Paul Ryan:

AIAS Residency Workshop, Emmerich  -  World as a Stage (Portraits)  -  Epstein's Liverpool  -  What Are Feelings For?   -  Drawing for Survival (2 sketchbooks)  -  Destination  -  One Thing Leads to Another  -  CV  -  Contact

 

 



'852kms from Source'. 2008. Ink on tissue 150 x 100cms (detail).

 

 

 

 

'Sweet Wall Tumbling'. 2008. Boiled sweets 30 x 3 x 7cms.

 

Both images above are from the 2008 AIAS residency/workshop at Emmerich am Rhein (Rhine), Germany. The day I arrived I made a drawing in a pocket-sketchbook looking across the river Rhine from Emmerich. After a few days the broad river seemed to be the most important feature of the town and I decided to make a 1.5 x 1m version of the drawing, as I sometimes do, retracing each tiny mark by hand using dots and dashes of ink to imitate the pencil smudges. In the drawing of the river is a sign ‘852’ which someone later explained to me, hence the title: ‘852kms from Source’. The distance of the large drawing from the original sketch is more difficult to measure.

 

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REBOUND: at Wellcome Collection

 



 



 


 

 

 

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Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan: Pocket Tube Map and  Brian Epstein's Liverpool

 



 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

Unspeakable Library: Paranoia  2006   

 

Unspeakable Library: cabinet detail  2006

 

 

Sketchbooks

Imperial War Museum 2005                       

75 x A6 black notebooks date from 1985 to 2007, plus 16 x A7 sketchbooks.

CV

 

Paul Ryan  

Born Leicester 1968, lives and works in London

 

Education

Researching PhD under The University of the Arts, London 2006-9, AHRC: Peirce's Semeiotic and the Implications for Aesthetics in the Visual Arts. An Extemporary Case Study: The Sketchbook and its Position in the Hierarchies of Making, Collecting and Exhibiting.

 

MA Fine Art Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London 2004, AHRB: Paper Video: The Status and Function of the Sketchbook in a Skeptical Environment

Selected One Person Exhibitions / Residencies

2008   AIAS Residency/Workshop, Emmerich, Germany

2007   REBOUND, Wellcome Trust, London (11-28th October)

            What Are Feelings For?, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, London

2006   Hospitalfield, ROSL Scholar's Residency, Arbroath, Scotland

2006   HMP Bronzefield, three month residency - portraits

2005-6    Drawing for Survival, Imperial War Museum, London  

2005   New Shoots, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade

2005   Destination, Buckler’s Hard, Hampshire (and three month residency)     

2003   Paper Video and One Thing Leads to Another, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia

2001  Five Quarters of an Orange, State Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2000  Codex, Contemporary Art Society, Economist Building, London

1999   Plastikk, Gallery 3, Bergen, Norway

1998   Blow Up, MK Ciurlionis State Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

            Hardanger County Museum, Norway

            Christopher Hull Gallery, London

1997   University of Bergen, Norway

1996   Horda Museum, Bergen, Norway

            Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (also 1993 and 1991)

1995   Travel Scholarship exhibition, ROSL, London

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

* means both exhibitor and curator    ** means curator   

2008    Acts Actions, Cafe Gallery Projects Southwark Park London

2007    Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London

             Chavi, Novas Gallery, London

             Recognise, Contemporary Art Platform, London

             Centre of the Creative Universe, Tate Liverpool - Collaboration with Jeremy Deller

   No Gorgios,  Novas Gallery, London**

             Paranoia, Freud Museum, London

2006    Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Focal Point Southend

             Drawing Breath, touring until 2008

2004    Question mark, Wait, Error Understood, Kaunas, Lithuania *

             Line, Lion Lying, Center for Drawing, London *

             Open Secret, Imperial War Museum, London

2003    Arrangement, Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London

             False Impressions, University of Essex

2002    In Your Time, Percy Miller Gallery, London

             Crossing the Border, London and Newbury, Berks *

2001    Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham, Hull and London

             Drawing Factions: 3 Artists at Greenham Common, Newbury, Berks *

2000    Size Immaterial, British Museum, London

1999    Asylum, Milch, London

1998    Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London

1996    Royal Overseas League, London

1995    Art Forum, London

1991    Art for Equality, ICA London

1990    Mercury Gallery, London

1989    Cyril Gerber Gallery, Glasgow

 

Collections

British Museum

Imperial War Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

National Gallery of Lithuania

Foundation 314, Norway

Royal Mint

Pearson Group

Wellcome Trust

Platform for Art

 

Principal Grants and Awards

2006-9   Arts and Humanities Research Council

2006   Paul Hamlyn Foundation - HMP Bronzefield

2005   British Council

2005   Arts Council England

2003   Arts & Humanities Research Board

2001   Jerwood Drawing Prize (prizewinner)

2000   London Arts Board

1999   Foundation 314, Norway (also 1998, 1997)

1995   London Arts Board

1992   Brian Ward Trust Fund, Leicester

 

Press & Bibliography  

Dillon, T. (Ed.). (2007). Platform for Art: Art on the Underground. Black Dog Publishing: London

Ossian Ward. Time Out. 29.8.2007

Ryan, P.  (2007) The Centre for Drawing Project Space - Notes 01

Bateson, K. and Taylor, A. (2007). Drawing Breath

Baker, D. and Ryan, P. (2007). No Gorgios

Grunenberg, C. and Knifton, R. (2007). Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool & The Avant-Garde

Deller, J. and Ryan, P. (2007) Epstein's Liverpool.

Conrad, P. Paranoid? This lot really ought to be, The Observer 28.1.2007

Higgins, C. The Collaborator. The Guardian, 23.12.2006

Clark, R.  The Guardian, 15.7.2006

Pajdic, P. , Pasolini, A. and Ryan, P. (Eds.). (2006) Paranoia  (Shortlisted for AXA catalogue award)

The Jackdaw, 12.2005

Christiansen, R. The Daily Telegraph, 14.1.2004

Turner, P. and Taylor, A. (2003) Foundation Course, Drawing

Cork, R. The Times, 5.9.2001

Sorenen, B. Bergens Tidende, 12.9.1999

Petrauskaite, Z. Kauno Diena, 8.3.97 & 15.1.1998

Fasmer, H. D. Fanaposten, 14.1.1997

Brugger, K. Bergens Tidende, 10.1.1997

Berryman, L. Arts Review, 9.1991

 

                                                              

AIAS Residency Workshop, Emmerich  -  World as a Stage (Portraits)  -  Epstein's Liverpool  -  What Are Feelings For?   -  Drawing for Survival (2 sketchbooks)  -  Destination  -  One Thing Leads to Another  -  CV  -  Contact