EXHIBITIONS:
Jini Rawlings has been working with video/sculptural installations since 1997 following earlier single-screen work and photography.
She has had a long involvement with the Independent Sector of Film and Video and was co-founder and Chair of Reel Women, a networking organisation for Women in Film Video and Television.
SOLO SHOWS
Installations
2022/23
Shattered Silk, The Bond is always by Scent, The Salve of Repair
2022/23, 24th Sept — 6th Nov, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery
2023, 3rd — 21st March, London Gallery West
Shattered Silk, The Bond is always by Scent, The Salve of Repair, multi-part installation; Sarah, interactive handsewn costume, 2-channel video; Eppie, handsewn costume 2-channel video; Harriet/Sojourner, digitally printed costume; The Bond is always by Scent, interactive box; printed hangings, archival objects.
Funded by developing research University of Westminster and support from Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery.
2019
As the Crow Flies (reinterpreted)
2019, 6th Oct — 1st Dec. Severndroog Castle site-specific interpretation.
As the Crow Flies (2008/19), 3 channel video, coated glass, back projection screens, silk, wood. Mahabaleshwar, single-channel video.
Original funded by developing research University of Westminster.
2011-12
WAVE/ING
2011, 30th Jan — 8th Mar. London Gallery West, University of Westminster.
2012, 26th May — 1st Sept. Aberdeen Maritime Museum.
WAVE/ING multi-part installation, Bound for Iceland, 2 channel video; North of the Forests, North of the Corn 3 channel video; Refuge, single-channel video, glass, steel and water; A Treacherous Coast, printed silk and wall text.
Funded by Arts Council England, University of Westminster and supported by Aberdeen Maritime Museum.
2009
Land/SeaScapes of Memory
2009, 2nd April — 31st May. Duff House, National Gallery of Scotland. Land/SeaScapes of Memory, including Hrimceald Sae (2006), Tri-Angulation(2008), Illegitimate Daughter(2003) and Longmuir/Laighmuir (2009), single-screen video, canvas and mosquito net.
Supported by Duff House.
RESIDENCIES
Installations
2013
Cusp, Abri, The Challenge
2013, 6th Sept — 6th Oct (UK), 1st Nov — 14th Dec (France) selected UK artist for Ici et La, Cross border residency, Claremont Studios and La Platforme Dunkerque. Exhibited in Coastal Currents Festival, Hastings and Les Grands Magasins, Dunkerque as part of the 2013 regional Capital of Culture.
Cusp, 3-channel video, coated glass, printed silk; Abri, site-specific single-channel video, muslin voile; The Challenge, single-channel video.
Funded by Arts Council England and Conseil Régional Nord-Pas de Calais.
2005-6, 2016
Mariners and Migrants in Search of Home; Hrimceald Sae, Sent to Sea.
2005-6, National Maritime Museum. First Artist in Residence in the archives and commissioned for the New Visions programme.
2006, 19th Jan — 30th Mar. exhibited in Life at Sea, a travelling exhibition.
Mariners and Migrants in Search of Home; 2-part installation; Hrimceald Sae, single-channel video, etched glass sculpture and Sent to Sea, single-channel video, museum vitrine, etched glass panels, acrylic tank, water.
2007, Hrimceald Sae, exhibited at London Gallery West
2016, June 11th, Mariners and Migrants double screen shown for On their Own conference on Britain's child migrants at V&A Museum of Childhood, London.
Funded by Arts Council England, Leverhulme Artist in Residence and Churchill Trust.
GROUP SHOWS SELECTED ARTIST
Installations Include:
2019, 2016
Dear Child: one of the (m)others I never had
2019, 21 — 27th March Ambika P3, Hyphen: an exposition between art and research, PhD show
2017, 21st June — 6th July. Between Here and Then, London Gallery West, University of Westminster. Dear Child, 3 channel video, printed silk hangings.
2014
Amy, Emily Emma and the 4 Times of Day
2014, May — Nov. Unravelling the National Trust, Uppark House.
Site-specific installation Amy, Emily Emma and the 4 Times of Day,
single-channel video, coated glass, Perspex.
Funded Trust New Arts Programme.
2009
Mahabaleshwar
2009, September. Gregynog Hall, University of Wales
2019, 6th 0ct — 1st Dec. Severndroog Castle.
Mahabaleshwar, single-channel video, coated glass.
2008, 2009
Tri-Angulation
2008, ArtVaults, Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton.
2009, 2nd April — 31st May. Duff House (outstation National Gallery of Scotland).
Tri-Angulation, 3-channel video, black glass, perspex, acrylic tank, water.
2004, 2009
Illegitimate Daughter
2004, Presence and Absence, National Touring exhibition including Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews, Inverness Museum and the Hub Sleaford.
2009, 2nd April — 31st May. Duff House, Land/Seascapes of Memory (solo show). Illegitimate Daughter, etched glass, mirror, wood.
2001, 2003, 2009
Kitchie Deems to NAAFI girls, the Looking Bowl, Illegitimate Daughter
2001, University of Westminster Gallery
2003, Artinheaven, Brighton Festival
2009, Duff House, Land/Seascapes of Memory (solo show)
Kitchie Deems to NAAFI Girls; The Looking Bowl, single screen video, resin, cedar wood, Illegitimate Daughter, etched glass, mirror, wood.
2008
As the Crow flies
2008, 30th Jan — 8th Mar. As the Crow Flies, London Gallery West.
3-channel video black glass, Perspex.
Funded by developing research University of Westminster.
2003, 2004
Gone into the Workhouse
2003, 20th Sep — 12th Oct. Coastal Currents, Art in Romney Marsh Visual Arts Festival.
2004, Experiments in Moving Image, University of Westminster.
2004, Harrow Open show, London Gallery West.
Gone into the Workhouse, site-specific single channel video, glass panels, hessian, wood, steel.
2003
The Ocean Between
2003, Feb — Apr. The Voyage Out, Dock Museum Barrow in Furness.
The Ocean Between, single-channel video, etched glass panels, wood.
1988, 1989,
Screen Memories
1998, Brighton University Gallery
1999, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2000, University of Westminster
Screen Memories, Blood is thicker than water single-channel video, voile; Are you sitting comfortably single channel video, a mantelpiece; She slipped like water through my hands, etched glass, mirror; ‘Self-portrait’, single-channel video, resin bust.
FUNDING
Arts Council England, Leverhulme Trust Artist in residence, Churchill Trust, Aberdeen Maritime Museum, University of Westminster, Conseil Régional Nord-Pas de Calais, Trust New Arts Programme.
VIDEOS IN DISTRIBUTION by Concord Media
(https://www.concordmedia.org.uk)
1993, A Pool of Information, The Peckham Health Centre (Producer/Director/Camera).
1986/87, Non-Violence in Action (Co-producer/Director/Camera).
A Door in the Wall
Common Ground
1983, Born 1881-Babies Against the Bomb (Co-Producer/director/camera.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS include:
2001, University of Liverpool Testimony Conference
2002, Ruskin College Oxford, Public History conference
2005, Ruskin College Oxford, Public History conference
2013, University of London International Conference: Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory
2016, V&A Museum of Childhood, On Their Own, child migration.
2018, South London Gallery, The Peckham Experiment (with a screening of A Pool of Information).
2020, University of Middlesex, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Living Well: Health, Wellbeing and the Built Environment (with a screening of A Pool of Information).
MEMBERSHIP
Hackney Flashers, Feminist Photography Group
Brixton Art Gallery -Women’s Work
Feminist video groups: Women in Sync, WAVES, Co-Option.
Founder member Cinestra Pictures
Founder member Reel Women, a group for women in film video and TV.