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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 | BSc, Neuroanatomy, University College London | |
| 1997 | MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art | |
| 2006 | Editor artcornwall.org | |
| 2018 | Editor The Enquiring Eye: Journal of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic | |
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exhibitions
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| 1989 | London Film-makers Co-op, Camden, London | |
| 1990 | 'BP EXPO Young Directors', Riverside Studios, London | |
| 1993 |
'Illustrations to an Unwritten
Book'
St Ives Public Library, St Ives, Cornwall Penwith Society, St Ives |
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| 1994 |
Newlyn Orion Gallery, Newlyn,
Cornwall
Penwith Society, St Ives |
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| 1995 |
'Words
and Pictures', Serpentine Gallery Bookshop, London FAT Public Art Project, Venice Biennale, Italy 'A Seat of Learning', Cornwall Museum Galleries, Truro |
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| 1996 |
'Mobile', SLAP, The Island Centre, St Ives 'Departure', Questioning Office of Art, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives |
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| 1997 | Chelsea MA shows | |
| 2003 |
'Videologue', Art Surgery, Live platform,
Newlyn Gallery Mixed show, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives |
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| 2004 |
'Girls v Boys', Hengrove Art
Space, Bristol Mixed show, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives |
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| 2005 |
'Panorama', Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro Transition 6, Newlyn Gallery Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives Christmas Show, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro |
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| 2006 |
'This then this then this'
The Schoolhouse, Morvah, St Ives
curator Solo show, The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall Mixed Show, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives 'The Waiting Project', various locations, Cornwall artcornwall.org webprojects curator 'Santa's Secret Tombola', Redruth |
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| 2007 |
Mixed show, The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall 'Delicate Situations', online exhibition 'Art Now Cornwall?' Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance 'Unquiet Earth', NSA, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives 'Tales of the Unexpected', part of 'MORE Cornwall', various locations curator www.talesoftheunexpected.blogspot.com 'Live Art Falmouth', Alexandra Terrace, University College Falmouth 'On Artistic Lines', curated by Sam Gathercole, featured artist, AXIS online gallery 'One in a Million Changes', part of 'MORE Cornwall' Vogue Beloth Chapel, Illogan 'Lineage', NSA, Newlyn Art Gallery 'Second Nature pt 1' Truro Cathedral, Truro curator 'Second Nature pt 2' Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro curator artcornwall.org webprojects curator 'MOVE', Vyner Street, London Second chamber show, Revolver, Penzance Video night, Revolver, Penzance 'Mix-it up', Salt Gallery, Hayle 'Keepin' it rural!' Quay Gallery, Wadebridge Christmas Show, Salt Gallery, Hayle 'Touch paper' Revolver, Penzance Goldfish Winter Show, Penzance |
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| 2008 |
Mixed show, FOLD, Kirkby Stephen,
Cumbria PSYCHO/GEOGRAPHY, GreenCube, Newlyn Art Gallery curator 'Street Life', Belgrave Gallery, St Ives 'Mixed/No Theme' Goldfish, Penzance 'The Drawing Show' NSA, The Exchange, Penzance Mixed painting show, The Salt Gallery, Hayle LAF 2008 (Live Art Falmouth), University College, Falmouth 'The Garden Project', (invited artist) Catalyst Arts, Belfast artcornwall.org webprojects curator 'Drawing the Line' Hilton Young, Penzance Summer Show, Goldfish, Penzance 'Out of Bounds', The Exchange, Penzance 'Revolutions', Open Space Galleries, Penryn Winter Mixed Show, Goldfish, Penzance Christmas Show, Salt Gallery, Hayle |
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| 2009 |
'The New Landscape', Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
curator '4', Millennium, St Ives artcornwall.org webprojects 'The Cornish Perspective', RWA, Bristol 'Apocalypse Now', Red Wire, Liverpool 'Supernature', View Gallery, Bristol rhizome.org online projects Supermassive Black Hole #3 (publication) Winter Show, Millennium, St Ives 'A Giant Leap', Camborne |
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| 2010 |
'Happidrome 3', Goonhilly Downs,
Cornwall (online) 'House of Fairy Tales', Millennium, St Ives 'NEXUS', Pheonix Gallery, Exeter 'New Living Art' Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin 'Exquisite Trove', House of Fairy Tales, Newlyn Art Gallery Winter Show, Millennium, St Ives |
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| 2011 |
'Bridging the Gap', Hatchspace, Deptford,
London Queen Convention 2011, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (presentation) 'Frenchman's Creek', Rural Centre for Contemporary Art, Kestle Barton 'Print!' The Exchange, Penzance Cornish Queen Party, The Driftwood Spars, St Agnes (event organiser) |
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| 2012 |
'Site-non-site', Kestle Barton,
Helford (curator)
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| 2013 |
'Limbo', The Old Coffin Store,
Truro 'The Dark Rooms', CAST, Helston
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| 2014 |
'The Playing Fields' (part of
Inland Art Festival) Boots' Building, Redruth
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| 2016 |
'Art Decade' The Bowie Lounge,
Old Bakery, Truro 'Inland Art Festival', Redruth
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| 2018 |
'Hummadruz' Newlyn Gallery,
Penzance (curator with Field Notes) 'A Cornish Review' (workshop with RCA, Lucy Stein & Ilker Cinarel as part of Groundwork)
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| 2019 |
'Notes in the Garden' (with Kate
Walters), Tremenheere, Penzance
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| 2021 |
'Tony 'Doc' Shiels and The
Re-enchanted Landscape' (talk for Last Tuesday Society with Amy Hale) 'The Owl Man' (talk for Lally Macbeth's 'Folk Archive' podcast)
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| 2022 |
'Monica Sjoo: Life and Letters'
(talk at Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall, London) 'Weird Film Night' Gwythi An Pystri, Falmouth (short talk and film showing)
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| 2023 |
Instagram 'takeover' for
Belgrave St Ives
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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 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 Cornwall Live June 2018 'Queen played their first concert 48 years ago' Meyn Mamvro #100 '2020 Physick and Folk Medicine' review by Cheryl Straffon Lien Gwerin #7 2022 Alex Langstone on 'Fern Seed & Fairy Rings' artcornwall.org summer 2022 Review of 'Fern Seed & Fairy Rings' by Alan Kent Meyn Mamvro Vol2 #6 Autumn 2022 Review of 'Fern Seed & Fairy Rings' by Cheryl Straffon International Times May 2023 'Do you believe in Magic' by Rupert Loydell on Magic and Modernism Caught by the River June 2023 'Magic and Modernism' by Richard Shillitoe Fortean Times #439 Christmas 2023 'The Magic of the Duchy' Marcus Williamson on Magic and Modernism and Ill-wished The Enquiring Eye #10 Autumn 2023 'Ill-wished: Magic and Witchcraft in 19th century Cornwall' by Alex Langstone Meyn Mamvro Vol2 #9 Spring 2024 Cheryl Straffon on 'ill-wished: Witchcraft and Magic in 19th Century Cornwall' Meyn Mamvro Vol2 no10 Autumn 2024 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Cheryl Straffon Northern Earth 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Matthew Shaw Fortean Times 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Jeremy Harte
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