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Ian Breakwell    (British, 1943-2005)

 Ian Breakwell - Bored (Paintings) h: 53.5 x w: 53.5 cm / h: 21.1 x w: 21.1 in
Ian Breakwell
Bored 1998-1999
 
 Ian Breakwell - Diagnosis Drawings (lungletters) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.))
Ian Breakwell
Diagnosis Drawings (lungletters) 2005
 
 Ian Breakwell - Diagnosis Drawings (rose) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.))
Ian Breakwell
Diagnosis Drawings (rose) 2004
 
 Ian Breakwell - Maxim (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 52 x w: 37 cm / h: 20.5 x w: 14.6 in
Ian Breakwell
Maxim 2003
 
 Ian Breakwell - Parasite and Host (Photographs)
Ian Breakwell
Parasite and Host 2005
 
 

Biography
1943 Born in Derby, England
1960 - 1964 Derby College of art
1965 West of England College, Bristol
1980 - 1981 Fellowship at Kings College and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
1982 - 1983 John Brinkley Fellowship, Norwich School of Art (ex cat)
1985 Artist in residence with Tyne Tees Television
1991 - 1993 Award for Auditorium (with Ron Geesin)
1991 - 1993 Arts Council New Collaborations Fund, Research and Production
1994 - 1995 Durham Cathedral Artists in Residence
1995 Northern Arts Visual Arts Award
1995 - 1996 ACE New Collaborations Production Award for ‘Bellring’ (with Ron Geesin)
1995 - 1996 Digital Fellowship, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, Newcastle
1996 Northern Arts Broadcasting Award for ‘Bellradio’ (with Ron Geesin)
1996 Visual Artists Initiatives Commission, Sunderland City Arts for ‘The Rose’
1996 - 1997 Henry Moore Fellowship at Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1998 Sci’Art Award, (with Prof. Bernard Moxham), Wellcome Trust
1998 - 1999 Loughborough University School of Art and Design, Drawing Fellowship
2004 - 2007 AHRB Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at the School of Art, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London

Exhibitions
2008 No Letters, Nettie Horn, London (curated by Leigh Clarke)
2008 Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2007 Paulo Post Futurum, Breda Museum, Antwerpen,Breda
2007 Variety, Lokaal 01, Antwerpen, Breda
2007 You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
2006 - 2007 You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2006 Diagnosis, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Art Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
2006 Inner Worlds Outside, touring exhibition, Fundación La Caixa, Madrid
2006 Inner Worlds Outside, touring exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2006 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2006 Darkness, Visible, touring exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery
2006 You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition, The Lowry, Salford
2006 You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition, Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
2006 You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
2006 Darkness, Visible, touring exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery
2006 Très Riches Heures, touring exhibition, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
2006 Très Riches Heures, touring exhibition, Le Blac, Brussels
2006 Très Riches Heures, touring exhibition, Keith Talent Gallery, London
2005 Variety, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea
2005 Truer Than The Truth, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2005 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2004 The Other Side, Tate Britain, London (solo)
2004 Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London
2004 Collage, Bloomberg Space, London
2004 Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London
2004 Stranger than Fiction, City Art Gallery, Leeds (Arts Council touring exhibition) (cat.)
2003 A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London
2003 Radio Radio, The International 3, Manchester
2003 The Word Is, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2003 Deep Faith, 291 Gallery, London
2003 Monk, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
2003 The Other Side, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
2002 Auditorium, Broadway, Nottingham
2000 Bellring, Durham Cathedral
1999 Textworks 1966-1999, Loughborough University Gallery (cat., ed. Colin Rhodes)
1999 Death’s Dance Floor, Street Level Photo Works, Glasgow
1999 From Death’s Dance Floor, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1999 Death’s Dance Floor, Ffotogallery, Cardiff (cat., ed. Chris Coppock)
1998 Drawing across Boundaries, Loughborough University School of Art and Design
1998 The Rose, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Studio 8, Dublin
1996 The Rose, Sunderland City Library and Arts Centre
1996 Free Range, Newcastle College, School of Art and Design
1995 Free Range, survey of Ian Breakwell’s publications 1964-95, Chapter Library, Durham Cathedral (cat.)
1995 The Phantom Matinee, DLI Museum, Durham
1995 Mask to Mask, Reg Vardy Foundation Gallery, Sunderland
1994 Mask to Mask, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1994 Mask to Mask, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1994 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1993 Free Range, Survey of Ian Breakwell’s publications 1964-1993, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (cat.)
1993 Mask to Mask, Oriel and Ffotogallery, Cardiff

Literature
2007 Awayday to Paradise, RGAP, London
2006 The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B; and Other Stories, Serpent's Tail, London
2006 Eliza Williams, 'Ian Breakwell ', Art Monthly, April
2006 David Briers, 'Insignificance ', Art Monthly, April
2005 Clive Phillpot, 'Ian Breakwell 1943- 2005', Art Monthly, Dec- Jan
2005 Tom Lubbock, The joke's on us, apparently, The Independent, November
2004 Noel Sheridan, ‘Ian Breakwell Vocals’, Circa 110, winter 2004
2004 Lyn Gardner, ‘Come dancing’, The Guardian, 7 July
2004 Deborah Orr, ‘Time for British Art to grow up’, 3 July
2004 Tom Lubbock, ‘House and garden’, The Independent, 8 June
2004 Laura Cumming, ‘How to make fissures of men’, The Observer, 9 May
2004 Wealden Arts Review, 23 April
2004 ‘Pavilion film finds fame at the Tate’, Bexhill Observer, 9 April
2003 Sarah Kent, ‘Ian Breakwell’, Time Out, 9-16 July (ill.)
2002 Mike Sperlinger, ‘Dead Pan’, Vertigo, Volume 2, No.3, Summer
2002 Rebecca Rice, ‘You gotta have Faith’, Illusions
2002 Robert Clark, ’Monk’ The Guardian Guide, 6-12 July (ill.)
2002 Dale McFarland, Frieze, May (ill.)
2002 Charlotte Edwards, ArtReview, April (ill.)
2002 Robert Clark, ‘A Missed Connection’, Art Review, March (ill.)
2002 Katy Greaves, ‘Surface tensions’, Blueprint, March (ill.)
2002 Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 16-22 February (ill.)
2001 Derby Days, Published by RGAP
1995 An Actor’s Revenge, BFI Film Classics
1994 Brought to Book, (co-ed with Paul Hammond) Penguin Books
1993 Free Range, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1988 The Artist's Dream, Serpent's Tail, London
1986 Ian Breakwell's Diary 1964-85, Pluto Press, London
1985 The Waiting Room, Matt's Gallery, London
1983 10 Diary Pages 1969-82, silkscreen portfolio, Norwich School of Art
1982 Witness: More Diary Extracts 1976-82, Transformaction Press, Harpford, Devon
1981 5 X 5, An Anthology edited by Asa Benveniste, Trigram Press
1981 Monologues and Dialogues, Carlisle Museum, Carlisle
1981 Dialogues, Audio Arts, London
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