British artist
Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist . A painter, photographer and sculptor, he employs mixed media .[ 1]
Biography
Born in London , Head was brought up in Yorkshire.[ 2] He studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969.[ 3] There the professor was Kenneth Rowntree , whose French-influenced work did not appeal; his other teachers included Richard Hamilton who enthused him,[ 2] and Ian Stephenson . He was among the group of student friends of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry at the university, along with the older artist Stephen Buckley .[ 4] [ 5] Others, besides Buckley, Ferry and Head, who were influenced by Hamilton at Newcastle were the students Rita Donagh and the sculptor Tony Carter , and Mark Lancaster who was teaching.[ 6] [ 7]
Head worked on exhibition layout at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in summer 1967, for Niki de Saint Phalle .[ 2] [ 8] The following year he went to New York City , where he worked as a summer assistant to Claes Oldenburg .[ 3] He met Robert Smithson , Richard Serra , Eva Hesse , Sol LeWitt , John Cale and others. Head attended Saint Martin's School of Art , London, in 1969–1970;[ 3] he studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan .
In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show. He then taught at Goldsmiths College , London, from 1971 to 1979.[ 3] He taught at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1976 to 2011.[ 9]
Works
During the 1970s Head contributed to the interest in "projected art"[ 10] with "installations in which photos of objects in gallery spaces were projected on to those same objects and spaces."[ 11] In 1987 he won the 15th John Moores Painting Prize for his work "Cow Mutations".[ 12] The 2002 video installation Treacherous Light used software to make pixel-wise colour changes.[ 13]
Head has exhibited widely internationally. His solo shows include MoMA , Oxford (1972); Whitechapel Art Gallery , London (1974 and 1992); British Pavilion , Venice Biennale (1980); ICA, London (1985); and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, and touring (1995). He has taken part in group shows including Documenta VI , Kassel (1977); British Art Now: An American Perspective , Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Royal Academy, London (1980); The British Art Show , Arts Council Tour (1984); Gambler , Building One, London (1990);Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75 , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000);[ 14] and The Indiscipline of Painting Tate St. Ives [ 15] touring to Warwick Art Centre (2011/12).
References
^ Windsor, Alan (10 September 2020). British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century . Routledge. p. 286. ISBN 978-1-000-16052-9 .
^ a b c Bracewell, Michael (17 February 2011). Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the making of Roxy Music, 1953-1972 . Faber & Faber. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-571-27670-7 .
^ a b c d Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 . Vol. 1 A to L. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 708. ISBN 978-0-9532609-5-9 .
^ Bracewell, Michael (17 February 2011). Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the making of Roxy Music, 1953-1972 . Faber & Faber. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-571-27670-7 .
^ Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 . Vol. 1 A to L. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-9532609-5-9 .
^ Pop Art . Royal Academy of Arts. 1991. p. 280.
^ Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 . Vol. 1 A to L. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-9532609-5-9 .
^ Emanuel, Muriel; Ammann, Jean Christophe (1983). Contemporary Artists . Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-30773-1 .
^ "TIM HEAD : SELECTED BIOGRAPHY" . www.timhead.net .
^ Reynolds, Lucy. "Experimental fields of light and shadow – Tate Etc" . Tate .
^ Walker, John Albert (1992). Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945 . Library Association Publishing. p. 2003. ISBN 978-0-85365-639-5 .
^ " 'Cow Mutations', Tim Head, previous winner of the John Moores Prize 1987" . Archived from the original on 21 February 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2009 . John Moores Prize.
^ Curtis, David (25 July 2019). A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-83871-416-1 .
^ Kimmelman, Michael (29 April 2003). "Critic's Notebook; London Is Agog Over Art, Especially Saatchi's" The New York Times ;
^ Clark, Martin; Sturgis, Daniel ; Shalgosky, Sarah. "The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now" . Tate . Retrieved 20 May 2021 .
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