Curriculum vitae
Mieke Vanmechelen info@miekevanmchelen.com
https://miekevanmechelen.com
Born Antwerp Belgium, living in Ireland since 1981.
Education
MA Art + Process, CCAD 2014.
BA, Philosophy and Classical Civilisation 1996.
Screening + Exhibition Record
Upcoming
• Screening of IMMRÁM, Galway Film Fleadh 2025.
• The Home that Held Us, FSAS, curated by Clara McSweeney.
• Arts Council Film Project Award screening association with aemi at the Irish Film Institute.
2025
Screening of Suspension in partnership with 3 Different Nights, recurring by Grace Weir at The Curve, Temple Bar.
2024
• Things I Bring From Home, Polly Maher, Sibyl Montague, Mieke Vanmechelen curated by Helen Carey, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna.
• Lily of the Valley, with Michael Holly, The Salvage Agency, TULCA, Galway.
• In Landscape, FANVID, curated by LUX Critical Forum, Dublin.
• Preliminary Screening of IMMRÁM, Centre for Documentary Research, Queens University, Belfast.
• Hungry Hill, North American Premiere, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Chicago and
European Premiere, Ethnografilm Festival, Paris.
2023
•World Premiere Hungry Hill, Galway Film Fleadh.
•Hungry Hill, IFI Documentary Festival and
Offline Film Festival, Birr.
Opening film, Kerry International Film Festival.
World Cinema Festival, Antwerp, Belgium.
•Lily of the Valley in partnership with Michael Holly, commissioned by Askeaton Contemporary, screened at Askeaton Contemporary and KIFF.
2022
• Like a Mouse (collaboration with Michael Holly), Achill Island Film Festival.
• Die Vrijheid, Royal Scottish Academy.
• Like a Mouse, (collaboration) with Michael Holly, Chicago Underground Film Festival.
2021
• Residual Minority, Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, curated by Fiona Kearney &
Chris Clarke, Glucksman Gallery, Cork and invited, Flickfair Film Festival, Los Angeles.
2020
• Bó Kerry International Film Festival.
• Die Vrijheid, aemi online as part of mink at Anam for Culture Night.
• Bó S.O.F.A. Film Festival Cyprus.
• Residual Minority, Highlanes Gallery, Shortlisted, Janet Mullarney Prize, Open Submission Exhibition, selected by Seán Kissane, Joy Gerrard and Jerome O’ Drisceoil.
• Suspension, Home from Home, The Glucksman, Cork, curated by Chris Clarke.
• Physical Quantum, Phantosope, curated by Maximilian Le Cain, Triskel Recommends.
• Residual Minority, SSA + VAS CutLog, Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh,
Retro Avant Garde Film Festival, New York (online), New York Independent Film Festival (online) and Intimate Lens Ethnographic Film Festival, Caserta Italy.
2019
• Residual Minority, LUMINOUS VOID, Experimental Film Festival, Cork and finalist, Florence Film Awards
• Bó, Shortlisted, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.
• Cavern, Wunderground Film Festival, Verbeke Foundation, Ghent Belgium.
• Rath, The Irish Real-Life Festival, Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario, celebrating Irish Culture.
2018
• Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase 2018, Department of Arts, Culture & The Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry, co-funded by the Arts Council and Kerry County Council.
• Rath, Saint John’s Theatre, Listowel.
• Níos Doimhne, experimental short, at Solas Nua in collaboration with Dupont Underground,
Washington D.C..
2017
• Nothing Further, experimental short, Leyden Gallery, London.
• Rath, feature film, Kerry Film Festival, official selection, Dingle International Film Festival and the Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare, Co. Kerry.
• Diving the Wreck, screening and live performance, with SoftTack, Women’s Voices in Ireland, UCC,
selected by Dr. Maeve O’Riordan.
• Sibéal Annual Conference UCD, selected by Dr. Deidre Flynn.
• FiLiA, FiLiArt, Institute of Education, University College London, curated by Alison O’Neill and Jane Hellings.
• I non (I) in association with DAW, Leyden Gallery, London, curated by Amy Dignam and Adriana
Cerne.
• DAW 5th Edition, Group Show, Granby Space, Waterloo, London, curated by Amy Dignam.
• Beara Arts Festival, Group Show, curated by Marc O’Sullivan.
• Regions, Group Show, WCAC Uillinn, Skibbereen, Cork, curated by Alison Cronin.
• Annual Members’ Show, WCAC Uillinn, Skibbereen, Cork.
2016
• Presentation, Het Verhaal Van Bivolino, Byvoet Archive, screenings: Bivolino & iArt, funded by EU
H2020 Programme, Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium.
• Screening iArt, Ghent University, Belgium; Screening iArt, DG Connect G.2 Creativity, EU Commission,
Luxembourg.
2015
• Screening and exhibition ‘t Kristallijn, Mol Belgium.
• Screening Groetmoeder, Motherhood and Creative Practice, Centre for Media and Culture Research,
School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University, selected by Dr. Elena Marchevska
and Valerie Walkerdine.
• Photographic work included in The ProCreate Project Touring Archive, The Women’s Art Library,
Goldsmiths University, Lace Gallery, Nottingham, Manhattan College Annual M.O.M. Conference, New
York and London Southbank University.
• Screening, iArt, EU Summit, ICT 2015 Lisbon Transforming Innovation through Creativity and Arts.
• Self-Making, screening, Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase 2015/2016, Department of Arts, Heritage & the
Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry co-funded by the Arts Council and Kerry County Council.
• Epona, experimental short, Horse, Void Derry, curated by Mark Wallinger.
Awards, Residencies + Positions
2024
Fierce Quiet Films, Arts Council Film Project Award.
Bothy Project, Residency Award, Isle of Eigg, Scotland.
Dublin City Council Arts Bursary Award.
Kerry County Council Arts Awards adjudication panel.
2023
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency 2023-2025
• Creative Associate, Creative Schools Programme.
• NGI Artist Panel.
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council, the Arts Council and Creative
Ireland.
2022
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council, the Arts Council and Creative
Ireland.
• Fierce Quiet Films, Arts Council Film Project Award.
• Creative Associate, Creative Schools Programme.
• TAP + BLAST Arts in Education Panel.
2021
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency Award.
• Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Digital Media Bursary Award.
• Kerry Filmmaker in Residence, Supported by Kerry County Council and the Arts Council.
• Creative Associate, Arts Council Creative Schools Programme.
• BLAST Arts in Education panel, Tralee Education Centre.
2020
• Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Film Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Covid Crisis Response Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
• Creative Work Development Bursary, Kerry County Council.
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
• Recipient of Arts Act Grant for Kerry Film Forum.
• Finalist, Florence Film Awards, Experimental Film Category.
• Creative Associate, Arts Council Creative Schools Programme.
• Finalist, Miller Zillmer Foundation, digital residency.
• Tutor, Kerry ETB Creative Tutor Pool.
2019
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
2018
Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland.
2017
• Filmmaker in Residence funded by Kerry County Council the Arts Council and Creative Ireland 2017.
• Winner of Audience Choice Award at Dingle International Film Festival.
2016
• Creative Work Development Bursary, Kerry County Council.
• Materials and Equipment Bursary, Kerry County Council.
2015
• Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award.
2014 - 2015
• Recipient of EU funding under the Creative Europe (Culture Sub-programme) 2014 - 2020.
Selected Talks/Presentations/Invitations
2024
• Author, Critical Review Adrift, at Uillinn, West Cork Art Centre, by Els Dietvorst, VAN, Visual Artists’ News Sheet May/June issue
2023
• Published article Family Lines at DHG, by Alice Rekab.
• Critical review, Beyond Drawing,Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre.
• Interview Panel YIFM Kilkenny for National Youth Film Coordinator interviews.
• Invited to present a Q&A with young filmmakers at First Cut Film Festival.
2022
• Leading artist talk with Saoirse Higgins and Cora Cummins, On Steady/Unsteady Ground, DLR
Lexicon, Feb/March.
• Author, Critical Review of Dear www at glór Ennis and PAVED Arts Canada, VAN, Visual Artists’ News
Sheet Jan/Feb issue. 2021.
• Author, Critical Review of Catharsis of Collapse, VAN, Visual Artists’ News Sheet Oct/Nov issue.
• Artist Talk, in conversation with Chris Clarke, the Glucksman, Cork.
• Film Masterclass, A Sense of Place, the Glucksman, Cork.
2020.
• In conversation with Daniel Fitzpatrick and Alice Butler for Culture Night mink & aemie.
• Founder, Kerry Film Forum.
• Member, LUX Critical Forum, Cork.
• Jury member, Fresh Film Festival.
2019
• Member, Film in Kerry Steering Group 2019.
• Founder, Kenmare Youth Film.
2018
• Presentation: Moving On, NEWKD, Áras an Phobail, Tralee.
• Invited participant: Mentorship Programme, Media Studies, IT Tralee.
• Invited participant: Kerry Film Advisory Group Meeting, Kerry County Council.
• Invited creative partner: The Core Project, RUA RED Dublin.
• Presentation: EU Commission, iArt Final Review, chaired by Philippe Gelin, Programme Officer, EU
Policies, DG CONNECT G.2 Creativity, Luxembourg.
2015
• Presentation: Motherhood and Creative Practice, London South Bank University, chaired by Dr. Elena
Marchevska.
• Presentation; iArt, EU Summit, ICT 2015 Lisbon Transforming Innovation through Creativity and Arts.