Summary of exhibitions and publications
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Summary of exhibitions and publications |
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Jeffrey Dennis was born in Colchester, England, 1958 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 1976 - 80. He lives in London. His paintings embed glimpses of contemporary urban life within landscapes of processed peas, rotting fruit, Victorian wallpaper designs and, more recently, the 'bubblescape': an organic matrix which seems to offer the potential for continual mutation and evolution.
His work was recently
selected for Eastinternational
2007 at
Norwich and his most recent solo exhibition was at Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London, in Autumn 2008.
His work has appeared three times in the John Moores Exhibition
of British Painting, at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (in
1999, 1997 and 1993), and featured in the
British Art Show 3, 1990. He has been exhibited internationally
since 1979, including regular shows at Salvatore Ala in Milan and New York from 1984 to 1993,
solo shows in London at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1986 and Anderson O'Day in 1994 and New Voices, an exhibition of new contemporary British
artists that toured worldwide 1991-7. His work was included in
Secret Victorians, a exhibition touring UK and USA 1998
-2001, which examined how Victorian ideas have influenced artists
working today. In 2000 he was commissioned to make new work for
the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, as part of the exhibition as it is.
He was a nominated
artist for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation New Visual Arts Awards in
1998.
His paintings are in the collections of the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the British Standards Institution, the
Department of Trade & Industry, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, Leeds City Art Gallery,
Leicestershire Education Authority, the Saatchi Collection, the
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery,
the Tate, Unilever plc as well as private collections in
UK, Europe and USA
He was a tutor in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, 1991-7, and is currently a part-time Senior Lecturer on the BA Fine Art Course at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London.
Further reading:
Art Forum October 2003 review by Barry Schwabsky
the Independent
July 15 2003 review by Sue Hubbard
Art in America June 1994 review by Debra Bricker Balken
Jeffrey Dennis
Extracts from the Log pub. Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London 2008;
text by David Ben White & Jeffrey Dennis ISBN 978-0-9558723-2-7
Short Stories about Painting pub. Michael Richardson
Contemporary Art, London 2005
edited by Jeffrey Dennis (book and DVD) ISBN 0-9549623-2-X
Coloured Dirt: a story from the book, reproduced in New Statesman
Sept 12 2005
Jeffrey Dennis: A Crisis of Connections pub. Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London 2003
essay by Martin Holman ISBN 0-9528502-4-9
Something in the Air (pp 342-6): Inclinations: Further Writings and interviews
by Stuart Morgan: edited by Ian Hunt
published by Frieze (Durian Publications Ltd) 2006 ISBN 0-95274148-2
as it is: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2000
text by Claire Doherty/Michael Prior/Jonathan Watkins (pp42-45)
ISBN 0-907594-68-9
The Saatchi Gift to the Arts Council Collection: Hayward Gallery Publishing,
2000
text by Ann Jones, Julia Risness & Isobel Johnstone
(alphabetical entries) ISBN 1-85332-207-5
Secret Victorians: Hayward Gallery Publishing
text by Melissa Feldman & Ingrid Schaffner (pp20/22/23) ISBN
1-85332-186-9
John Moores Exhibition 21: National Museums & Galleries
on Merseyside, 1999(pp56/7) ISBN 1-902700-05-8
'Jeffrey Dennis' Martin Holman the London Magazine February 1995
Jeffrey Dennis - Paintings: pub. Orchard Gallery, Derry,
Northern Ireland 1993
text by Stuart Morgan ISBN 0-907797-73-3
Jeffrey Dennis: Paintings: pub Salvatore Ala 1988
text by Tony Godfrey
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