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His studio practice is largely concerned with landscape and place-oriented practice, and the materiality of drawing, with his work exhibited through a wide range of related projects including Anonymous Drawings Archive, Kunsthaus Kannen Museum for Outsider Art and Contemporary Art, Münster, Germany (2019); Imagined Landscapes, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (2016); Drawology, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham (2013) and Lanchester Gallery, Coventry (2014); and in a range of public gallery and museums including The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath; The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry; Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon; The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich; and The British Council, Barcelona. Paul has exhibited in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, Japan and Australia, and has works in both public and private collections. Paul is currently on the editorial board for the international journal Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice published by intellect, and was previously a co-director of the international drawing visualisation and research journal Tracey, published by Loughborough University (2011-2014). More recently he has contributed peer-review for The Journal of Visual Arts Practice published by Routledge. He has contributed numerous articles and papers to international journals and conferences including: The Journal of Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education; Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice Journal; Tracey: Drawing and Visualisation Research Journal; UWE Drawing Research Symposium, University of the West of England (2019); Group for Learning in Art & Design (GLAD), Manchester Metropolitan University (2017); Arts Without Borders, Helsinki University of the Arts, Finland (2016); and ENACT: Learning in/through the Arts, 7th ELIA Teachers’ Academy, Netherlands (2015). Professional MembershipsPaul is currently on the editorial board for Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice published by intellectbooks, and is a co-editor of the international peer-reviewed drawing research journal Tracey, published by Loughborough University. Paul was a co-director of Tracey between 2011-2014. Paul is also a member of the following professional organisations: SFHEA Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Research InterestsDrawing theory and practice; Drawing in an expanded field; Landscape and place-oriented practice; Abstract painting; Perspectives on collaboration and interdisciplinary learning in and through the arts; Students as partners in art and design higher education. Research/ArticlesArticles/ Publications2019** Fieldsend-Danks, P. (ed.) Drawing Research Theory and Practice, Journal, Intellect/ Guest Editor Issue 4.2. **Forthcoming Solo Exhibitions2008 Kindly Light, Rabley Contemporary, Wiltshire. Exhibitions2016 Constellation, Undercroft, Norwich, in collaboration with Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Curated projects2018 Factory Settings (Curation Group), Plymouth College of Art at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London.
A former Principal of Dartington College of Arts and Dean of Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton, Andrew is an English graduate of Cambridge University and from 1984 worked for a decade in glass crystal manufacturing, latterly as head of design and development at Dartington Crystal. He has held a number of academic and public appointments: at the Università dell’Aquila, Italy; with Professorships at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Plymouth; as a Council member of Arts Council England; and as Vice-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Group on Higher Education (PMI2). His international work has involved the catalytic development of academic glass programs at Shanghai University and Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria), as well as public art projects in China and the UK. A book-length Chinese monograph on his contribution to Art & Design education in China was published in Shanghai in April 2011. He has given guest lectures and seminars internationally – recently at Art in Action, Révélations at Grand Palais, Paris; Loheland Stiftung, Germany; Ateliers d’Art de France, Assises 2016; Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea; and Beijing Design Week. Andrew is the author of more than sixty journal and catalogue essays and books on glass and contemporary art, including extended essays on artists including Antoine Leperlier, Colin Reid and Keith Cummings, the Chinese performance artist He Yunchang and the painter Xue Guangchen. Glass Tantra, his book on Buddhism and the glass art of Yang Hui-shan, was published in Taipei (2012) and Shanghai (2013). Andrew’s poetry publications include Via (2010); Raag Leaves for Paresh Chakraborty (2008); Cade l’uliva (2003) and Sirius (1995), and his work is cited in ‘Poetry after 1970’ in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). An Italian edition of his poetry is due from Edizioni Kolibris (Ferrara) in 2019. https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/faces/plymouth-college-art-ceo-retires |
Paul contributes to the development of an emerging research culture at the College, and is Chair of the Research & Enterprise Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (RSA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). His own research includes both practice-based and pedagogic strands of enquiry, relating primarily to the production of and consideration for, artefacts within an expanded field of contemporary drawing practice; and to the discourses that inform new perspectives on collaboration and interdisciplinary learning in and through art and design higher education.
Andrew Brewerton is Principal & Chief Executive of Plymouth College of Art and, since 2000, Honorary Professor of Fine Art at Shanghai University. He is founding Chair of Governors and Director of Trustees of the Plymouth School of Creative Arts at The Red House, and Plymouth College of Art is a founding associate of Tate Exchange. Andrew currently serves as Vice Chair of GuildHE, one of two formal representative bodies for UK Higher Education, and of UKADIA, and is a member of the UK Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation, the Cultural Learning Alliance Steering Group, and the Crafts Council’s Advisory Group.