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An A7 sketchbook double page spread, (made during the recently completed PhD, January 2009), while considering the oscillation between formalisation and expression; and the word æsthetics as revived by Baumgarten, and the prefix letter Æ from the Old English alphabet and Anglo Saxon rune.

See also SWIF (Slade Word and Image Forum): http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slade09/research/wordImage/ryan.php

 

 

 Souvenir           detail from photograph by Gordon McLeod, Imperial War Museum.

Unspeakable 2008-9

 

'Souvenir' is a postcard stand. One card is 'traced' from a pre-war tourist postcard of the town of Auschwitz and shows a peacock with the town's buildings as pictures set within the feathers. The second card is 'redrawn' from Stosberg's (a Nazi architect) plan for the town hall for after the war. The last is of the drawing 'Concentrate' that hangs nearby.

 

 

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

 

 

Sketchbooks from Drawing for Survival: Imperial War Museum 2005                       

                                         

75 x A6 black notebooks date from 1985 to 2008, plus 16 x A7 sketchbooks.

 

CV

 

Paul Ryan  
Born Leicester 1968, lives and works in London

 

Education
PhD under The University of the Arts, London 2006-9, AHRC: Peirce's Semeiotic and the Implications for Æsthetics in the Visual Arts. A study of the sketchbook and its positions 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  
2009    The Artist's Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
2009    The Drawing Incident, Ghent, Belgium
2008-9 Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust. The Imperial War Museum, London
2008    100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art. Transport for London
             Drawn Encounters. The Gallery at Wimbledon College of Art, London
             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  
BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review 6.9.2008
Baker, D. (2008). 'Breaking Beyond the Local'. Third Text No. 92, Vol. 22, Issue 3. May 2008. pp407-415
Dillon, T. (Ed.). (2007). Platform for Art: Art on the Underground. Black Dog Publishing: London
Ossian Ward. Time Out. 29.8.2007
Ryan, P.  and Newman A. (Ed.), (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

Paul Ryan:  Unspeakable  -  World as a Stage (Portraits)  -  Rebound: at Wellcome Collection  -  Epstein's Liverpool  -  What Are Feelings For?  

Drawing for Survival (2 sketchbooks)  -  Flickr (Sketchbooks)  -  Destination  -  One Thing Leads to Another  -  Studio in Your Pocket  -  CV  -  Contact