Sally Waterman | University for the Creative Arts (original) (raw)

SALLY WATERMAN, born Isle of Wight, UK, 1974, lives in London. She holds a BA (Hons.) English with Design Arts, University of Plymouth (1995) and MA Image & Communication (Photography), Goldsmiths (1996). She received her practice-based PhD Media and Photography: ‘Visualising The Waste Land: Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation’ from the University of Plymouth, in 2011.

Group shows and screenings include ‘Shifting Horizons’, Derby Museum & Art Gallery and Midland Arts Centre, (2000-2001), ‘Forest’, Nottingham Castle Museum, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wolverhampton Gallery and York Art Gallery (2004-2005), ‘What Happens Next?’ Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London (2008), 'Voyage', Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany (2013), Berlin Experimental Film Festival (2016), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (2017), ‘Journeys with The Waste Land’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2018), ), ‘Family Film Project International Film Festival’, Porto, Portugal (2019) and 'MK Calling', MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2020).

She has co-curated artist film programmes at Richmond American International University, London; Birkbeck cinema, London; ViSiONA festival, Huesca, Spain; Close-Up cinema, London and CCA, Glasgow. Her photographs have featured on book covers for Virago, Random House, Harper Collins and Faber & Faber and her work is held in public collections including The National Art Library at the V&A, London; The School of Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale Center for British Art, New York.

Published works include ‘Performing Familial Memory in Against’ in Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory, edited by Silke Arnold-de Simine and Joanne Leal (Bloombury, 2018) and ‘Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation’ in Global Photographies: Memory–History–Archives, edited by Sissy Helff and Stefanie Michels, (Transcript, 2018).

Waterman has worked as a part time lecturer in Film Arts at Plymouth College of Art (2005-2009), and an associate lecturer in Media Arts at Plymouth University (2007-2008). She was a visiting fellow at the IGRS, University of London (2011-2012), where she organised the 'Family Ties: Recollection and Representation' conference and is a founder member of the research group, Family Ties Network. Waterman currently works as a part time archive manager for the German photographer, Juergen Teller (since 2009) and as an associate lecturer at Ravensbourne University, London (since 2013) and UCA in Rochester (since 2017).

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