grants / awards / residencies
Freelands Foundation Award - Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK)
CPH:DOX Intro:Dox (Copenhagen, DK)
2023
2022
Lodestars - Film London (London, UK)
CPH:DOX BFI/Doc Society Delegation (Copenhagen, DK)
2021
Jury Member - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (Amsterdam, NL)
2020
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (UK)
Trellis Commission - University College London (London, UK)
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA): Best Children’s Documentary Award - Jury Special Mention (Amsterdam, NL)
Gasworks Residency (London, UK)
2019
British Film Institute/DocSociety Made Of Truth Award (UK)
Guardian/Joseph Rowntree Foundation Award - Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK)
Constellations - UP Projects/Flat Time House (London, UK)
Finding Space commission - Institute of Physics (London, UK)
2018
Artists film commission - Orwell Foundation (London, UK)
Shortlisted: Border Crossings Award - Open City Documentary Festival (London, UK)
2017
Winner: British Special Mention Award - Depict!/Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)
Digital Artist Residency - Museum of Oxford/DaR (Oxford, UK)
London Creative Network - SPACE (London, UK)
2016
Channel 4/Random Acts Award - Channel 4/Big Dance/Mayor of London (London, UK)
2015
Artist Film Maker Residency - Entelechy/Albany (London, UK)
Digital Artist Residency - Centenary - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK)
Artists' film award - BFI/no.w.here/Wellcome Trust (London, UK)
Shortlisted: Depict! Award - Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)
2014
BRASS:Pitch award - Durham International Festival (Durham, UK)
2012
GIFT Commission - GIFT Festival (Gateshead, UK)
Shortlisted: Cinereach Award (artists' feature film development grant) - Cinereach Foundation (New York, USA)
RADAR Music and Video Award - RADAR/LSFF (London, UK) (shortlisted)
2007
Short Film Grant - City of Westminster Arts Council (London, UK)
exhibitions / screenings
Never Sleep, Chisenhale Project Space (London, UK) - 14th-18th December
2023
Prophecy, Mead Gallery (Coventry, UK) - 7th May - 26th June
H Is For Hostile Environment, Rio Cinema, presented by Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May
2022
2021
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (Amsterdam, NL) - 17th-28th November
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK) - 5th November
Bloomsbury Festival (London, UK) - 21st October
Baltic Open (Gateshead, UK) - 6th January - 6th June
Aesthetica Future Now Symposium (York, UK) - 28th April - 3rd May
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece) - March
London Short Film Festival (London, UK) - January
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) screening in Competition - November (Amsterdam, NL)
Doing Your Homework, Eating Your Dinner, Drawing A Picture - Flat Time House (London, UK) - 18th January
2020
2019
Life Rewired - Barbican Centre (London, UK) - 30th October
Art Night 2019 - Kings Cross, (London, UK) - 22nd June
Creekside Open curated by Sacha Craddock - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 15th June - 4th July
Creekside Open curated by Brian Griffiths - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May - 2nd June
Finding Space - Institute of Physics (London, UK) - 30th April-17th May 2019
Reflection (public realm installation) - Norman Road, Greenwich (London, UK) - 2018-2020
Mubi/Sundance (moving image installation) - Sundance Film Festival (London, UK) - 30th May
Encounters/Depict! national cinema programme (Nationwide, UK) - 2018
WALK (playing with Divine Order) - Glasgow Film Theatre (Glasgow, UK) - 9th March
2018
2017
LCN Artists' Showcase - SPACE Studios (London, UK) - 23rd-25th November
The Xenophobia of Time? (group exhibition) - Clerkenwell Gallery (London, UK) - 30th May - 4th June
World Day 2017 - Journeys of Storytelling - P21 Gallery (London, UK) - 17th February
Channel 4 Random Acts - Flying/Falling - 4OD/Random Acts - 16th December 2016 - 15th Jan 2017
Out Of Chaos - Ben Uri Centenary Exhibition Tour - Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle, UK) - 1st November 2016 - 28th February 2017
2016
Don't Let Me Down - Gallery 48 (London, UK) - 1st December - 16th December
Random Acts S2 Episode6 - Channel 4 (UK broadcast) - 15th Dec
Ben Uri Past Present and Future - Christie's (London, UK) - 24th May - 7th June
Unexpected: Continuing Narratives of Identity and Migration - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK) - 16th February - April 24th
2015
Out Of Chaos - Ben Uri: 100 Years in London Centenary - Somerset House (London, UK) - 2nd July - 13th December
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - King's College London (London, UK) - 16th December
Depict! Award - Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival - Watershed (Bristol, UK) - 19th September
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - no.w.here (London, UK) - 24th September
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - BFI (London, UK) - 20th May
A Musical Box (experimental film/music programme) - LSFF - ICA (London, UK)
London Stories (short film programme) - LSFF - Hackney Picturehouse (London, UK)
2014
Carbon Paycheque/DC (live performance) - Kino Climates - Star and Shadow Cinema (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 6th November
BRASS Commission - Durham International Festival - Durham University Music School, Palace Green (Durham, UK)
Next Stop Byker (Public art installation commission) - Byker Metro Station (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - January - June
2013
Living Library (showcase and talk) - European Alternatives - Shakespeare and Co. (Paris, France) - 13th October
Surreal Worlds (short film programme) - LSFF - Curzon Soho (London, UK)
SERCO + Q&A - Migration Research Seminar - Sussex University (Brighton, UK) - 11th March 2013
SERCO - Oxford House (London, UK) - 15th - 30th April
2012
Building the Big Society - GIFT - Central Gateshead public streets (Gateshead, UK)
Alice In Bed (group show) - Culture Lab OffSite (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
A New Film Aesthetic? (talk) - The Thought Menu - Limazulu (London, UK) - 28th July
2011
Music and Video (short film programme) - Szeged Sumer8mm Festival (Szeged, Hungary)
Music and Video (short film programme) - LSFF - Roxy Cinema (London, UK)
2010
Directional Light - The Shed (Gateshead, UK)
2009
Keepin' It Movin' - (music and film programme) LLGFF - BFI (London, UK)
Main Programme - MIX Festival - (New York, USA)
Short Film Programme - Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Cinemateket (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Main Programme - LesGaiCineMad - (Madrid, Spain)
curating / programming
Programme Adviser and Q&As host - Sheffield DocFest (Sheffield, UK) - March - July
2022
AiR Drop - remote artists residency programme (UK-wide) - January 2021 - April 2022
Curatorial Adviser - Amber/SIDE (Newcastle Upon Tyne) - April (ongoing)
Special Adviser (Art for Social Justice) - Independent Film Trust (UK wide) (ongoing)
2021
2020
Skip/Intro - artists film commissioning programme (UK-wide) - July - December
A Passage Through Passages (Brunei Gallery, SOAS) - 17 January - 21 March
2016
Reflections (London, UK) - August - October
2015
HERE, NOW - Contemporary Films About London and Migration - Deptford Cinema (London, UK), Oxford House (London, UK), The Link (Thamesmead, UK) - 14th August - 12th September
New Worlds - Films About Global Youth Experiences - Deptford Cinema (London, UK) in collaboration with the Deptford Cinema programming group, BFI, Picturehouse Cinemas, BFI and Film London
2014
Dekalog 25th anniversary retrospective - Deptford Cinema (London, UK) in collaboration with the ICA, BFI and Polish Cultural Institute - 2nd-16th December
2013
Together - film programme + Q&A - no.w.here (London, UK) - 1st June
2011
The House of Sweet Magic - Helen Hill retrospective - Star and Shadow Cinema (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 4th January
teaching
BFI Future Film Academy (London, UK) - 2nd September - 5th December
South London Gallery - guest artist in association with New Contemporaries (London, UK) - March - May
2021
2020
BFI Future Film Academy: Redefining Rebellion (online, UK) - 2nd September - 5th December
2019
Summer school artist trainer - Film Mai Aproape (Bacau, Romania) - 13th - 23rd August
Festival jury member - Hyjnesha në Fron (Pristina, Kosovo) - 23rd-27th August
Filmmakers Roundtable - BFI Future Film Festival (London, UK) - 14th February
Lecture: Alternative cinema exhibition - De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) - 12th February
Random Acts mentoring - Channel 4/Screen South/Gulbenkian (London and Canterbury, UK) - January-February
2018
2017
The Politics Of The Frame - Experimental Film Masterclass - Newcastle University Fine Arts Department (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 3rd February
2016
BFI Film Academy - experimental film 2016 - BFI (London, UK) - 28th September - 10th December
2015
Stop Play Record - ICA/Channel 4/Chisenhale Gallery - Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK) - 31st October - 27th November
Masterclass: Moving Image for Artists - Bow Arts (London, UK) - 23rd September
The Cat On The Shoulder: Aaton LTR for Artists - no.w.here (London, UK) - 13th June
2013
Experimental Moving Image Processing for Artists - 25FPS Festival/Klubvisija (Zagreb, Croatia) - 3rd - 6th December
2010
Super8 Filmmaking for Artists - Press Play Festival (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 10th October
publications
2016
Artist's Page - Edwin Mingard - 2pp - Sequence Magazine - Issue 4
2015
Arts and Social Change Evaluation - 96pp - RSA Publications - 3rd July
2012
Can Art Shape Scientific Thought? - RSA Blog - 10th July
reviews and press
Why It Matters to Make Films Together - A Conversation With Edwin Mingard - Claudia Pilsi - December
26 Shining Light: Nikita Chadha – H is for Hostile Environment - a poetic response - Bloomsbury Festival - October
Trellis: Lines of Separation or Connection - Tom Jeffreys/UCL Culture - April
‘Trellis: Public Art’ is a programme of knowledge exchange between researchers and artists in the East End - FAD Magazine - 14th April
Trellis Festival - Artrabbit - 12th April
H is for Hostile Environment - openDemocracy - 15th April
2021
2020
A Passage Through Passages review - Chinadialogue - 17th February
Poster commission winner announced - Sheffield Docfest blog - 9th February
2019
Festivali i filmit "Hyjnesha në Fron" - KTV - 27th August
2018
Deptford Cinema: One For All - Sight and Sound, 21st April
2017
2016
Five Art Shows To See This Week - Royal Academy Blog - 4th November
Out of Chaos: Art that makes you think - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums blog - 24th October
What To See: Out Of Chaos Review - Art Fund - 15th October
News: Out Of Chaos Review - NARC. Magazine - 11th October
Deptford Cinema profile - Evening Standard - 9th July
Young Blood: Edwin Mingard's Break Tells The Story Of A Generation With Smiling Depression - After Nyne Magazine March
2015
An Interview with Edwin Mingard - The Founder of Unmonastery? - Ben Vickers - Unmonastery Stories - July 13th
FRESH - New Talent: Edwin Mingard: Life Through My Lens - BBC 3 17th Feb
2014
Heroes of Byker Honoured With Byker Metro Station Mural - Evening Chronicle - 12th June
2013
Radical Experimental Animation - Interview with Edwin Mingard - Filmske Radosti - 8th December
Networked Entrepreneurship - Interview with Edwin Mingard - European Alternatives - 12th August
Blurring the Personal and Professional to Create Social Purpose - Interview with Edwin Mingard - European Alternatives - 12th August