Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Caroline Douglas.

Caroline Douglas is an artist working with photography and moving image. She is undertaking a PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art, researching the role of women in early Scottish photography, and is a recipient of the AHRC-techne Scholarship (2017).

Douglas is currently working as a Lecturer in Fine Art - Photography at The Glasgow School of Art (2021-2022). Recently, she undertook two Doctoral Training Partnership placements, one at the V&A Museum as a Cataloguer (Photographs) and the other at Collective, Edinburgh (2021). She is part of the steering committee for the School of Art and Humanities Open Research Network Speaking of Her and on the Advisory Board for the RSE Network Women Make Cities. In 2019 she co-organised Speaking With - a one-day event exploring voicing historical subjectivity at the Royal College of Art. She is a contributor to Photomonitor, and has worked as a tutor and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Napier University and Stills, Edinburgh. Douglas studied Photography at Edinburgh College of Art (2006) before then completing a Master in Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art (2010). Her residencies include; Re:Create Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2008), Photography MA, School of the Art Institute Chicago (2009), AiR Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy (2010), Proekt Fabrika, Moscow (2011) and Facture of Research Residency (RCA), University of Cumbria (2018). In 2017, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews.

Douglas was the recipient of the 9th Helen Keller International Award for her work Playboy Entertainment for Men in 2011. She worked with the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for An Attendant's Portrait in 2015 and was represented by Stills Gallery at Edinburgh Art Fair and published in Uncertain States for her work Zero Hours Creativity in 2015. Her work was recognised with a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award in 2016 and she was the 2020 recipient of the Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre.

Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues including: Galerie Huit, Rencontres d'Arles International Photography Festival; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; Columbia University, New York; Brighton Photo Fringe; Format Festival; PHOTOUKINDIA; The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award; Asylum & Assembly Point; Royal College of Art Research Show; and St Andrews Photography Festival.

For more information:

www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk

Episode music by Dom mino'