Completed Projects (since 2000)
2015 Art/Text, NCST gallery. Tangshan, China
2015 Midpointness, The Lock-Up Art and Culture Centre, Newcastle, Australia.
2015 Care + Attend, Curated by Emma Cocker and Joanne Lee for Unconditional Love. Society of Artistic Research. Chelsea College of Arts. London
2014 Detail, H Gallery Bangkok, Transition Gallery London, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2014 Possession (2), Co-Curated exhibition of pan-European and Asian contemporary art for LGP Coventry UK
2013 Possession (1), Co-Curated exhibition of pan-European and Asian contemporary art for Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, Bangkok and LGP Coventry UK
2012 Modern Times – episode 2: Faster-Slower, Numerous sites across the Netherlands including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Centraal Museum Utrecht.
2012 End of Ends. Arts Council Commission for Bend in The River, Gainsborough, UK
2011 The Stag and Hound-Dutton/Swindells, PSL Leeds
2010 Unspeaking Engagements, Chulalongkorn Art Centre, Bangkok and LGP, Coventry
2009 The Institute of Beasts-Dutton/Swindells Kuando Museum of Fine Art Taipei
2008 Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway, Dutton/Swindells Studio Bibliothèque, Hong Kong
2008 Ssamzie Contemporary Art Space International Residency Seoul, Korea
2007 A little bit goes a long way, Consortium, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Un Jour de Beauté, (with Alec Shepley), The Nunnery, Bow, London
2007 Autobiobliophiles, Dutton/Swindells, Studio Bibliothèque, Hong Kong
2006 The Dog and Duck, Dutton/Swindells, Kookmin Art Gallery Seoul, S.Korea
2006 Text + Work = “Work”, Dutton-Swindells, Text + Work Gallery, Bournemouth UK
2005 project for Art-Omma. http://www.artomma.org/NEW/issue%2011/editorial.html
2005 Folklore, APT Gallery London (Dutton & Swindells)
2005 Emergency 2, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth UK (Dutton & Swindells)
2005 Laussanne Underground Film Festival Showing Similar to Nothing, (Hawley/Dutton)
2005 VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals the Annual Girona Film Festival
2005 Txtrapolis, Dutton/Swindells, NAFA Gallery Singapore
2005 Sex Death and Flat Pack Furniture, Holden Gallery, MMU Manchester
2004 Site for Unbuilding, Wrexham Arts Centre and Oriel Davies Newtown
2004 [Shift} – E merged D, Site specific projects, Leeds UK
2004 S1 Alternative Action Plan, Dutton/Swindellsm, Sheffield UK
2003 Look to this Day, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
2003 Plaza text intervention into Sheffield Newspapers, Dutton/Swindells as Suns of the Desert
2003 Brown-field Site, Dutton/Swindells as Suns of the Desert, Sheffield ART 03 Sheffield UK
2003 Entropic Gym Variation, Dutton/ Peacock / Swindells, Sheperd Gallery, Reno Nevada USA
2002 Power to the People, Dutton/ Peacock / Swindells, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener Ontario Canada
2002 Entropic Gym, Mercer Union, Dutton/ Peacock / Swindells, Toronto Canada
Selected Bibliography
2011 Moves towards the Incomprehensible Wild Emma Cocker, Art and Research – A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods, Volume 4. No. 1. Summer 2011. ISSN 1752-6388 http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v4n1/cocker.php
2010 The work of Dutton and Swindells, Photonet Magazine (S. Korea), Jan issue.
2009 Dissolving boundaries, Bangkok Post, published on 10/09/2009
2006 Perspectives on practice, AN magazine special publication May 2006
2005 AN Magazine, Future Space, April 2005
2004 Empire of the Senses, Installation art in the new millennium, Olivera, Petri, Oxley. Pub.Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-23808-1
2001 Source Magazine, Upside down and playing backwards, Siun Hanrahan, Issue 27. P38–39
2001 CIRCA, June 2001, Issue 96, p 43-45, Cartography: The City. By Suzanna Chan
2001 Province. Guardian Newspaper main review. March 17th by Alfred Hickling
2001 On Vanishing, Guardian Newspaper main review, January 17th 2001.
2000 Reflected in a Distant Mirror, Toronto Globe and Mail. Oct. 7th 2000. By Gary Michael Dault
1999 AN web. Artists’ Stories. Collaborative Working. www.anweb.co.uk
2000 AN Magazine March 2000. Enriched Mix. David Macintosh. P10-13
1999 AN. November 99-Talking Space. p12-15
1997 Frieze. April 1997. p87, Musee Imaginaire, Museum of Installation. Izi Glover
1997 Untitled May 1997. No 13. p 25-26, Plague-orgy-time and Musee Imaginaire . Sharon Kivland.
Grants and Awards
2015 Banco Santander Network award. Travel to China.
2013 Arts Council of England G4A award for Possession ( 1 ) Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, Thailand and Possession ( 2 ), LGP Coventry, UK ( £10K )
2012 Arts Council of England funded residency project for Bend in the River UK (£5K)
2011 Major G4A Arts Council of England Award for a two year contemporary art programme for Lanchester Gallery Projects (LGP) in Coventry, UK. (£90K)
2010 Pmi2 British Council Grant for developing MA in International Contemporary Art Practice with Kookmin University in Seoul. (£35K)
2007 Major Arts Council Award for “The Institute of Beasts” Project involving a S. Korean Residency Project, exhibitions and publications. (£25K)
2005 AHRB award for ‘Similar to Nothing’ with Professor Steve Hawley MMU (£5K )
1988 Royal College of Art Drawing Prize
Selected Books, catalogues and publications ( since 2000 )
2014 Project anywhere; Art at the outermost limits of location specificity. ISBN 978-0-692-32297-0
2013 Possession (1). Catalogue published by the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre.
2011 The Institute of Beasts. Published by Site Gallery, distributed by Cornerhouse ISBN 9781899926138
2010 Surface Depth. H Gallery, Bangkok
2009 Unspeaking Engagements Published by the Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
2008 Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway (Dutton & Swindells) Studio Bibliothèque Hong Kong Ed. Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwee ISBN 978-988-17635-1-8
2008 Drawing Breath. Lugar De Desenho, Porto, Portugal
2006 Text + Work = Work. Co-written with Steve Swindells. Published by the Arts Institute at Bournemouth ISBN 0-901196-11-8
2005 Misleading Epiphenomena. Published by Artwords Press Co-authors. Dr Steve Swindells, Dr. Barbara Penner ISBN 0954390873
2003 Site + Sight. Translating Cultures. Earl Lu Gallery, Exhibition catalogue Singapore. ISBN 981-04-6705-2
2002 Daylight. Artist’s publication. Co-author Steve Swindells ISBN 1843870010
2002 Transmission: Speaking and Listening. Vol.1 Pub. ISBN 0 86339 986 X
2001 On Vanishing. ISBN 1 899926 80 1
2000 Entropic Gym Produced for Mercer Union Centre For Contemporary Art, ISBN 0-921527-56-X
2000 Province Exhibition catalogue ISBN 0863399231
Selected Conference papers, Articles, Journals
2015 The Work is a Score. Key note for ‘Next to nothing: performance stripped to the bone’ at the University of Newcastle, Australia.?
2015 The flickering Institution Material Culture in Action: Practices of making, collecting and re-enacting art and design. Glasgow School of Art, UK
2015 Text and work Conference paper for Text Versus Art Conference, The University of Lòdz
2014 Towards an office of institutional aesthetics. Conference Paper for Project anywhere at Parsons New School, New York.
2014 Art Takes residence (the Office of Institutional Aesthetics) Conference paper, Arts Into Society, Rome
2013 Artists’ Institutes and the Institutes of Art. Conference paper Arts into Society 2013 Budapest
2013 On Being There Essay on Guangju 2012 for Axis Contemporary Art
2012 Inhabiting the Institution ELIA Conference paper Porto Teachers Academy
2013 The Institute of Ruin. Conference paper ( co-presented with Alec Shepley ) at Sensuous Knowledge 7, at The Art Museums of Bergen and Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2012 Catalogue essay. One + One Brigid Mcleer. Published by Highlanes Gallery. ISBN: 978-0-9554311-4-
2011 On the Specificity of Biennials. AN Magazine. Dec. 2011
2011 Conference Paper at ‘Creativity, Play and the Imagination’ Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. May 26th-28th
2011 Conference Paper July conference at the ATHENS institute for Education and Research. Fine and Performing Arts 2
2011 Cuts in Culture. AN magazine. Co-written with Katriona Beales
2010 Cluelessness Conference paper. July conference at the ATHENS institute for Education and Research
2010 Catalogue Essay The Mind’s eye in the severed head of the works of M.K. Ho. Essay in “Landscapes in the Brain” ISBN 978-957417162-0,. pub. Ho Huang-Ching
2009 The Institute of Beasts Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Print ISSN: 1753-5190 Volume: 2. Issue: 1 Cover date: July 2009 Page(s): 117-125
2008 Post-conceptual artists’ practices Writing Encounters conference paper. (Dutton and Swindells) York St. John University, UK. ( Sept.)
2007 Apocotropes Journal of Visual Arts Practice ISSN: 14702029 Vol 6. Issue 3 pp 251-256
2007 Something like nothing happens anywhere. Co-edited with Jeanine Griffin A-N commissioned research papers Dec 2007
2006. Curatorial questions around the British Art Show. A-N Magazine. Nov 2006
2006 Biennials and “Biennials”. Article AN magazine June 2006
2006 Why Sheffield art 05 is not “Biennial”. Spec T symposium. Sheffield 2006
Associated Art Activities, Editorial Boards, Committees, Panels etc.
July 2014 Co-Founder of the Impossible Constellation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgxXLHiOHA&feature=youtu.be
March 2014 onwards Editorial Committee member, Project Anywhere. http://www.projectanywhere.net
June 2014 onwards Peer reviewer Journal of Artistic Research http://jar-online.net
Jan. 2011 onwards Elected member of the National AIR Council (Artists Interaction and Representation) https://www.a-n.co.uk/air/who-are-air-council
July 2013 Peer reviewer for Orpheus Institute http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en
Jan 2012 onwards Lanchester Gallery Projects Steering Group.
2009-2012 Founder and Director Lanchester Gallery Projects ( LGP )
Nov. 2010 External Validation panel for London Met/Whitechapel gallery Contemporary Curating MA
Nov. 2008 Peer reviewer for the Vienna Science and Technology Fund/ Art and Science Call 2008
2008-2011 Trustee. Coventry Artspace
2004 to 2011 Director Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum/ArtSheffield
1991-2004 Founder and Trustee of S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Past Employment
Sept. 2007- Oct. 2011. Professor in Creative Practice at Coventry University
2004-2007 Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University
1994-2007 Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University
External Roles
External Research Excellence Framework advisor to Sir John Cass Faculty of Art and Design, London Metropolitan University 2013
External Examiner Roles
Steve Dutton has held numerous External examiner roles including;
PhD external examiner ( Viva Voce ) UWE ( 2012 )
BA Fine Art Falmouth University ( 2013-present )
BA Fine Art Northumbria University ( 2012- present )
BA Fine Art MMU ( 2009-2013 )
MA Fine Art Central St.Martins ( 2006-11 )
MA Fine Art Brighton University ( 2007-12 )
BA Fine Art London Metropolitan ( 2003-7 )
BA Fine Art in Context at UWE ( 2000-4 )
MA Fine Art UWE ( 2001-4 )
MA Fine Art UCL ( 2002-6 )
MA Experimental Film UCL ( emergency cover ) ( 2006 )