About
adamcastle@adamcastle.com
ADAM CASTLE
I am an artist and curator. I work collaboratively with architectural designer Davide Bugarin to create moving image, performance and installation works.
I founded both Pollyanna queer arts company and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival. I won the Leadership Award at the Creative Edinburgh Awards 2016 for founding both: “This award recognises an outstanding individual for their leadership and contribution to their sector, or the creative industries as a whole.”
UPCOMING:
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Microscope Gallery, New York City (USA)
13 - 15 June 2024
Opening Thursday 13 June 6pm
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Kriittinen Gallery, Turku (Finland)
2 - 28 August 2024
Opening Friday 2 August
RECENT
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
10-12 November 2023
Opening Thursday 9 November
I am an artist and curator. I work collaboratively with architectural designer Davide Bugarin to create moving image, performance and installation works.
I founded both Pollyanna queer arts company and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival. I won the Leadership Award at the Creative Edinburgh Awards 2016 for founding both: “This award recognises an outstanding individual for their leadership and contribution to their sector, or the creative industries as a whole.”
UPCOMING:
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Microscope Gallery, New York City (USA)
13 - 15 June 2024
Opening Thursday 13 June 6pm
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Kriittinen Gallery, Turku (Finland)
2 - 28 August 2024
Opening Friday 2 August
RECENT
Davide Bugarin & Adam Castle
Sore Throat
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
10-12 November 2023
Opening Thursday 9 November
ARTIST CV
Exhibitions, film
festivals, performances
Sore Throat (2023)
Collaboration with Davide Bugarin
- Solo exhibition: Microscope Gallery, New York City (USA), June 2024
- Solo exhibition: Kriittinen Gallery, Turku (Finland), August 2024
- Solo exhibition: Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, November 2023
- Funder: AHRC via Creative Informatics/University of Edinburgh, Creative Scotland, Fruitmarket
OMOS (2022) (Producer)
- Solo exhibition: Kriittinen Gallery, Turku (Finland), August 2024
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Solo exhibition: KINDL Centre for Contemporary Arts, Berlin,
March-July 2023
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Solo exhibition: Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, March 2023
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Solo exhibition: Stirling Castle, Stirling, October-December 2022
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Solo exhibition: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
September-October 2022
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Solo exhibition: Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon, March-April 2022
- Film festival: Opening Film of Glasgow Short Film Festival,
Glasgow Film Theatre, March 2023
Winner: Best Experimental Film at Boomtown Film & Music Festival, Texas (USA) 2024 -
Funder: Creative Scotland, National Lottery Heritage
Fund, Historic Environment Scotland, People’s Postcode Trust, City of Edinburgh
Council, EventScotland and others.
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Media: BBC Radio 4, BBC Scotland Radio and in The Scotsman, The
List, The Skinny, The Daily Record, Snack Magazine, Somewhere For Us.
- Funder: Creative Scotland, Heritage Fund, City of Edinburgh Council, Goethe Institut, EventScotland, People’s Postcode Trust
12-month part-time Research and Development (2020)
- Funder: £15k Creative Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland and
others
Lupi Lupi Lu (2019)
- Solo presentation: BBC website, 2019-present
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Group exhibition: Kunstmuseum, Bonn, March-April 2021
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Film festival: Glasgow Short Film Festival, March 2021
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Online archive: blinkvideo curated video art platform,
2021-present
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Arts festival: Birkbeck, May 2021
- Funder: BBC Scotland / LUX Scotland
Tonight Tonight No More (2018)
- Solo exhibition: St Cecilia’s Hall/Talbot Rice Gallery, May 2018
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Funder: Talbot Rice Gallery
TRG3 Residency (2017-18)
- Residencey with gallery, plus research trip to Venice Biennale
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Funder: Talbot Rice Gallery
Entertainment (2017)
- Group exhibition: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, March-April
2018
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Joint solo screening: Talbot Rice Gallery, September 2017
- Group exhibition: Gallery 23, Edinburgh, August 2018
To Me You Mean The Most (2017) (Co-creator with Ed Twaddle)
- Group exhibition: Block 336, January-March 2018
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Group exhibition: BALTIC, Gateshead, September-November 2017
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Joint solo screening: Talbot Rice Gallery, September 2017
Right Now (2016)
- Group exhibition: KisUzem, Budapest, May 2016
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Group exhibition: Telep, Budapest, May 2016
Screensaver (2015)
- Group exhibition: Threewalls Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Screening: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
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Screening: Dikeou Collection, Denver
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Touring US group gallery screening: at Recess, New York; Vox
Populi, Philadelphia; SEDIMENT, Richmond; Double Double Land, Toronto; The
Cave, Detroit; Skylab, Columbus; The Luminary, St. Louis; Threewalls, Chicago;
The White Page, Minneapolis; Leisure Gallery, Denver; FalseFront, Portland;
StoreFront Lab, San Francisco
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Film festivals:
- International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Vancouver
- Miami New Media Art Festival, Miami
- Digital Muddy Expanded Media Festival, Illinois
Performance
- Mean Most (duo performance),
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 2017
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Pollyfilla performances, Pollyanna cabaret,
various venues, over 100 shows, 2015-present
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Buy now! and Presents Presently (solo performance), Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh, 2019 & 2021
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soursop (solo
performance), Embassy Gallery,
Edinburgh, 2018
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Puppet Karaoke, (solo performance) at
JW3 Jewish Cultural Centre, London, 2013
Various
- Group exhibition: Meridian Club Gallery, Beijing, 2016
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Group exhibition: Stanley Mills, Perth, 2016
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Film festival: Ickle Film Fest, Dundee, 2014
Publications
- Catalague for Videonale.18
- FELT Book,
eFELT epublication, The Institute for New Feeling
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Catalogue for International Symposium for
Electronic Arts
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Catalogue for Incubarte Festival
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Interview in Stigmart Videofocus annual video art journal
Curator/Creative producer/Lecturer
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newcastle University
September 2023 - present
Teaching Fellow in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
September 2023 - present
Associate Lecturer, University for the Creative Arts
January 2023 - August 2023
Associate Lecturer
and Events and Exhibition Producer, Birkbeck School of Arts
December 2019 - present
External Assessor for funding applications, Creative Scotland
October 2021 - present
Curator, Historic Environment Scotland
July 2021 - March 2022
Head of Events, The Audience Agency
March 2021 - present
Producer, Into the New, festival of contemporary performance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
November to Mach 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23
Film Programmer (Dance), Aesthetica Short Film Festival
March - July 2021, 2022 and 2023
Curator and Producer, Centre for Cultural Value
July - December 2020
Industry Events Programmer, BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
January - March 2020
Film Audience Network Training Coordinator, Film Hub Scotland, Glasgow Film
July 2018 - April 2020
Curator, Open Out week, film night, The Fruitmarket Gallery
February 2018
Curator, Curator commission for Royal Hospital for Sick Children & Department for Clinical Neurosciences, NHS Lothian
October 2017 - January 2018
Events coordinator, Arts & Business Scotland
May 2017 - July 2018
Curator, Open Out week, film night, The Fruitmarket Gallery
July 2017
Co-ordinator of volunteers, Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF)
2016
Advisory Committee member, Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF)
2016 - 2019
Board member, Fruitmarket
2023 - present
Director, Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival (EAMIF)
2015 - present
Director, Pollyanna
2015 – present
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