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Peter John Seddon : Artist/Curator/Writer.
Peter Seddon was born in Liverpool in 1947 and graduated from Leeds University in 1972 with a BA Hons in Fine Art. After a travel scholarship to Rome (awarded by the Slade School of Art, University of London), he taught fine art practice, theory and research skills at a number of Universities and Art Colleges in the UK including, the Universities of Leeds, Central Lancashire, Brighton, and Glasgow School of Art. He has also been an external examiner for fine art practice and/or art theory at the Universities of Central Lancashire, Northhampton, North Staffordshire, the University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury, University of Ulster, and Glasgow School of Art. He occupied a number full time of lecturing posts and finally (2009-2012) a Readership in Arts Practices and Historiography at the University of Brighton. In 2012 he became a free-lance artist/curator/writer.
Museum intervention projects.
2014. The Salon of Contemplation: Caritas: Stories Parables and Dreams. Co-curators Barry Barker, Sabine Cazenave museum director, Sophie Fauvel curatorial assistant, Musée De Picardie, Amiens, France, Oct 9th –Jan 18th 2014/15.
2007. Tête-å-Tête. A curatorial intervention using Paul Delaroche’s painting Cromwell looking at the Corpse of Charles 1st in his coffin, 1831, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, France, November 14th 2007 – Feb 3rd 2008.
2003 Civil War @ Rochdale, Rochdale Municipal Art Gallery. 16th May – 29th June
One person exhibitions
Between 1978 to 2002 Peter Seddon exhibited his work in a number of venues including the following.
Brighton Media Centre (2002), Ann Lanntair Gallery Stornoway (1986), 3rd Eye Centre, Glasgow (1986), McRobert Arts Centre, Stirling (1982), Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews (1983) Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (1981) Peterloo Gallery, Manchester (1978)
Group exhibitions.
Smith Gallery, Stirling (1986), St Pauls Gallery, Leeds (1987), Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1987), An Lanntair Gallery, Stornoway (1998 and 1986), Brighton University Gallery (1995), The Hayward Gallery, London (1982), AIR Gallery, London (1988) Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (1985)
Curation
2007. William Kentridge: Fragile Identities. Brighton University Gallery and the Regency Town House, Brighton, 16th Nov – December 31st 2007. (co-curator,Tom Hickey, University of Brighton)
1996. Circumstantial Evidence, Brighton University Gallery, works by T Atkinson, W Doherty, J Goto, (co-curator, D Green)
Recent selected publications.
2014 The Public Sculpture of Sussex. (co Authored with Jill Seddon and Anthony McIntosh), Liverpool University Press.
2014. The Salon of Contemplation and various catalogue entries, in Caritas: Stories parables and dreams, (pp. 35-46, pp. 62, 67, 73, 76), exhibition catalogue, publ Musée De Picardie, Nov 2014.
2011 It Happened Here: Turfing over Irish and English History. Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol 10, Number 3.
2009. Resonance of the Republic: England 1660 and France 1831, International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing,
Vol 4.
2007. Erasures and Palimpsests: The Hand of Politics, in the exhibition catalogue, William Kentridge: Fragile identities (pp37-41), publ Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Brighton University.
2007. Tête-à-Tête/Between Two Heads; Four essays on Cromwell, Charles 1st and Delaroche. (Essay contributions by Pascal Trarieux, Stephen Bann, Martin Bennett, Barry Barker and Peter Seddon, publ jointly in French and English by the Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes and Brighton University.
2003. [email protected] Essays:Diaries:Conversations, published by The Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Brighton University.
2000. History Painting Reassessed: The Representation of History in Contemporary Art, Eds. D. Green and P.Seddon, publ Manchester
University Press.
Peter Seddon has also written a number of Journal articles and has presented papers at national and international conferences, including The International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice (2009), The Social History Society Conference, Rotterdam (2008) and on two occasions for The Art Historians Association (Liverpool 2002 and London 1995). He has been the recipient of a number of awards from the Arts Councils of Scotland and England, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the UK Heritage Lottery Fund, and The European Interreg funding scheme.
Peter John Seddon : Artist/Curator/Writer.
Peter Seddon was born in Liverpool in 1947 and graduated from Leeds University in 1972 with a BA Hons in Fine Art. After a travel scholarship to Rome (awarded by the Slade School of Art, University of London), he taught fine art practice, theory and research skills at a number of Universities and Art Colleges in the UK including, the Universities of Leeds, Central Lancashire, Brighton, and Glasgow School of Art. He has also been an external examiner for fine art practice and/or art theory at the Universities of Central Lancashire, Northhampton, North Staffordshire, the University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury, University of Ulster, and Glasgow School of Art. He occupied a number full time of lecturing posts and finally (2009-2012) a Readership in Arts Practices and Historiography at the University of Brighton. In 2012 he became a free-lance artist/curator/writer.
Museum intervention projects.
2014. The Salon of Contemplation: Caritas: Stories Parables and Dreams. Co-curators Barry Barker, Sabine Cazenave museum director, Sophie Fauvel curatorial assistant, Musée De Picardie, Amiens, France, Oct 9th –Jan 18th 2014/15.
2007. Tête-å-Tête. A curatorial intervention using Paul Delaroche’s painting Cromwell looking at the Corpse of Charles 1st in his coffin, 1831, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, France, November 14th 2007 – Feb 3rd 2008.
2003 Civil War @ Rochdale, Rochdale Municipal Art Gallery. 16th May – 29th June
One person exhibitions
Between 1978 to 2002 Peter Seddon exhibited his work in a number of venues including the following.
Brighton Media Centre (2002), Ann Lanntair Gallery Stornoway (1986), 3rd Eye Centre, Glasgow (1986), McRobert Arts Centre, Stirling (1982), Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews (1983) Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (1981) Peterloo Gallery, Manchester (1978)
Group exhibitions.
Smith Gallery, Stirling (1986), St Pauls Gallery, Leeds (1987), Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1987), An Lanntair Gallery, Stornoway (1998 and 1986), Brighton University Gallery (1995), The Hayward Gallery, London (1982), AIR Gallery, London (1988) Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (1985)
Curation
2007. William Kentridge: Fragile Identities. Brighton University Gallery and the Regency Town House, Brighton, 16th Nov – December 31st 2007. (co-curator,Tom Hickey, University of Brighton)
1996. Circumstantial Evidence, Brighton University Gallery, works by T Atkinson, W Doherty, J Goto, (co-curator, D Green)
Recent selected publications.
2014 The Public Sculpture of Sussex. (co Authored with Jill Seddon and Anthony McIntosh), Liverpool University Press.
2014. The Salon of Contemplation and various catalogue entries, in Caritas: Stories parables and dreams, (pp. 35-46, pp. 62, 67, 73, 76), exhibition catalogue, publ Musée De Picardie, Nov 2014.
2011 It Happened Here: Turfing over Irish and English History. Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol 10, Number 3.
2009. Resonance of the Republic: England 1660 and France 1831, International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing,
Vol 4.
2007. Erasures and Palimpsests: The Hand of Politics, in the exhibition catalogue, William Kentridge: Fragile identities (pp37-41), publ Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Brighton University.
2007. Tête-à-Tête/Between Two Heads; Four essays on Cromwell, Charles 1st and Delaroche. (Essay contributions by Pascal Trarieux, Stephen Bann, Martin Bennett, Barry Barker and Peter Seddon, publ jointly in French and English by the Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes and Brighton University.
2003. [email protected] Essays:Diaries:Conversations, published by The Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Brighton University.
2000. History Painting Reassessed: The Representation of History in Contemporary Art, Eds. D. Green and P.Seddon, publ Manchester
University Press.
Peter Seddon has also written a number of Journal articles and has presented papers at national and international conferences, including The International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice (2009), The Social History Society Conference, Rotterdam (2008) and on two occasions for The Art Historians Association (Liverpool 2002 and London 1995). He has been the recipient of a number of awards from the Arts Councils of Scotland and England, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the UK Heritage Lottery Fund, and The European Interreg funding scheme.