Teaching Painting: An Organisation
Teaching painting is the name of an organisation, formed at Manchester school of art in 2015 whose remit is to investigate the teaching of contemporary painting practices within art schools. Along with Ian Hartshorne and Donal Moloney, we organise a range of activities that include publications, conferences, exhibitions and workshops.
Conference:
The organisation 'Teaching Painting' was born out of a conference that was held at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester in October 2015. Along with Professor Alistair Payne (Head of Art at Glasgow School of Art) I am co-convening the second Teaching Painting conerence: Teaching Painting International, which will take place in Glasgow in Nov 2017.
Publication:
'Teaching Painting' addresses the historical, theoretical, pedagogical and continually shifting methods of how the medium is taught. It asks how and why approaches to teaching painting have changed and developed and offers a platform through which practices and experience can be shared. The book includes introductions by Ian Hartshorne, Donal Moloney and Magnus Quaife with contributions by: Maggie Ayliffe and Christian Mieves, Gordon Brennan, Ian Gonczarow, Sarah Horton and Sarah Longworth-West, Sean Kaye, John McClenaghen, Dougal McKenzie, Alistair Payne, Craig Staff, Daniel Sturgis, Sarah Taylor, Joseph Wright and Stuart MacKenzie. It is published by Black Dog.
Exhibitions:
‘Fully Awake’ is one of the most ambitious cycle of exhibitions involving academics, artists and art educators in the UK. It will be staged across 5 venues over the next 2 years and involve 180 exhibitors and 60 UK institutions.
'Fully Awake' will begin in April 2017 at blip blip blip in Leeds. www.blipblipblip.co.uk
The cycle will end in Edinburgh in August 2018 when a substantial catalogue to accompany the project will be published.
The inaugural exhibition at blip blip blip will include the following 12 artists:
Phil Allen (Turps Banana), Majella Clancy (Plymouth College of Art), Neil Clements (Edinburgh College of Art), Jeff Dennis (Chelsea College of Art), Moyra Derby (University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury), Nelson Diplexcito (Wimbledon College of Arts), Andrew Grassie (City & Guilds of London Art School), Catrin Huber (Newcastle University), John McClenaghen (Glyndwr University), Dougal McKenzie (Belfast School of Art), Katie Pratt (University of Gloucestershire), Magnus Quaife (Manchester School of Art).
Further activities including teaching exchanges and student exhibitions are currently being developed.