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biography
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1966 |
Born, Gillingham, Kent |
1984 |
Art History, British Institute,
Florence, Italy |
1985 |
MB;BS (Medicine) University College London |
1988
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BSc, Neuroanatomy, University
College London |
1997 |
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
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exhibitions
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1989 |
London Film-makers
Co-op,
Camden, London
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1990 |
'BP EXPO Young
Directors', Riverside Studios,
London |
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1993 |
'Illustrations to an Unwritten
Book'
St Ives Public Library, St Ives, Cornwall
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Penwith
Society, St Ives |
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1994 |
Newlyn Orion Gallery, Newlyn,
Cornwall
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Penwith Society, St Ives |
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1995 |
'Words
and Pictures', Serpentine Gallery Bookshop, London |
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FAT Public Art Project, Venice Biennale, Italy
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'A Seat of Learning', Cornwall
Museum Galleries, Truro |
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1996 |
'Mobile', SLAP, The Island Centre, St Ives
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'Departure', Questioning Office of Art, New Millennium
Gallery, St Ives |
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1997 |
Chelsea MA shows |
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2003 |
'Videologue', Art Surgery, Live platform,
Newlyn Gallery |
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Mixed show, Wills Lane Gallery, St
Ives |
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2004 |
'Girls v Boys', Hengrove Art
Space, Bristol |
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Mixed show,
Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives |
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2005 |
'Panorama', Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro
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Transition 6, Newlyn Gallery
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Wills Lane
Gallery, St Ives |
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Christmas Show,
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro |
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2006 |
'This then this then this'
The Schoolhouse, Morvah, St Ives
curator |
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Solo show,
The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall |
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Mixed Show,
Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives |
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'The Waiting Project', various
locations, Cornwall |
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artcornwall.org webprojects
curator |
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'Santa's Secret Tombola', Redruth |
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2007 |
Mixed show, The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall |
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'Delicate Situations', online
exhibition |
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'Art Now Cornwall?' Goldfish Fine
Art, Penzance |
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'Unquiet Earth', NSA, St Ives
Society of Artists, St Ives |
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'Tales of the Unexpected', part of
'MORE Cornwall', various locations curator
www.talesoftheunexpected.blogspot.com |
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'Live Art Falmouth', Alexandra
Terrace, University College Falmouth |
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'On Artistic Lines', curated by
Sam Gathercole, featured artist, AXIS online gallery |
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'One in a Million Changes', part
of 'MORE Cornwall' Vogue Beloth Chapel, Illogan |
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'Lineage', NSA, Newlyn Art Gallery |
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'Second Nature pt 1' Truro
Cathedral, Truro curator |
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'Second Nature pt 2' Vitreous
Contemporary Art, Truro curator |
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artcornwall.org webprojects
curator |
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'MOVE', Vyner Street, London |
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Second chamber show, Revolver,
Penzance |
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Video night, Revolver, Penzance |
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'Mix-it up', Salt Gallery, Hayle |
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'Keepin' it rural!' Quay Gallery, Wadebridge |
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Christmas Show, Salt Gallery,
Hayle |
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'Touch paper' Revolver, Penzance |
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Goldfish Winter Show, Penzance |
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2008 |
Mixed show, FOLD, Kirkby Stephen,
Cumbria |
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PSYCHO/GEOGRAPHY, GreenCube,
Newlyn Art Gallery curator |
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'Street Life', Belgrave Gallery,
St Ives |
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'Mixed/No Theme' Goldfish,
Penzance |
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'The Drawing Show' NSA, The Exchange,
Penzance |
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Mixed painting show, The Salt
Gallery, Hayle |
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LAF 2008 (Live Art Falmouth),
University College, Falmouth |
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'The Garden Project', (invited
artist) Catalyst Arts, Belfast |
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artcornwall.org webprojects
curator |
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'Drawing the Line' Hilton Young,
Penzance |
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Summer Show, Goldfish, Penzance |
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'Out of Bounds', The Exchange,
Penzance |
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'Revolutions', Open Space Galleries, Penryn |
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Winter Mixed Show, Goldfish,
Penzance |
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Christmas Show, Salt Gallery, Hayle |
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2009 |
'The New Landscape', Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
curator |
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'4', Millennium, St
Ives |
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artcornwall.org webprojects |
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'The Cornish Perspective', RWA,
Bristol |
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'Apocalypse Now', Red Wire, Liverpool |
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'Supernature', View Gallery, Bristol |
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rhizome.org online projects |
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Supermassive Black Hole #3
(publication) |
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Winter Show, Millennium, St
Ives |
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'A Giant Leap', Camborne |
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2010 |
'Happidrome 3', Goonhilly Downs,
Cornwall (online) |
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'House of Fairy Tales',
Millennium, St Ives |
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'NEXUS', Pheonix Gallery,
Exeter |
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'New Living Art' Irish Museum of
Contemporary Art, Dublin |
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'Exquisite Trove', House of
Fairy Tales, Newlyn Art
Gallery |
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Winter Show, Millennium, St Ives |
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2011 |
'Bridging the Gap' Hatchspace, Deptford,
London |
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Queen Convention 2011, Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk (presentation/talk) |
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'Frenchman's Creek', Rural Centre for
Contemporary Art, Kestle Barton |
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'Print!' The Exchange, Penzance |
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Cornish Queen Party, The Driftwood Spars, St
Agnes (exhibition/event organiser) |
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2012 |
'Site-non-site', Kestle Barton,
Helford (curator) |
2013 |
'Limbo', The Old Coffin Store,
Truro |
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'The Dark Rooms', CAST, Helston |
2014 |
'The Playing Fields' (part of
Inland Art Festival) Boots' Building, Redruth |
2016 |
'Art Decade' The Bowie Lounge,
Old Bakery, Truro |
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'Inland Art Festival', Redruth
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2018 |
'Hummadruz' Newlyn Gallery,
Penzance (curator) |
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'A Cornish Review' (workshop
with RCA as part of Groundwork) |
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publications
Artists Newsletter, AXIS, POST,
Stride Magazine, artcornwall.org, PROOF, Art of England, Revolver Art Cornwall,
Tales of the Unexpected, The West Briton, Cornwall Today, The Enquiring Eye,
Pagan Dawn, Meyn Mamvro, Folklore Frontiers
Queen in Cornwall
(book), Folk in Cornwall (book), The Edge of It (book), Monstermind (book),
The Giraffe that Swims (book), The Reenchanted Landscape (book) catalogues and medical journals.
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selected press |
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BP EXPO catalogue,
London, 1992
BP EXPO
feature, Time Out, London, February 4th,
1992
The Packet, March
4th, 1993 ‘City doctor stages solo art show’
West Briton, 18th
Feb 1993
Western Morning
News, February 19th 1993 ‘Doctor’s solo art show’
The Packet, July 28th
1994 ‘Arts teacher dreams up living spiral of progress’
West Briton, August
18th 1994 ‘School Life through artists’ eyes’
Radio Cornwall,
August 16th interview with Rupert White and Phil Mawdsley
Art monthly, August
1994 ‘The Learning of Trees’
The Independent,
August 31st, 1994 ‘A Game of Two Halves’
Dazed and Confused,
August, 1994 ‘Lick me, touch me, bite me, take me’
The Face, August
1994 ‘Public Images: Outpost’ on Venice Biennale Project
Artist's
Newsletter, March, 1995, 'Multiple Choice', Sotiris Kyriacou
Art
Monthly, February, 1995, 'Multiplication', Erika Lederman on Words and
Pictures
Quality of Light
catalogue, 1997, Questioning Office of Art
The Cornishman,
January 5th 2006 ‘Artists explore the experience of Cornwall’
Cornwall Today, June
2006 ‘Painting the landscape’
Cornwall Today,
November 2006 p.84 ‘Fabulous new website’
West Briton, May 11th
2006
West Briton, May 18th
2006 ‘The minimal paintings of Rupert White’
'Waiting' catalogue,
2006
Cornwall Today,
February 2007 ‘Artist and editor of artcornwall discusses his slant on
landscape painting for the 21st Century’
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk,
January 2007 ‘Tate St Ives Art Now Cornwall exhibition sparks heated local
debate’
The Independent, 28th
February, 2007 ‘Brian Sewell and the art of insulting your hosts’
includes
discussion of 'Art Now Cornwall?'
Western Morning
News, 27th February, 2007 'Critic Sewell sniffs at Tate St Ives'
includes
description of 'Art Now Cornwall?'
Cornwall Today, July 2007
Features on 'More', 'Tales of the Unexpected' and
www.artcornwall.org
Tales Of The Unexpected Book
publication
Artists Newsletter, August
2007, Feature on 'More'
Artists Newsletter, September
2007, Feature and front page on 'More'
Cornwall Today, September 2007,
Double page feature on 'Second Nature'
The Times, September 8th 2007,
'New
face of Cornish art' West
Briton, September 20th 2007, 'Truro partnership comes as Second Nature'
PROOF magazine, Autumn/Winter
2007: Second Nature and artcornwall.org: 'Vibrant new directions'
Catalogue for 'Move', Goldfish at
Vyner Street, London
POST Spring 2008, Article on LAF
2007
BBC Spotlight Southwest, 21st May,
2008 'Streetlife streetart' TV feature
Cornwall Today, June 2008,
Editorial on artcornwall.org
The Irish Times, July 8th, 2008
'A
Blank Canvas for a new North' on Catalyst Arts Garden Show
Revolver Art Cornwall, Book
publication
Inside Cornwall, January 2009,
'Original Visions' feature on The New Landscape
West Briton, February 3rd 2009,
'Royal Cornwall Museum takes on New Landscape'
West Briton, May, 2009,
'Fabulous Four' on '4' at Millennium
Catalogue for '4', Millennium
Gallery, St Ives
Catalogue for SuperNature, View
Gallery, Bristol
West Briton, June 3rd,
2010 Do you remember legend's concerts? Queen in Kernow
Time Out, July 5th 2010
'The House of Fairy Tales'
Cornwall Today, August,
2010 'Queen in Cornwall'
West Briton, March
10, 2010 'I didn't
want to be a dentist I wanted to be in a world conquering band'
West Briton, March 10,
2011 'Smile you're on the Truro City Hall Stage'
Western Morning News, April 9th 2011,
'Kestle Barton: The barn doors open for another exciting season'
Western Morning News,
February 10th 2012 'Is this the real life or is this just fantasy'
Western Morning News,
September 17, 2013 'Heyday of the Cornish Music Scene'
The Edge of It Book
publication, 2014, Propaganda, Warsaw
fRoots, December 2014, 'Folkniks
Go West'
The Wire, January 2015,
'Tribute to Clive Palmer'
Falmouth Packet, April 8th 2015
'Was Cornish Sea Monster sighting gigantic hoax'? Mike Truscott on
Monstermind
West Briton, May 27th 2015
'Read about the Magic and Theatre of Doc Shiels' by Lee Trewhela
on Monstermind
Folklore Frontiers (No.78), Feb 2017,
'Wizard Wheezes' by Paul Screeton on Monstermind
Folklore Podcast Mark Norman on
'The Re-enchanted Landscape'
Pagan Dawn Samhain 2017 'The
Re-enchanted Landscape'
Meyn Mamvro #95, Winter 2018 Cheryl
Straffon on The Re-enchanted Landscape
Folklore Frontiers #80, Feb 2018,
'Cornish Cornucopia' Paul Screeton on The Re-enchanted
Landscape
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