Dr Heidi Morstang

External Examiner at Volda University College, Norway, 2019 - ongoing
BA Documentary Photography and MA Documentary Photography

Chief External examiner at Brighton University, 2018 - 2022
BA (Hons) Photography

External examiner at Hereford College of Arts (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) 2015 - 19
BA (Hons) Photography and FdA Commercial Photography

Selected film festivals / screenings / exhibitions

Pseudotachylyte

2019  Bergen International Film Festival. Premiere screening. Norwegian Documentaries Competition and Golden Owl Competition

Thinking Space

2015  World Premiere screening at Science Museum London as part of the LMS 150th Anniversary Mathematics Festival What’s your Angle: Uncovering Maths 28-29 Nov 2015.

2016  London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, London. Film Screening and presentation at 151th Anniversary of the LMS.

2016  Nordkapp International Film Festival, Norway. Invited keynote speaker for Masterclass at film industry seminar and presentation on ‘Camera as my research instrument’.

2016  56th Krakow Film Festival

2016  Nordic Panorama, Malmø, Sweden

2016  Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. Selected for MarketPlace Programme.

2016  Oslo University, Realfagsbibliotektet. Invited Film Screening of ‘Thinking Space’ in conjunction with Sir Roger Penrose public lecture, 24 October.

2016  Bergen International Film Festival, Norway. Selected for ‘Golden Owl International Competition Programme’ the Research and Science competition awarded by the University of Bergen to the best science documentary.

2017  International Science Film Festival 'World of Knowledge' St. Petersburg, Russia. By invitation and selected for Official Main Feature Film Competition.

2017  Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation Film Festival, Heidelberg, Germany. By invitation as special guest with screening.

Group exhibition – Thinking Space:

2016  Conversations across art and mathematics: George L’Legendre, Marc Francis and Heidi Morstang. Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK. Panel discussion with Professor Stephen Huggett (General Secretary of the London Mathematical Society) chaired by Timandra Harkness (BBC).

Prosperous Mountain

2014  31st International Environmental Film Festival, Paris. European premiere. Official Competition.

2014  20th International Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany. International Competition.

2014  Festival international du Documentaire Eau et Climat, Belgium. Official short documentary film competition. Winner of 2nd prize.

2014  37th Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway. Official competition.

2015  4th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.

2015  Royal Norwegian Embassy Film Screening hosted by the Norwegian Ambassador Mona Juul. Panel Debate between Heidi Morstang (filmmaker), Ingrid Dokka (The Norwegian Film Institute), Åsmund Åsdal (The Svalbard Global Seed Vault), Camille Parmesan (Plymouth University) and Barry Phipps (Cambridge University). Topics concerned the future of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the vulnerability of the arctic and the role art can play in the debate.

Exhibitions – Prosperous Mountain    

2020/21  Seedscapes – Future-proofing Nature

         Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Dick Institute, Kilmarnock 

2014  ‘Prosperous Mountain’ Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway.

2014  Maryland Art Place / Baltimore and Washington International Airport, USA.

Photographic works ‘The Road North’ and ‘Prosperous Mountain’. Group exhibition.

Other related published material – Prosperous Mountain   

2015  Prosperous Mountain film and photographs by Heidi Morstang. Limited edition DVD (231 editions) with an accompanying essay by fellow and curator Barry Phipps (Churchill College, University of Cambridge). International distribution. Artefact (hand-made artist’s film / booklet in fabric-bound case). Publication launch at Norwegian Ambassadors’ Residence, London

Pascale Weber (ed.) (2018) ‘Prosperous Mountain (La montagne prospère) – réflexion d’une cinéaste sur l’importance du facteur temps et du paysage de l’Arctique’. In Le Mythe de l’Abondance. Published in French with the support of the Contemporary France Research Chair/ French General Consulat Montreal/ CERIUM-Université de Montréal.

In Transit

2013  Focus Film Festivals Programme at the 20th Ozu Film Festival, Italy

2012  International Docurama Programme, 31st Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden

2012  Best Short Films from Around the World Programme, Helsinki Short Film Festival, Finland

2012  International competition in Concorto Film Festival, Italy

2012  International competition, Sapporo International Film Festival, Japan

2012  Official competition, In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria

2012  Official competition, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norway

2012  Oslo Screen Festival, Cinemateket, Norway

2012  Lab Programme, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain

2012  Official Lab competition, 34th International Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, France

2011   Aesthetica International Film Festival, York, UK

2011   Ostrava International Cinematographer’s Festival, Czech Republic

2011   Avanca International Film Festival, Portugal

Exhibitions – In Transit

2014   Film screenings and photographic exhibition at Churchill College, Cambridge

Other related published material – In Transit

‘In Transit’ part of Norwegian Short Documentary Collection, part of The Norwegian Film Institute’s FilmBib collection

Spring 2016

‘In Transit - revealing history through landscape in contemporary film’, published in ‘Painful Heritage - Leaving the dead’ anthology edited by Marek Jasinski and Leiv Sem, Skrifter (Transactions), The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

February 2012

‘In Transit’ Limited edition DVD (120 editions) with an accompanying text by Dr Brieg Powel and photographs by Heidi C Morstang. Internationally distributed

Prizes

2014  2nd Prize. Festival international du Documentaire Eau et Climat, Belgium.

       Prosperous Mountain

2008  1 Premio de VideoArte, El Almacen de las Artes Foconorte / El Ayuntamiento de Astillero, Spain (1st prize for ‘Divers’ and Official Selection for ‘Certain Degrees Below’)

Selected exhibitions of photographic and moving image works

2020 / 21          Seedscapes - Future-Proofing Nature. An Impressions Gallery Touring Exhibition: Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter; 

                  Dick Institute, Kilmarnock

2016              MAS, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santander, Spain

2014 / 2015        Sichuan Fine Art Academy, Chongqing and Jialing Jiang Gallery, Nan Chong City, China, group exhibition 

2014              Video Guerrilha / FENACULT 2014, Luanda, Angola                 

2013              Nottingham Contemporary, UK

2013              5th International Video Art Festival Camaguey, Cuba

2012/13            Video Guerrilha, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2012              Plymouth Arts Centre, UK, solo exhibition

2011 & 2010        MadridFoto. Contemporary Photography Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

2011               Espacio Atlantico, Vigo, Spain (Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo)

2011               Elusive, Camberwell Space, London

2010               ‘Third Space’ II Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Derzhavin Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2010               Northampton University Gallery, Land/Water group exhibition

2009               ‘Atmosferas’ Galeria Ana VilaSeco, La Coruna, Spain, group exhibition

2009               Chelsea Art Space, London, group exhibition

2009               Galerie Art Fort Reveur, Bruxelles, Belgium (ArtExpo)

2009               Collaborators’ ROOM Artspace, London, group exhibition

2009               ‘Brand’ Videotank, Zurich, Switzerland, solo exhibition

2008               ‘Chapters’ Galeria Ana VilaSeco, La Coruna, Spain, solo exhibition

2008               ROOM Artspace, London, group exhibition

2008               National Centre For Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia, group exhibition

2007               ‘Trace & Transcience’, CCANW, Exeter

2007               ‘Forest Dreaming 7’ CCANW, Exeter

2005-06            ‘The Art of White’, The Lowry, Salford / Manchester

2005               ‘On Leaving & Arriving’, G39, Cardiff

2005               Silent Movements Intercity: Vlissingen, Breda, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2005               Pump House Gallery, London (The White Station)

2004               Clapham Picture House, London, cinema screenings

2004               London Gallery West, University of Westminster (with Christie Brown)

2004               Gyumri International Biennale, Armenia

2004               R O O M, Bristol, solo exhibition, commissioned by Picture This

2003               L’Alternativa, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, International Film Festival

2003               Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, solo exhibition

2002               ‘Observatori 2002’ Museum of Illustration and Modern Art, Valencia, Spain

2002               ‘European Award For Women Photographers 2002-2002’, Italy

2000               Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, solo exhibition

2000               ‘The John Kobal Foundation’, The National Portrait Gallery, London & The Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

2019 Environmental Arts Research Practice International Conference

Keynote speakers: Anne Noble (Massey University, New Zealand); Tyrone Martinsson (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Camille Parmesan (CNRS, Moulis, France, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A, University of Plymouth, UK), Yan Wang Preston 
(co-organised with Liz Wells)