: ‘Art + Mountains’ , The Big Issue, London, Sept.

Lack, J. – preview: ‘Potential Hits’, The Guardian, London, 26.10.02

Black, P. – preview: ‘Potential Hits’ , Flash Art, Milan, Oct.

Zamudio, R. – essay: ‘Moebius Trip: The Loss Leader’ NY ARTS Magazine, New York, Jan. (illus)

2001
Huttner, P. (ed) – exh. cat: ‘All We Need Is A Preacher and a Motel’, pub. Triangle France, Marseille (illus)

Craddock, S. – exh. cat, essay: ‘Dead Happy’, London (illus)

O’Reilly, S. – review: ‘Dead Happy’, Time Out, 14.11-21.11.01

Kinsman, C. – preview: ‘Dead Happy’, Evening Standard, London, 1.11.01

‘Nightlife – broadcast: Don’t Go To Work’, London Weekend Television, tx: 14.09.01

Sumpter, H. – preview: ‘Choice: Don’t Go to Work;, Evening Standard, London, 3 Aug.

Palmer, S. – preview: ‘Dead Happy’, AN Magazine, Newcastle, Nov. (illus)

2000
Fast, O. – essay. exh. Cat: ‘Wasteland Works’, Fido TV, Hunter College Galleries, City University, NYC

Zamudio, R. – essay, exh. cat: ‘The Parallax Hotel’, New York Independent Art Fair, New York City

Ingledew, J. – news: ‘Brixton Says No to Crack & Smack’, Sound, Issue 3, London, Oct.

Wilson, L. – review: ‘Loveless’ , TheGalleryChannel.Com, Mar. (illus)

Conway, S – preview article: ‘Loveless’, Great Magazine, no. 28, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Feb.- Mar. (illus)

1999
Herbert, M. – review: ‘Projection/The Everlasting’ Time Out, London, 22-29 Oct.

preview article (illus): ‘The Everlasting’, Architectural Association Magazine, 02, London, 18-29 Oct.

Smith, E. – review: ‘Projection’, Art Monthly, no. 230, London, Oct.

Ellis, P. – preview article: ‘Zauberhaft’, Flash Art, Milan, Oct.

Exh. cat: ‘Zauberhaft’, pub. Brose-Eiermann, Dresden, Germany (illus)

Exh. cat: ‘1999 European Media Art Festival’, pub. EMAF, Ösnabruck, Germany

Ellis, S. – preview article: ‘Club Europa’, Evening Standard, London, 11 Feb.

Dalton, G. – preview article: ‘Club Europa’, AN Magazine, Newcastle, Feb.

1998
preview: ‘The Bermuda Triangle’, Nojesguiden, Stockholm, Sep.

Singh, Y. – feature article: ‘But Is It Art?’, Camcorder User, London, Sep. (illus)

O’Rorke, I. – review: ‘Cutting Edge…’, The Independent, London, 8 Jul.

Sumpter, H. – preview: ‘Choice: NWUK’, Evening Standard, London, 2 Jul.


AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES

2009-10
Royal College of Art, Research Development Fund (‘Endless Trailer’ - w/t)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , Research Grant (Practice-Led and Applied) (‘The Stag Without a Heart’)
2007
Royal College of Art, Research Development Fund
2006
Arts Council England, Grants for the Art
Royal College of Art, Research Development Fund
2005
Fred [London] Ltd, Production Commission
Royal College of Art , Research Remission Allocation
Royal College of Art , Research Development Fund
2003
Rhodes + Mann Ltd, Production Commission
UK Fringe Report Awards, Best Film (for 'Rococo 55')
2002
London Arts (Arts Council England) , Artist’s Development Award
1999
Arts Council of England Traineeship, Project Co-ordinator, Gasworks Gallery, London
1997-98
British Academy / AHRB, Postgraduate Bursary
1996
London Arts Board (Arts Council England), Individual Artist’s Award
1992-93
Lived and worked in Berlin
1992
Irish National College of Art & Design, Dublin Erasmus EU Residency

Academic Positions

2009 – present
Royal College of Art, London, Tutor, Moving Image Studio (School of Fine Art)
2008
Royal College of Art, London, Teaching Fellow in Moving Image
2004-09
Royal College of Art, London, Tutor, Time Based Arts (School of Fine Art)

Visiting Lecturer

2008
Brighton University, Validation Panel, External Member, BA & MFA Moving Image
Middlesex University, London, BA FILM & Video, Visiting Lecturer

2005-07
Norwich School of Art & Design, BA Fine Art New Media, Visiting Lecturer

2005-06
Royal Academy of Arts, London, MA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer

2002, 2004 Chelsea College of Art & Design, London: MA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer

2004
Goldsmiths College, University of London, PGDip Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer
Cornerhouse Cinema, Manchester, UK, Visiting Lecturer
Manchester Metropolitan University, MA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer

2000
Parson’s School of Design, New School University, New York, BFA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer
Hunter College, City University of New York, BFA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer
De Montfort University, Lincoln, UK, BA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer

1995, 1999 Wimbledon School of Art, London: BA Fine, Visiting Lecturer

SELECT CURATED EXHIBITIONS

AMIP (Artists’ Moving Image Project), Royal College of Art / National Film and TV Schoo,l Co-Producer, 2008-09

Emergandseee Film, Festival Jury, Member 2006

Studio Voltaire Gallery & Studios, London, Board of Trustees, 2005-08

Brighton Photo Biennial, Communications Consultant, 2005-07

INIVA, London, Communications Consultant, 2002-05

Chisenhale Gallery, London, Communications Consultant, 2000-04

Gate, open air cinema event, Dartmoor, UK (2002)
Co-curator with Tina Keane, Tim Eastop, Ben Eastop, in association with Spacex Gallery
Artists: Eija Liisa Ahtila, George Barber, Emma Bennett, Stuart Croft, Beth Derbyshire, Steven Eastwood, Inger-Lise Hansen, Lucy Heyward, Matt Hulse, Tine Keane, Patrick Keiller, Malcolm Le Grice, Anna Lucas, Greg Pope, Emily Richardson, John Sargeant, Anna Thew

Zauberhaft, Waldschlosschen Center, Dresden (1999)
Co-curator
Artists: Liz Arnold, Joël Bartoloméo, David Burrows & DJ Simpson, John Chilver, Stuart Croft, Enrico David, Eberhard Havekost, Andreas Hofer, Lluis Hortalà, Michal Klega, Ulli Knall, Isabelle Lévenéz, Mathieu Mercier, Sandra Musy, Natacha Nisic, Markus Richter, Sophia Schama, Wolfgang Schlegel, Neil Zakiewicz

Club Europa, The Nunnery, London (1999)
Co-curator
Artists: Ralf Brög, Ian Charlesworth, Arni Güdmundsson, Per Hüttner, Matthew Walmsley

Post Neo-Amateurism, Chisenhale Gallery, London (1998)
Co-curator
Artists: Stuart Croft, Rowena Dring, Michelle Griffiths, Yasu Ichige, Ben Judd, Janice Kerbel, Waseem Khan, Michal Klega, Jon Lockhart, Brighid Lowe, Caroline McCarthy, Kate Smith, David Thorpe