Staff Profile:John Mitchell

Name:

Mr John Mitchell

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

University Responsibilities:

• Admissions tutor: BA(Ed) Art Subject Specialism

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• Convener - BA(Ed) Art Subject Specialism
• Coordinator - BA(Ed) Curriculum Art
• Research Supervisor BA(Ed) Yr1-Yr4 - Museums and Galleries
• Supervisor - BA(Ed) School Experience

Teaching:

• BA(Ed) Art Subject Specialism - Yr1-Yr4: Studio Practice, Art Theory/History and Pedagogy
• BA(Ed) Art Subject Specialism - Yr1 & Yr2: Module Leader - Art and Practice in the 20^th/21^st Centuries
• BA(Ed) Art Subject Specialism Yr4 Dissertations
• BA(Ed) Yr4 Advanced Teaching Projects

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interests:

• Studio-based art practice including: drawing, painting, mixed-media, sculpture, installation, photography, multi-media, film/video
• The Object in Art
• Artist/teacher-teacher/artist

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters level:

• MA in The Arts

Current and Recent Research Projects:

• Studio-based art practice: research focus - The Object in Art.  Disciplines include: mixed-media, sculpture, multi-media, installation, film/video
• Contemporary Art Practice presentations/talks One+One
• Solo exhibition/installation with Education component, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Spring 2012

Research groups / Centres:

The Arts

Publications:

Recent publications/professional achievements:

• April 2010, group exhibition: Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich. Exhibition education programme;
• April 2009, solo exhibition: The Westbrook Gallery, London. 16 page catalogue publication with essays by: Dr Roger Cook, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. Chris Westbrook, Gallerist and Curator.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010

• Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London. 'Object as Subject'

2000

• Museum of Installation, London. 'Box Project', a Museum of Installation Touring Exhibition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.

1999

• Lewisham Art House Gallery and Studios, London, 'Deptford X' Visual Arts Festival Group Show and Open Studios; Selected by Cornelia Grassi of Greengrassi Gallery.

1998

• Lewisham Art House Gallery, London 'Open Studios' in association with the 1998 Whitechapel Art gallery Open + Group Exhibition selected by Nicholas de Oliveira, London.

1997

• Lewisham Art House gallery, London. Group Exhibition selected by David Thorpe of South London Gallery + 'Open Studios' weekend.

1996

• Barbican Centre, London. The Contemporary Print Show with 'Words + Pictures' / National Theatre, Accra, Ghana, 'art CRA International' / The University of Reading, 'Artists Books and Bookworks as Art'.

1995

• Outpost London, 'Outpost'. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

1990

• 'The Britsh Art Show', McLellan Galleries Glasgow / Leeds City Art Gallery / Hayward Gallery, London.

1988

• Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 'Grey Matter New Sculpture 88'.

1986

• The Gantry, Southampton. A John Hansard Gallery Touring Exhibition.

1985

• Richard Demarco gallery, 2nd International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia London.

1980

• I.C.A., London, 'New Contemporaries' / The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. 'Nine Scottish Artists.

1977

• Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh;
• Yale University Art Gallery, Norfolk, Connecticut, USA.

Two person Exhibitions

1997

• Sin Pod Plecnikovym Schodistem Gallery (Svoboda Foundation), Prague, Czech Republic. 'Binocular' Collaborative Installation.

1981

• Mercer;
• Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

Solo Exhibitions

2009

• Westbrook Gallery, London, 'Taxonomical Musings'.

1997

• Art House Gallery, Lewisham Art House, London, 'Indices'.

1995

• National Theatre, Accra, Ghana / Fiase Lodge, Accra, Ghana;
• 1994 Alternative Arts, London, 'Abandon', an installation. Aberdeen Art Gallery, 'Containers', an installation.

1992

• Aberdeen Art Gallery, 'Containers'.

1987

• Unit 7 Gallery, London. 'Handle with Care / Do Not Crush' an installation. Seagate Gallery, Dundee, 'Occurrences'.

1986

• Interim Art Gallery, London, 'Wounded and Torn'. Riverside Studios, London.

External Roles and Links:

• Art galleries, museums and arts centres- Autumn 2010, Salon Vert gallery, London with BAED Yr3. Students. Potential future activities- Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Southill Park Arts Centre. The Westbrook Gallery, London;
• Visiting artist programme- November 2010, Andrea Medjesi-Jones. An ongoing programme.