Cate+Elwes


 * Cate Elwes is Professor in Moving Image Art**

Research Interests
[The History of] Film and Video Art, Artists' Films, Feminist Art, Landscape in Moving Image, Installation Art. Member of __[|ICFAR]__- International Centre for Fine Art, UAL research unit.

Peer Esteem
Recent consultancy includes Advisory board panels for ACE Film & Video (2000-2003), British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection, __[|REWIND]__- Video Archive Project (since 2004) as well as the Artists' Film & Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design; member of the Editorial board of the ACE funded Vertigo magazine, Visiting Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (2005) and regular assessor and mentor for AHRB and NESTA fellowship programs. Since 1998, Director of UK/Canadian Film & Video Exchange.

Biography - Profile
Catherine Elwes studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, and graduated with an MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. In the late 1970s she was a member of the Women Artists' Collective and Women's Art Alliance. She co-curated two landmark feminist exhibitions, 'Women's Images of Men' and 'About Time', both held at the ICA in London in 1980. From the early 1980s onwards she began specialising in video and time-based media works, exploring representation and the body, gender and identity. She has participated in multiple international festivals, recently including the 'British Art Show' in Australia; 'Video Brazil' in Sao Paulo, Brazil; 'Recent British Video' in New York, USA; and 'Video In/Out' in Vancouver, Canada. An internationally established artist, critic and expert in early moving image culture, Elwes' diverse practise includes video, performance and installation, writing, curating and teaching. She is the author of __[|Video Art - A guided Tour]__ (I.B. Tauris, 2005), and regularly writes for publications such as Filmwaves & Vertigo, and contributed to numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, including Third Text, Contemporary Magazine, and Art Monthly. As director of the UK/Canadian Video Exchange, a biennial event that connects video artists from across Canada and the United Kingdom, she is currently organising __[|ANALOGUE]__, an international exhibition of pioneering video art from the UK, Canada and Poland, which will be held at several international venues including Tate Britain and Tate Modern during 2006 - 2007.