GERALDINE PILGRIM
Geraldine Pilgrim Curriculum Vitae
London N6 5NR
Mobile: 07961 464 226
Website: www.geraldinepilgrim.com
Email (click here)
Education:
St Martin's School of Art: Foundation
City and Guilds School of Art: Foundation
Leeds Polytechnic Fine Art Department: B.A.(Hons) Fine Art: 1st Class
Motley Theatre Design Course: Arts Council England Bursary
Installations: 1998 - 2018
2018 – Their Most Obedient Servant – a two-part site-specific installation commissioned by Harewood House Yorkshire to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Thomas Chippendale
2017 - The Missing Passenger – a site-specific exhibition trail commissioned by the National Rail Museum York for the Murder on the Rails season. An interactive multi media Murder Mystery installation on platforms 5 and 6 and in the sleeping compartments and dining car of a 1930’s train.
2016 - FLIGHT - an installation week following a site-specific performance at Brockhole House and Grounds, Lake Windermere commissioned by 14-18NOW and Lakes Alive Festival
2014 - Beauty - an installation in the Forest of Bowland to celebrate their AONB 50th anniversary
2012 – 13 - The Lost Pagodas - An installation commissioned by the Royal Pavilion Brighton for Pavilion Contemporary, the Royal Pavilion’s new annual contemporary art commission
2010 - Not Forgotten - a year long installation in the House and grounds of Towneley Hall Burnley Lancashire inspired by a 1601 Towneley family portrait commissioned by Midpennine Arts.
2009 - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Installation commissioned by National Trust / White Light for the House of Bling Exhibition Tattershall Castle Lincolnshire.
2008 - The Green Houses of William Turner - An installation commissioned by CastleMorpeth Council to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Botanist William Turner.
2007 - Dreams of a Winter night - installation commissioned by English Heritage as part of the Picture House Exhibition at Belsay Hall Northumberland
2006 - Sea View - Installation commissioned by The N R LA Glasgow
2006 - Toast - Installation commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for the Fire of London night opening of the Imagination Festival
2003 - Follow a Shadow - installation commissioned by photographer Simon Warner for the Impressions Gallery York.
2003 - Till Human Voice wake us... - site-specific Installation commissioned by The New Territories Festival The Arches Glasgow
1998 - Shadows - An installation at The Bronte Parsonage, commissioned by The Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth Yorkshire
Site–Specific Performances: 1993-2018
2018 – Sleep Over – commissioned by Normal?Festival of the Brain for Quarterhouse Folkestone
2017 - Sitting Comfortably - A Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award - participatory performance
at The Broadway Theatre Barking
2016 - Sitting Comfortably - A Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award - participatory performance at The George Crouch Extra Care Home Dagenham
2016 - FLIGHT - a site-specific performance / installation at Brockhole House and Grounds, Lake Windermere commissioned by 14-18NOW and Lake District National Park (Lakes Alive Festival)
2015 - WELL - a site-specific - promenade performance in the empty former Sanofi pharmaceutical Factory Dagenham. A Landmark commission- Creative Barking and Dagenham.
2014 - You Must Remember This - a solo site-specific performance as part of a performance series Sculpture-Performance: Acme Artists Now curated by Aaron Williamson and Kate Mahony at Acme High House Thurrock.
2013 - TOYNBEE - a site-specific promenade performance for Toynbee Hall and Toynbee Studios commissioned by Artsadmin co- produced with Spitalfields Winter Music Festival
2012 - TEA - Director/designer devisor for a site-specific performance commissioned by Complicite - creative learning, working with young chefs from the Cordon Bleu Academy and the tenants of Dora House a sheltered Housing scheme in Camden. Tea was awarded a National Housing Community Impact Award
2012 - Singing the City - Director / Designer of the Voice Project –for Norwich and Norfolk Festival working with a choir of 150 in sites including the streets of Norwich and Norwich Cathedral
2010 - Be Prepared - a performance / installation in the grounds of Harewood House Yorkshire commissioned by Girl GuidesUK celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Guides.
2010 - Not Waving but Drowning - Performance / installation commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the NRLA Festival, The Arches Glasgow
2008- Traces - A performance / installation commissioned by the Bluecoat as part of the Liverpool Biennial to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Blue Coat School Liverpool.
2007 - Enchanted Parks - Director / designer devisor two site-specific performance in SaltwellPark Gateshead and Leazes Park Newcastle commissioned by Newcastle Gateshead initiative - Culture10
2005 - Deep End - site-specific performance in the empty Marshall Street Baths Soho. A Corridor event funded by A.C.E, Awards for All and Westminster Council
2005 - Star Dust - site-specific performance commissioned by LADA as part of the Variety Weekend for the re opening of the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill
2004 - A Short Piece About Love - devised Theatre Performance at Tramway Glasgow “Into The New Festival” RSAMD
2003 - SPA - Artistic Director of site-specific performance at The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital London, with 160 young people, over 60’s and arts and community Groups. A Corridor event funded by Arts Council England,
2000 - Hotel - Artistic Director of site-specific performance at The Midland Hotel Morecambe Lancashire, a listed art deco building on the sea front. A Corridor event.
2000 - Dreamwork 3 - Artistic Director of site–specific performance at St Pancras Chambers.) Euston working with 250 young people commissioned by the Mayor of Islington.
1998 - Dreamwork 1 - Artistic Director of large-scale site-specific performances Part of the LWT South Bank Show Talent challenge coproduced by Islington Council and Halifax PLC.
1996 - Tales from the City - Artistic Director of large scale site-specific performance. A Royal Court Young Peoples Theatre Commission
1993 - House - Artistic Director of large scale site-specific performance with 50 participants commissioned by Salisbury Playhouse and Paines Plough. A Sainsbury’s Educational Award winner.
International site–specific performances / workshops: 2008-2018
2018 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2017 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2012 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2012 - Recipe of dreams- Director/designer devisor for a site-specific performance in a disused mental Hospital commissioned by The Pergine Spectaccolo Festival Pergine Italy working with young Italian artists
2011 - Empty - Artistic Director of a site-specific performance in an empty office Block in Dublin working with Irish artists commissioned by Project Brand New for the Ulster Bank Dublin Festival
2010 - Incident, Arte-a-org performance Festival Madrid - A site-specific performance in La Tabacalara- the empty cigarette factory in Madrid with young Spanish artists
2010 - F.S.E Summer School Inteatro Polverigi - Artistic Director Summer School with young international artists in Villa Nappi Polverigi Italy for Inteatro
2009 - Carpet of Dreams - Director/designer devisor - site-specific performance residency with MA Performance Design and Practice students from C.S.M for Inteatro- Polverigi Italy
2008 - Incident - site-specific performance with Design students from University of Maastricht Netherlands for the Ainsi Art Centre.Festival
Handbag - participatory performances: 2008-2019
2019 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined, refreshed and revived for Shoreditch Town Hall commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall
2018 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined for Dagfest commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham
2016 - Handbag – Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined for Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre, commissioned by Creative Bedford Arts
2014 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor -participatory performance re-imagined for the the Rennes Women’s Prison and the Tombee de Nuit Festival Rennes France and Chelsea Theatre for the Intransit Festival Chelsea
2013 - Handbag - Director/designer devisor participatory performance re-imagined for July – Barbican Open East Festival Queen Elizabeth Park Stratford, June - Big Dance Watermans Arts Centre, February - Peopling the Palace Festival The Peoples Palace London and The Corn Exchange Brighton
2012 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined for Northern Stage Newcastle for the Late Night Festival and the Speigal Tent at the Blaze festival for London 2012 We Play, Preston Guild, Preston
2011 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined for the Arnolfini Bristol, the Queens Hall Hexham and the West Yorkshire Playhouse
2010 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined and commissioned for the opening celebrations of the new RST Theatre of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford- upon- Avon.
2008 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor participatory performance commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for the Grand Hall.
Residencies: 2009-2017
2017 - Jean - National Theatre London -Studio Residency development period for a planned performance inspired by the life and work of Jean Rhys
2012 - Lost Time - National Theatre London -Studio Residency development period for a planned site-specific and touring theatre project in 2013/14 Lost Time
2009 - Royal Shakespeare Company/Hoskings Housing Trust Artist in residence
Awards
2016/17 - Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award for Sitting Comfortably - participatory performance at The Broadway Theatre Barking and The George Crouch Extra Care Home Dagenham
2014 - Jerwood Choreographic Research Award for Sitting Comfortably to research memories of movement in older people for a touring show. Produced by BAC, The Place, Fierce Festival, Greenwich and Docklands Festival, Birmingham Rep,
2012 - National Housing Community Impact Award for TEA - a site-specific performance commissioned by Complicite theatre company- creative learning.
2002 - Appointed Honorary Associate of National Review of Live Art
2001 - One to One Bursary from Greater London Arts and LADA
1993 - Sainsbury’s Educational Award for House a site-specific performance commissioned by Paines Plough and Salisbury Playhouse
Films
2017 - What keeps you awake at Night? – a solo site-specific performance filmed overnight in a BAC artists Bedroom; commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre
1983 - 10 Years in an Open Necked Shirt – John Cooper Clarke - Art Director
Public Workshops UK
2014 - Objects and Atmospheres - Site–specific Workshop week commissioned by Complicite Creative Learning
2013 – Tomorrow - a site-specific workshop for Complicite creative learning at the V& A Museum
2015 – Going Home - part of the DIY12 programme commissioned by LADA/A.N.D Festival
2014 – A World of Your Own - part of the DIY11 programme commissioned by LADA/Contact Manchester
2013 – No Regrets - part of the DIY10 programme commissioned by LADA/ Colchester Arts Centre
2008 – Please Keep Your Luggage with You at All Times - part of the DIY5 programme commissioned by LADA/ArtsAdmin
2003 - Winter School - for the New Territories Festival at Tramway Glasgow
Talks include
2019 – The Fine Art of Performance – symposium University of Sussex
2018 – Sharing the Stage Royal Court Theatre
2018 – The importance of participation in performance as an aid to Well Being- for Hackney Organisations at Shoreditch Town Hall
2013 - Meeting Point: Engaging the Heritage Audience -seminars for visual arts organisations. Guest Artist speaker
Exhibitions: 2004-2010
2010 - Now and Then - an exhibition of photographs documenting 10 years of Geraldine Pilgrim’s performances and installations, 2000 to 2010 at The Queens Hall Gallery Hexham Northumberland
2001 - Two Hotels – St Pancras Chambers - photographs by Sheila Burnett of the Dreamwork 3 and Hotel 2 site-specific performances taking place in Hotels
2004–2005 Opened Corridor Gallery in Tufnell Park London curated 6 exhibitions
Freelance theatre design: 1990-2011 includes:
2011
East 15, Oh What a Lovely War - site-specific response 50th anniversary
1999
Sheffield Crucible, South Pacific - Director Deborah Paige
1997
Royal Exchange Manchester, The Deep Blue Sea - Director Marianne Elliot
Sheffield Crucible, Villette - Director Deborah Paige
1995
Contact Theatre, Manchester, Hansel and Gretel - Director Lee Beagley
Leicester Haymarket, Night Train to Poona - Director Sita Ramamurthy
Hampstead Theatre, Bearing Fruit - Director Deborah Paige
1994
Traverse Theatre, Away - Director Ian Brown.
Hampstead Theatre, Gaucho - Director Doug Lucie
Regents Park OpenAir Theatre, Midsummer Night's Dream - Director Deborah Paige
1993
Salisbury Playhouse, Wild Things - Director Deborah Paige
Greenwich Theatre, Pan Beaters - Director Felix Cross
Hampstead Theatre, La Musica Director - Joe Blatchley
1992
Traverse Theatre, House Amongst the Stars - Director Ian Brown.
Nottingham Playhouse, The Rivals - Director James Macdonald
1991
Traverse Theatre, Skywoman Falling - Director Anna Furse
Nottingham Playhouse, Tatyana - Director Pip Broughton
1990
Nottingham Playhouse, The Importance of Being Earnest - Director Pip Broughton
Hesitate and Demonstrate
Co-founder with Janet Goddard of Hesitate and Demonstrate Visual Theatre Co. Became Artistic Director of company until its demise. Hesitate and Demonstrate was an A.C.G.B and British Council funded visual theatre company which toured Britain and mainland Europe, including Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Public Theatre, New York as part of the Britain Salutes New York Festival. Shows included Points of Departure, Ha Ha, Horrid Things, No Regrets, Minutes, Scars, Excuse Me, Do Not Disturb, Shangri-La, So No More Songs of Love. A Woman Alone, and Goodnight Ladies, which won the Drama Magazine Award for Best Touring Production.
Associate / Visiting Lecturer: 1993-2020 includes:
Associate Lecturer: 2009 – current
Central St Martins U.A.L. : MA Performance Design and Practice
Visiting Lecturer: 2008 – current
Goldsmiths College : MA Performance Making and MA Performance Writing
Associate Lecturer: 1993- 2019
Wimbledon College of Arts UAL : BA (Hons) Theatre Design
RSAMD Glasgow : BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre Practice
Dartington College of Arts : BA (Hons) Theatre
University of Brighton : BA (Hons) Theatre with Visual Practice
Central School of Speech and Drama : BA (Hons) Production Art and Design.
MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice: 2019 - ongoing
2019 - Creation and leadership of the first MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice for Mountview in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall
London N6 5NR
Mobile: 07961 464 226
Website: www.geraldinepilgrim.com
Email (click here)
Education:
St Martin's School of Art: Foundation
City and Guilds School of Art: Foundation
Leeds Polytechnic Fine Art Department: B.A.(Hons) Fine Art: 1st Class
Motley Theatre Design Course: Arts Council England Bursary
Installations: 1998 - 2018
2018 – Their Most Obedient Servant – a two-part site-specific installation commissioned by Harewood House Yorkshire to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Thomas Chippendale
2017 - The Missing Passenger – a site-specific exhibition trail commissioned by the National Rail Museum York for the Murder on the Rails season. An interactive multi media Murder Mystery installation on platforms 5 and 6 and in the sleeping compartments and dining car of a 1930’s train.
2016 - FLIGHT - an installation week following a site-specific performance at Brockhole House and Grounds, Lake Windermere commissioned by 14-18NOW and Lakes Alive Festival
2014 - Beauty - an installation in the Forest of Bowland to celebrate their AONB 50th anniversary
2012 – 13 - The Lost Pagodas - An installation commissioned by the Royal Pavilion Brighton for Pavilion Contemporary, the Royal Pavilion’s new annual contemporary art commission
2010 - Not Forgotten - a year long installation in the House and grounds of Towneley Hall Burnley Lancashire inspired by a 1601 Towneley family portrait commissioned by Midpennine Arts.
2009 - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Installation commissioned by National Trust / White Light for the House of Bling Exhibition Tattershall Castle Lincolnshire.
2008 - The Green Houses of William Turner - An installation commissioned by CastleMorpeth Council to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Botanist William Turner.
2007 - Dreams of a Winter night - installation commissioned by English Heritage as part of the Picture House Exhibition at Belsay Hall Northumberland
2006 - Sea View - Installation commissioned by The N R LA Glasgow
2006 - Toast - Installation commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for the Fire of London night opening of the Imagination Festival
2003 - Follow a Shadow - installation commissioned by photographer Simon Warner for the Impressions Gallery York.
2003 - Till Human Voice wake us... - site-specific Installation commissioned by The New Territories Festival The Arches Glasgow
1998 - Shadows - An installation at The Bronte Parsonage, commissioned by The Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth Yorkshire
Site–Specific Performances: 1993-2018
2018 – Sleep Over – commissioned by Normal?Festival of the Brain for Quarterhouse Folkestone
2017 - Sitting Comfortably - A Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award - participatory performance
at The Broadway Theatre Barking
2016 - Sitting Comfortably - A Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award - participatory performance at The George Crouch Extra Care Home Dagenham
2016 - FLIGHT - a site-specific performance / installation at Brockhole House and Grounds, Lake Windermere commissioned by 14-18NOW and Lake District National Park (Lakes Alive Festival)
2015 - WELL - a site-specific - promenade performance in the empty former Sanofi pharmaceutical Factory Dagenham. A Landmark commission- Creative Barking and Dagenham.
2014 - You Must Remember This - a solo site-specific performance as part of a performance series Sculpture-Performance: Acme Artists Now curated by Aaron Williamson and Kate Mahony at Acme High House Thurrock.
2013 - TOYNBEE - a site-specific promenade performance for Toynbee Hall and Toynbee Studios commissioned by Artsadmin co- produced with Spitalfields Winter Music Festival
2012 - TEA - Director/designer devisor for a site-specific performance commissioned by Complicite - creative learning, working with young chefs from the Cordon Bleu Academy and the tenants of Dora House a sheltered Housing scheme in Camden. Tea was awarded a National Housing Community Impact Award
2012 - Singing the City - Director / Designer of the Voice Project –for Norwich and Norfolk Festival working with a choir of 150 in sites including the streets of Norwich and Norwich Cathedral
2010 - Be Prepared - a performance / installation in the grounds of Harewood House Yorkshire commissioned by Girl GuidesUK celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Guides.
2010 - Not Waving but Drowning - Performance / installation commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the NRLA Festival, The Arches Glasgow
2008- Traces - A performance / installation commissioned by the Bluecoat as part of the Liverpool Biennial to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Blue Coat School Liverpool.
2007 - Enchanted Parks - Director / designer devisor two site-specific performance in SaltwellPark Gateshead and Leazes Park Newcastle commissioned by Newcastle Gateshead initiative - Culture10
2005 - Deep End - site-specific performance in the empty Marshall Street Baths Soho. A Corridor event funded by A.C.E, Awards for All and Westminster Council
2005 - Star Dust - site-specific performance commissioned by LADA as part of the Variety Weekend for the re opening of the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill
2004 - A Short Piece About Love - devised Theatre Performance at Tramway Glasgow “Into The New Festival” RSAMD
2003 - SPA - Artistic Director of site-specific performance at The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital London, with 160 young people, over 60’s and arts and community Groups. A Corridor event funded by Arts Council England,
2000 - Hotel - Artistic Director of site-specific performance at The Midland Hotel Morecambe Lancashire, a listed art deco building on the sea front. A Corridor event.
2000 - Dreamwork 3 - Artistic Director of site–specific performance at St Pancras Chambers.) Euston working with 250 young people commissioned by the Mayor of Islington.
1998 - Dreamwork 1 - Artistic Director of large-scale site-specific performances Part of the LWT South Bank Show Talent challenge coproduced by Islington Council and Halifax PLC.
1996 - Tales from the City - Artistic Director of large scale site-specific performance. A Royal Court Young Peoples Theatre Commission
1993 - House - Artistic Director of large scale site-specific performance with 50 participants commissioned by Salisbury Playhouse and Paines Plough. A Sainsbury’s Educational Award winner.
International site–specific performances / workshops: 2008-2018
2018 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2017 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2012 - I.F.A Inteatro, Polverigi Italy - Directing a 2-week academy for selected Italian Artists to create a site-specific performance in Polverigi
2012 - Recipe of dreams- Director/designer devisor for a site-specific performance in a disused mental Hospital commissioned by The Pergine Spectaccolo Festival Pergine Italy working with young Italian artists
2011 - Empty - Artistic Director of a site-specific performance in an empty office Block in Dublin working with Irish artists commissioned by Project Brand New for the Ulster Bank Dublin Festival
2010 - Incident, Arte-a-org performance Festival Madrid - A site-specific performance in La Tabacalara- the empty cigarette factory in Madrid with young Spanish artists
2010 - F.S.E Summer School Inteatro Polverigi - Artistic Director Summer School with young international artists in Villa Nappi Polverigi Italy for Inteatro
2009 - Carpet of Dreams - Director/designer devisor - site-specific performance residency with MA Performance Design and Practice students from C.S.M for Inteatro- Polverigi Italy
2008 - Incident - site-specific performance with Design students from University of Maastricht Netherlands for the Ainsi Art Centre.Festival
Handbag - participatory performances: 2008-2019
2019 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined, refreshed and revived for Shoreditch Town Hall commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall
2018 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined for Dagfest commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham
2016 - Handbag – Director/designer/devisor - participatory performance re-imagined for Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre, commissioned by Creative Bedford Arts
2014 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor -participatory performance re-imagined for the the Rennes Women’s Prison and the Tombee de Nuit Festival Rennes France and Chelsea Theatre for the Intransit Festival Chelsea
2013 - Handbag - Director/designer devisor participatory performance re-imagined for July – Barbican Open East Festival Queen Elizabeth Park Stratford, June - Big Dance Watermans Arts Centre, February - Peopling the Palace Festival The Peoples Palace London and The Corn Exchange Brighton
2012 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined for Northern Stage Newcastle for the Late Night Festival and the Speigal Tent at the Blaze festival for London 2012 We Play, Preston Guild, Preston
2011 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined for the Arnolfini Bristol, the Queens Hall Hexham and the West Yorkshire Playhouse
2010 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor- participatory performance re-imagined and commissioned for the opening celebrations of the new RST Theatre of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford- upon- Avon.
2008 - Handbag - Director/designer/devisor participatory performance commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for the Grand Hall.
Residencies: 2009-2017
2017 - Jean - National Theatre London -Studio Residency development period for a planned performance inspired by the life and work of Jean Rhys
2012 - Lost Time - National Theatre London -Studio Residency development period for a planned site-specific and touring theatre project in 2013/14 Lost Time
2009 - Royal Shakespeare Company/Hoskings Housing Trust Artist in residence
Awards
2016/17 - Gulbenkian Sharing the Stage Award for Sitting Comfortably - participatory performance at The Broadway Theatre Barking and The George Crouch Extra Care Home Dagenham
2014 - Jerwood Choreographic Research Award for Sitting Comfortably to research memories of movement in older people for a touring show. Produced by BAC, The Place, Fierce Festival, Greenwich and Docklands Festival, Birmingham Rep,
2012 - National Housing Community Impact Award for TEA - a site-specific performance commissioned by Complicite theatre company- creative learning.
2002 - Appointed Honorary Associate of National Review of Live Art
2001 - One to One Bursary from Greater London Arts and LADA
1993 - Sainsbury’s Educational Award for House a site-specific performance commissioned by Paines Plough and Salisbury Playhouse
Films
2017 - What keeps you awake at Night? – a solo site-specific performance filmed overnight in a BAC artists Bedroom; commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre
1983 - 10 Years in an Open Necked Shirt – John Cooper Clarke - Art Director
Public Workshops UK
2014 - Objects and Atmospheres - Site–specific Workshop week commissioned by Complicite Creative Learning
2013 – Tomorrow - a site-specific workshop for Complicite creative learning at the V& A Museum
2015 – Going Home - part of the DIY12 programme commissioned by LADA/A.N.D Festival
2014 – A World of Your Own - part of the DIY11 programme commissioned by LADA/Contact Manchester
2013 – No Regrets - part of the DIY10 programme commissioned by LADA/ Colchester Arts Centre
2008 – Please Keep Your Luggage with You at All Times - part of the DIY5 programme commissioned by LADA/ArtsAdmin
2003 - Winter School - for the New Territories Festival at Tramway Glasgow
Talks include
2019 – The Fine Art of Performance – symposium University of Sussex
2018 – Sharing the Stage Royal Court Theatre
2018 – The importance of participation in performance as an aid to Well Being- for Hackney Organisations at Shoreditch Town Hall
2013 - Meeting Point: Engaging the Heritage Audience -seminars for visual arts organisations. Guest Artist speaker
Exhibitions: 2004-2010
2010 - Now and Then - an exhibition of photographs documenting 10 years of Geraldine Pilgrim’s performances and installations, 2000 to 2010 at The Queens Hall Gallery Hexham Northumberland
2001 - Two Hotels – St Pancras Chambers - photographs by Sheila Burnett of the Dreamwork 3 and Hotel 2 site-specific performances taking place in Hotels
2004–2005 Opened Corridor Gallery in Tufnell Park London curated 6 exhibitions
Freelance theatre design: 1990-2011 includes:
2011
East 15, Oh What a Lovely War - site-specific response 50th anniversary
1999
Sheffield Crucible, South Pacific - Director Deborah Paige
1997
Royal Exchange Manchester, The Deep Blue Sea - Director Marianne Elliot
Sheffield Crucible, Villette - Director Deborah Paige
1995
Contact Theatre, Manchester, Hansel and Gretel - Director Lee Beagley
Leicester Haymarket, Night Train to Poona - Director Sita Ramamurthy
Hampstead Theatre, Bearing Fruit - Director Deborah Paige
1994
Traverse Theatre, Away - Director Ian Brown.
Hampstead Theatre, Gaucho - Director Doug Lucie
Regents Park OpenAir Theatre, Midsummer Night's Dream - Director Deborah Paige
1993
Salisbury Playhouse, Wild Things - Director Deborah Paige
Greenwich Theatre, Pan Beaters - Director Felix Cross
Hampstead Theatre, La Musica Director - Joe Blatchley
1992
Traverse Theatre, House Amongst the Stars - Director Ian Brown.
Nottingham Playhouse, The Rivals - Director James Macdonald
1991
Traverse Theatre, Skywoman Falling - Director Anna Furse
Nottingham Playhouse, Tatyana - Director Pip Broughton
1990
Nottingham Playhouse, The Importance of Being Earnest - Director Pip Broughton
Hesitate and Demonstrate
Co-founder with Janet Goddard of Hesitate and Demonstrate Visual Theatre Co. Became Artistic Director of company until its demise. Hesitate and Demonstrate was an A.C.G.B and British Council funded visual theatre company which toured Britain and mainland Europe, including Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Public Theatre, New York as part of the Britain Salutes New York Festival. Shows included Points of Departure, Ha Ha, Horrid Things, No Regrets, Minutes, Scars, Excuse Me, Do Not Disturb, Shangri-La, So No More Songs of Love. A Woman Alone, and Goodnight Ladies, which won the Drama Magazine Award for Best Touring Production.
Associate / Visiting Lecturer: 1993-2020 includes:
Associate Lecturer: 2009 – current
Central St Martins U.A.L. : MA Performance Design and Practice
Visiting Lecturer: 2008 – current
Goldsmiths College : MA Performance Making and MA Performance Writing
Associate Lecturer: 1993- 2019
Wimbledon College of Arts UAL : BA (Hons) Theatre Design
RSAMD Glasgow : BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre Practice
Dartington College of Arts : BA (Hons) Theatre
University of Brighton : BA (Hons) Theatre with Visual Practice
Central School of Speech and Drama : BA (Hons) Production Art and Design.
MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice: 2019 - ongoing
2019 - Creation and leadership of the first MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice for Mountview in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall