Stephen Partridge is an artist and academic researcher (PI/CI on the AHRC-funded video art archival and historical projects REWIND, Expanded Cinema, RewindItalia, European Women’s Video Art and Richard Demarco |The Italian Connection).
He was in the landmark video shows of the 1970s including The Video Show at the Serpentine in 1975, The Installation Show at the Tate gallery in 1976, The Paris Biennalle in 1977 and a solo exhibition at The Kitchen in New York in 1979. During the eighties he exhibited widely and also became interested in works for broadcast television and was commissioned by Channel 4 television to produce Dialogue for Two Players in 1984. With Jane Rigby, he formed Fields and Frames Ltd - an arts projects and television production company - which produced the innovative Television Interventions project for Channel 4 in 1990, with nineteen works by artists for television (including his own piece in the series - The Sounds of These Words. He also co-produced a short series of student and artists work, Not Necessarily, with BBC Scotland for BBC2 network television in 1991. He has also curated a number of influential exhibitions: Video Art 78 in Coventry; UK TV New York; National Review of Live Art 1988-90; 19:4:90 Television Interventions; and the touring tape packages Made in Scotland I, II, Semblances, Passages, and David Hall: Situations Envisaged at the Richard Saltoun Gallery in London in 2015. He lectured from 1975- 2019 in a number of art colleges, and established the School of Television & Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee) where he was Dean of Research from 2001- 2019. He is currently Professor Emeritus with the Transtechnology Research Group at the University of Plymouth. His seminal work Monitor (1974) was acquired by TATE in December 2014 and also exhibited at Tate St Ives, and Fundacja Aarton, Warsaw in 2021.
Roles on external bodies
He has experience of peer review and evaluation for the Arts Council, Channel 4, the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, SAC Lottery, Creative Scotland Awards. From 2004-2007, he was a member of the AHRC Research Committee and Convener of AHRC Panel 2 Visual Arts & Media. Member of the International Review Panel for HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) and its Joint Research Programme “Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation” (2009- 2013); Assessor for the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in 20014 and 2018. Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Research Foundation Vienna, Expert Reviewer 2009, Govt of Hong King University Grants Committee Research Assessment Exercise 2014. Member of REF 2014 UoA 34 Sub Panel for Art & Design : History, Practice and Theory. He was a member of Panel B Evaluation Panel for the Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities 2014-17. In 2017 he established his University Research Consultancy and is advising Universities of Leeds, Canterbury Christ Church, Northumbria, Edinburgh, Herfordshire, Bournemouth, Greenwich, Kingston, Plymouth, and Honk Kong University of the Arts. He was the interdisciplinary panel member and Depute Chair for the UKRI REF2021 and was a member of the REF 2014, UoA 34 Sub Panel for Art & Design: History, Practice and Theory.