TIM ROSSITER
BIOGRAPHY & EXHIBITIONS
Tim Rossiter – Biography
6 Bridge Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1AR
Tel: 01873 810301 Mob: 07854 137595
Worms head No II: Noon waves. Oil on panel. 61 x 61 cm.
1952
Born in Bristol.
1967
Left school without qualifications. Start of lifelong involvement with the Peace Movement. Supported creative work with various jobs (factory worker, bus conductor, furniture delivery etc.), painting partly nocturnally during shift work.
1968
Returned to full time education at Technical College to take ‘O’ levels.
1968-70
Self-taught in oil technique, watercolour, stone and woodcarving. Continued to support creative work with various jobs.
1970-72
Employed as a back-drop painter by Bristol Museum, Department of Geology and Department of Natural History. Self taught in perspective reconstructions, employed by Department of Archaeology.
1973-78
Full time 2 and 3D Artist. Clients include museums, BBC, Aardman Animation.
1978
Return to full time education as mature student to do a Fine Arts Degree at Bristol Polytechnic in Painting and Sculpture.
1982
Projects Supervisor and Designer Bristol City Council A.C.C.E.S. Town Arts Scheme, co-designing and building sculptural installations for hospitals, schools, public places etc. worked with young unemployed and young offenders.
1983
Fine Art Tutor, Foundation Department, Bristol Polytechnic. Continuation of independent commissions.
1987
Move to Herefordshire and exchange polytechnic teaching for workshops, community art schemes and work with psychiatric patients.
1989
Move to Black Mountains in Powys. Growing interest in work involving the creativity and environmental circumstances of the mentally ill. Sale of work from studio.
1991
Visiting Artist, Maindiff Court Psychiatric Hospital. Design of platform, floor and lectern for 11th century church in Llangattock, Powys.
1992-96
Start of projects with Home Office funded Medium Secure Psychiatric Hospitals. These include a 60-room scheme, involving 2 and 3D installations coupled with the use of therapeutic colour to improve patient environment.
1996-2000
Increased involvement in community art schemes, 2 and 3D workshops for children and adults. Sale of work from studio.
2000-2004
Teaching workshops in the environment using transient materials. New sculpture based on falling water, time and seasonal change, incorporating found natural objects. Design proposals for 2 year DRAGON GATEWAY workshops and festival for ARTS ALIVE community arts project, and STITCH IN TIME community arts project.
2005
Festival Director, Dragon Gateway Arts Festival.
2006
Festival Director, Dragon Gateway Arts Festival. New 3D work on layered clear polycarbonate based on falling water.
2007
Festival Director, Dragon Gateway Arts Festival. Teaching workshops based on Neolithic and Bronze Age markers in the landscape.
2008
“Fragmented images” project, working with three poets based in Wales, supported by the Arts Council of Wales. Teaching workshops using chemical reactions, resist and oxidization as part of the Arts Alive “In this place” project.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1985 Quentin Green Gallery, London
1990 The Mall Gallery, London
2000 Soil, Soul, Sustainability, Hereford
2007 Tutors exhibition, CRIC Gallery.
2009 20th Welsh Contemporaries annual
exhibition. Oriel Contempory Art.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003 Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
2003 Theatre Brycheiniog, Brecon
2004 Pontardawe Arts Centre
2004 Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff
2005 Art @ Brava, Café Brava, Cardiff
2006/7 Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery
Forthcoming exhibition “Words in colour” Oriel Contemporary Art, Hay on Wye - 2009
Work in private collections in Germany, France, Norway, Japan and USA and Department of Peace
Studies, University of Bradford.