
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





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)