MALCOLM DICKSON
Director (Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, SCT)
Malcolm is a curator, writer and cultural producer. He is Director of Street Level Photoworks, a leading photography arts organisation in Scotland that provides artists and the public with a range of opportunities to make and engage with photography. He co-ordinates a programme which embraces different genres of photography and is extended through a network of local and community venues, regional art galleries, and through national and international partners. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions by Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte, Jenny Matthews, Simon Murphy, Margaret Mitchell, Colin Gray, and Moira McIver. Exchange residencies include those with the Northern Photographic Centre (Finland), Kaunas Gallery (Lithuania), and Artlink (Ireland). Street Level manage the Photography Networks in Scotland platform which profiles exhibitions and events happening across the country and is a member of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of artists production centres in Scotland.
Recent articles include a chapter in the book ‘The Artist as Explorer | Madelon Hooykaas’ (2023) ‘[Photographic] Histories from Below’ in Lietuvos Fotografija yearbook (2022), the epilogue in Photography of Protest and Community (2020), a chapter on Stansfield/Hooykaas in the book EWVA: European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s (2019) and ‘Vide Verso: Video’s Critical Corpus’ in REWIND| British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s (2012) which tracks developments in media art practice in Scotland alongside developments elsewhere. He an Honourary Research Fellow at Dundee University.