Danny Rolph Churchill 2010
Biography, Publications, Awards
Born London 1967
Lives and works in London
1991 - 93
Royal College of Art, MA Painting
1988 - 91
Winchester School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art
2009 -
Visiting Professor, Bucks New University
2009 - 2010
Visiting Fellow, Winchester School of Art
Publications
2009
‘Summer Show 09’, Royal Academy Catalogue
2008
‘'Singularity', Catalogue, text by Martin Holman
2007
'Hapenstance', AR/Contemporary, Monograph
2005
'Rutherford', Newlyn Art Gallery, Catalogue
2004
'New British Painting', Catalogue
2003
'The Bold and the Beautiful' , Catalogue
2002
'Crosscurrents' , Catalogue
2001
'Giardino', Catalogue
T.I.Group collection , Catalogue
Awards
2007
Hamlyn Award (nominated)
2001
London Arts: Visual Arts Award
1998
Abbey Scholar, British School at Rome, Italy
1994 - 96
Delfina Trust Award
1992
John Minton Travel Award
Moore and Moore Art commissions Winston Churchill
Moore and Moore Art have commissioned Danny Rolph to produce 'Winston Churchill' as part of Mr Rolph's current 'British Prime Ministers' series.
Danny Rolph’s ongoing series of paintings “the prime ministers” continues his evolving discourse relating to the topology of Painting. Each painting in this evolving series is named after a British Prime Minister in chronological order. “Churchill” which has been commissioned by Chris and Ben Moore and Stefan Barthelmes will be on a grander scale as befits the person it’s named after!
The deep sapphire blue triplewall plastic ground upon which the painterly actions occur offer up an infinite recessional space akin to the night sky. This blue ground creates an arena onto which Rolph brings his desires and inspirations into view locating a range of questions and possibilities. These inspirations are both physical (objects, places, people etc.) as well as conceptual flights (music, poetry etc.) and embody, through the paint and collaged elements that he puts on the surface, everything that he is; physically, mentally, politically, historically and economically.
‘My recent paintings possess more of a dissonant quality accentuated through marks that have a clearer association with forces such as motion, velocity and acceleration and are at odds with the quasi-architectonic structures that they circumnavigate, disassembling and reconstructing them on the same plane.’
Fragmentary combinations that appear all over the work build a psychological pleasure that pushes and pulls a viewer across the surface allowing for transgressive impulses describing the impossibility and wonder of our existence in the world.
Copyright Poppy Sebire, 2009
Contact Danny Rolph
Website: www.dannyrolph.com
Danny Rolph is represented by:
Poppy Sebire London, UK
Website www.poppysebire.com
Barbara David Gallery, Houston, USA
Website: www.barbaradavisgallery.com
AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Website: www.contemporarygallery.it
Solo exhibitions
2010
'Automatic Shoes', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London
2009
'Accelerator', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2008
'Jackson', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2007
'Happenstance' AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Singularity' Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2006
'There is no such thing as pure', Hales Gallery, London
'Hinterland', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2005
'Obstraction', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Rutherford', Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2002
'Locations', Chapter, Cardiff
2001
'Famous Italians', Hales Gallery, London
1999
'YK', Mark, Oxo Tower, London
1996
'FOCUS', Paton Gallery, London
1995
Cultural Instructions, London
Collections
Tate Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
British Consulate, Rome, Italy
Coopers & Lybrand, London
Simmons & Simmons, London
Stephen H. Frishberg, Pennsylvania, USA
Jerry Speyer, New York, USA
British Airways
Goldman Sachs
Khodr Collection, Beirut
Time Warner
Pearson
Unilever
Dresdner Bank
Thompson Knight, Dallas, USA
Group exhibitions
2009
‘Summer Show 09’, Royal Academy (invited artist), London
‘CAOS vs ORDINE’, AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Reconstructing the Old House', The Nunnery Gallery, London
'Supersurface’, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
'You are more beautiful than a butterfly', Gallery Turpentine, Reykjavik, Iceland
'PAPERVIEW', John Jones Project Space, London
2008
‘'Park Avenue', Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
‘'Pure Optic Ray', FRED Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
‘'Superstratum', Koraalberg Gallery , Antwerp, Belgium
'Hypersurface', OVADA, Oxford
'Paper Show' AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
‘'Through The Star Gate', AR/Contemporary , Milan , Italy
‘'Tipping Point', Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
‘'Arts Futures 08', Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London
2007
‘'A Carry on in The House of the Atomic Comic', Carter/Gallagher Gallery, London
'Lady Holic' Rod Barton Invites, London
‘'Arts Futures 07', Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London
‘'Drawing 200', Drawing Room , London
2006
'Mimoid', Limehouse Arts Foundation (LAF), London
'Double Happiness', Hollow Contemporary Art, London
'Cold Climate', Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
'When forms become attitude', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2005
'Pie Fight', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'This drawing is ribbed for her pleasure', Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, USA
'Nice to meet you', Mark Moore Gallery, LA, USA
'Pencil', Carter Presents, Londo
2004
'twentyfourbythirty', Keith Talent, London
'Obstractivist', Hales Gallery, London
'Cold Climate', APT Gallery, London
'Collage', Bloomberg Space, London
2003
'New British Painting', John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
'Drawn 2b wild', Hales Gallery, London
'Bad Touch', Keith Talent, London
'Temporary Fiction', Transition, London
'v-1', Kontainer, Los Angeles, USA
'Miniature', Kybidou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Painting Year Zero', Keith Talent, London
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2002
'John Moores 22', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
'Miniature', Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA
'Superfluity' Riga Contemporary Museum, Latvia
'Loco for Rococo', Nunnery, London
'Bold and Beautiful', Mile End Pavilions, London
'Giardino', Modena Museum, Modena; touring to Centro Culturale, Paggeria; Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento; and Galleria Del Tasso Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
'Crosscurrents', Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA
'Crosscurrents', Miller Durazo, Los Angeles, USA
2000
Hales Gallery, London with Ben Ravenscroft
'John I'm Only Dancing', Touring show; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Margaret
Harvey Gallery, St Albans
'Beautiful', Oxo Tower, London
'Colour Coded', Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
'Sporadinate', Lock Up, London
1999
Hales Gallery, London
'Note', MARK, OXO Tower, London
1998
'Hapax K-pax' Danielle Arnaud, London
'Eliminate the Negative', Gasworks, London
'Davies, Malinowski, Rolph, Wallinger', BSR Gallery, Rome, Italy
1997
Hales Gallery, London
1996
'Bureau de Change', Rustin Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium
5020 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Winchester Gallery, Hants
Economist Building, London