Irene Rogan

EDUCATION    

1987-88 Foundation Cumbria College of Art & Design Carlisle, UK

1988-91 B A (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, UK

RECENT EXHHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

2021 Being and Dwelling, St Michaels Church, Hawkshead

2021 Unpublished Tour Millom, Haverigg and Duddon estuary      

2020-21  ReDrift  West coast of Cumbria

2019 – 2020 Between Silence and Light, Millom and villages

2018 – 19 Moving Mountains environmental art ‘the making of a cultural landscape’ a programme of art collaborations between Irene Rogan and local and regional artists, the local and agricultural community in Millom Cumbria, UK; short film, music and composition, environmental art, photography, poetry, video and artist talks.

2017 FINDING CUBA Research Centre for Cuban Studies, University of Nottingham, Cuban collaborative project UK paintings, photography and video.

2017 Arcane Tender, Havana, Cuba - Artist’s International Development Fund, Arts Council of England and The British Council: research for exchange project, networking Cuban art and culture.

2017 Nottingham Light Night, city-wide event, Hologram of a diatom and text, Innovation and Development programme, working with Nottingham Trent University, UK

2016 Living Dock residency and ‘Precious’ exhibition at the GSML, Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Panacea, Florida, USA

2015 ‘Luotaamaton alue’ ( The Unsurveyed Area) part I and II - international artists visiting the archipelago;  Reksaari, Nurmes and Kuuskajaskari islands, Finland  Nurmes Island, Finland solo art exhibition, environmental works, photography, poetry and mapping.

2015 Morphogenesis, the Settlement community centre, Maryport, Cumbria

2015 Art, science and environment  workshops Framework Charity for vulnerable and homeless adults, The Burrow, Nottingham, UK

2015 Mikrokosmos,  Art science and Environment, RaumArs Residency Programme, Rauma, Finland

2014 - 15 Collaboration Future Factory team, 3D printing, microbiology, Nottingham Trent University, UK

2014 Urban Grace, Research and production located on city centre industrial site, The Island, Nottingham

2014 Allegory of Faith, a permanent exhibition at Christchurch Heritage Centre, in Jerusalem, and Beit Emmanual Jaffa, Israel

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS, RESEARCH AND EVENTS

2013 BLOOM Eco-Art and Science schools project, University of Aberdeen, Natural History Centre

2012-13 River Don AIR Public Art Development Scheme, Aberdeen City Council, in collaboration with SURF Aberdeen (Sustainable Urban Fringes – an Interreg North Sea Programme), Scotland, UK

2013 EAFS 13 Environmental Arts Festival selected to participate  in  ‘The Archivist’  a collaboration between Robbie Colman and  Jo Hodges, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland

2012 Light Night Nottingham City Council - HEART light sculpture commission and public engagement collaborating with SEND arts organisation and  Greenway Centre community arts, Nottingham, UK

2012 The Games People Play, the Atrium, ICCA Centre - Nottingham, Quad - Derby, and Embrace Arts – Leicester UK. Curated by Paul Matosic

2011 & 12 ‘Process’, Burghley House, Burghley Park Stamford, Lincolnshire UK - sculpture exhibition

2010 Body in Pieces - Sideshow 2010 curator/exhibitor supporting The British Art Show 7, Nottingham UK

2010 ‘The Year We Made Contact’,  SETI and AD 2001 group exhibition, Exchange Walk, Nottingham UK  

2010 REUNION Oldknows Factory, 'For Realism' installation. Nottingham UK ‘

2010 Head Heart Hand  'Primordium' Harold Martin Botanic Gardens University of Leicester, UK

2009 Celebration of British Sculpture, International Artist’s exhibition - 'Ray' University of Leicester UK

2008 VITAL, Solo exhibition of mixed media paintings Tobacco Factory, Bristol, England. UK

2008 Influence group exhibition Chapel Gallery, Bath, UK

2007 ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’ RAY 1', residency and exhibition Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK.

2006 Liverpool Independents Biennial - ‘Passion’ The Projection Gallery film ‘The Unknown Image’16m b/w short film writer/director /co-Producer, Liverpool, UK

2006 Sunday Shorts; A feast of film ‘unknown image ‘Drama Theatre, Plymouth UK

2006 Plymouth Exchange PEX06 Film Festival, ‘Unknown Image’ writer/ producer/ director Mass, USA

2002 WYRED Wales UK - project manager and exhibitor Touring mobile cinema, screening short films by award-winning new directors from Wales, transforming community facilities and public spaces into a film theatre in villages without cinemas - South to Mid Wales, Wales the UK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

2011 p.ART 2011, Group Painting Exhibition, Pankow, Charlottenburg, Berlin

2009 Images, Árvore Gallery, Centro De Actividades Artisticas, Portugal

2008 Dams Research, (Arts Council England) Three Gorges Dam, Yichang, China,  

2009 IMAGES - Exposição Galeria de imagens, Ávore Cooperativa De Actividades Artísticas CRL, Oporto,

2006 Exchange PEX06 Film Festival, selected ‘Unknown Image’ writer/ producer/ director, Plymouth, USA 

2005 Holland Art Fair paintings exhibition The Hague, Holland

2004 & 05 Galeria de Gaudi, paintings exhibition, Madrid, Spain

2003 Utopien, Visionen, Lebenswelten,’ He that plows’ installation, international art event: sculpture, Installation, music, literature, poetry & theatre KiC NordArt nr Hamburg, Germany

AWARDS / GRANTS

2022 CGP /Millom Town Council community grant

2021 Cumbria Wildlife Trusts Dynamic Dunescapes, Haverigg Cumbria

2021 Art Council England Unpublished Tour, Millom, Cumbria

2020 Art Council England ReDrift, West Cumbria

2019 Arts Council England Grants for Arts Between Silence and Light, Millom Cumbria

2018 Arts Council England Grants for Arts - The Making of a Cultural Landscape, Millom Cumbria

2017 Arts Council England and The British Council Artists International Development Fund- travel research, Arcane Tender, Cuba

2016 Nottingham Trent University Enabling and Innovation programme development of a hologram

2015 Arts Council England Grant for Arts Morphogenesis with RaumArs Residency Programme, Finland 

2015 RaumArs Residency Funded Programme, Finland

2014 Nottingham Trent University Future Factory grant for 3D printing design development

2008 Arts Council of England Outward Mission to China Arts Council England Project for six artists to travel to Chongqing and for a self-directed research project on hydroelectric dams, the Three Gorges Dam, China 

2005 Arts & Business Wales, Winner Arts & Business Award with Archie Landrail, Chepstow, Wales UK

2005 Project Funding Pontypool Council - Film and projection event, Torfaen, Wales UK

2004 Artworks Wales Cywaith Cymru residency grant ‘Artist at Work’ with Architen Landrell Ltd Wales UK

2004 Wales Arts International, travel grant Kic Nordart, Hamburg, Germany

2002 Arts Council Wales grant for Wyred short film touring cinema, Wales

2002 Monmouthshire County Council, Wales grant for Wyred touring short films in villages project, Wales

1999 Arts Council England, film grant for Unknown Image 16mm b/w short writer, producer, director

1996 Pollack Krasner Foundation, Grant, New York USA

PUBLIC REALM

2008 - 2012 Lead Artist - £44m build Riverside Centre JSC, Nottingham City Council, Laing O Rourke, recommendations for an arts programme  ‘Art at the Heart’,  permanent and temporary commissions ‘ Nottingham, UK

2012 OPUN, East Midlands Architecture Centre - Design Review Panel Member

2011 Big Bright Night, Rochdale Lead Artist for Oldham Rochdale Housing Market Renewal sculpture and lighting commission Kirkholt Estate, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK

2011 Lead Artist Oldham Rochdale Housing Market Renewal Sculptural earthworks and arts programming proposing artists, themes, including biodiversity projects for Kirkholt Estate, Rochdale UK

2009-2010 Chettles Yard gateway sculpture commission. With Lewis Hickey Architects, OPAL Properties in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, UK

2010 SoundWave Ltd, Sculpture Commission working with musicians, writers Workington, Cumbria UK

2009 Artist Turnstone Estates, Chelmsford  Borough Council, Essex County Council Celestial Fix’ Sculpture Commission  for a new hotel, residential accommodation and commercial premises,  with SMC Covell Matthews Architects , e2v space imaging company, Chelmsford  High School students,  Canada France Hawaii Telescope, Hawaii, USA

2009 - Artist in Residence, Arnold Health Centre, with CPMG Architects, toward designs for embedded exterior and interior artworks, Nottingham UK 

2008 Consultant Artist Bournemouth Borough Council identifying locations and art budgets for artwork community library.  Working with Architect and design team

2007 Consultant Artist for Bournemouth Borough Council, regeneration scheme recommendations for art interventions for Boscombe Spa Village, Bournemouth, UK

2006 - Art Consultant Nottingham City Council, Urban Lighting Vision:  The delivery of a creative led sustainable lighting strategy for Nottingham City, UK?

2004-2006 Ipswich Shared Space, public artist with landscape architects and urban designers Sheils Flynn Ltd, Suffolk County Council, Suffolk, UK