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Fin is an artist working mostly in animation and a lecturer in Media at Teesside University.
You can read the standard bio or the alt.cv or contact me f.mcmorran@tees.ac.uk or just look at the work...

Education Exhibition/ Screenings  

PhD
MSc
MA
PGCE
BA Hons

(Interactive Painting) 2007
(Multimedia & Education) Huddersfield 1998
(Painting) Sheffield Hallam 1991
(Secondary, Art & Design) Brighton 1985
(3D, printmaking)Bath Academy, Corsham 1978

2012

Animated Exeter: Screen Out Loud screening "The Voice of the Shed" and "Painting"
"Women and Sheds" - 3 of the 10 selected for Norwich Film Festival One Minute Movie section.

Work 2011 Owd Towser (Holmfirth Arts Festival) screening “The sea”
Kestle Barton Gallery Fruit & Flower Show – “Women and Sheds” animation/ installation - voted "best in show"
Treberfydd Gallery Summer Show (Digital Painting) screening “The Dragonfly Effect” animation
Fundada Artists Film Festival, Wakefield screening “Paper” and "Women & Sheds (10 minute cut)"
Salisbury Animation Open screening "Voice of the Shed"
2007- Senior Lecturer in Media, University of Teesside.
> Institute of Design, Culture and the Arts
2000-6 Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Computing, University of Northumbria
1998-2000 Lecturer in Media Technology, Lincoln University 2010 animated short "Paper" screened at Concept Film Night, Institute of Digital Innovation and at Kino European Short Film Festival Manchester
1995 Trainee researcher/ presenter Bradford Community Broadcasting
2007 Slow Light, Gallery North, Newcastle- screening "eight and a half"
Nexus ArtScreen, Gateshead - screening "Life"
1991-4 Exhibitions & Education Officer, Eastthorpe Gallery, Mirfield
& Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery;
Live Art Officer, Ferens Art Gallery, ROOT 93
2006 Serious Play time, Glue Gallery, Newcastle- (interactive work )

1987-90

1985-7

Adult Education Art tutor, Hull & Cottingham.

Art Teacher, Howden Secondary School

2006

2004

PostGraduate Show, Northumbria, Newcastle

We Are Transparent, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle ( interactive work)

Projects 2002 Cyberkitchen at www.the-cyber-kitchen.com
(interactive)
2009 “Showing Off Failure” paper presented at MeCCSA conference, Bradford Media Museum, January

“Animating Painting” paper presented at Image 2.0 conference, Falmouth, September
2000
Pride Art, Live Theatre, Newcastle (painting)
1999 Studio (solo) on-line exhibition for Art in the Open
> take the tour
Mobile Homes - (solo) Art in the Open, Hull (performance)
2007 Development of Fine Art Experimental Studios (Collaborative and New Media) course for Teesside University
1998 Modified, Rotherham Gallery & Bankley Gallery, Manchester (painting)
Mind the Gap, Quay Arts, Hull (painting)
2000 Illustrations for, Co-authoring chapter in Principles of Interactive Multimedia M T Elsom-Cook (McGraw- Hill) 1997 Floating Sheds, (solo) Art in the Open, Princes Quay Dock (installation)
Darling, wouldn't you love a new bed? (solo) Quay Art , Hull (painting)
1998-9 Digital Views of Bradford Project. Website for Cartwright Hall Education department, related paper presented to Museum Documentation Association conference
CTI-AD Outline Magazine Reviews (digital arts)
1996

Love Lust and Cookery (solo) Springfield, Hackney
Secret Stories (4 person), Woodland Gallery Greenwich
Making Faces (touring), Artreach, Liverpool
(painting)

1996 Works included in Damn Fine Art Cherry Smyth, Cassell
Work reproduced in Women Artists Diary, International Women Artists Diary
1995 Pretend Families Bretton Hall, Wakefield
The Family, Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
(painting)
    1994 Red, Generation X, Manchester
Lurv, Scunthorpe Museum & Art Gallery
Family, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Happy Families, Dewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Coast to Coast, Albert Dock, Liverpool
painting)