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About Artist

Ian Chamberlain lives and works in Bristol, UK. In addition to his studio practice he is Senior Lecturer in M.A Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking and Drawing and Print, B.A (Hons) The University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Through drawing and printmaking Ian Chamberlain reinterprets man-made structures as monuments in the landscape. These structures are architectural metaphors of past and current technological achievements. He has had a long-standing fascination with technology and architectural forms especially the structures within industry, agriculture, science and the military. These have included Goonhilly Earth station, The Lovell Telescope, Cheshire Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames estuary and the Acoustic Sound Mirrors on the South Kent Coast.

Selected Artworks

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Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS
2023
Summer Exhibition, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, Islington
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Somerset House
Contemporary Printmaking Prize, Fenn Ditton Gallery, Cambridge, UK

2022
The Darkling Night, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, New York
The point of truth, beauty and knowledge – Kunsterlerhaus, Dortmund , Germany
Out of the West, North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex, UK
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
How Artists Understand Landscape, Printroom Studio, Suffolk, UK

2021
Hockney to Himid – 60 years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Concrete Castles, Bodmin Keep, Cornwall Army Museum, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2020
Shifting Sands – North Atlantic Wall, Rabley Gallery, UK (Solo)
Centre of Gravity, Bristol, UK
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, UK
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
IFPDA Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, NY. USA

2019
Monuments Remain, Drawing Projects, UK (Solo)
National Original Print Prize, London
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, UK
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2018
Visions of Science, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, Bath, UK
Process, Process, Process, Anise Gallery, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
RBSA Print Prize, Birmingham, UK
Echoes from the Past, Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan, Iran

2017
Echoes from the past, A- Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Space, London and National Touring exhibition
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Armoury, London
Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Jealous Needs You, Jealous Gallery, Saatchi, London,
London Art Fair, Anise Gallery, London

2016
Revue, Bearspace Gallery, London
The Masters, curated by Norman Ackroyd, Bankside Gallery, London
Original Print Show, curated by Norman Ackroyd, Zillah Bell gallery, Thirsk, UK
NEO: Print Prize, Bolton, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Aesthetica Art Prize, finalist exhibition York St Marys, York, UK
Timeline, Bearspace gallery, London
Drawing Into Print- Impress print festival

2015
National Original Print, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Alignment, Anise Gallery, London

2014
Recording Britain/John Ruskin Drawing Prize, finalist exhibition, Trinity Wharf, and Millennium
Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Art Fair, Cologne, Germany – represented by Anise Gallery.
Multiplied Art Fair, Bearspace Gallery & Spike Island, Christies, London
Back From the Front/Shock and Awe, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Edition, Edge of Arabia Gallery, London

2013
Multiplied Art Fair, Bearspace Gallery & Spike Island, Christies, London

2012
BITE- Contemporary Print, Mall Galleries, London
Invited Artist, Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong

2011
Print and Design Now, Bearspace Gallery and SW1 Gallery, London

2009
Drawing Matters, Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, UK

2008
Drawing Matters II, Methuen Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Glasgow international Artist Book Fair, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Bristol Contemporary Open, Paintworks, Bristol UK
156th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England, Bristol, UK
Originals 08, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2007
Ian Chamberlain, Old Vic Theatre, Bristol, UK (Solo)
20EPPM Print Exchange, Melbourne, Australia
CODEX, San Francisco, USA
Print Room Gallery, Hampstead, London
Bristol Art 07, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
86th Annual Exhibition, Society of Graphic fine Art, Menier Gallery, London
155th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England, Bristol, UK
Printroom Exhibition, New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Originals 07, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2006
Cupola 15th Anniversary Open. Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

AWARDS

2022 RWA Drawing Prize, Royal West of England Academy
2022 Selected as an Royal West of England Academician
2021 Shortlisted Evelyn Williams Drawing award.
2019 Hole, Publishing Award, NOPE
2018 Highly Commended, RBSA Print Exhibition
2017 Shortlisted, Jerwood Drawing Prize
2016 Intaglio Printmaker Award, NEO: Print Prize
2016 Finalist, Aesthetica Art Prize
2016 Shortlisted, International ‘On Paper’ Competition.
2014 Shortlisted, Ruskin Drawing Prize, Recording Britain.
2007 Work of Merit EPPM Print Exchange, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Merit in Drawing Award, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

UK: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Tate Modern, London;
Bristol Museum and Gallery; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol;
The University of Chichester Collection; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Ashmolean, Oxford; Chippenham Museum.

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Hockney to Himid – 60 years of British Printmaking
2021 Don’t Press Print; De/Re-constructing the Collodion Process
2019 Printing Ideas, Octagon press.
2018 Reminders of the Past, Drawing as Process, Interalia online magazine
2017 Pressing Matters Journal, Bleakness, Brutalism and Beauty.
2017 California Print Journal. Echoes from the Past
2016 Future Now – 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize
2014 Back from the Front Art, Memory and the Aftermath of War.
2005 Making Artist Books
2003 Artist Year Book,
2002 British Design and Art Direction (D&AD)
2001 Images 25 The Association of Illustrators (AOI) Best of British Illustration