SUZAN SWALE
CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Education Academic qualifications and achievements Teaching and related experience Exhibitions: Public Collections
Home/Studio email: suzanswale@hotmail.co.uk
PERSONAL 1946 Born in Nottingham
EDUCATION - ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 1965/66 Attends pre-diploma foundation course at Derby and District College of Art 1966/69 Studies painting at Bristol Polytechnic. First Class Honours Diploma in Art and Design. BA Fine Art 1969. Poetry published in Imprint, a poetry quarterl 1969/72 Studies painting at the Royal College of Art and receives MA in 1972., Attends course at University of London in the history and development of the CInema
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
1972 Travels extensively in Europe. Becomes involved in conceptual art, makes environments and uses video 1972/73 Visiting lecturer in Fine Art at North Staffordshire Polytechnic BA (three days per week) and visitor Battersea College of Education 1973/7 Full time lecturer in Fine Art at Northern Ireland Polytechnic, Belfast BA 1974/77 Full time lecturer in Fine Art and Senior lecturer in Painting at Manchester Polytechnic BA/MA courses. Visiting lecturer at Bristol Polytechnic and Middlesex Polytechnic. Concentrates on painting 1978 to 79 Visiting Lecturer: Maidstone College of Art - BA Fine Art Chelsea School of Art - BA painting Bristol Polytechnic - BA painting Byam Shaw School of Art - BA Fine Art Leeds Polytechnic and Newcastle Polytechnic - BA Fine Art London College of Printing - Visiting Tutor Foundation course - teaching performance art 1980 to 1990 The Open University Milton Keynes - Tutor Art and Environment Course; Course Examiner; Summer School and Saturday School tutor; Course 1982 to 1984 Bournemouth College of Art - Visiting Tutor in Photography 1984 to 1985 Goldsmiths College London - Visiting tutor MA Fine Art 1990 Polytechnic Central London - Visiting Tutor Cultural Studies and Performance Art 1992 to 2001 Central Saint Martins (Foundation Course) - Lead Tutor in Fine Art and Cultural Studies Tutor 1979 to date Tutor Morley College - Painting and Drawing 2002 Workshop Tutor Tate Britain - Lucian Freud workshop painting 2003 to date Tutor Open College of the Arts - Painting and Drawing 2006 Tutor Victoria and Albert Museum. Drawing workshops - Leonardo Da Vinci
1971 John Minton Scholarship, Royal College of Art Royal Institution Award for Painting 1972 Burston Award, Royal College of Art French Government Scholarship at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris 1983 British Council Travel A ward (Finland)
Artists Union 1979-1984 United Kingdom National Committee of the International Association of Art (Executive Committee member) Member of UK delegation to conferences in Stuttgart 1979, Helsinki (1983) and Sylt (1986) London Group 1984 to date Member of London Group selection Panel for 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995 and 2(')07 Open Exhibitions - London Group elected Deputy vice president March 2001 - 2003 The Royal College of Art Society member
1969 Bristol Arts Centre - Sue Swale, Exhibition of paintings 1974 Grabowski Gallery, London - Paper Garden, recent work by Suzan Swale 1978 Fieldborne Galleries, London - Suzan Swale's Salome 1983 Atlantis Gallery, London - Radical Wallpaper 1985 Pentonville Gallery, London - The Writing on the Wall 1998 Main Gallery, Gardner Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton Major retrospective of Paintings, photomedia, documentation of installation and performance
1971 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Guildford Festival Royal Academy - Young Contemporaries Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art - Second year painting students 1972 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition FBA Galleries - Stowells Trophy ICA - BEA Arts Awards Greenwich Theatre Gallery - Eduardo Paolozzi's choice of the London post-graduate shows John NeviJl Gallery, Canterbury Southampton University Grabowski Gallery, London 1975/76 Sztuki Muzeum, Lodz, Poland 1976 Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland 1976/77 Gdansk - Bydgoszcz - Szczecin - Zielona Gora, Poland - Grabowski collection 1977 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1978 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London Group at the Royal College of Art Fieldborne Galleries, London - Art in Religion Strasbourg - Concours International d' Affiches 1979 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria - Trigon 1979 Biennale (with Andrew Logan and Cosey Fanni Tutte) Muzeum Okregowe, Kalisz, Poland - Grabowski Collection 1980 Morley Gallery - Artists at Morley Fitzroy Gallery, London - Midsummer exhibition Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Morley Gallery - Christmas Exhibition 1981 South London Art Gallery - London Group in Southwark National Portrait Gallery - Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award Sztuki Muzeum, Lodz, Poland - Grabowski Collection. 1982 Morley Gallery - Artist in Focus Albany Theatre - Artists against the Bomb Koszahn, Poland - Grabowski Collection. 1983 Morley Gallery - International Association of Art Exhibition Czestochowa, Poland - Grabowski Collection Tomaszow Mas Poland - Grabowski Collection 1984 Royal College of Art - London Group 1985 The Warehouse - Out of Hand, 4 women artists (with Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party") 1986 The Camden Artists Group - Fourth Exhibition, Falcon Gallery 1987 London Group - RCA Galleries, Windsor Art Gallery, Bede Gallery, Janow 1988 London Group - RCA Galleries, Members and invited artists Acme Open Studios, Orsman Road (Whitechapel Open) 1989 London Group - RCA Galleries 1990 London Group - Central School of Art (Members show) - RCA Galleries Morley Gallery - 101 Years Not Out 1991 London Group - Works on paper - The Economist Kufa Gallery - Come and See 1992 London Group - Morley Gallery - Barbican Concourse Gallery 1993 London Group - Barbican Concourse Gallery - London Institute Gallery 1994 The Royal College of Art Society - 'Paper Based' work Consort Gallery, Imperial College London Group - Works on Paper Morley Gallery - Works on Paper, Thomas's School, Clapham 1995 London Group - The London Contemporary Art Fair (Art 95) The Business Design Centre, Islington 1995/96 London Group - Barbican Concourse Gallery 1996 Whitechapel Open - Orsman Road Open Studios London Group - Letherby Gallery, Southampton Row 1997 Poster Studio - WiIson to Callaghan documents 1964 - 1979 Performance piece 1979 Exhibition of the work of Foundation Staff at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - Conway Hall Gallery London Group - Alan Baxter Associates Gallery 1998 10 x 8 Eight by Ten photoworks Exhibition by RCA Graduates - Conway Hall Gallery Danielle Arnaud Gallery - The Object and the Concept - 7 artists from the London Group 1998 University of Brighton 'Transient' Artists from the London Group ICA screening/seminar 'Wilson to Callaghan video' A Beale/Swinson production. Conceptual Art practice 1964/79 Interview and discussion 0 performance work. 1999 The Farnham Maltings Gallery. London Group 2000 Morley Gallery 'Thirteen' an exhibition of works from the painting and drawing department staff. Camden Open 2000 Shirley House showroom The London Group. Letherby Gallery, Southampton Row 2001 The Walk Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art with three other London Group Altists. 29th April - 19th May Woodlands Art Gallery. London Group exhibition May 26th - June 24th Stark Gallery. London Group. May 26th - June 22nd 2003 Woodlands Art Gallery. The London Group 16 February - 15 March The Cork St. Gallery. London Group members 2nd - 7th June Gallery by the Lake. Southwark Park. London Group 30th June - 19th July 2004 Menier Gallery, London Group 26th April - 14th May Highgate Gallery. London Group 14th - 26 May 2005 Bankside Gallery, London Group 8th - 17 April 2006 Jill Yakas Gallery, Spring Show. Kifissia, Athens, Greece 2nd - 20th April Bankside Gallery, London Group 13th April- 1st May The Showcase Gallery, Open College of Arts tutors, Bamsley - 26 September - 19th October. 2007 Deutsche Bank, London Group Part 1. 18th January - 18th April. Muzeum Sztuki - 'Swinging London', Lodz, Poland. Grabowski Collection 15th May - 19th August. Bridge Art Fair, London Group, Trafalgar Hotel. 11th - 14th October. Menier Gallery, London Group open exhibition part 1. ih - 16th November Jill Yakas Gallery, December Show. Kifissia, Athens, Greece 2nd - 20tl December.
The Hanging Committee 1982 Oval House Theatre Midland Group Gallery 1983 Atlantis Gallery University of East Anglia Great Georges Project 'The Blackie' Liverpool 1987 Polytechnic of Central London 1988 Polytechnic of Central London
EXHIBITIONS: PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
British Broadcasting Corporation Bristol Education Committee Carlisle City Art Gallery Grabowski Collection, Sztuki Muzeum, Lodz, Poland.
September 1969 Western Daily Press - Review/photographer Bristol Arts Centre exhibition - Maurice Tasnier 10th April 1971 Arts Review - Second year painting students Royal College of ArtGuy Burn 19th July 1974 Time Out - Photograph of Paper Garden environment at the Grabowski Gallery July 1974 Arts Review - Review "Paper Garden" exhibition 7th July 1974 The Observer - Article "Into Space" 14th July 1974 The Observer - Review of Paper Garden exhibition by Nigel Gosling 22nd October 1978 Hampstead and Highgate Express - Article "Updated Decadence" by Linda Talbot 13th October 1978 The Observer Magazine - Article/photograph - Caryll Faraldi October 1978 Arts Review - Review of "Salome" exhibition by Barbara Wright October 1978 Catalogue for "Suzan Swale's Salome" - introduction by Jasia Reichardt October 1979 Catalogue for Masculin Feminin Biennale "Trigon 79" at Kunstlerhaus and Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria. (British artists Andrew Logan, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Suzan Swale) 1979 Skira Art Annuel 79 "Art Actuel" - Preface by Jasia Reichardt and statement by Suzan Swale 1981 Studio International Volume 195 Number 991/2 Artist thoughts on the 70s in words and pictures edited by Jasia Reichardt 1982 Performance Magazine - December 82/January 83 Photographs and review of performance by the "Hanging Committee" at Midland Group Gallery 28th January 1983 City Limits - Review of "Radical Wallpaper" exhibition and "Hanging Committee" performance at the Atlantis Gallery 1983 Performance Magazine - April/May 83 - Photograph and Review of performance by the "Hanging Committee" at Atlantis Gallery Performance Magazine - October/November 82 - photograph and review of performance by the "Hanging Committee" at Brixton Art Gallery 1985 Artefactum April/May 85 Statement and photograph 1987 AND Magazine May 87 - Article and photographs 'IMPERFECT PRESENT' - Robert Coward/Suzan Swale 1988 AND Magazine - Artwork 'Curriculum Vitae' 1995 Broadsheet catalogue London Group, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Written introduction 1998 'A Catalogue of Fear' publication ISBN 0953397701 - in the British Library, Tate library, V & A library, etc. 2000 to date Who in Art' 29th edition comprehensive entry 2003 90th Anniversary Year Book THE LONDON GROUP Hardback edition 2 pages per artist 90 Artists. Introduction by William Feaver April 2007 'Swinging London', Collection of Grabowski. Catalogue and works on CD. Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland. 2008 Mauger Modern Art Gallery, Bath London Group mixed exhibition 19th April - 24th May Highgate Gallery, London London Group small works mixed exhibition 9th - 22nd May The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London Illumini - exhibition of lightworks 4th - 17th September Menier Gallery, London London Group mixed exhibition 29th October - 7th November 2009 Morley Gallery, London Drawing - Act & Artefact London Group exhibition (curated by Wendy Smith and Suzan Swale) 25th March - 9th April Glasgow Art Fair (Edgar Modern) Neons in mixed exhibition 23rd - 26th April The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol (Edgar Modern) Neons in Mixed exhibition 14th - 17th May Edgar Modern Art Gallery, Bath Neons in Mixed exhibition 4th - 30th May University College, London Left in Vision 3 2nd - 6th July Menier Gallery, London London Group Open Exibition 20th October - 13th November 2010 Morley Gallery London Seventeen. An exhibition of works by tutors of painting and drawing at Morley College. 14th January - 3rd February 2010. Kensington and Chelsea College 'Inspiration' an exhibition of 29 London Group artists who reveal their real inspirations 20th January - 4th February 2010 Shoreditch Town hall Basement '400 Women' 400 artists each painting one of 400 women that have been killed in Mexico. A retablo installation. Includes work by Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling and Stella Vine. Touring to the USA and Mexico.
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