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Jane Topping
Independent researcher, 1999 – Present
Based in Glasgow. Active Internationally.
Artist Representation by Patricia Fleming Gallery, https://www.patricia-fleming.com/
Education
PhD in Fine Art Practice, University of Cumbria, 2021
BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting, Glasgow School of Art, 1995 – 1999
University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1992 –1993
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of St. Andrews, 1990 –1994
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Drew Barrymore's Island Hotel from Hell, Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, 2023
She Was a Visitor, a No. 35 Project, 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
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 Exhibitions
2025
Pint of Science Festival, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
2024
The Weird and the Eerie, New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, Glasgow
Class Matters, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2023
Queereal Secretions, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2022
Murky Waters, Art Walk Projects, Portobello Promenade by Pipe Street, Edinburgh
Immaterial Salon, ART-O-RAMA, Marseille
2019
Domestic Bliss, GoMA, Glasgow
2018
The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin
Matter Matters, Moving Mountains Festival, The Millom Palladium, Millom, Cumbria
The 16th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Maison du Japon, Paris
The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, New York
Old Hair, Glasgow International 2018, The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow
Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind, The Vallum Gallery, Carlisle
Experiments in Cinema v13.6, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2017
Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, University of the Arts London
The Fifth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York
ANTIPHON, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (curated by Lux Scotland)
2016
Video Festival, Transmission, Glasgow
Glasgow Short Film Festival, CCA, Glasgow
TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight, Locations around Glasgow
2015
FILM OPEN, ICA London, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol
LUX Scotland's Artists Moving Image Festival Prologues, Tramway, Glasgow
The Fisher Street Social, Fisher Street Social Club, Carlisle
The 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg
Ripples on the Pond, GoMA, Glasgow
2014
The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Studio des Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris
Pulse, Various sites, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Glasgow
Discordia, The Poetry Club & PFP, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Glasgow
The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
ART 14, London
The Luck of Edenhall, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle
2013
Plus Jamais Seul, Standards, Rennes, France
The Nabokov Paper, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, North Yorkshire
Smoking Forever, Collaborator, Clare Stephenson performance, Loughborough University, Loughborough
2012
The Irregular Correct: New Work From Glasgow, Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia
2010
Vocal Sans (w/ Ciara Philips), 48 King Street, Glasgow
Little Magazine, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
FIELD (w/Ciara Phillips) Satellite, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Fizz Up and Dissolve Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103, Glasgow
2009
The Corridor of Uncertainty, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Australia
2008
From the Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2007
Naked Intruder Tries on Jacket, Aye Aye Book Depot, Glasgow
Out of Nowhere, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
2006
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Down With You, Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester
The Poets Still Throwing Up their Hands, The Changing Room, Stirling
NADA, Miami
The Armory Show, New York
2005
All at once, Together, at the Same Time, Colony, Birmingham
Low Lights and Trick Mirrors, Generator Projects, Dundee
Doubtful Works and Copies, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2004
Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich
Coco, Switchspace, Sword Street, Glasgow (w/Lynn Hynd)
What Appears to be Yours, The Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee
2003
Green Margarine, (Curated by Lapland) Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Past Standing, The Changing Room, Stirling
The Chateau Cells Out, Old Briggate Police Station, Glasgow
2001
October, Public Art Event, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
2000
Who The **** Do You Think You Are?, Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow
Louder Than Love, ING Cultural Centre, Brussels
1999
Museum Magogo, PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Conferences
2025
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus, London Arts Based Research Centre, Oxford University, 24-26 May
2024
The Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, New York, USA, July
Transitions, Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association, University of Tartu, 7-11 May
Queer Materialities Live!, Glasgow School of Art, 14 March
2023
Research Methods & Methodologies in Practice Symposium, Glasgow School of Art
Fiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, Film & Media, 20 July
Feminist Histories of the Future, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, 10 May
2022
The Man Who Fell to Millom in Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and EcoGothic, Issue 3
The Man Who Fell to Millom, Communication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years, 12 & 13 May 2022, University of Cumbria Institute of Arts, GeoWeek
How Many Electric Sheep?, 53rd Annual Conference of the North Eastern Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo, 10-13 March
2020
nou: Language in a Speculative Fiction, 52nd Annual Conference of the North Eastern Modern Language Association, University at Buffalo
2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner, Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle
Peter & nou, Cumbria Research and Innovation Conference, Lancaster
2016
Eye Eye, FOMO#3, The Dancehall at The Rum Shack, Glasgow
The Permeable Screen, NAFAE Conference, Lancaster
The Nabokov Paper, Forms of Criticism, University of Westminster, London
On the jury: No Budget Competition, 32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg
2015
Peter, Festivalzentrum Halle 5, Kolbenhof & Lichtmeß, Gaußstraße 25, Hamburg
2014
Peter, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, New York
‘It’s Not All About Me’: My Performance in Blade Runner, Doctoral Colloquium, University of Cumbria, Lancaster
2013
The Ugly Construction of Beauty, Paper, Mod Art ’13, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
The Women: 8 Films An Explanation, of Sorts, University of Cumbria Doctorial Summer School, Lancaster
Selected Publications
React! React! React!, Good Press, 2025
From Glasgow to Saturn: A Literary Journal at the University of Glasgow, Issue 52: Radical Joy Edition, 2024
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., 2016
The Nabokov Paper, Kate Briggs & Lucrezia Russo eds., Information As Material 2013
Pist Protta, Volume 71, Danish Visual Art Periodical 2012
Centrefold, Canned Magazine, Issue 2 2011
Cuckoo Revue, Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions Dept. Essay by Fiona Jardine 2006
They Are the We of Me, GoMA. Essay by Laurence Figgis 2005
Switchspace 2004
FUNCTIONSUITE Issue 1 2003
Selected Awards & Residencies
Research & Development Funding, Glasgow School of Art, 2023, 2024, 2025
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
Wellcome Trust AIR, Western General Hospital (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
Selected Press
Ina Benigni: Jane Topping, Made in Bed, Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and New York, 23 January 2024
Matt Lloyd (Director, GSFF): ‘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, 2017
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 2007
Laurence Figgis: Map Issue 7 p56 2006
Sarah Smith: Untitled 36, p66 2005
Susannah Thompson: Map Issue 2 p58 2005