| curriculum vitae
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| John Atkin |
John Atkin MA RCA FRBS |
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John Atkin lives and works in SW London. |
Research
| | The role of Public Art in Urban Regeneration |
| | The function of interdisciplinary practice within the built environment |
Publications
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The Navigator, ISBN 0-906688-40-X |
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Scorched Earth, ISBN 1-900856-41-7 |
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Distant Voices, ISBN 1-900856-30-1 |
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Cut, The Made and the Unmade, ISBN 0-9704605-0-3 |
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Cut, ISBN 1 901560 65 1 |
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Sculpture Solutions in Urban Design. ISBN 1.900856.719 |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2008 |
Fillmore Center Plaza public art commission. Collaboration with Sculpturesite Gallery: Axis Architects: Laramar Group. Fillmore Neighbourhood, San Francisco, USA |
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Strange Meeting. Marble & granite, 27 tons. Olympic Park, Beijing. China. |
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Phoenix Parkway. Site-specific gateway feature for historic site, Corby. Collaboration with Wilson Bowden Developers: CORUS: SGP Architects and Masterplanners |
Exhibitions
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The Big Idea. Solo exhibition. Maquettes and models for full-scale public artworks. Albermarle Gallery, London. |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2007 |
The Clicker. Bronze. Commissioned by The Friends of the New Walk through open competition. Research into the British Shoe Industry, focussing primarily on
Leicester. Heritage and global identity of Leicester as the hub of the shoe making
tradition. Collaboration with Munro & Whitten, Landscape Architects |
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Public Art for Beijing Olympics - City Sculpture Proposals. Sculpture competition
and exhibition. Beijing China. ISBN 7-5074-1794-8. (P 89 The Competitor & p 134
Strange Meeting) International competition hosted by The Organizing Committee
of 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs Contest. 2600 sculptors from 86
countries participated in the first round selection. |
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By Hook or by Crook. Public Art Commission. International, industry. Bronze,
concrete, oak and steel. Research project into the heritage and socio-economic
impact of Pierce Engineering, Wexford, Ireland Commissioned by Tesco Ireland for
the site. Collaboration with Murray & Associates, Landscape Architects, Johnstown
Museum (Austen O’ Sullivan, Curator), and Joe Doyle Architects. |
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Plumb Bob. Public Art Commission. Industrial & professional. Collaboration with
Goyne Adams Architects and PRC Architects: Land Registry Building, Bedford Park,
Croydon. Landmark sculpture for new building designed by PRC Architects within
urban development scheme |
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Lead Artist-Kent County Council. Member Champions Group. Local government
project funded through the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Blueprint for sharedspace
Highway scheme. Collaboration, Jacobs and Whitelaw Turkington, (Landscape
Architects), Ashford ring road project. |
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Elected Fellow (Peer assessment), RBS, London |
Exhibitions
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Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs Contest Exhibition. Venue: Beijing Urban
Planning Exhibition Centre. May 10 – September 10, 2006 Group exhibition |
The Imagined and the Real. Group exhibition. Invited artist. Curated by Sonja Kielty,
Museums Officer (Exhibitions), Cartwright Hall. Lister Hall. Bradford. 6/4/07 to
16/9/07 |
| Sculpture by the Sea 2007. 2nd to 19th November. Selected artist. Group exhibition,
one large-scale corten & stainless steel sculpture, “Cut & Run”. Bondi, NSW.
Australia |
Awards
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2007 Landscape Institute Award. Breaking Boundaries, Ashford. Collaboration: Whitelaw Turkington (Landscape Architects) |
| Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs Contest for 2008. Outstanding Award. First
Prize. The Organizing Committee of 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Designs
Contest |
| Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Leave Award (Drawing) October 2007 to June 2008 |
| Kingston Design Review Panel. Member. Professional body of Architects and
Landsape Architects convened to review building design applications in Royal
Borough, Kingston On Thames, K+20 Urban Regeneration scheme |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2006 |
Pound Mill. Site-specific public commission; redevelopment of historical site at the
“Meeting of the “Two Rivers” urban regeneration project, Staines Spellthorne Borough
Council. Local Government |
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Morton Palms. 2nd Phase development for Business Park in Darlington. Organised by
Commissions North, Newcastle upon Tyne. Collaboration with Red Box Design,
Architects and funded by City & Northern (Developers).
http://www.commissionsnorth.org/showcase/portfolio/276 |
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Breaking Boundaries. Lead Artist appointed by Kent County Council to collaborate
with Whitelaw Turkington Architects on urban regeneration project in Ashford Kent.
Works will include developing site sensitive sculpture, paving, seating, features and
other works within the proposed new Elwick Road/West Street district, Ashford.
Completion, July 2008 |
Exhibitions
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Landing Gear. Drawings and Sculptures. The Salon Gallery. RBS. London. July 5th
to September 5th 2006. Organized and curated by Anne Rawcliffe King, Society
Director, RBS. |
Cass Sculpture Foundation; The London Information Centre & Gallery. Two metal
sculptures exhibited as part of a permanent display.
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/London. Concept for a maquette gallery came from the
experience of commissioning large-scale pieces for display at the sculpture estate in
Goodwood in West Sussex. The maquette offers an opportunity to assess a proposal
in small scale and to fine-tune the work prior to fabricating and installing the large-scale
piece. In this sense the Centre functions as a creative laboratory or ‘concept gallery’
where the ideational process of creating sculpture is revealed |
Awards Conferences & Symposiums
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Study Leave Award for February 2006 (One Semester). Research into garment
pattern templates and urban regeneration projects; developing drawings and
sculptures in relation to these research topics. LUSAD, Loughborough University |
| Landing Gear. Open competition organized by the RBS, London, for a site-specific
large-scale sculpture for their forecourt exhibition space, South Kensington, London. |
| Getting Your Costings Right. Keynote Speaker (with Jill Hutchens, Curwen Gallery,
London). RBS, London. November 15th 2006 |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2005 |
NZ323135. 5 meter tall cor ten & stainless steel. Commissioned by City & Northern
(Developers) in collaboration with Red Box Design (Architects), and Wardell
Armstrong, (Landscape Architects): Newcastle upon Tyne in collaboration with Arts
Council, Commissions North. Morton Palms Business Park Development, Darlington,
Co, Durham. Unveiled by Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn MP |
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Bowes Moor. 3-meter tall, wall-based sculpture. Commissioned by Systems
Engineering Innovation Centre, Holywell Park UK. Celebration of collaboration with
B.A.E. and unveiled by Mr. Ron Dennis, C.O.E McLaren/Mercedes |
Conferences
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The Great Artistic Metropolis.
(http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/news/reports/artistic_metropolis.html) Exhibitor and
delegate. 11/10/2005. Oxford House, Bethnal Green Landor conference hosted by Art
& Architecture Journal. Chairs. Chris Smith, The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury and
Michael Da Costa, Architects of Communication. Speakers: Jude Kelly, Artistic
Director, Metal Space & South Bank CentreJonathan Davis, Director of Learning &
Tom Macartney, Chief Executive, Sunderland Arc. Nick Ewbank, Director, The
Creative Foundation, Folkestone. Jochen Gerz, Artist. Francesca Ferguson, Curator
and Journalist, Urban Drift Productions Ltd. Jemima Montagu, Visual Arts Officer
(Public Realm), Arts Council England, London |
| Sculpture & Design: Symposium. Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of
Brighton: Plenary panel member and exhibitor. Supported by the Henry Moore
Foundation. Held at the University of Brighton, the event sought to bring together
academics, curators and practitioners to explore some of the connections between
sculpture and design, addressing aspects of education, authorship, making and
manufacture, display, consumption and critical reception. Organised by Gill Whitely
and Catherine Moriarty. |
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Sculpture & the Urban Environment, Urbanization & its Consequences, 30 min
paper presentation, East West Center, Hawaii. Accepted |
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Life in the Urban Landscape. Life in the Urban Landscape, Full Paper Presentation, “
The Role of Sculpture at the Heart of a Community”, Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden. Accepted. |
Exhibitions
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The Affordable Art Fair. Exhibition of selected artworks by Nigel Messenger, Director,
SOHO Galleries, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia |
Vernissage. Inaugural exhibition of selected artworks for group show at Sculpturesite
Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA. In collaboration with NOMA, New Orleans. |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2004 |
Dal Fabrro’s Chariot. 28 feet tall cor ten & stainless steel sculpture for Beetham
Towers, Liverpool. Sculpture selected as Tate Liverpool’s audit of Public Sculpture,
City of Culture 2008. Commissioned by Beetham Organisation and collaboration with
Carillion PLC, Aedus Architects Ltd and PlanArt Ltd. Beetham Tower, Old Hall Street,
Liverpool, UK. Art & Architecture Journal. |
Exhibitions
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From Another Dimension-Works on Paper by Sculptors. Major survey exhibition of
sculptor’s drawings. Internationally selected artist. One sculpture and one drawing. Coexhibitor
alongside Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Louise Beaugois
etc. NOMA, New Orleans, USA. April 22nd – September 19th. Drawing, “Dal Fabrro’s
Chariot”, 76.2 x 47 cm. Mixed media on ceramic grog on paper, acquired for
Department of Prints & Drawings, NOMA, Permanent Collection. |
American & International Permanent Collection exhibition. NOMA, New Orleans.
One wall based pendulum relief sculpture, Bowes Moor. Co exhibitors include Jasper
Johns, Chuck Close, and Louise Nevelson. 28th October- 14th November. |
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Sentinel. 3.5-meter tall sculpture. Cor ten & stainless steel. Selection via international
jury panel for Sculpture by the Sea. Invited Artist. International Sculpture Exhibition,
Bondi coastline, Sydney, Australia. Sponsored by Kodak, Sydney Water, Waverley
Council, SXS. November 3rd to November 20th. Sculptures Exhibited 112 Artists
submissions received 601 Visitors 400,000 - 450,000 Exhibition Judges Bronwen
Colman, Director, Urban Art Program, Melbourne Docklands and Bert Flugelman,
Sculptor. Invited Artists Professor Sui Jian Guo (China), Frank Raendchen (Germany),
Braddon Snape & Phil Price (New Zealand)Co-Principal Sponsors Sydney Water and
Kodak Significant Partners Transfield, Allens Arthur Robinson, Pilsner Urquell, The
Sydney Morning Herald, Icebergs, Rothschild, Waverley Council Sculpt the Future
$11236.50 was donated from sales made during the exhibition and from Sculpture by
the Sea Inc. Public Sector Funding NSW Ministry for the Arts, Waverley Council,
Australia Council of the Arts |
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Sculpture Inside, SXS Models & Maquette’s. Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney,
Australia. Group exhibition including Jerome Symons, Mitsunori Koike, Miguel Angel
Gualtieri. October 28th to November 14th.
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The Klansman. 4-meter tall steel and glass sculpture. Commissioned by EMAAR for
the Burgh Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E. Financial assistance from Carillion PLC |
Awards Conferences & Symposiums
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Sculpture within the Urban Environment. Conference. Keynote speaker “The First
Ten Years” collaboration with Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK, at the Art Gallery of
NSW, Sydney Australia. |
| SXS, Sydney. Invited Artist. Airfare donated by Qantas |
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England representative. Stone & Steel Sculpture symposium. Dubai. Sponsored by
EMAAR, Air Emirates and Systems Engineering, Dubai |
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From Another Dimension-Works on Paper, in conversation with Dan Piersol, Doris
Zemmuray Stone Curator, Prints and drawings. Lecture to docents and Friends of
NOMA. NOMA, New Orleans, USA |
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Master Class in Drawing for Sculpture. Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School. October
30th to November 1st |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2003 |
The Signaler. 24 feet tall cor ten & stainless steel. Commissioned by Highland
Metrobrook PLC. Collaboration with REID International (Architects): John Rowan &
Partners: The Rushes, Loughborough, UK.
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The Navigator. 18 feet tall cor ten & stainless steel sculpture. Commissioned by
Ipswich Borough Council, The River Action Group, Commissions East, and Arts
Council for Orwell Riverside Development, Ipswich, UK. Local Government and
Ecology interest groups |
Exhibitions
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John Atkin, Sculpture & Drawings. Solo exhibition of drawings and sculptures
relating to the Orwell Riverside Project. Publication launch, “The Navigator”, ISBN 0-
906688-40-X. April 12th to May 25th.
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| 1st Guilin International Sculpture Exhibition, Guilin. China. Competition selection,
juried panel, and sculpture retained for permanent outdoor sculpture collection. 2003
John Atkin and Mark Arctander. Two-person exhibition curated by Crown Center
Gallery, Chicago, Ill. USA. March 17th to April 25th. |
Public Art & Urban Regeneration
| 2002 |
Railway Rumble. A series of internal wall based plaster frieze commissions,
commissioned by Conran & Partners. Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, London |
Exhibitions
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Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture, Guggenheim Museum,
Venice, Italy. Organised by Cass Sculpture Foundation, Curated by Tim Marlowe.
Thinking Big ISBN 0-9537794-3-2. September 6th 2002 to January 15th 2003. Thinking
Big - Concepts for Twenty First Century British Sculpture. Introduction by Thomas
Krens, Director, Soloman R Guggenheim Foundation. Essay, 'Thinking Big' by Tim
Marlowe, Broadcaster and Creative Director for Sculpture at Goodwood. ISBN
09537794-3-2 |
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Concepts for New Sculpture. Group exhibition. Curated by Cass Sculpture
Foundation. Co-exhibitors include, Tony Cragg, Phillip King, Zadok Ben David,
Elizabeth Frink. Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood. June 2nd to August 18th. |
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Reivers - Sculptures & Drawings. Solo exhibition, Kouros Gallery, New York, USA.
July 10th to August 12th |
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Scorched Earth - Drawings and Sculptures, Solo exhibition. Philadelphia Art
Alliance, Philadelphia. November 29th 2001 to January 13th 2002 Supported by Grants
to Artists, British Council. ISBN 1-900856-41-7 |
Awards Conferences & Symposiums
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AHRB. The Machinery of War Industrial Detritus and the Human Condition, Small
Grants in the Performing Arts. Ref B/SG/AN5669/APN14701,
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Cass Sculpture Foundation Award. Cast into bronze two new pieces of sculpture for
Concepts for New Sculpture Exhibition |
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