Jeremy Blank
editborn 23 August 1957, is an English artist / lecturer / curator currently living and working in Western Australia.
Studied at Chelsea School of Art in Painting and Post Graduate studies at Goldsmiths College London. Moved to Australia 1999. Master of Art in Electronic Arts at Curtin University, Western Australia in 2003. Currently undertaking a PhD at Curtin University focusing on the integration of Electronic Arts in Visual Art curriculum.
Blank has worked across a range of media and with many internationally regarded artists throughout his career including the late John Latham, Kenneth Draper (RA), Bruce Gilchrist, Roney Fraser Munro, Station House Opera, People Show 7/84 and the UK pyschedelic acid trance band of the 1990's The Shamen.
Biography
editAccepted at Chelsea School of Art (1978) as the sole student studying lasers, video and holography. Returned to painting when his lecturer broke his spine. Moved from the life room under Euan Uglow and Miles Murphy to narrative painting studio under Ken Kiff. Graduating year with Yuko Shiraishi, Mark Wallinger, Matthew Hale, Keith Ashley, Mark Vollans, Chris Romer, Eva Bosch. In their graduate year of 1981 Blank, Wallinger, Hale and Bosch were early exponents of New Figuration in English Painting. The term at that point was unstated while the work referred to the human figure referenced from classical / mythical figures, memory, dreams, visions rather than direct observation or photography. Blank and Wallinger were included in the 1981 New Contemporaries Exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) where Blank was awarded the National Painting prize.
From 1981 to 1987 while continuing to paint Blank experimented with photography, film and video. In 1984 a school program of Video Animateurs was implemented by Blank as part of a community video project from Colchester Filmmakers at The Minories Art Gallery Colchester, Essex UK. The project integrated the use of video as a teaching and learning tool within primary school classes. The resultant work was shown at the 1984 British Film Institute's Society for Education in Film and Television (SEFT) Conference, Bradford, the Edinburgh Film Fringe and presented to Eastern Arts and the Inner London Education Authority for development.
Awards
edit1978 he was the recipient of a Prix de Rome Award for figurative painting, 1980 exhibitor in the UK New Contemporaries Art Exhibition at the ICA galleries London and in 1981 winner of the UK New Contemporaries Painting Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art London. 1985 White Space Drawing prize, Islington, London, (Waldemar Januszczak) 1987 Third Prize in the UK John Moores Liverpool XV national painting exhibition. 1991 solo exhibition Ganz Gallery Mayfair London, 1992 IMZ Video Dance Awards Vienna 1997 City of Perth Photographic Award, Perth Western Australia. 2004 & 2007 Curator for Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP), Western Australia. 2005 Australia Council/ ARTSWA travelling Award for Emergent Curators Venice Biennale
links
edithttp://jeremy-blank.blogspot.com/
www.nomad.net.au/people/jeremy_blank
www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=108
jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=56
www.australianartgalleries.com/artists.php?aid=1065