Dr Bren Unwin BA(Hons), MA(Res), PhD, RE, NSA

Born:
1st September 1956 in Farnborough, Kent; daughter of Leslie and Irene Hall
Educated:
Farnborough County Primary School, Datchworth JMI School, Ware Girls' Grammar School, Mid-Herts College of Further Education, The Open University, St Albans School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
Awards and appointments
Appointed director and trustee of Bankside Gallery, 2009
Awarded Fenton Arts Trust Prize, 2009
Appointed Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2009
Appointed Visiting Research Associate, University of Hertfordshire, 2009
Appointed post-doctoral researcher for R2P team (non-traditional knowledge and communication in research) 2008
Awarded The Chancellor's Medal for outstanding doctoral research by the University of Hertfordshire, 2008
Awarded PhD by the University of Hertfordshire - Title of thesis: Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical appraisal for contemporary art practice, 2008
Awarded The Gwen May Award from The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2004
Awarded MA(Research) Fine Art, 2004
Awarded BA(Hons) Fine Art, 2002
Work in collections:
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; various private collections
Publications:
'Bren Unwin', in: Anthony Dyson, 2009. Printmakers' Secrets, London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd., pp.136-137. ISBN 978 0 7136 8911 2
‘Bren Unwin’ in: Charles Baile de Laperrière (ed.) 2008. Who’s Who in Art, London: Hilmarton Manor Press, p.1011. ISBN 978 0 904722 42 0
‘Bren Unwin’ in: Anne Desmet, Anthony Dyson (eds.) 2006. Printmakers: the directory, London:
A & C Black Publishers Ltd., p128. ISBN 10 0 7136 7387 7
Bren Unwin, (Exhibition catalogue) University of Hertfordshire, 2004. ISBN 1 898543 860
Papers:
2010, Dr Bren Unwin: Landscape, phenomenology and contemporary art practice, PLaCE/LAND2 Visiting speaker series, University of the West of England
2009, Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical appraisal for contemporary art practice, Living Landscapes – Performance, Landscape and Environment AHRC Programme Conference, Aberystwyth University
2007, Phenomenology and landscape experience: a critical examination of its representation in visual art practice, SSAHRI conference, University of Hertfordshire
2006, Sticky praxis: technology as the ‘glue’ between experience and visual representation, ‘Sensuous Knowledge 3’, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Societies:
Member of The Newlyn Society of Artists
Fellow, and council member, of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
Statement:
I am interested in relationships that exist between an active perceiver and their environment. Materials, actions and ideas are explored in association with the dynamic and mediated character of experience.
Selected Exhibitions:
2010 (September 4th - 17th) 'Origin of Colour: Fabric of the Land', Geology and Petroleum Geology Dept., University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2010 (September 16th - October 15th), Penang International Print Exhibition, Penang State Museum and Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia
2010 Off the Wall: Summer at Bankside, Bankside Gallery, London
2010 (December - January) Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2010 (June) ART75, Jubilee Pool, Penzance, Cornwall
2010 The Royal Society of Painter-printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2009/2010 'Double Vision', The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2009 IMPACT international multi-disciplinary printmaking conference, University of the West of England, Bristol
2009 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2009 'A Cornish Perspective', The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2009 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London
2009 ‘PRESS II’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2008 ‘Bren Unwin’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2008 ‘Summer in the City’, Bankside Gallery, London
2008 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery,
London
2008 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London
2008 Rahimtulla Gallery, RaMoMa Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi
2008 PRESS, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2007 ‘Lineage’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2007 ‘My Cornwall’, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2007 ‘A leaf from a sketchbook’, Bankside Gallery, London
2007 ‘Unquiet Earth’, The Newlyn Society of Artists in St Ives, Cornwall
2007 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2007 Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2007 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2007 Bankside Gallery, London
2006 The Newlyn Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Penzance, Cornwall
2006 ‘Inside outside’, Bankside Gallery, London
2006 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery,
London
2006 ‘Originals 06’, The Mall Galleries, London
2005 Gallery Tresco, Christmas exhibition, Tresco, Isles of Scilly
2005 Bren Unwin, ‘North End’, Gallery Tresco, Tresco, Isles of Scilly
2005 The Miniature Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2005 Hertfordshire Open exhibition, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts
2005 'Critic’s Choice', selected by Nicholas Usherwood, The Campden Gallery,
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
2005 'Discerning Eye' exhibition (invited by Joan Bakewell), The Mall Galleries,
London
2005 'Critic’s Choice' (selected by Norbert Lynton), Lemon Street Gallery, Truro,
Cornwall
2005, ‘Bryan Pearce, Breon O’Casey and Bren Unwin’, Newlyn Art Gallery,
Cornwall
2005‘Identity’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2005 ‘Originals 05’, The Mall Galleries, London
2005 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Monmouth
2005 Bankside Gallery, London
2005 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2004/2005 The Penwith Society Winter Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall
2004 Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly
2004 ‘Art off the Wall’, Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London
2004 ‘Little by Little’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2004 ‘Anthony Frost, Anja Percival and Bren Unwin’, The Great Atlantic
Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2004 'Adams and Unwin', University of Hertfordshire Gallery
2004 The Penwith Society Summer Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall
2004 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside
Gallery, London
2004 ‘Critic’s Choice', Selected by John Russell-Taylor, Newlyn Art
Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2004 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2004 ‘Identity’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2004 ‘Here Comes the Sun’, touring exhibition by The Great Atlantic
Map Works Gallery in association with Falmouth Arts Centre
2003 ‘Weather Report 2’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2003 ‘Critic’s Choice’, Selected by Joan Bakewell, Newlyn Art Gallery,
Newlyn, Cornwall
2003 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk
2003 Bren Unwin, ‘Intimate Landscape’, The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just,
Cornwall
2002 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2002 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2002 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk
2001 Hertfordshire Open Exhibition, Margaret Harvey Gallery Exhibition, St
Albans, Herts
2001 The Great Atlantic Gallery, Market Square, St Just, Cornwall
2001 Net loft Gallery Boxing Day Exhibition, Porthleven, Cornwall
2001 The Great Atlantic Print Exhibition, St Just, Cornwall
2001 The Place, Letchworth, Herts (Joint exhibition with John Adams)
2001 The Contemporary Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk
2001 The Penwith Society Summer Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall
2001 The Net loft Gallery, Porthleven, Cornwall (Joint exhibition with
Michael Wright)
2001 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2000 Bren Unwin, ‘Silent Vigil’ The Net loft Gallery, Porthleven, Cornwall
2000 Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts
2000 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
2000 University of Hertfordshire Winter Exhibition, Hatfield, Herts
2000 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1999 Out of The Blue Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
1999 The Roundhouse Gallery, Sennen, Cornwall
1999 The Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall
1999 Porthcurno Gallery, Porthcurno, Cornwall
1999 Geevor Sculpture Park and gallery, Pendeen, Cornwall
1999 The Maltings Gallery, Wheathampstead, Herts (Joint exhibition
with John Adams)