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Shaun Belcher
About
Painter, poet, dead country star
- Location
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.shaunbelcher.com
Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design - Genius and part-time lecturer in that order...
Born Oxford, England, 1959
Oxford Polytechnic Foundation Art & Design 1977-1978
Hornsey College of Art : B.A. Fine Art 1978-1981.
Derby University Postgrad. Cert. in Arts Practice 2007-2008
Nottingham trent University M.A. RPT Multimedia P/T 2010 -
Had series of successful London painting exhibitions through 1980's and art used on record sleeves for WEA Records and Creation Records.
Moved back to Oxfordshire 1989 -1992 and worked in downland to create the 'Chalk Downs ' set of drawings.
Exhibited at The Rocket Press in 1991 alongside Ray Howard Jones, Robin Tanner and Edward Bawden
(Rocket Press now Rocket Gallery, London).
Moved to Edinburgh 1994 and created McThistle' suite of etchings at Edinburgh College of Art 1994-5.
Moved to Nottingham U.K. 2002
Trained as teacher at Nottingham University (P.G.C.C.E) 2004
Currently living in Nottingham and a Practicing Artist and part-time multimedia lecturer at Trent University.
Also a published poet
www.shaunbelcher.com/writing
and performing songwriter
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
Art: The Public is not Invited
By mark patterson
PAUL Matosic's selection criteria for the art in the new exhibition he's curated were unambiguous, to say the least. "I said I wanted art that was contentious, would touch on political hot potatoes and might upset your grandmother," he says.
The resulting exhibition of work by 26 artists includes a film of a man eating raw fish, a high quality digital print of an open-legged woman with a doll's head, a carousel of deformed baby dolls and a fair amount of anti-corporate, anti-art establishment text and imagery that uses bad language.
Along with some subversive ceramics and anti-war photomontages, you get a show which is certainly busy, lively and politically relevant – but would it upset anybody's grandmother?
Matosic, a well-known sculptor and installation artist from Nottingham, says his original motivation was to put together an exhibition that provides an 'ironic' comment on the current cuts in arts funding.
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But at the beating heart of this show there is a parallel unwritten statement about art itself: that art, when it is at its best, is about the conviction of vision, the passion of creativity and a screaming rage at the status quo…and has nothing to do with Arts Council calibrations of public engagement, economic impact or measurements of gallery footfall.
Is anybody going to be upset by this exhibition?
True, parents might want to shield young children from the bad language and steer them away from one or two images, but any grandmothers who run out into the streets of Hyson Green or Basford shrieking in terror would have to be abnormally narrow-minded.
The largest amount of floor space here goes to Matosic's own installation 'You Will Never Walk Alone', composed of hundreds of pairs of used shoes that have been donated to the charity Planet Aid UK (and which will be returned to the charity after the exhibition has finished).
Matosic has long used discarded consumer items in his work and here there is poignant observation on both the sheer quantity of stuff we throw away and how that stuff connects back to our individual tastes and desires.
Other immediate eye-catching artworks include Carrie Reichardt's 'renegade ceramics', featuring tea plates redecorated with lines such as I Love Satan and Fascist State; Shaun Belcher's angry rants against the art world establishment; and Adam Stockman's slightly disturbing digital print Carry With Both Hands, which portrays a woman in pornographic pose with a Victorian doll's head, against a background of crushed cardboard boxes. This isn't something you are likely to see across town at Nottingham Contemporary.
Likewise an anti-Iraq war installation titled 'D.U. (a nuisance for industry)', which is made up of dangling babies (dolls) which look as if they have been skinned and burned.
The D.U. stands for Depleted Uranium while the interpretative sign refers to the high proportion of deformed babies born in Fallujah.
A more 'fine art' statement comes from Tom Venner Woodcock's large woodcut The Battle of St Margaret Street, which takes the triptych The Battle of San Romano by Uccello and replaces its battling Renaissance soldiers with modern art students in Birmingham victoriously combating businessmen.
This is a show which essentially rages against members of the latter group, and of course they are most unlikely to beat a path to see it.
The Public Is Not Invited is at The Nottingham Workshop next to the former Noel Street baths at 247, Noel Street, until December 4
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Exhibitions
2010 November 26 - December 3rd Group Show Nottingham 'The Public is Not Invited'
2008 July 17 – 20, Group show ‘Penned’ Artscape,Baltimore U.S.A.
in the Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art
2008 July – Moogee the Art Dog at Goldfactory Contemporary, Nottingham
2008 May – Lincoln Collection ‘Connect’ group show
2008 April – ‘Drawing Out’ staff group show Nottingham Trent University
2007 Lady Bay, Nottingham, Arts & Gardens Festival
2006 ‘TYPO’ Group Show Gold Factory @ New College Nottingham (Curator)
2006 ‘Paint & Print’ Show Harding House Gallery Lincoln
2005 Egerton Studio Group, Nottingham, Open Studios
2004 Egerton Studio Group, Nottingham, Open Studios
2003 Lady Bay Open Studios, Nottingham
1999 3-Jay Group Show,Christchurch College, Oxford Artweek.
1992 ‘Tems’ Group Show,Bampton Town Hall, Oxon.
1992 Friend’s Meeting House , Banbury
1991 Rocket Press, Blewbury, Oxon.
1989 Pyramid Arts, Dalston, London.
1988 Drawings with Martin Jolly. Square Gallery, Highgate, London.
1988 Solo show. Square Gallery, Highgate, London.
1987 12 Young Artists. Square Gallery, Highgate, London.
1986 Hornsey Library, London
1985 Actors Institute Islington, London … Read More
