Curriculum vitae
Mieke Vanmechelen info@miekevanmchelen.com
https://miekevanmechelen.com
Born Antwerp Belgium 1974, living in Ireland since 1981.
Education
MA Art + Process, CCAD 2014.
BA, Philosophy and Classical Civilisation 1996.
Upcoming
Three Person Exhibition, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna.
Awards, Residencies + Positions
2024
Fierce Quiet Films, Arts Council Film Project Award.
Bothy Project, Residency Award, Isle of Eigg, Scotland.
Dublin City Council Arts Bursary Award.
Kerry County Council Arts Awards adjudication panel.
2023
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency 2023-2025
• Creative Associate, Creative Schools Programme.
• NGI Artist Panel.
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council, the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
2022
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council, the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
• Fierce Quiet Films, Arts Council Film Project Award.
• Creative Associate, Creative Schools Programme.
• TAP + BLAST Arts in Education Panel.
2021
• Film Project Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency Award.
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Digital Media Bursary Award.
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council and the Arts Council .
• Creative Associate, Arts Council Creative Schools Programme.
• BLAST Arts in Education panel, Tralee Education Centre.
2020
• Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Film Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Covid Crisis Response Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Creative Work Development Bursary, Kerry County Council.
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
• Recipient of Arts Act Grant for Kerry Film Forum.
• Finalist, Florence Film Awards, Experimental Film Category.
• Creative Associate, Arts Council Creative Schools Programme.
• Finalist, Miller Zillmer Foundation, digital residency.
• Tutor, Kerry ETB Creative Tutor Pool.
2019
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
2018
Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
2017
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland 2017.
• Winner of Audience Choice Award at Dingle International Film Festival.
2016
• Creative Work Development Bursary, Kerry County Council.
• Materials and Equipment Bursary, Kerry County Council.
2015
• Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award.
2014 - 2015
• Recipient of EU funding under the Creative Europe (Culture Sub-programme) 2014 - 2020.
Selected Talks/Presentations/Invitations
2024
• Author, Critical Review Adrift, at Uillinn, West Cork Art Centre, by Els Dietvorst, VAN, Visual Artists’ News Sheet May/June issue
2023
• Published article on exhibition, Family Lines at DHG, by Alice Rekab.
• Critical review, Beyond Drawing, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre.
• Interview Panel YIFM Kilkenny for National Youth Film Coordinator interviews.
• Invited to present a Q&A with young filmmakers at First Cut Film Festival.
2022
• Leading artist talk with Saoirse Higgins and Cora Cummins, On Steady/Unsteady Ground, DLR Lexicon, Feb/March.
• Author, Critical Review of Dear www at glór Ennis and PAVED Arts Canada, VAN, Visual Artists’ News Sheet Jan/Feb issue, 2021.
•Author, Critical Review of Catharsis of Collapse, VAN, Visual Artists’ News Sheet Oct/Nov issue.
• Artist Talk, in conversation with Chris Clarke, the Glucksman, Cork.
• Film Masterclass, A Sense of Place, the Glucksman, Cork.
2020
• In conversation with Daniel Fitzpatrick and Alice Butler for Culture Night mink & aemi.
• Founder, Kerry Film Forum.
• Member, LUX Critical Forum, Cork.
• Jury member, Fresh Film Festival.
2019
• Member, Film in Kerry Steering Group 2019.
• Founder, Kenmare Youth Film.
2018
• Presentation: Moving On, NEWKD, Áras an Phobail, Tralee.
• Invited participant: Mentorship Programme, Media Studies, IT Tralee.
• Invited participant: Kerry Film Advisory Group Meeting, Kerry County Council.
• Invited creative partner: The Core Project, RUA RED Dublin.
• Presentation: EU Commission, iArt Final Review, chaired by Philippe Gelin, Programme Officer, EU Policies, DG CONNECT G.2 Creativity, Luxembourg.
2015
• Presentation: Motherhood and Creative Practice, London South Bank University, chaired by Dr. Elena Marchevska.
• Presentation; iArt, EU Summit, ICT 2015 Lisbon Transforming Innovation through Creativity and Arts.
Screening + Exhibition Record
2024
• Hungry Hill, North American Premiere, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Chicago & European Premiere, Ethnografilm Festival, Paris.
2023
• Hungry Hill, World Premiere, Galway Film Fleadh.
•Hungry Hill, IFI Documentary Festival,
& Offline Film Festival, Birr.
Opening film, Kerry International Film Festival.
World Cinema Festival, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Lily of the Valley in partnership with Michael Holly, commissioned by Askeaton
Contemporary, screened at Askeaton Contemporary and KIFF.
2022
•Like a Mouse (collaboration with Michael Holly), Achill Island Film Festival.
•Die Vrijheid, Royal Scottish Academy.
• Like a Mouse, (collaboration) with Michael Holly, Chicago Underground Film Festival.
2021
• Residual Minority, Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, curated by Fiona Kearney & Chris Clarke, Glucksman Gallery, Cork.
• Residual Minority, invited, Flickfair Film Festival, Los Angeles.
2020
• Bó Kerry International Film Festival.
• Die Vrijheid, aemi online as part of mink at Anam for Culture Night.
• Bó S.O.F.A. Film Festival Cyprus.
• Residual Minority, Highlanes Gallery, Shortlisted, Janet Mullarney Prize, Open Submission Exhibition, selected by Seán Kissane, Joy Gerrard and Jerome O’Drisceoil.
• Suspension, Home from Home, The Glucksman, Cork, curated by Chris Clarke.
• Physical Quantum, Phantosope, curated by Maximilian Le Cain, Triskel Recommends.
• Residual Minority, SSA + VAS CutLog, Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh.
& Retro Avant Garde Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival (online) &
Intimate Lens Ethnographic Film Festival, Caserta Italy.
2019
• Residual Minority, LUMINOUS VOID, Experimental Film Festival, Cork,
& Residual Minority, Finalist, Florence Film Awards.
• Cavern, Wunderground Film Festival, Verbeke Foundation, Ghent Belgium.
• Rath, The Irish Real-Life Festival, Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario, celebrating Irish Culture.
• Bó, Shortlisted, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.
2018
• Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase 2018, Department of Arts, Culture & The Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry,co-funded by the Arts Council and Kerry County Council.
• Rath, Saint John’s Theatre, Listowel.
• Níos Doimhne, experimental short, at Solas Nua in collaboration with Dupont Underground,
Washington D.C..
2017
• Nothing Further, experimental short, Leyden Gallery, London.
• Rath, feature film, Kerry Film Festival,
& offical selection, Dingle International Film Festival,
& Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare, Co. Kerry.
• Diving the Wreck, screening and live performance, with SoftTack, Women’s Voices in Ireland, UCC, selected by Dr. Maeve O’Riordan.
• Sibéal Annual Conference UCD, selected by Dr. Deidre Flynn.
• FiLiA, FiLiArt, Institute of Education, University College London, curated by Alison O’Neill and Jane Hellings.
• I non (I) in association with DAW, Leyden Gallery, London, curated by Amy Dignam and Adriana Cerne.
• Bó, Shortlisted, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.
•DAW 5th Edition, Group Show, Granby Space, Waterloo, London, curated by Amy Dignam.
• Beara Arts Festival, Group Show, curated by Marc O’Sullivan.
• Regions, Group Show, WCAC Uillinn, Skibbereen, Cork, curated by Alison Cronin.
• Annual Members’ Show, WCAC Uillinn, Skibbereen, Cork.
2016
• Presentation, Het Verhaal Van Bivolino, Byvoet Archive, screenings: Bivolino & iArt, funded by EU H2020 Programme, Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium.
• Screening iArt, Ghent University, Belgium; Screening iArt, DG Connect G.2 Creativity, EU Commission,
Luxembourg.
2015
• Screening and exhibition ‘t Kristallijn, Mol Belgium.
• Screening Groetmoeder, Motherhood and Creative Practice, Centre for Media and Culture Research,
School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University, selected by Dr. Elena Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine.
• Photographic work included in The ProCreate Project Touring Archive, The Women’s Art Library,
Goldsmiths University, Lace Gallery, Nottingham, Manhattan College Annual M.O.M. Conference, New York and London Southbank University.
• Screening, iArt, EU Summit, ICT 2015 Lisbon Transforming Innovation through Creativity and Arts.
• Self-Making, screening, Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase 2015/2016, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry co-funded by the Arts Council and Kerry County Council.
• Epona, experimental short, Horse, Void Derry, curated by Mark Wallinger.