Born: 1944, Barcelona. Living and working in London since 1968

1971-1990:    Head of Fine Art Essendine Art Centre ILEA (Westminster Institute) London W9
1990-2004:    Head of Fine Art and Theoretical Studies, Kensington and Chelsea College, London SW10
2004 to date: Lecturer in Advanced Painting, Morley College, London SE1 7HT

Education

1991- 1995   PhD Fine Art Painting (cum laude), Faculty of Fine Art, Barcelona University
1984- 1986   MA(RCA), Royal College of Art (Cultural History Dept.), London.
1968- 1969:  PG (Post Graduate) Fine Art Printmaking, Slade, University College London
1967- 1968:  PG Fine Art, Pratt Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Pratt Inst.) New York.
                                        (with an Elias Ahuja Specialist Fine Art PG Fellowship to the U.S.A.)
1965- 1966:  PG Fine Art Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.  Studio at the Cité
                                        Internationale des Arts (with a PG French Government Painting Fellowship to Paris)
1960- 1965   BA Hons Fine Art (Painting), Faculty of Fine Art, Barcelona University.

Selected exhibitions

1965: Paris :         Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (one-man show)
1965: Barcelona :  Lleonart Gallery, Barcelona (one-man show)
1966: Paris :         Galerie des Beaux Arts,
1967: Barcelona :  Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona
1967: Ibiza           (Spain) Ivan Spencer Gallery
1967: New York :  One Eleven Gallery,
1968: New York :  The Art of the East Village
1968: London :     The Arts Laboratory (one-man show)
1968: Cuenca :     (Spain) Casa de la Cultura
1970: Essex :       (England) Wansfell College Gardens, Epping, (one-man show)
1971: Barcelona : Aquitania Gallery, Barcelona (one-man show)
1971: London :     Spanish Institute (one-man)
1972: Barcelona : Institute of North American Studies (one-man show)
1972: Madrid:       Institute of North American Studies (one-man show)
1973: London :     Institute of Contemporary Art (I.C.A.)
1981: London :     Camden Arts Centre
1982: Paris :        Grand Palais
1982: Paris :        Galerie des Beaux Arts
1984: London :     Chenil Gallery (two one-man shows)
1985: London :     Royal Horticultural Halls
1987: London :     Blenheim Gallery (one-man show)
1987: Oxford :      Oxford Central Library
1989: London:      Englands & Co. Art Gallery
1989: London:      Milne Moller Gallery
1989: London:      Tabernacle Gallery
1991: London :     Sweetwaters Art Gallery (one-man show)
1991: London :     Croxley Rd studio (one-man show)
1992: London :     Tricycle Art Gallery (one-man show)
1994: London :     Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank
1994: Barcelona:  Saló del Tinell
1995: London:      Hortensia Art Gallery
1996: London :     The Mall Galleries.
1996: London :     Eurofair'96, Royal Horticultural Halls (one-man show)
1997: Brighton:     University of Brighton Art Gallery
1997: London :     Hortensia Art Gallery
1997: London :     Colville Place Gallery
1998: London :     April Colville Place Gallery (one-man show)
1998: London :     Colville Place Gallery (September and December collectives)
1999: Barcelona:  Caligrama Art Gallery (April - May)
1999: London :     Hortensia Gallery (8 - 18 March)
1999: London :     Colville Place Gallery (June - July)
1999: London :     Hortensia Gallery
2000: London :     Hortensia Art Gallery .
2000: London:      Colville Place Gallery (Feb-April)
2000: London :     Hotensia Gallery.
2001: London :     Colville Place Gallery
2002: London :     Colville Place Gallery
2003: London :     Deluxe Gallery, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London
2004: London :     Deluxe Gallery, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London
2004: Belfast :      Catalyst Arts Gallery Set-Oct (one-man show) Northern Ireland
2007: London :     ThirteenLangtonStreet Bernard Chauchet Gallery, London SW10
                                (June and December collectives)
2007: London :     West-Eleven Gallery W11 (Notting Hill Visual Arts Festival 07)
2007: Belfast :      Catalyst Arts Gallery, Oct. Northern Ireland
2007: London:      Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall
2008: London:      Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2008: London:      Bernard Chauchet Gallery, and Gallery 23 (Notting Hill Festival)
                                
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Guillem Ramos-Poquí On my own work The evolution of my work as an artist since the late 60's is a personal response to different concerns in art and life, through changes in culture and society. Like most artists of my generation I started with an academic training in painting at art school. I continued my studies in Paris , New York and London , where I came to live in 1968. Reacting against my academic training I experimented with collage and assemblage 65-68, this was the time of pop art both in NY, Paris and London . When I went back to painting in the early 70's I worked from abstraction leading to large abstract geometric canvases. I became very interested in colour and painting techniques. Then came the desire to introduce subject matter of a contemplative nature in the 70's, which, in the 80's, developed into a fascination with Jungian archetypal and mythological imagery and themes. I exhibited extensively during all this time as well as teaching full time at an art centre in London W.9 (Essendine) which I had created. My own artistic practice and research has always developed hand-in-hand with my teaching. During the 90s, when the ideas of post-modernity were very influential in art practice, I became concerned with issues to do with life in a city, and the tensions of urban technology and nature, and the relationship between art and philosophy. Then, from 1990-95, whilst I was already Head of Fine Art at a London College, I wrote a PhD where I examined the evolution of art theory and trends from the 50's to the 90's, and in relation to the evolution of my own work. As a result of my research I was able to expand the fine art department by creating new courses. Like the large majority of professional artists, I have always been been interested in printmaking, I had done both lithography and etching, in fact I created printmaking studios in both my past jobs, and now in the 90's I became interested in experimenting in the new media and did a large number of digital photomontages which I exhibited alongside my paintings, using the new media as a painter would, with concern about colour, the transparency of layers, the craft and technique of composition and articulating space and ideas. Over the years, alongside my own painting, I have been involved in different areas of research both theoretical and practical, one of these ares has been work in assemblages (which I have exhibited several times). Also interested in the techniques and ideas of Icon painting and Early Italian art. A book on the Technique of Icon Painting was published in 1990. In my own work as a painter I use egg-tempera on gesso technique on board or linen, often combined with wax and other media. One of my favorite modern artists is Paul Klee, I like his sensitive use of colour, materials, and the unpretentious size of his works. In the mid 70's I became a close friend of one of his students (and of Kandinksy and Johannnes Itten, at the Bauhause in Weimar), Ola Okunieska (Wolpe). But my subject matter is different, dealing with the new artistic insights accumulated through my experience, and inspired by issues which are important to me today.

LINKS

PhD Details

Poqui: family history and genealogy

Guillem Ramos-Vicedo

Imma in India

Ola Wolpe

David Rodway

Animation 2000 (Flash site)

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