Pen Dalton
Pen has an abiding interest in making paintings that reconcile differences
education
Goldsmiths Art College, Sussex University, Plymouth University
art shows [group unless otherwise stated]
2022 f'coming Paint! Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, Uk 10/11/22-4/12/22
2022 Many Threads, One Fabric, Gnome House, London, E17 Celebrating 10 years anti racism in Walthamstow
2022 Paint Edgy The Ropewalk, Barton Upon humber, UK Sept 10-
2022 Athens Open Art Art Number 23 Gallery, Greece June 10-16th
2022 Fluid, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, UK April
2022 Paradoxes Contemporary British Painting Members Exhibition, The West Gallery, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight: curator Freya Purdue alongside co-curators Natalie Dowse and Phil Illingworth. March - May
2022 Online curated: Plausible Objects,Difficult Things. An exhibition curated by @franceswoodleyart for @paintbritain https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/plausible-objects-difficult-things/
2021 curated online Yes/No A CBP Virtual Open Studio https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/yes-no/
2021 Thing Worlds Spot Korin Kyoto Gallery, Japan, curated by Masahiro Kawanako, 27-30 June
2021 Solo 10 Years; Paintings by Pen Dalton. Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub, Walthamstow, London UK curated by Mick Mills 1 Nov - 1 Feb
2021 Online curated: June 3 @ Prosaic 97 Instagram 27-30 June
2020 Vitalistic Fantasies Cello Factory, Waterloo, London, UK 2-8 December
2020 Vitalistic Fantasies Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK curated by Paula MacArthur and Casper White October 3-31st
2019 New Painting, Contemporary British Painting, Marylebone Parish Church Crypt, London, UK 24 November to 17 january
2019 Contemporary British Painting: an exhibition of 32 Painters 25 The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral April-16 Ma
2019
Made In Britain: 82 painters of the 21st century, The National Museum June, Gdansk, Poland 14 March – 2nd April
2018 Defining Structure Cello Factory London, 28th Sept - 9th October
2018 Unspoken The Stash Gallery, London. 16th – 30th May
2018 Lloyd Park Studio Artists: Winns Gallery 7th June – 16th June
2018 Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago Highlights of the Permanent Collection June 1-July 31st
2017 Testcard 1 Contemporary British painters at the Crypt, Marylebone Parish Church
2017 Anything Goes? Paintings at Art Bermondsey Project Space July 25th – August 5th
2017 In Good Health: Paintings in Hospitals, Menier Gallery, London, 13-17th June
2017 30 x 30 x 34: 34 Painters The Crypt Gallery, Marylebone Parish Church. 8/11/16 – 4/1/2017
2017 Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century [touring] Priseman Seabrook collection. Yantai Art Museum, 7/7-3/8; Artall Gallery, Nanjing, 10-23/11; Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, 30/10-5/11
2107 Different Strokes solo exhibition of paintings 27/2 - 11/3 Westminster Art Library ex
2016 Beyond the Studio. Winns gallery, Walthamstow
2015, Pen Dalton, Paint Jobs solo 1/6 - 31/6 Marylebone Parish Church Crypt, London
2015 Stations of the Cross Brentwood Cathedral, Brentwood, Essex, UK [now housed in The Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago, USA] [painting]
2015, Contemporary British Abstraction 28/02 - 11/04 group: SE9 Container Gallery, London [painting]
2014-15, Contemporary British Painting: Priseman-Seabrook Collection.1/11 - 31/3 group: Huddersfield Art Gallery. Yorkshire, UK
2014-15, @PaintBritain15/11 - 8/3: Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, UK [painting]
2014, Artness. 2/02 - 16/02 Artmeet Gallery, Milan. Italy
2014, 1/05 - 2/11A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2014, Stuff and Nonsense 1/1 - 2/02 Solo: Tokarska Gallery Walthamstow, London
2014, Inspired by Morris1/10 - 31/10 : William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London.
2003, Imprinting Works1/8-1/9 solo: Dartington Hall Gallery, Devon, UK
2002-03, 5/12 - 23/3 mixed: Propaganda Posters From the Schreyer Collection Victoria and Albert Museum, London [poster]
1998, 1/09-30-09 group; 8 women, 4 British, 4 Spanish: Exposition de Grabado Contemporaneo [Eight contmporary women printmakers] Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, British Council.
1998 April-July 1/04-31/07 {C}mixed: The Power of the Poster Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1994, 1/02 Installation/paper: Does your mother come from Ireland? Women's Art Histories Conference, Leeds University
1994, 31/03 Installation: Does your mother come from Ireland? At 'Gendered Narratives' Conference, University of Ulster at Coleraine.
1989 mixed. News Arts Council Sponsored, exhibition of Women's Art, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Truro Art Gallery.
1988 solo: Daddy's Girl Sisterwrite Gallery, Upper street London [printed work]
1987 solo: The Maternal (limited edition prints) Exeter and Devon Arts Centre, Devon, UK
1987 mixed: 'Prints With a Point', Hard Times Gallery, Bristol, UK [limited edition prints]
1984 group: 3 Women Artists Battersea Arts Centre, London
1982 group: Reflections: 5 Women Artists Aspex Gallery. Portsmouth.
1980 solo: Frameworks [paintings] Arts Alliance. Cambridge Terr. Mews. London.
reviews, citations,memberships etc
ArtUK artwork represented in National Art Collection https://artuk.org/discover/artists/dalton-pen-b-1944
2013, Member of Contemporary British Painting Group. http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=1181
2013, member of london based group Artlyst www.artlyst.com/Pen.Dalton
prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum <http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/dalton-pen/13685/>
painting [2013] in Swindon Art Gallery permanent collection
painting in Priseman-Seabrook collection [see catalogue] http://www.amazon.com/Priseman-Seabrook-Collection-Painting-Catalogue/dp/1505537231
cited in Concise Dictionary of Women Artists ed Delia Gaze p. 128
Discussion of art work ‘The Dress’ in Doy, G Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture. IB Taurus: London/New York. pp. 187-190
Watkins, S. A, Rueda. M; and Rodriguez, M Introducing Feminism. p 85
Feminism for Beginners, edited by Susan Alice Watkins
1992 Marisa Rueda and Marta Rodriguez 1992 Allen & Unwin Aust. & Icon Books (UK)
Poster and discussion of work in Power of the Poster, Timmers, M. (ed.) V&A publications.
McQuiston, L, Suffragettes to She Devils: Women's Lib and Beyond. Phaidon. 3 Posters reproduced.
review: 3 Women Artists in City Limits July 20-26 Amanda Sebestyn
illustration of work in Weill, Alain The Poster: A Worldwide Survey and History, Sothebys publication p. 353
Phillipe Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon. Phaidon p. 300 Phaidon.
‘Pandora: Naughty but Nice’ reproduced in and: Journal of Art & Education.
Cartoons reproduced in Rowe, M. (ed) Spare Rib Reader . p. 383 & 393
Cartoon in Pork Roasts: 250 Feminist cartoons Rosenberg. A. L. (ed.) University of British Colombia
academic/published/commissioned writings:-
online reviews
'Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska / Contemporary Cityscape. After E Hopper and D Hepher' http://tokarskagallery.co.uk/reviewcityscapes2012
"Lia Vio: Solely in my Head" http://tokarskagallery.co.uk/node/88
"Surface tension: A Modernist Show?" http://tokarskagallery.co.uk/streview
published criticism, reviews, research in print
2012 ‘Full Stop’ in Rogers,H. ed., I See What You're Saying: The Materialisation of Words in Contemporary Art, BIAD/Ikon Publications, Article Press, Birmingham.
2008. PhD Thesis. ‘Family and Other Relations: A thesis examining the extent to which familial relations are embedded in the relations of art’ [situated in the Wittgensteinian ‘family relations’ theory of art.] Plymouth University. http://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/2640?show=ful
2006/7 Article: ‘Feminist Methodologies in Art Education: Critique’ in the International Journal, n.paradoxa, vol 17 [ re-published in Documenta 12 in Kassel 2007]
2001 Monograph [book]: The Gendering of Art Education: Modernism Identity and Critical Feminism, Open University Press,
2005. Art criticism: ‘Textures of memory’ in Barbara Howey’s exhibition catalogue Techniques of Memory. Huddersfield Art Gallery.
2006 Art criticism: “Like” in Henry Rogers ed.’, Article Press, Birmingham Art Becomes You!: Parody, Pastiche and the Politics of Art. Materiality in a Post-material Paradigm (chapter)
2006 catalogue essay: My Sponsor is the Leader of the Country. Elizabeth Rowe, digital collage <http://elrowe.com/essays/>
2004 Art criticism: ‘Losing it’ essay for catalogue for show Losing It of screen based/video work in Fenton gallery, Cork Eire.
1995 Article:‘Psychology and the subject of art education’, in J. and J. Swift Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education, vol.3 Article Press)
1994 Art Criticism chapter: ‘Modernism, Art Education and Sexual Difference’, in New Feminist Art Criticism. (ed.) Deepwell, K. Manchester University Press.
1992 Art Criticism chapter ‘Housewives, Leisure Crafts and Ideology’ in Elinor, G. et al.(eds) Women and Crafts Virago
1979/85 Journal article ‘What is Art Education For? First printed in Feminist Arts News no. 1 Spring 1979 reprinted in Pollock, G and Parker, R (eds) Framing Feminism. 1985 Pandora.
1978/79/80 Article: ‘Feminist Art Practice and the Mass Media’ First printed in Feminist Arts News, 1978, Reprinted in Women's Studies International journal vol. 3 no. 1 1979 reprinted Pergamon Press.again as chapter in Baehr, H.(ed) Women and Media.1980
Journal publication. Where is ‘the subject’ of contextual practice? in The Journal of Visual Art Practice, Intellect Publishers. Vol 3 no 1 issn1470-2029
1999 ‘Oedipal Dramas in Art Education’ in The International Journal of Art and Design Education. 18: 3 ISSN 0260 9991
Report on Conference of Spanish/British Women printmakers in Women's Art Library Bulletin. January/Feb.no 10
1999 ‘Feminisms and Art Education’ in Drawing Fire v. 1;3 Jan
‘Cuntry Matters’ in Women's Art Journal (February) reprinted without my permission as “Rural Rumblings”
1974 Some thoughts on Feminist art in Sjoo, Monica (ed) Towards a Revolutionary feminist Art
relevant employments
1993-2007 Senior Lecturer: Psychology and Theory of Art/studio practice. BCU Birmingham Institute of Art and Design MA Fine Art & Course Director MA Art & Education
1987 -1992 Senior Lecturer: BA (Hons) Art and Social Context Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK 'theory and printmaking'
Also taught as VT/part time & workshops at Plymouth College of Art, Bristol University, University of California Santa Barbara, Tokarska gallery
1970-1987 teaching art in various secondary schools; Brighton Free School, Roedean School, Walworth Comprehensive School; active in the Women’s Liberation Movement writing and illustrating alternative magazines – Spare Rib, A Woman’s Place, Brighton Voice, Feminist Arts News; initiating and running community print workshops: printing campaign materials and posters. [see archive material in Women’s Library, Goldsmiths College Library and Feminist Archive, Bristol]
relevant papers, talks and public lectures
2010 paper: Influence of Feminism on Art Education. Art Education Symposium held at the Herbert Gallery, Coventry, UK
2005 paper: ‘Leap’ at University of Berne, Switzerland conference: ‘E_motion in Motion’.
2001 paper: ‘The Creative Construction of Identity’ at the Performing The World Conference, Montauk, New York
2001 lecture : ‘Vision and Subjectivity’ Dept of Art & Architecture. Parson’s School of Art. Manhattan. New York
2001 paper: ‘Construction of identity through art’ given at conference The Arts and Human Development, organised by the Dept of Law and Sociology, University of Central England.
paper given: Influence of Feminism on Art Education. Lanchester Gallery Projects (LGP) Coventry School of Art and Design, Art Education Symposium held at the Herbert Gallery, Coventry, UK
2000 May, paper: ‘Oedipal Dramas in Art Education’ at the NSEAD ann. conference dept of Art, University of Central England, Birmingham
1998 December, paper: ‘Feminist Aesthetics and Printmaking’ at the Conference of Spanish/British Women Printmakers, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid,
1998 September, paper: ‘Art Education and the Feminization of the Workforce’at the conference Work and the Image, Leeds University. 17-19 April.
1997 Spring, paper: ‘Art Education and Consumer Identities’ at the Association of Art Historian's Annual Conference, The Courtauld Institute, London.
1998 April, paper: ‘Imagery and Identity’ at the 9th International Women's Studies Network Conference, University of Glamorgan
1998 October, paper: XV Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy
[from 1993-1998 numerous lectures given at various academic venues in the uk on feminism, subjectivity and art]
