Jacqueline Donachie (born 1969) is a Scottish artist who uses drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. She lives and works in

Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...

Education and early career

Donachie studied fine art from 1987 to 1991 at the

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design. These are all awa ...

. She graduated from the School's Environmental Art department, which encouraged artists to place their work in a variety of public contexts outside the gallery space. She completed a Masters of Fine Art at

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools ...

, New York in 1996. Donachie was one of a group of artists who helped establish Glasgow in the 1990s as one of the world's most dynamic contemporary art communities. There has been a retrospective exploring this body of work in Glasgow, which was called Generation.

Work

Themes

Donachie creates socially-engaged art, often occupying public space. She explores

biomedical Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

research and ideas of communication, participation and how public spaces are designed, managed and used in her work. Books, written by Donachie, often accompany each work. She has also created unique ways to visualize public problems which can then be later discussed by those in government. One example of this was in the town of

Huntly Huntly ( or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie or simply Strathbogie. It had a population of 4,460 in 2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle. Its neighbouring settlements include Keith ...

where issues about who bikes and where were in debate. Donachie's solution to visualizing the problem involved all bikers to attach chalk to their ride and then go about their business. The chalk would then record residents' progress in a visual manner throughout the town.

Recent and current projects

''Speedwork'' is a work at House for an Art-lover in Glasgow, which has been created after Donachie spent time with running groups using the park. ''Tomorrow Belongs to Me'' was a collaboration with Darren Monckton, a professor of human genetics at the

University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals; ) is a Public university, public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the List of oldest universities in continuous ...

. It is a research project and film installation, which examines the personal impact of illness on individuals and families and Donachie also engaged with the scientific community whose research sought to explain how such illness arose. ''New Weather Coming'', Donachie's work for the 2014 GENERATION festival, included three green trailer sculptures that toured Scotland and were accompanied by the handing out of a "book of Stories and Pictures" to daytrippers. The mobile sculpture in

Oban Oban ( ; meaning ''The Little Bay'') is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William, Highland, Fort William. During the tourist seaso ...

was ill-received. Donachie's exhibition Right Here Among Them, a mid-career retrospective, at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, 11 November 2017 – 11 February 2018, was winner of the first Freelands Award, an award from The Freelands Foundation to support the work of an under-recognised, mid career female artist.

Publications

*Donachie, Jacqueline. ''3532 Miles''. Armpit Press (1997). *Donachie, Jacqueline. ''Tomorrow Belongs to Me''. Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery (2006).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donachie, Jacqueline 1969 births Living people 20th-century Scottish women artists 21st-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Artists from Glasgow Hunter College alumni Scottish contemporary artists