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Manual Setting: a sketchbook performance

                               

Until 11th December 2011: What the Folk Say

Curated by Antonia Harrison and Paul Ryan

A series of interventions, by contemporary British artists and curators, into the collection of British Folk Art at Compton Verney. Including Juneau Projects, Tasha Amini, James Ayres, Daniel Baker, Peter Blake, Sonia Boyce, Faye Claridge, Simon Costin, Jeremy Deller, Carolyn Flood, Jenny Gordon, Antonia Harrison, Susan Hiller, Alan Kane, Paula MacArthur, Martin Myrone, Mike Nelson, Paul Ryan, and Sarah Woodfine.

  This is a New Ways of Curating project      

Also at Compton Verney from 26th March at 2011: Albert H Barnett

                   

At Frieze Art Fair 13-16th October 2011 Epstein by Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan at The Modern Institute

Expansive Mood at The Mansion House, The City of London 17 & 18th September 2011 as part of the Open House Weekend

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulryanandsketchbooks/sets/72157627516503288/with/6166207064/

Including works by: Nick Bailey, Amy Bear, Daniel Baker, William Cobbing, Paul Coldwell, Naomi Dines, Dunhill & O'Brien, Earl of Bedlam, Victoria Haviland, Russell Hill, Declan Jenkins, Billy Kerry, Zuza Mengham, Roxy Minter, Isaac Murai-Rolfe, Paul Ryan, Joe Sutherland, Sarah Woodfine, Elizabeth Wright.

 

Mirror Mirror

by Daniel Baker and Paul Ryan

for The Roma Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011: http://www.callthewitness.net/Testimonies/MirrorMirror

Call the Witness, the Roma Pavilion, was a collateral event in the framework of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale die Venezia, 2011. It was organized by Open Society Foundations, and developed and realized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht under the artistic directorship of Maria Hlavajova. Digital venue:www.callthewitness.net.

 

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

Unspeakable at the Imperial War Museum London 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: Portrait of John Hough for Pocket Tube Map

                                       

 

Sketchbooks from Drawing for Survival: Imperial War Museum London 2005                       

                                         

CV
Paul Ryan  
Born Leicester 1968, lives and works in London

 

Education
PhD, 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. (28mb pdf file  - broadband 1 min).

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

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 / Curatorial Projects*
* means both exhibitor and curator    ** means curator  
2011   Expansive Mood at The Mansion House, The City of London, as part of Open House*
          What the Folk Say. A series of artists' interventions, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK*
          Manual Setting. Exhibitors show their sketchbooks. Danielle Arnaud, London*
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
          No Gorgios,  Novas Gallery, London**  
2006   Hospitalfield, ROSL Scholar's Residency, Arbroath, Scotland
          HMP Bronzefield, three month residency - portraits
2005-6    Drawing for Survival, Imperial War Museum, London  
2005   New Shoots, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade
          Destination, Buckler’s Hard, Hampshire (and three month residency)     
2004   Question mark, Wait, Error Understood, Kaunas, Lithuania *
          Line, Lion Lying, Center for Drawing, London *
2003   Paper Video and One Thing Leads to Another, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia
2002   Crossing the Border, London and Newbury, Berks *
2001   Five Quarters of an Orange, State Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
          Drawing Factions: 3 Artists at Greenham Common, Newbury, Berks *
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
2011     Frieze Art Fair 13-16th October 2011, Epstein by Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan at The Modern Institute
            Mirror Mirror, Roma Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale
           Drawing: Interpretation/Translation. Wimbledon, Somerset and Hui Gallery, Chinese University, Hong Kong
2009    The Drawing Incident, Ghent, Belgium
           The Artist's Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK  
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 - Epstein by Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan
           Paranoia, Freud Museum, London
2006    Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Focal Point Southend
           Drawing Breath, touring until 2008
2004    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  
2001    Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham, Hull and London  
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  
Cambell-Johnston, R. The Vibrant Renaissance of Folk Art, The Times, 21.7.2011
Grimley, T, Birmingham Post, 15.4.2011
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
 
Teaching
2012         MRes, Chelsea College of Art, UAL.
2010-2012 Art Theory MA, Chelsea College of Art, UAL.
2009-2010 Drawing MA, Camberwell College of Art, UAL.
 

 

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