Jonathan Gilhooly Biography

E-mail:
jon.gilhooly@talk21.com

Born:
1958, Stoke-on-Trent

Education and Research

2005 - present:
University College for the Creative Arts. MPhil/PhD

1983-84:
Brighton Polytechnic. P.G.C.E (Art and Design)

1978-81:
Manchester Polytechnic. B.A. (hons) degree in Fine Art

1977-78:
North Staffs Polytechnic. Foundation Art

2007:
NOW YOU DON'T
Solo exhibition at Grey Area, Brighton

2006:
WORMHOLE SALOON
Participation in live performance at Whitechapel Art Gallery

PORTSMOUTH SCREEN 06
Film selected for ‘Sixty Second Film & Video Festival’

NEVER ODD OR EVEN
Performance at The Nightingale Theatre as part of Brighton Festival

2005:
VARIETY
Group show at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

2003:
IMMACULATE HEAR
Group show at the Chapel Arts Centre, Newhaven

SOME OUTS
Solo exhibition at The Gardner Arts Centre, Sussex University, Brighton

2002:
SOME OUTS
Solo exhibition at The Alsager Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University

2000:
PARLOUR
South-East Arts & Lottery funded, group exhibition as part of the Brighton Festival

HUNG, DRAW AND QUARTERED
mixed drawing exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

1999:
St. Mark’s Hospital, London

1998:
Gallery Utraque Iungo, Vienna, Austria Sussex Open, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

1997:
Hove Museum and Art Gallery (two person exhibition)

1996:
CLOSE YOUR EYES, LISTEN Maidstone City Library Gallery (two person exhibition, supported by South-East Arts)

2005:
Arts Council England funding for Variety at the De La Warr Pavilion.

2003:
Arts Council and Awards For All funding for immaculate heart

2001:
South East Arts Personal Development Grant (major award)

2000:
South East Arts and Lottery funding for Parlour, group exhibition, Brighton Festival

1996:
South East Arts grant for ‘Close Your Eyes, Listen’, with Gary Goodman at Maidstone City Library Gallery

1991:
South East Arts grant for New Worlds: Seven Brighton Painters at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

from 2005:
PhD study at University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone

2002:
‘Experimental Spaces’: a one week residency at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

1999-2000:
Selected for the “Artists’ Network Forum”, a professional artists’ development scheme, organised by Education through Art

1984:
Founder member of Red Herring Studios and Gallery, Brighton

1982-83:
Community Artist for Hanley Youth Project, Stoke-on-Trent

From 1985 , Part-time lecturer in Art and the History of Art, including:

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, MAIDSTONE

2007:
P/T lecturer in Visual Studie

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

2002:
present P/T lecturer in Fine Art and Visual Studies

CITY COLLEGE BRIGHTON & HOVE

2002 - present:
P/T Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, HND Fine Art

1999 - present:
P/T Lecturer in Art & Design, Foundation Studies

CROYDON COLLEGE

1999 - 2002:
P/T Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Centre for Higher Education

1991 - 2002:
P/T Lecturer in Fine Art and Contextual Studies, Foundation Studies