Rupert Record
Rupert currently lives and works in London
"Rupert Record's startling portrait Ripe Breath at the Toni Heath Gallery..."
Derwent May, The Times.
"Rupert Record, At a premium." Evening standard.
"Beautiful paintings by an artist of great promise..." Attitude
Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools, Rupert Record has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. He has work in many private and corporate collections in Europe and the US. "Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits" is his eleventh solo show and his third with the Toni Heath Gallery.
"Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits",
Record’s starting points for his series of paintings include Aram Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" and the 1960 Stanley Kubrick epic of the same name.
Bending the greed, hate and violence, he uses auras of luminous colour - reminiscent of stained glass - to reflect the deeper emotion and uniqueness within each figure. The layers within are able to stir the soul: transfiguring the individual's internal pain to investigate "the triumph of the spirit over oppression".
The work was based on the memory of watching a vhs video of Spartacus on a flickering TV at school when the artist was twelve.
Education
1993-1996 Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art
1990-1993 Chelsea College of Art, BA Fine Art/ Painting
2001-2002 Lewisham College, Cert Ed 7401
2004-2005 Goldsmiths University, Foundation in Art Psychotherapy
Exhibitions
2008-2009 Rupert Record and Sharon Jones, Troubadour Gallery
2007-2008 Toni Heath Gallery, Young Masters, Group Show
Collyer Bristow, Christmas Exhibition
Art and Light, Rupert Record and Sophie Shapiro, Troubadour Gallery Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, mixed show
2006-2007 Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, Solo Show
Toni Heath Gallery, 'Freedom, Spartacus and other Portraits', Solo Show
Toni Heath Gallery, 'Dream Warriors', Solo Show
Toni Heath Gallery, Now We Are Two, Group Show
2005-2006 Toni Heath Gallery, Solo show
Light Gallery, Rupert Record and Niki Holmes
2004-2005 Light Gallery, Contemporary Painting
‘Into’, Mernier Chocolate Factory'
‘Wear the Fox Hat’, The Fox Club
2003-2004 Rupert Record and James Verner, The Courtyard Gallery
New Work, Leisure Pass Group, Oxford Street
2002-2003 Collyer Bristow Gallery, ‘Abstract’ group show
20 Porchester Terrace, Solo show
‘Home’ Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2001-2002 SE1 Gallery, ‘A Slight Touch of Primitive Instinct’, solo show
2000-2001 Alchemy Gallery, Rupert Record and Anne Marie Coxon,
The Hatton, Hatton Gardens, Seven Paintings on Seven Floors, Commission and exhibition
1999-2000 Proud Galleries, Two person show
Rowe and Maw, Royal Academy Past Graduates
Zella Gallery, Metalwork, Group show
Marine House at Bere, Group show, Devon
Mall Galleries, Laing Art Competition and Exhibition
Coombs Contemporary
1998-1999 ITN Headquarters show, Grays Inn Road
Deborah Bates Gallery, Solo Show
Proud Galleries, Summer Show
‘The Lycee’, Solo show at Sapcote Lofts, Kennington
Bass Taverns Competition winner with exhibition.
Proud Galleries at the Edinburgh Festival
Proud Galleries Christmas Auction
1997-1998 Elton John Aids Foundation Show, Sotheby’s
Proud Galleries, ‘Physical’, with Mike Turner
Collyer Bristow, Group show with Stephen Buckley and Simon Lewty
Proud Galleries, Solo Show
Modern and Contemporary Painting, Clink Wharf Gallery
1996-1997 Royal Academy Postgraduate Show
Spencer Landor Show, Solo show
Royal Academy Summer Show
Picture Rental Schemes and Main Commissions
2008-2009 Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw, Picture rental scheme
2007-2008 Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw, Picture rental Scheme
2001-2003 The London Pass Group, picture rental scheme
2001 etc Ltd commission and rental
1999 etc Ltd main commission and exhibition
2000 Perfect Day, picture rental scheme
2000-1999 Polehill Communications picture rental scheme
Recent Teaching
2009-2010 Kingsgate Workshops Trust, Visual Poetry Art Classes
2006-2010 Art and Light Projects, Private Classes, Creative Painting and Drawing, Portraits, Art and Dreams, Art from the Imagination, Art and Meditation
2004-2009 Mary Ward Centre, Access into Art, Pre-foundation and Adult education courses including; Collage and Painting, Visual Poetry, Drawing and Painting
2004-2008 YMCA Central weekly holistic art classes. Weekend holistic art retreats.
2004-2008 Westminster Adult Education; Life Drawing, Colour in acrylic and pastels, Portrait Class, Community Groups.
Artist Residency, Art with the Homeless, Salvation Army Centre, Victoria, London
2003-2004 Mary Ward Centre, Access into Art, Pre-foundation, Adult education courses including; Collage and Painting, Visual Poetry, Drawing and Painting
Artist in the community, Art and Mental Health, Portugal Prints, Westminster London
Art with the Elderly, Holborn, London
2004-2005 Middlesex University, Artists talk and tutorials.
2002-2003 Mary Ward Centre, adult education courses including; Collage and Painting, Collage, Drawing and Painting
2002-2006 Spotted Orchid Project Art Project. Project Co-ordinator and Facilitator. Many art projects involving abused children with or children affected HIV/AIDS. Including workshops, exhibitions, talks.
2002-2003 Lewisham College, Painting talk and tutorials, Foundation Course
2002-2003 South Kent College, Painting talk and tutorials, Foundation Course
2001-2003 Teacher/ Facilitator of art classes for Devries Project for unaccompanied refugee minors living in temporary accommodation in Dover (Social Services)
2001-2002 Migrant Outreach Project Facilitator of art classes for refugee families in Dover, Dover District Council
2002-2003 Refugee Art Outreach Facilitator and project manager of recreational art sessions sponsored by The Home Office. Art workshops Exhibitions, talks, Radio interviews, newspaper articles and BBC film.
2002-2003 ‘Flight Log’ Co-ordinator of refugee and asylum seeker art workshops in South East Kent with exhibition at Folkestone Library.
2002-2003 Artist/ Teacher visiting 17 Kent primary schools as part of the Flight Log project art workshops and many other refugee art projects that are ongoing.
2001-2002 Co-ordinator of refugee and asylum seeker art exhibition ‘Home’, with art workshops and talks. Refugee week 2002, South East Arts, Saga, Metropole Galleries.
Community Projects
2000 ongoing Founder of Refugee Art Outreach
Art workshops for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK and educational projects for children and adults concerning Refugee issues through Art.
2002-2003
Art Residency with asylums seekers- unaccompanied minors, Dover, Kent ,funded by The Home Office
2002 ongoing
Lead Co-ordinator and Founder of The Spotted Orchid Project
‘Not for Profit’ Arts organisation working with children in the UK as both recreational and as art therapy.
2001 ongoing
Trustee, Robert Grace Trust (voluntary)