Aug 26, 2013
This week: Part one of the Open Engagement conference 2013 series. Caroline Picard talks to Caire Doherty!
Claire Doherty is Director of Situations. Claire initiated Situations in 2003 following a ten-year period investigating new curatorial models beyond conventional exhibition-making at a range of art institutions including Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. Claire has worked with a diversity of artists including Lara Almarcegui, Uta Barth, Brian Catling, Phil Collins, Nathan Coley, Lara Favaretto, Ellen Gallagher, Joseph Grigely, Jeppe Hein, Susan Hiller, Mariele Neudecker, Cornelia Parker, Roman Ondak, Joao Penalva and Ivan and Heather Morison. She has advised a range of organisations as curatorial consultant including Tate, Site Gallery Sheffield and is author of the public art strategies for the University of Bristol and Bjorvika, Oslo Harbour.
In 2009, Claire was awarded a prestigious Paul
Hamlyn Breakthrough Award as an outstanding cultural
entrepreneur. Claire directed One Day
Sculpture in 2008-9 with David Cross, a year-long collaborative
series of 20 commissioned, 24-hour public artworks across New
Zealand. In 2010, she was Co-Curatorial Director of Wonders of Weston for Weston-super-Mare.
Doherty lectures and publishes internationally. She is editor of
Contemporary Art: From Studio to
Situation (Black Dog Publishing, 2004); Documents of Contemporary Art: Situation
(Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2009) and co-editor with David Cross of
One Day Sculpture (Kerber, 2009), with
Paul O’Neill, Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to
Public Art (Valiz, 2011) and with Gerrie van Noord,
Heather and Ivan Morison: Falling into
Place (Book Works, 2009). She was also an external
advisory member of the Olympic Park Public Realm Advisory Committee
and a Fellow of the RSA.