Dr. Gillian McIver is a filmmaker, curator and researcher on the relationships between painting and cinema in visual culture.

Gillian is the author of ART HISTORY FOR FILMMAKERS: THE ART OF VISUAL STORYTELLING (Bloomsbury 2016) the first comprehensive survey of the  historical and aesthetic relationship between cinema and visual art.

She makes films, has curated many live art projects and exhibitions and ran an East London gallery. She was recently Artist in Residence at Swedenborg House, and was Associate Lecturer in Film at Central Saint Martins and the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Selected projects:

2022 Alchemy! The Steamship Project Space, London

2018 #timetoact PSVI film festival and exhibition, BFI South Bank, London

2009-2013 Studio75 London Gallery

– “Night of the Black Moon” Site specific;  The Kingsland Estate, Studio75 London

– “The King’s Land” Site specific;  The Kingsland Estate, Studio75 London

– Gallery artist exchange with La Clinica Mundana, Valencia

• – Rip’em Up, Mash ’em Up, Stick ’em Up!
• – Prospero’s Library
• – Biblioteka
• – Another Way of Looking at Landscape
• – Rivers

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Full curator CV

Alchemy!, the Steamship PS 2022

#timetoact BFI 2018

Women on Screen Picturehouse Central, London 2016

Studio75London Gallery and Screening Room 2009-2013

Black Books (at the Westminster Fine Art Library)

The Yellow Wall

Taking Over the King’s Land

Night of the Black Moon

Orientophobia

Tatsuko Glenn Ibbitson

Cinephoto (Photomonth 2012)

Daniel Granero

Adrian Shepherd

Maldoror

Eye Candy

Elshaday Berhane

Keeping Afloat

Biblioteka: Nazir Tanbouli and Valentin Manz

Rivers (Photomonth 2011)

Juliet Belmas and Julian Ronnefeldt

Jonathan Comerford

Prospero’s Library

Rip it up, Mash it up, Stick it up

The Cockfight

Stones and Scissors

The Draughtsman

Flatscreens (with Andrea Zimmerman)