
Dr Chris Dooks
Interdisciplinary Artist
Residency / Commission Highlights 1996-2022
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 sonic art collaboration based on Swiss field recordings
2016 Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, Sound Art / Radio art commission
2016 Psychiatrische Klinik Wil, Swizterland - Artist in Residence (& Symposium Keynote Speaker)
2016 Stations of The Lost, ArtRail & ArtWalkPorty Artist in Residence/Lead Artist (ScotRail)
2015 Shellackplatten Quintet Live - Commissioned Sound Artist, 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 – Higher Pupils, Artist in Residence for Tramway / Ayr Town Hall
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 Aberdeenshire Council
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, Aberdeenshire
2006 Leith Festival Artist in Residence, Edinburgh (C.S. and City of Edinburgh Council)
2005 Embassy Court Artist in Residence, Brighton, Sussex (Grant from Bluestorm Ltd)
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 (Fine Art Department)
2001 Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music Artist in Residence, with Robert Hampson Amsterdam (S.T.E.I.M.)
2001 Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle - Internet Artist in Residence (College Funded)
2000 BBC TV Northern Film Archive Year of The Artist, Artist in Residence (Arts Council England)
1996 Ellen Wilkinson High School, Manchester / mmu.ac.uk Artist in Residence (Arts Council England)
Selected Exhibitions 2000-2018
2018 Artists who Make Music, Musicians who Make Art - group show, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow
2017 Tiny Geographies, Edinburgh Pallette Studios Installation
2016 Stations of The Lost [book edition, installation and tour of region] 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 [large scale community sound-piece]
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 mp3 tour with two live performances – Arts Council England and The Steyning Festival
2009 Studio 1824, performance / photography collaboration about ice houses – Creative Scotland and Timespan, Sutherland. Lambda prints, video and sound.
2009 How’s The Ghost? photography, short fiction, and film archive manipulations with Scottish fairground communities in Glasgow – Creative Scotland and The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, An Tobar Mull
2008 Select Avocados, commissioned psychogeographical tour with website launch Edinburgh
International Arts Festival 2008 Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh / Edinburgh Art Festival 2008
2006 The Slough of Despond (The Wicker Man Remixed), Live audio-visual piece for Halloween in Huntly, Huntly Town Square, Aberdeenshire – Deveron Arts
2006 The Room of One Arm Free, installation, with song and story-based performance for a sex workers charity,
www.scot-pep.org.uk - The Leith Festival, Edinburgh
2005 The Erica Tetralix Polyfaith Map of Edinburgh, city-wide interactive mp3 psychogeographical tour of Edinburgh using paradolia and simulacratic forms as narrative. Performances, a mini-bus tour, website, related lectures, and publication. A film about the project was later commissioned by Furtherfield.org and exhibited internationally.
2004 Samboghakaya, video installation and performance based on scriptures found in Mahayana Buddhism about the state between form and formlessness, with lecture – 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, edited interview with an experienced eighty- year-old meditation practitioner. Based on the world’s oldest book, The Diamond Sutra – Edinburgh Buddhist Centre
2002 Svanejeger / Kaibilder / Organismene, video commission for a post-millennial art work, placed in a portfolio of sculptures and installations to grace the River Tyne - 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.