CV & BIO NOTES
BC was born in London in 1948. He is a poet, sculptor and performance artist, who is currently working in video and live work. He has been commissioned to make solo installations and performances in many countries including; Spain, Japan, Iceland, Israel, Holland, Norway, Germany, Greenland and Australia His recent solo show Antix at Matt’s Gallery drew much critical acclaim. Four years ago he founded the international performance group The Wolf In The Winter, whose most recent manifestation was at The South London Gallery. His video work moves between gallery installation and narrative films made in collaboration with Tony Grisoni. Their most recent work The Cutting was released last year. They also produce the no holds barred Cabaret Melancolique.
Catling’s permanent monument for the site of execution at the Tower of London was unveiled in 2007.
Eight books of Catling’s poetry have been published and his work has been included in many anthologies. A new book; Bobby Awl has just been released from Etruscan Press. Who are also producing a compilation of all of his poetry; A Court Of Miracles to be published in 2009. Catling as finished the first two volumes of his novel. The Vorrh. Volume three will emerge early next year. He started 2008 with a solo show at The Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, of his recent egg tempera portraits of Cyclops.
He is professor of fine art at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College.
BRIAN CATLING CV
Poet, performance artist ,sculptor. Flm/Vid.
Born London 1948.
Education
North East London Polytechnic (B.A.)
Royal College of Art (MA.)
M.A. Linacre College Oxford
Current employment
Professor of Fine Art . University of Oxford.
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Fellow of Linacre College. Oxford.
Honorary Fellow of Dartington College of Arts
Civitella Ranieri Fellow 1999
Recent awards
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award 2001
Solo exhibitions
2008 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Scotland.
2006 Antix . Matt’s Gallery. London. 16 night Performance installation See frieze review enclosed.
2002 Antic ( Norwegian version) Video installation. Trans-Art Gallery Trondheim. Norway.
2002 Buhl Cyclops . Vidio installation. AKW . Stadt Buhl. Germany.
2000 Man In the Moon. Galleri e.s.Bergen.
1999 Were : The Chamber works, ICA, London,
1998 Were, durational performance, Matt's Gallery, London,
1997 Cyclops (video installation in German language), Project Gallery, Leipzig,
1997 Country of the Blind, text, drawings & video, The Economist, London,
1997 Nordic Cyclops ( video installation), Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo,
1996 Cyclops (video installation), South London Gallery,
1995 Cyclops, Galerie Satellite, Paris,
1994 The Blindings , Serpentine Gallery, London .
1993 Ten Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan, .
1993 La Bas , Galerie Satellite, Paris,
1991 At The Lighthouse , Matt's Gallery, London.
1989 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford,
1988 Atrium, Neuw Gallery, Sammalung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany,
1987 White Breath / Red Heart , Hordaland Kunstnercentrum, Bergen, Norway.
1987 Lair, Matt's Gallery, London.
1986 On Touching And Haunting A Noble Silent Room, Leifsgade 22, Copenhagen.
Selected recent mixed shows
2000 Small acts at the Millennium.
1999 Spin, British Library.
1998 Oak Repels Lightning, Science Museum, London
1997 A Cloudburst of Material Possessions; Purdy Hicks & touring.
Selected Solo performance works commissioned for galleries and art festivals
2008 Night at the Music Hall . Rational Rec. Wiltons. London
2007 Long Breath. For ASA. Maschinehaus Essen. Germany
2007 Alma Enterprises, London
2007 THE RAIL. Commission. Ikon Gallery . Birmingham. UK
2007 Alma enterprises. London
2007 Fresh Festival. South Hill Park UK
2007 AIAV . Yamaguchi , Japan
2007 . Art Space Tetra Fukuoka Japan
2005 "Mellom himmel og hav" performance festival, Bergen Norway
2005 HALLE CYCLOPS .Handel-Festspiele Halle (Saale) Electric Renaissance
2003 A Certain Turbulence Reykjavik Contemporary Art Museum ,ICELAND
2003 Acts of Faith. La Bisbal, Spain
2002 The Boulevards, Theatre festival. Den Bosch, Netherlands
2002 Steder; more places for ever. Lillehammer. Norway
2002 The Boulavards, Den Bosch theatre festival. Netherlands.
2002 Acts of Faith &Generosity, 1st. La Bisbal art festival, Spain.
2002 A Certain Turbulence. Reykajavik contempoary art museum
2001 BBC/Modus Operandi, video commission.
2001 60 x1 minute performances. Karlsruhl. Germany .
2001 Late Harping Tour. Etruscan ( readings and performances)
2001 OX1 . Brookes univ. Oxford.
1999 ASA Cologne.
1999 Were you There?, s'Hertogenbosch.
1999 Bone, Bern Performance festival.
1998 Samtids collection at Listasafn Islands (Iceland).
1998 Virus, Freiwild Festival, Halle, Germany.
1998 Stadt Gallerie, Bern, Switzerland.
1997 Bergen Performance Festival, Norway,
1997 Science Museum, London,
1997 Flylkingen, Stockholm.
1997 Night Of The Living Tongues, Cambridge.
1997 Cyclops, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1997 Hush, Slaughter House Gallery.
1997 Ontmoeting, s'Hertogenbosch, Holland.
1997 One Night Stands, Norwich Gallery.
1997 Madrid Performance Festival.
1996 Freiwild festival, Halle, Germany,.
1996 Clepsydra, South London Gallery.
1995 Konsum Projekt, Baitz, Brandenburg, Germany.
1995 Hidden Cities, bus tour, Laboratory Gallery, Oxford.
1995 Revenge Of the Reforgotten, Royal Albert Hall.
1994 Samtids museum, Oslo.
1994 Olot Festival & Girona Kulturhall, Catalonia, Spain.
1994 Serpentine Gallery, London.
1994 The Reading Room & The King's Library at the British Library and The Castle Mound Oxford, Bookworks.
1993 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1993 Kityakushu Museum of Art, Japan.
1993 Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland,.
1993 Tate Gallery, London.
1992 Schloss Pluschow, Mecklenburgisches Kunstlerhaus, Germany.
1992 The Melk Fabrike, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
1992 Gianozzo, Berlin.
1992 Belluard-Bolwerk Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland.
1992 Museum of Living Art, Reykjavik, Iceland.
1992 Naturhistoric Museum, Bergen, Norway.
1991 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1990 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.
1990 Trondelec Arts Centre, Trondheim, Norway.
1990Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Participant in Mobshop 4, Denmark and Sweden and The Nordic Winter Symposium at Geilo, Norway, 1983.
Commissioned Work
2006 Winner of the commission by Historic Royal Palaces, for a monument at the site of execution in The Tower of London.
2005 Shuffle a video work for Variety, the opening exhibition for the Delaware Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea.
2002 Presence. A commissioned work for Broadcasting House BBC
1995 Window, installed sculpture for the British Embassy, Dublin, PACA & The Government Art Collection, 1995.
1994 A Conceptual Telescope For Bergen , public commissioned work for the city over five sites.
In 2001 I founded the international performance collective:
THE WOLF IN THE WINTER . Since then we have been commissioned to tour
and make new work.
2006 South London Gallery
2005 La Bisbal . Catalonia
2003 National Review of Live Art. Glasgow, Scotland
2002 Wurttenbergischer Kunstverien Stuttgart, Germany.
2001 De Melkfabriek s-Hertogenbosch , Netherlands.
In 2003 The “wolves” were invited to Greenland to tour and make six performances for Inuit audiences. This was documented by a DVD film; Greenland Gathering, Which I made with Sarah Simblet
Publications (solo Poetry books )
2007 BOBBY AWL. Etruscan books
2001 Thyhand published by Alfred Davis Press.
2001 Large Ghost, Equipage.2001
2001 Late Harping. Etruscan books 2001
The Blindings, Bookworks.
The First London Halo (single book), Bookworks.
Thy hand, Parataxis.
Soundings; A Tractate Of Absence, Matt's Gallery.
Future Exiles, Three London Poets, Paladin Press.
The Stumbling Block, Bookworks.
Boschlog, Few Goats Press, N.Y.C.
Anthologies
2001 TWENTIETH- CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY, ed, K. Tuma. New York. OUP. ISBN 0-19-512893-1
2004 VANISHING POINTS. Ed. Rob Mengham & John Kinsella . Salt Publishing.
ISBN 1876857137
2002 Pittancer in KULTUREFLASH. On net.
1996 Conductors Of Chaos, Picador.
1992 The New British Poetry, Paladin.
The Leipzig Cyclops, catalogue of video installation texts, in English and German.
Simon Perril's book on my work TENDING THE VORTEX is published by CCCP
Narrative Video films made with Tony Grisoni
(joint authorship, production and direction)
VANISHED! A VIDEO SÉANCE.
A narrative video installation supported by an Arts Council of Britain grant.
Vanished! showed at: ESP, The Icon Gallery, Birmingham, 1999.
The South London Gallery, 1999.
For The Laboratory at Freuds in Oxford, 1999.
Galleri 111. Oslo. 2000
Artsway. Hamps. 2000
Erin Arts Centre. Isle of Mann 2000
Rio Cinema 2008
& with Palermo and 2 new works at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. 2000
PALERMO, video installation, 1998. Shown in Umbertide, Umbria, 1999.
THE CUTTING a narrative feature length work , written , directed and produced with Tony Grisoni. Realised for festivals 2005.
Catling & Grisoni also produce the yearly CABARET MELANCHOLIQUE (8)
http://www.aktb.no/artists/catling.html
http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/catling/home.php
http://www.galleri-se.no/artist/catling/