Exhibitions

2025

• Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe | FMAC Geneva Switzerland | February 20 – April 23, 2025
• STAND UP! FEMINISTISCHE AVANTGARDE. WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG VERBUND, WIEN

2024

• The VERBUND COLLECTION | ALBERTINA Museum Vienna | 29 February – 5 May 2024

2022

• About The Future at Palazzo GIL, Campobasso, Molise Culture Foundation. Produced and organized by Luca Basilico, 17 to 27 November
• Feminist Avant-Garde | Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina Novi Sad (Serbia) May 19th – June 20th, 2022
• A Feminist Avant-Garde | Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles Photographic Festival, Arles (France) July 4th – 25 September, 2022
• FEMALE SENSIBILITY Feminist Avant-Garde from VERBUND COLLECTION | Tour – Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria,  24th of September 2021 – 9th of January 2022

2021

• BBC – Video Art
• She Devil Greatest Selection at the MAXXI Museum, curated by Eleonora Farina Rome, 3-10 May, 2021
• Feminist Avant-Garde Of The 1970s | Works From The Verbund Collection- Touring Exhibition
• S_HE DEVIL 12 + MAXXI selection, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo , 8-13 June 2021

2020

• WOMAN – Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna. Touring exhibition: Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, 16th of June – 14th October, 2018; Dům umění města Brna, Brno, Czech Republic December 11th, 2018 – March 3rd, 2019 ; International Center of Photography, New York City 2020- postponed due to COVID

2019

• EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s – Book Launch in Venice and TATE London
• New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference – keynote speaker
• Richard Demarco – la strada, le route, the road – a trans-cultural life – Exhibition – Museo Nazionale di Castello Pandone, Venafro
• National Museums of Northern Ireland
• European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s – Book Launch at Tate Modern
• Pioneering Women in Video Art – Talk – Glasgow Women’s Library –
• Parallel Dialogues Through Video and Time, Elaine Shemilt and Federica Marangoni, Museo Carlo Goldoni -Venice
• Venice, Museo Correr – EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s- Book Launch

2018

• WOMAN – Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna. Touring exhibition: Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, 16th of June – 14th October, 2018; Dům umění města Brna, Brno, Czech Republic December 11th, 2018 – March 3rd, 2019 ; International Center of Photography, New York City 2020- postponed due to COVID
• Vienna, Sammlung Verbund Collection – Works recently acquired
• 3 Generations of Women Artists Perform, Threshold Artspace at Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland, 8th March 2018

2017

• The Time Is Right For… Exhibition – Summerhall, Edinburgh. 2 August – 24 September 2017

2016

• Contemporary Art From Scotland – Shanghai – Minsheng Art Museum – Shanghai
• Self/portraits: Relating Narratives – Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts
• Doppelgänger Redux – Performance – Visions in the Nunnery – Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts – London
• Dall’oggi al domani – 24 ore nell’arte contemporanea – Exhibition – MACRO Rome
• Fünf Seen Film Festival 2016 – Breitwand Kino in Starnberg
• EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’ screening at ‘BNL Media Art Festival’, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
• SHE:DEVIL8- Exhibition – The Stefania Miscetti Gallery – Rome

2015

• Winterline | One-person show. Museo Nazionale del Molise a Castello Pandone, Venafro,
• Circumference and Radius: C=2πR= Economies of Distance – Touring Exhibition from IMPACT10, 2015-19
• ‘Autoritratti’ at The Showroom, London. 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 11th December 2015

2014

• Winterline, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints – Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, 1st August – 9th September, 2014

2013

• Scales of Life- Major installation/public sculpture for the CTIR building, University of Dundee, October 2014
• Deep Time – Artist’s Book -Published by Art Editions North, September 2013
• Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference. Associated Exhibition

2012

• British Artists’ Video, Careof DOCVA, Milan, Italy, 2012
• REWIND – British Artists’ Video in the 1970s and 1980s, Dundee Contemporary Arts

2011

• Antarctic Journeys: The dry valleys and South Georgia | La Trobe Art Institute, Melbourne, and Bendigo, Australia
• Antarctic Journeys – Melbourne, La Trobe University Gallery, Australia

2010

• Dundee, Visual Research Centre – Antarctic Journeys
• Una Regressione Motivata, Limiti Inchiusi, Campobasso, Italy- Quattro Minuti Di Mezzogiorno, video installation

2007

• Rush | Installation – Fieldgate Gallery, London, 24 November – 16 December 2007

2006

• A Blueprint For Bacterial Life | Biopolis Centre, Singapore
• A Blueprint For Bacterial Life – Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts
• Incisone di Chieri (Printmaking Triennial), Trienale, Turin, Italy
• International Erwinia Workshop, Dundee

2005

• A Hundred Women Paint the Sea, VRC, DCA, Dundee

2004

• An installation of digital imaging and traditional etching, VRC, Dundee Contemporary Arts
• Legacy – Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, March 19-April 4, 2004
• Body Memory (Leibgedächtnis)- Touring Exhibition – The Art Academy, Warsaw, Poland. Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany. The Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.

2003

• RSA 2003 Annual Exhibition, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
• Legacy/Images of South Georgia, Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee

2002

• Beyond Conflict, Richard Demarco European Art Foundation Touring Show, opening at Commonwealth Games Manchester
• Digital Mini Print Exhibition, Centre for Fine Print Research UWE, Bristol
• RSA 2002 Annual Exhibition, Mclellan Galleries, Glasgow
• Traces of Conflict | Imperial War Museum – London 2002

2001

• Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
• In-Print , Contemporary Printmaking,Quay Art, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
• XIII Bienal Salon Internacional, Puerto Rico
• RSA 2001 Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh

2000

• Expressions, McManus Gallery, Dundee
• Fragments, Meffan Gallery, Forfar
• Museum Conniston, Oxford Brookes University
• Demarco/70/2000 – The Road to Meikle Siege – Touring Exhibition -University of Kingston, Edinburgh City Art Gallery, Ruskin Oxford
• 13th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany- May 3-7 2000
• Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen
• re:Identify, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews
• 8th Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland

1999

• Chimera – Dick Institute Kilmarnock, July
• Chimera – Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee
• Chimera – Dundee Contemporary Arts, selected for the opening of DCA, Centre Space, Dundee

1998

• Chimera- Installation by Elaine Shemilt and Stephen Partridge- RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Academy Building, Edinburgh, 1998

1997

• The Richard Demarco East European Art Foundation, Exhibition of Archives
• Jar, Group Show – The Seagate Gallery
• The Glasgow Art Fair
• Behind Appearance, touring Exhibition to: Kansas State University Gallery, Carbondale State University, New Orleans State University, Moorhead State University, The Seagate Gallery, Dundee, last tour venue
• The S.S.A. Touring Exhibition, Aberdeen
• Peacock Art Space, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust Gallery
• A Millennium Bestiary, touring exhibition – University of the West of England
• Hogmanay Festival, The Richard Demarco East Europe Foundation

1996

• Contemporary Scottish Art, Prints RGI Annual Exhibition, Louise Smith Gallery – Toronto
• Networking, Ten Scottish Printmakers, Group Exhibition – Edinburgh Festival
• Brave Art Glasgow Mayfest Exhibition Group Show – Glasgow Printmakers Workshop
• Lamont Gallery – London

1995

• Select One, Special Photographers Library Exhibition
• Repossessed, St Magnus Festival, a Solo Exhibition which accompanied the Festival Poet, Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Poems
• Gathering Group Show, Galerie Beeldspraak, Amsterdam
• The R.S.A. Annual Exhibition

1994

• Richard Demarco at the Edinburgh Festival, Demarco European Art Foundation (DEAF) St. Mary’s School, Edinburgh, August, 1994
• Stones in Her Pockets, A.C.A.W. Derby & Birmingham
• SSA Annual Exhibition
• Seagate Gallery Paperworks V
• Gallerie Centre d’Art en L’Ile, Geneva
• The RSA 1994 Annual Exhibition (Prints)
• Phillips Gallery, Glasgow
• Seagate Gallery, Dundee
• National Gallery of Modern Art (Thursday’s Child Folio)
• Prints accompanying Thursday’s Child Folio (Child Psychotherapy Trust Scotland)
• Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
• Courtauld Gallery, London
• Mary Ward Centre, Bloomsbury, London
• Stoke Hanley Museum and Art Gallery, Staffordshire

1993

• Special Photographers Gallery, London (Prints)
• Stones in Her Pockets, ACAW, London
• Printworks, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
• International Print Biennal, Maastricht
• Seagate Gallery (Installation)
• SSA Annual Exhibition
• RSA Annual Exhibition (Print)
• Three Dimensional Printmakers, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham (installation)

1992

• Tension
• Scotland in New Europe Demarco Gallery East European Foundation, Edinburgh Festival
• Barbican, London Group
• SSA, Edinburgh
• Janus Avivson Gallery, Chalk Farm, London

1991

• Chancellors Gallery, Keele
• Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, “Frameworks”
• Twerenbold Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Lumley-Cazalet Gallery, London
• 12th International Bradford Print Biennale, Royal College of Art

1990

• Lumley-Cazalet Gallery, Kensington
• The Twerenbold Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
• McManus Gallery Group Staff Exhibition
• 11th International Bradford Print Biennale (touring)
• Frameworks, BDP Exhibition, Preston (touring)
• Kindred Spirits, Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
• The Women’s Small Photography Exhibition, Mansion Arts Centre, London (Touring)

1989

• The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
• Seagate Gallery, Christmas Exhibition
• Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
• Paperworks Seagate Gallery, Dundee

1988

• 11th International Bradford Print Biennale (invited artist)
• Solo Exhibition. Bellfrie Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Seagate Gallery, Dundee
• Bradford Print Biennale
• The Day Book Touring Exhibition
• Andrew Jones Gallery
• Galerie Twerenbold, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Stamford Theatre and Arts Centre

1987

• Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh
• RSA Diploma Galleries
• Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
• Petersfield Arts Council
• Aberdeen Artists Society
• 150th Anniversary Exhibition of Printmaking from the Royal college of Art, Barbican Gallery, London
• Royal Festival Hall, London

1986

• An exhibition of International Printmakers, Landesbank, Stuttgart
• Hull College of Art
• Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1985

• Dundee, Macmanus Museum and Art Gallery
• RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
• Compass Gallery, Glasgow
• Contemporary Printmaking, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

1984

• Annual Exhibition 1984 – Dundee Printmakers Workshop, Seagate, Dundee
• Tom Allen Centre, London
• Aspex Gallery, Exeter
• First Fellows, Winchester Gallery – 1984

1983

• The Nude, Cheltenham
• London, Royal College of Art – Freeze Frame
• Performances at South Hill Park Arts Centre

1982

• Arteder ’82 Muestra International, De Arte Grafico, Bilbao, Spain
• Recent Work | Elaine Shemilt – South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

1981

• Fylde Arts Association

1980

• Ancient Death Ritual, Installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1980
• IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 1980
• Edinburgh Festival, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
• International Festival of Women Artists, Film Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Hexagon Gallery, Reading
• Fifty Years of Printmaking at the RCA, Royal College of Art, London

1979

• The Road to Meikle Seggie, 9 Royal College of Art Printmakers, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 12 – 24 February 1979
• The Minories, Colchester
• Hayward Biennale, Hayward Gallery – Ancient Death Ritual – Installation – 1979
• Minories, Colchester (prints)

1978

• Winchester Association Print Exhibition, Southampton
• Bradford Print Biennale, 1978
• 5th British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall
• London Polytechnic
• Emotive Progression – Performance – The Royal College of Art, London
• New Contemporaries – Live Show, London, Acme Gallery, London, 1976

1977

• Winchester Association Print Exhibition, Salisbury
• Installation at Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London1977
• International Print Biennale, National Gallery, Singapore

1976

• Sculpture Exhibition, Guildhall, Winchester
• Winchester Association, Guildhall, Winchester

1975

• Sculpture Exhibition, Bexley Heath, Kent
• The Video Show – Serpentine Gallery, London – Emotive Progression
• The Video Show – Serpentine Gallery, London – Iamdead
• The Video Show – Serpentine Gallery, London – Conflict