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2000
1999
1998
Group Exhibitions
1999
‘Chora’, 30 Underwood Street Gallery, London (artist/co-curator)
‘Six Young British Artists’, Gallerie Axel Thieme, Darmstadt, Germany
‘The Discerning Eye’ (invited by Charlotte Mullins), Mall Gallery, London
‘Hub’, (curated by Above/Below), Bishopsgate, London
‘Ninenineninetynine’, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery. London
‘Wunderkammer’, 13 Laburnum Lodge, London
‘After Jackson Pollock’, Sali Gia Gallery, London (artist/curator)
‘Networking’. P-House, Tokyo, Japan
Public Art Commission, Camden Council/Heritage Lottery Fund, St.George’s Gardens, London, (unrealised)
Group Exhibitions
1998
‘A State of Affairs’, Arthur R. Rose, London
‘Cluster Bomb’, Morrison-Judd Gallery, London
‘The Bible of Networking’, Sali Gia Gallery, London
‘Souvenirs’, (curated by Above/Below), Museum Street, London
‘Absolut Secret’, Royal College of Art, London
Group Exhibitions
2000
‘9,8m/s2’, Zero Arte Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy
‘Art Futures’, Contemporary Art Society, Barbican, London
Occupation Studios Fund Raiser, Platform Gallery, London
‘The Wreck of Hope’, The Nunnery Gallery, London, (artist/co-curator)
‘Chora’, Abbot Hall, Kendal
South Hill Park,
Bracknell
Hotbath Gallery,
Bath
Group Exhibitions
2001
‘Artmart’, 291 Gallery, London
EAST International, Norwich (selected by Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen)
‘Wax’, Auction in aid of Cancer Research
‘Closer Still’, (Southern Arts Touring Show) Winchester
School of Art
Artsway, Sway
Group Exhibitions
2002
‘Fluent: Painting and Words’, Camberwell Art School Gallery, London
‘Red Spy’, Fortezza della Brunella, Aulla, Italy
‘La Forma delle Forme’, Villa Braghieri-Castel, Modena, Italy
‘New Religious Art’, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
The Open, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
‘Bibliomania’ (edited by Simon Morris), book-launch at Printed Matter, New York
‘Fabric’ Abbott Hall, Kendal
‘Private Views’, London Print Studio
Herbert Read Gallery, KIAD, Canterbury
‘showhouse’, PM House and Gallery, London
‘East Wing No. 5’, Courtauld Institute, London
Group Exhibitions
2003
The Book Show’, (curator/exhibitor), Nunnery Gallery, London
‘A…parole’, Cortili di Casa Sanna-Meloni, Berchidda, Sardinia, as part of ‘Del Segno, Del Suona e della Parola, PAV
‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’, (exhibition conception and design)
‘The Cover Theory’, Ex-Centrale Electrica, Piacenza, Italy (curated
by Mario Sinaldi)
2002/3
Sumptuous’, Ex Macelli Pubblici, Prato, Italy (curated by Palazzo delle
Papesse Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena)
‘L’Ultima Cena’’, Castello del’Ovo, Napoli,
Italy (curated by Massimo Sgroi)
Group Exhibitions
2004
Abbey Fellowship Award Exhibition, British School in Rome
‘’The Cripples: After L.S. Lowry’, Nunnery Gallery, London
‘The Book Show’, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
Public Art Projects
1998
Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London(Commission from Above/Below)
1999
St. George’s Cemetery, Bloomsbury, London (unrealised), (Commissioned
by Camden Council)
2000
Brick Lane, London, (Commissioned by Cityside Development)
2001
Church Street Redevelopment Project, Reading (shortlisted), (Commissioned
by CAS and Reading City Council)
Awards and Residencies
2004
Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School in
Rome
2003
Artist-in-Residence,The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria
Arts Council Grant for ‘The Book Show’ catalogue ‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’ short-listed for the Art Newspaper/AXA Catalogue of the Year Award
Utopia Press Publications
1999
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell and other
Paintings’ (in association with Percy Miller Gallery)
2002
‘Italian Holiday’ (in association with
Zero Gallery)
2003
‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’
(in association with the Wordsworth Trust)
‘The Life of Things’, with Jack Mapanje and Robert Woof (in association with the Wordsworth Trust)
‘The Book Show’, with essays by Susan Johanknecht and Simon Morley
Commentaries on Own Work
‘The Narratives of Social Space’, Public Art Journal, Vol. 1 No.2
Oct.1999, p.22-23
‘Writing on the Wall: Words in Modern Art’, The Collected Works of George Orwell, Catalogue, 2000.
Books
Co-author, ‘Twentieth Century Art Book’, Phaidon, 1996
‘William Scott’, Merrill Holberton/Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1998
‘Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art’, Thames and Hudson and California University Press
Criticism and Writings (1989-2001)
Reviews have appeared in the following magazines and periodicals:
The Burlington, The Times Literary Supplement, Art Monthly, Untitled, Contemporary
Visual Art, Tema Celeste (London Editor 1990-92), The Independent on Sunday.
Selected Feature Articles
‘A Difference’, The New Modernism: Deconstructive Tendencies in
Modern Art, in Art and Design, Vol.4 No 3-4, 1988, pp. 26–34
‘What is Classicism’, The Classical Sensibility in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, in Art and Design, Vol. 4 No. 5-6, 1988, p.61-65
‘Barcelona!: Antoni Tàpies’, Art Monthly, 9.1992, p.9-11
‘Robert Ryman’, Art Monthly, 3 1993, p.10-12
‘Merz: Kurt Schwitters’, Art Monthly, 2. 1995, p. 13-15
‘De Kooning:Then and Now’, Art Monthly, 3 1995, p.6-9
‘Brancusi’, Art Monthly, 8-9 1995, p.16-19 (selected for Sirs Renaissance Database)
Nolde’s Nationalism’, Art Monthly 12-1, 1995-6, p.7-9
‘Irish Art International’, Art Monthly, 5 1996, p.13-16
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Selected Feature Articles (continued)
‘Yanks: Mark Tobey and Mark Rothko in England’, Art Monthly, 7-8
1996, p.9-14
‘The Colour of Colour: An Interview with Patrick Heron’, Contemporary Art, Winter 1994/5, p. 20-24
‘Shaping up with Ellsworth Kelly: An Interview’, Tate, Summer 1997, p.22-29
‘Nothing But Monsters: The Animation of Simon Pummell’, Art and Animation, in Art and Design Profile No.53, 1997, p.74-83
‘Abstract Luminism: On Recent British Abstraction, Contemporary Visual Art, No. 16, 1997
‘Structural Implants: Interview with Per Kirkeby’, Tate, Spring 1998, p.48-53
The Friedrich Factor’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.19, 1998, p.26-33
‘The Painted Word’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.23,1998, p.22-27
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Selected Feature Articles (continued)
'The Art of Darkness’, Tate, Summer 1999, p.37-39
‘The Narratives of Social Space’, Public Art Journal, Vol.1, No.2, Oct.1999, p.22-23
‘The Wreck of Hope: Painting After Nihilism’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.28, 2000, p.52-56
‘Close Encounters: Artists and the Past’, Tate, Summer 2000, p.52-58
Catalogue Essays
‘Made in Light: a Project by Martin Richman’, Tyseley Energy for
Waste Facility, Birmingham, PACA, 1997
‘Heavier than Air: Mark Fairnington and Mark Dean, Imperial War Museum, 1998-99
‘Greenhouse Effect’, Serpentine Gallery, 2000
‘Shadows of the Mind: The Science Drawings of Sir Roger Penrose,’ Ruskin Laboratory, Oxford, 2000
‘After: Beth Harland’, The Gallery at Central School of Speech and Drama, 1999
‘A Conversation with Caspar David Friedrich concerning the Recent Paintings of Mark Wright’, Rhodes + Mann, 2000
Sacred and Profane , Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, (and tour), 2001
Ian Whittlesea, ‘Platform’ Jerwood Art Space, London, 2003