Bren Unwin
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Gallery
Total number of images: 3
- invariant transformation, series of 29 digital slides
- Length II (still from video)
- Chiasmus: miners' cage (detail), etching
Biography
| Dr Bren Unwin is a visiting research associate at the University of Hertfordshire. She is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and a fellow and council member of the Royal Society of Painter-printmakers. Unwin has a BA(hons) and an MA(research) in Fine Art practice. She was awarded a PhD, and The Chancellor’s Medal, for outstanding doctoral research by the University of Hertfordshire in 2008. The title of her thesis was: Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical appraisal for contemporary art practice. In 2004, Unwin was awarded the Gwen May Award by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and in 2009 received a Fenton Arts Award.
Unwin’s artwork investigates relationships that exist between an active perceiver and their dynamic environment. Materials, actions and ideas are explored in association with the technologically mediated character of experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both private and public art collections. Curriculum Vitae Dr Bren Unwin BA(Hons), MA(Res), PhD, RE, NSA Born: 1st September 1956 in Farnborough, Kent; daughter of Leslie and Irene Hall Educated: Farnborough County Primary School, Datchworth JMI School, Ware Girls' Grammar School, Mid-Herts College of Further Education, The Open University, St Albans School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire Awards and appointments Appointed director and trustee of Bankside Gallery, 2009 Fenton Arts Trust Prize, 2009 Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2009 Appointed Visiting Research Associate, University of Hertfordshire, 2009 Appointed post-doctoral researcher for R2P research cluster. ( NtKC group researching non-traditional knowledge and communication in creative and performative arts), 2008 Awarded The Chancellor's Medal for outstanding doctoral research, by the University of Hertfordshire, 2008 Awarded PhD by University of Hertfordshire - Title of thesis: Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical appraisal for contemporary art practice, 2008 Awarded The Gwen May Prize by The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, 2004 Awarded MA(Research) Fine Art, 2004 Awarded BA(Hons) Fine Art, 2002 Work in collections: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; various private collections Publications: ‘Bren Unwin’, in Anthony Dyson, 2009, Printmakers’ Secrets, London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd., ISBN 978 0 7136 8911 2 ‘Bren Unwin’ in: Charles Baile de Laperrière (ed.) 2008. Who’s Who in Art, London: Hilmarton Manor Press, p.1011. ISBN 978 0 904722 42 0 ‘Bren Unwin’ in: Anne Desmet, Anthony Dyson (eds.) 2006 Printmakers: the directory, London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd., p128. ISBN 10 0 7136 7387 7 ‘Bren Unwin’, (Exhibition catalogue, 2004) ISBN 1 898543 860 Papers: 2009 Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical appraisal for contemporary art practice, Living Landscapes – Performance, Landscape and Environment AHRC Programme Conference, Aberystwyth University 2007 Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical examination of its representation in visual art practice, SSAHRI conference, University of Hertfordshire 2006 Sticky praxis: technology as the ‘glue’ between experience and visual representation, ‘Sensuous Knowledge 3’, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway Societies: Member of The Newlyn Society of Artists Fellow and council member of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Statement: I am interested in relationships that exist between an active perceiver and their environment. Materials, actions and ideas are explored in association with the dynamic and mediated character of experience. Main supervisory interests include: Art practice, phenomenology, environment, technological mediation, sensory perception Selected Exhibitions: 2009/2010 ‘Double Vision’, The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2009 IMPACT international multi-disciplinary printmaking conference, University of the West of England, Bristol 2009 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2009 ‘A Cornish Perspective’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2009 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London 2009 ‘PRESS II’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2008 ‘Bren Unwin’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2008 ‘Summer in the City’, Bankside Gallery, London 2008 Royal Society of Painter-printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2008 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London 2008 Rahimtulla Gallery, RaMoMa Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi 2008 PRESS, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2007 ‘Lineage’, The Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall 2007 ‘My Cornwall’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2007 ‘A leaf from a sketchbook’, Bankside Gallery, London 2007 ‘Unquiet Earth’, The Newlyn Society of Artists in St Ives, Cornwall 2007 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall 2007 Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2007 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2007 Bankside Gallery, London 2006 The Newlyn Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Penzance, Cornwall 2006 ‘Inside outside’, Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London 2006 Royal Society of Painter-printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2006 ‘Originals 06’, The Mall Galleries, London 2005 Gallery Tresco, Christmas exhibition, Tresco, Isles of Scilly 2005 Bren Unwin ‘North End’, Gallery Tresco, Tresco, Isles of Scilly 2005 The Miniature Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London 2005 Hertfordshire Open exhibition, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts 2005 Critic’s Choice, selected by Nicholas Usherwood, The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire 2005 Discerning Eye Exhibition (invited by Joan Bakewell), The Mall Galleries, London 2005 Critic’s Choice (selected by Norbert Lynton), Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall 2005, ‘Bryan Pearce, Breon O’Casey and Bren Unwin’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall 2005 ‘Identity’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall 2005 ‘Originals 05’, The Mall Galleries, London 2005 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Monmouth 2005 Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London 2005 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2004/2005 The Penwith Society Winter Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall 2004 Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly 2004 ‘Art off the Wall’, Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London 2004 ‘Little by Little’ The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2004, ‘Anthony Frost, Anja Percival and Bren Unwin’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2004 Adams and Unwin, University of Hertfordshire Gallery 2004 The Penwith Society Summer Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall 2004 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2004 ‘Critic’s Choice, Selected by John Russell-Taylor, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall 2004 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2004 ‘Identity’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall 2004 ‘Here Comes the Sun’, touring exhibition by The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery in association with Falmouth Arts Centre 2003 ‘Weather Report 2’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall 2003 ‘Critic’s Choice’, Selected by Joan Bakewell, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall 2003 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk 2003 Bren Unwin, ‘Intimate Landscape’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2002 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2002 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2002 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk 2001 Hertfordshire Open Exhibition, Margaret Harvey Gallery Exhibition, St Albans, Herts 2001 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Market Square, St Just, Cornwall 2001 Net loft Gallery Boxing Day Exhibition, Porthleven, Cornwall 2001 The Great Atlantic Print Exhibition, St Just, Cornwall 2001 The Place, Letchworth, Herts (Joint exhibition with John Adams) 2001 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk 2001 The Penwith Society Summer Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall 2001 The Net loft Gallery, Porthleven, Cornwall (Joint exhibition with Michael Wright) 2001 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2000 Bren Unwin, ‘Silent Vigil’ The Net Loft Gallery, Porthleven, Cornwall 2000 Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts 2000 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 2000 University of Hertfordshire Winter Exhibition, Hatfield, Herts 2000 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1999 Out of The Blue Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall 1999 The Roundhouse Gallery, Sennen, Cornwall 1999 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall 1999 Porthcurno Gallery, Porthcurno, Cornwall 1999 Geevor Sculpture Park and gallery, Pendeen, Cornwall 1999 The Maltings Gallery, Wheathampstead, Herts (Joint exhibition with John Adams) |
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