- Venue
- Constantine Lecture Theater
- Date
- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
02:00 PM - Address
- Teesside University, Middlesbrough
- Location
- North East England
- Organiser
- Teesside University Fine Art
Alan Hathaway
Artist
Tuesday 8th November 2016 / 2-4pm Constantine Lecture Theatre
Alan Hathaway is a London born artist based in the North East. His practice encompasses drawing, painting, text and installation. His work often references the formal characteristics of high modernism through an intuitive approach to practical and conceptual processes. He makes and re-presents objects that are both fragmented and unmonumental in character. As such his work questions our relationship more generally to the notion of utopian idealism and romanticism.His recent practice has focused on strategies adopted by counter cultural groups active during the 1960s and 1970s and the idea of non-linear research. More info about the event and Critical Perspectives is here.
Theorist Simon Critchley observed, ‘The problem with contemporary art is that we all think we know what it means and we don’t.’ With an international focus and interdisciplinary approach, Teesside University Fine Art’s Critical Perspectives lecture series challenges us to rethink our location within an ever-evolving community of artists in the twenty-first century. Critical Lines visiting lecture series presents artists and thinkers from across disciplines, who offer artist talks, lectures, workshops and tutorials at Teesside University. This series is open to the public.
He has exhibited in numerous group shows nationally and was shortlisted for the 2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize. He was artist in residence at Teesside University and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2015 -2016) and recent shows include: Parallax (Constantine Gallery, 2016), Felix 2 (Dovetail Joints Gallery, 2016) and Middlesbrough Pride of Place Project (Caravan Gallery, 2016)
