Richard Talbot
North Shields
Concepts
I currently make large-scale drawings, which can sometimes take many months to evolve and to bring to a conclusion. They incorporate forms and ideas associated with architecture, maps, geometry, space, landscape, water, vessels and containers, and are built using a process (geometric perspective) that involves producing a complex and almost transparent matrix. This web of lines acts as scaffolding in which the images and structures are created and then held. The images can therefore exist without the constraints of gravity, scale and materials. My approach could be compared to the building of a medieval/Gothic cathedral, where a rigid two-dimensional ground plan was put in place, and the ensuing structure then developed organically, its final form being the result of varying amounts of intention, failure, pragmatism, accident and ambition.Influences
Anything and everything.
Career path
I studied for a BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, an MA Sculpture at Chelsea, and in 1980 was awarded the Rome Scholarship in Sculpture. During this time I travelled widely throughout Italy, but also spent time in Egypt. Many of the ideas and interests that I continue to pursue, both in the studio and in my theoretical/historical research, stem from this time. I see my practise as primarily studio-based, but I have also worked alongside designers and architects. I have also collaborated on a major commission that is sited in Westminster Abbey. I have been the winner of major awards, such as the Cleveland Drawing Biennale and, more recently, the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation and AHRC. I continue to teach on Fine Art courses within art schools, and I have also had substantial research papers relating to the history and theory of perspective published, both on-line and in print.
Solo exhibitions
2001 - Drawings, Queen's Hall, Hexham
1999 - Drawings, Globe Gallery, North Shields
1999 - Drawings, Woodlands Gallery, London
1987 - Wolfson College, Oxford
1986 - Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
1984 - Showroom, London
1980 - LYC Gallery, Cumbria
Group exhibitions
2005 - Sculpture: Time and Process, Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset
2004 - Drawings, Red Box Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2004 - Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space and Tour, London
2003 - Comme Ca Art Prize North, Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester
2001 - Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space and Tour, London
2000 - Cheltenham Open Drawing, Cheltenham and Tour, Cheltenham
2000 - Drawing the Line, Globe Gallery, North Shields
1996 - Cheltenham Open Drawing, Cheltenham and Tour, Cheltenham
1993 - Cleveland Drawing Biennial
1991 - Cleveland Drawing Biennial
1990 - Rome Scholars Retrospective
1990 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1990 - Royal Overseas League
1989 - Presidents' Choice, Royal Academy
1988 - Royal Overseas League
1987 - Cleveland Drawing Biennial
1987 - Hunting Group
1985 - Cleveland Drawing Biennial
Private commissions
2004 - RAF Coastal Command Tribute, Westminster Abbey, London
Corporate commissions
1999 - West Monkseaton Station, Metro Station, Tyne and Wear
Competitions, prizes and awards
2004 - AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2003 - Sabbatical Award, Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Award, London
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