Artist Biography
Dereck Harris is an artist, born in Liverpool in 1962, currently based in London. The digital screen is evoked by his paintings and they acknowledge the web as an open source for imagery, with its own tropes of communication. The paintings depict contemporary dancers captured, frozen in time, in the moment of a baroque spectacle. In the tableaux of his painted stages, the discomfort of the player’s body flexes like a muscular metaphor for inward struggle and psychological resistance.
Dereck was a founding member of Cubitt Gallery and Studios in 1992; he oversaw the project management for the organisation to move three times; from Goods Way, Kings Cross in 1993, to Cubitt Street, Kings Cross, in 1994 and finally to Angel Mews in Islington (Cubitt’s current home) in 2001. He continues to give committee time, ensuring the survival of the co-op and developing plans for a permanent home over the coming decade.
He was head of BA Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL from 2005-16, performed External Examiner duties at various colleges he developed a UAL pedagogic research strand with Michael Spencer (from CSM) called Feral Space.
Curriculum Vitae
Work held in collections:
Unilever: London / Linklaters & Alliance: London / P & O ‘Ventura’ Superliner
Private Collections: UK: USA: Europe including David Bowie private collection, Tim Sayer Collection
One-Person Shows:
2023 | “Dark Carnival “ | TML Gallery London
2004 | “Artist of the Day” | Flowers Central, London.
2002 | “Astral Smile” | The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, London
1994 | Harriet Green Gallery, Soho, London.
1989 | The Pride Gallery, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.
2023 | Tableaux: Painting as Stage, Terrace Gallery (and Karl Beilik), Patchworks, London (including: Peter Ashton-Jones, Dan Coombs, Mick Finch, Annis Harrison, Alison Jones, , Neil Tait and others) LAF After-Party Group Show at TM Lighting Gallery, Kings Cross, London (selected by Domo Baal) Cubitt Artists at ‘Encounters’ - London Art Fair 2023, Art Fair stand in the ‘Encounters’ section of the Fair (January) with Tom Crawford, Will Daniels, Ben Edge, Annis Harrison, Mimi Hope, Kerstin Kartscher, Diane Puntar, Nick Wyatt, Laura White.
2022 | Cubitt30 Exhibition, Victoria Miro Gallery, Warf Road, London – Fund-raising Group show including: Tomma Abts, Charles Avery, Lisa Brice, Billy Childish, Dexter Dalwood, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Chris Ofili, Mark Leckey, Milly Thomson, Laura White, Mark Wright. Chorus – Group Show at the Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh with John Stark, Fiona Finnegan,Ed Burkes, Mohammad Barrangi, ZaynQahtani, Bobbie Russion, Chantal Powel, Leo Robinson, Pippa Gatty, Paige Perkins and Vivien McDermid
2020 | Silent Slips curated by Dereck Harris at the James Freeman Gallery, London artists: Ben Edge; Fiona Finnegan; Dereck Harris; John Stark
2018 | Le Sacre: Cubitt Salon, Fiona Finnegan, Dereck Harris and Ansel Krut, Studio 5 at Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London
2017 | Practices of Enquiry (Group Exhibition showcasing UAL pedagogic research and enquiry) – Feral Space Film and Feral Lunch Film screenings: UAL Clockhouse Gallery at Chelsea College of Art and Design (01.11.16 – 16.12.16) and then on to UAL Showroom Gallery, (09.01.17 – 27.01.17)
2016 | Shelfie Top Floor, Delta House Studios, Riverside Road, SW17 0BA – Wimbledon College of Art Staff Group Show Cubitt 25th Birthday Open Studios – Sat 21st May 2016, London It’s Your Birthday: 25 Years of Cubitt Artists, Darbyshire, White Lion Street, London.
2013 | Paint Club Visual Symposium, Beaconsfield – UAL Group Exhibition Timeslip Gallery Stock, Berlin. Curated by Dereck Harris – artists: Dereck Harris / Sam Herbert / Greg Rook
2012 | The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon Space Gallery, Wimbledon London curated by Phil Allen and Dan Coombs (Jan - March 2012) and touring to: Exeter Pheonix Gallery, Exeter (April – June 2012) & Charlie Smith Gallery, Old Street, London (June – July 2012)
2010 | St. Joseph’s Hospice Auction, St Botolph’s Church, Aldgate, London Borders and Edges’ WAVE (World Art College Vision Exchange) Wimbledon Space Gallery (CCW / Dept Art and Design University of Alberta / Cardiff School of the Arts UWAC / College of Art and Design Ewha Women’s University
2008 | St. Jospeh’s Hospice Auction, Christ Church Spitalfields, London
2007 | 'Viewing Club' Hats Plus, 101B Kings Cross Rd, London (including David Harrison, Mark Wright) ‘The Dream of Putrefaction’ curated by Dereck Harris touring Exhibition:
The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone Kent
The Fieldgate Gallery, East London (Artists: Michelangelo Antonioni / Jennifer Allen / Amanda Beech / Luke Caulfield / Sean Dawson / Kirsten Glass / Marcus Harvey / Dereck Harris / Anton Henning / Josie McCoy / Marilyn Minter / Gavin Tremlett / Jos Richardson / Will Tuck)
London Assembly, Academie Royale Des Beaux-Arts De Bruxelles (WCA & Camberwell)
2005 | ‘For and From’ - 50 Artists Drawings at the Metropole Galleries, Folkstone, Kent. ‘Cubitt Auction’ Architectural Association, London ‘Pencil (A Drawing Show)’, Carter Presents, 29 Orsman Road, London, N1 5RA. “Drawing 200” The Drawing Room, Tannery Gallery, E London.
2004 | “Small is Beautiful XXII” Flowers Central, London. (including Basil Beattie/ Boyd and Evans/ Simon Callery/ Bernard Cohen/ Barry Flanagen/ David Hockney/ Phillip King/ Allen Jones and others) “Wimbledon Staff Exhibition” Wimbledon School of Art Gallery, Wimbledon, London. (including Mark Fairnington/ Anita Taylor/Marta Marce/ Clunie Reid/ Jennet Thomas/ Tamiko O’Brien/ George Blacklock/ Keir Smith/ Jordan Baseman and others) “Artist of the Day” Flowers Central, London. (selected by George Blacklock)
2002 | “It’ll be lonely this Christmas” James Windsor Art, i-level, London (including: Roger Kelly / George Shaw / Mark Wright / Rebecca Fortnum, Helen Ireland, Nick Wyatt and others) “Not Project 1 “ 99 Friary Road, London.
2001 | “Paradise Valley” LUCAD Gallery, Loughborough University. (including : Dan Coombs / Martin Westwood / Dawn Mellor / Nicky Hobermann / Ian Dawson / Colin Smith / Mark Wright) “Drawing to Attention” Suite of Lithographic prints shown at; Geneva and at the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art, London. (To travel to Groningen,The Netherlands, and Florence, Italy.)
2000 | ‘Shop Tactics’ Group Show, Central London (curated by : Mat Humphries) (including : Bob & Roberta Smith / Peter Harris) (sponsored by Absolut) “Drawing to Attention”, AIAS Drawing Residency, Bentlage, Germany (Exhibition Catalogue and forthcoming travelling Lithograph Exhibition published by AIAS: Association of Independent Art Schools.) "The Wreck of Hope" (The Friedrich Society) The Nunnery Gallery, London. (Curated by: Edward Chell, Simon Morley, Nicholas Wyatt)
1999 | "Where do you want to go today?" Cubitt Gallery, London. Pro-Arte Summer Show, Group Show, Arte Monaco Gallery, Monaco. (including: Richard Woods / Vic Munez / Jean Tinguely) Pro-Arte WWWeb site: Virtual Gallery (WWW.PROARTE.com)
1998 | 'Dead Di Day',(including Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Dawn Mellor, Nicky Hobermann) 43 Huntington Street, London N3 (Selected by David Harrison) 'The Vauxhall Gardens', The Norwich Gallery, Norwich. (Curated by Peter Fillingham, including Liz Wright / Derek Ogbourne / Tacita Dean / Pete Lewis Gasworks, Gasworks gallery, London.
1997 | Artopia Gallery, New York. Group Exhibition.
1996 | Harriet Green Gallery, London, (Group Show; Gallery Artists) Kate Chertavian Fine Art, Summer Group Show, London.
1995 | 'The Figure as Metaphor', Lannon Gallery, New York. Hotel Crighton Art Fair',San Francisco, U.S.A.(with Lannon Gallery) Cabinet Art', Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London. 'Salon Room', Lannon Gallery, New York (Group Show) ‘Tombola’ - Cubitt Gallery, London.
1994 | '12 x 12', Mauberge, France (artist run space presented by: 'Acte de Naissance') Art at Virgin Atlantic, Heathrow London. (Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art) Kate Chertavian Fine Art, Group Show, London (Co-Curated by Anthony Wilkinson) The Journey', Gallery K, London. (Curated by Mary-Rose Beaumont)
1993 | ‘Critic's Choice', Christie's Auction House, London. (Selected by Mary-Rose Beaumont) Cubitt Artists', Eagle Gallery, London (Selected by Emma Hill) Homebase', Cubitt Gallery, London (Curated by Anthony Wilkinson)
1992 | 'Artists in the Arts', John Jones Gallery, London. 'Members and Guests',London Group Exhibition,Morley Gallery, London.(Guest)
1991 | Picadilly Gallery, London,Group Show.(Summer & Winter) The Green Fund, Smiths Gallery, London.
1990 | Dark Side of the Moon', Benjamin Rhodes gallery, London. (Curated by Mary-Rose Beaumont) A View of the New', Royal Overseas League, London.
1989 | The Nude, Pride Gallery, London. Drawing the Lines, Mertz Contemporary Art, London.
1987 | 'Riverside Open', Riverside Gallery, London.
1986 | 'Four Painters', Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Leicester Schools Exhibition.Leicester. Royal Overseas League Exhibition',London. Fresh Art', Barbican Gallery, London (Selected by Nicholas Treadwell)
1985 | Spirit of London, Royal Festival Hall, London.
1984 | ‘Young Cardiff Artists', National Museum of Wales.
1983 |'Aberystwyth - Mid-Wales-Open' , Aberystwyth, North Wales (First Prizewinner), ‘Stowells Trophy’, Royal Academy, London.
1982 |x 'New Contemporaries', I.C.A.,London.
Education & Teaching Experience:
Appointment: 15.11.05 – 22.09.17
Role(s): Pathway Leader BA Fine Art: Painting
School/College: Wimbledon College of Art, CCW, UAL
Academic Qualifications
Including Current Registrations
1980 - 83 | BA (Hons) Fine Art,(Class 2:1), South Glamorgan Institute Higher Education.
1985 - 86 | MA Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design.
2005-6 | UAL CLTAD Phd Supervision Training
Professional Roles and Memberships
2014 - 2018
External Examiner: BA (Hons) Fine Art Top-Up Degree Fine Art
Kensington and Chelsea College – London South Bank University
2011 - 2014
External Examiner: BA (Hons) Fine Art and Foundation Degree Fine Art
K College (Kent) - University of Greenwich
Teaching Experience (last 10 years max / selected)
2017 - 2018
Associate Lecturer: BA Fine Art : Painting
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London SW19 3QA
2011 - 2017
Pathway Leader BA Fine Art : Painting
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London SW19 3QA
2009 - 2011
Acting Programme (and Course) Director BA Fine Art
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL London SW19 3QA
2005 – 2009
Pathway Leader BA Fine Art : Painting
Wimbledon College of Art, London SW19 3QA
2004 - 2005
Acting Pathway Leader BA Fine Art : Painting
Wimbledon School of Art, London SW19 3QA
2002 - 2004
75 Senior Lecturer (acting 02-03), BA Fine Art : Painting
Wimbledon School of Art, Wimbledon, London SW 19 3QA.
2000 - 2002
Linbury Drawing Fellow (BA / MA Teaching Fellowship)
Wimbledon School of Art, Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, London SW 19 3QA.
1997 - 2003
Visiting Tutor,Part-time BA Practice and Theory of Visual Art.
Chelsea College of Art & Design, Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS
1999 - 2000
Sessional Part-time member of Staff, Part-time BA Fine Art,
Kent Institute Art & Design. New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3AN.
1995 - 1999
Sessional Part-time member of Staff, BA Fine Art (Painting)
Loughborough University and College of Art & Design. Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicester, LE12 8QY.
1996 - 1997
Sessional Part-time member of staff, G.N.V.Q. Art & Design.
Reading College and School of Art & Design.
Kings Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 4HJ.(now merged with Thames Valley University :TVU)
1993 - 1997
Sessional Part-time member of Staff, Foundation Studies.
Berkshire College of Art & Design. (now merged with Reading College - see address below)
Professional/Industrial Experience:
Consultancies and Professional Experience:
2017
Reclaiming the Curatorial Workshop – Guest Speaker (and Cubitt Founder) with Jenny Richards and Fabio Altamura: part of a week long course attended by 15 participants (11th -14th April 2017) at the Cubitt Gallery, Angel Mews, London N1 9HH
2014 - 2017
External Examiner Duties: Kensington and Chelsea College (KCC)
EE duties undertaken on the BA Fine Art top-up Course at Kensington & Chelsea
College from 2014 – 2017. The validating authority for KCC is The London South
Bank University (LSBU)
2014
Validation of new BA Fine Art Top-Up Course Course: Kensington and Chelsea College, London
External member of the London South Bank University validation panel the BA Fine Art top-up Course at Kensington & Chelsea College from 2014. The validating authority for KCC is The London South Bank University (LSBU)
2011 - 2014
External Examiner Duties: K College, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells
EE duties undertaken on the Art and Design HE and Access to HE Course at K
College from 2011 – 2014. The validating authority for K College is The University of Greenwich
2010/11
Revalidation BA Fine Art Course: Leeds College of Art
External Validation panel member for the Open University (April 2011)
2010/11
Revalidation BA Fine Art Course: Camberwell College of Art
Internal University of the Arts London (UAL) panel member: stage 1 and 2 meetings
2009 - 2013
Cubitt Board member & Studio Management Committee Chair
Cubitt Gallery and Studios: 8 Angel Mews, Islington, London N1 9HH
2009
Quality Review: Camberwell College of Art
Internal UAL panel member (March 09) + co-author of review report
1991 - 2013
Founding Member & Chair (1991 - 1994) Studio holder;
Cubitt Studios and Gallery, King's Cross, London.
Goods Way (1991-2), Cubitt Street(1993-4),Caledonia Street(1994-2001), & Angel
Mews (2001- ongoing)
2001
“Sophisticated Banality” - Workshop Leader, A.I.A.S. Wimbledon
2001 (International Conference & Workshop week - Nov 2001 at
Wimbledon School of Art).(workshop framed around the drawing practice of ; Adam Dant (aka:Donald Parsnips): Charles Avery & David Shrigley)
2001
“Trinity in Flux” - Inter-Institutional Collaboration - Drawing Project
Leader with final Exhibition at the Old Royal Navel College,
Greenwich, London. ( A collaboration between Wimbledon School of Art & Trinity Music College).
1998 - 2000
Founder Member 'Friedrich Society',
Artists/ Writers / Critics Discussion Group, London.
Work held in Corporate Collections:
Boombox Paintings: P&O Commission
2007 - Two Paintings Commissioned by Tempest Radford for the P & O Superliner: ‘Ventura’ and to be permanently housed in the ‘Decibels Suite’
Unilever: London
Linklaters & Alliance: London
P & O ‘Ventura’ Superliner 2008 (Decibells)
Private Collections : UK: USA: Europe
(David Bowie private collection).
Research (funded projects), publications, public papers and/or exhibitions
Funded Research Projects:
2016
Feral Lunch, led by D Harris and M Spencer in a filmed event – part of the Practices of Enquiry Exhibition coordinated by the Learning and Teaching Exchange, UA at the Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London. UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network
2015
UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network Feral Weekender, weekend-long workshop at the Kingsley Hall, Bow – led by D Harris and M Spencer with 20 students form UAL, Leeds College of Art and other UK Institutions Feral Weekender – Film of the event (vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/135169067)
2014
UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network
2013
Feral Friday – UAL Staff Networking Event held at the Saint George and the
Dragon Pub, Hoxton, London (13.12.13) UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Paint Club Research Network
2012
Feral Space Symposium, Union Chapel, London (31.10.12) with guest participants from UAL, Leeds College of Art, Goldsmiths College and other UK Institutions UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network
2011
UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Feral Space Research Network UAL Community of Practice Award (joint bid): Paint Club Research Network
2007
The Dream of Putrefaction, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Kent The Dream of Putrefaction, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2002
Astral Smile, Nunnery Gallery, London
1984
Young Cardiff Artists, National Museum of Wales, Penarth, South Wales
Academic experience:
1997 - 1999
Researching, Writing and Developing new BA (Hons) Fine Art
Programme, entitled; "Fine Art with Curatorial and Critical Studies."
Commissioned by Reading College and School of Art & Design.
(Representing The College at Validation Events)
Visiting Lecturing:
2002
Visiting Lecturer, BA Painting, Worthing College Art & Design.
1995 - 1999
Visiting days, Fine Art - Painting BA, Loughborough University.
1998
Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art BA. Norwich School of Art & Design.
1997 - 1998
Part-time Lecturer, Drawing Summer School. (DALI) St. Martins / Central School of Art.
1997
Visiting Lecturer, Part-time BA Fine Art. Kent Institute of Art & Design.
1997
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art. Nottingham Trent University.
1995
Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art BA. South Glamorgan Institute Art & Design
Training Course:
2003
WSA Training Seminar: ‘The Relationship between of Learning & Teaching with Research’ (5/6/03)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘The Relationship between Theory & Practice’(19/6/03)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Risk Assessment’ (22/9/03)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Assessment & Learning Outcomes’ (23/9/03)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘The Special educational Needs & Disability Act 2001’(3/11/03)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Learning, Teaching & Research Workshop’ (6/11/03)
CLTAD Workshop: ‘ Using Learning Journals in Art & Design in HE’ (27/11/03)
2004
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Equal opportunities and Diversity Awareness’ (12/1/04)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Mental Health Development’ (26/2/04)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Chairs and Secretaries of of School Committees and Boards’ (14/10/04)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Fine Art Awayday: Curricular Integration of Theory & Practice’ (15/12/04)
2005
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Good Practice in Admissions & Interview Procedures’ (8/2/05)
CLTAD Training Session: ‘Supervising Research Degrees’ (1/10/05)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘An Introduction to Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Asperger’s Syndrome’ (8/11/05)
WSA Training Seminar: ‘Disability Legislation’ (11/11/05)
2006
WSA Training Seminar: The Disibility Discrimination Act and Students’ (14/3/06)
2007
WCA (UAL) Training Seminar: Mental Health (3/7.07)
WCA (UAL) Admissions Training: Focus Group (18/9/07)
WCA (UAL) Annual Course Monitoring Training (26/9/07)
2008
CLTAD Innovative Assessment Workshop (February 08)
WCA (UAL) PRA (Appraisal) Training (June 08)
2009
Risk Assessment Training (Jan 09)
UAL Teaching and Learning Day 2009 ‘Making it Work! Emloyability for Life’ (21/01/09) Roostein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion; Exploring Subject Specific Employability; Linda Bell & Rebecca Fortnum; You’ve got an Idea – We’ll help you turn it into a Business: Gabrielle Rose & Louise Johnstone.
Peer Observation Training (June 09)
Excell for Mac Training (Foundation) (December 09)
2010
Mental Health - Disability Training (WCA)
Epilepsy Awareness Disability Training (WCA
Fire Marshal Training (UAL)
Risk Assessment Training (UAL)
2011
EVAC Chair Training (UAL)
Appeals Process Training (UAL)
15-Point Marking scale Training (UAL)
Annual Course Monitoring Training (refresher) (UAL)
2012
OAT Training (online assessment tool) (UAL)
2013
FIS Training (Fairness in Selection of Students) (UAL)
Recent Conference / Symposium Attendance of Particular Relevance:
2015
* Paper: Green and Golden: A symposium exploring the impact of location on art education and the art school (presented by Q-Art) Saturday 27th June 2015 at the ALEX Design Exchange and Swansea University, Swansea.
2012
Look Club 4: Dexter Dalwood in conversation with Alison Green - the Clore Studio, South London Art Gallery, London (23.11.12) Paint Club event coordinated by Daniel turgis - a UAL Paint Club Research Network event
* Paper: The Condition to Make Art: Symposium – Convened by Sean Kaye and Jenny West with Feral Space Paper by Dereck Harris, Leeds College of Art, Leeds (14.11.12)
* Paper: Feral Space Symposium – Convened, chaired and with Presentations (short papers) by Dereck Harris and Michael Spencer, Union Chapel, Highbury, London (31.10.12) Paint Club event coordinated by D Harris, M Spencer and A Bunting-Branch - a UAL Feral Space Pedagogical Research Network event
2011
Look Club 3: Mary Heilman introduced by Dan Sturgis at the Wilson Road Lecture Theatre, Camberwell College of Art, London (10.11.11) Paint Club event coordinated by Daniel Sturgis as a UAL Paint Club Research Network event
Tableau: Painting Photo Object, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern (28.10.11 & 29.10.11) Organised by CSM (Mick Finch + Jane Lee) in association with Paint Club and Tate Modern, with Speakers: (Day 1) Michael Fried/ Jean-Francois Chevrier/ Phillip Armstrong/Claire Fontaine/ Michael Newman (Day 2): Atsuhide Ito/ Cedric Loire/ Adi Efal/ Andrea Medjesi-Jones/ Francis Gaube/ Moyra Derby
Panorama: New Perspectives on Richter, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London (21.10.11) – Organised by Tate Modern on the occasion of the Tate Richter retrospective Exhibition, with speakers: Luke Smythe/ Suzanne Kuper/ Julia Freidrich/ Nicholas Serota/Hen Stanford/ Rosemary Hawker/ Mark Godfrey/ Aline vGuillermet and Keynote speaker: Kaja Silverman
* Paper: PARADOX: Outside In – The Permeable Art School. Conference in Cork Invited to present short paper: Feral Spaces and Creative Failure (September 11)
* Paper: UAL Course Directors’ Forum 2011, at Latimer Place, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. (30.06.11 & 01.07 11) Invited to make presentation of short paper: Feral Space Feral Space sub-group: (September 11)
Q-Art Symposium: 11 Course Leaders: 20 Questions at Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London To accompany the book launch 2011 Edited by Sarah Rowles of Q-Art (Panel discussion with 11 Course Leaders: July 2011)
2010
Look Club 2: Michael Borremans and Mario Ross at the Artworkers Guild, London (27.05.10) Paint Club event coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum as a UAL Paint Club Research Network event
*Introduction:Look Club 1: Phil Allen and Martin Holman at 176: Zabludowicz Collection, London (20.05.10) The first Look Club event coordinated and introduced by Dereck Harris as a UAL Paint Club Research Network event
Deschoolong Society Purcell Room at the Queeen Elizebeth Hall, Southbank Centre (29.04.10 – 30.04.10) – Organised by the Hayward Gallery and Serpetine Gallery – Day 1 speakers: Keynote Lecture by Christopher Robbins; Carmen Moersch and Irit Rogoff; Clare Bishop w/ Harrell Fletcher / Nils Norman; Panel Discussion: Janek Sowa / Pedro Lasch / Terry Smith / Rafal Niemojewski. Day 2 speakers: Martha Rosler; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panel Discussion: Dave Beech / Adrian Rifkin/ Lisa Tickner / Cliff Lausen; Dialogues: Hannah Hurtzig/ Suzanna Lacy / Pablo Helguera; Presentations: Marcelo Exposito/ Janna Grahem/ Jeanne Van Heeswijk/ Pablo Helguera/ Gediminas Urbominas/ Nicola Lee; Summary: Paul O’Neil & Mick Wilson; Closure: Ralph Rogoff.
The Contemporary Sublime, Tate Britain Auditorium, London (20.02.10) Chair: Rikke Hansen, speakers; Rod Mengham; Sas Mays; Emily Brady; David Buckland; Rina Arya; Luke White.
2009
Wrong from the Start: Modernism and the Sublime, Tate Britain Auditorium, London (30.11.09) Convened by Philip Shaw (Leicester University) Speakers: Christine Batters (Warwick) :’Behold the Buffoon’: Dada, Neitzche’s Ecco Homo and the Sublime; Steven Vine (Swansea): T.S.Eliot’s ‘Criterion of Sublimity’: The Waste Land’; Mark Rawlinson (Leicester) – ‘Waste dominion’, ‘White warfare’, and ‘Antarctic Modernism’; Scott Freer (Leicester): ‘Magritte: The Uncanny and the Sublime’; Ian Patterson (Cambridge): ‘Wild Geese Over the Mountains. Theatricality and the Sublime in the 1930s’; Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld): ‘The Gleam of the Sublime in the Tiger’s Eys: Newman, Surrealism, Bataille’; Timothy D Martin (De Montfort): ‘Psychosis and the Sublime in American Art: Rothko and Smithson’.
* Paper: The Processes of Painting The Swedenberg Society Hall, Bloomsbury, London Launch of UAL and ICFAR Research Group: Paint Club. One day Conference with speakers: Introduction: Rebecca Fortnum How Art Thinks & Paint Club; Vanessa Jackson (morning chair); The painting that is better than it should be- Initiator Jeffrey Dennis & Respondent Katrine Hjelde (Chelsea); Painting as tableau. Tableau as process - Initiator Mick Finch & Respondent, Mario Rossi (CSM); Before one’s foot falls - Initiator Dan Sturgis & Respondent Stella Capes (Camberwell); Richard Dyer (afternoon chair); Has painting lost its Mojo? - Initiator Dereck Harris & Respondent Katie Pratt (Wimbledon); Magenta Pool - Initiator Mikey Cuddihy & Respondent Paula Kane (Byam Shaw)
Undoing the Aesthetic Image Tate Britain Auditorium, London in association with the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Middlesex University, (24/01/09) – speakers: Eric Alliez; Elisabeth Lebovici; Georges Didi- Huberman; Jaques Ranciere;
2008
Creative Scholars: Research Economies in Art and Design; Tate Britain Auditorium, (8/12/08) in association with the University of Brighton. Speakers: Dr. Victoria Welsh (Tate Britain), 1 “Historical Context” ; Sir Christopher Frayling; Professor Bruce Brown; Professor Shearer West; Andrew Brighton; 2 “The Public Purse and the Market”; Claire Fox; David Garcia; Professor Dennis Doordan; Professor Edmund de Waal; Jane Pavitt; 3 “Scholarship: Creative cohesion and social impact”; Professor hristopher Breward; Malcolm Quinne; Nocola Triscott; Shan Maclennan; Professor Andrew Dewdey; 4 “The Knowledge Pool: Locating the new archives of creative scholarship”; Anita Taylor; Jeremy Millar; Sonia Boyce; Professor David Toop; Dr. Mark Miodownik; 5 “Futures and Models: So where do we go from here?”; Professor Bruce Brown; Dr. David Dibosa; Professor Christopher Breward; Professor Maria M Delgado.
2007
Pause on the Image: Two-day Symposium, Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (30/11/07 & 1/12/07) in association with the Hayward Gallery Exhibition: ‘The Painting of Modern Life’ curated by Ralph Rugoff. (Speakers included: Parveen Adams, Carolyn-Bakargiev, Thomas Eggerer, Hal Foster, Caroline Jones, Barry Schwabsky, Ralph Rugoff and Luc Tuymans).
2006
Martin Kippenberger Talk (to accompany the Tate retrospective Exhibition), The Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London (25/2/06)
Art after the End of Art: An international conference in Contemporary Aesthetics in honour of Arthur Danto. Presented by Naked Punch at the London School of Economics (4/02/06) Keynote Speaker: Arthur Danto, other speakers: Richard Shusterman, Nicolas Vieillescazes, Jear-Pierre Cometti and panel discussion led by Steve Connor.
2005
Contemporary Painting in Context: Exploring the Field of Painting in Contemporary Culture and Visuality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek & the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (25 + 26 .11.05).Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Harris (Liverpool Universtiy), Peter Weibel, Katherina Grosse, Anne Ring Peterson, Chin-Tao Wu, Gitto Orskou, Stephen Melville, Barry Schwabsky, Katy Deepwell, Rune Gade.
2004
Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (C.L.T.A.D.) One day training session : Learning Journals
2003
Siting the Photograph: Between Wall, Page and Screen, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (10.05.03) speakers: Chair 1st session : David Campany (Surrey Institute Art & Design), Julian Stallabrass, Susan Meiselas, Mark Haworth-Booth: Chair 2nd session: David Green: David Campany, Benjamin Buchloh: Chair 3rd session: Joanna Lowry (Kent Institute Art & Design) Plenary session with all speakers.
Season of Barnett Newman related talks at Tate, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern:
Approaching Newman, speakers: Mark Godfrey, Jenny Lomax.(29.09.02)
Painting present, Michael Fried. (15.10.02)
Painting Present, Talk by David Reed. (29.10.02)
Newman Now, Conference (8.11.02) speakers: Mark Godfrey, Briony Fer, Ian Davenport,Mel Bochner. Chair: Thierry de Duve.
2002
ELIA Conference “Comhar” - Dublin, Ireland.(European League of Institutes of Art)(Three-day conference: 22/23/24.10.02) (Keynote Speakers: Dirk van Damme, Saskia Sassen, Finton O’Toole, Klaus Junge, Noel Sheridan, Catherine David, Luc Tuymans, John Butler) Symposia attended: “Managing the Unmanagable”, chaired by Roger Wilson. Speakers Andrea Hull & Chris Owen. “Monstrous Thinking: on Practice-Based Research”, chaired by Katy Macleod &Lin Holdridge.Speakers:Timothy Emlyn Jones, Trish Lyons, Heidi Tikka, Peter Dallow, Suin Hanrahan, Lucien Massaert.
2001
Abstraction in the Everyday World. Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London.(Surrey Institute Art & Design in collaboration with the Tate).(speakers : Keynote Session; Dave Hickey: Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe: Peter Halley:Barry Schwabsky:Alex Coles:James Meyer:David Batchelor:David Rimanelli: chairs; Chris Riding & Briony Fer.)
2001
Contemporary Drawing; From the Doodle to the Digit. Tate Britain, Millbank, London. (Wimbledon School of Art in collaboration with the Tate.) (speakers: Keynote - Deanna Petherbridge:Claude Heath : Bernard Burgoine:Yves Laconte:Jasia Reichardt:Simon Morrissey :David Connearn:Judith Mottram:chair-Kim Merrington.)
2001
Global and Local; The Condition of Art Practice Now. Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London. (Wimbledon School of Art in collaboration with the Tate.) (speakers: Keynote - David Harvey: Paul Hirst:Kevin Robins : GilaneTawadros:Ricardo Basbaum:Steve Ouditt:Guillermoo Santamarina:Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye:Ute Meta Bauer:Ian Findley-Brown:Don Foresta:Nick Ridout:Donna de Salvo:Geeta Kapur:Lucy Lippard:Cuauth moc Medina:Annie Coombes:Paulo Venancio Filho: Hou Hanru: Dan Cameron: Lars Nittve.)
2000
Painting and the Art School Curriculum. Tate Britain, Millbank, London. (Wimbledon School of Art in collaboration with the Tate.)(speakers: George Blacklock :Bill Furlong: Pam Golden: Mel Gooding: Charles Harrison: Gerard Hemsworth: Simon Patterson: Christos Joachimides.)
2000
Fred Orton Research Seminars, Fred Orton - visiting Professor at Wimbledon School of Art 1999 - 2001 (Kant’s Critique of Judgement / Paul de Man)
1999
Converging Stories: New Media and the Future of Narrative ICA London.(speakers; Darren Aronofsky:Bernard Cohen:Richard Coyne:Bruno Felix:Vic Keegan:Andreas Lange:Demis Hassabis:Jeff Noon:Neal Stephenson:Alice Rawsthorn:Femke Wolting)
1999
The New Painters, Tate Gallery, Liverpool. (speakers ; Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe:Shirley Kaneda:Martin Maloney:Judith Nesbitt:Fiona Rae:David Sweet.)
1999
Internationalism: Philosophy and Theology, ICA London. (speaker Italian Philosopher : Gianni Vatimo)
1999
London & L.A. ; a chaired discussion.ICA London. (speakers:Martin Maloney:Larry Pittman:chair-Martin McGowan.)
1998
People in the Image / People before the Image ; A Postmodern Issue. Tate Gallery, London. (speaker : Thiery De Duve)
1997
Questions on Painting, Nottingham & Trent University. (speakers : Stephen Bann : David Batchelor : Marlene Dumas : Ian McKeever : Chris Ofili : Therese Oulton.)