Pernille Spence
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Pernille Spence is an artist based in Scotland who has been creating performances and moving image works since the mid 1990s.  She has created work for the sky, working with a team of skydivers, been lifted into the air by 22 giant weather balloons and devised a series of performances that took place in over 50 locations in the landscape alongside railway lines from Aberdeen to Glasgow.  Since 2015 Pernille has been making work in collaboration with artist, Zoë Irvine as Irvine & Spence.

Exhibiting nationally and internationally her work has been shown in many galleries and festivals including the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Germany, the Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne and was part of “>>FFWD:Artists’ Moving Image from Scotland” in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Biennale, China.  Works made in collaboration with Zoë Irvine have been shown in film festivals such as Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the Aesthetica Short film festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival where they were awarded the Prix De Varti in 2024.
 
Pernille currently lectures in the Contemporary Art Practice department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.