André Stitt
Individual
Roles
Artist, EducatorBiography
André Stitt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1958. He studied at Ulster Polytechnic and Belfast College of Art & Design, Ulster University 1976-1980. From 1980-1999 he lived and worked in London increasingly travelling and making work internationally throughout the eighties. In 1999 he moved to Wales to take up position as Subject Leader and Senior lecturer of Time Based Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC). He is currently Professor of Performance & Interdisciplinary Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University , chair of CFAR [the Centre for Fine Art Research], a fellow of the Royal Society of Art and the Higher Education Academy.Working almost exclusively as a performance and interdisciplinary artist from 1976-2008 Stitt gained an international reputation for cutting edge, provocative and politically challenging work. A predominate theme in his artistic output is that of communities and their dissolution often relating to trauma, conflict and art as a redemptive proposition. His ‘live’ performance and installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites specific throughout the world.
Stitt also has a long history of organising artist-initiated projects and collaborations; curating exhibitions, and producing large scale international performance art festivals and exchanges. In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff, and latterly Trace Collective (since 2008), initiating a robust programme of international time based work.
Adapted from Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2024
Website
http://www.andrestitt.com/Collection
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Process (Panel Participant)
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003 (Artist)
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003 (Panel Participant)
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