Neil Powell Synopsis of Research Interests Over the past three or four years my research outcomes and methodologies have grown to include not only one person/group exhibitions but also curatorial projects and authored texts. Apart from the more high profile public project with Art & Language, such as ‘The Artist Out of Work’ at Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2000, I have also worked with artists as diverse as Lawrence Weiner, Alfredo Jaar and Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose works formed part of the successful curatorial project ‘A Spectre at The Feast’ also in New York. The above events are symptomatic of my commitment to scholarly research in the fields of both art practice and the critical theory that surrounds it. My studio work has recently been shown in the Netherlands and a recent essay accepted for publication by UBU publishers New York, USA. My specialist area of research would best be described within the sphere of the linguistic turn in art from the mid 20th Century onwards and of special interest are areas such as Concrete Poetry, Sculpture and Conceptual Art.

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Neil Powell Curriculum Vitae

Born 1961 Cheshire, England.
Lives and works in Shropshire United Kingdom

Education

1980-83 B.A.(Hons) Fine Art Manchester Metropolitan University
1983-84 M.A. Sculpture Chelsea School of Art, London.
1984-86 M.A. (RCA) Sculpture Royal College of Art, London Henry Moore Scholar
1986 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tom Bendhem Scholar

Selected Exhibitions/Curatorial Projects

2004 ‘Horizon’ Haagse Kunstrkring, Group show Netherlands.
2003 ‘Inspirational Influences’ Brampton Art Gallery, Newcastle U Lyme
2003 ‘Critical Mass’ Kansas State University, Lawrence Kansas, USA.
2001 ‘Lost and Found’ touring exhibition by Mark Grote, Loughborough (LUSAD) various ther UK venues (curator)

2000 With Art & Language: The Artist Out of Work PS1 Museum of Modern Art
New York in association with Lisson Gallery London and Art Council for England.

2000 ‘A Spectre at The Feast’ recent works by: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Marcel Broodthaers,Claudio Parmiggiani, Maris, Alfredo Jaar, Derek Tyman. Real Gallery & Nolan /Eckmann Gallery New York, USA.(curator)

1999 ‘Random Access Realities’ Downtown Arts Festival New York, Gloria and Raymond Naftali Gallery, New York, USA.

1999 ‘Far From Perfect Strangers’, Real Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Group Exhibition, Applied Arts Gallery, De Montford University, Lincoln.
1995 'Beyond the Wow Factor IV', Cheltenham College of Art, UK.
1995 Fine Art at Stoke 1970-1995 Flaxman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
1995 'Foreign Bodies', Shinjuku Cultural Centre, British Council Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.(curator)
1994 'Magnetic Indifference', Flaxman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
1994 Gwyl Gelf International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Harlech, Wales.
1994 'Beyond the Wow Factor II', University of Kingston, London, United Kingdom.
1994 'Beyond the Wow Factor III' , Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.

Selected Exhibitions/Curatorial Projects contd.

1994 Fine Art Group Exhibition, John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1993 "Beyond the Wow Factor", New York State University, U.S.A.
1992 "4" Arts Council of Great Britain. Bolton, United Kingdom.
1989 Howard Gallery, Welsh Arts Council. Cardiff, Wales.
1989 Manchester Metro University Centenary Exhibition. Manchester, United Kingdom.
1988 Eirlys Tynan Gallery, London. One person exhibition, United Kingdom.
1987 'Statues of Limitation', Artsite Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom.
1987 Five Artists, The Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom.
1986 Artist in Residence, Zementfabrik, Dusseldorf, Germany, United Kingdom.
1986 Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.
1986 Fresh Art 1, The Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom.
1985 Central School of Art, London, United Kingdom.
1985 'Sculpture Works', Gulbenkian Galleries, London, United Kingdom.
1985 'Menagerie', Ramsgate Museum and Art Gallery. Ramsgate, United Kingdom.
1984 International Garden Festival, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1984 Chelsea School of Art, London, United Kingdom.
1984 Christie's Inaugural Exhibition, London, United Kingdom.
1983 'New Art', Rochdale Art Gallery. Rochdale, United Kingdom.
1982 John Holden Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Selected published writings on Contemporary Art

2004 ‘Concrete Poetry & Conceptual Art’, UBU.editions , referred website www.ubu.com/papers/powell.html 2002 ‘In and Out of The White Cube’, Gwyl Gelf Arts Wales ISBN 0-9524147-91
2001 ‘A Spectre at The Feast: Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Art CUP, NY, USA
2001 Mark Grote in conversation with Neil Powell Loyola University, New Orleans / Loughborough University Press ISBN 1-900856-58-1

2000 ‘Journal of Art & Language’, New Series, Lisson Gallery London 26pp
2000 ‘Made and Unmade: The Suspended Assemblages of John Atkin’ reprint Loughborough University Press ISBN 1-900856-55-7 8pp

1999 ‘Made and Unmade: The Suspended Assemblages of John Atkin’ Urban Eye London ISBN 1-901560-65-1 21pp

Selected Publications & Reviews

2003 The Guardian Saturday May 10 2003
2000 New York Times September 14 double page review of MOMA, NY Exhibition
2000 Art Monthly September review of MOMA, NY Exhibition
1999 Gardeners World Live BBC Television June
1998 Gardeners World Live BBC Television June
1997 Gardeners World Live BBC Television June
1997 Midlands Today , BBC Television June
1997 The Times Higher June
1994 BBC Radio Interview public art feature July 1994
1994 Harlech International Biennale Catalogue
1992 Toyo Bijutsu Gakko Yearbook
1991 Toyo Bijutsu Gakko Yearbook
1990 'Sculpture on Merseyside', Tate Gallery, Liverpool,
1989 Arts Review, Jan.
1989 'Sculpture in the Park', catalogue
1989 Observer colour magazine, April 24, colour feature.
1989 Catalogue,Cornerhouse publications
1988 ‘City Limits’ Magazine, exhibition review/feature by Mark Currah, London, January.
1987 'Burning the Phoenix', Channel 4 TV/Euston Films
1987 Rijksakademie Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands exhibition review
1986 London Evening Standard, review of Christie’s Inaugural.
1986 Royal College of Art, Post Graduate Exhibition catalogue
1986 ‘Fresh Art 1’ Exhibition Catalogue, Nicholas Trewadwell Gallery, London
1985 ‘Menagerie’ Exhibition Catalogue, Ramsgate Art Gallery, United Kingdom.
1984 ‘Festival Sculpture’ Catalogue, Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain
1984 Art Monthly, May, Exhibition review.
1984 ‘Venue’ magazine, May, Exhibition review, Artsite Bath, United Kingdom.
1984 ‘Christie's Inaugural’ , London, exhibition catalogue
1984 The Sunday Times, 6 May, exhibition review.
1984 What's New, Granada TV, Manchester, exhibition review.
1983 'New Art' catalogue Arts Council of Great Britain Publications

Commissioned Works

2001 Sculpture for Staffordshire County Council Beacon Sports Centre
1997-1999 Exhibition consultant, Christian Aid, London
1993 Commissioned audio work for, Friedman Electronics Group Ltd.
1989 The Anglo-Chinese Society, London.
1987 John Prizeman Architectural Partnership, London.
1984 Portman Square, London, Lonsdale Advertising Ltd.
Work in public and private collections in United States of America, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong , Bulgaria and U.K.

Recent Appointments/Membership

2003- present External Examiner for BA(Hons) Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester
1999- present Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARBS)
1991- present Principal Lecturer in Fine Art, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on- Trent.
1991-present Guest Lecturer, Toyo Bijutsu Gakko, Tokyo, Japan.
1994-1998 External Examiner for BA(Hons) Sculpture, University of Wolverhampton.
1996 External Examiner for BA (Hons) Fine Art, Music and Publishing Oxford Brookes University.
1984-1986 Part-time Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University.
1986-87 Part-time Lecturer, Staffordshire University.
1987 Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield Polytechnic.
1994 Visiting Lecturer, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Dijon, France.
1995 Visiting Lecturer, University of Central England, M.A. Course.
1995 Visiting Lecturer, Ecole de Beaux Arts Regionale, Macon, France