Peter Newell

 

Painter

Barnstaple
Devon
United Kingdom

After leaving the Slade in 1981 I ran a commercial sculpture studio for about twenty years. However in the last four years within my sketchbooks and journals I have generated ideas that have been explored through a large body of work consisting of paintings and drawings embracing a series of personal icons which are then used as compositional devices. This all sounds very dry but the act of painting, in all its forms and the use of colour, has really provided a drive and motivation not felt for some time. I am deliberately avoiding mimesis and implied space and depth, preferring to generate a whole image through the composition of the work on the surface, possibly meaningless to others in terms of personal symbols but hopefully successful on the level that the works are visually stimulating with perhaps some glimmer as to what my starting point was. CURRICULUM VITAE PETER DAVID NEWELL BORN 1948 EDUCATED _ 1965 Toxteth High School, Liverpool 1965 - 1977 Barclays Bank Plc 1977 - 1978 Foundation Art Course North Devon College 1978 - 1981 Exeter College of Art 1981 - 1983 Slade School of Art QUALIFICATIONS and PRIZES Assoc. Institute of bankers Bachelor of Arts Higher Diploma in Fine Art University College London 1981 Sculpture Prize Royal Society of Arts EXHIBITIONS Harrison McCann “Pick of the Bunch” 2nd European Sculpture Biennalle Normandie Ropewalk Gallery, Bideford Spacex Gallery, Exeter Brewhouse, Taunton Winchester St. Gallery, Salisbury Blacksell Gallery, N. Devon College St. Ives Festival NDA Broomhill Gallery, N.Devon The Real Art Gallery,Shrewsbury. Quay Gallery, Appledore. Allessandro Studios Dundee B&WH.Burton Art Gallery, Bideford Quay Gallery Appledore Straw Project Open Studios SW. Open Studios NDA Broomhill Gallery 4th North Devon Arts Exhibition 2006 COMMISIONS 1983 - 2003 1983 Asda Supermarket Sept. Cricket Festival Trophy LWTV Theatre Sculptures Numerous sculptures for architects in the design of theme parks, restaurants, discotheques, industrial parks, including work for Bass, Northern Leisure, First Leisure, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, Rank Leisure, Legoland Windsor, East Devon Coastal Heritage Centre, Holiday Inn Saudi Arabia, Tableau figures for Barnstaple Heritage centre, 3.5 meter wall panel for Chicago Rock Cafes. MEDIA TSW Art film about studio and work 1985 TSW Saturday Club BBC Radio Devon North Devon Journal Western Morning News West Country Hall of Fame 2007 TEACHING Part-time lecturer North Devon College since 1983 Programme Leader North Devon School of Art 2007 Visiting Lecturer Exeter College of Art Gloucester College of Art Slade School of Art