VANILLA
BEER CV
www.vanillabeer.org
1950 Born, July 4th.
(To see 2006 activites, click here). The links below go to specific areas of endeavour, which may or may not be included below.
VANILLA
BEER CV
www.vanillabeer.org
1950 Born, July 4th.
(To see 2006 activites, click here). The links below go to specific areas of endeavour, which may or may not be included below.
1960
Obtained Honours award from Royal Drawing Society.1961 - 1965 St Maurs Convent, Weybridge, Surrey.
Pre-Diploma Course.
1968 Performed at Drury Lane Arts Lab.
1971-1973 Moved to Paris.
Taught drawing at the Sorbonne and at the Cité University for the American Institute for Foriegn Study, (A.I.F.S). Exhibited in a central Paris gallery as stock, also at Arts et Métier, then a small gallery in Les Halles.
1973 Moved to the Forest of Dean in Glousectershire and painted.
Designed colours for local Hells Angels. Directed collaborative mural at Coleford Centre for Unemployed.
Became Art Director for the Theatre Experience (S.E. Arts funded)
1980-1981 Taught art part-time at Newent Comprehensive School, Gloucester
June 1981 Arts Council touring exhibition finishing at ICA, London
1981 Moved to Fulham, London.
1982
Set of 6 postcards designed for the band, “Sneezes in China...”
/ 1983, selected for Summer Show Lyric Theartre, Hammersmith, London
Group show Across the Frontiers, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London.
1983 Book cover commissioned by Mitchell Communications, Canada
1983 touring group show,The Box Train
1983 Solo Show; Stats, touring London Libraries.
September 1983 with Jane Jackson and Roger Kohn, Art Attack, Cuts Gallery, Kensington Church Street, London
September 1983 Solo Show; Centre 181 Gallery, Hammersmith
December
1983 Prize Winner G.L.C Peace Year Exhibition,
Royal Festival Hall, London.
1984 Group show Contemporary Prints, National Theatre, South Bank, London.
1984 Group show , Art and Vision, Westminster Cathedral, London.
April 1984 Christies Contemporaty Art, Marie Jordon Gallery, Yorks.
June/July 1984 Public View with Bernard Heslin, Bert Seaborn and Lettie Bosman
Festival Hall, South Bank, London, for which VB made an 80 ft long installation over the main entrance to the Festival Hall.
April
1984 elected to Fellow of Printmakers
Council.
1984 included in Gallery Artists Art Show, Jerdan Place Gallery, Fulham, London
1984 group show Young Printers, Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, Central London
1984 included in Sheffield Open Art Exhibition, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield.
1984 included in Battersea Open Art Exhibition, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Selected for Present Prints, Bloomsbury Theatre Gallery, London University.
1984 - 1985 Worked on audio-visual projects for Integrated Circles, including commissions for I.B.M. and Woolworths.
January 1985 Lecture at London College of Printing. One-off lectures at other London colleges follow.
1985 group show, The Printed Image, Leighton House, Kensington, London
1985 The Bordeaux Arts Festival, Bordeaux, France.
1985
Artists for Peace, St James, Picadilly, London.
1985 group show of large works; Double Elephant, Concourse Gallery, Barbican, City of London.
1985 selected for Open Drawing Exhibition, White Space Gallery, Islington, London.
1985 invited to show; Souvenir Show, Camerawork, Roman Road, East London.
1985 Selected for Kawagawa exhibition, Japan.
1985
International Contemporary Arts Fair, Olympia (-non
aligned artist, stand 946 – donated by the organisers)
December 1985 solo exhibition ; Golden Jubilee Celebration, De La Warr Pavilion, including 2 tier window installation.
group show; P.M.C. 21st yr exhibition, Festival Hall, South Bank, London.
1986 Group show, Print ’86, Concourse Gallery, Barbican, City of London.
1986 Group show,Print and Text, Garden Gallery, Kew
August 1986 with Bernard Heslin, Open Studio, Altenberg Gardens, Battersea, London.
1986 group show; Portraits of Artists, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
1986 Moved to Woolwich, SE London
Feb 1987 solo show; Leighton House Museum, Kensington, London.
March
1987 with Patrick Cuenot, Oasis, Topsfield Parade, N.London
August 1987 group show, Contemporary International Artists, Queens Gate, London
September 1987 Work appears in ‘Creative Drawing with Pencils,’published by Element.
1988 Part-time teaching at the London College of Furniture.
April 1988 exhibition with Patrick Cuenot, 224a Shaftesbury Ave., London W2
May 1988 Article published in Trade Guild Journal.
July 1988 Group Show, Drawn To Print, Swiss Cottage Library, London.
December 1988 Group Show, Recent Prints, Royal Festival Hall, London.
December 1988 Solo show; New Paintings, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
1989 Design and implementation for ‘Side Effects’, special effects company working for (amoung others) Jeremy Beedle.
1989 Part-time teaching at Adult education classes, Inner London.
1989
Solo Show; Drian Gallery, London W2. Picture sold to Polish National
Gallery.
November 1989 Group Show;The Art of the Printmaker Festival Hall. Work used on poster and publicity.
1990 Group shows in Tom Caldwell Galleries, Belfast and Dublin, N. and S. Ireland.
1990 invited artist,Portobello Open Print Exhibition, London.
1990 Design work for Sphere and Collins books.
June 1990 group show; 20:20 vision, The Tall House, Southwark Street London SE1 –
work on publicity.
1990 Visiting Lecturer Southwark College.
September 1990 solo show; Alchemy; Citizens Gallery, Woolwich, London.
Sept. 1990 selected for On the Railings, Docklands Art Fair, Isle of Dogs.
December 1990 Work selected for use in The Women Artists’ Diary, 1991.
1991 - 1994 Part-time studio assitant to R.B. Kitaj.
1991 Part-time lecturer in creative studies for Lewisham College
March 1991 Lasting Impressions, group show at Festival Hall –
invited artist and on selection panel.
April 1991 Winner, The Mail on Sunday competion, selection made by
Edward Lucie-Smith resulting in exhibition at Art/London 91
May 1991 Group show at Scarborough Art Gallery
August 1991 Atlantis Great Car Boot Sale (included in article in The Times, Sat August 3rd)
1991 invited artist,Women In Art, Woodlands Art Gallery, Blackheath.
October 1991 Awarded Artescape Fellowship
March 1992 Solo show at Trinity Arts Centre,Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
June 1992 Solo Show at Old Rectory, Sturton-by-Stow, Lincolnshire
August 1992 Solo Show at Artescape, Sturton-by-Stow, Lincolnshire.
August 1992 Image included in AN Handbook.
1993
(-5) part-time teaching at Greenwich Community College.
April 1993 Group show, Space Frame Gallery, Gillingham, Kent.
1993 Group show, Hall Place, Kent.
June 1993 with Bernard Heslin, Battersea Studios Television Centre.
September 1993/December 1994 Solo Show, Madrigal Centre, Manilla, Philippines;
Awarded British Council support.
1993 included in South East London Annual Arts exhibition, Blackheath.
1993 Book cover designs for Greenwich University publications.
January - March 1994 Farrago Visuals, invited artist, Chats Palace, London
May - June 1994 with Dave Eyre, Citizens Gallery, Woolwich, London.
July 1994 Performance and workshops, Anti-racist festival, Plumstead.
November/December 1994 with Dave Eyre and Michelle Murray, Rathaus-Galerie,
Reinickendorf, Berlin
1994 6 Book covers for Whiley and sons, publishers.
October 1994 solo show at Whittakers, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
October 1994 solo show at Heathers, Deptford.
September
1994, A Serpent in Eden, Article in Artists Newsletter
Febuary - March 1995 Group show, Genderquake, Citizens Gallery, Woolwich. Selector. Febuary – March 1995 Invited Artist, with ‘Myth information’ Chats Palace
July 1995-6-7 Workshops for the Anti-racist Festival, Plumstead; also for Greenwich
Museum, Greenwich Borough and Common Purpose..
1995 Solo Open Studio, Woolwich, London.
1995 Advisor for Gallery 37, Greenwich, London.
1995 Invited Artist, Woodlands Art Gallery, Blackheath, London.
June 1996 Solo Show at Harpers, London Bridge, London.
November 1996 chosen for Painting of the Month at Russell and Chapple, (art store) Shaftesbury Avenue, London.
1996
Workshops in creative thinking for Civil Servants at Sunningdale
1996 solo show at Heathers, Deptford.
1997-00 Book reviews for The Art Book.
1997 Artist in residence at Catford Cultural Festival –
drawings and interviews used on subsequent interactive CD-ROM
1997 - 2004 part-time lecturer, Art and Media course, Greenwich University.
March 1997 Solo Exhibition, Citizens Gallery, Woolwich, London.
May 1997 Award from Ray Finnis Charitable Trust.
September 1997 Performance with Amoeba at New Cross, London.
1998 Artist in Residence at Burnside Conference, Royal Naval College.
May 1998 Performance with My Eyes, My Eyes, Deptford, London
August 1998 Workshops in Greenwich and Camden.
August 1998 solo show, Dimbola Lodge Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
1999 completed ‘The Art Arsenal’, a report commissioned by Greenwich Council.
March 1999 included in Women of the 20th Century, Greenwich Museum
June 1999 -00 Workshops for Common Purpose.
November 1999 group show at Woodlands Gallery, Blackheath, London
2000 Facilitator for Sculpture park in homeless hostel, Camberwell, London.
2000 Delivered paper at conference in Avignon, France – findings voted into strategy document.
March 2000 solo show, Portraits and Narrative Paintings, Heathers, Deptford.
June/July, 2000 installation included in International Art Museum, Deptford.
July 2000 Solo show at Blackheath Concert Halls, London.
November,
2000 solo show, Inside Influenece, Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
November 2000 group show,The Box Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, York.
December 2000 included in 291 Artmart at Gallery 291, Hackney, London.
2001 Guest lecturer, Belief, Reason and Imagination course, Greenwich University.
2001 Artist in residence, Hall Place, Bexley – workshops and exhibition, video.
May 2001, with Vladimir Dirsh and Aurora Munoz, Exhibition for the Millenium,
National Institute of Physics, Portland Place London.
December 2001 group show at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, SE London.
2001 solo show at Gallery 291, Hackney.
2001 Prize winner when design selected for installation at Deptford Creek.
2002 Guest Lecturer, Arts and Hertiage Management Course, Greenwich University.
2002, included in Themeless, Sally Barker Gallery, Hackney.
2002 included in Green Tea, Vauxhall Park Festival, London.
2002 Included in New Works by Old Fellows, Artescape exhibition, The Gallery, Dury
Lane, Lincoln and Greestone Gallery, School of Art, University of Lincoln.
2002 Moved to France; Artist in residence at l’Atelier, Esperaza, France.
2002 Accepted chair of Art and Theology, Peacock University.
2003 Included in group exhibition at Creative Spirit Arts Center, New York, USA
2003 Guest lecturer, Art in the Digital Age, Greenwich University
2003 Exhibition with Ellie Clements in Chelmsford, Massachusets, USA
2003 Included in Chemin des Artistes de la Haute-Vallée de l’Aude, open studios.
2003 Exhibited with group at Day of The Dead Exhibition, N.London.
2003 Exposicion del Arte Internacional at Almeria, Spain
2003 Launched a series of sound CD’s, Silent Spaces, at The Horse Hospital, London.
2003 Accepted role as Vice-Chancellor of Peacock University
2004 Book cover and six illustrations, Cybernetics and Human Knowing
2004 Guest lecture and workshops, Greenwich University, London.
2004 included in 8eme Salon des Arts Plastiques de Trebes, France
2004 Joint exhibition with Ellie Clemens at La Caderonne, Esperaza, France
2004 Group show, Exposition d’Art, Centre Culturelle, Esperaza, France.
2004 Included in Chemin des Artistes de la Haute-Vallée de l’Aude, open studios.
2004 Joint exhibition with Ellie Clemens at Art du Quai, Esperaza, France.
2004
Included in International Plein Air Expo., Art Du Quai, Esperaza.
2004 Solo exhibition at the Casino, Alet-les-Bains, France
2005 Awarded an Artescape grant to assist arts practice.
2005 included in touring show, covering the Aude region, France
concluding in March at the Dome, Carcassone.
2005 Selected for inclusion Chemin des Artistes de la Haute Vallée de l’Aude, open studios.
2005 invited to show with Art for Care, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2005 paintings displayed at the Resturant, Rennes les Bains, France.
2005 included in La Vie de l’Eau et l’Eau de la Vie, Espace d’Art, Rennes les Bains
2005 Solo exhibition Espace d’Art, Rennes les Bains, France.
2005 (December) Guest lecture and workshops, Greenwich University, London
2005/6 (Dec. - Jan) Exhibited with sculptor Joel Barthes at Maison Gilbert, Lezignan, France.
2006 (Feb-March) included in Les Nus d'Esperaza, l' Atelerie Gallery, Esperaza
2006 (April) Artescape /Peacock University publication, Prenez, Mangez et Vivez; critical essays and reproductions of current work.
2006 (April) Solo Exhibition l'Atelerie Gallery, Esperaza, France
2006 (May) Solo Exhibition Maison de Tourisme, Quillan, France
2006 (July) Invited to exhibit group show, La Révolution Française, Espace d'Art, Rennes-les-Bains, France.
2006 (August) Shortlisted for public art commission Co. Mayo, Ireland.
2006 (Oct) Solo Exhibition,
Union, 50 Greek St. Soho, London.
2006 (Dec) included in exhibition, Casino, Alet-les-Bains, France
.2007 (Mar) Selected for Toques et Clochers, Limoux, France.
2007(May) Selected for inclusion Chemin des Artistes de la Haute Vallée de l’Aude.
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