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Nick Reeves
MAIN DISCIPLINE Painting, Drawing, Collage and Assemblage of WORK SUBSIDIARY Photography, Conceptual and Writing DISCIPLINES TRAINING Birmingham College of Art; Slade School, University College, London, Assistant to ELT Mesens ARTICLES / BOOKS "Artists, Craftsmen & Photographers in the West Midlands" published by West Midlands Arts, 1977 Articles for "The Leisure Manager", "Municipal Journal", "ASLIB Social Sciences Journal", "Water & Environment Manager", "Water & Environment Journal" EXHIBITIONS Compendium Galleries, Birmingham, 1972, 1974, 1976 Warwick Gallery, Warwick, 1974 Bulls Eye Gallery, Liclifield, 1978 AIR Gallery, London, 1980 Broxboume Arts Centre, Hertfordshire, 1994 GROUP EXHIBITIONS Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1981 British International Drawing Biennial, 1982 Avoncroft Museum, 1983 Air Gallery, London, 1984 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 1975 - 1983 Jelly Legg'd Chicken Gallery, Reading, 1998 City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1998 CIWEM, 15 John Street, London, 1999 COMMISSIONS Private Commissions for Collectors STATEMENT My work is a struggle against the essential futility of life. It is an attempt to exteriorise my lifelong suspicion of the notions of ambition, career and hierarchy. Even making this statement is anathema to me. I work from the principle that life has no purpose and that art, whatever that is, can be anything and nothing. ASPIRATIONS To avoid aspirations. OTHER ACTIVITIES Adviser to Southern Arts Board and Pamphleteer | |||||
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