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staff list  BackMr Bryan Hawkins

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Media, Art and Design
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3142
  • Campus: Canterbury
 

Foundation Studies - Camberwell School of Art - 1972
B.Ed Hons - Christ Church College - 1983
M.A. Language Education and the Arts - Sussex University - 1992
M.A. Fine Art Printmaking London Institute - Chelsea School of Art - 1999

 

Bryan teaches across the Art, Education and Media Departments and is constantly engaged in the production of drawings, paintings, prints and artefacts. He has been the Course Leader in Printmaking since 1989 and has completed substantial research in Post-modernism and Neo-romanticism.

Membership of professional institutions:

  • Member NSEAD Member ICA NATFHE

Research Activities

  • Developing Research towards Michael Powell and The Neo-Romantic Imagination - Exhibition Oct 2004

Recent Exhibitions curated

  • A Visionary Gleam: Contemporary Printmakers and the Landscape Tradition CCCUC Marlowe Centre Canterbury Festival 2003
  • Great Impressions: Contemporary and Modern Master Prints Canterbury Royal Museum 2001, Falmouth Art Gallery 2002

Recent Exhibitions (works exhibitted)

  • Renewal Sidney Cooper Gallery 2004 (prints, paintings, objects)
  • Suns and Moons Falmouth Art Gallery 2004 (two woodcuts)
  • Abandoned - Limbo Arts The Sub Station Gallery Margate Jan - Feb 2004 (drawings, prints objects)
  • A Visionary Gleam: Contemporary Printmakers and the Landscape Tradition CCCUC Marlowe Centre Canterbury Festival 2003 (one woodcut )
  • Great Impressions: Contemporary and Modern Master Prints Canterbury Royal Falmouth Art Gallery 2002 (woodcut and etching)
  • Open Studio - Canterbury Festival - October 2001 (drawings)
    Art for India 2001 - Rivington Gallery London (woodcut and etching)
  • Open Studio 2000 - Canterbury Festival (woodcuts ahnd drawings)
    Passing Ships 2000 - Herne Bay Museum Canterbury (watercolours)
  • M.A. Degree show Camberwell - 1999 (twenty five prints)
    Turner and the East Kent Coast - 1998 (ten prints included with the work of JMW Turner as a contemporary perspective on landscape printmaking )

 

Recent Publications

  • A Visionary Gleam: Contemporary Printmakers and the Landscape Tradition (Exhibition Catalogue) CCCUC 2003
  • Childrens Drawing, Self Expression Identity and the Imagination in The Journal ofArt and Design Education: Special Drawing Issue 21 (3) 2002
  • Hawkins, B (01) Great Impressions (Exhibition Cataloguer) Falmouth Art Gallery/Marlborough Graphics
  • Play and the Imagination in the Arts in Early years Education, in David. T. Ed (99) Changing Minds, Chapman

Developing articles:

  • MONSTROUS ISSUE - Neo-Romantic British Art and the Post-Modern Imagination
  • SUBVERSIVE TALES - Antinomians and Pilgrims - Michael Powell, William Blake,
  • A Canterbury Tale and The Neo-Romantic Imagination
  • Research Children's Drawing Arnhem Rd School London 2000-2002
  • Research Early Years Education and the Arts with Chapman Publishing 1998-19 99 resulting in publication:
  • Play and the Imagination in the Arts in Early years Education, in David. T. Ed (99) Changing Minds, Chapman

Recent Presentations and Papers

  • Drawing and Self - Arts in Health CCCUC 2003
  • The Etching Revival - Lecture and Workshop Canterbury Royal Museum 2002
  • Difficult Bodies - Children's Drawing and the Human Body Folkestone Literary Fesatival 2001
  • Drawing Research Workshop - Nottingham University Faculty Education 2002
  • EECERA International conference London Institute - Narrating the Self in Early Years Art - 2001
  • Professional Fostering Support Group Canterbury and East Kent - Drawing and Expression - 1999
  • Harrow Art Teachers Conference - Art and Language, Language through Art - 1998
  • Warwick Early Years International Conference - Representing the body in Children's Drawing - 1998