BREN UNWIN
EXHIBITIONS 2019
RE Original Prints 2019, Bankside Gallery, London
The Mini Picture Show 2019, Bankside Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London
Bankside Summer Exhibition, 15 August - 15 September, Bankside Gallery, London
National Original Print Exhibition 2019, 18 - 29 September, Bankside Gallery, London
Dr Bren Unwin PhD, MA (Research), BA (Hons.), PPRE, Hon.RWS, NSA
Bren Unwin is an artist-printmaker and Past President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE). Her work is held in national and international collections, including The British Museum, London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and The Royal Collection of Her Majesty the Queen.
APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
2011 Elected President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2009 Awarded Fenton Arts Prize
2004 Awarded the Gwen May Student Prize by Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2004 Awarded MA (research) Fine Art by University of Hertfordshire
2003 Elected Fellow of Newlyn Society of Artists
2002 Awarded BA(Hons) Fine Art by University of Hertfordshire
Statement
I am interested in relationships that exist between an active perceiver and their dynamic environment. Materials, actions and ideas are explored in association with the mediated character of experience.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Masters: Screen and Stone, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2019 The Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Cambridge Print Biennale, The Pitt Building, Cambridge
2018 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2018 IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain
2018 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2018 The Masters Screen and Stone, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 The Burton Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
2018 'Off The Wall', Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Chapel Arts, Cheltenham
2018 RE Summer show, ‘For Arts Sake’, Ealing, London
2018 RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Print REbels, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2017 ‘Off the Wall’, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 ‘The Masters: Monoprint’, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 Shakespeare: A Celebration, RWS & RE Collaborative at California Lutheran University
2017 RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2016 ‘The Masters: Intaglio’, Bankside Gallery, London
2016 Mini-print Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
2016 RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London
2016 Cambridge Original Printmaking Biennale, The Pitt Building, Cambridge
2016 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2015 ‘The Masters: Relief’ Bankside Gallery, London
2015 National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2015 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2014 RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London
2014 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2013 'Works on Paper', Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2013 'A Lasting Impression', The Mariners' Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2013 'Impressit', University of Central Lancashire at Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
2013 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2013 'The Sketchbook Show, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2013 'Reigning Cats and Dogs', The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2012 Bankside Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2012 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Summer Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2012 'Fabric of the Land', The Lang Byre Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2012 8th British International Mini Print Exhibition, London Print Studio, London W10 (then various locations)
2012 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2012 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012 'Ian Brown and Bren Unwin - Layer' Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2011 The Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2011 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Summer Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2011 'Uncharted Landscapes', Newlyn Society of Artists, St Ives Society of Artists Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2011 Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, Devon
2011 PRINT!, Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2011 The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2011 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2010 'Origin of Colour: Fabric of the Land', Geology and Petroleum Geology Dept., University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2010 Penang International Print Exhibition, Penang State Museum and Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia
2010 Off the Wall: Summer at Bankside, Bankside Gallery, London
2010 'Bren Unwin: Dog in the Attic' Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2010 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 of Art, London
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 of Art, London
2008 Rahimtulla Gallery, RaMoMa Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi
2008 PRESS, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2009 ‘PRESS II’, 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
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 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, 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)
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