HONORARY DOCTORATE, awarded by Middlesex University 2007

ARTSADMIN ASSOCIATE ARTIST, invited by Artsadmin 2007

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Pacitti Company 2007

NESTA FELLOW, three year fellowship awarded by NESTA May 2001

BA (hons) PERFORMANCE ARTS (1st class), awarded by Middlesex Polytechnic 1981‑1985

RECENT, CURRENT & FUTURE PROJECTS
FILM & VIDEO
VISUAL ART & INSTALLATION
THEATRE DIRECTION
PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS/RESEARCH
TEACHING
 
R E C E N T ,   C U R R E N T   &   F U T U R E   P R O J E C T S
 
 AFTERMATHS: a tear in the meat of vision
  Solo project: final piece in The Divine Trilogy
SPILL Festival, London. April 2009
TROUBLE Festival, La Bellone, Brussels. 22nd April 2009
NRLA, Glasgow. February 2010
Co-commissioned by SPILL, NMI & Trouble - La Bellone/Les Halles
 
 ALMOST THE SAME (feral rehearsals for violent acts of culture)
  Solo project: second piece in The Divine Trilogy
S.P.A.C.E. UK, BC showcase, Laboral Teatro, Gijon, Spain. 6th March 2009
City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 12th October 2008
Queer Zagreb, Croatia. 8th & 9th October 2008
Sacred Festival, Chelsea Theatre, London, 6th – 8th May 2008
KANART, Lisbon, 9th – 12th April 2008
NRLA, Glasgow, 6th & 7th February 2008
 
 TRANS-ACTS
  Act One: Transgression - presented in February 2003
Act Two: Transformation - presented in April 2004
Act Three: Transcendence - presented in April 2004
complete trilogy presented at NRLA, Glasgow 9th - 11th February 2005
 
 …AND THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS
  digital video commission for PWC, Europe. October 2006
 
 an ARK²-ic (attempts at feral acts in a room of culture)
  a durational installation/performance in the reading room
commissioned by Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre, 15th, 16th & 17th November 2007
 
 DULLEA / BARDSLEY
  Collaboration with pianist, Mary Dullea for prepared piano & video
Birmingham Conservatoire, 9th February 2009
Corsham Festival, BMIC Cutting Edge tour 25th June 2008
Derry & Irish tour & BMIC Cutting Edge at the Warehouse Oct.2007
 
 AN OCEAN OF RAIN
  Video for a new opera by Yannis Kyriakides
Cryptic/Aldeburgh/Ameida/Ensemble MAE co-production
Snape Maltings, Almeida, Tramway. Amsterdam, Rotterdam 2008
 
 SUENOS
  Film commission from the South Bank Centre
to accompany Simon Holt’s new work for bass-baritone & ensemble
QEH, London. 5th November 2007
 
 RIOT
  Director/designer for SPNM, BackBeat Percussion
LSO St. Luke’s, London & RNCM, Manchester. 9th/10th February 2007
 
 SOLO SPOTLIGHTS
  Designer/Art Director for Rolf Hind’s SPNM solo concerts series
Wapping Pumping Station, London. 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th March 2007
Wapping Pumping Station, London. 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th April 2006
 
 TOTAL VIRGIN
  Portrait projections for London Sinfonietta Commission
with Hanif Kureishi & Michael Nyman. FuseLeeds Festival, 2006
 
 KALILA WA DIMNA
  Video projections, set & costume designer Al-Bassam/Zaoum Theatre
Kuwait, Bahrain, Tokyo, Kyoto, Barbican, March-June 2006
 
 TROJAN WOMEN
  Video projections, set & costume designer Theatre Cryptic
Edinburgh Festival, Scottish tour, Festival of Firsts ROH2. 2005
 
 WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM?
  video, set & costume design
music & libretto by Simon Holt
 
 INFINTO NERO
  set & costume design
music & libretto by Salvatore Sciarrino
 
 SCENES FROM A NOVEL
  video, set & costume design
music by Kurtag
directed by Cathie Boyd
produced by Almeida/Aldeburgh Opera
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, June 2003
Almeida Theatre, London, July 2003
Regional Tour, November 2003
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F I L M   &   V I D E O
 SNOW/SNOWDRONIA
  Video/music collaboration with Andrew Poppy
part of Artsadmin Screening Series Summer 2007
 
 MYNE
  digital video commission for PWC, Europe. October 2006
 
 AUGUST ROUGH
  digital video  colour  75mins  2006
projections to accompany live concert with Andrew Poppy & Bernardo Devlin
NUMERO Festival, Sao Jorg, Lisbon, Portugal. 10th November 2006
 
 FOOLISH SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
  digital video  colour  20mins  2006
Act Art 5 ‘Til Death Us Do Part’. 8th June 2007
VAD Video & Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain. 18th – 21st October 2006
 
 WHAT’S BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
  digital video  colour  7mins  2005
Act Art 5 ‘Til Death Us Do Part’. London. 8th June 2007
2nd International Media Art Festival, Yerevan, Armenia. August 2005
VAD Video & Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain. November 2005
 
 RUNNING UP THAT HILL
  digital video  colour  7mins  2005
Video for Running Up That Hill, single by Claudia Brücken & Andrew Poppy
from the CD Another Language. Therethere Records
 
 AVALANCHE THOUGHTS (14 steps)
  digital video  colour & b/w  25mins  2002
collaboration with composer Andrew Poppy
co-commissioned by GAle GAtes et al & New Territories
Presented at GAle GAtes, New York January 2002
launched the New Territories Festival, Tramway, Glasgow February 2002
new version at d-motion Festival for Interactive Media, Neus Theater, Halle, Germany December 2002
 
 12/STAGES2 [a forensic mnemonic]
  digital video  colour & b/w  34mins  2001
video/film collaboration with Aldona Cunningham
Selected as British Council official entry for International Film Festivals 2001
10th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam. October 2001
9th Biennale de L’image en Mouvement, Geneva. November 2001
funded by the Arts Council of England
 
 TRANSFORMATION EQUATION
  digital video  b/w  15mins  1999
in collaboration with Aldona Cunningham screened as part of 12/stages3 [a memory theatre]
Curtain Theatre, Toynbee Studios. 13th – 23rd October 1999
part of 1999 Festival of British Visual Theatre & supported by an Arts Admin Live Art Bursary
 
 SNOW: a meditation on visual perception & the image of a chair
  16mm film  colour  22mins  2000
selected as British Council official entry for International Film Festivals. 2000
1st Greenwich Film Festival. June 2000
54th Edinburgh International Film Festival. August 2000
10th Madrid Experimental Cinema Festival. November 2000
National Review of Live Arts screening programme. February 2002
Artsadmin Film series @ Toynbee Studios London. June 2007
Broadcast: Kunstkannal, Dutch Cable TV, 2001 & Cable LA, USA 2000
distributed by Lux Distribution. Funded by the Arts Council of England
 
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V I S U A L   A R T   &   I N S T A L L A T I O N
 SPINACH: Solo exhibition of selected works
  at SPINACH Ltd. London. 2nd September – 2nd December 2006
 
 ANOTHER LANGUAGE
  Colour pinhole photographs for ‘Another Language’
a new CD by Claudia Brücken & Andrew Poppy. Therethere Records
 
 OPERA
  image for CD cover for ‘Opera’, NMC Records 2006.
Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea play new works for violin & piano
 
 KLANGPERFORMANCES
  Programme of audio, concert, film & video works by Julia Bardsley & Andrew Poppy
d-Motion Festival for Interactive Media, Neus Theatre, Halle, Germany. December 2002
 
 AVALANCHE THOUGHTS: an image/sound installation with composer Andrew Poppy
  Co-commissioned by GAle GAtes et al. Presented in New York January 2002 & by New Territories, presented at the Tramway, Glasgow February 2002
 
 FIELD: an installation of potential
  Commissioned by The Place for ‘Moving House’ 15th February 2001
Re-installed for ‘Open House’ in association with The Place, Greenwich Dance Agency, ROH, & East London Dance, 21st & 22nd September 2002
 
 DIE STATION: contributor to a retrospective exhibition of the life & work of Richard Demarco
  Group exhibition for the opening of Die Station Gallery, Austria. June 2000
 
 70 in 2000: contributor to a retrospective exhibition of the life & work of Richard Demarco
  Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University. March 2000
Tour of UK, Europe & North America. April 2000 onwards
 
 PUNISHMENT and ICE CREAM: ruminations on the Rod and the Cone
  Solo installation at The Gallery, 1-5, St Pancras Way. 11th January to 20th February 1999
 
 12/STAGES3 [a memory theatre]: an installation of photos, projections & items of evidence
  in collaboration with Aldona Cunningham
Curtain Theatre, Toynbee Studios, London. 13th to 23rd October 1999
Part of 1999 Festival of British Visual Theatre & supported by an Arts Admin Live Art Bursary
 
 NARCISSUS LACHRYMATORY
  Contribution to group exhibition for the opening of Die Station Gallery, Austria. June 2000
 
 STUDIO B32
  Solo exhibition. Spitalfields Arts Project. November 1997
 
 THE ERROR DISPLAY: a presentation of remaining
  Solo installation in a disused shop at 26, Chiltern St. London. February 1996
 
 'NOT OUGHT', 'O', 'DIVISION' and 'EQUALS'
  monoprints for Andrew Poppy CD ‘Ophelia/Ophelia’. Bit & Twist Records & Productions
 
 THE LISTENING CAP
  Commissioned by V23, Vaughan Oliver at 4AD
For ‘The Listening Cap’ by Liquorice. CD cover 1995
 
 SAFE SEAT
  Part of ‘Chairs’ installation produced by Michael Morris
For ‘Now You See It’ at QEH, London 1994
 
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T H E A T R E   D I R E C T I O N
 
 Joint Artistic Director of Young Vic Theatre, London 1993-1994
 
 HAMLET ?
 an adaptation by Julia Bardsley from the play by Shakespeare
also performer and co-designer
 THERESE RAQUIN
 adapted by Julia Bardsley from the novel by Emile Zola
re-mounting of Leicester Haymarket production
 
 Joint Artistic Director of Leicester Haymarket Theatre 1991-1993
 
 THERESE RAQUIN
 adapted by Julia Bardsley from the novel by Emile Zola
 DEAD SOIL
 by Franz Xaver Kroetz
Translation commissioned by Leicester Haymarket
also co-designer and performer
 THE FAMILY REUNION
 by T.S.Eliot
 THE LITTLE PRINCE
 adapted from the St. Exupery story
 BLOOD WEDDING
 by Federica Garcia Lorca. also set designer
 UNDER MILK WOOD
 by Dylan Thomas
 FRANKENSTEIN
 adapted by Julia Bardsley from the novel by Mary Shelley
 MACBETH
 an adaptation by Julia Bardsley from the play by Shakespeare
also set designer and performer
 BABY DOLL
 a chamber opera by Andrew Poppy based on the screenplay by Tennessee Williams
co-production between the National Theatre & Leicester Haymarket Tour & Cottesloe Theatre, NT for Springboards Festival
 
 Freelance Director 1989-1991
 
 BED
 by Jim Cartwright. National Theatre, Cottesloe
 THE COMMITTEE
 chorus project with students from Middlesex Poly. NT Cottesloe
 THE URANIUM MINERS RADIO ORCHESTRA
 play scenes from SALOMES REVENGE: a chamber opera by Andrew Poppy. R.O.H. at the Donmar
 FALLEN
 a play by Polly Teale. Edinburgh Festival and Drill Hall
winner of Edinburgh Fringe First
 HAMLET DANCES
 South Bank commission for Rhythm Method, Purcell Rooms
 FALLEN ANGEL
 by Franz Fuehmann. Bush Theatre, London
 WAITING
 a monodrama for soprano & piano by Stephen Oliver
Buxton Festival & London Opera Festival
 THE OVERCOAT
 a workshop adaptation based on the Gogol story
supported by the Royal Court Theatre
 
 Co-founder of dereck, dereck Productions 1985-1989
 
 CUPBOARD MAN
 an adaptation of the Ian McEwan short story
Almeida Theatre, London
winner of RSC Buzz Goodbody Directors Award & Edinburgh Fringe First
 GAUDETE
 an adaptation of the epic poem by Ted Hughes. Almeida Theatre
also designer and performer
winner of Time Out Award
 THE VINEGAR WORKS
 based on the illustrated stories of Edward Gorey. Almeida Theatre for London International Mime Festival
also designer and performer
 DIFFICULT WALKING
 Four Blueprints for Anatomical Anagrams Told in Motion. ICA
Choreographer and performer
 THE SWEETSHOP OWNER
 Set Designer. Croyden Warehouse & National Tour
 BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN
 Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Canterbury. Also designer and performer
 PLAY WITH ME
 Dancer. Choreography by Eve Surman-Wells
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P U B L I C A T I O N S / P A P E R S / R E S E A R C H
 
 (im) POSSIBLE THEATRE
  presentation for University of Brighton Open Lecture Series. October 2000
 
 APPROACHES TO CREATIVE PRACTICE
  Contextual Studies presentation for Manchester Metropolitan University. March 2000
 
 'DISSECTING THEATRE'
  4 page image/text contribution to special edition of LIVE ART Magazine. April 2000
 
 'HAMLET: AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE HOMUNCULUS PROBLEM'
  article for French Marionette publication, PUCK no.11. June 1998
 
 'SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ILLUSION and REALITY'
  paper delivered at Theatre Design Conference, National Theatre. Friday 23rd May 1997
 
 WINGATE SCHOLARSHIP 1997-1998
  Horizontal Stages: theatre on the axis of (im) possibilities
to research and develop studies for a number of contemporary Artificial Memory Theatres
 
 Commentary: Featured in 'TAKING STAGE: Women Directors on Directing'
  by Helen Manfull. Methuen Drama 1999
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T E A C H I N G
 
 Performing The Persona:
Part of Dis-Play series of artists talks at Goldsmiths University. November 2008
 
 Garments & Wounds:
Workshop for MA Performance. Queen Mary University, London. November 2008
 
 External Examiner for BA Contemporary Theatre
East 15, University of Essex. 2008
 
 Materialise : De-Materialise: with Andrew Poppy
NRLA Winter School. Glasgow 12th – 17th February 2007
 
 External Examiner for BA Theatre: Design for Performance
Central St Martins College of Art & Design. 2005/6/7/8/9
 
 External Examiner for MA Language of Visual Performance: 2002/3/4/5
MA & BA Theatre Design/Scenography: visiting tutor 1995/6/7/8/9/2000/01/07/08
Wimbledon School of Art
 
 External Examiner for MA in Arts and Humanities
De Montfort University. 1997/98/99 & 2000/01
 
 External Examiner for MA Advanced Theatre Practice
Central School of Speech and Drama. 1997/98/99 & 2000/01
 
 MA and BA Theatre Design/Scenography
Wimbledon School of Art.1995/96/97/98/99 & 2000/01
2002 External Examiner for MA Visual Language of Performance
 
 Masterclasses: Working with Actors
London International Film School. 2000/2001
 
 Tutor on the Fiction Direction, Screen Writing, Producing and Animation courses
National Film and TV School. 1995/96/97/98/99 & 2000
 
 Acting Tutor. Post Graduate Diploma in Screen Acting
Redroofs Theatre School. July 2000
 
 BA Theatre Design for Performance: workshop tutor
Central Saint Martins. May/June 2000
 
 Workshop Leader: Mapping Interior Life. March 2000
The Actors Centre, London.
 
 BA Theatre: Tutor. Dartington College of Arts. 1997
 
 Workshop Leader
Bratislavan Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. CSSR
London International Workshop Festival.
Kendal Festival of Physical Theatre.
SouthBank Ballroom series and Voice Over Festival
Master classes for British Council at Theatreworks: Singapore
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