Curriculum Vitae | Roxane Permar

curriculum vitae

ROXANE PERMAR

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SELECTED PROJECTS (year indicates start date)

2025 Northern Connections: Engaging young people in rural Arctic societies in building sustainability across borders

Dialogues: A Hybrid Art Project with Dorothea Rust (1 year)

2022 Living in the Landscape (2 years)

The Art of Engagement: Foundations for an international learning community in social practice (Advisor)

2021 Swap Shots Mobile Film Exchange (Home and Belonging)

Nordic Connections: Learning from the Past to Shape the Future

Landscape in Pain

2019 Home and Belonging

Re-positioning practice, place and people through virtual teaching of socially engaged art.

2016 Northern Exchange: Cold War Histories and Nuclear Futures

Recount

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2012 (group exhibitions unless indicated as solo)

2025 Kindred: Living in the Landscape, Helgeland Museum, Nesna, Norway.

2024 Cold War Scotland. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

New Genre Arctic Art and Art Education

Flow: Currents of Change in our river landscapes" KILO Gallery, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi

2021 Nurture: Living in the Landscape, Ljusgården Building, Umeå University, Sweden

Hidden Flowers Bloom Most Beautifully (Shetland and Appenzell Ausserrhoden)

Landscape of Mutability, online group exhibition Arts Lab, University of Glasgow, March 2021

2017 FLUG BLÄTTER: ATHEN - KASSEL - VENEDIG - MÜNSTER - LOITZ. Touring - Germany, Europe, UK

Bolungarvík, Group Exhibition (2017) Gallery Hämärä, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi

2016. Relate North: Practising Place: Heritage, Art and Design for Creative Communities

Pohjoisen poikia, maailman matkoja. Taiteen ja tieteen kiertokulut – Timo Jokelan juhlakatalogi. Galleria Hämärä, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

2015 Northern Exchange. Permar, R. and Timmins, S. (Solo Exhibition) Helmsdale, Scotland: Timespan C’mon and Get Happy, Spring Street. New York City

Relate North. Kemira Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska

2013 Relate North: Art, Community and Engagement; Reykjavik, Iceland: Nordic House

2012 Numbers. Shetland: Bonhoga Gallery,

FILM SCREENINGS

2013

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England; Juried international film festival (2013) the film, Countdown, co-authored with Susan Timmins, was screened in the Artists’ Film category (without the photographic installation)
Film Al Fresco, Philadelphia, USA: Galleries at Moore (2013) a curated programme of film screenings over five weeks, one programme each week, exhibited Countdown, a Cold War Projects film was screene 2007
Out Video 07, 4th International video-art festival on outdoor video screens in eleven Russian cities; The Wedding

GRANTS AND AWARDS SINCE 2012

2025 University of the Arctic for Northern Connections

VACMA. Creative Scotland / Shetland Arts, Visual Arts and Crafts Award

2022 University of the Arctic, for Living in the Landscape, Arctic sustainable Art and Design NETWORK

2021 Arctic Connections Scottish Government Fund,

2019 Life Changes Trust for Home and Belonging

2018 RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) for Repositioning Practice

2016 Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant for Northern Exchange: Cold War Histories and Nuclear Futures

2015 Creative Scotland individual Artist Bursary for Cold War Projects with Susan Timmins

Shetland Arts Visual Arts and Crafts Award

2013 Luminate Commission for Recount (Cold War Projects with Susan Timmins)

Historic Scotland

Shetland Arts Fund

Creative Scotland for Artworks Scotland Pilot Research Project

SELECTED ARTWORKS/ARTEFACTS (Sole author unless otherwise indicated)

Bloodlines. Collection of five short films ; two sets of five cards, 120 x 120 mm and 65 x 65 mm (2025)
Anunder. Digital film. 00:02:30 (2024)
Landscape in Pain 1466 Digital film 00:03:30 (2024)
Windlins. Digital film. 00:02:30 (2023)
Nordic Connections, contribution to Prototype geodesic dome using immersive gaming platform developed by Finlay MacDonald (2022)
Landscape in Pain, collection of 20 R-type photographic prints, 9 x 12 inches (2021)
Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautifully: Archive of Conversations, co-authored with Dorothea Rust, 4 pages, A3, digital prints, image and text (2021)
Recount, Permar, R. and Timmins, 2013, 9 knitted textile covers for ROC bunkers, originally created for sites in Shetland, dimensions variable, lambswool and glow-in-the-dark polyester thread,
Countdown, Permar, R. and Timmins, S. 2012 Film (00:04:20) and 20 black and white photographs 30 x 15 cm each
Imprints, i, ii, iii, 2010, three digital films, each 01:00:00
Crossing Waater, 2009, film, 00:08:00, soundtrack, ‘Kay’ by Harry Horse
Come and Go 2007 Flash animation, 00:06:00, soundtrack by David Sjoberg
The Wedding 2007, silent film, Flash animation
Step by Step 2005 film, 00:03:00; soundtrack is a Russian folk song sung by Zhanna Bichevskaya, filmed at Bridge End Hall, Burra, during the Scalloway Fire Festival in 2005 (exhibited in Crossovers – Watershed ii, the Toyota Municipal Art Museum, during the Aichi International Expo Japan 2005)
Searching for Sushi 2005, commissioned for Sonic Strolls, Fremantle Arts Festival, Australia
The Webnitki, 6 Flash animations with soundtrack produced in collaboration with Duncan Speakman (exhibited at Veer North Veers West, the former Scalloway Woolen Mill, 2004; Crossovers – Watershed ii, Furniture Works, London and Crossovers – Watershed ii, the Toyota Municipal Art Museum, during the Aichi International Expo Japan 2005)
Through the Moonpool 2003 film played as loop, 00:03:00; (exhibited in the Shetland Open 2003; crossovers, the Eco Gallery, London 2004 and Crossovers – Watershed ii, the Toyota Municipal Art Museum, during the Aichi International Expo Japan 2005
Knit 2006 film, 2004 00:06:00, played as loop; exhibited as a projection in ‘Veer North Veers West’, the former Scalloway Woollen Mill, 2004; used in Home, the Shetland production for the Scottish National Theatre, 2006
Cacti 2003, 3 projections onto the greenhouse domes at The Eden Project
Vospominianiya (Reminiscences) digital sound work created during the emplacements project at New Holland, St Petersburg, Russia, and presented in the Ship Building Test Tank at New Holland during the Vernissage (2000)
Dialogi (Dialogues) 2002 film and textile installation produced and exhibited during the emplacements project residency at The Red Banner Factory, St Petersburg
Flow, digital sound work for relocation, Museum House, London E2, an emplacements project
Intake 1999 site-specific sound installation with 70 sound chips and mini-disc player for O Pas La, Surprising Spaces, L.A.C. Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France, a group exhibition (catalogue)
The Croft Cosy Project 1994 Permar, R. and Johnson, W., set of 40 photographic C-type prints, 10” x 16”, exhibited in Shetland in eight community halls and The Shetland Museum and eight community Halls; Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1995; The Whitechapel Open, London, 1994; Make Believe, The Royal Festival Hall, London, 1994; Artificial Eden, Camerawork, London, 1994; It Takes Two, Ikon Touring, Ikon Gallery Touring Exhibition 1996-7; included in Abrams L., Chapman R, Christiansen C, Ciszuk M, Dearlove, S, Hammarlund L, Johnston E, Laurenson S,Smith B., Shetland Textiles: 800BC to the Present (Shetland Heritage Publications) 2013
The Knickerbeasts, 1990, plaster sculptures based on the fossil collection at The Natural History Museum, London, created for Still and Silent Objects, a group exhibition of 8 artists and exhibited again in 1996 in Divers Memories: A Collection of Things, The Manchester Museum

PROJECTS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

Northern Connections: Engaging young people in rural Arctic societies in building sustainability across borders
Nordic Connections: Learning from the past to shape the future (2021-2012)
Home and Belonging (2012-2022) UHI Centre for Island Creativity, Who Cares? Scotland, #SHETLANDCREW
Setting Sail, with Susan Timmins, for Crossing Waater, a project created by Veer North, Shetland's Visual Artists Group. Uyeasound and Bressay Primary Schools in Shetland, 2009
Artsplay, Shetland, 2002 and 2006-08, film and sculpture workshops with pre-school and primary pupils
E-Club Meets Homelife, 2007 Chigwell Row Wood, Epping, Essex: Epping Forest Arts, environmental project with a youth club for 8 – 12 year olds on a local housing estate, culminating in a live event in Chigwell Row Wood
What We Want, DVD made by young people from the West Side of Shetland and Aidan Nicol and Mairi McNeill for use in a community consultation process (2006)
Roseland in Roydon, school residency for Common or Garden, Epping Forest Arts, 2006
VOLCO coordination and facilitation in Shetland of interdisciplinary schools Internet project, created and supervised by Loraine Leeson in five Shetland primary school (2005)
Sonic Postcards Project – an international digital sound project for schools organised by the Sonic Arts Network, realised at four primry and secondary schools in Shetland
Fishtastic - The Scalloway Moving Image Web Project (2003-04) Scalloway Junior High School, Scottish Natural Heritage, North Atlantic Fisheries College, Seabirds and Seals-project with secondary pupils to make digital animations and a web site; a team from the Mainland came to Shetland to film the project as an example of innovative use of technology in schools; "Fishtastic Animation Makes A Move for the Web” published in Shetland Life, June 2004
Park Matters, Normand Croft Primary School; NDC Youth Forum; West Ken Rovers Football Club as part of consultation for the regeneration of Normand Park with Shillam + Smith Architects, 2003
Aberdeen Maritime Museum, schools workshops in conjunction with Through the Moonpool (2001)
The New Art Gallery Walsall, schools workshops for In Memoriam (2000-01)
Aberdeen Art Gallery, schools workshops for Re-visioning the Gallery, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project initiated by Karen Scopa (2000)

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS

Currents of Change in our River Landscapes. University of Lapland
New Genre Arctic Art and Art Education, at the Arctic Congress, Bodø, Norway 2023 exhibition catalogue
Nurture: Living in the landscape summer school and exhibition (2023)
Relate North 2023
Relate North 10: Possible Futures (2023)
Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes
Bolungarvik (2016)
Relate North 2016: Practising Place: Heritage, Art and Design for Creative Communities
Pohjoisen poikia, maailman matkoja. Taiteen ja tieteen kiertokulut – Timo Jokelan juhlakatalogi. 2016
Relate North 2015: Community, Culture and Communication
Recount: Bunker Stories, 2013
Relate North 2013
I Vesterveg, 2010
Crossing Waater, 2010
Das Park Heft: Malkasten: Blätter Jahrgang, 2008
Dialogi, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, 2007
International Festival of Experimental Art, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, 2008
The Foula Mailboat Project, Orkney and Shetland: Hansel Cooperative, 2008
Dialogi, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, 2007
Strange Strolls, Fremantle, Australia, 2005
In Memoriam, The New Art Gallery Walsall 2000, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation)
Scotland Year of the Artist 2000/01, CD-Rom, published 2002
O Pas La! Surprising Spaces, L.A.C. Lieu d’art contemporain, Sigean, France (1999)
Off Centre, London Borough of Camden, l997
A Splash of Colour, Shillam + Smith Architects, Saltley & Small Heath SRB, Birmingham (1999)
Off Centre, London Borough of Camden, l997
Divers Memories, Manchester Museum, l996.
Pretext: Heteronyms, Rear Window, l995
Gillian Collyer, Catherine Heard, Germaine Koh, Roxane Permar & Wilma Johnson, Ruth Scheuing, Or Gallery, Vancouver, l995.
Words, Aspex Gallery (Portsmouth) l995 and Fringe Gallery (Glasgow) l995
The Croft Cosy Project, l994
Make Believe, Royal Festival Hall (London) l994
The Nuclear Roadshow, 1990
Death: Contemporary Visions, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery & Kettle's Yard Gallery (1988) Watching You Watching Me, Small Mansion Arts Centre, l988
State of the Nation, Herbert Museum and Art Gallery (Coventry), l987
Women’s Work exhibition catalogues, Brixton Artists Collective: Our Territory, l984; Women’s Work I, l983; Love, Sex and Romance, l985

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

‘From Social Landscape to Landscapes of Trauma’ for Sculpture on a Burning Planet. Publisher: University of Helsinki Press. Editor: Andrew Best.
‘Embedded Practice in Shetland’ commissioned by the Museum of Unrest will be published online in a new ‘Collection’ of writings by artists whose work is community based
'Art and Engagement with the Cold War in Shetland and its Northern Neighbours', co-author with Susan Timmins, for publication from the conference Cold War, Collective Memory and Identity at the National Aviation Museum, Bodø, Norway (2024)

SELECTED INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

‘I Live Here! Reflections of a socially engaged artist in a small community’ for the book Socially Engaged Art and Ethics Power, Politics and Participation Editor: Anthony Schrag. Publisher: Routledge.
Co-editor - Härkönen, E., Burnett, K. Lundstedt, L., Permar, R. & Gårdvik, M. (Eds.) (2024). Flow: Currents of Change in our River Landscapes. University of Lapland
‘Swap Shots Mobile Film Exchange’ in Jokela T., Huhmarniemi M., Beer R. and Soloviova A. (Eds.) Mapping the New Genre Arctic Art Education. Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design, University of the Arctic. 138-141. (published 5 November 2024)
‘Torn by the wind - questions around forest, loss and renewal ‘ my essay in Nurture: Living in the landscape summer school and exhibition, ed. by Härkönen, Elina, Lundstedt, Lotta, Burnett, Kathryn, Gårdvik, Mette, Permar, Roxane (2023)
Co-editor - Nurture: Living in the landscape summer school and exhibition, ed. by Härkönen, Elina, Lundstedt, Lotta, Burnett, Kathryn, Gårdvik, Mette, Permar, Roxane
‘The importance of place’ - Blog article published by Luminate Scotland - https://luminatescotland.org/the-importance-of-place/ (1 August 2022)
‘More Now Than Ever’ for the Artworks Alliance Weblog (2021
‘Landscape in pain: Shetland’s industrial scale wind farm and solastalgia’. Technical Aesthetics and Design Research. (2022). 3. 14-21. 10.34031/2687-0878-2021-3-4-14-21.
‘Re-positioning Practice Through Virtual Teaching for Socially Engaged Art’ in Proceedings INSEA 2019 World Congress “Making - Place, Indigenize, Identity, Experiment”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 2019, (Open Access publication is scheduled for autumn, 2019)
‘Under the Radar: education for social art practice (in the British Isles)’ in Relate North 2019; Collaborative Art, Design and Education, ed. by T. Jokela and G. Coutts; Publisher: University of Lapland Press, Publication date: November 2019
‘From The Nuclear Family to Cold War Projects’ in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, ed. by Katy Deepwell. Publisher: Valiz, Netherlands. Publication date: late February 2020
‘Fragile Territories’ (2015) in Twenty Years of Make Magazine: Back to the Future of Women's Art. Walsh, M. & Throp, M. (eds.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 234-237 4 p.
‘Art and Engagement with the Cold War in Shetland’, Permar, R and Timmins, S. 2014. Relate North 2014: Engagement, Art and Representation, Review on Arctic Sustainable Art and Design, T. Jokela and G. Coutts, eds. Lapland University Press: Rovaniemi, Finland, p 34-58, 25 p
‘Mirrie Dancers: Light and Lace in Shetland,’ Permar, R. 2013, COOL: Applied Visual Arts in the North. Jokela, T., Coutts. G., Huhmarniemi, M. & Harkonen, E. (eds.) Rovaniemi, Finland: University of Lapland Press, pp 90-95, 6 p (Series C. Overviews and Discussion 41)
‘Mirrie Dancers: Light and Lace in Shetland’ 2014 Kreativnost: problem I metody professionalnoi podgotovki studentoy khudozhestvennykh napravlenii (spetsialnotsei) vyshevo professionalnovo obrazovaniya, Syktyvkar, Russia: Syktyvkar State University Press, p 156-16, 7p
Howard, Jeremy, “Nine waves of Russian sudno art: tacking the ebb and flow of modern maritime representation from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean”, Sculpture Journal 24.2 [2015]
Mathieson, Kenny, Tripping the Light Fantastic: Mirrie Dancers, December 2009, http://www.hiarts.co.uk/HI-Arts Features/2009/dec09-feature-Roxane-Permar-Nayan-Kulkarni.htm
The Foula Mail Boat Project, Northings: Highlands and Islands Arts Journal 2007
Karen Emslie, ‘Roxane Permar – Through the Moonpool', Northings: Highlands and Islands Arts Journal, http://www.hi-arts.co.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-hianewna4.RefLocID-hiacg5005001.Lang-EN.htm
Hirsh, Thomas, ‘Roxane Permar’ 2006 (will be published on www.roxanepermar.com)
Silver, Susannah, Matters (formerly Sculpture Matters) 2002
Watt, Jane, ’Negotiating Places, Part VI ‘, [a-n] Magazine for Artists, May 2004

WEB SITES

www.coldwarprojects.com

www.landscapeinpain.uk

www.roxanepermar.com

CONSULTANCY AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL WORK

Member of ASAD since 2013, and UHI representative since 2016 (Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design) thematic network, University of the Arctic
Cultural Enterprise Office participated in group consultancy for pilot of a professional networking and collaboration website for creative practitioners throughout Scotland, with commissioned article 'Creative Collaboration' 2007
Fife Artists and Makers Forum, guest speaker; Dunfermline, 2007
Highlands and Islands Visual Arts Gathering, speaker; Hi-Arts, Ullapool, 2006
Shetland Arts Development Agency, Trustee, 2006-07
Shetland Islands Council, Community Agent for Burra Isle, 2004/05
Hull Time Based Arts / Commissions in the Environment (Manchester), consultant, commissioned report, 2004
a-n Visual Artists’ Networking Event, speaker and mentor for one-to-one sessions with artists, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen, 2004
London Metropolitan University, MA Fine Art and Design, guest speaker, 2004
Visual Arts Conference, Highlands and Islands, Speaker, Fort William, Scotland, 2003
Crossover UK Conference, speaker, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2003
Falmouth College of Art for MA Fine Art, guest speaker, 2003
Burra Playgroup, Shetland, Photographer, 2003
Yell Crafts Association, Quality Assurance Interviewer, 2003
Visual Impact Assessments within Environmental Assessments for aquaculture developments, Shetland, 2002-03
Aberdeen City Council, Member, Selection Panel, Visual Arts Small Grants Scheme, 2000
Scottish Arts Council, speaker and panel member for Conference on audience development, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2000
Art in Partnership, member of Board of Directors, Edinburgh, 1999-2002
Art in Partnership, co-developed and delivered education programme for exhibition about Aberdeen Beach Project, Aberdeen Art Gallery with Karen Scopa, 1999
Hospitalfield House, Trustee, Arbroath, 1998-2000
SAC Focus Group, member of focus group: ‘Artists and Audiences’, 1998
Arts Council of England, member of Artists Advisory Panel for Combined Arts, 1997
West Midlands Arts, member of Artists’ Advisory Panel for Visual Arts, 1997
University of Central England, co-founder of Public Art Research Group 1994-97
Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, mentor to Fine Art staff in delivery and assessment of Contextual Studies BA (Hons) Fine Art Course, 1994-95
School of Fashion & Textiles, Central St Martin’s (London) and the Moscow Textiles Institute, co-organised and led exchanges for students and staff between 1990 and 1992
Ikon Gallery, member of Artists’ Advisory Panel, Birmingham, 1994
The Nude, by Lynda Nead, consultant for (Routledge, London), 1992
Progressive Tours (London), programmed and escorted art tours to Moscow and Leningrad for art students and artists, 1981-90
Women Artists Slide Library, Executive Committee Member, 1989-91

TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DesignAKnit, Shetland College UHI (2012)
VOLCO, 2005
Sonic Arts Network, Digital Sound for Schools, BBC 21st Century Learning Centre, London, 2004/05
The Scalloway Moving Image Web Project, Flash animation, Freehand and Dreamweaver, 2003/04
Lab Culture at The Eden Project, new media training organised by pva, 2003
DA2 Summer Audio School, Plymouth University, 2000
DA2 Audio Winter School, Dartington College of Arts, 1999

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