Approved: 16.08.2006

Richard Talbot

Approved: 16.08.2006

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

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Artist Statement

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. 

CV & Education

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