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Tom Piper

Aemigrated to the U.K. where he taught at the Ruskin School of Drawing, University of Oxford, and worked in Fine Art publishing at Editions Alecto, London. Piper spent three years in the Middle East, at the Burston Graphic Centre and The Jerusalem Print Workshop. He worked at Peregrine Press inc. in Dallas Texas in the mid 1980s before returning to the U.K. Tom Piper is the former head of the Printmaking section on the Fine Art course in the Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He has been the former director of Centre for Research in Fine Art, and is a founder member of V-6 (artists, printmakers and publishers) His recent work combines traditional printmaking methods and digital technology.

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Born: North Dakota, USA

 

BA Northern State College, South Dakota, USA

MFA Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti Mich. USA

 

Teaching:

1968/69 TA Eastern Mich. University

1970/72 Assistant Professor, Damen College, Buffalo NY.

1973/77 Department Head, Printmaking, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford

1984/ Head of Printmaking / The School of Art and Design, UWIC

 

Workshops and professional consultancy:

1973/77 Founder/Director: Ruskin Summer Workshops.

1972/82 Co-founder: Dog’s Ear Studio, London

1977/78 Technical Director: Burston Graphic Centre, Israeli Museum

1978/79 Director of Lithography: Editions Alecto, London

1979/80 Founder: Tom Piper Lithography, New Crane Wharf, London

1980/82 Lithography Director: Jerusalem Print Workshop,

From an award by the American/Israeli Cultural Foundation

1982/84 Director: Lithographic Section, Peregrine Press Inc. Dallas Tex.

1997 Awarded a Robert Horne Printmaking artist in residence

fellowship. Lowick House Printmaking Workshop.

1994-02 Director: Centre for Research in Fine Art. Managed and initiated a number of high profile digitally based projects,

including The Electric Lunch, an international Fine Art collaboration project, Cardiff digital portfolio and the Terry Setch internettide@ project.

Co-founder of Virtually-6. V-6 is an artist-run group based in the

School of Art and Design

 

Selected Exhibitions:

One-person show/ The Bridge Gallery, University of Glamorgan

Exhibitor/Works on Paper, Newport Museum, Newport

Exhibitor/ Printmakers in Wales. Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

Exhibitor/The Electronic Art Show, Drum Croon Gallery, Wigan

Exhibitor/Electronic Art, London Print Workshop, London

Exhibitor/7th International Contemporary Art Fair, Libramont, Belgium

Exhibitor/50 Years of 56 group Wales, Worcester Gallery, and Worcester

Exhibitor /Howard Gardens Gallery/56 Group Wales Cardiff

(SIX) Six Contemporary Printmaking in Wales (touring exhibition)

Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff

V-6 at Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

V-6 at Llantaram Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran

V-6 at Classic IX, ninth international biennale, kortrijk, Belgium

 

Tom Piper

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