KEVIN ATHERTON – BIOGRAPHY

1950 Born - Douglas, Isle of Man.
EDUCATION.
1968-69 Isle of Man College of Art - Foundation Studies.
1969-72 Leeds Polytechnic Fine Art Department – BA [Hons].
SELECTED SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS.
1982 - ‘A Body of Work’, bronze, Langdon Park School, London E.14.
1985 - ‘Upon Reflection’, bronze, Philip Noel Baker Peace Park, London N.19.
1986 - ‘Platforms Piece’, bronze, Brixton British Rail Station, London.
1986 - ‘Cathedral’, stained glass, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire.
1987 - ‘Iron Horses’, mild steel, British Rail, between Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
1988 - ‘Synchronised Sculpture’, cold cast bronze, Stockley Park, London.
1989 - ‘To the Top’, bronze, steel and rope, New Civic Centre, Twickenham, London.
1990 - ‘The Architect’, bronze, Harlow New Town, Essex.
1991 - ‘Art Within Reach’, bronze, Bittern Library, Southampton.
1994 - ‘A Different Ball Game’, bronze and polished stainless steel, Kingshill, Kent.
1995 - ‘A Private View’, bronze, polished stainless steel, telescopes, Cardiff Bay.
2001 - ‘Field of Vision’, bronze and polished stainless steel, ‘Glaxo, Smith, Kline’ world headquarters, Brentford, London.
SELECTED VIRTUAL REALITY WORKS.
1995 – Organised the International Conference ‘Virtual Reality and the Gallery’, The Tate Gallery, London.
1996 - ‘Artist/Designer Sketch’ presented at 23rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - SIGGRAPH 96 New Orleans.
1996. ‘Alnwick II’ - a site-specific virtual reality art piece with Peter Maloney, The PlayHouse Theatre, Alnwick, Northumberland, as a part of the ‘Year of Visual Art’ 1996.
1997 - ‘Gallery Guide’ performed at ‘The Museum of Contemporary Art’ Chicago as a part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art - ISEA.
1998 - ‘Gallery Guide’ nominated for the ‘International Video Art Award’ at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie ZKM Karlsruhe.
1998 - ‘Gallery Guide’ performed at ‘The Museum of Modern Art’, Stockholm as a part of the festival ‘Nature is Perverse.’
1999 - ‘Gallery Guide’ selected for the 8th Biennial of Moving Images Geneva.
1999 - ‘Gallery Guide’ performed at ‘The Skulpturens Hus’, Stockholm.
2000 - ‘Gallery Guide’ performed at ‘The Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery’ Trondheim as a part of the exhibition ‘Vannkanten [at the waters edge]
2000 - ‘Gallery Guide’ presented at The National Gallery of Ireland as part of the conference ‘The Museum Visit: Virtual Reality and the Gallery’
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS.
Glasgow Garden Festival.
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Merseyside Development Corporation, Liverpool.
Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS.
1984 - ‘Video Times’, installation and publication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and touring to Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge.
1988 – ‘One Man Show’ Serpentine Gallery, London.
1990 - ‘Two Video Installations’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Western Australia.
2001 ‘Three Decades, Three Works’, Arthouse, Dublin and the Manx Museum and Art Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
‘Performance- Live Art 1909 to the Present’ - Roselee Goldberg, Thames and Hudson 1979.
‘Art Within Reach’ - Deanna Petherbridge, Art Monthly/Thames and Hudson 1984.
‘Open Air Sculpture in Britain’ - William Strachen, Zwemmer/Tate Gallery 1984.
‘Art for Architecture’ - Deanna Petherbridge, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office 1987.
‘Kevin Atherton, A Body of Work 1982-1988’, Exhibition Catalogue Serpentine Gallery 1988.
‘To The Top’ Exhibition Catalogue, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames 1989.
‘The Sculpted Forest, Sculptures in the Forest of Dean’ - Rupert Martin, Radcliffe Press 1990.
‘The Monument Guide to England and Wales’- Jo Darke, MacDonald Illustrated 1991
‘Art in the Age of Mass Media’- John A Walker, Pluto Press 1994.
‘Audio Arts- Discourse and Practice in Contemporary Art’ - William Furlong, Academy Editions 1994
‘Sotheby’s Art at Auction 1994-5’ - Isabel Boucher, Conran Octopus.
‘Diverse Practices’ - Julia Knight, Luton University Press 1996.
‘Art Space and the City’ - Malcolm Miles, Routledge 1997.
1986 - ‘Scanners - Video Art Now’, Air Gallery and London Video Arts.
1987 - ‘Julian Schnabel, Bruce McLean, Nancy Spero, Kevin Atherton’. Audio Arts, London.
1987 - ‘ Iron Horses’ video of the sculpture, Annalogue Productions, London.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE.
Between 1978 and 1990 was a regular part time lecturer at a number of Art Colleges throughout Britain including -
1978 - 82 The Slade School of fine art, University College London.
1979 - 82 Royal College of Art, London.
1982 - 90 Chelsea College of Art and Design
1979 - 84 Winchester School of Art.
1980 - 81 Norwich School of Art.
1982 - 87 Maidstone College of Art.
1985 - 86 South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff.
1982 - 87 Middlesex University, London.
Between 1990 and 1999 taught in the Fine Art Department at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London becoming Principal Lecture in Fine Art Media in 1993. Left Chelsea in 1999 to become the first Head of the Media Department at the National College of Art and Design Dublin.
Since arriving at NCAD has established the ‘MA Degree: Virtual Realities’

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