Dr Chris Dooks
Interdisciplinary Artist
Residency / Commission Highlights 1996-2022
2024 - Glen Dye Artist in Residence - making dooksbooks
2022 - Scottish Book Trust Community Campfires Sound Artist in Residence (x3)
2021 - Scottish Sculpture Workshop Counterflows Resident artist 2021
2020 - Creative Edinburgh Connected Innovators recepient for www.spacestation.org.uk
2019 - Edinburgh International Book Festival Sound Artist in Residence for Citizen
2018 - Séance art-writing commission for artwalkporty.co.uk with author Eleanor Thom
2018 - Digital Respite, wellbeing project / financial award with UK charity Care for Carers
2017 - Pebbles, podcast and graphic novella about pregnancy for The Drouth Magazine
2017 - AlpenOo, successful crowdfunding campaign Swiss sonic art collaboration
2016 - Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, Sound Art / Radio art commission
2016 - Psychiatrische Klinik Wil, Switzerland - Artist in Residence (& Keynote Speaker)
2016 - Stations of The Lost, ArtRail & ArtWalkPorty Artist in Residence/Lead Artist
2015 - Shellackplatten Quintet Live - The Dark Outside, Galloway Forest Park
2015 - Environmental Arts Festival Scotland, Site-Specific Artist
2013 - Atomic Doric, Woodend Barn, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Lead Artist
2010 - Lodestone, Ayr Academy / Tramway Glasgow
2009 - Surreal Steyning, Steyning Festival, Artist in Residence
2009 - Studio 1824, Timespan Heritage Centre Artist in Residence, Sutherland
2008 - Mindscape, Mental Health Project, Artist-Tutor at Inverurie Medical Practice
2009 - How’s The Ghost? An Tobar Mull, Market Gallery Artist in Residence, Glasgow
2006 - The Slough of Despond, Deveron Arts + Box Projects – Lens-based Artist
2006 - Leith Festival Artist in Residence, Edinburgh
2005 - Embassy Court Artist in Residence, Brighton, Sussex
2004 - Re:Create, Social Inclusion Project Photography Artist in Residence, Edinburgh
2003 - Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Photography Artist in Residence
2002 - Newcastle University – Artist in Residence, with lectureship
2001 - Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music Artist in Residence, Amsterdam
2001 - Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle - Internet Artist in Residence
2000 - BBC TV Northern Film Archive Year of The Artist, Artist in Residence
1996 - Ellen Wilkinson High School, Manchester / mmu.ac.uk Artist in Residence
Selected Exhibitions
2018 - Artists who Make Music, Musicians who Make Art - group show, Glasgow
2017 - Tiny Geographies, Edinburgh Pallette Studios Installation
2016 - Stations of The Lost [book / installation] Portobello Library, Edinburgh
2016 - Station of The Found - The Skylark, Portobello, Edinburgh [installation and text]
2016 - Stations of The Lost Installation - St Mark’s Church, Portobello, Edinburgh
2015 - Tiny Geographies, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh - screening and installation
2014 - Tiny Geographies, University of Zagreb - screening and installation
2013 - Tiny Geographies, Woodend Barn, Banchory - screening and installation
2010 - Surreal Steyning, web-published Interactive psychogeographic tour
2009 - Studio 1824, Timespan, Sutherland. Lambda prints, video and sound
2009 - How’s The Ghost? photography, short fiction, and film An Tobar Mull
2008 - Select Avocados, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Embassy Gallery
2006 - The Slough of Despond (The Wicker Man Remixed), Deveron Arts
2006 - The Room of One Arm Free, installation, Leith Festival, Edinburgh
2005 - The Erica Tetralix Polyfaith Map of Edinburgh, Furtherfield.org
2004 - Samboghakaya, Stills.org
2004 - A Keeper of Ducks Sings for You, performance of a song-cycle at Stills.org
2003 - The Perfection of Wisdom, audio installation with typographic mantra Stills.org
2002 - Svanejeger / Kaibilder / Organismene, video commission North Tyneside Arts. Screened at The Millenium Dome [experience] London
2001 - For The Exhaustives, covert psychogeographical intervention placing an engraved plaque on a small, uninhabited island on Loch Lomond – Self funded to raise awareness of M.E. in the UK
2000 - To Look North, an Arts Council England ‘Year of the Artist’ commission with BBC TV (North East), to produce a series of new works re-appropriating material from news archives from 1945 to 2000. Exhibited internationally with a CD-Rom publication alongside internet syndication.