All Outputs (51)

A virtual gallery of international illustration research (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

https://www.illustrationacademics.com/2024

Into the 21st century, a criticality in the framing of illustration as a unique discipline with its own research methods and approaches is required for the field to transcend professional practice. Whethe... Read More about A virtual gallery of international illustration research.

Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures' (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

My proposal for Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw out futures symposium
builds on my ongoing exploration into recording man-made technologies and architectural structures within the landscape.
I will discuss how my artistic prac... Read More about Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures'.

Structures of communication (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

Ian Chamberlains artistic practice is rooted in an exploration of architectural forms around communication and investigation, earlier works have focused on the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell bank, one of the powerful radio telescopes in the world invest... Read More about Structures of communication.

Flourish printmaking award (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

I was recently awarded the International Flourish printmaking award.

All shortlisted artists will have their work shown in the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2024 exhibition.

The Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2024... Read More about Flourish printmaking award.

Borderlands - National treasures: Constable in Bristol “Truth to Nature” (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

The Hay Wain by John Constable is at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery on loan from The National Gallery. Constable’s iconic landscape is the centrepiece in a bold exhibition “Truth to Nature,” which features more than 80 artworks and runs across three ga... Read More about Borderlands - National treasures: Constable in Bristol “Truth to Nature”.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize received 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates located across the world for its 2023 edition.

A total of 124 works by 111 drawing practit... Read More about Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023.

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition by printmaking staff at the University of the West of England has become an annual event. At the end of the last exhibition the next one seems far away. But time flies and suddenly March is very near again, and panic begins. The theme... Read More about Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England.

A Century in Print - 1920-2020 (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

I was selected for this exhibition at Chippenham Museum and the resulting publication - A century in Print ISBN 978-1-911408-94-9

Work was also selected for the Museums permanent collection.

https://www.chippenham.gov.uk/chippenham-museum/exh... Read More about A Century in Print - 1920-2020.

The point of truth, beauty and knowledge (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

I was invited by the curator Debora Ando to take oart in this exhibition at Kunstlerhaus , Dortmund , Germany.

"The point of truth, beauty and knowledge" presents six positions whose artistic explorations reflect current investigations on the poet... Read More about The point of truth, beauty and knowledge.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Nothing besides Remains I and II were selected for the international Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
"The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize was founded in 1994 and is celebrating the 26th consecutive annual exhibition in 2021. The exhibition and aw... Read More about Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.

The synthetic landscape (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Under the title of ‘The Synthetic Landscape’ I will be presenting and discussing my ongoing practice and related conceptual themes.

My work focuses on the use architectural metaphors to investigate ideas around Isolation and boundaries.
I will... Read More about The synthetic landscape.

Derwent Drawing Prize (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Shelter and Shelter XXXIV were selected from over  6000 entries from 43 different countries.  These selections were edited down to 72 works by 55 artists.

"The Derwent Art Prize is a global art competition and exhibition. Open to artists from arou... Read More about Derwent Drawing Prize.

Hockney to Himid - 60 years of British printmaking (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

Including works by Edward Bawden, Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread, amongst others, this extraordinary exhibition features over 100 prints by 90 different artists.

From wood e... Read More about Hockney to Himid - 60 years of British printmaking.

Trinity Buoy wharf Drawing prize 2022 (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

Altered States-The use of collodion as part of an Interdisciplinary approach (2021)
Book Chapter

My chapter for the publication will discuss my use of the wet plate collodion process and its developing role within my creative practice.

I will give my personal viewpoint into how working in collaboration with experts in their field has given me... Read More about Altered States-The use of collodion as part of an Interdisciplinary approach.

Shifting Sands - North Atlantic Wall (2020)
Book

A collection of new drawings and etchings made 2015 – 2020. The Atlantic Wall is a WWII German defence system built along the west coast of Europe. Chamberlain interprets these brutalist forms as architectural metaphors concerning boundaries and bord... Read More about Shifting Sands - North Atlantic Wall.

Monuments remain (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Ian Chamberlain - Monuments Remain - 16 November to 7 December 2019

Ian Chamberlain’s work reinterprets man-made structures as monuments placed within the landscape, that act as architectural metaphors of past and current technological achieveme... Read More about Monuments remain.

Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper looks at the potentials afforded by robots when applied to traditional printing techniques such as etching. Through experiments using an adapted drawing robot, this study explores the possibilities of creating works where a traditional etc... Read More about Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics.

Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

1. Introduction
This paper describes an investigation of a robot used within the traditional etching printmaking process. The use of a robot has been studied in two ways. First, for the novel affordances an autonomous robot provides within printmak... Read More about Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics.

Echoes from the past - Impact international print conference (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In my presentation I will discuss my current project ‘The Atlantic wall”and my experience of recording first hand several locations along the Atlantic Wall in France, Norway and Denmark using Drawing, photography and film to capture and explore the f... Read More about Echoes from the past - Impact international print conference.