Victoria Clare Bernie

Master of Architecture History and Theory, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
MA Honours Fine Art, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.

Practice: Visual Artist, Architectural Design Tutor

Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
EH1 1JZ Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdon

email: vbernie@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
website: www.victoriaclarebernie.com

Gallery

Profile

Victoria is a visual artist working with digital video, sound and image installation, graphic and photographic media. Her practice centres on the representation of landscape and most particularly, the somewhat watery landscapes of Northern and Western Scotland. She works independently and in collaboration – most recently with architecture practice Metis – and her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, group shows and touring exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of public and private awards from the Leverhulme Trust the Scottish Arts Council, the Hope Scott Trust, the Film and Video Umbrella, the City of Edinburgh Council, the Arts Trust of Scotland and the Shetland Arts Trust.

Between 2008 and 2009 Victoria was the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence at the Scottish Association for Marine Science research laboratory at Dunstaffnage near Oban.

As an architectural design tutor Victoria has contributed extensively to teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programmes within the Department of Architecture. In the last seven years she has worked closely with staff and students in MArch programmes sited in: Rome, Prague, Ghent, Berlin, Valletta [as lead tutor] and Cádiz [as lead tutor]. From 2005 -2008 she has been lead tutor on the MSc in Advanced Architectural Design. In April 2008 she coordinated Cityscapers, a British Council workshop/exhibition project bringing together students for Scotland, South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia in a cross disciplinary address to urban development, the metropolitan and traffic in Scotland’s central belt. In summer 2008 she co-curated the Saltcity exhibition and symposium as a selected address to the notion of future citymaking in southern Europe.

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

Installation

2006-8
Northern City: Between Light and Dark, collaborative video sound and image installation with architecture studio METIS, The Lighthouse, Glasgow [December-February 2006-7], Il Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence [March 2007], The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh [May 2007], Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - invited submission - [June-August 2008] art-architecture collaboration, touring exhibition. (group)

2005
Catterline Arts Festival, Catterline, Aberdeenshire. Site-specific video sound and image installation in the Church of St.Philip, Catterline Village. (group)

2004
Memoirs of a Beekeeper, 'Oak Trees and Fountains', an Iain Irving + Lorraine Grant project, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire. Site-specific video sound and image installation in the Gardener's and Wood Store, Drum Castle, the National Trust for Scotland, Aberdeenshire. (group)

2004
Idleness and the Dreamer, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland. Site-specific video sound and image installation. (solo)

2003
Cinematic Garden, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute. Site-specific video sound and image installation commissioned by the Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme. (solo)

2001
För mig du är vacher / Bei mir du schön/ To me, you are beautiful, Trehörnahult Småland, Sweden. Site-specific video sound and image installation. (group)

1999
The Invention of Geography, art.t.m., Inverness. (solo)

1995
Inappropriate Behaviour, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (solo)

Art & Architecture

2007
70Architect[e]s Centre de Design Exhibition Gallery of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. (group)

2004
Tramspotting, RIAS Design Proposal Project, 26.11.04, Ocean Terminal Edinburgh with Zone Architects, Edinburgh. Art-architecture collaboration.

1997-1998
Houseworks, Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh and Pitshanger Manor, Ealing, London. Art-architecture collaboration touring exhibition. (group)

1997
Public Views 2, Architecture, Film, Theory, Photography, Design, History, Music, Art and Things, The Architecture Foundation, London. (group)

Group Exhibitions & Festival Screenings

2010
Festival of the Sea, SAMS Scottish Marine Institute, Bonawe Furnace, Taynuilt, Argyll. (group)

2009-10
Can Art Save Us? Millenium Gallery, Museums Sheffield. (group)

2008
Zoo Art Fair, Film and Video Umbrella, Royal Academy, London (group)

2004-2005
Open 6, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. (group)

2004-2005
Invisible Fields, Angus Digital Media Centre, Brechin; Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia; Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow; An Tuirrean Art Centre, Portree, Skye. Moving image touring exhibition. (group)

2004-2005
DRIFT, New Media Scotland Touring Moving Image Programme. Edinburgh International Film Festival at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; British Council, Belgrade, Serbia; The Museum of Voivodina, 8th Videomedja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia; An Tuirrean Art Centre, Portree, Skye touring exhibition. (group)

2002
Shortomatic Film Festival, Cambridge Arts Cinema, Cambridge Film Festival screening.

2001
A Public Auction of Private Artworks, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire. A Nina Pope project: collaborative installation and internet/live auction. (group)

Selected Awards & Scholarships

2008-9: Leverhulme Trust:'Artist in Residence', Scottish Association for Marine Science
2007: The Hope Scott Trust Award
2007: Film and Video Umbrella: 'Project Development Grant'
2003: Scottish Arts Council: 'Assistance Grant for the Visual Arts'
2003: The Hope Scott Trust Award
2003: Shetland Arts Trust Award
2001: The Hope Scott Trust Award
2001: The City of Edinburgh Council: 'Visual Arts and Crafts Award'
2000: The Arts Trust of Scotland Award
1999: Scottish Arts Council: 'Assistance Grant for the Visual Arts'
1995: British Council Canada: 'Visual Arts Professional Exchange Grant'
1993-1995: Leverhulme Trust: 'Study Abroad Studentship'

Catalogues, Pamphlets and Websites

2007
70Architect[e]s, On Ethics and Poetics, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)

2007
Edimburgo, AND: Magazine of Architecture, Cities and Architects, issue 8 Florence, Italy (catalogue/magazine)

2006
Northern City [Between Light and Dark], The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Authored project essay: Paul Carter ' Agreeable Follies: Mental geography and the polyoptics of place' (catalogue)

2004: Invisible Fields, Street Level Photoworks (pamphlet)
2004: Memoirs of a Beekeeper, 'Oak trees and Fountains' (pamphlet)
2004: Invisible Fields, Su Grierson and Sarah Felton (catalogue)
2003: Cinematic Garden, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (website)
2001: A Public Auction of Private Artworks, Nina Pope (catalogue)

1996
Trans Mission: Transmission de l'héritage des femmes en arts visuels, (Montréal: La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse Les éditions du remue-ménage. (catalogue)

Selected Reviews

2007: A Well-Cultivated Garden, Duncan McLaren, MAP, issue 9.
2006: Labours of Division, Leon McDermott, METRO, December 12th.
2006: Shedding Light on Edinburgh's Shadows, Mark Cousins, bd Building Design, December 18th .
2006: Northern City-Between Light and Dark, The List, issue 565 December 6th
2005: Invisible Fields, Open 6 Street Level, Glasgow, Jack Mottram, The LIST, issue 519 April.
2005: Women of Vision, Illiyana Nedkova, Highlands and Islands Arts Journal, January.
2004: Intelligent show ... Peter Davis, The Shetland Times, September 10th.
2004: DRIFT, Festival Review, Sunday Herald, 15th August.
2003: Cinematic Garden, The Buteman, 27th June.
1999: The Invention of Geography, Giles Sutherland, The Times, 20th December.
1999: The Invention of Geography, Jonathan Jones, Guardian, 11th October.
1995: La maison comme prétexte à l'art, Jennifer Couëlle, Le Devoir, 26th November.
1995: Pas si bête, Sylvie Fraser, Voir, 7th December.

Publications, Presentations, Lectures by the artist

2010
'Experimenting with Geography: See-Hear-Make-Do', School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. (lecture and practice session)

2010
'Painting the sea with sound', Victoria Clare Bernie and Dr.John Howe, an magazine, May 2010 (magazine)

2008
'On site', Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. (lecture)

2007
'Northroom' Scale - a symposium with Andrew Benjamin [philosopher] and Ben Nicholson [architect], Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. (lecture)

2007
'Northroom' Northern City: Between Light and Dark Il Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence. (lecture)

2001
'To me you are beautiful', Far and Wide, [a-n] for artists, October. (publication)

1998
'Homespun: some visiting rites', Somewhere - Nina Pope and Karen J Guthrie, [London: Black Dog Press 1998]. (publication)

1998
'Watching the Detectives: on narrative form and topographical proof' with Joanna Merwood, Nordisk Arkitekturforskning: the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 1-2.98, [Göteborg:Nordisk Arkitekturforskning 1998]. (publication)

1997
'Plotting the landscape: beyond the limit of topographical proof' Victoria Clare Bernie and Joanna Merwood, paper for presentation to the conference, 'Architecture: Imagining a common ground for theory and practice,' University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. (lecture)

1996
'Who is that girl?' Artifice Magazine issue 5, [London: UCL Bartlett 1996]. (publication)

1995
'How do I look?' Art as accessory: a critical reconsideration of architectural space. Joanna Merwood (architect) and Victoria Clare Bernie (artist). Presented by Joanna Merwood to the Accessory Architecture Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. (lecture)