Born:
Essex, England. July 1952

Education:
PhD, Royal College of Art, School of Communications:1996-01.
MA (Fine Art), Goldsmith's, University of London: 1981-83.
HDCP, London College of Printing, School of Film & TV: 1976-79.

Solo Exhibitions:
Mothlight 2, 291 Gallery, London, June 2001.
Fenetre Digitale, Galeri Brighi, Paris, June -July 2000.
Mothlight, Rich Women of Zurich, London, March 1999.
Glass Box Gallery, Salford, Manchester. Oct , 1998.
Certosa di Calci/Museum of Natural History, Pisa, Italy. April -May ,1998.
Mind's Eye, Hotbath Gallery, Bath, July-Aug 1997.
Vortex, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucester , Oct.- Nov. 1995.
Perpetual Motion, Saw Gallery , Ottawa, Canada. Aug-Sept. 1994.
Heaven & Earth, London Film-Maker's Co-op, London, Feb.1992.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
Digital Interventions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, June 2002-Jan 2003.
Interstanding 4, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov . 2001.
The Digital Aesthetic, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Sept- Nov 2001.
Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, April-Sept. 2001.
AnOther Place, Storey Institute, Lancaster, Jan-Mar. 2001.
Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London, Oct, 2000.
Submerged , Bath International Festival, Bath , May -June,1999.
Back/Slash, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Sept.-Nov. 1996.
River Crossings, Camerawork, London. April - May, 1993.
Quick! , Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London, April 1993.
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Sept. 1992.
4xVideo, Galeri OneOne, Antwerp, Belgium. Feb. 1991.
New Art Northwest Mercury Court, Liverpool. Aug. 1991.
Visions & Transmissions, Harris Museum, Preston. Nov.-Dec. 1990.
External Affairs, Canada House Gallery, London. Sept. 1989.
The Art of Understatement: Recent British Video, Madrid, Spain: 1988.
British Video Art & Experimental Film, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary: 1987.
Breaking Boundaries, Channel 6, ICA, London: 1986.
Light Years, London Film-Makers Co-op: 1986.
New British Video, Atelilier de Pedegogie et d'animation, Strasbourg, France: 1986.
Summary Video UK, ICA, London: 1984.
The British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space, Toronto, Canada: 1984.
Video/Performance, The Photographers Gallery, London: 1984.
New British Video, Museum of Long Beach, California, USA: 1983.
The New Contemporaries, ICA , London: 1979.

Touring Exhibitions:
ArCade, Digital Creativity, University of Brighton , April 1995 (Touring UK: 1995-97)
Electric Eyes: British Artists Video 1985-88: Tate Gallery, London; ICA, London; Sao Paulo, Brazil; el Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Columbia; Vienna, Austria.
(Touring UK :1988-89)
Genlock, Interim Arts, London, 1988. (Touring UK: 1988-89)
The Ottawa International Festival of Video Art, (Touring Canada: 1984-85.)
New British Image, Side Gallery, Newcastle: 1977. (Touring UK:1978-79)

Special Events & Festivals:
The British Landscape Through the Lens, Tate Britain, London, Oct-Nov 2001.
Mute Loops, Lux Gallery, London, July 2001.
Shhh! !..Music for Museums, "Friday Late View ", V & A Museum, London, Aug., 2000.
Place Setting , (with Peter Ting) V & A Museum, London. Nov. 1999.
Art, Nature ,Culture, Salisbury State University, Maryland, USA. April , 1995.
Olympus Gallery, London, January, 1984.
Video by Artists, National Film Theatre, London, March, 1984.
The Expanded Media Show, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Feb. 1983.
LVA Gallery, London, Sept. 1983.
Ljublana Festival, Ljublana, Yugoslavia, 1983.
Gallery Trenkanten, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1983.
Cairn, Paris, France, 1982.
The Basement, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982.
Video Screenings: Chris Andrews, ICA Cinematheque, London, 1982.
Atelier Ste. Anne, Brussels, Belgium, 1981.
Fourth Annual Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 1981.
London Video Arts at the London Musician's Collective, Aug.1981.
New Acquisitions, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 1981.
National Video Festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1980, 1981, 1982 & 1987.
Rusden State College, Victoria, Australia, May 1979.

Reviews & Articles: (about Chris Meigh-Andrews)
Nothing Matters, Estonian Art 2, Tallinn, Estonia, 2001.
Case Study: A Photographic Truth 2001, Hot Dots, Nov, 2001.
Nor Did His Shutter Sleep in his Hand, The Times, 3/4/2001.
Fenetre Digitale, Time Out, No.1575, Oct. 25th-Nov. 1st, 2000.
Submerged, Soundings, AN Magazine, July, 1999.
Placeholder, Caroline Smith, http://www.da2.org.uk/submerged
Mothlight, Flash Art (Italy) , Summer 1998 .
Tecnologia e ambiente poi amore e...faralle, La Nazione, (Italy) 17/4/98.
Mind's Eye, "The Guide", Exhibitions Preview, The Guardian, 12/7/97.
Mind's Eye, Preview, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 15, July1997.
Perpetual Motion by Chris Meigh-Andrews, City Life, Manchester, Oct. 1996.
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Vortex- A Video Installation , Live Art Magazine, April1996.
Interview with Chris Meigh-Andrews, Virus, Milan, Italy, April, 1995.
Lost in Cyberspace, Artists Newsletter, June 1994.
Camerawork on Board, Stage, Screen & Radio, May 1993.
River Crossings, Hybrid, June-July, 1993.
River Crossings, Creative Camera, Feb.-Mar.1993.
European Media Art Festival ,Variant, Nov. 1992.
Osnabruck Media Art Festival, Frankfurter Rundschau, (Germany) 17/9/92.
Eau d'Artifice, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Performance, Spring 1992.
Video Art Flows into Mercury, Liverpool Daily Post, 21/8/91.
Visions & Transmissions, Screen, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 1991.
Visions & Transmissions, Artscribe International, April 1991.
High Tech Exhibition Features Video Art, Lancashire Evening Post, 29/11/90.
The Stream, Independent Media, March 1988.
Reel Art, Time Out, No. 674, July 22nd-28th, 1983.
Video Art, Stills, Vol.1, No. 4, Winter 1982.
Moves & Blurs, The Listener, Feb. 1978.

Catalogues:
Mothlight, An installation by Chris Meigh-Andrews, March 1999.
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Video Tapes, Installations, CD Roms:1978-1997, Uni. of Central Lancashire, 1997.
Digital Mediation. Imagine Technology as Art, " Back/Slash", Sept, 1996.
The Politics of the Personal in British Video Art, LVA Catalogue, Oct. 1991.
Video Installations in the UK, Video Positive Catalogue, April. 1991.
British Image 4, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.

Bibliography:
Video Loupe, Catherine Elwes, KT Press, London, 2000.
Diverse Practices-A Critical Reader on British Video , Julia Knight, ed. , Arts Council
of England/ John Lilly Media, Luton,1996.
A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, David Curtis, ed. , Arts Council of England
John Lilly Media, Luton,1996.
Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Sean Cubitt, MacMillan, London, 1993.
The Book of Special Effects Photography, Michael Langford, Ebury Press, London, 1981.

Publications: (by Chris Meigh-Andrews)
Art in-Sight: Video Tapes, Installations and Projections; 1978-2001, Filmwaves, Issue 15, 2001.
Mapping the Image, Digital Creativity , 2001.
Unseen Images, Bill Viola, Art Monthly, No. 173, Jan 1994.
Dummies, Dolls & Poison Candy, Tony Oursler, Art Monthly, No. 171, Nov. 1993.
Abstract, Still Life, Portrait, Art Monthly, No. 136, May 1992.
Video Positive 1991. Art Monthly, No. 147, June 1991.
Video Sculpture & Installation, Harris Museum, Preston, Nov. 1990.

Radio & Television Broadcasts:
End Repeat, Eesti (Estonia) 11/01. (interview & feature)
Bath International Music Festival, HTV, 23/5/99. (Interview & feature)
BBC TV South West, 20/5/99. (News feature)
BBC Radio Bristol, 15/07/97. (Live interview)
Vortex at Prema Arts Centre, BBC Radio Gloucester, 31/10/95. (Feature)
Oxford Brookes University's First Artist in Residence, BBC Radio Oxford,
25/2/94 (feature) and 27/2/94 (live Interview)
River Crossings, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 26/3/93 .(Interview & feature)
European Media Art Festival, NDR 3 (Germany) 10/3/93 (Interview & feature)
Video 3, The Eleventh Hour, Channel 4 & WGBH, Boston , USA, 1985 & 87. (Interview)

Grants & Awards:
Arts Council of Great Britain / England, 1988,1991,1993,1994,1995 ,1997 & 1999.
North West Arts, 1994,1996,1998 & 2000.
Southern Arts, 1994.
Henry Moore Foundation, 1999.
South West Arts, 1995, 1997 & 1999.
Foundation for Sport and Art, 1995.
Northern Arts, 1995.
Ontario Ministry of Culture & Arts, Canada. (Visiting Artist Award) 1994.
Greater London Arts, 1984 & 1986.
Danish Film institute (Visiting Artist's Award) 1984.

Commissions:
For William Henry Fox Talbot, Site-specific installation, V&A, London and Lacock Abbey, Wilts, sponsored by Canon UK, and Solar Century Ltd., 2002.
A Photographic Truth, Video projection , V & A, London, sponsored by Canon UK, 2001.
Submerged, Site-specific installation, Bath Festivals Trust & DA2 , Bath, 1999.
Vortex, site-specific installation, Prema Arts Centre, Gloucester, 1995.
Fire, Ice & Steam, Site-specific installation, Middlesbrough Gallery, Cleveland, 1995.
Cross-Currents, Site-specific installation, Camerawork, London, 1993.
Streamline, Bluecoat Gallery, sponsored by English Estates, Liverpool, 1991.
Eau d'Artifice, Harris Museum, Preston, sponsored by Samuelsons Communications, 1990.

Visiting Artist & Residencies:
Video Artist in Residence, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucester. Aug.- Oct. 1995.
Video Artist in Residence, Cleveland Arts, April-May 1995.
Artist in Residence, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. Aug.-Sept. 1994.
Resident Artist in Digital Imaging, School of Visual Arts, Music & Publishing,
Oxford Brookes University, Jan.-July 1994.
Guest Artist, Summer Arts Lab, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Dundee, Scotland, Aug.1994.
Guest Artist, Falling Annual Festspiel, Odder, Denmark. Sept. 1984.

Curatorial:
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London Feb 2002.
The Digital Aesthetic, Harris Museum , Preston, November 2001. Funded by NW Arts, Preston Borough Council, Univ. of Central Lancs & The Elephant Trust.

Academic Papers & Presentations:
"Practice-led" Research, Dept. of Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass. USA, July 2002.
Artist-Engineers: Pioneering Video Artists and Electronic Imaging Technology, "End Repeat", Interstanding 4, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov. 2001.
My Shifting Relationship to Electronic & New Media Practice, "Logical Operators", Folly Gallery, Lancaster, 2001.
Video Installation: 1990-2001, Hoogschool Voor de Kunst, Utrect, Holland, 2001.
Chairman, "The Bright Side", Video Positive, Liverpool, April 2000.
Video Art & The Personal, "The Independent Programme", Harris Museum, Preston, 1996.
Perpetual Motion: A Video Installation Utilising Renewable Energy Resources, "Art, Culture, Nature", Salisbury State University, Maryland, USA, 1995.

Current Academic Post: 2000 to date:
Reader in Electronic and Digital Art, Faculty of Design & Technology, University of Central Lancashire

Academic & Professional Appointments:
External assessor, MA Digital Arts, Camberwell College of Art, London Insitute, 2001-04.
External assessor, Time-Based Arts,BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 2000-03.
Film & Video advisor for North West Arts, 1997 -2000.
External Advisor for validation of BA (Hons) in Film and Electronic Media, Gloucester College of Further Education, 1992.
Member of the Board of Trustees, Moviola, Liverpool: 1992-94.
Member, Council for National Academic Awards: 1991.
Chairman, London Video Access:1987-89.
Member of Board of Management: London Video Arts:1979-82.

Teaching Posts: 1979-2000:
Senior Lecturer, Area Co-ordinator in Time-Based Media, & Course Tutor, MA Fine Art, Dept. of Art & Fashion, University of Central Lancashire: 1986-2000.
Part-time lecturer in Time-Based Arts, School of Arts, Leicester Polytechnic:1989-91.
Senior Lecturer (0.5) in Time-Based Studies, Kent Institute of Art & Design:1988-89.
Part-time lecturer in Film & Video, City of London Polytechnic:1987-88.
Part-time lecturer in Fine Art, Lancashire Polytechnic: 1984-86.
Tutor in video, London International Film School: 1983-88.
Part-time lecturer in Video, School of Film & T.V., London College of Printing: 1980-83.
Part-time lecturer in Photography, Southend School of Art & Design: 1979-82.

Other Relevant Experience:
Director, Three-Quarter Inch Productions, London:1979-87 (working as freelance film & video animator ; 'off-line' video editor; Director/cameraman and photographer ) .
TV Studio Technician/Engineer, Inner London Education Authority :1979-81.
Audio-Visual Producer/Photographer, Vanier College, Montreal , Canada :1974-75.
Media Assistant/A-V Technician, School Board of Greater Montreal, Canada:1972-74.