Mike Walker

Currently a member of Unity Arts Trust, Chichester: uat@btinternet.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 ‘Paintings for a Light Room’, Claremont Studios, Hastings

2008 The Bowery, Leeds: ‘Line Paintings’

2006 Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre: ‘Music for a Light Room / Music for a Dark Room’

2006 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax: ‘Recent Paintings’

2005 Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal: ‘Linden Sequences’

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 Unity Arts at the Guildhall, Chichester

2013 Kings Hill, Kent: Group Exhibition

2010 East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair, Rye

2008 University of Cumbria, Lancaster: Joint exhibition with Heather Boxall

2006 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax: ‘Curator’s Choice – Northern Contemporary Artists’

2004 Leeds City Art Gallery: Leeds Open

2003 Dragon Design, London: Summer Exhibition with Brendan Lancaster

2002 Manchester Academy of Fine Art Open Exhibition

2002 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield: ‘Yellow’

2001 Wendy Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester

2001 Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainsville, Georgia: ‘250 Years of British Landscape Watercolours and Drawings’

2001 South Square Gallery, Bradford: ‘Prints of View’

2000 York City Art Gallery: Yorkshire Contemporary Printmakers

Publications

2013 Illustrations for overcoming form: reflections on immersive music,

Richard Glover and Bryn Harrison, University of Huddersfield Press

2012 Post-Conceptual Art Practice 3, Mark Howland: Personal Space, University of Kent Press

2012 Post-Conceptual Art Practice 2, Interview with Angus Pryor, University of Kent Press

2012 Richard Nott: Unearthed, essay to accompany exhibition at New Millennium Gallery, St.Ives, August 2012

2009 Petra McCarthy: Recent Paintings, text for exhibition at Rebecca Hossacks Gallery, on-line at www.r-h-g.co.uk, no longer available

Education

2002-2003 P.G.C.E. Post-Compulsory Education (Art), Bolton Institute

1999-2001 M.A. Printmaking, University of Bradford

1982-1985 B.A. History of Art, University of Leicester

Employment

2012-date Associate Lecturer, Fine Art, University of Chichester

2011-date Associate Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent

2011 Course Development, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2005-2010 Course Leader, B.A.(Hons)Visual Arts Calderdale College in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University

2003-05 Fine Art and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Calderdale College

2003-04 Fine Art and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Oldham College