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Joe Magee is an artist and filmmaker who began his career making images for newspapers, becoming a regular contributor to international publications such as The Guardian, Libération, New York Times and Newsweek, having upwards of two thousand images published. In tandem with this he has developed a personal practice encompassing a range of traditional and electronic media, especially print making and moving image work, experimenting with animation, video and interactive art. These works, supported by a series of awards from Arts Council of England and UK Film Council, have shown widely at galleries and film festivals internationally, including London, Edinburgh, Tampere and Cannes, winning several prizes. Magee twice presented work at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Japan, Liverpool) as well as at Watershed, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chapter and the National Portrait Gallery. He has artworks in the permanent collections of University of the Arts London and University of Bath. Magee undertakes educational work in the UK and overseas, including visiting lectureships at Manchester School of Art and University of the West of England. In 2008 he ran filmmaking workshops in Vietnam and Singapore for The British Council. He has also been engaged in a series of collaborations with British comedian and actor Bill Bailey including large-scale video art and multimedia works for Bill’s 2007 UK arena tour, culminating at Wembley. In 2008, Magee's substantial body of work became the successful focus of a special issue of WERK (No.16), a limited edition arts publication based in Singapore. In 2009 Magee was awarded a D&AD (British Design and Art Direction) Award For Outstanding Achievement. PROJECTS AND EVENTS 2009
Humming Paradise
Solo exhibition
Ffotogallery, Penarth, 4 Jul-15 Aug 2009
Centrespace, Bristol. May 2009
Supported by Arts Council of England, The Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff City Council and The Welsh Assembly 2009
Stabilizers
Film installation at Illuminate Spring Forward North St, Bristol. April 2009 www.illuminatebristol.co.uk. Commissioned by Blackout Arts 2008
WERK No.16: Joe Magee Special INSTALLATION in collaboration with ROCKET (Tokyo)
Exhibition of drawings.
Rocket, 28 Nov - 23 Dec 2008
6-9-6 Jinguumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan 2008
WERK No.16: Joe Magee Special
Limited edition publication.
Winner of 2 D&AD Awards For Outstanding Achievement
Text and Interview by Alison Harley
376 pp, colour, 220mm x 305mm, Edition: Limited 800 copies 2008
Visible Agenda / Urban Tales
A British Council supported visit to Vietnam and Singapore comprising screenings, presentations and workshops with young artists and film makers at Hanoi Cinemateque, Hanoi Film College and The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents, Vietnam (as part of British Film Week) - and Temasek Design School and Institute of Technical Education, Singapore. 2008
The Graphic Art of Comment
Group exhibition. The Newsroom Gallery at The Guardian, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA 24July-26September2008. Catalogue Available at venue. Joe also presented 'A History of The Bowler Hat' at an accompanying public forum. 2008
Joe Magee Moving Image Retrospective
La Salle College of Art, Singapore Film Festival, April 2008
Supported by The British Council 2007
The Waters Prevailed
Animated film, projected large-scale onto Bristol Council House
Commissioned by Watershed Media Centre 2007
Tinselworm
Large-scale video art and multi-media collaboration with performer and comedian, Bill Bailey. Tour of primary UK arenas, including Wembley. 2007
Joe Magee Moving Image Retrospective
Cube Cinema, Bristol
Curated by Blackout Arts 2006
Stabilizers
Film installation, Tollgate House, Bristol
Commissioned by Blackout Arts 2005
Reception
Manipulated video
Commissioned by Electric Pavilion. A Watershed project. Funded by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council and Business West.
Screenings:
Brief Encounters International Film Festival, Watershed,Bristol Nov 2005
Performance Channel transmission, 21 Nov 2006 2005
Motorway Signs
Exhibition in collaboration with artist Simon Poulter
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Feb - March 2005 2004
Prints
Solo exhibition
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Jan - Feb 2004 2003
Seeing it in Black and White
Solo exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Bath. Nov - Dec 2003
Funded by University of Bath ICIA 2003
Clot
Short film
Commissioned by Knowle West Media Centre.
Watershed, Bristol, March 2004
Cube Blackout, Ashton Court Festival, Bristol July 2004
Buffalo Short Film Festival Nov 2004
Rotterdam Film Festival, Feb 2005
International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Orlando, USA, Nov 2005
Hands Free Series, Dorchester Arts Centre, May 2005
2 21m2 Stavanger, Norway August 2005 2004
Fruit Loop
Short film
Commissioned by Knowle West Media Centre
Watershed, Bristol, March 2004
Cube Blackout, Ashton Court Festival, Bristol July 2004
London Film Festival Oct 2004
36th Festival Nazionale del Film Corto, Bolzano Italy, Nov 2004
(Award Winner: International Competition Special Prize of the Jury)
20th International Short Film Festival Berlin, from Nov 2004
Brief Encounters Film Festival, Watershed, Bristol Nov 2004
Buffalo Short Film Festival Nov 2004
Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester May 2005
Rotterdam Film Festival, Feb 2005
Broadcast RAI 3 (Italy), 13 Feb 2005
International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Orlando, USA, Nov 2005
Dorchester Arts Centre (Hands Free Series) May 2005
2 21m2 Stavanger, Norway August 2005 2003
Gearhead
Short film
Commissioned by Picture This Moving Image and Knowle West Media Centre. Funded by The Lottery through The Film Council
Lux Open, The Royal College of Art, May 2003
Picture This Screening at Watershed, 9 July 2003
Frome Festival, Merlin Theatre, July 2003
Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 2003
17TH Leeds International Film Festival, October 2003
Brief Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, November 2003
Winterthur 7th International Short Film Festival (Switzerland), Nov 2003
Chapter, Cardiff (Cardiff Screen Festival), 20 November 2003
Napoli Film Festival, Italy, December 2003
Tampere International Film Festival, Finland, March 2004
Odeon West End (UK Film Council Awards), London, Feb 2004
Watershed, Bristol, 28 March 2004
Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester May 2004
Cannes Film Festival (UK Film Centre), May 2004
British Council Film School, Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic July 04
Screen Shift, The Cube Cinema, Bristol, July 2004
Show Commotion, Sheffield July 2004
Cube Blackout, Ashton Court Festival, Bristol July 2004
Halloween @ 38.83.04, Dray Walk, Brick Lane, London, E1 Aug 2004
British Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania Oct-Nov 2004
Buffalo Short Film Festival Nov 2004
Rotterdam Film Festival, Feb 2005
FutureShorts, Trof, Manchester, April 2005
Shorticulture, London April 2005
Hands Free Series, Dorchester Arts Centre, May 2005
2 21m2 Stavanger, Norway August 2005
International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Orlando, USA, Nov 05
3rd International Harm Reduction Film Festival, Vancouver 2006
City on Film Symposium, Singapore Film Festival, April 2008
Sinema, Singapore, Oct 2008
National Cinema Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct 2008
Hanoi Cinematheque, Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct 2008
Galaxy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 2008
. 2002
A Personal History of Corruption
Interactive artwork
Watershed Media Centre, September 2002
Produced as part of The Clarke Digital Bursary 2002
Developed at PVA Media Lab and Watershed. Supported by J.A. Clark Charitable Trust, University of the West of England, Arts Council of England
2002
The Daily Telegraph Project
An exercise in becoming unemployable
A series of published Images containing embedded political messages 2001
Blackbird Has Spoken
Multimedia (short story, animation, printed images)
Funded by Arts Council of England
Watershed, Bristol, December 2001
Flux Magazine, Feb 2002 2001
Hypnomart
Short manipulated video film in collaboration with artist Alistair Gentry
Commissioned by Arts Council of England and Channel 4
Broadcast Channel 4, UK September 2001
Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, October 2001
Bow Arts, London, England, February 2002
FirstSite, Colchester, England, February 2002
Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, England, February 2002
Animated Encounters, Watershed, Bristol April 2002
Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield UK (Search Engine Cinema) March 2002
ICA, London, England, March 2002
Chapter Arts, Cardiff 2002
London Architecture week 2002
The Big M, Locations around the UK, autumn 2002
Hiroshima Media Festival, Japan 2002
Microwave Media Festival, Hong Kong 2002
ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Japan 2002
Light House, Poole, December 2002
Oslo Central Station, Norway.(Once Seen, Art in Public Space) Oct 03
British Animation Retrospective, Warsaw October 2002
Videotage-Tokwawan 8 November 2002
Peterborough Digital Arts, Pb.Museum & Art Gallery, April-May 2004
SciFi Channel Europe 2004
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dance Bass Programme, August 2004
Festival Internacional de Animaçao do Brasil, July 2004
Holland Animation Festival - Utrecht, August 2004. Antwerp, Aug 2004
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway. November 2004
Edinburgh Filmhouse (London), April 2005
45th Crackow Film Festival, Poland 2005
Filmhuis Den Haag, July 2005
V&A Museum London (Born Free) January 2006
National Portrait Gallery (Tracing-the-Contours) 9 March 2006
Splash on the BBC Big Screen, Liverpool 2-15 June 2006
Hyperlive: Animation and the Camera, Curzon Soho, London, July 2006
Off The Wall Film Festival, Hastings July 2006
25FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, Sept 2006
City on Film Symposium, Singapore Film Festival, April 2008
Sinema, Singapore, Oct 2008
National Cinema Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct 2008
Hanoi Cinematheque, Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct 2008
Galaxy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 2008 2001
General Hospital
Digitally composed prints
Installed at Taunton and Somerset Hospital,
Commissioned by Art for Life 2001
Kulture Klinic
Manipulated video
Commissioned by Picture This Moving Image and Watershed. Funded by Arts Council of England
Screened at locations in South West England, 2001
2000
Yesterday's Papers
Solo exhibition
Mud Dock, Exeter 1999
Blue Roses
Manipulated video
Made at PVA LabCulture, supported by Arts Council of England 1998-2001
Playtime
Solo exhibition of digitally-composed printed images
Mud Dock, Exeter 1999
Severnshed, Bristol 2000
Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool 2001
Funded by Arts Council of England. Supported by Liverpool John Moores University 1999
Jesusplex
Multimedia installation,
Commissioned by PVA Media Lab. Funded by Arts Council of England
Scientific and Literary Institute, Bridport 1999
Manchester Metropolitan University Holden Gallery, Manchester 2000
Club Circuit, 2000
Flashpoint, Newcastle, 2000
Screenspace, Watershed, Bristol, 2000
Light House, Poole, December 2002
Heretic Poetic, Centrespace Bristol Nov 2006 1998
Reproduction
Solo exhibition of digital images and animation
Watershed, Bristol 1998
International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Liverpool 1998
Funded by Arts Council of England and Watershed 1997
Damage
Solo exhibition, including published catalogue
Aytoun Gallery, Manchester
Funded by Arts Council of England and The National Lottery. Supported by Manchester Metropolitan University EDUCATION
1991-92 MA (Hons) Manchester School of Art
1990 Glasgow School of Art
1986-89 BA (Hons) London College of Printing
1985-6 Art Foundation Wirral Metropolitan College | |
