Ken Dowsing

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Kenneth Richard Dowsing (born February 3, 1950 in Ipswich / Suffolk ) is a British 2D animator, film director , author , painter and film producer .

Life

Ken Dowsing attended St. Joseph's College in Birkfield-Ipswich, then attended Ipswich Art School. In art school, he began experimenting with 16mm films . Painting, drawing and music fascinated and occupied him during his time at Ipswich Art School. In 1967 the East Anglian Daily Times hired him as a press artist. In 1968 he went to London and worked as a trainee animator at Wyatt and Cattanio .

The 1970s and 1980s

In 1970 Dowsing went to New York and worked on the pilot version of the film Fritz the Cat . In 1972 Hanna Barbera brought him to Sydney . There Dowsing worked as an animator until 1973. Back in London he worked as a freelancer until 1978 when he was called to Düsseldorf. In 1979 the Munich film production company Kruse-Film hired him as an animation director, for whom he worked for nine years.

In 1983, the TV show Formula One started on ARD , for which Ken Dowsing developed and drawn the mascot Teasy .

1989 until today

In 1989 Dowsing founded his own advertising film production company in Munich. This company has since specialized in the field of trickery. In the meantime, this trick area not only includes cartoons, but also other types of trick such as model trick, puppet trick, 3D to SFX. A large part of it is the combination of trick with real film. In 2000 Dowsing created the hand puppets The Fukkets . Together with Charles Green he produced several skits with these dolls.

From 2008 to 2015 Ken Dowsing drew interpretations on the book Ulysses by James Joyce . From 2010 exhibitions with drawings, etchings and lithographs on the subject of "Ulysses" took place across Europe.

Since 2016 Ken Dowsing has been drawing still lifes and portraits again.

He lives and works with his wife in Austria in Styria.

Awards

  • 1982 International Advertising Film Festival Cannes - Diploma in Animation
  • 1984 Animation Festival Zagreb - Award for the short film Sun and Fun

Prices

  • 1990 and 1996 Film and TV Festival New York
  • 1989 ADC - New York
  • 1992 Clio Award
  • 1992 Montreux
  • 1993 London: International Advertising Awards
  • 1995 Comprix
  • 2007 Comprix, Gold for innovative Pharma-Communication

Exhibitions

  • 1985 Still life exhibition with the painter and draftsman Sven Hartmann in the Daniel Blaise Thorens Gallery, Basel
  • 1987 Still life exhibition, Daniel Blaise Thorens Gallery, Basel
  • 1987 Still life exhibition: NATURA MORTA. Gallery Völser Heubad, Völs am Schlern, South Tyrol
  • 1990 Still life exhibition with Branco Teslic, K 18. Kurfürstengalerie, Munich
  • 1994 Friday Night Paintings. Galerie Evers, Munich
  • 1995 Poetry project with the artist, Herbert Nauderer: Terzinen about transience - animation film project based on a poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  • 1995 and 1996 sculptures and reliefs by Ken Dowswing, Galerie Zoerer, Ainmillerstraße, Munich
  • 1998 Still lifes and abstractions, K 18. Kurfürstengalerie, Munich
  • 2001 Large format computer art by Ken Dowsing in the Tutzinger basement
  • 2002 and 2004 Spanish Landscapes, Gallery Schwitters, Munich
  • 2006 Illustrations from the book Ulysses. by James Joyce, Galerie Kunstpool, Munich
  • 2010 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Oriol Gallery, Munich
  • 2010 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Utoquai Castle, Zurich
  • 2010 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Action radius Vienna and VHS Hitzing, Blooms Day Festival, Vienna
  • 2010 Drawings and still lifes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Galerie Völs, Völs am Schlern, Italy
  • 2010 group exhibition, drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Blaues Atelier Gallery, Graz
  • 2010 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Rein Abbey near Graz
  • 2011 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Hugendubel, Salvatorplatz 2, Munich
  • 2011 drawings for James Joyce's Ulysses. Blaues Atelier Gallery, Annenstrasse 33, 8020 Graz.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Dowsing, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowsing, Kenneth Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British 2D animator, film director, writer, painter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich , Suffolk