CV
Current and Upcoming
The Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, New York, USA, July 2024
From Glasgow to Saturn: A Literary Journal at the University of Glasgow, Issue 52: Radical Joy Edition
Domestic Bliss, GoMA, Glasgow 2019 - Present
Solo Shows
Drew Barrymore's Island Hotel from Hell, Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, 2023
She Was a Visitor, a No. 35 Project, curated by Alex Hetherington, Stirling, 2018
Screen Used, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow 2016
The Women Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow 2013
There’s Some on Her Palm and in the Crook of Her Arm Nomi’s Kitchen, Glasgow 2011
Black Magic, Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103, Glasgow 2010
Persuasion Intermedia, C.C.A., Glasgow 2009
Cuckoo Revue Glasgow School of Art, Renfrew Street, Glasgow 2006
They Are the We of Me Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2005
Look, For Your Information Western General Hospital, Edinburgh 2003
Bulkhead 24 hr Window Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow 2000
Paintings For Airports British Airways Executive Suite, Glasgow Airport 2000
Big Store 254 High Street, Glasgow 2000
Separates : Showcasing Fledgling Technology Free Gallery, Glasgow 1999
Selected Group Shows/Festival Screenings
The Weird and the Eerie, New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, Glasgow, 2024.
Class Matters, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, 2024
Queereal Secretions, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, 2023
Art Walk Projects, Murky Waters, film programme curated by Rosy Naylor, Live Screening, Portobello Promenade, by Pipe Street, 8.30pm 10th September 2022 & later online
Art Walk SALT Exhibition, 189 Portobello High Street Edinburgh EH15, 1-11 September 2022
Immaterial Salon curated by Francesca Zappia (C-E-A – French Association of Curators), ART-O-RAMA, Marseille, August 2022
The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin, 2018
Matter Matters, Moving Mountains Festival, The Millom Palladium, Millom, Cumbria, 2018
The 16th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Maison du Japon, Paris, 2018
The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, New York, USA, 2018
Old Hair, Glasgow International 2018, The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow, 2018
Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind, The Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, 2018
Experiments in Cinema v13.6, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2018
Picnic at Tornado Sands, Show Reel, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, 2017.
Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, University of the Arts London, 2017.
The Fifth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, 2017
ANTIPHON, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (curated by Lux Scotland), 2017
Video Festival, Transmission, Glasgow, 2016
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scottish Competition 3: I'm Deranged, CCA, Glasgow, 2016
TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight, Locations around Glasgow, 2016
FILM OPEN, ICA London, 2015
FILM OPEN, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, 2015
FILM OPEN, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2015
White Watch, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle, 2015
LUX Scotland's Artists Moving Image Festival Prologues, Tramway, Glasgow 2015
The Fisher Street Social, Fisher Street Social Club, Carlisle 2015
Caldewgate, Caldewgate Building, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle 2015
FILM OPEN, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2015
FILM OPEN, Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol 2015
The 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
Ripples on the Pond, GoMA, Glasgow 2015
The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, September 15 – 21, Studio des Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris 2014
Pulse Various sights in East End of Glasgow, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow 2014
Discordia The Poetry Club, part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow 2014
Discordia Patricia Fleming Projects, part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow 2014
The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester (with Patricia Fleming Projects) 2014
ART 14, London (with Patricia Fleming Projects) 2014
The Luck of Edenhall The Old Fire Station, Carlisle 2014
Plus Jamais Seul, Standards, Rennes, France 2013
The Nabokov Paper The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire 2013
Rise The Galley, Carlisle 2012
The Irregular Correct: New Work From Glasgow Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia 2012
Smoking Forever Co-collaborator in Clare Stephenson performance piece, Commissioned by Radar, Loughborough University 2013
Vault The Bank, Carlisle 2011
Vocal Sans (w/ Ciara Philips) 48 King Street, Glasgow 2010
Little Magazine Studio Warehouse, Glasgow. Curated by Alex Pollard 2010
FIELD (w/Ciara Phillips) Satellite, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 2010
Fizz Up and Dissolve Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103, Glasgow 2010
The Corridor of Uncertainty Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Australia 2009
From the Collection Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2008
Naked Intruder Tries on Jacket Aye Aye Book Depot, Glasgow 2007
Out of Nowhere Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007
The Square Root of Drawing Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin 2006
Down With You Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester 2006
The Poets Still Throwing Up their Hands The Changing Room, Stirling 2006
NADA Art Fair Miami (with Transmission) 2006
The Armory Show 06 New York (with Transmission) 2006
All at once, Together, at the Same Time Colony, Birmingham 2005
Low Lights and Trick Mirrors Generator Projects, Dundee 2005
Doubtful Works and Copies Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 2005
Spacemakers Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich 2004
Coco Switchspace, Sword Street, Glasgow (two person show with Lynn Hynd) 2004
What Appears to be Yours The Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee 2004
Green Margarine (Curated by Lapland) Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow 2003
Past Standing The Changing Room, Stirling 2003
The Chateau Cells Out Old Briggate Police Station, Glasgow 2003
October Public Art Event, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow 2001
Who The **** Do You Think You Are? Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow 2000
Louder Than Love ING Cultural Centre, Brussels 2000
Museum Magogo PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1999
Conferences: Papers, Screenings...
Transitions: Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association, University of Tartu, 7-11 May 2024
Queer Materialities Live!, Glasgow School of Art, 14 March 2024
Research Methods & Methodologies in Practice Symposium, Glasgow School of Art, 2023
Fiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, Film & Media, 20 July 2023
Feminist Histories of the Future, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, 10 May 2023
The Man Who Fell to Millom in Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorro and EcoGothic, Issue 3, 2022
The Man Who Fell to Millom: Introduction and Screening, Communication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years, 12 & 13 May 2022, University of Cumbria Institute of Arts, GeoWeek 2022.
How Many Electric Sheep?: Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner, 53rd Annual Conference of the North Eastern Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, 10-13 March 2022
nou: A Discussion of Language in a Speculative Fiction, 52nd Annual Conference of the North Eastern Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, 2020
Matter Matters, Moving Mountains Festival, The Millom Palladium, Millom, Cumbria, 2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner, An Introduction and discussion, Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle, 2018
Peter & nou, Cumbria Research and Innovation Conference, University of Cumbria, Lancaster, 2018
Eye Eye screening, FOMO#3, The Dancehall at The Rum Shack, Glasgow, 2016
The Permeable Screen, Performance/Paper, Research Practice Practice Research, NAFAE Conference, University of Cumbria, 2016
The Nabokov Paper, Forms of Criticism, University of Westminster, 2016
On the jury: No Budget Competition, 32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2016
Peter, Q&A sessions, Festivalzentrum Halle 5, Kolbenhof & Lichtmeß, Gaußstraße 25, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
Peter, Screening, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, New York, USA 2014
‘It’s Not All About Me’: My Performance in Blade Runner, Paper & Screening, Doctoral Colloquium, University of Cumbria, Lancaster 2014
‘It’s Not All About Me’: My Performance in Blade Runner, Paper & Screening, Arts Research Initiative 2, University of Cumbria, Carlisle 2014
The Ugly Construction of Beauty, Paper, Mod Art ’13, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey 2013
The Women: 8 Films An Explanation, of Sorts, Poster & Screening, University of Cumbria Doctorial Summer School, Lancaster 2013
Publications
Shit Hair, 2024
A Nebulous Void and Null, Artist Pages in Queereal Secretions, 2023
Peter & nou, Jane Topping, designed and published by Good Press, Glasgow, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-9995858-0-8, Launched at Glasgow International 2018
Transit#3 and everything crooked will become straight, Marcus Jack ed., Transit pp 26-33, 2016
The Nabokov Paper, Kate Briggs & Lucrezia Russo eds., Information As Material 2013
Artists pages in Pist Protta, Volume 71, Danish Visual Art Periodical 2012
Centrefold, Canned Magazine, Issue 2 2011
Exhibition catalogue, Cuckoo Revue, Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions Dept. Essay by Fiona Jardine 2006
Exhibition catalogue, They Are the We of Me, GoMA. Essay by Laurence Figgis 2005
Switchspace publication 2004
FUNCTIONSUITE Issue 1 2003
Green Margarine exhibition catalogue 2003
October public art project publication 2001
Bulkhead Prize publication 2000
Exit ‘99: Catalogue for painting department, Glasgow School of Art 1999
Awards, Commissions, Residencies
Research & Development Funding, Glasgow School of Art, 2023 & 2024
nou: Semi-Finalist: The Australian Independent Film Festival 2018
Early Career Researcher Grant, University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, 2017
Hospitalfield Summer Residency, 2017
British Council Film Fund Travel Grant 2015
Creative Scotland Film Fund Award 2015
University of Cumbria Research & Development Grant 2015
University of Cumbria Staff Development Award 2011 & 2009
University of Cumbria Research Funding Award 2010
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award 2010
Hope Scott Trust Award 2010
The Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Residency 2007-2008
Glasgow Visual Arts Assistance Grant 2009, 2006, 2004, 2001
Edition commissioned by Transmission Gallery for The Armory Show 2006
Poster commissioned by Patricia Fleming for Bankley Studios & Gallery 2006
Scottish Arts Council Assistance Grant 2005 & 2004
Artist in residence at the Wellcome Trust Research Facility at the Western General Hospital (in association with Artlink), Edinburgh 2003
Scottish Arts Council Assistance Grant 2002, 2001 & 2000
Shortlisted for Prospects 2001
Finalist for the Bulkhead Prize 2000
New work commissioned by PACE for Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals Trust, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride 2000
Cargill Trustees Travel Scholarship 1999
British Airways Travel Award 1999
Press
Ina Benigni: Jane Topping, Made in Bed, Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and New York, 23 January 2024
Matt Lloyd (Director Glasgow Short Film Festival): ‘The best Blade Runner sequel is Peter by Jane Topping’, Facebook, 11 Oct. 2017.
Outer Places: The Top Indie Sci-Fi Films From the 2017 Philip K. Dick Film Festival The Portalist, no date.
Dan Abella (Director Philip K. Dick Film Festival), Facebook, For Fans of Blade Runner Peter is a Film to Watch, 22 May 2017
Cumbria Professor Shines at New York Film Festival, ITV.com, 2 June 2017
Matt Lloyd: Cineuropa Shorts Top 5 European Shorts 2015
David Briers: Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 13-14, p372 2013
Emma Cummins: a-n Magazine, Interface 2010
Steven Cairns: Map Issue 12 pp18-19 2007 – Amsterdam Interview
Laurence Figgis: Map Issue 7 p56 2006
‘Visual Art’, The List 555 & 554 2006
Sarah Smith: Untitled 36, p66 2005
Susannah Thompson: Map Issue 2 p58 2005
Preview Jan/Feb/Mar 2006 pp 18 & 19 2005
Alexander Kennedy: The List 535 p91 & 534 p92 2005
‘Visual Art’, The List Issue 533 pp 85 & 86 2005
The List 478 p85 & 475 p34 2003
Moira Jeffrey: The Herald 05/09/03 p24 2003