Sculpturesite Gallery

John Atkin

Gyroid Head, 2012

John Atkin

Head of JKA, 2011

John Atkin

North Hush

John Atkin

Whorlton Lido

Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1982 - 1985: Royal College of Art, London, MA in Sculpture. Recipient of Henry Moore Scholarship
1985 - 1986: Picker Fellowship in Sculpture, Kingston University, London, UK
1987: Grizedale Society Fellowship, Cumbria, UK
1988 - 1989: Australia Council & British Council Major Award, Victoria College, Melbourne, Australia. Lecture Tour to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, Australia.
1997 - 2000: Tutor, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2000 - 2006: Programme Leader in Sculpture, Loughborough University, UK
2006 - 2007: Director of Research, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK
2006 - 2012: Reader in Fine Art, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK
2006: Loughborough University, Study Leave Award
2007: Landscape Institute Award, Urban Design and Street Furniture, London, UK
: Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs Contest for 2008, Outstanding Award, The Organizing Committee of 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs Contest, Beijing, China
: Royal British Society of Sculptors, Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Leave Award – Elected Fellow 2007-2008 (Peer Assessment)
2008 - 2009: Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award, Drawing, UK
2008: Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture – Honor Certificate
: Outstanding Award, Chinese Sculpture Institute
: Sculpturesite Award, Public Art and the Public Realm, San Francisco, CA
: Ashford Borough Council Building Design Awards, short-listed for Public Realm
: Winner – Worshipful Company of Paviours
: Winner – Street Design category, The LGN Street Design Awards
: The RTPI Planning Awards, short-listed for National and Regional Awards
: The Brithish Construction Industry Awards, short-listed for Better Building Award
: Winner – Innovation category, The ICE 2009 Engineering Awards (The Brassey Award)
: Winner – Local Authority Regeneration Team of the Year; Highly Commended – Award for the Best Designed Regeneration Development, The Regeneration and Renewal Awards
: Marshalls Award for Public Realm, Ashford, UK
: Highly Commended – Urban Design category, The IHT Awards
: Winner – Best Public Realm category, Sustain Magazine Awards
: Highly Commended – Local Landscape Planning Award, Landscape Institute Awards
: Trustee and Committee Member – Royal Society of British Sculptors
: Elected Member – The Academy of Urbanism
2009: Elected Fellow, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK
: Highly Commended – The Rouse Kent Public Art Award
2010 - 2012: Committee Member, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK
2010: Elected Member, Academy of Urbanism, London, UK
: Winner – Ringing the Changes, The RTPI Planning Awards, Ashford, UK
2011: Honorary Fellow, Academy of Sculpture, Beijing, China
: Honorary Fellowship, National Academy of Sculpture, Beijing, China
: Nanjing Youth Olympic Game Sculpture Planning Committee, Nanjing, China

Exhibitions

2012: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2012
HEADS UP! The Human Head Interpreted by 7 Sculptors, a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
The Art of Sport, Guildford Cathedral, Surrey, London, UK
Precious Light - City of God with Dave Mach, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
Creative Cities, Two-City Exhibition, The Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK/Beijing, China
2011 - 2013: China-Eu Union and the Emperor Qin’s Warriors, touring Exhibition: Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian, China; Shandong Province Art Museum, Jinan, China; Urumqi Art Museum, Urumqi, China; Fujian Art Museum, Fuzhou City, China; Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China; Heilongjiang Art Museum, Harbin City, China; Changshu Art Museum, Jiangsu, China
2011: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2011
Precious Light – City of God, Edinburgh City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Blue Symphony, NanDaiHe, Beijing, China
The 3rd China Changchun, World Sculpture Symposium Exhibition, Changchun, China
Qu Art, UK representative, Belgium
2010: FADA LA Art Fair, with Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2008
The Big Idea, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Hard Bop – Film Preview, Lush Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2007
The Imagined and the Real, Cartwright Hall, Lister Hall, Bradford, UK
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
2006: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2006
Drawings and Sculptures, The Salon Gallery, RBS, London, UK
Cass Sculpture Foundation, The London Information Centre and Gallery, London, UK
2005: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2005
The Affordable Art Fair, SOHO Galleries, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia
Vernissage, Sculpturesite, San Francisco, CA
2004: John Atkin Exhibitions in 2004
From Another Dimension – Works on Paper by Sculptors, Department of Prints and Drawings, New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, LA
American and International Permanent Collection Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, LA
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
EMAAR, Burgh Dubai, U.A.E.