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Barton Hargreaves
Lecturer in Extended BA (Hons)
<p dir="ltr">Barton Hargreaves is an artist and printmaker whose diverse practice has developed simultaneously with the technological developments within digital print. He makes indoor and outdoor installations and fine art prints using digital and more traditional processes such as etching and screen print, often mixing them up together. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Recent projects include ‘Sentinels’ a series of etchings of the Dartmoor hawthorn and ‘Glitch’ a series of charcoal screenprints of an abandoned market garden. Work is often (though not always) monochrome and ‘Time’ is a constant theme running through the work.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He gained an MA from the Royal College of Art and spent 11 years working as the digital print tutor at the Royal Academy Schools before relocating to the South West. He currently splits his time between teaching on the Extended BA at Arts University Plymouth and his studio on the Dartington estate.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He has regularly exhibited at the RA Summershow where he won the print prize in 2017 and has been commissioned to create several large-scale works including for the Jerwood Space and Northern Print Biennale. He has work in numerous collections such as the Conran Foundation, Clifford Chance and the British Museum.<br /></p>
<p>Winner, Brook Gallery Print Prize, Originals10, 2010<br /></p>
<p>Winner, Glasgow Print Studios and Wasp Residency Prize, Northern Print Biennale, 2009</p>
<p>St Barnabas Publishing Prize, Originals 09, 2009</p>
<p>Print Fellowship, Royal Academy Schools, 2007</p>
<p>Winner, Tim Mara, Print Prize awarded for work in the MA degree show, RCA 2007</p>
<p>Winner, Tom Bendhem drawing prize, RCA, 2007</p>
<p>Winner, 20/21 Century Art Prize, RCA, 2006</p>
<p>Tim Mara Calgary Exchange, RCA, 2006</p>
<p>Graduate Fellowship-Northern Print Studios, North Shields, 2001<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">I’m currently researching the potential use of AI image creators such as Mid Journey in relation to a printmaking practice and looking at the following areas:</p>
<p dir="ltr">How can the experiential be used to create authentic images that remain distinct from AI generated imagery within printmaking & photomedia? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Testing the current edges of an AI image generator’s <em>understanding</em> of printmaking both technically and aesthetically. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Does a process such as etching, screenprint or linocut prevent accurate facsimileing by an AI image generator? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Explore the possibilities of a creative collaboration with an AI image generator and a master printmaker?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Can an AI image generator such as Mid Journey be used as a creative tool in a printmakers work flow such as a soft proof?<br /></p>
<p><strong>Collections</strong></p>
<p>British Museum Fine Art Print Collection</p>
<p>V&A Print Collection</p>
<p>Clifford Chance</p>
<p>The Conran Foundation</p>
<p>Tim Mara Trust</p>
<p>Royal College of Art Print Archive</p>
<p>Royal Academy Schools Print Archive</p>
<p><strong>Commissions</strong></p>
<p>In Situ (Walthamstow) commissioned for Street Gallery by Waltham Forest as part of the shop front regeneration project 2013</p>
<p>In Situ (Soho) commissioned by Wahaca for their new restaurant in Soho, 2010</p>
<p>In Situ (Lisbon) temporary installation for …and then again… exhibition at the Museu da Cidade, Lisbon 2010</p>
<p>In Situ (Newcastle) Commissioned for the Northern Print Biennale, 2009</p>
<p>In Situ (Union Street) Public Artwork for the front of the Jerwood Space building, Union Street, London. Launched spring 2009</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions</strong></p>
<p>2013 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2012 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2012 Playground, solo show, VZ Gallery, London</p>
<p>2011 BITE Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London</p>
<p>2011 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2011 Solo Show, Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton</p>
<p>2010 …and then again… Museu da Cidade, Lisbon</p>
<p>2010 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2010 Originals 10, Mall Galleries, London</p>
<p>2009 RWA Print Open, Bristol</p>
<p>2009 Northern Print Biennial, Newcastle</p>
<p>2009 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2009 In Situ, Jerwood Space, London</p>
<p>2009 Originals 09 Guest Artist, Mall Galleries, London</p>
<p>2008 Selected Works Solo show in the Café Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts, London</p>
<p>2008 Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Selected Show, Clifford Chance Gallery, London</p>
<p>2008 The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2008 Royal Academy Schools Staff Show, Café Gallery, Royal Academy of Art, London</p>
<p>2007 Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Selected Show, Clifford Chance Gallery, London</p>
<p>2007 The Great Exhibition, MA Show, Royal College of Art, London</p>
<p>2007 Kunstwurst, Royal College of Art, Printmaking Group Show, Café Gallery, London</p>
<p>2006 Unnamed and Unfinished, Interim show, Royal College of Art, London</p>
<p>2006 Unnamed and Unfinished, solo show, The Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada</p>
<p>2002 Passing Through, Queens Hall Arts, Hexham</p>
<p>2002 Passing Through, The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library</p>
<p>2002 Northern Print Graduate Fellowship Exhibition, Northumbria, Newcastle & Carlisle Universities</p>
<p>2000 Paper Suits, selected group show- R.K.Burt Gallery, London</p>
<p>2000 Mapping a Burnt-Out Car in Horsford Woods, Norwich School of Art and Design</p>
<p>2000 Maquette, group show, 19 Princes Street, Norwich</p>
<p>1999 Collusion, Printmakers collaboration, large-scale print works, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne</p>
<p>1999 Poco Noco Meets Arthur Boyd, collaborative video installation, T.V.P. Gallery, Melbourne<br /></p>
