|
original artwork
|
|
|
Link to my Axis site
Portraiture
|
Chris Pickup Curriculum Vitae: Past 5 Years 1963 Born Swanley, Kent.1981- 82 Foundation, Medway College of Art & Design, Chatham, Kent. 1982 - 85 BA Hons Fine Art Sculpture, Loughborough College of Art & Design.1st Class Hons. 1988 – 89 Post Graduate, PGCE, Sheffield Hallam University.
Solo Exhibitions 2008 Seed of a City: Site responsive sculptural installation as part of Mantle Arts Imagine a City... temporally sited in an empty shop unit in the Odeon Arcade adjacent to Leicester market. The work charts the transition from available resource to commodity to global commodity as a city establishes itself on its chosen site. Exhibition duration 1 month. Audience: > 2000 2007 INMATES: Site responsive sculptural installation and accompanying publication, funded by Arts Council England, exploring the early history of the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. The work dealt with institutionalisation, social attitudes and personal stories of Edwardian social care. The work was reviewed in Sheffield Telegraph, Metro and Exposed. Exhibition duration: 2 months. Audience: > 500 2006Urban Surface: Site specific shop window exhibition, Art House Studios, Nottingham. As part of Nottingham’s Open Festival of Contemporary Art 2006 I created a site specific piece in a shop window. This work followed the theme of ‘Urban Surface’ in that it responded to the patterns created as city pavement is worn, repaired, repaved and developed. The work highlighted this unseen complexity by being an observational study of the piece of pavement the viewer was standing on as they viewed the work. Exhibition duration: 1 week. Audience: >1000 2005Chronological Marks: Amberhouse Gallery, Tideswell, Derbyshire. This exhibition was the culmination of the Chronological Marks series showing work created over a 4 year period representing a number of manifestations of this theme including: Patterns, Landscapes, Architecturals and Iconics. Approximately 40 pieces of work in total. Exhibition duration: 2 months. Audience: >400 Chronological Marks: Draycott Festival, Derbyshire. An exhibition of selected Chronological Marks works exhibited within a private home as part of the festival. The exhibition had a strong interactive ethos with me providing resources and background information to explain the concepts behind the work. I was also present throughout the exhibition to explain and discuss the work with visitors. Exhibition duration: 1 Weekend. Audience: >150. Sales: >£700 2004Chronological Marks: Flying Goose Gallery, Nottingham. A small selling show of selected Chronological Marks works within the gallery space of the cafe. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >500. Sales: >£800 Chronological Marks/Audio Visual: Wirksworth Festival. An exhibition of selected Chronological Marks works exhibited in the Moot Hall in Wirksworth. This exhibition was in tandem with the experimental music of EMC as part of their Loop Space audio visual presentation. During the weekend I also supplied live feed visual art from both laptop and camera to be mixed by a VJ.
Commissions 2006Urban Surface: Geldards LLP, Nottingham. Major commission funded by Arts & Business and Geldards involving 9 artists. My work was a development of the Urban Surface theme which responds directly to the patterns created by the man made surfaces within any chosen environment. This particular work was in response to the structure and form of the central staircase and produced a pair of 2 metre long wall-based mixed media works for opposite walls in a meeting room. Chronological Marks: ‘Settlement’, private commission. A privately commissioned piece employing the theme of Chronological Marks. This theme responds to a ‘language of pattern’ which has reiterated itself over the millennia from Bronze Age rock carving to housing estates and motherboards. ‘Settlement’ was an analysis of patterns created by street patterns, ploughing and archaeological remains.2005 Chronological Marks: ‘Fire’, private commission. A privately commissioned piece employing the Chronological Marks theme.Fire was based on a study of Bronze Age rock carving. 2004 Colourfield: 2.5 metre wide panel, AMK Design, Plumtree, Nottingham.‘Colourfield’ is a painting technique developed to create the Chronological Marks series. It involves the spraying of oil and water based paints on to a horizontal surface and is controlled by complex masking techniques. This technique was employed to meet the brief for a large abstract panel at AMK Design’s headquarters. Chronological Marks: ‘3 Henges’, AMK Design, Plumtree, Nottingham. A second commission to the Chronological Marks theme resulting in a triptych based on the form of ancient henge monuments. 2003 Chronological Marks: ‘C39 UK’ Nottingham University School of Education.Framed work on paper investigating the hieroglyphic nature of product coding and barcode. Now sited within the School of Education. 2002 Chronological Marks: ‘Two Strata with Marks’, Food Mountains Restaurant, Nottingham. This piece investigated the process of natural stratification in a geological context and how man’s mark making appears to stratify within the archaeological record. The resulting piece was a 1.5 metre long wall-mounted panel on the main feature wall of the restaurant.
Group Shows (selected) 2010 Tarpy Gallery, Castle Donnington, Derbyshire. 2007Urban Journeys, Red Gallery, Hull A collaborative project with artist Mike Bowdidge producing site specific Urban Surface work from a series of 3 journeys taken through the streets of Hull. Exhibition duration: 1month. Audience: >200 2006 Open 2006 Hub Show, Nottingham.The contribution of one Urban Surface piece to the Hub Show for the 2006 Open Festival of Contemporary Art. Exhibition duration: 1 week. Audience: >40 Nottingham Open 06, City Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle One Urban Surface piece selected for the City Gallery’s Open Exhibition. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >500 2004 Gagliardi Gallery, Kings Rd. London. A large Chronological Marks piece accepted for exhibition in this commercial gallery on the Kings Road. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >100 Waterloo Gallery & Refocus-Now, London. Two works selected for both the Refocus-now stock catalogue and for the inaugural exhibition to launch it. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >100 Candid Arts Gallery, May & July, London. As part of Candid Art’s Network AD initiative I exhibited a substantial body of Chronological Marks works in their Islington Gallery. Exhibition durations: 1 month each. Audience: >150 2003Patchings Open, Nottingham. One Chronological Marks piece selected for the Patchings Art Centre’s Open Exhibition. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >500 Nottingham Open 03, City Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle. One Chronological Marks piece selected for the City Gallery’s Open Exhibition. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >500 2002 Marmalade Gallery, London.Three works selected for the inaugural show for this new Docklands gallery. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >100. Sales: £150 Nottingham Open 02: City Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle. One Chronological Marks piece selected for the City Gallery’s Open Exhibition. Exhibition duration: 1 month. Audience: >500. Sales £150
Other Relevant Experience 2006Key Officer in the organisation of the Open 2006 Festival of Contemporary Art, Nottingham, including the management of the publicity strategy and involvement in formulating the funding bid. 1990 – 10 19 years teaching experience in Further, Adult and Secondary education, including 5 years as a full time Head of Art. Responsibilities included development of the curriculum, personnel management and departmental administration. |
|
|
Questions or problems regarding this web site
should be directed to
webmaster@chrispickupartist.co.uk. |
