Approved: 16.08.2006

Vivien Blackett

Artist, Gallery educator, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 16.08.2006

I trawl through images taken from a variety of sources both contemporary and historical, on art, medicine, botany, alchemy and science. I am interested in the frescoes and the predellas of early Renaissance painting and the illusion of texture. My drawings continue to be an important and playful part of my research for the paintings and I use them to experiment with connections, scale,

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Artist Statement

I trawl through images taken from a variety of sources both contemporary and historical, on art, medicine, botany, alchemy and science. I am interested in the frescoes and the predellas of early Renaissance painting and the illusion of texture. My drawings continue to be an important and playful part of my research for the paintings and I use them to experiment with connections, scale, illusion and meaning. Despite the disparity of the various elements, I am trying to suggest a logic or connectivity which questions the nature of appearance and our experience of the world. In my earlier work I was working on composite panel paintings but recently I have gone back to working on single panels.

CV & Education

Qualifications and training

1978 - BA (Hon) Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London

Solo exhibitions

2010 - Vivien Blackett: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury

2003 - Vivien Blackett Paintings, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London

2002 - Vivien Blackett, Michael West Gallery, Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight

1997 - Vivien Blackett, Above, below, within, Adam Gallery, London

1993/4 - Vivien Blackett, Southern Arts Touring Exhibition, Southern Arts area including Winchester, Bracknell and Isle of Wight

1988 - Vivien Blackett Paintings, Flaxman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

1987 - Vivien Blackett: Paintings, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

1987 - Vivien Blackett: Artist in Residence, National Gallery, London

1985 - Vivien Blackett: Drawings – Spitalfields Health Centre, Whitechapel Gallery 

Group exhibitions

2017 - 30x30, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam

2016 - CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam

2012 - Artsdepot Open 2012, Artsdepot, London

2011 - London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London

2009 - Open 2009 - Drawing, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury

2005 - After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries, Brunei Gallery, London

1998 - ARTfutures, Royal Festival Hall, London

1998 - Whitechapel Opens 1984/85/86/87/88/89/98, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1997 - From the Interior, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University; Oldham Art Gallery; Derby Art Gallery; Brighton University Gallery; Hotbath Gallery, Bath; Aberystwyth Art Gallery

1995 - Foreign Bodies, Shinjuku Cultural Centre, Tokyo, Japan

1994 - Contemporary Arts Society Fair,  London

1994 - This Sceptred Isle, Burlington New Gallery, London

1993 - Art for Everywhere 1989/90/91/92/93, Peterborough City Art Gallery, Peterborough

1992 - The New Patrons, Christies, London

1992 - Women's Art at New Hall, New Hall, Cambridge University,

1991 - Critical Practice, Bridge Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art, London

1991 - Leicestershire Exhibitions 1988/1989/1991, County Hall, Leicester

1990 - The Art Machine, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

1988 - Cries and Whispers, British Council Touring Exhibition, New Zealand and USA

1988 - Women and Water, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London

1986 - Primarily Colour, Touring exhibition organised by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1986 - Unheard Music, Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

1985 - Fresh Air, St Paul's Gallery, Leeds

1985 - Pace Setters 5, Peterborough City Art Gallery, Peterborough

1978 - Stowell's Tropy, Royal Academy, London

Gallery Education and Presentations 1985-2010

Salisbury Arts Centre, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Hackney, Camden Arts Centre, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Southern Arts, Warsaw Academy and ARTLINK, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, Peterborough City Art Gallery

Residencies

1993 - Artist-in-Residence, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon

1992 - Artist-in-residence, Camden Arts Centre, London

1986 - National Gallery Artist-in-Residence, National Gallery, London

1985 - Artist-in-residence, Mulberry School, organised by Whitechapel Art Gallery and Public Arts Development Trust, London 

Public commissions

1998 - 4 Paintings, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester

1991 - Mobile Library design, Birmingham City Council Libraries Department, organised by Public Art Commissions Agency, Birmingham

1986 - 2 paintings, London Hospital, organised by Public Arts Development Trust, London

Corporate commissions

1988 - Painting, Stanhope Properties, organised by Public Art Development Trust, London

Tertiary Education experience

1986/1997 - Visiting Lecturer at following colleges: Staffordshire University; Birmingham Polytechnic; Coventry Polytechnic; Central St Martins, London; Gloucestershire College; Brighton Polytechnic; Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham; Canterbury College of Art and Design; Winchester School of Art; Camberwell School of Art; Ruskin College, Oxford

Public Collections

London Hospital, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Peterborough City Art Gallery, Isle of Wight AHA, The National Gallery, The British Council, Arthur Andersen & Co Collection,  Stanhope Properties, Leicestershire Collection, Coopers & Lybrand, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Healthcare Arts Trust, Colchester General Hospital, New Hall, Cambridge University

 Publications

2005 - Short Stories about Painting, edited by Jeffrey Dennis, published by Art Space Gallery, London ISBN; 0-9549623-2-x

1992/1996/2003 - New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge ISBN: 0 9507108 4 9

1997  From the Interior - Fran Lloyd for Kingston University Press, ISBN: 1 899999 04 3

1989 - Artists & Schools: The Whitechapel's Programme with East London Schools by Jenni Lomax, Whitechapel Gallery, London      ISBN: 0 85488 084 4

1988 - Cries and Whispers catalogue, British Council touring exhibition ISBN: 0 86355 0630

Links

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