MR ROBERT WARD
NOTTINGHAM UK
Date of Birth: 13.09.49
Married with three children
Education
1969-73 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
BA(Hons) Fine Art
1973-75 University of Reading
MFA
1975-76 Greek Government Scholarship, Athens Ecole des Kalon Technon
Academia di Bella Arti, Roma (Italian Gov. Scholarship)
Awards
1976 Northern Arts Awards
1982 Northern Arts Awards
1983 Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest
1985 Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts Award
1989 Artist in Residence, Leeds City Arts Gallery
1990 British Council Grant
1991 Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest
1994 Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Award
1995 Artist in Residence - Schmidt Centre for Art, Florida Atlantic University
1995 British Council Travel Grant
1999 Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds Travel Grant
Teaching
1973-74 Tutor, University of Reading
1974-77 Chelsea School of Art
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1977-82 University of Newcastle, NSW,Australia
Programme Co-ordinator, Sculpture
1982-87 Senior Lecturer in Sculpture
Humberside Polytechnic
1987-89 Senior Lecturer in Art and Design
West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education
1989-94 Senior Lecturer, Head of Sculpture
Bretton Hall University of Leeds
1994-2001 Principal Lecturer
Head of Centre of Sculpture
Bretton Hall University of Leeds
2001- Head of Centre for Sculpture, University of Leeds, Bretton Hall
1977-2002 Visiting Lecturer
Norwich School of Art
Liverpool Polytechnic
Newcastle Polytechnic
Brighton Polytechnic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Falmouth School of Art
Sydney College of Arts, University of New South Wales
Royal College of Art
Visiting Professor
University of Newcastle N.S.W. Australia
Florida Atlantic University
University of Edmonton, Canada
One Man Exhibitions
1969 Hatton Gallery – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1975 British Council Gallery – Athens
1976 Hatton Gallery – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1977 Coventry Gallery – Sydney
1978 These Foolish Things
Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
1978 The Sculpture Centre – Sydney
1980 Places, Paths and Mountains
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1983 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
Ceolfrith Gallery
Sunderland
County Durham
1985 Gone Fishin’
Posterngate Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull and Polytechnic Gallery,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1989 Drawings 1977-1987 and Epiphany Drawings and Sculpture
1988 –89 The Henry Moore Centre for the study of Sculpture,
Leeds
(first retrospective)
Publication
1990 Kimberlin Gallery, Leicester
1990 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1991 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1991 Ldee Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1994 ‘Crimsworth’ Installation
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery
Music by Bill Nelson
Publication
1995 ‘Conventions, Objects and Fields’
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Perth, Western Australia
Publication
1995 Schmidt Centre Gallery
Florida Atlantic University, U.S.A.
1997 ‘Tracing’
Mark Widdup Fine Art
Newcastle, NSW Australia
1998 ‘Crimsworth’ Drawings
Galleri II Salto del Salmone
Turin, Italy
Publication
1998 ‘Songs’ – 14 bronze sculptures
Usdan Gallery, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Publication
2000 ‘Six Memoes for the next millennium’
Chiesa di St Agostina
Bergamo,Italy,
Publication
2004 ‘Patterns’
Stephen Lacey Gallery
London
Villa Grugliasco
Parco Culturale Le Serre
Grugliasco
Torino
Italy
Stadt Museums Werwaltung
Waiblingen
Germany
Publication
Group Exhibitions
1973 Young Contemporaries – London, Camden Arts Centre
1974 Reading Museum and Art Gallery
1975 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale – Middlesborough
Publication
1977 Sydney Biennale
Publication
1978 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Mildura
Publication
1979 8 x 2 x 3 Sculpture Drawings
Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
1981 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1983 Northern Open-Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Publication
1983 Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptor’s Drawings
1882-1982
Ceofrith Gallery and the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of
Sculpture, Leeds
Publication
1984 Hull Artist’s Association, Kingston-upon-Hull
1986 Hull Sculpture
Fernes Arts Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1986 Athena Art Awards, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Publication
1991 Redfern Gallery
Summer Show, London
2000 De Saumerez Manor – Jersey
Summer Exhibition
2001 Concepts for New Sculpture, Sculpture at Goodwood
Publication
2002 Drawings and Paintings, Witney Baldwin Interiors, Palm Beach,
Florida, USA
2002 Blue – Place Art Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Publication
2002 21st Century British Sculpture, Guggenheim Museum, Venice,
Italy,
Publication
2002 British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Notts. Exhibition of
Competition Entries
2002 ‘Solid State’ Contemporary British Stone Carving, Burghley
Sculpture Garden, Stamford, Lincs
Publication
2003 BLOK, Canterbury Festival of Sculpture.
2003 Form and Content in British Sculpture, Villa Gruliasco, Parco
Culturale La Serre, Gruliasco, Turin
2004 International Sculpture Exhibition, Castello di Aglie, Italy
Commissions
1991 Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture
Permanent sitting of ‘Epiphany’
1991 Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
Residency and Installation of - Tall Poppies
1992 ICI Huddersfield, UK, Installation of ‘Building Bridges’
1994 Tall Poppies
Installation and siting
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2000 Guilin, China, Installation of ‘Philosophical Sculpture’
2000 Installation of ‘Centurion’, Newcastle Railway Station
2001 Sculpture at Goodwood. Commission to produce ‘Cathedral’
2001 Manor Heath, Halifax, Installation of ‘Poppy’
2001 Arriva, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Installation of ‘Oil Catcher’
2003 Commission to produce ‘Twin Spires’, Calder Park, Wakefield
2004 Commission to produce sculpture for Another Paradise Taiwan,
Collections
Newcastle Regional Gallery
NSW, Australia
Fernes Art Gallery
Kingston-upon-Hull
Henry Moore Centre for Study of Sculpture
Leeds City Art Gallery
Northern Arts
Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculpture
Grizedale Forest
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Arriva – UK
Guilin Yuzi Paradise – China
Private Collections in Australia, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Articles
Rob Ward Dr David Bromfield
1980, Coventry Gallery
Rob Ward Bill Varley
Re: Guardian 1983
Rob Ward Urszula Szulakowska
Artefactum November 1991
Rob Ward Urszula Szulakowska
Recent Paintings Catalogue Introduction 1992
Six Memos Susan Blunt 1993
Visual Poetry Susan Blunt 1992
Feeling after Falling John Penny 1994
Catalogue Notes Exhibition
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Leeds Metropolitan University
Conventions, Objects,
Fields Urszula Szulakowska Exhibitions Catalogue
Schmidt Centre Gallery, Florida Atlantic University,
USA. Published by Stichting Het Grafisch Centrum
Crimsworth Urszula Szulakowska, Catalogue II Salto del Salmone
Published by Making Space
Songs Urszula Szulakowska,
Catalogue Published by Making Space
Six Memos for the Next
Millennium Catalogue Text by Elli Grazioli
Published by Making Space
Sculpture Message John Spurling, The Spectator
Concepts for New Sculpture 2001
Thinking Big 21st Century British Sculpture
Guggenheim Museum, Venice
Articles by Tim Marlow & Rob Mengham
Solid State Contemporary British Stone Carving
BLOK Canterbury Festival of Sculpture
Form and Content in
British Sculpture Catalogue text by Patricia Botallo
Patterns Catalogue text by Cathy Ward
Membership of Professional Organisations
1977 Member Higher Education Board of New South Wales
1983-85 CNAA Panel Member
1987-89 Welsh Advisory Board on Foundation Studies
1993-94 External Assessor
University of Derby
1997 Arts Council Assessor
Combined Arts Unit
1998 External Assessor
University of Sunderland
2000 Associate Member Royal Society of British Sculpture
2000 Elected Fellow Royal Society of Arts
2000 Elected Trustee, Royal Society of British Sculptors
2000 External Examiner, Kent Institute of Art & Design
Conferences
1997 International Sculpture Conference – Chicago
1999 Six Memos for the Next Millennium
1999 International Sculpture Conference, Houston, Texas
2000 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
‘Remix’ featuring Six Memos for the Next Millennium
2000 International Sculpture Symposium, Guilin, China.
Curriculum Vita