CV
Screenings, films, filmmaking
The Disco – A portrait of Simon Eilbeck, an experimental 16mm film & sound portrait with associate film programme, Open Project funding, Creative Scotland and CCA, Glasgow, 2024–2025. World premiere: Glasgow Short Film Festival opening gala, GFT, 19 March 2025, Notes from… EFVA, Edinburgh 28 April 2025; North American premiere: Queer North Film Festival, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 13 June 2025
Taking Time/A cinema of small gestures, 16mm film workshop, LUX Scotland/Perth Art Gallery, 25 July 2025
16mm R&D work for Mina Heydari-Waite, Open Project, February 2025; 16mm second camera work for Alia Syed: Ring in the Fish at CCA, Glasgow, 17 May — 26 July 2025; Bolex R&D, Heather Andrews, May 2025
Participating in ‘Video Poems for the 90s’, a 16mm filmmaking workshop with Ute Aurand, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, 29 March 2024 (Screen Scotland/Urth Productions bursary)
16mm DP for Hannan Jones’ production, screening at pass shadow, whisper shade, Satellites Group Show, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 18 Oct 2024 — 22 Dec 2024, (location shoot 30 Sept-2 Oct 2024)
Participating in Bridging the Gap documentary scheme, R&D on an experimental/documentary short, Scottish Documentary Institute, Oct 2023–Jan 2024
16mm DP sequences for Conor Baird for Femme Disturbance, a solo show at Glasgow Project Room, March 2024, screening at Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2024, Glasgow, ‘Scottish Shorts 2’ programme Thursday 10 October 2024, CCA Cinema and Bradford Queer Film Festival, 24 November 2024; 16mm work with Khadea Santi (MFA), winter 2023 and spring 2024, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (MFA degree show)
Ilam Actual (version), 16mm film with sound: Luke Fowler with Alex Hetherington and Lee Patterson, Arts & Heritage, shot Ilam Park, June 2023. Arts&Heritage Screening Room, screening 6–19 November 2023
SISTER FILMS, CCA Annex, with Catherine Street and Luke Fowler, web page developed by Rectangle, March 2023, with a text by Jessica Higgins, The Making of a Film, published June 2023, MAP Magazine and CCA ANNEX
DOP on On Volya, 16mm film by Ayla Dmyterko, in production 2023, funded by Creative Scotland and screening at Galerie Pangée, Montreal, Canada, June 3 – July 17 2023 and screening with Kiev Frescoes (1966), dir. Sergei Parajanov, 7 September 2023, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; screening London Short Film Festival, January 2024; Drawing From Calcerous Milk Teeth, aCinema Summer Screening Series curated by Takahiro Suzuki and Janelle VanderKelen, Woodland Pattern, 720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI, US, July 21st 2024; screening with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) by Sergei Parajanov at UKINO, SODA School of Digital Arts Cinema, Manchester, 7 August 2024, Unholy Inheritance, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, 6 June 2025
DOP on shoot 1 and 2 Haunting (working title), 16mm film by Annie Crabtree, in production 2022/2023, funded by Creative Scotland
16mm film cameraless workshop, Deveron Projects, Huntly, Sat 21 & Sun 22 January 2023, with In the Shadow of the Hand (Sarah Forrest & Virginia Huchison)
Chimera: image making with 16mm film, two-part workshop as part of Chimera, Nashashibi/Skaer, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 30 September – 10 December 2022
Not the wick, nor the candle, but the burning: George Finlay Ramsay, Mark Thomson, Coby Sey, Alex Hetherington, Rebecca Salvadori, Sandro Mussida, Camden Art Centre, London, 26 August 2022
Words for Appropriation & Dedication, 24 June 2022, 7pm, CCA, Glasgow: Women’s Studies, Catherine Street, live performance, Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett), Luke Fowler, 35mm print and Stereo Rushes (silent), Alex Hetherington, 16mm film prints on two projectors with spoken word text
The experience of the unseen listener, Women’s Studies Vol. 1 & 2 and Idle Work, 16mm films, funded by Open Project, Creative Scotland, 2022, with 3 texts written by Catherine Street screening at SEEN AND NOT SEEN, CCA, Glasgow, 3 June – 16 July 2022
DOP with Luke Fowler for artist George Finlay Ramsay 16mm colour film, Family Fugue, in production 2022, for Generator Projects, Dundee, October 2022, funded by Creative Scotland with support from the Hope Scott Trust. Screenings at Camden Art Centre, London, August 2022, Glasgow Short Film Festival, 24 March 2023, Rencontres International Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March 2023, Alchemy Film Festival, April 2023, EXIS Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, July 2023, Moving Terrain, Laboratório da Torre, Porto, Portugal, 27 November 2023, PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic, 10 December 2023 and London Short Film Festival 2024, Ancestral Remembrance, January 27 2024
Camera assistance (Canon Scoopic), ‘Notes for Pas de Deux’, 16mm split screen project, Jennifer Wicks, University of Stirling/Norman McLaren residency, funded by Creative Scotland, 2022
DOP on Are You Going My Way?, Rachel McBrinn, 16mm film, funded by Rhubaba Gallery & Studios, Edinburgh, 2021-2023, premiere at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 17 April 2023, screening online MAP magazine, 18 April to 18 May 2023, Today We Live, screening at Market Gallery, Glasgow 1 May 2024, Alchemy Film Festival 2024 and Mascara Film Club, London, 24 May 2025
DOP on Dear F…, Hannan Jones, 16mm film, 2022, funded by Little Pictures, GMAC, Glasgow, 2021-2023, screening Glasgow Film Festival, industry event, March 06 2023 and Glasgow Short Film Festival, industry event, 23 March 2023. Selected 13 film programme, a programme by Videoclub: RCA, London, 25 October 2023, Fabrica, Brighton, 6 October 2023, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 14 November 2023, CCA, Glasgow, 21 November 2023 and Nottingham Contemporary, 28 November 2023 and MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, January 27 – February 1, 2024, Screen Talent Europe at Berlinale, 16 February 2024, Alchemy Film Festival 2024, ‘The Ground Is Not Unchanging’, programmed by Mina Heydari-Waite, 24 May 2024, Offline, Glasgow and London Short Film Festival January 2025
Women’s Studies, 16mm film, 2021, Alex Hetherington & Catherine Street, developed at a Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, August 2021, supported by Creative Scotland 2021-2022
DOP for artist George Finlay Ramsay research and development 16mm colour film, screening at Heavy Centre, 26-29 November 2021, Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania and at Podium, Oslo, Norway, filmed on location at Bamff, East Perthshire, August 2021
Second camera and matte box for Wendy Kirkup 16mm film rough cut botanical (2022), with contributions from Nichola Scrutton and Anna Souter, filmed Glasgow and Stirling, October–December 2021, screening at Visions in the Nunnery 2022, Program 1 curated by Patrick Goddard, Bow Arts, London, October 7 to November 6 2022, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US, March 2023, Ann Arbor Film Festival 61 touring programme 2023–2024: Kalamazoo Film Society, Kalamazoo, MI, US, German-American Institute, Tübingen, Germany, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023, 10 August 2023, Braziers International Film Festival, 1 Sept 2023, Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, Wisconsin, Sept 27, 2023, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, October 24, 2023, Glacier Hills Senior Living Community, Ann Arbor, MI, November 16, 2023, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 13, 2024 and Minneapolis College of Art & Design Cinema, Minneapolis, MN, February 15, 2024
One artist | One work, George Finlay Ramsay/Alexander Hetherington, 30 September 2021; online exhibition of the film, 1–30 September 2021, LUX Scotland, with a commissioned text by CAConrad
Castorocene (2021) screening at Münster Film Festival, 23 September 2021, Walk-In Cinema, VAEFE first edition, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands, 23–25 September 2021, WNDX Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, 10 October 2021, AMIF, Pavilion, Leeds (online), 20 October 2021, Swedenborg Film Festival, London, 11 December 2021, London Short Film Festival, January 2022, Norient Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland, January 2022, Stuttgart FilmWinter, Festival for Expanded Media, January 2022, Glasgow Short Film Festival, (Eco-spectrality: Residual Fabulations, curated by Ane Lopez, A+E Collective), March 2022, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, 29 April 2022, rile*, Brussels, Belgium, 1 April 2022, Tender Books, London for FieldNotes #3, 7 April 2022, Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen, Norway 25 June 2022, ANIMISMS, curated by Alex Hamish Millar, We See, Will See, Are Seen, Have Scene, New Phoenix Cinema, GAMIS, Glasgow 7 August 2022, Braziers Film Festival, (Radical Instincts programme), Sunday 4 September 2022, screening at Elucidate the wit, sanctify the spirit, clarify the intention, 25 May 2023, CCA, Glasgow, curated by Julija Šilytė & Milda Valiulytė, screening at Moving Terrain at Laboratório da Torre, Porto, Portugal, 27 November 2023, PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic, 10 December 2023, Mirage, Wednesday 26 June 2024, Micro Film Festival, Bermondsey Project Space, London, programmed by Lily Ashrowan and at The Screens of Blue Nothingness, curated by Martyna Ratnik, Meno Avilys Cinematheque, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10 September 2024
DOP for artist George Finlay Ramsay’s 16mm film production Castorocene, shot at the wetlands at Bamff, commissioned by Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania, filmed January 2021
Camera operator for Tako Taal’s departures (2021), 16mm film transferred to digital, shot at ECA, December 2020, funded by Jerwood Arts (Canon Scoopic and Beaulieu R16), screened at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022
portals, publication launch readings by Rosie Roberts, Lotte L.S. and Daisy Lafarge and screening Alex Hetherington, Untitled (eclectic poison), 16mm, silent, 2020, published and organized by SPAM Press, August 6, 2020
Anxiety & Invocation at Experiments in Cinema: Luke Fowler, Rachel Maclean, Duncan Marquiss, Kimberley O’Neill, Alex Hetherington with Michelle Hannah, Sean Martin, Beagles & Ramsay, Holly McLean, Louise Milne, Sandra Johnston & Richard Ashrowan. Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, 14-18 April 2020 (postponed to June 2020)
Screening 16mm films from Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting at …on being still but moving at the same time, curated by Claricia Parinussa, Dance Base, Edinburgh, 2 November 2019
Open, StreetLevel, Glasgow, September- November 2019
Twin Eye, double 16mm film screening at Studio Jamming, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 18 September 2019, with films by Alex Hetherington, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, spoken word by Robert Ashley and readings from Judith Butler
‘Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting’; 16mm film as a collaborative action, Open Project funded research and collaborative film production, made with the participation of Emma Balkind, Leah Millar, Rowan Markson, Nathalie de Briey, Wendy Kirkup, Helen McCrorie, Rosie Roberts, Michelle Hannah, Anonymous, Catherine Street and Anne-Marie Copestake, 2019-2020
Stills One – Alexander Hetherington, curated by Nancé Baric, Get it on the Neg, Montréal, Canada, July 2019
Films and speaks, performative talk, Futures Festival, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, January 2019
(A Plan) for A Spell, films and readings by Susan Sontag, Jo Ann Kaplan, Laida Lertxundi, Emily Wardill, Vera Frenkel and Lynn Hershman-Leeson, read by Anne-Marie Copestake, Market Gallery, Glasgow, July 2018
Work with Stone, 16mm film, FRACTO Film, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, 24-27 May 2018
“Press the eject and give me the tape”, Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Michelle Hannah, Alex Hetherington & Lyndsay Mann performing ‘Utter Utter Utter’, Duncan Marquiss and Corin Sworn, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 17 February 2018
The Singer Has Once More Risen Above the Object of His Song or No Space is Innocent, performative lecture, with Lyndsay Mann and films and video by Gail Pickering, Ursula Mayer and Gabriel Abrantes, texts from Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, and Anne Carson, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 23 November 2017
Kate Davis, Treatment, essay and publication, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2017
Jane Topping, Newspaper/She Was A Visitor, December 2018
Karen Cunningham, Poly, August 2018
Jonathan Owen, Double-X, July 2018
Elín Jakobsdóttir, Ellipses of the Afternoon, with a text by Mark Sadler, January 2018
Catherine Street, Orchids, December 2017
Lauren Printy Currie, settings, November 2017
Helen McCrorie, This is It – Universe, October 2017
Richard Taylor, Anonymiser Particular, September 2017
Andrew Gannon, ENTHUSIASM, August 2017
at No 35, the men and women in the text are referred to as, 16mm film, exhibition and publishing projects, Stirling
Five Propositions, Toward A Scottish Collection of Artists’ Moving Image, a proposition on Sarah Forrest’s The Pot, LUX Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, 13 January 2017
The Hallucinating Edge, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China, screening, 20 December 2016
Pure Movement, K11 Foundation, Wuhan, China, screening and discussion, 18 December 2016
FFWD, Rosalind Nashashibi, Michelle Hannah, Sarah Forrest, Lyndsay Mann, Corin Sworn, Kathryn Elkin, Tom Varley, Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Colvin, Bobby Niven, Duncan Marquiss, Allison Gibbs, Kate Davis, Katy Dove, Oliver Mezger, Skaer/Nashashibi, Ross Sinclair, Pernille Spence, Cooper Gallery, Dundee and Mingsheng Museum, Shanghai, December 2016 – January 2017
Rachel Reupke & Ursula Mayer, screening of selected works, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2 2016
Do It All On The Same Day and Rerecording, Modern Edinburgh Film School archive, performance reading and publications, October 2015 – August 2016
Elín Jakobsdóttir, Patience in Virtue of Débordement, a discussion and screening of super-8mm and 16mm films, CCA, Glasgow, 24 May 2016
Distribution as (Subversive) Practice, LUX Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 5 April 2016
Silhouette Proximity Panopticon Score, on Lauren Printy Currie, Jessica Ramm, Lyndsay Mann, and Kirsty Hendry, curated insert and text, Scottish Art News, November 2015
Speaker at Curating Materiality, on Feminist Art Histories, Edinburgh College of Art, June 2015
MOTHS, Lucy Skaer, Anna Lucas, Zoë Forthergill, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Allison Gibbs, Anne McGuire, Bobby Niven, Katrina Vallé and Jenny Brady, film screenings, print and performance, Summerhall, Edinburgh, June-July 2015
Ripples on the Pond/A Poetic Measurement, films by Annabel Nicolson, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Colvin, Mairi Lafferty, Lauren Gault, Karen Cunningham, Allison Gibbs, Sarah Forrest, Catherine Street, with a new commissioned performance by Ruth Barker and public talks with Iain Morrison, Suzanne van der Lingen, Dr Glyn Davis, Dr Angela McClanahan, and Dr Sarah Neely, with poetry by Margaret Tait, Glasgow University Affiliates/Gallery of Modern Art, CCA, GSS, and Old Hairdressers, May 2015 – April 2016
Queer Information, with Catherine Street, Sean Elder, JL Williams, et al, experimental writing anthology, Modern Edinburgh Film School, December 2014
A new island forming, artists interview artists’ publication with Laura Edbrook, Suzanne van der Lingen, Leah Millar, Katrina Vallé, Annuale 2014, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, June 2014
The Silver River, film, videos and spoken-word performance by Shona Macnaughton, Karen Cunningham, Amy Pickles, Levi Hanes, Alexander Storey Gordon, Yelena Popova, Tako Taal, Suok Woon Yoon, Seijen Choi, Daniel Lichtman and Catherine Street, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow International, 12 April 2014
The Social Media of Too Long, and ACRICIT writing on performance and installation by Dinda Fass, Lauren Gault, Michelle Hannah, Catherine Street, Karen Cunningham, Allison Gibbs, Mairi Lafferty, Modern Edinburgh Film School, March 2014
The Free Arc of Life, writing on Karen Cunningham, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Allison Gibbs, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; Mairi Lafferty, and Georgina Starr, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Modern Edinburgh Film School, November 2013
A Salon of the Voice, with Dr Ella Finer, talk and screening for Georgina Starr, Before Le Cerveau Affamé, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 28 November 2013
Hold This Object Up Until There is Nothing Left of You, film and video by Stephen Sutcliffe, Ben Rivers, Mairi Lafferty, Jen Liu, Bill Leslie, ESW, Edinburgh 31 August 2013
Ute Aurand, FILME, 16mm films, in conversation with Dr Sarah Neely, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 August 2013
Ute Aurand, FILME, Film Lounge, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 2-31 August 2013
Lauren Gault, Granular and Crumb, commissioned film and installation, ESW, 26 – 28 July 2013
Go Around the Board Once More, screening of video by Georgie Grace, Stephen Hurrel, John Adams, Maj Hassager, Savinder Bual, Aurélien Froment, Neill Sheasby, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 June 2013
O, one-day installation of video by Raydale Dower, Aurélien Froment, Karen Donnelan, Alex Tobin, Gemma Copp, Angelo Picozzi, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 11 June 2013
Videotheque, Modern Edinburgh Film School residency and public forums, with Jenny Brady, Annie Crabtree, Mairi Lafferty, Alice Bradshaw, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards, Andy Hazell, Aurélien Froment, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 1 – 22 June 2013
6000 Posters for Giants and Dwarfs, with moving image works by Rachel Reupke, Shezad Dawood, Laura Edbrook, Tom Smith, Shona Macnaughton, Hazel France, Nathalie de Briey, Dinda Fass, Faith Limbrick, Zoë Fothergill, Rhubaba, Edinburgh, 14 – 16 June 2013
The Good Work, films by Claire Denis and Bobby Niven, with a reading by Catherine Street, Inspace, Edinburgh, 25 May 2013
The Slow-Wave, film screening and talk by Lyndsay Mann, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 May 2013
April Set, installation and video by Zoë Fothergill, performance and video by Sarah Forrest, and performance and talk by Anthony Schrag, ESW, Edinburgh, April 2013
The Hand that Holds the Desert Down, film and video by Catherine Sullivan, Anne Colvin, Hazel France, Lyndsay Mann, Daria Martin, Anna Lucas, Rebecca Lennon, ESW, Edinburgh, 15 March 2013
Green Screen, video and performance by Christian Newby, Katri Walker, Stina Wirfelt, Annie Crabtree, Zoë Fothergill, Michelle Hannah, Stuart Gurden, Gordon Schmidt, and talk by Ben Fallon, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, 16 – 31 March 2013
Linda Levez Vos Elfriede Skinny Rosemarie Fists To Fratianne Heaven, performance, The Embassy Gallery, 31 October 2010
Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK October 2010
A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need), Reveal/Reset, Inspace, Edinburgh, UK, performance, August 27 2009
Heavy Influence, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh 15–30 August 2009, including the performances Who’s Your Dada? (18 August) & Exquisite Pain (21 August)
Garlands/Mineral Park, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, August–September 2008
House/Lights, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, performance, May 4 2008
Meddle with the Devil, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, April–June 2008
The Consequence, Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll, Inter/media, CCA, Glasgow, May 2007
The Consequence, film and video screening, programme 2, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, November 2007
The Consequence, film and video screening, programme 1, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow, October 2007
House/Lights (a revival), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 19 July 2007
Group shows
Stills Salon, Stills, Edinburgh, 25 Oct 2024—30 Nov 2024
Atelier Public 2, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow International, February – May 2014
Open, StreetLevel Photoworks, Glasgow, December 2012 – February 2013
Artists’ Books, DCA, Dundee, November 2012
Cave Art Fair, Liverpool, September 2012
Walls of Light, CCA film commissions: Stina Wirfelt, Henry Coombes, Clara Ursitti, Alex Hetherington, Calum Stirling, Katri Walker, CCA, Glasgow, 14 October 2010
Artists’ printed editions: A Pop-up Reading Room, The Well Gallery, LCC, London, UK, September 2010
Signal & Noise 10, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010
Broadcast Yourself, Tate Modern/The Embassy, No Soul for Sale, London, UK, May 2010
Broadcast Yourself, Inverleith House/The Embassy, Edinburgh, UK, February 2010
PS I Love You, Bradford Playhouse, Bradford, UK, April 2010
Warehouse of Horrors, SWG3, Glasgow, November 2009
Embassy Screen, The Embassy Gallery, Annuale, Edinburgh, UK, July 2009
House/Lights at OPA 0.2 On Performance Art Festival, Bios, Athens, Greece, May 2009
I AM KURIOUS ORANGE, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US, May 2009
The Colony Room, New Langton Arts/Tart, San Francisco, US, Sept – Oct, US, 2008
Residencies and research
Creative LAB, CCA, Glasgow, December 2020, now 2-15 August 2021
The Art of Observational Filming, National Film & Television School, (bursary), Glasgow, Sept 2020
Films of Tacita Dean, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, April 2013
David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US, May 2009
Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, UK 1–30 April 2009
Franko B, Tramway, Glasgow, New Moves Winter School, March 2009
Callendar House, Falkirk, 2007–2008
SSW, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, November 2005–June 2006
Selected awards
VACMA, Forth Valley, 2025
Creative Scotland, Open Project Fund, 2024
Bursary for Ute Aurand 16mm film workshop, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, (Screen Scotland and Urth Productions), March 2024
The Elephant Trust, 2023
The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation, 2023
VACMA, Forth Valley, 2023
Creative Scotland, Open Project Fund, Sustaining Creative Development, 2021
Creative Scotland/Visual Arts Scotland Hardship Fund, 2020
Bridging Bursary, Round 1, Creative Scotland, 2020
VACMA, Forth Valley and West Lothian, 2019
Creative Scotland Open Project Fund, 2019
Creative Scotland Open Project Fund, 2016
Edinburgh Visual Arts, 2015-2016
Creative Scotland, Visual Arts Professional Development, 2013
Alt-W Award, New Media Scotland, 2013
Arts Trust of Scotland, Emerging Artists Award, 2013
Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development Award, 2010–2011
Glasgow Visual Arts, Culture and Sport Glasgow, January 2009
Alt-W, Research and Development, New Media Scotland, October 2008 – August 2009
Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development Award, 2007–08
Hope Scott Trust, 2007
Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development Award, 2006
Selected writing
The student of hallucinations, the absent moon and the law of the feather, on Savinder Bual, publication, PEER, London, ACE funded, October 2021
Holly McLean, If you get the knees right the rest should follow, Collective, Edinburgh, 5 December 2020 — 31 January 2021
Florilegium: A gathering of Flowers, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 16 October – 13 December 2020
“Why can’t we see the movement of the tides in a glass of water?”, Karen Cunningham, Mean Time, Collective, Edinburgh, 22 October 2020
A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, a remote reflection for Cooper Gallery, Dundee, March/April 2020
Alex Impey, –Gnostic Cautery, The Hunterian, Glasgow, January 2020
Vivian’s Garden, Electrical Gaza and Part One and Part Two, three films by Rosalind Nashashibi, Cample Line, Thornhill, December 2019
On Kimberley O’Neill, Katie Shannon, Helen McCrorie and Emmie McLuskey, Satellites, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, 2019
Anne-Marie Copestake, Looking in either direction… Cooper Gallery, Dundee, March 2019
Phil Collins, Ceremony, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, February 2019
Affinity and Allusion, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, December 2018
Laida Lertxundi, WORDS, PLANETS, Tramway, Glasgow, This is Tomorrow, June 2018
Alex Millar, The Haunted Object, Dornoch Street Project, Glasgow, June 2018
Margaret Salmon, Circle, Tramway, This is Tomorrow, February 2018
Stephen Sutcliffe, Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, September 2017
You hardboiled, I softboiled, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, August 2017
Tschabalala Self, Tramway, Glasgow, This is Tomorrow, June 2017
Rowan Markson, Folly, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, 3 June 2017
Shanghai Biennale/Raqs Media Collective, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, This is Tomorrow, January 2017
Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2016, Tramway, Glasgow, LUX Scotland, November 2016
Rob Kennedy, Acts of display, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, November 2016
Of Other Spaces; Where does gesture become event?, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, November 2016
Helen McCrorie, The Clock in Commune, Glasite Meeting House, Edinburgh Art Festival, August 2016
Claire Barclay, Bright Bodies, Glasgow International, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, This is Tomorrow, April 2016
New Wheat, New Mud, New Machine, Poster Club, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, April 2016
All Systems… Go, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, February 2016
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, The King Must Die, Edinburgh Art Festival, Aesthetica, August 2015
Tomorrow was a Montage, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, November 2015
Fabienne Hess, Hits and Misses (from the archive), TRG-3, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, September 2015
Men Gather, in Speech… Cooper Gallery, Dundee, The List, February 2015
Phyllida Barlow, set, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, July 2015
Hugo Canoilas, Someone a long time ago, now, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Aesthetica, March 2015
Visions of Void, Florian and Michael Quistrebert, DCA, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, February 2015
Men Gather, in Speech… Cooper Gallery, Dundee, The List, February 2015
Modern Edinburgh Film School, The Silver River, Alex Hetherington, Revista Mesa, edition 3, Publicness in Art, Brasil, 2015
Stan Douglas, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, December 2014
21 Revolutions, Glasgow Women’s Library, The List, November 2014
Anna Oppermann, Cotoneaster Horizontalis, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Aesthetica, Nov 2014
Isa Genzken, Botanical Garden, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, This is Tomorrow, September 2014
Counterpoint, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Aesthetica, August 2014
Studio Jamming, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, This is Tomorrow, July 2014
I See You Seeing Me See You, Kathrin Sonntag, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Aesthetica, March 2014
Georgina Starr, Before Le Cerveau Affamé, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Aesthetica, October 2013
In Soft Hard Heavy Light Materials, Palm of the Hand, Bobby Niven, Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh, August 2013
Ellen Cantor, Artists Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, September 2013
Vexations, Platform: In the Making, Site Gallery, Sheffield, essay on Brigid McLeer, March– June 2013
Darren Banks, The Hills Have Eyes, Palace Collection, February 2013
Estrangement, Fatma Bucak, Larisa Daiga, Evariste Maïga, Samuel Williams, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Aesthetica, January 2013
Edgar Schmitz, Surplus Cameo Décor, October – December 2012, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Interface
Tim Rollins and KOS, The Black Spot, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, Interface and Artworks, August 2012
Darren Banks, Backwater, Fish Market Gallery, Nottingham, UK, July 2011
Rosemarie Trockel, Drawings, Collages & Books Drafts, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, The Skinny, A- N Interface, UK, February 2011
Kate V Robertson, CCA Creative Lab, The Skinny, Glasgow, February 2011
Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, December 2010
Kate V Robertson “Tell me why the ivy twines?”, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow February 2010, republished in Works on Paper, David Dale Gallery, 2012.
Annette Ruenzler, The power to faint at will – or not, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, The List, May 2009
Jimmy Robert: Grey Flannel Suits Any Man, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, The List, March 2009
Straylight Cavern (Jonathan Baldock, Michael Bell-Smith, Rick Buckley, Aisling Hedgecock, Ian Monroe, Takeshi Murata, Milika Muritu, Angelo Plessas, Richard Priestley, Rafaël Rozendaal), The Cooper Gallery, Dundee, AN Magazine, February 2009
The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, December 2008 – February 2009, Interface, February 2009
The Way that We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco, AN Magazine, August 2008
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US, Interface, August 2008
Starship: Written on spiders, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Interface, August 2008
Skank Bloc Bologna, Number Two (Langton Edition), Tart, San Francisco, Interface, August 2008
Once Within a Room/Phantom Rosebuds, Alejandro Cesarco and Dexter Sinister, New Langton, San Francisco, Interface August 2008
Minty Donald, glimmers in limbo, Tramway, Glasgow, AN Magazine, April 2008
Catherine Sullivan, Triangle of Need, Metro Pictures, NYC, Interface, February 2008
Brigid McLeer, Vexations, Site Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield, January 2008
Catherine Sullivan, The Chittendens, CCA, Glasgow, MAP, February 2007
Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural, National Galleries of Scotland, Interface, A-N Magazine, November 2006
Mark Raidpere, Shifting Focus, Tramway, Glasgow, MAP, November 2006
Adam Nankervis, Museum Man, Liverpool Independents Biennale, Liverpool, October 2006
Nadim Karam, Liverpool Independents Biennale, Liverpool, October 2006
Nina Edge, Liverpool Independents Biennale, Liverpool, October 2006
Gino Saccone, Liverpool Independents Biennale, Liverpool, October 2006
Like it Matters, CCA, Glasgow, Stretcher, San Francisco, US, 2006 (www.stetcher.org)
Glasgow International, Stretcher, San Francisco, US, 2005 (www.stetcher.org)
Goya Vs Yoko Ono, Map, Edinburgh, UK, 2005
On Ellen Cantor, Transmission, Black Dog Publishing, 2002
Digital Dialogues, San Francisco Art Institute, Stretcher, SF, US, 2001 (www.stetcher.org)
On Ellen Cantor, Within Heaven and Hell, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2000
Knut Åsdam/Crack is Wack, Transmission Gallery, The List, 26 February – 18 March 2000
Enrico David, Clare Stephenson, Roger Hiorns, Transmission Gallery, The List, 20 November – 18 December 1999
Selected screenings
Stand Up!, a film for Andrew Gannon (2015)
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2015
Collision Materials & Trans Tapes (2015)
Move Me, EAMIF, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, 2015
Yvonne, in Two Parts, for Michelle Hannah (2013)
Last Dark Music of the Painted Night, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 17 October 2014
BYOB, Edinburgh College of Art, 31 January 2014
Niteflight, CCA, Glasgow, 11 December 2013 (curated by Michelle Hannah)
4–5 Spoken Scenes from Weekend on LSD for Darren Banks (2012)
The Agent Ria, Careof, DOCVA, Milan, February 2013
LUX Artists Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, September 2012
Linda Fratianne (2010)
21 dokumentART, European Film Festival for Documentaries, Neubrandenburg, Germany, and Szczecin, Poland, 16-20 November 2012
Walls of Light, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Isle of North Uist, January–February 2012
Steaming Festival, The Hague, Netherlands & Milan, Italy, December 2011
Electroprojections, Newcastle, Australia, August 2011
Pale Fire, Generator Projects, Dundee, August 2011
Walls of Light, Trongate 103, Glasgow, August 2011
Cologne OFFV11, Cologne, October 2011
Glasgow Film Theatre, 17 October 2010
CCA, Glasgow, 12–14 October 2010
Black House/Lights (2007)
Project: An evening of artists’ films, Another Roadside Attraction, London, 28 May 2008
Visions in the Nunnery, May 19 – May 20, 2007, Bow Arts, London
Selected articles
The Disco (2024), preview by Jamie Dunn, The Skinny, February 2025
Ilam Actual (2023), 16mm film by Luke Fowler, with Alex Hetherington and Lee Patterson: David Toop interviews Luke Fowler for This is Tomorrow, August 2023
Seen and Not Seen, Jess Higgins, MAP, July 2022, Tender A Response
Seen and Not Seen, The List, Issue 763, July-August 2022, Chris Opoku
castorocene, George Finlay Ramsay/Alexander Hetherington/CAConrad, FieldNotes #3, March 2022
The season begins with a terrible thud, Transmissions, Inverextant, edited by Jared Pappas-Kelley, published 1 September 2020
“Alex Hetherington interview, with Simon Boase”, Axis, July 2017 (artist of the month, July 2017)
Dispatch Feminist Moving Image, Interview with Jennifer Shearman, April 2016
Curating Beyond the Exhibition: Titling Axis Fellowship, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, 2016
“Modern Edinburgh Film School”, Michaela Nettell, A-N News, March 2013
“The Poetics of Education”/”The Poetics of Alexander Hetherington”, The Skinny, Jac Mantle, March 2013“
Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven”, João Abbott-Gribben, The Journal, Edinburgh, UK, November 2010
“Death Weekend”, The List, October 2010
“Alex Hetherington at The Embassy”, The Skinny, October 2010
“This Sporting Life”, The List, October 2010
“Warehouse of Horrors”, The Skinny, Rosamund West, October 2009
“5 Questions”, The List, August 2009
“The Consequence”, Sarah Smith, Intermedia/CCA, Glasgow, May 2007