Paul Coldwell
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Paul Coldwell is a British
artist
.
Born in London
, he studied fine art at the West of England College of Art from 1972-75 and then studied printmaking at postgraduate level at the Slade School of Art 1975-77 where his teachers included Barto. Dos Santos and Stanley Jones. He was employed as research assistant at the Slade from 1978-81. He was appointed Subject Leader MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts
in 1997 and 1998 took over as project leader for a research project The Integration of Computers within Fine art practice developing his interest in the use of digital technology within Printmaking. http://www.dam.org/ He curated Computers & Printmaking with Tessa Sidey, for Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1999 and has further developed these concerns through an AHRC funded project The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking. [www.arts.ac.uk/research/digitalsurface] In 2001 he was appointed Professor at The London Institute (now The University of the Arts London). http://www.icfar.co.uk/artists/paulcoldwell?sort His curatorial practice includes Digital Responses for the V&A 2002-03 and Morandi
’s Legacy;Influences on British Art for the Estorick Collection London and Abbot Hall Cumbria 2006 which explored his long term interest in this Italian artist. His interest in working with collections and other artists is further evidenced in the installation of his work in the house, Kettle's Yard
, Cambridge, 2008 entitled I called while you were out. In addition to his teaching and studio practice, he worked with Paula Rego
on all her etchings between 1985-2005 including the Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan. He wrote the catalogue Paula Rego Printmaker 2005 to accompany her traveling print retrospective and authored a chapter on her printmaking technique in Paula Rego-The complete Graphic work, TG Rosenthal, Thames & Hudson. His book, Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective provides a broad overview of the history of printmaking with a focus on contemporary approaches to both new and old print technologies.
Coldwell's practice embraces printmaking, bookworks and sculpture. He has exhibited widely, solo exhibitions include Kafka’s Doll & other works, Eagle Gallery London 2007, Case Studies, London Print Studio and Queens Gallery, New Delhi, By this I mean… Arthouse Dublin,1999 and Freud’s Coat, Freud Museum London 1996. He has been selected to represent UK at the Ljubljana Print Biennial in 2005 & 1997, selected for the International Print Triennial, Cracow 2000, 2003 & 2006 and included in the exhibition Prints Now V&A London 2006. His bookworks include, Freud’s Coat, With the Melting of the Snows (with text by the then BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell
) and Kafka’s Doll with text by the poet and author Anthony Rudolf. His work is held in numerous collections including Tate
, Imperial War Museum
, V&A, British Museum
, Arts Council of England and New York Public Library
.
United Kingdom
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, he studied fine art at the West of England College of Art from 1972-75 and then studied printmaking at postgraduate level at the Slade School of Art 1975-77 where his teachers included Barto. Dos Santos and Stanley Jones. He was employed as research assistant at the Slade from 1978-81. He was appointed Subject Leader MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost art and design institutions. It is located in Camberwell, South London, England, with two sites situated at Peckham Road and Wilson Road...
in 1997 and 1998 took over as project leader for a research project The Integration of Computers within Fine art practice developing his interest in the use of digital technology within Printmaking. http://www.dam.org/ He curated Computers & Printmaking with Tessa Sidey, for Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1999 and has further developed these concerns through an AHRC funded project The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking. [www.arts.ac.uk/research/digitalsurface] In 2001 he was appointed Professor at The London Institute (now The University of the Arts London). http://www.icfar.co.uk/artists/paulcoldwell?sort His curatorial practice includes Digital Responses for the V&A 2002-03 and Morandi
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.-Biography:Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna...
’s Legacy;Influences on British Art for the Estorick Collection London and Abbot Hall Cumbria 2006 which explored his long term interest in this Italian artist. His interest in working with collections and other artists is further evidenced in the installation of his work in the house, Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England.- History and overview :Kettle's Yard was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen. Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection...
, Cambridge, 2008 entitled I called while you were out. In addition to his teaching and studio practice, he worked with Paula Rego
Paula Rego
Paula Rego is a painter born in Portugal although she is a naturalised British citizen.-Biography:Rego was born in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the daughter of an electrical engineer who worked for the Marconi Company. Although this gave her a comfortable middle class home, the family was...
on all her etchings between 1985-2005 including the Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan. He wrote the catalogue Paula Rego Printmaker 2005 to accompany her traveling print retrospective and authored a chapter on her printmaking technique in Paula Rego-The complete Graphic work, TG Rosenthal, Thames & Hudson. His book, Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective provides a broad overview of the history of printmaking with a focus on contemporary approaches to both new and old print technologies.
Coldwell's practice embraces printmaking, bookworks and sculpture. He has exhibited widely, solo exhibitions include Kafka’s Doll & other works, Eagle Gallery London 2007, Case Studies, London Print Studio and Queens Gallery, New Delhi, By this I mean… Arthouse Dublin,1999 and Freud’s Coat, Freud Museum London 1996. He has been selected to represent UK at the Ljubljana Print Biennial in 2005 & 1997, selected for the International Print Triennial, Cracow 2000, 2003 & 2006 and included in the exhibition Prints Now V&A London 2006. His bookworks include, Freud’s Coat, With the Melting of the Snows (with text by the then BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell
Martin Bell
Martin Bell, OBE, is a British UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician...
) and Kafka’s Doll with text by the poet and author Anthony Rudolf. His work is held in numerous collections including Tate
Tate
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, Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire...
, V&A, British Museum
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, Arts Council of England and New York Public Library
New York Public Library
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External links
- Review of Morandi exhibition/book
- Essay on Paula Rego
- Digital Surface research project website
- University of the Arts London - FADE Research (Fine Art Digital Environment) website
- Official website
Further reading
- Coldwell, Paul (2010) Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective, London, Black Dog Publishing ISBN 978-1-906155-43-8
- Coldwell,Paul & Rauch,Barbara (2009) The Personalised Surface: New Approaches to Digital Printmaking, London, Fade Research ISBN 978-0-9558628-9-2
- Coldwell, Paul (2008). I called while you were out, Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard Publications. ISBN 978-1-904561-30-9
- Courtney, Cathy. (1999) Speaking of Book Art: Interviews with British and American Book Artists. Anderson-Lovelace Publishers, 13040 Alta Tiera Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. ISBN 0-9626372-5-4
- Miles, Rosie and Saunders, Gill (2006) Prints Now-Directions and Definitions, London, V&A. ISBN 1-85177-480-7
- Coldwell, Paul (2006). Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art. I.B. TaurisI.B. TaurisI. B. Tauris is an independent publishing house with offices in London and New York.-History:I.B.Tauris was founded in 1983. Its declared strategy was to fill the perceived gap between trade publishing houses and university presses—that is, to publish serious but accessible works on international...
. ISBN 0-85667-620-9 - Coldwell, Paul (2005) Paula Rego-Printmaker, London Marlborough Graphics ISBN 1-904372-25-2
- Coldwell, Paul (2005) Finding Spaces Between Shadows, London Camberwell Press ISBN 0-9536395-8-4