Heather McDonough CV

McDonough's work is consistently concerned with 'series' - sequences placed within a specific context. The work is about memory, time, location, light, obsession, curiosity and the need to keep and collect. McDonough's most recent large scale work is a specially commissioned permanent installation at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts. The piece incorporates large photographs and illumination placed directly into the fabric of the original building to create a subtle yet ever present sculptural work on 4 floors of an internal courtyard. In 1998, she completed an MA in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art , where she was examining the connections between drawing and photography in relation to collecting and hoarding. Heather is currently Course Leader at Anglia Polytechnic University for the Photographic and Digital Media B.A. Degree Course. She has been teaching since 1993, and has been a visiting lecturer at London Guildhall University, Winchester School of Art, Nene University College Northampton, and Cavendish College, London. She has run educational workshops at the Cambridge Darkroom and at the Serpentine Gallery. Commercially commissioned work includes Book cover photography for Namara Design, CD covers for Flat Five Records and Web Design. She lives in East London with her musician husband, small son, 2 cats and a red car.

Selected Exhibitions

2001
Daze. University of Texas at Dallas Gallery. Short Stories.

2000
European Women's Photography Award, Vaiano, Italy. Places of Life - 600 magnetised images (1)

1999
R-Cade Interactive CD-ROM for the Glasgow Print Workshop. Selected artists include:Jim Hamlyn, Annette Heyer, David Harrison, David Bellingham Whiteley¹s, London: Created Space Group Show

1998
Whitechapel Open Canary Wharf Site, London: Photographs in menu stands distributed through out restaurants and bars Whitechapel and East End Open Studios, London Wimbledon School of Art, London: M.A. Drawing Final Year Show (2)

1997-98 (Award)
Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts: Permanent site specific photo/light artwork commissioned for LIPA'S Atrium (3)

1996
The Bridge, Tynemouth Metro Station, North Tynemouth: Photo/light installation commissioned by North Tyneside Council as part of the Visual Arts Festival 1996. (4) The Special Photographers Company, London: Famous Unknowns

1994
Whitechapel and East End Open Studio, London Royal Festival Hall, London: South Bank Photo Show Angela Flowers Gallery, London: After Redouté Whitechapel Gallery Foyer, London: 1:4 The Montage Gallery, Derby: Stones in Her Pockets The Open Window Gallery, London: Metropolis (no. 38 & no. 73 bus route)

1993
London Guildhall University: EX The Photographers Gallery, London: Transitions

1992
Galerie Image Denmark: Europe Without Framework Derby Photography Festival: The Reflected Garden (5) Award

1991
Cambridge Darkroom: Eastern Arts Bursary Award Winners Exhibition & ²I Close My Eyes² (Documentary Film made about the four Award Winning photographers)