Dr Bren Unwin

 
  
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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)