Terry Atkinson

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Terry Atkinson (born July 16, 1939 in Thurnscoe ) is a British conceptual artist , painter , draftsman and author . He was the co-founder and until 1974 a member of the artist group Art & Language and lives in Leeds .

Life

Terry Atkinson studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1960 to 1964. He taught at the Birmingham College of Art from 1964 to 1966, at Lanchester Polytechnic and at the Coventry School of Art from 1967. There he met the student Michael Baldwin know .

Atkinson was a founding member (along with colleagues John Bowstead , Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings ) of the Fine Artz group in London in November 1963. He participated in the Fine Artz group exhibition " Action Chair " in London in May 1964 and in the fine art group "Miss Misty Show" at the University of Aston in Birmingham in May 1966. He separated from Fine Artz in May 1966.

He then traveled to New York City , where he came into contact with Sol LeWitt , Dan Graham , Carl Andre and Robert Smithson . From July to September 1967 he visited Los Angeles .

Terry Atkinson began collaborating with Michael Baldwin on conceptual work in Coventry in 1967. In 1968 Atkinson and Baldwin founded the avant-garde artist group Art & Language, which was shortly followed by Harold Hurrell and David Bainbridge , who also taught in Coventry. Art & Language, quickly became a group that got a huge impact on other artists in both the UK and the US.

In 1969 Atkinson traveled again to New York and met Joseph Kosuth , Lawrence Weiner , On Kawara , Christine Kozlov and Robert Barry there .

As a member of Art & Language, Terry Atkinson participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the project “Index 0001” in the Idea + Idea / Light department , together with the Art & Language artists Harold Hurrell , David Bainbridge , Ian Burn , Michael Baldwin , Charles Harrison , Mel Ramsden and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth . With Art & Language he was represented again at Documenta 6 in 1977. Atkinson retired from Coventry teaching in 1973 and his membership of Art & Language the following year. He was represented as an artist under his own name, including at the Venice Biennale in 1984. In 1985 he was nominated for the Turner Prize .

Terry Atkinsons makes use of painting and drawing in his conceptual art, he uses mixed media and creates installations , writes texts and writes publications.

Atkinson has been teaching art at the University of Leeds since 2003 .

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  • Daniel Marzona: Conceptual Art . Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8228-2959-5

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personal data
SURNAME Atkinson, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conceptual artist, painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Thurnscoe at Barnsley