Richard Kenton Webb MA (RCA, Painting) www.richardkentonwebb.art

M: 07808 819585 |L: 01285 651790 |E: [email protected] education

1983-86: MA (Painting), Royal College of Art, London

1978-82: BA Hons (Fine Art), Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London

1977-78: Foundation, Chelsea School of Art, London teaching

2014 to date: Programme Leader, Drawing & Print BA, University of the West of England, Bristol (f/t)

2014-16: Programme Leader, Drawing & Applied Arts BA, University of the West of England, Bristol (f/t)

2005-13: Senior Lecturer, Drawing & Applied Arts BA, University of the West of England, Bristol (f/t)

2003-05: Visiting Lecturer, Drawing & Applied Arts BA and Foundation, University of the West of England

2003-05: Visiting Lecturer, the Royal Drawing School, London (postgraduate)

2000-05: Visiting Lecturer, Foundation and Postgraduate, the Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

1999: Visiting artist in residence, BA and MA Fine Art, SACI, Florence (f/t for four months)

1998-2005: Visiting Tutor, artists’ co-op, Mauritius

1995-2013: Director, owner and tutor: Colour in the Cotswolds (seven courses a year: weekend, four-day and one-week)

1993-95: Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art BA, University of the West of England

1990-2005: Visiting Tutor, Arts en Provence

1989-2005: Visiting Lecturer, BA and Summer School, Slade School of Fine Art, London

1989-2000: Visiting Tutor, West Dean College, Sussex

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1987-95: Visiting Lecturer, Foundation, Byam Shaw School of Art, London

1986-1995: Visiting Tutor, Earnley Concourse, Sussex

1986-1989: Part time tutor, Stroud School of Art

1986-87: Fellowship, Fine Art (BA Hons), Cheltenham Art School

The above teaching involved creating, writing and delivering structured workshops, lectures and one-to-one tutorials on drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, colour and art history. residencies and scholarships

2020: Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, USA

2018: Tao Hua Tan Painting Residency, China

2015: LARQ Residency, Tasmania, Australia

2014: LARQ Residency, Tasmania, Australia

1999: SACI International, Florence, Italy

1988: St Stephen’s House, Oxford

1986: Cheltenham Fellowship, Cheltenham Art School

1985: Cité International des Arts, Paris

1983: Boise Travelling Scholarship, British School, Rome solo exhibitions

2015: Landscape is a Conversation, LARQ Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania

Drawings & Prints, Slade Gallery, London

2014: Still Life with Blackbirds, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

Thoughts in Search of a Thinker, LARQ Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania

New work, Celia Lendis Contemporary, Moreton-in- Marsh, Gloucestershire

2011: Orangeness, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

2009: Redness, The F Gallery, University of the West of England, Bristol

2005: The Chapel Gallery, Cheltenham 2

2005: A Colour Grammar, Slade Gallery, London

2000: The Colour of God, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield

1999: SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy

1998: Revival Paintings, Slade Gallery, London

Twelve Jewels, Kirkjulakjarkot, Iceland

1994: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1992: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1989: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1987: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London selected group exhibitions

2020: Recent work: John France and Richard Kenton Webb, curated by Jan-Phillipp Fruehsorge, Despalles éditions, Galerie Pact, Paris

Drawing Now 2020, 14th Contemporary Drawing Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris

2019: Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

Seer: European Painting and Drawing, Galleria Punto, Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design, Tokyo, Japan

Emergence: Art and the Incarnation of Space, the Martin Museum of Art, Baylor, Texas, USA

2018: Tao Hua Tan Painters, Hefei Modern Art, China

Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

2017: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Onderder Toren, Hasselt, Belgium

Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

Go the Distance, Kooi Space, PMX, Hasselt, Belgium

Nine Painters, curated by Dr Richard Davey, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, touring Japan

Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

2016: John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 3

Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

2015: Cotswold Open Studios, Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester

Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, touring Japan

Mini Print, Arnolfini, Bristol

2014: The LARQ Effect, Gallery Ten, Hobart, Tasmania

Mini Print, Blackwells, Bristol

2013: Annual Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

The Language of Paint, two-person show with Iain Andrews, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School

Hidden Treasures, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

Guanlan International Print Biennial, China

2012: Winter show, Celia Lendis Contemporary, Moreton-in- Marsh

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

BITE: Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries

The Open West, Gloucester Cathedral

2011: Winter Show, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

Royal West of England Autumn Show, Bristol

Insights – British Art Today, Museum Oberműnster, Ratisbon, Regensburg

The Nature of Landscape III, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

2010: The Origin of Colour: Fabric of the Land, Geology and Petroleum Department, University of Aberdeen

The Nature of Landscape II, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

The Nature of Landscape I, East Loust Gallery, Grimsby

2009: The Nature of Landscape I, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

IMPACT 6: International Multi-disciplinary printmaking conference, Bristol

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Drawing and Printmaking, Chapel Row Gallery, Bath

2008: Figuring Light: Colour and the Intangible, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham. Premiere of Redness, composed by Alexandra Harwood and performed by Onyx Brass Quintet

Mini Print, Blackwells, Bristol

2007: Wall of Statements, Istanbul, Enschede, Bristol, Braumschweig, Wroclaw, Aberdeen, Munster, Strasbourgh, Cork

2006: Looking Back – Looking Forward, Six Chapel Row, Bath

Mini Print, Blackwells, Bristol

2004: Hybrid, Artspace, Imperial College, London

Slade Tutors, Slade School of Fine Art, London

Colloquy, University of Loughborough

2003: Heartworks, Six Chapel Row, Bath

2002: Music, Sherborne House, Dorset

2001: Six Abstract Painters, Six Chapel Row, Bath

2000: Stations – the New Sacred Art, Bury St Edmunds

1999: Grove Contemporary Arts, Shrewsbury

The Light of the World, Edinburgh City Art Gallery

Six Chapel Row, Bath

History Makers, St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast

Leith School of Art, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

1997: Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland

1996: Raising the Spirits, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School

1994: Beardsmore Gallery, London

1993: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1992: Art Parcels to Jeffrey Archer – Thirty Artists, Frost and Reed, London

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Collector’s Choice: Seven Artists, Bristol City Art Gallery

1991: Images of Christ, Albemarle Gallery, London

Modern Painters, Manchester City Art Gallery

1990: New Icons, Warwick, Exeter and Lincoln

A Tribute to Peter Fuller, Beaux Arts, Bath

Works on paper, Benjamin Rhodes, London

1989: Guardian Gallery, Bristol

1988: Humberside Printmaking Open

1987: Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London stained glass commissions

1992: SS Philip and James, Leckhampton, Cheltenham

1993: St Michael and all Angels, Eastington, Stroud papers and lectures by

Webb, R., ‘Intersemiotic Milton’, A Contemporary Artist’s Response to the Synergies of Drawing and Painting in Paradise Lost, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020

Webb, R., Light / Dark Contrast: Contemporary Drawings Inspired by Paradise Lost (British Milton Seminar, Birmingham University, 2019)

Lectures and workshops on colour, drawing and Milton (Baylor University, Texas, USA, 2019)

Artspeak / Artwork Project, (Cleethorpes, 2016) collaboration of lectures, workshops and symposium with artist Jeremy Gardiner

Summer School, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2015

Ten-Day Festival, Tasmania, 2015 (led three artist panels at Launcerton, Bernie and Hobart)

Keynote lecture, School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2014

Reardon, J. and Webb, R., ‘Still Life with Blackbirds, Collaboration: Art and Fiction’, National Association of Writers in Education, Annual Conference, Stratford Manor, 2016

Webb, R. and J. Reardon, ‘Still Life with Blackbirds’, Oxford, Artists’ Choice Editions, 2016

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Webb, R., ‘Drawing as a Way of Thinking’, Richard Kenton Webb: The Landscape as Discourse, Queenstown, Landscape Art Research, 2015, pp.10-31

Webb, R., ‘Lost in Translation, the Nature of Pigmented Colour’, Colour: Design and Creativity, London: Society of Dyers and Colourists, 2011

Webb, R., ‘Experiencing Colour as Paint – towards a grammar of colour’, New Perspectives on the Humanities, Kaleidoscope Colour Conference, Warwick, University of Warwick, 2011

Webb, R., ‘The Nature of Seeing’, The Nature of Landscape: Visions and Distillations of Landscape and Place, Grimsby: Art Abbey Publications, 2010, pp.87-97

Webb, R., ‘The Nature of the Game being Played’, The Nature of Landscape: Visions and Distillations of Landscape and Place, Grimsby: Art Abbey Publications, 2010, pp.63-73

Webb, R., ‘The Boundary in Drawing’, Marking Space, Swansea Metropolitan University, 2009, pp.54-57 recent publications about

Davey, R., ‘Richard Kenton Webb’, Emergence: Art and the Incarnation of Space, Waco, Martin Museum of Art, 2019, pp.64-67

Davey, R., ‘Richard Kenton Webb’, John Moores Painting Prize 2016, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 2016

Arnold, R., ‘Facts becoming Art through…’, The Landscape as Discourse, Queenstown, LARQ, 2015, pp.2-3

Davis, J., ‘A Beautiful Process... The Bion Factor’, The Landscape as Discourse, Queenstown, LARQ, 2015, pp.4-8

Wray McCann, R., ‘The Colour of Wind’, The Landscape as Discourse, Queenstown, LARQ, 2015, pp.32-35

Lendis, C., ‘The Pure Vision of Richard Kenton Webb’, Colour Forms, Moreton-in-Marsh, Celia Lendis Galleries, 2014, pp.2-3

Bizony, P., ‘Landscapes of the Imagination’, Colour Forms, Moreton- in-Marsh, Celia Lendis Galleries, 2014, pp.8-9

Davey, R., ‘Between Creation and Dissolution’, Colour Forms, Moreton-in-Marsh, Celia Lendis Galleries, 2014, p12

Reardon, J., ‘Listen’, Colour Forms, Moreton-in-Marsh, Celia Lendis Galleries, 2014, p15

Power, D., ‘The Sound of Colour’, The Nature of Landscape, Grimsby, Abbey Walk Gallery, 2010, pp.77-83

Davey, R., ‘Figuring Light: Colour and the Intangible’, Colour Conversations, Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery, 2010, pp.40-49 7

Mayfield, S., ‘Exploring Prayer’, Oxford, Lion, 2007, p121

Fuller, P., edited and with an introduction by John McDonald, ‘Peter Fuller’s Modern Painters’, Reflections on Modern Art, London, Methuen, 1993, p33 film and audio-visual

Parkinson, A., ‘Nine Painters, Syson Gallery, Nottingham’, [web blog], 26 April 2017, https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/tag/richard-kenton-webb/

Webb, R., ‘Drawing as a way of Thinking’, [podcast], 27 October 2016, https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/drawing-as-a-way-of- thinking/

Webb, R., ‘The Artist’s Vlog: Richard Kenton Webb’, [26 podcasts], 2014-15, YouTube

‘Richard Kenton Webb Colour Forms’ [online video], 2013, dir. Christian Barnett, YouTube collections

Arthur Anderson and Co; Stanhope Properties plc; Unilever; Norkem; Museum Oberműnster, Regensburg; and private collections in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Mauritius, the UK and the USA.

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