Rob Birch

selected exhibitions:
Aug. 2007 ‘Inspirations of Petworth’ Petworth House, Hampshire.
June 2007 ‘Camberwell Daily’ Site specific exhibition, Camberwell, London.
June 2006 ‘Vroom’. Exhibition of digital art by artists in residence at Durness Digital Studio. Durness, Scotland.
Dec. 2004 ‘Inchon International Universal Design 2004’, Inchon, Korea.
‘Persona’ The Conference Centre, St Pancreas Hospital, London.
Oct. 2004 MA Graduate Show, Kingston University.
July 2004 ‘In Progress’, R K Burt Gallery, London.
Feb. 2001 One Person Show, Alsager Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Apr. 2000 ‘Ten Years On’, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.
Jan. 1998 ‘In the Garden’, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.
Mar.1997 ‘Eastern Open’, Kings Lynn Art Centre. First prize GMC painting award.
July 1996 ‘Fourteen Stations of the Cross (A Half Time Report)’, Merchants Court, Norwich.
July 1996/5 Visual Arts Festival ’Taster Show’, Norwich.
Feb. 1995 ‘Interface’, one person exhibition, Norwich.
Aug. 1994 ‘Man and Woman’, Chaplin Arts Centre, Parnu, Estonia.
Norwich/Tallinn’, Tallinn, Estonia.
Apr. 1993 ‘On Paper’, Contact Gallery, Norwich.

residencies:
2007. Currently artist in residence at Perse School for Girls, Cambridge.
2006. Digital art residency Durness Youth Club.
1994. International Artist Exchange, Tallinn, Estonia

workshops:
2006, Drawing Workshop, Perse Sixth Form. Working with sixth form pupils at selected locations in London.
Duchamp To Now’, professional development and networking day for artists at Tate Modern.
‘The Gothic Imagination’. Working with the employees of Charles Wells Brewery, Bedford.
2005, Workshop with Durness primary school. Creating self-portraits of the pupils (9 – 11 years old)
Workshop with sixth form pupils at Kinlochbervie High School.
Workshop with sixth form pupils at Farr High School, Bettyhill.
After school drop in workshops. Durness Digital Studio, Durness Scotland

awards:
2003. Arts and Humanities Research Board. Grant towards Maintenance and course fees for masters course.
Oppenheim – John Downes Memeorial Trust. Maintenance Grant toward masters course
1998. Oppenheim – John Downes Memorial Trust. Grant towards the competition of ongoing projects
1997. Visual Arts Fund, Norfolk County Council. Artists Development Grant, Eastern Arts. For the documentation and publicity for ‘In the Garden’ exhibition.

current and recent projects:
Brecon Design Centre image development supported by Arts Council Wales; for this I produced a number of collaged drawings based upon photographs taken by the lead artist Beverley Carpenter, which were then fashioned as digital images. From these images I was able to construct three-dimensional models for proposed buildings to be sited in locations within the town.
Arts and Business residency between Charles Wells Brewery and Cecil Higgins Gallery, Bedford; the visualisations and workshops with the brewery employees incorporating the Gothic imagination within the work environment.
Project Arbury development, Cambridge, developing CAD drawings and movies for large-scale urban sculpture production.
Highland residency, Durness; developing studio practice around digital art alongside community workshops and web design documenting the Sutherland Geopark sites of outstanding geological interest.
Developing initial concept drawings for site specific commission for new council building, Ipswich.